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Its pristine waters are among
the world's most beautiful,

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but could the island paradise
of Turks and Caicos

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hold the answers to
a long‐standing Nazi mystery?

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Magnetometer, ROV‐‐

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you name it, it's in our bevy
of electronic tricks.

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FISHBURNE: Can a team
of divers follow clues

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left by famous
treasure seeker Roger Miklos

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to hunt and find
a Nazi U‐boat?

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It's sitting in British waters,
in the Caribbean.

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INTERVIEWER: But you won't
say exactly where?

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No, I'm trying to keep that
protected

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as much as I can.

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FISHBURNE:
A submarine he believes

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is full of gold
and other priceless treasures.

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ROGER: There was 18

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high‐ranking Nazi officials
on board,

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all of them paintings.

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There's 50 tons of gold
on that thing.

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FISHBURNE: And what can
their search reveal

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about the notorious
Nazi regime

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and the end of World War II?

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The code is cracked.
We now have a location.

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Tonight, on
"History's Greatest Mysteries,"

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we follow the trail of clues

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to search for the Nazis'
top secret lost U‐boat

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and its astonishing contents.

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Using original documents
never seen by anyone

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other than Roger Miklos himself,

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a team of divers will attempt
to unlock the mystery

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and find what many consider

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the most elusive shipwreck
in history.

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Guys, I think I got a hit!

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I'm Laurence Fishburne,

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and tonight, can Mike Fletcher
finish the mission

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that Roger Miklos started
so many years ago?

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FISHBURNE: Off the coast
of Florida

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and just 384 miles from Cuba,

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lay the islands
of Turks and Caicos.

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Their beauty, color,
and perfect weather

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makes these islands
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for travelers worldwide.

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But looks can be deceiving.

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Under these turquoise waters,

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the terrain is jagged,
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and often deadly.

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And these islands are
a graveyard of sunken vessels

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and lost treasure.

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And that's where Mike Fletcher
comes in.

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MIKE: You name it,
I've done it underwater.

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I started out with a passion
for maritime history

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and specifically shipwrecks.

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And then when you combine that
with my ability

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to dive in deep,
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I got really good
at finding shipwrecks.

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I get a lot of attention
for having found the Carpathia,

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which was the ship that saved
the Titanic survivors.

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I found three
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‐ Mike?
‐ I think we got ourselves

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‐ a submarine.
‐ Whoo‐hoo!

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MIKE: Two famous U‐boats,

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so this would be the third.

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I went from being
a commercial diver

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to a recognized,
international shipwreck finder.

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FISHBURNE: Mike has been
finding sunken vessels

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for over 40 years.

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But today, he begins the hunt
for a shipwreck

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unlike any other in history.

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Out of the blue one day,

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I get a call from this guy
I've never met.

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And he says,
"Mike, can we get you

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to go on a mission for us?"

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Turns out that mission
was following up

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on treasure hunter
Roger Miklos's claim

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that he had found a U‐boat
full of Nazi treasure.

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FISHBURNE: Forty years ago,
treasure hunter Roger Miklos

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claimed to have discovered
a U‐boat

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on the ocean floor off
an island of Turks and Caicos.

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During World War II,

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Nazi U‐boats terrorized
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sinking over 2,500 ships.

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NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER:
Official Navy pictures

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of the smashing of a U‐boat

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surprised on the surface
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FISHBURNE: By the end
of the war, the Allies had sunk

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over 600 of these German subs.

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NEWSREEL ANNOUNCER: A direct hit
from a depth charge!

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Another Nazi menace destroyed.

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FISHBURNE: But the U‐boat
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claims to have found was not
just any German sub.

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For decades there had been
rumors and stories

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that in the waning days
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the Nazis built a fleet

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of nine specially modified
cargo subs

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to ferry looted gold,
priceless artwork,

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and possibly even top
Nazi officers to South America

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as they attempted to flee
a crumbling Third Reich.

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We do know that there's
billions of dollars

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in looted
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all sorts of valuable material
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during the war.

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It certainly made sense
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could have been loaded
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to smuggle them out of Europe
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FISHBURNE: Over the years,

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many U‐boats
have been discovered.

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But no one has yet found
the specialized German subs.

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Until, in 1981,
Roger said he had discovered

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one of these subs.

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They welded
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removed all torpedoes,

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for cargo,
for all the treasure.

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FISHBURNE: If he was right,
it would be among

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the greatest underwater
finds in history,

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but Roger never told anyone
where the U‐boat was located.

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Then in 2018, he died suddenly
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leaving behind
only cryptic documents

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and incomplete clues
as to where he found the U‐boat.

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But now, Mike Fletcher
has those documents.

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Miklos's family has hired Mike
to continue Roger's mission,

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and they have turned
all of his records over to Mike.

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It is the first time ever
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other than Roger Miklos
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to these maps and records.

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MIKE: No one else
has these documents.

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Roger made sure
that no one else saw them.

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There was a lot going on
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but he didn't leave us
really good notes.

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So much of what he leaves
behind is cryptic

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and you can tell he was
being very secretive.

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Roger's the only guy
who knows where it is.

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So now we have to look
at his notes

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and try and work backwards.

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It's as if Roger's working
with us from the grave.

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But he's not making it easy.

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FISHBURNE: For 37 years,
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of the U‐boat
a closely guarded secret.

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But why?
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you need to know the story
of the man who discovered it.

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My name's Roger Miklos.

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And I've been
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for just about 56 years.

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FISHBURNE:
Born in the Florida Keys,

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Roger Miklos worked as
a police officer in Reno, Nevada

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before the lure
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drew him back to Florida
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Roger Miklos is here.

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[cheers and applause]

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FISHBURNE: At the time he says
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Roger Miklos was already
a treasure‐hunting legend,

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having collected between
$200 and $300 million

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in sunken treasure
before the age of 40.

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Roger was that perfect balance‐‐
a successful treasure hunter

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who had the credibility
mixed with the showmanship.

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FISHBURNE:
Roger's first major discovery

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was the El Capitan,

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a Spanish galleon
laden with gold and silver

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that was lost off the coast
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The gold pieces here are
all that exists

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left of the El Capitan's
treasure.

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There is no more available
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I didn't think you were allowed
to keep, uh, treasures.

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You see, when you salvage
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they get 25% for the State of
Florida, for the museums.

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So then they turn the other 75%
over to the salvage company.

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FISHBURNE: Throughout
his career as a treasure hunter,

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Roger would continue to make
significant finds.

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The Atocha yielded 148 million.

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The El Capitan yielded
86 million.

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The Maravillas yielded
a little over 100 million.

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FISHBURNE: 35 years later,
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gave his final interview
before his death.

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Well, as far as the‐‐
[stammers]

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as far as that I have‐‐
it's that U‐boat.

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That's gotta be‐‐
and I'll tell you why.

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Because...

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You want to get into
the U‐boat?

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I'll tell you the story of it.

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FISHBURNE: Roger never set out
to find a U‐boat.

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The story begins in 1981

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when Roger traveled
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to pick out a crew
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ROGER: This is
Captain Jon Christiansen.

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He is a Viking.

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FISHBURNE:
Jon and Roger spent six weeks

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sailing around
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on the hunt for the remains
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one of the three ships Columbus
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One day, their magnetometer‐‐

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the device that detects metal
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picked up something unusual.

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ROGER: The magnetic field
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by iron and heavy metals,
maybe a car, a refrigerator,

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but it's definitely iron, man.

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FISHBURNE: Roger went off
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This anchor here,
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I take the Zodiac
and take a look at it.

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I swam down 45 feet.

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I saw the two back
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highly polished from going
in the sand,

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up and down and in the sand.

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And then there's
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on this damn thing.

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And I, "What the..."

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FISHBURNE: Roger knew this
was something extraordinary.

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ROGER: And I realized,
"Holy cow!

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"This thing goes and goes
and goes!

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It's under an island!"

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And I got to the top
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And then I noticed a glint,
a goldy glint color.

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They put a commission plaque
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on the starboard side
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And I rubbed
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and there it is, man.

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"Blohm & Voss,
Hamburg, 1944,"

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with a German eagle and
swastika on the ‐‐‐damn thing.

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Now I know it's German.

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This is a U‐boat.

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FISHBURNE:
Roger returned to the ship,

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but never revealed to his crew
what he had found.

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The world of treasure hunting
is very cloak and dagger.

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When you make a big discovery
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there are people
hiding in the weeds

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waiting to take it
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It's gotta be worth
a fortune, man.

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But I don't know anything
about it.

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So, I just let it sit.
Nobody gonna discover this.

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MIKE:
Roger would've been okay

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if he'd have just stayed
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got permissions
and pursued that.

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FISHBURNE:
Instead, Roger continued

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to search for the Pinta.

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Days later, his crew
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an anchor they believed to be
several centuries old.

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This is us at the surface
transferring it

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from the Captain Jack
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and I'm a little shocked,
there standing.

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This thing weighed
about 1,400 pounds

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so they really had to get it
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to swing it over on that boom.

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FISHBURNE: What the crew
didn't know

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was that the Turks and Caicos
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had declared that Roger's permit
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from the shipwreck was invalid.

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And the next morning,
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approached Roger's ship
with orders

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to arrest him and the crew.

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I told Christiansen,
"Pour the power on, dude.

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We're outta here."

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So all of a sudden,
I see the two cops

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jumping in their little skiff
with this diesel motor in it,

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and here they come, man,

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firing away at us
with M‐16s.

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Man, the bullets are ricocheting
off of my hull.

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[gunfire]

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I collected 168 rounds...

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of bullets off of my deck.

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FISHBURNE:
Roger and Jon escaped,

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but the government
of Turks and Caicos

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had now cut Roger off
from ever returning

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to find his submarine.

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Could the sunken sub
that Roger claimed to have found

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be one of these modified
Nazi U‐boats?

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Now, after examining
Roger Miklos's documents,

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Mike has assembled a team
to look for the U‐boat.

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Diver and underwater
photographer Chris Atkins.

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When it comes to diving,
it's Chris Atkins.

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He's very trustworthy.
He works hard.

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He's my dive partner.
He's the underwater shooter.

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FISHBURNE: An undersea
electronics and robotics expert,

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Sam Macdonald.

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MIKE:
Beyond Chris and myself,

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we need somebody
with the tools.

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We need the magnetometer,
we need the side scan,

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we need an ROV because
we don't know how deep

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we may have to go.

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Sam Macdonald is the person
I turn to

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for underwater robotics.

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She not only develops and
operates this stuff,

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she invents this stuff.

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She brings all of the stuff
we need.

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SAM: What have you got
for us today?

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MIKE: We're gonna go
to the Caribbean

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and look for one of
Hitler's missing U‐boats.

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It was en route,
according to the story,

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from Germany
to maybe South America

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loaded with treasure
pilfered out of Nazi Europe

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at the end of the war.

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‐ Really.
‐ Wow.

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Now Roger never told anybody
exactly where he'd found it.

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All we know is it's
in the Turks and Caicos.

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But Roger wasn't allowed
to go back into the country.

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I am.

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I've gone through that box.

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I've read all the articles,

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looked at the maps,
read the reports,

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I think I've cracked the code.

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FISHBURNE: Diver Mike Fletcher
is on the trail

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of the lost Nazi U‐boat
claimed to have been discovered

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40 years ago by treasure hunter
Roger Miklos.

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Miklos was the only one
who knew the exact location

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of the sub, and he wasn't
giving it up to anybody.

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MIKE: I notice,
watching footage with Roger,

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that he often carried
a briefcase.

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And I know for a fact
he carried a .45.

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He wasn't letting anybody know
what was in that briefcase.

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But now I've got
that briefcase.

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I get to look at the records
that Roger held so dearly,

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that nobody else got to see.

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Where is it?

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Sitting in British waters
in the Caribbean.

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But you won't say
exactly where?

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No, I'm trying to keep that

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protected as much as I can.

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FISHBURNE: Now,
Mike has assembled his team

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to go look for the U‐boat.

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That is, if he can decipher
the mountain of clues

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Roger amassed throughout
his decades of research into

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the murky origins
of the Nazi submarine.

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NEWSCASTER: This diagram,
superimposed

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on an ordinary U‐boat,
shows that it has

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special modifications for
long underwater journeys.

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He says it's
in perfect condition.

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FISHBURNE: Roger's research
convinced him

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that this sub had been modified
to carry treasure.

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ROGER: Here's the normal
conning tower

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and all these machine guns
and stuff.

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They eliminated all that,
they moved the bridge forward,

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they modernized the bridge,
made it very narrow.

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There's 50 tons of gold
on that thing.

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All them paintings‐‐
Leonardos, Monets,

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all of the famous works of art,
600 of 'em,

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distributed between
these nine U‐boats.

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Here's my original drawing of
the way that thing is set.

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This is the overhang
of the island.

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FISHBURNE: Roger's
descriptions of the terrain

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where he found the U‐boat
were vague and secretive.

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He said the sub was in
125 feet of water,

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either partially under an
island or sticking out of a cave

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that had a steep slope
on one side.

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We're the only people

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‐ to see this stuff.
‐ CHRIS: Really?

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Roger Miklos was so paranoid

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that somebody was gonna
find his U‐boat

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that he never wrote
the location down.

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‐ A true treasure hunter.
‐ Hmm.

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00:16:05,174 --> 00:16:08,302
I watched hours of Roger
talking to camera,

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read all of his documents,
looked at his maps.

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I think I've cracked his code.

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00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:15,518
The one thing you haven't seen
is this.

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CHRIS: And what is that?

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There's a simple pad of paper
that lists some

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of the wrecks
that Roger's found

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in Turks and Caicos.

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At a glance, it didn't mean
anything to me.

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But look there‐‐
French frigate.

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Number 7,
"1724, French frigate."

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And watch what Roger says.

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And I coded the U‐boat
as a 1724 French frigate.

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Nobody had a clue that
that wasn't a French frigate.

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Old shipwreck.

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He just said the French
frigate was code for the U‐boat?

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So he's telling us
that he's keeping the code.

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00:16:51,971 --> 00:16:56,016
Towards the end, when Roger's
health was really failing,

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it was like
he had one last chance

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to tell the world
what he needed to say.

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00:17:02,022 --> 00:17:05,359
So by putting the yellow sheet,

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Roger's words together,
the code is cracked.

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We now have a location.

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I think we make a trip
to Turks and Caicos.

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♪♪

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FISHBURNE: Seven weeks
after the team's first meeting,

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Mike heads to Turks and Caicos

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to get his first look
at the local topography.

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00:17:29,758 --> 00:17:32,636
It's not every day I get asked
to go on a submarine hunt.

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Roger makes a big, big deal
about caves,

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the idea that this submarine
is sort of part inside a cave.

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So if I was gonna
take on this project,

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I want to see if we can
find a cave

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big enough to house a big
portion of a U‐boat.

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We're here.

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00:17:54,825 --> 00:17:58,120
Somewhere out there,
where those waves are breaking,

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should be Roger's U‐boat.

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00:18:01,248 --> 00:18:04,376
We know that a likely spot
would be on

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a very craggy ocean bed
with cliffs

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and perhaps valleys.

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00:18:09,048 --> 00:18:11,216
So if I get underwater
and I don't see

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those topographical features,

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00:18:13,719 --> 00:18:15,721
this trip will have been
a big waste of my time.

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00:18:17,556 --> 00:18:19,308
FISHBURNE: Given the vast area
to look in,

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Mike decides to approach
the search methodically.

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His first step‐‐investigate
the underwater landscape.

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If the underwater geography

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00:18:27,775 --> 00:18:29,693
doesn't match
Roger's descriptions,

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he could scrap
the entire expedition.

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00:18:33,822 --> 00:18:36,033
MIKE: I'm finally gonna
see for myself

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if there's anything
to Roger's story.

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00:18:38,869 --> 00:18:40,371
The moment of truth.

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00:18:47,795 --> 00:18:50,631
I'd never visited
Turks and Caicos before,

401
00:18:50,714 --> 00:18:56,011
and certainly the geography
of what Roger describes,

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00:18:56,095 --> 00:18:57,763
everything's adding up.

403
00:18:57,888 --> 00:19:00,265
This is a really, really
craggy seabed.

404
00:19:00,391 --> 00:19:03,394
It's not like anything you
normally see

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00:19:03,519 --> 00:19:07,690
with big overhangs and
sharp drop‐offs and gullies.

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00:19:07,856 --> 00:19:09,233
This is the overhand
of the island

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00:19:09,358 --> 00:19:11,527
that goes way out there
about 400 feet.

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00:19:11,694 --> 00:19:13,696
And there's a shelf
that comes up.

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00:19:13,821 --> 00:19:17,616
But there's 700 islands
in that chain.

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00:19:17,741 --> 00:19:20,202
And that's like looking for
a needle in a haystack, man.

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00:19:20,285 --> 00:19:22,287
We haven't found
the U‐boat yet,

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00:19:22,413 --> 00:19:24,039
but we're certainly
in the right area

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00:19:24,123 --> 00:19:26,709
according to Roger's
descriptions.

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00:19:32,464 --> 00:19:34,174
FISHBURNE: After completing
his first dive,

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00:19:34,299 --> 00:19:36,176
Mike returns
to local headquarters

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00:19:36,260 --> 00:19:38,637
to meet up with the team.

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00:19:38,762 --> 00:19:41,807
U‐boats are being found
every day.

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00:19:41,932 --> 00:19:47,062
There's a lot of evidence
before Roger Miklos

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to point to this part
of the world.

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00:19:48,605 --> 00:19:50,649
We know that during the war,

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there was a lot of
U‐boat activity

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00:19:52,276 --> 00:19:54,361
in the Caribbean, because

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00:19:54,445 --> 00:19:57,698
a lot of the Allied oil
came from South America.

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FISHBURNE: The Caribbean
was an unexpected hotbed

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of U‐boat activity, as German
and Italian submarines

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00:20:04,580 --> 00:20:06,749
tried to prevent Great Britain
from being supplied

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00:20:06,915 --> 00:20:08,333
with oil from Venezuela.

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00:20:09,835 --> 00:20:12,504
In addition, Britain's
largest oil refinery

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was on the island of Trinidad,
a U. K. colony.

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00:20:17,676 --> 00:20:23,348
From 1941 to 1945, enemy subs
took out 319 Allied ships,

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00:20:23,474 --> 00:20:26,518
in what historians call
the Battle of the Caribbean.

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00:20:29,271 --> 00:20:33,317
By 1943, the area
was under Allied control,

433
00:20:33,442 --> 00:20:38,197
so why would a 1944
specialized German U‐boat

434
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:41,366
be in these waters?

435
00:20:41,450 --> 00:20:43,076
Is it possible it was
on its way to South America,

436
00:20:43,243 --> 00:20:45,037
laden with treasure?

437
00:20:47,414 --> 00:20:48,373
MIKE:
That part of Roger's story

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00:20:48,499 --> 00:20:51,710
is very much supported by
the historical fact.

439
00:20:51,877 --> 00:20:54,755
So that's what sold me,
that's what said to me,

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00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:57,549
"Mike, you're gonna have to
follow this crazy man

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00:20:57,716 --> 00:20:59,510
and see if he was
speaking the truth."

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00:21:00,886 --> 00:21:03,138
There's a U‐boat out there
and I intend

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00:21:03,222 --> 00:21:04,389
to bring it up shortly.

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00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,437
FISHBURNE: Mike's research
convinced him

445
00:21:10,562 --> 00:21:12,523
Roger's story could indeed
be true.

446
00:21:14,650 --> 00:21:16,151
‐ Looks like a nice vessel.
‐ Yeah.

447
00:21:16,235 --> 00:21:18,821
‐ Hi!
‐ Come on board.

448
00:21:18,904 --> 00:21:20,781
Well, thank you.
Wow, this is beautiful.

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00:21:20,906 --> 00:21:23,200
FISHBURNE: The team boards
the Explorer II,

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00:21:23,283 --> 00:21:24,618
the dive boat that will be
their home

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00:21:24,743 --> 00:21:26,411
for the next several days.

452
00:21:27,871 --> 00:21:29,706
Ultimately we want to go
to the we‐‐

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00:21:29,832 --> 00:21:32,876
sort of the south bottom corner
of West Caicos, so...

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00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:34,670
All right, I think
we can work that out.

455
00:21:34,795 --> 00:21:36,755
‐ No problems?
‐ No problem whatsoever.

456
00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,340
We got a lot of gear
we gotta get on board.

457
00:21:38,465 --> 00:21:39,925
‐ We should probably, uh...
‐ Yeah.

458
00:21:40,050 --> 00:21:41,343
Like, have you seen
how much stuff we have?

459
00:21:41,426 --> 00:21:42,386
[laughter]

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00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:44,721
FISHBURNE:
To track down the sub,

461
00:21:44,847 --> 00:21:46,431
Mike and his team
will be using

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00:21:46,557 --> 00:21:47,808
state‐of‐the‐art equipment

463
00:21:47,891 --> 00:21:51,687
that Miklos could not
have dreamed of back in 1981.

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00:21:51,770 --> 00:21:53,564
‐ Got it, Chris?
‐ Yeah, I'm good.

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00:21:53,730 --> 00:21:56,191
We're going out there
with everything under the sun.

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00:21:56,316 --> 00:21:57,568
I've never been
this well prepared.

467
00:21:57,693 --> 00:22:01,029
Magnetometer, ROV,
side scan,

468
00:22:01,113 --> 00:22:04,032
you name it, it's in our bevy
of electronic tricks.

469
00:22:04,199 --> 00:22:07,202
FISHBURNE: But in the end,
it will all come down

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00:22:07,327 --> 00:22:10,455
to the trail of breadcrumbs
left by Roger Miklos himself.

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00:22:10,581 --> 00:22:13,876
MIKE: Roger has left us
with this crazy bunch

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00:22:13,959 --> 00:22:16,962
of hidden clues about
what we may or may not find.

473
00:22:19,548 --> 00:22:22,634
Something tells me that this
is not gonna come easy.

474
00:22:22,718 --> 00:22:24,094
We're about to find out.

475
00:22:24,219 --> 00:22:26,763
You really work to get inside
Roger's head

476
00:22:26,889 --> 00:22:29,474
and you think you've got him
figured out, but...

477
00:22:29,558 --> 00:22:31,226
he might surprise us yet.

478
00:22:31,393 --> 00:22:32,686
FISHBURNE:
Mike knows they are looking

479
00:22:32,811 --> 00:22:35,731
for what Roger labeled
as a French frigate,

480
00:22:35,898 --> 00:22:38,191
and they know it's
in Turks and Caicos.

481
00:22:38,358 --> 00:22:39,735
But that's still
an area covering

482
00:22:39,902 --> 00:22:41,612
thousands of square miles.

483
00:22:41,737 --> 00:22:45,198
So the next step
is to narrow the search.

484
00:22:45,282 --> 00:22:48,952
You often hear that it's a hunt
for a needle in a haystack.

485
00:22:49,077 --> 00:22:51,371
In this case, we've gotta
find the haystack

486
00:22:51,455 --> 00:22:53,540
before we can find the needle.

487
00:22:53,665 --> 00:22:55,000
Guys, maybe we'll just
take a table

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‐ and spread the chart out.
‐ Sure.

489
00:22:57,586 --> 00:23:01,089
So, complete LORAN chart.

490
00:23:03,467 --> 00:23:06,261
On the pad of paper
where Roger lists

491
00:23:06,386 --> 00:23:08,347
a bunch of his shipwrecks,

492
00:23:08,472 --> 00:23:12,976
some of those locations are
clearly latitude, longitude.

493
00:23:13,101 --> 00:23:14,853
But then there's
the French frigate,

494
00:23:15,020 --> 00:23:18,106
and there is this cryptic number
beside the French frigate‐‐

495
00:23:18,231 --> 00:23:21,193
143228.

496
00:23:21,276 --> 00:23:23,987
Right away, I went, "That's
gotta be a LORAN number,"

497
00:23:24,112 --> 00:23:26,615
a system of navigation
sailors used

498
00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:28,659
before there was GPS.

499
00:23:30,285 --> 00:23:31,495
FISHBURNE: Used for plotting

500
00:23:31,578 --> 00:23:33,288
and converting
measure data lines

501
00:23:33,413 --> 00:23:34,998
to latitude and longitude,

502
00:23:35,123 --> 00:23:37,876
long‐range navigation,
or LORAN, for short,

503
00:23:38,043 --> 00:23:40,837
was set up by the United States
in World War II

504
00:23:40,963 --> 00:23:43,674
as a special navigational aid.

505
00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:46,343
Before the advent of GPS,
it was used

506
00:23:46,468 --> 00:23:48,679
by ship captains for decades.

507
00:23:50,889 --> 00:23:52,557
SAM: I haven't seen
one of these in a long time.

508
00:23:52,683 --> 00:23:53,850
You've actually seen one?

509
00:23:53,976 --> 00:23:57,020
Yeah, I'm not as young
as I look, but...

510
00:23:57,104 --> 00:24:00,023
These were state‐of‐the‐art
back in Roger's day, but...

511
00:24:00,148 --> 00:24:01,942
‐ We've come a long way.
‐ Nobody knows

512
00:24:02,067 --> 00:24:04,111
what a LORAN chart is
anymore.

513
00:24:04,236 --> 00:24:07,656
For me to try and find
his location based on LORAN

514
00:24:07,739 --> 00:24:09,700
means I had to find
an old LORAN chart,

515
00:24:09,825 --> 00:24:11,410
and that was not easy.

516
00:24:11,576 --> 00:24:13,412
But I did find one.

517
00:24:13,537 --> 00:24:15,789
I did find one chain
or one coordinate

518
00:24:15,914 --> 00:24:17,749
that makes sense with
what Roger's telling us.

519
00:24:17,916 --> 00:24:20,669
So, French frigate,
one LORAN line.

520
00:24:20,752 --> 00:24:23,672
‐ Okay.
‐ 143228.

521
00:24:23,797 --> 00:24:27,217
Come straight up this line,
we're looking for 3228.

522
00:24:27,342 --> 00:24:29,678
Bingo. French frigate.

523
00:24:29,803 --> 00:24:32,014
It's the only place
in the entire country

524
00:24:32,139 --> 00:24:34,558
that that line crosses
the water depth

525
00:24:34,725 --> 00:24:36,018
that we're looking for,

526
00:24:36,143 --> 00:24:40,105
somewhere between 45
and 100‐plus feet.

527
00:24:41,732 --> 00:24:43,191
When I saw "French frigate"
on the list

528
00:24:43,316 --> 00:24:45,694
and I saw the bits and pieces
of the position,

529
00:24:45,861 --> 00:24:48,530
I went, "That's where we go.
That's where we go first."

530
00:24:48,655 --> 00:24:50,532
So there's one
of two things here‐‐

531
00:24:50,657 --> 00:24:52,826
a French frigate or a U‐boat.

532
00:24:52,951 --> 00:24:54,536
Like any good
treasure hunter would,

533
00:24:54,703 --> 00:24:58,206
they're not going to put
a real X on a real map

534
00:24:58,290 --> 00:24:59,583
on a real location.

535
00:24:59,708 --> 00:25:01,585
That's not uncommon
for treasure hunters

536
00:25:01,752 --> 00:25:03,670
to often code their finds,
right?

537
00:25:03,754 --> 00:25:05,839
‐ To keep looters from‐‐
‐ Uh, no.

538
00:25:05,964 --> 00:25:08,383
They are the sneakiest bastards
on the planet.

539
00:25:08,550 --> 00:25:11,511
What they do is they give you
a piece of the truth,

540
00:25:11,636 --> 00:25:13,513
and then they‐‐they‐‐they‐‐

541
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,431
‐ they're deceptive, right?
‐ They tease you.

542
00:25:14,556 --> 00:25:16,266
They have to protect
their finds.

543
00:25:16,391 --> 00:25:17,684
‐ Oh, absolutely.
‐ Yeah.

544
00:25:17,851 --> 00:25:19,853
Like, if they've got something
serious to find,

545
00:25:19,978 --> 00:25:22,522
they don't want
their competitor finding it.

546
00:25:22,647 --> 00:25:24,524
Treasure hunters
are very territorial,

547
00:25:24,691 --> 00:25:26,318
and they really hate to see

548
00:25:26,401 --> 00:25:28,695
a competing boat
on the horizon.

549
00:25:28,820 --> 00:25:30,363
It's every man for himself.

550
00:25:31,323 --> 00:25:33,366
ROGER: Gold changes people
like you wouldn't believe.

551
00:25:33,492 --> 00:25:36,787
I could tell you stories of guys
I had on my boats,

552
00:25:36,912 --> 00:25:39,915
and the greed just fires off
like you can't believe.

553
00:25:40,999 --> 00:25:43,627
FISHBURNE: All the secrecy
and code underscores

554
00:25:43,752 --> 00:25:45,587
how little the team
really knows

555
00:25:45,712 --> 00:25:48,465
about what Roger found
on that day in 1981

556
00:25:48,548 --> 00:25:50,634
and where it might
actually be.

557
00:25:50,717 --> 00:25:52,302
They're putting together
a puzzle

558
00:25:52,385 --> 00:25:54,054
without all the pieces.

559
00:25:54,179 --> 00:25:55,722
He went to a lot of trouble
to hide

560
00:25:55,847 --> 00:25:58,141
whatever it is he found here.

561
00:25:58,266 --> 00:25:59,017
‐ Right?
‐ Mm‐hmm.

562
00:25:59,101 --> 00:26:00,769
‐ Does it make sense?
‐ It does.

563
00:26:00,894 --> 00:26:02,604
Look at the torture
he put himself through.

564
00:26:02,729 --> 00:26:05,065
I think he found a U‐boat.
I really believe that.

565
00:26:05,232 --> 00:26:07,651
His story stayed consistent
from the time

566
00:26:07,776 --> 00:26:09,694
he first discovered it
to the day he died.

567
00:26:09,861 --> 00:26:11,446
‐ Exactly.
Treasure hunters can be

568
00:26:11,571 --> 00:26:12,864
a bit of snake oil salesmen,
right?

569
00:26:12,989 --> 00:26:14,407
They all want
to find something,

570
00:26:14,533 --> 00:26:15,033
so they tell you
they found it.

571
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,036
But he, for his entire life,

572
00:26:18,161 --> 00:26:20,080
was completely dedicated
to this.

573
00:26:20,205 --> 00:26:22,958
It would be the biggest tale
on the planet, man.

574
00:26:23,083 --> 00:26:25,085
But if anybody used
their head,

575
00:26:25,210 --> 00:26:26,670
there ain't no way I could come
up with this bullsh‐‐

576
00:26:26,753 --> 00:26:28,171
out of my head, man.

577
00:26:28,296 --> 00:26:30,465
One thing about bullsh‐‐,
you can't remember it

578
00:26:30,590 --> 00:26:32,008
unless you're really good.

579
00:26:32,175 --> 00:26:34,594
But you can always
remember the truth.

580
00:26:34,719 --> 00:26:35,512
No matter how hard you try,

581
00:26:35,679 --> 00:26:36,763
you can always
remember the truth.

582
00:26:36,888 --> 00:26:37,973
It always comes out
the same way twice.

583
00:26:38,056 --> 00:26:39,683
SAM:
This guy's a character,

584
00:26:39,766 --> 00:26:42,018
but he did dedicate
his entire life

585
00:26:42,144 --> 00:26:43,687
Anybody who's truly a fraud

586
00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:45,939
usually gives up
before Roger did.

587
00:26:46,064 --> 00:26:48,525
Roger found a U‐boat.
I'm convinced of it.

588
00:26:48,692 --> 00:26:50,861
You know, whether it's Hitler's
U‐boat full of treasure,

589
00:26:50,986 --> 00:26:53,697
that remains to be seen,
but I believe in Roger.

590
00:26:53,864 --> 00:26:56,700
I really‐‐evidence tells us.
History tells us.

591
00:26:56,825 --> 00:26:58,076
There's a U‐boat here.

592
00:26:58,243 --> 00:27:00,370
There's a lot
of what Roger says that

593
00:27:00,453 --> 00:27:01,913
is plausible.

594
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,083
But then there's this one thing

595
00:27:05,208 --> 00:27:07,669
that he claims
that is on the U‐boat,

596
00:27:07,752 --> 00:27:10,005
and I just went, "Wow."

597
00:27:15,177 --> 00:27:17,429
FISHBURNE: In the Caribbean
country of Turks and Caicos,

598
00:27:17,554 --> 00:27:19,514
Mike Fletcher and his team
are on the hunt

599
00:27:19,639 --> 00:27:23,059
for what could be a missing
Nazi U‐boat from World War II

600
00:27:23,185 --> 00:27:25,687
claimed to have been discovered
40 years ago

601
00:27:25,854 --> 00:27:28,440
by famed treasure hunter
Roger Miklos.

602
00:27:28,565 --> 00:27:29,941
INTERVIEWER: Where is it?

603
00:27:30,066 --> 00:27:32,986
It's sitting in British waters
in the Caribbean.

604
00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:34,279
But you won't say
exactly where?

605
00:27:34,404 --> 00:27:37,574
No, I'm trying to keep that
protected as much as I can.

606
00:27:37,741 --> 00:27:39,784
FISHBURNE: After the government
of Turks and Caicos

607
00:27:39,910 --> 00:27:42,704
banned him in 1981
from returning to the site

608
00:27:42,871 --> 00:27:44,956
where he says he found
the U‐boat,

609
00:27:45,081 --> 00:27:46,833
Roger spent
the rest of his life

610
00:27:46,917 --> 00:27:49,127
keeping the sub's location
secret.

611
00:27:49,211 --> 00:27:52,005
Now, after his death,
the unique personality

612
00:27:52,130 --> 00:27:55,383
that was Roger Miklos
casts a long shadow

613
00:27:55,508 --> 00:27:57,010
over the team's mission.

614
00:27:57,135 --> 00:27:59,679
Roger Miklos has
some very significant finds

615
00:27:59,846 --> 00:28:01,556
that he has discovered
over the years,

616
00:28:01,681 --> 00:28:03,892
so he is
a legit treasure hunter,

617
00:28:04,017 --> 00:28:06,144
but he has a lot of controversy
surrounding him.

618
00:28:07,896 --> 00:28:09,105
FISHBURNE:
One of those controversies

619
00:28:09,231 --> 00:28:11,024
involves a claim Roger made

620
00:28:11,149 --> 00:28:12,692
about the contents
of his U‐boat.

621
00:28:12,859 --> 00:28:15,904
He says his research
convinced him

622
00:28:16,071 --> 00:28:18,615
that the sub was filled
with gold, paintings,

623
00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:22,994
and maybe even Nazi officers
attempting to escape Germany,

624
00:28:23,078 --> 00:28:26,957
and the facts do lend
credibility to Roger's theory.

625
00:28:27,082 --> 00:28:29,876
Nazi subs did indeed
sail the Caribbean.

626
00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:31,670
And at the end of the war,

627
00:28:31,795 --> 00:28:33,588
many Nazis successfully
fled Germany

628
00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:34,506
to live in South America.

629
00:28:37,592 --> 00:28:40,637
But so far, there is
no evidence to support

630
00:28:40,762 --> 00:28:42,472
his last,
most controversial claim.

631
00:28:44,683 --> 00:28:46,685
There's this one thing

632
00:28:46,810 --> 00:28:49,646
that he claims is on the U‐boat

633
00:28:49,729 --> 00:28:52,107
and I just went, "Wow."

634
00:28:53,233 --> 00:28:56,695
Hitler, supposedly,
to the public committed suicide.

635
00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:58,029
Uh‐uh.

636
00:29:01,866 --> 00:29:03,410
FISHBURNE:
It's an extraordinary statement,

637
00:29:03,535 --> 00:29:05,161
but could it be true?

638
00:29:05,287 --> 00:29:07,706
Could the bodies of
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun

639
00:29:07,789 --> 00:29:10,542
be entombed aboard
Roger's submarine?

640
00:29:10,667 --> 00:29:12,335
He's not the only one out there
who thinks that

641
00:29:12,419 --> 00:29:15,046
there might have been
some mystery and intrigue

642
00:29:15,213 --> 00:29:17,173
with what actually happened
to Hitler.

643
00:29:17,299 --> 00:29:19,509
FISHBURNE: Roger claimed
that meeting with Nazi hunters

644
00:29:19,634 --> 00:29:22,095
and retired German officers
convinced him

645
00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:24,347
that Hitler
faked his own suicide

646
00:29:24,472 --> 00:29:26,433
and escaped
on a modified U‐boat.

647
00:29:26,558 --> 00:29:29,352
ROGER: Hitler got away clean,
and was taken

648
00:29:29,477 --> 00:29:31,354
to where the U‐boats
were waiting

649
00:29:31,521 --> 00:29:33,606
and off they went.

650
00:29:33,732 --> 00:29:36,526
MIKE: Do I believe Roger
found a U‐boat? Absolutely.

651
00:29:36,651 --> 00:29:38,695
Do I believe that the U‐boat

652
00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:41,114
was carrying gold and paintings

653
00:29:41,239 --> 00:29:43,533
looted from Europe
after the war?

654
00:29:43,616 --> 00:29:45,535
It's possible.

655
00:29:45,660 --> 00:29:49,456
But do I think that Hitler

656
00:29:49,581 --> 00:29:51,374
was onboard his U‐boat?

657
00:29:52,459 --> 00:29:54,002
No.

658
00:29:54,169 --> 00:29:57,422
It's obviously to me that Roger
loved a good headline.

659
00:29:57,547 --> 00:30:00,133
He liked to be in front
of the news camera.

660
00:30:00,216 --> 00:30:02,177
He needed the attention.

661
00:30:02,302 --> 00:30:05,221
He needed to garner support
for his idea.

662
00:30:05,388 --> 00:30:08,058
He needed investors' dollars.

663
00:30:08,183 --> 00:30:11,019
But more critically,
he needed permits

664
00:30:11,144 --> 00:30:12,937
to go back to
the Turks and Caicos,

665
00:30:13,063 --> 00:30:16,107
prove to the world that he had
actually found a U‐boat.

666
00:30:17,067 --> 00:30:19,736
Did Roger get a bit eccentric
over all the years

667
00:30:19,903 --> 00:30:22,822
of trying to convince the world
he'd found a U‐boat?

668
00:30:22,906 --> 00:30:23,865
I don't know.

669
00:30:23,990 --> 00:30:25,283
Most shipwreck hunters are

670
00:30:25,408 --> 00:30:26,493
a little kind of off‐base.

671
00:30:26,618 --> 00:30:29,496
You become obsessed with
finding that treasure.

672
00:30:29,579 --> 00:30:31,414
You become obsessed
with constantly looking.

673
00:30:33,333 --> 00:30:34,501
MIKE: But the one thing
about Roger

674
00:30:34,626 --> 00:30:37,128
over all those years is
that his story didn't change.

675
00:30:37,212 --> 00:30:39,005
He said he found a U‐boat.

676
00:30:39,089 --> 00:30:42,634
One of the nine U‐boats

677
00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:45,303
ordered by Hermann Göring
at the last part of the war

678
00:30:45,428 --> 00:30:49,849
in 1944 to remove high command

679
00:30:50,016 --> 00:30:52,519
art objects to South America.

680
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,857
FISHBURNE: In 1944,
Hermann Göring

681
00:30:58,024 --> 00:30:59,818
and U‐boat commander
Karl Dönitz

682
00:30:59,901 --> 00:31:01,361
ordered the construction

683
00:31:01,444 --> 00:31:04,322
of a technologically advanced
Nazi sub‐‐

684
00:31:04,447 --> 00:31:06,699
the XVIIB,

685
00:31:06,825 --> 00:31:10,328
built at the Blohm & Voss
shipyards in Hamburg.

686
00:31:10,412 --> 00:31:12,872
It was faster and quieter,

687
00:31:12,956 --> 00:31:15,125
designed to combat new Allied
strategies

688
00:31:15,250 --> 00:31:17,168
against U‐boats in the Atlantic,

689
00:31:17,293 --> 00:31:20,004
including depth charges
and convoys.

690
00:31:20,088 --> 00:31:23,383
And according to Roger,
the sub he saw was branded

691
00:31:23,508 --> 00:31:26,553
with a logo from
the Blohm & Voss shipyard.

692
00:31:32,350 --> 00:31:35,103
Now, after months of research,
the team feels

693
00:31:35,228 --> 00:31:37,355
they have made a breakthrough
in their search,

694
00:31:37,522 --> 00:31:40,066
and have identified
a possible location

695
00:31:40,191 --> 00:31:41,985
of what could be
the final resting place

696
00:31:42,110 --> 00:31:44,320
of the mysterious Nazi U‐boat.

697
00:31:45,363 --> 00:31:46,906
Roger said there is

698
00:31:47,031 --> 00:31:48,867
a shipwrecked French frigate
there.

699
00:31:49,033 --> 00:31:52,162
But we also know that Roger has
said that the French frigate

700
00:31:52,245 --> 00:31:54,080
is really the U‐boat.

701
00:31:54,205 --> 00:31:57,083
What I know is, this is where
Roger says to look.

702
00:31:57,208 --> 00:31:58,543
I gotta think
we're in the right spot.

703
00:31:59,961 --> 00:32:00,712
FISHBURNE:
But knowing where to look

704
00:32:00,837 --> 00:32:02,839
is only half the battle.

705
00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:06,009
Finding a U‐boat that has been
submerged over 70 years

706
00:32:06,134 --> 00:32:08,178
is a daunting task.

707
00:32:08,303 --> 00:32:10,138
There's been a lot of passage
of time, right?

708
00:32:10,263 --> 00:32:12,223
Things move around
under the water.

709
00:32:12,390 --> 00:32:14,476
Well, and the dangerous thing
is that

710
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:17,228
we know this thing is sitting
on a steep incline.

711
00:32:17,353 --> 00:32:19,397
Once it moves,
let's say in a hurricane,

712
00:32:19,522 --> 00:32:20,857
‐ if it did let loose...
‐ Yeah.

713
00:32:21,024 --> 00:32:22,275
...it would plummet
into the abyss.

714
00:32:23,902 --> 00:32:26,738
The ocean is a huge place
that's constantly changing,

715
00:32:26,863 --> 00:32:28,531
so anything on the seabed

716
00:32:28,656 --> 00:32:31,034
is gonna be affected
by that change.

717
00:32:31,159 --> 00:32:32,535
Hurricanes, earthquakes,

718
00:32:32,660 --> 00:32:33,661
even a tsunami.

719
00:32:35,538 --> 00:32:38,541
Shipwrecks roll over,
break apart,

720
00:32:38,708 --> 00:32:40,210
even fall off cliffs.

721
00:32:42,504 --> 00:32:44,297
The next question is,
do we dive first

722
00:32:44,422 --> 00:32:46,382
or we just go out
with the mag first?

723
00:32:46,508 --> 00:32:49,010
How big of an area
do you think we need to cover?

724
00:32:49,093 --> 00:32:51,513
At least 1,000 square meters
or yards.

725
00:32:51,596 --> 00:32:53,306
Let's go take
the magnetometer out

726
00:32:53,389 --> 00:32:54,891
and see if we get a hit,
and then,

727
00:32:55,058 --> 00:32:56,017
at least we know
where to start.

728
00:32:56,142 --> 00:32:58,102
Let's hope we get a huge hit.

729
00:32:58,228 --> 00:33:00,313
FISHBURNE: With such
a large area to cover,

730
00:33:00,438 --> 00:33:02,565
with depths hundreds of feet,

731
00:33:02,732 --> 00:33:06,361
putting divers in the water
is not feasible yet.

732
00:33:06,486 --> 00:33:08,863
You don't just jump in the ocean
and find a shipwreck.

733
00:33:09,030 --> 00:33:10,573
The ocean is just so big,

734
00:33:10,740 --> 00:33:12,408
thousands of miles
in every direction.

735
00:33:12,534 --> 00:33:14,244
Imagine trying to find something

736
00:33:14,369 --> 00:33:16,496
as small as a U‐boat.

737
00:33:16,579 --> 00:33:18,206
FISHBURNE:
To narrow the search,

738
00:33:18,373 --> 00:33:20,917
the team breaks out
the first piece of gear‐‐

739
00:33:21,042 --> 00:33:24,087
Sam's trust magnetometer.

740
00:33:24,212 --> 00:33:26,756
So let's get her hooked up
to the laptop.

741
00:33:26,881 --> 00:33:29,217
Back in Roger's day,
the mag was just a needle

742
00:33:29,342 --> 00:33:30,927
whipping up and down
on paper.

743
00:33:31,052 --> 00:33:33,179
This new, sophisticated mag

744
00:33:33,346 --> 00:33:36,516
will paint a chart
with magnetic hits.

745
00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:38,351
You're looking for a pattern
that shows you

746
00:33:38,518 --> 00:33:40,228
that hey, something's different
than the things

747
00:33:40,395 --> 00:33:42,188
that are surrounding it.

748
00:33:42,272 --> 00:33:43,356
‐ Hi.
‐ Hey, Captain,

749
00:33:43,439 --> 00:33:45,525
you got a couple minutes?
‐ Yeah, come on in.

750
00:33:45,650 --> 00:33:46,693
Great. So we're finally gonna
get

751
00:33:46,776 --> 00:33:49,070
the magnetometer in the water.
Weird question, but

752
00:33:49,237 --> 00:33:50,655
how slow
can we go in this boat?

753
00:33:50,780 --> 00:33:53,157
‐ Can we go 4 knots?
‐ No problem.

754
00:33:53,283 --> 00:33:55,827
Okay, so we're gonna run
about 4 knots

755
00:33:55,952 --> 00:33:56,619
and what we're gonna try to do

756
00:33:56,744 --> 00:33:58,705
is what they call
mowing the lawn.

757
00:33:58,788 --> 00:34:00,415
Drive the boat in one direction
for a little while,

758
00:34:00,540 --> 00:34:02,083
turn around, drive it back
in the other direction.

759
00:34:02,250 --> 00:34:03,543
Certainly
if there is something

760
00:34:03,668 --> 00:34:05,503
that shows up, even if
it's a small object,

761
00:34:05,670 --> 00:34:06,504
we'll probably get you
to stop.

762
00:34:06,588 --> 00:34:08,339
‐ Okay.
‐ So we'll communicate,

763
00:34:08,423 --> 00:34:10,508
if you don't mind,
using this here.

764
00:34:10,633 --> 00:34:11,759
‐ Okay.
‐ So we'll give you a call

765
00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,344
when we're
about to get started.

766
00:34:13,469 --> 00:34:14,262
‐ Does that work?
‐ Perfect.

767
00:34:14,387 --> 00:34:15,430
‐ Cool.
‐ That sounds good.

768
00:34:18,725 --> 00:34:20,101
SAM:
I can't wait to get there

769
00:34:20,226 --> 00:34:21,477
and have a look what's
down there.

770
00:34:21,561 --> 00:34:22,520
We have everything that

771
00:34:22,645 --> 00:34:24,564
a shipwreck‐hunting team
could want.

772
00:34:24,689 --> 00:34:27,984
We've got a magnetometer,
we've got side scan sonar,

773
00:34:28,109 --> 00:34:30,570
we've got multiple ROVs
with multi‐beam sonar on 'em.

774
00:34:30,737 --> 00:34:32,363
Nobody has this much equipment,

775
00:34:32,530 --> 00:34:34,324
so if there's something
to be found,

776
00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:35,950
I think we're gonna find it.

777
00:34:36,075 --> 00:34:38,077
Hey boys, how's my maggie?

778
00:34:38,244 --> 00:34:39,162
She's almost ready
for a swim.

779
00:34:39,245 --> 00:34:40,705
Awesome.

780
00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:43,166
‐ All ready for you.
‐ Good. GPS is hooked up.

781
00:34:43,249 --> 00:34:44,459
MIKE:
Chris, if you carry that,

782
00:34:44,584 --> 00:34:45,376
Sam and I will carry
the reel.

783
00:34:45,543 --> 00:34:47,378
Okay, perfect.
I want to be careful

784
00:34:47,545 --> 00:34:48,963
'cause there's a very delicate,
expensive

785
00:34:49,088 --> 00:34:49,714
glass sensor in this thing.

786
00:34:49,839 --> 00:34:51,341
I know you're gonna be
careful.

787
00:34:52,508 --> 00:34:54,135
I do think Roger is credible.

788
00:34:54,218 --> 00:34:56,346
Could he be incorrect?
Possibly.

789
00:34:56,512 --> 00:34:57,430
But there's only one way
to find out.

790
00:34:57,555 --> 00:34:58,723
We have to go and see.

791
00:35:00,308 --> 00:35:01,684
We are ready to deploy the mag.

792
00:35:04,020 --> 00:35:05,813
Of course we're all chasing
the "eureka" moment,

793
00:35:05,938 --> 00:35:07,357
but it all begins with that
moment

794
00:35:07,523 --> 00:35:08,983
when you throw out
the lines

795
00:35:09,108 --> 00:35:09,859
and you're on your mission.

796
00:35:09,984 --> 00:35:11,778
Watch that reel.
She's gonna pull fast.

797
00:35:11,903 --> 00:35:15,365
This is a very, very,
important first step.

798
00:35:15,531 --> 00:35:16,949
If there's something made of
metal down there,

799
00:35:17,075 --> 00:35:19,035
we're gonna know soon.

800
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:20,578
‐ You got it?
‐ I got it.

801
00:35:21,663 --> 00:35:23,456
There she goes.

802
00:35:28,461 --> 00:35:29,921
FISHBURNE: Off the coast
of Turks and Caicos,

803
00:35:30,046 --> 00:35:32,674
Mike, Sam, and Chris
are taking a vital step

804
00:35:32,757 --> 00:35:35,093
in their search
for a sunken Nazi U‐boat.

805
00:35:36,552 --> 00:35:37,845
There she goes.

806
00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:41,349
FISHBURNE: They've deployed
a magnetometer

807
00:35:41,516 --> 00:35:44,018
to scan for metallic objects
on the ocean floor.

808
00:35:44,185 --> 00:35:46,854
SAM: As we throw the
magnetometer into the water,

809
00:35:46,938 --> 00:35:49,524
it feels like all of the hard
work that we've done

810
00:35:49,607 --> 00:35:51,401
over the past month,
all the logistics

811
00:35:51,567 --> 00:35:54,362
to get out here is
finally coming to fruition.

812
00:35:54,487 --> 00:35:55,988
All right,
slowly letting it out.

813
00:35:57,740 --> 00:35:59,826
You should have signal!

814
00:35:59,909 --> 00:36:01,619
Connecting.

815
00:36:01,744 --> 00:36:03,371
FISHBURNE: But towing
this advanced piece of equipment

816
00:36:03,454 --> 00:36:05,623
is not without its challenges.

817
00:36:07,250 --> 00:36:09,669
The ever‐changing terrain
of Turks and Caicos

818
00:36:09,752 --> 00:36:12,130
makes the team's mission
particularly difficult.

819
00:36:13,631 --> 00:36:16,342
Turks and Caicos
is absolutely paradise,

820
00:36:16,426 --> 00:36:17,468
but there are some challenges.

821
00:36:17,593 --> 00:36:19,429
One side of the archipelago

822
00:36:19,554 --> 00:36:21,472
is just completely filled
with rocks

823
00:36:21,597 --> 00:36:23,766
and coral and it's super
dangerous for boats to get in.

824
00:36:25,768 --> 00:36:27,478
FISHBURNE:
Formed by coral reefs,

825
00:36:27,562 --> 00:36:30,857
the islands sit on
a foundation of soft limestone.

826
00:36:31,023 --> 00:36:33,776
Centuries ago,
when ocean levels were lower,

827
00:36:33,901 --> 00:36:36,362
acid rainwater collected
in pools

828
00:36:36,487 --> 00:36:40,658
and over time, began to dissolve
the surrounding limestone.

829
00:36:40,783 --> 00:36:43,536
The result is a topography
of ridges, fissures,

830
00:36:43,661 --> 00:36:45,955
sinkholes, and caverns

831
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,958
many of which have never
been explored.

832
00:36:51,669 --> 00:36:53,045
MIKE: Normally you look
for a shipwreck,

833
00:36:53,171 --> 00:36:54,505
it's gonna be obvious.

834
00:36:54,630 --> 00:36:57,341
It's laying there
on the ocean floor.

835
00:36:57,425 --> 00:37:01,220
But imagine how hard it is
to find a U‐boat

836
00:37:01,345 --> 00:37:03,431
when it's underground.

837
00:37:03,556 --> 00:37:05,516
This just happens to be
underwater underground.

838
00:37:11,564 --> 00:37:12,607
Are you good there, Chris?

839
00:37:12,732 --> 00:37:14,567
Yeah, I'm good.
How's it looking up there?

840
00:37:14,692 --> 00:37:16,068
It's good. I's marking.

841
00:37:16,986 --> 00:37:19,697
Magnetometer work is long
and tedious.

842
00:37:19,822 --> 00:37:21,657
You spend a lot of time
in front of a screen.

843
00:37:21,783 --> 00:37:23,201
So just let it out
nice and slow.

844
00:37:23,284 --> 00:37:24,076
That's good, Chris.

845
00:37:24,202 --> 00:37:26,037
Just keep letting it out
slow like that.

846
00:37:26,204 --> 00:37:27,622
Still going.

847
00:37:27,747 --> 00:37:29,665
SAM: We're gonna see a graph
that's coming up

848
00:37:29,749 --> 00:37:31,375
on our computer screen,

849
00:37:31,542 --> 00:37:33,211
and we're looking for
a big blip.

850
00:37:35,004 --> 00:37:38,424
Whoa, hang on. We got something,
something here.

851
00:37:38,549 --> 00:37:40,760
There's something.
There we go.

852
00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:44,472
‐ Whoa.
‐ We got a hit?

853
00:37:44,555 --> 00:37:46,140
‐We did get a little hit there.
‐ Yeah.

854
00:37:46,224 --> 00:37:48,351
Like, look at all that.

855
00:37:48,476 --> 00:37:49,727
Tons of stuff coming on here.

856
00:37:49,894 --> 00:37:52,146
So we‐‐we hit something.

857
00:37:52,230 --> 00:37:53,940
Now, was it U‐boat‐sized?

858
00:37:57,485 --> 00:37:59,695
The good news is that
we are getting some hits.

859
00:37:59,821 --> 00:38:02,740
They're not submarine‐sized
hits.

860
00:38:02,907 --> 00:38:06,035
But we are showing some
magnetic anomaly.

861
00:38:06,118 --> 00:38:08,204
So, there's something here
to dive.

862
00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:10,998
But we haven't really hit
our sweet spot yet,

863
00:38:11,082 --> 00:38:14,544
the spot that Roger told us
should be the French frigate.

864
00:38:14,710 --> 00:38:16,337
If it's there and we've
crossed by it,

865
00:38:16,462 --> 00:38:18,130
we'll get a huge hit.

866
00:38:19,048 --> 00:38:20,925
FISHBURNE: As Mike and the crew
get closer

867
00:38:21,050 --> 00:38:23,010
to the sunken U‐boat location,

868
00:38:23,135 --> 00:38:25,680
the one constant is
the unpredictable nature

869
00:38:25,805 --> 00:38:28,099
of the open seas.

870
00:38:28,224 --> 00:38:30,852
Chris, you notice that
as we're coming more south,

871
00:38:30,977 --> 00:38:32,979
‐ there's more sea running.
‐ Yeah.

872
00:38:33,062 --> 00:38:35,648
Yeah, we're getting into
some chop here.

873
00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:38,401
‐ It's gonna get rough.
‐ Yeah.

874
00:38:38,526 --> 00:38:39,861
SAM: Operating the magnetometer

875
00:38:40,027 --> 00:38:42,488
in even small waves
is difficult,

876
00:38:42,572 --> 00:38:44,699
and now we're in
really rough seas

877
00:38:44,782 --> 00:38:48,369
and we really have to monitor
the mag's buffer to the bottom.

878
00:38:48,536 --> 00:38:50,705
It looks like the weather is
turning on us a little bit.

879
00:38:50,830 --> 00:38:53,040
The seas have picked up.

880
00:38:53,165 --> 00:38:55,877
It's not as nice and flat calm
as it was when we started.

881
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,922
FISHBURNE: Extending the cable
helps to balance out

882
00:39:00,047 --> 00:39:01,507
the variations
in the water depth

883
00:39:01,674 --> 00:39:03,843
caused by sudden swells,

884
00:39:03,968 --> 00:39:05,970
but that comes with a risk.

885
00:39:06,053 --> 00:39:08,806
A longer tether makes it
much more difficult

886
00:39:08,931 --> 00:39:12,018
to make quick adjustments,
making it vitally important

887
00:39:12,184 --> 00:39:13,811
that they maintain
enough speed

888
00:39:13,895 --> 00:39:17,356
to keep the magnetometer
off the sea floor.

889
00:39:17,481 --> 00:39:18,441
Hey, Chris, Chris!

890
00:39:18,566 --> 00:39:21,027
We're not going fast enough
to hold the mag up.

891
00:39:21,193 --> 00:39:22,653
Captain's gotta pick up the
speed

892
00:39:22,778 --> 00:39:25,031
or you gotta roll tether
like now.

893
00:39:25,114 --> 00:39:27,825
'Cause I got 18 feet of depth
and 20 feet of bottom.

894
00:39:31,913 --> 00:39:33,456
We're gonna have you pick
up the speed

895
00:39:33,581 --> 00:39:34,665
by one knot, please.

896
00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:36,834
So we can go five.

897
00:39:36,959 --> 00:39:37,919
CAPTAIN ON RADIO:
I'll go five.

898
00:39:38,002 --> 00:39:40,129
Very good.
Five would be great. Thanks.

899
00:39:41,923 --> 00:39:43,591
FISHBURNE: With the ship's
speed adjusted,

900
00:39:43,716 --> 00:39:45,968
the magnetometer's sweep
resumes.

901
00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:50,139
Turning you
to starboard slowly.

902
00:39:50,222 --> 00:39:52,850
FISHBURNE: So far,
none of the data suggests

903
00:39:52,975 --> 00:39:55,519
that there is a U‐boat
in the area,

904
00:39:55,645 --> 00:39:57,313
but the team holds out hope.

905
00:39:57,438 --> 00:39:59,398
MIKE: We're not getting a hit,
but I'm still convinced

906
00:39:59,523 --> 00:40:00,900
this could be the spot.

907
00:40:02,902 --> 00:40:04,862
We're gonna make
one more pass

908
00:40:04,987 --> 00:40:08,366
across what I call
the sweet spot,

909
00:40:08,491 --> 00:40:11,702
and, uh, hopefully we're gonna
see this great big change

910
00:40:11,827 --> 00:40:12,787
in magnetic field.

911
00:40:12,912 --> 00:40:15,247
Guys, I think I got a hit.

912
00:40:15,414 --> 00:40:16,332
Are you serious?

913
00:40:18,542 --> 00:40:20,127
What do you got?

914
00:40:20,211 --> 00:40:22,129
SAM:
I think that could be it.

915
00:40:22,213 --> 00:40:22,964
Oh, my God.

916
00:40:27,218 --> 00:40:29,053
FISHBURNE:
In Turks and Caicos,

917
00:40:29,178 --> 00:40:30,596
the team believes
they're closing in

918
00:40:30,721 --> 00:40:32,890
on what could be
a lost Nazi U‐boat

919
00:40:33,015 --> 00:40:36,310
when Sam gets some promising
data from the magnetometer.

920
00:40:37,770 --> 00:40:39,855
I think I got a hit.

921
00:40:39,939 --> 00:40:41,023
‐ What?
‐ Check this out right now!

922
00:40:41,148 --> 00:40:43,025
‐ Come up, quick!
‐ Are you serious?

923
00:40:43,192 --> 00:40:45,194
When you find something,
when you get that hit,

924
00:40:45,277 --> 00:40:47,154
you can feel the‐‐
you can feel the excitement

925
00:40:47,238 --> 00:40:48,531
in everybody.

926
00:40:48,698 --> 00:40:49,615
What do you got?

927
00:40:49,740 --> 00:40:52,034
All right, check this out.
So this is where

928
00:40:52,159 --> 00:40:53,452
it starts to drop on the clip
a little bit...

929
00:40:53,577 --> 00:40:54,745
Oh, yeah, there it is.

930
00:40:54,870 --> 00:40:56,247
And then there's
the classic S.

931
00:40:57,415 --> 00:40:59,083
Oh, my God.

932
00:40:59,250 --> 00:41:01,043
Okay, look where we are, too.

933
00:41:03,045 --> 00:41:04,839
This is pretty close
to the location.

934
00:41:04,964 --> 00:41:06,966
SAM:
I think that could be it.

935
00:41:07,049 --> 00:41:09,719
Getting a hit
on the magnetometer,

936
00:41:09,844 --> 00:41:12,680
this means we've got
an indication of metal,

937
00:41:12,847 --> 00:41:14,849
and it's exactly in the area

938
00:41:14,974 --> 00:41:17,351
where Roger tells us to look
for the French frigate.

939
00:41:19,687 --> 00:41:20,563
FISHBURNE:
But a hit doesn't meant

940
00:41:20,688 --> 00:41:22,314
it's a submarine yet.

941
00:41:22,398 --> 00:41:25,484
Determining that will require
eyes on the sea floor.

942
00:41:27,403 --> 00:41:30,448
The magnetometer is not like
a sonar or a camera.

943
00:41:30,573 --> 00:41:32,366
It doesn't draw you a picture.

944
00:41:32,491 --> 00:41:34,201
It's just going to give you
an indication

945
00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:36,579
that there is something
different than normal,

946
00:41:36,746 --> 00:41:38,664
and it happens to be metallic.

947
00:41:38,789 --> 00:41:40,041
MIKE: We don't know
what's there.

948
00:41:40,207 --> 00:41:41,417
It could be an old car,

949
00:41:41,542 --> 00:41:43,502
a sunken ship that
we're not looking for,

950
00:41:43,627 --> 00:41:47,339
and we gotta find out what
that iron is that's down there.

951
00:41:47,465 --> 00:41:50,593
FISHBURNE: The next step is
to put divers in the water.

952
00:41:50,718 --> 00:41:52,303
If there's something big there,

953
00:41:52,386 --> 00:41:53,846
I'm ready to jump in
and just swim down

954
00:41:53,971 --> 00:41:55,181
and see what it is.

955
00:41:55,264 --> 00:41:56,849
FISHBURNE: But once again,

956
00:41:56,974 --> 00:41:59,268
the weather refuses
to cooperate.

957
00:41:59,393 --> 00:42:02,063
Rough seas pick up and
with sunset on the horizon,

958
00:42:02,188 --> 00:42:05,232
the team makes
a difficult decision.

959
00:42:05,357 --> 00:42:07,985
As much as we want to just
jump in the water and dive,

960
00:42:08,069 --> 00:42:11,489
it's pretty choppy,
so we're gonna pull the mag,

961
00:42:11,572 --> 00:42:12,823
we're gonna wait for it
to calm down.

962
00:42:12,907 --> 00:42:15,284
Maybe tomorrow, we'll do
that first dive then.

963
00:42:18,329 --> 00:42:20,456
FISHBURNE: The next morning,
in calmer seas,

964
00:42:20,581 --> 00:42:23,209
Mike and Chris decide it's safe
to prep for the dive.

965
00:42:25,002 --> 00:42:25,586
Can you tuck that in, too,
Chris?

966
00:42:25,711 --> 00:42:27,671
Yep.

967
00:42:27,797 --> 00:42:30,299
I couldn't hold back Mike and
Chris for a moment longer.

968
00:42:30,382 --> 00:42:32,051
Once we got that hit
on the magnetometer,

969
00:42:32,176 --> 00:42:33,969
they needed to go in the water.

970
00:42:35,054 --> 00:42:37,431
FISHBURNE: The magnetometer
has given Chris and Mike

971
00:42:37,556 --> 00:42:41,102
the area to explore,
but it's by no means precise.

972
00:42:41,227 --> 00:42:45,147
They have no idea what kind
of terrain awaits them.

973
00:42:45,231 --> 00:42:46,982
Just because there is
something metal down there

974
00:42:47,066 --> 00:42:49,193
doesn't mean it will be
easy to find.

975
00:42:50,027 --> 00:42:53,114
U‐boats were built to dive
to great depths,

976
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,325
both to evade detection
and to hunt their own prey.

977
00:43:00,913 --> 00:43:03,874
It's possible the sub
Roger says he saw,

978
00:43:03,958 --> 00:43:05,835
partially submerged in a cave,

979
00:43:05,918 --> 00:43:07,920
was there playing possum

980
00:43:08,045 --> 00:43:10,506
and then was unable to surface

981
00:43:10,631 --> 00:43:13,342
or that it was hit and sunk.

982
00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:18,013
Diving in caves and in areas

983
00:43:18,097 --> 00:43:21,267
like the geography
that creates caves

984
00:43:21,392 --> 00:43:26,313
is a step beyond
the regular dive.

985
00:43:26,397 --> 00:43:30,860
You're in a very unusual
underwater environment

986
00:43:30,943 --> 00:43:34,238
that's not like diving
in a river or lake.

987
00:43:34,405 --> 00:43:37,116
It's totally unique.
It is this sense of adventure

988
00:43:37,241 --> 00:43:39,160
that you can't imagine.

989
00:43:39,285 --> 00:43:42,413
The sense of awe that no one

990
00:43:42,538 --> 00:43:44,957
has been in
that particular cave ever

991
00:43:45,082 --> 00:43:47,042
in the history of mankind
on the planet.

992
00:43:49,170 --> 00:43:51,505
There's a lot of things
about diving shipwrecks,

993
00:43:51,589 --> 00:43:54,091
especially in low vis,
that's extremely dangerous.

994
00:43:54,216 --> 00:43:56,969
FISHBURNE: For Roger,
it was an accident

995
00:43:57,094 --> 00:43:59,680
several decades ago
that changed his life.

996
00:43:59,847 --> 00:44:01,307
I don't do the diving anymore.

997
00:44:01,390 --> 00:44:03,976
I did the diving
for 38 solid years.

998
00:44:04,101 --> 00:44:05,561
I damaged my heart.

999
00:44:07,563 --> 00:44:12,026
I had bought a brand‐new
Scubapro tank.

1000
00:44:12,109 --> 00:44:14,904
But I went in
and we were down at 80 feet.

1001
00:44:15,029 --> 00:44:16,197
All of a sudden on an exhale,

1002
00:44:16,322 --> 00:44:18,449
the line on the tank
blew off.

1003
00:44:20,159 --> 00:44:21,285
I thought I was dead.

1004
00:44:22,369 --> 00:44:23,204
They got me out of the water

1005
00:44:23,370 --> 00:44:25,080
and they brought me in
to Key West

1006
00:44:25,206 --> 00:44:27,875
where I was in a coma
for seven days.

1007
00:44:27,958 --> 00:44:30,878
And I've got
ventricular "fliberation"

1008
00:44:31,003 --> 00:44:32,421
on the lower part of my heart.

1009
00:44:34,965 --> 00:44:36,884
FISHBURNE:
It's the kind of story

1010
00:44:37,009 --> 00:44:39,220
that stays with
every deep water diver.

1011
00:44:39,345 --> 00:44:41,931
But when there's a potentially
historic discovery

1012
00:44:42,056 --> 00:44:45,517
on the line, the rewards
outweigh the risks.

1013
00:44:45,601 --> 00:44:48,062
MIKE ON RADIO:
Radio check, 1‐2‐3.

1014
00:44:48,229 --> 00:44:49,313
SAM:
Five over five.

1015
00:44:50,731 --> 00:44:53,692
MIKE: It's a big, big deal
to find a U‐boat.

1016
00:44:55,819 --> 00:44:59,365
And it's that spark of history
and real adventure

1017
00:44:59,490 --> 00:45:02,576
that drew me to U‐boats,
specifically.

1018
00:45:02,743 --> 00:45:05,371
Although I'm not after
the alleged billions

1019
00:45:05,496 --> 00:45:07,831
or millions of dollars
in the U‐boat.

1020
00:45:07,915 --> 00:45:09,833
The treasure is history.

1021
00:45:09,917 --> 00:45:11,418
The treasure is in the hunt.

1022
00:45:11,543 --> 00:45:15,256
The treasure is in finding
that item that's lost

1023
00:45:15,381 --> 00:45:17,299
that no one else has been
successful at finding.

1024
00:45:21,637 --> 00:45:23,138
[beep]

1025
00:45:23,264 --> 00:45:24,932
Sam to Chris.
If you read, what's your depth?

1026
00:45:25,057 --> 00:45:26,517
Give me a depth check.

1027
00:45:42,283 --> 00:45:45,244
This is a really, really
craggy seabed.

1028
00:45:45,411 --> 00:45:47,496
It's not like anything
you'd normally see.

1029
00:45:47,621 --> 00:45:51,417
With big overhangs and
sharp drop‐offs and gullies.

1030
00:45:53,335 --> 00:45:55,170
The way Mike and I work
is he goes down

1031
00:45:55,296 --> 00:45:57,464
with his handheld
metal detector,

1032
00:45:57,548 --> 00:45:59,842
and he starts scanning
the area.

1033
00:46:00,009 --> 00:46:02,344
But everything's covered
in sand or coral

1034
00:46:02,511 --> 00:46:04,638
and you could have a U‐boat
that's been down there

1035
00:46:04,722 --> 00:46:07,182
for quite a long time
completely covered

1036
00:46:07,266 --> 00:46:09,018
and you could be looking at it
with your eyes

1037
00:46:09,184 --> 00:46:11,020
and swim over it
and not realize

1038
00:46:11,145 --> 00:46:12,187
that you've just swam
over a U‐boat.

1039
00:46:12,271 --> 00:46:14,565
SAM: We see shifting of sands.

1040
00:46:14,690 --> 00:46:17,151
It could one day
be completely covered,

1041
00:46:17,276 --> 00:46:20,029
six months, be open,
and then covered back up again.

1042
00:46:20,112 --> 00:46:23,240
So, we're really looking
for small artifacts,

1043
00:46:23,365 --> 00:46:25,159
indications that something
might have been there

1044
00:46:25,242 --> 00:46:27,453
at one time,
and then pathways of debris

1045
00:46:27,578 --> 00:46:29,496
that might lead us
to the mothership.

1046
00:46:31,248 --> 00:46:33,500
MIKE: With the handheld
metal detector,

1047
00:46:33,584 --> 00:46:36,503
if there is something
even as small as a paper clip,

1048
00:46:36,587 --> 00:46:38,922
I'm gonna know it's there,
even though I can't see it.

1049
00:46:40,132 --> 00:46:41,842
[beep]

1050
00:46:41,925 --> 00:46:43,427
SAM: Chris, just wondering
what you're seeing down there.

1051
00:46:43,552 --> 00:46:44,803
What's the bottom conditions?

1052
00:46:44,928 --> 00:46:47,389
Does it look like somewhere
a U‐boat might have wrecked?

1053
00:46:57,983 --> 00:47:01,362
FISHBURNE: It's a time‐consuming
and methodical search,

1054
00:47:01,487 --> 00:47:03,197
and Mike and Chris
make several trips

1055
00:47:03,322 --> 00:47:04,948
back to the surface
for more air.

1056
00:47:13,165 --> 00:47:14,750
Anything of interest
down there?

1057
00:47:24,176 --> 00:47:25,594
Roger that.
Keep me updated.

1058
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:31,600
♪

1059
00:47:40,818 --> 00:47:43,362
FISHBURNE: Then, something
catches Mike's eye.

1060
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:54,289
SAM: Amazing.
What do you got?

1061
00:47:56,417 --> 00:47:58,001
[radio static]

1062
00:48:04,216 --> 00:48:06,510
Surface to Mike.
Do you read, over?

1063
00:48:10,722 --> 00:48:13,392
[radio static]

1064
00:48:17,271 --> 00:48:18,689
It's something.

1065
00:48:25,863 --> 00:48:27,781
Don't leave me hanging, Chris.
The anticipation's killing me.

1066
00:48:29,032 --> 00:48:30,033
What do you got?

1067
00:48:42,588 --> 00:48:43,672
FISHBURNE: Following
the piecemeal clues

1068
00:48:43,755 --> 00:48:45,716
Roger left behind,
Mike and his team believe

1069
00:48:45,841 --> 00:48:48,010
they may have found
a promising lead.

1070
00:48:49,595 --> 00:48:51,305
Now the team's instruments

1071
00:48:51,388 --> 00:48:53,307
have detected iron
on the sea floor...

1072
00:48:55,267 --> 00:48:57,519
and Mike and Chris
dive down to investigate.

1073
00:49:03,275 --> 00:49:04,610
What do you got?

1074
00:49:14,828 --> 00:49:16,830
Sam, I've got something here.

1075
00:49:18,415 --> 00:49:20,584
MIKE: As we're following
this metal trail,

1076
00:49:20,709 --> 00:49:23,587
we come across
a metal pipe flange.

1077
00:49:27,716 --> 00:49:29,426
To me, this is
a pressure fitting.

1078
00:49:29,551 --> 00:49:31,720
This is exactly
the kind of thing

1079
00:49:31,845 --> 00:49:33,222
that you would use
in the construction

1080
00:49:33,388 --> 00:49:34,765
of a submarine.

1081
00:49:38,352 --> 00:49:40,896
Most of the metal pieces
are hard to identify,

1082
00:49:41,021 --> 00:49:42,689
except for one piece.

1083
00:49:42,773 --> 00:49:46,860
And that piece could be
a very significant find.

1084
00:49:46,944 --> 00:49:51,365
And it appears to be a flange,
or pressure fitting for a sub.

1085
00:49:52,908 --> 00:49:55,077
FISHBURNE: Sub flanges are used
to connect pipes,

1086
00:49:55,244 --> 00:49:56,537
valves, and equipment

1087
00:49:56,703 --> 00:49:58,789
to provide
a pressurized seal.

1088
00:49:59,748 --> 00:50:02,125
When compromised
by a catastrophic disaster

1089
00:50:02,251 --> 00:50:04,545
onboard a U‐boat sub,

1090
00:50:04,711 --> 00:50:07,589
this would be the type
of debris one would find.

1091
00:50:09,716 --> 00:50:12,469
We're finding these bits
and pieces of iron

1092
00:50:12,553 --> 00:50:14,263
that shouldn't be there.

1093
00:50:14,388 --> 00:50:16,181
[beep]

1094
00:50:16,348 --> 00:50:19,476
It could lead us
to a shipwreck,

1095
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,103
but hopefully our U‐boat.

1096
00:50:25,023 --> 00:50:28,443
[beeping]

1097
00:50:28,569 --> 00:50:30,821
CHRIS: Cameras are extremely
important

1098
00:50:30,904 --> 00:50:32,948
when you're searching
for shipwrecks.

1099
00:50:33,073 --> 00:50:34,825
There are legal reasons

1100
00:50:34,908 --> 00:50:37,536
that would like to have
your shipwreck hunt documented

1101
00:50:37,661 --> 00:50:39,663
to prove that you are the one
that found it,

1102
00:50:39,788 --> 00:50:41,957
to prove that you
also didn't do anything illegal.

1103
00:50:43,792 --> 00:50:45,335
FISHBURNE: Shipwreck
and treasure hunting

1104
00:50:45,419 --> 00:50:46,670
has been around centuries.

1105
00:50:46,795 --> 00:50:48,755
The discovery of an old wreck

1106
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,632
can be worth
millions of dollars.

1107
00:50:50,716 --> 00:50:54,720
However, finding treasure
or valuable property

1108
00:50:54,845 --> 00:50:57,723
is not always as simple
as finders keepers.

1109
00:50:57,889 --> 00:51:00,601
A key question is whether
the discovery of goods

1110
00:51:00,726 --> 00:51:04,813
is deemed salvage
or treasure hunting.

1111
00:51:04,896 --> 00:51:06,982
A salvage refers
to when someone

1112
00:51:07,107 --> 00:51:11,194
sees property drifting,
lost, or abandoned at sea.

1113
00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:13,405
Under international conventions,

1114
00:51:13,530 --> 00:51:15,907
the salvager is required
to return the found goods

1115
00:51:16,033 --> 00:51:19,786
to the original owner
in return for a reward.

1116
00:51:21,413 --> 00:51:23,290
Treasure hunting
typically means

1117
00:51:23,415 --> 00:51:26,543
exploration aimed
at unearthing antiquities

1118
00:51:26,668 --> 00:51:28,545
and other valuables
from shipwrecks

1119
00:51:28,670 --> 00:51:30,464
for financial gain.

1120
00:51:30,547 --> 00:51:32,924
If the find lies
in international waters

1121
00:51:33,050 --> 00:51:35,052
and there's no one
to claim ownership,

1122
00:51:35,177 --> 00:51:37,262
the finder is probably
in the clear to keep it.

1123
00:51:39,014 --> 00:51:41,892
However, because of
the ambiguity,

1124
00:51:42,017 --> 00:51:43,727
most countries
have enacted laws

1125
00:51:43,894 --> 00:51:45,937
to establish
government ownership

1126
00:51:46,063 --> 00:51:48,774
for the majority of shipwrecks
found in their waters.

1127
00:51:50,317 --> 00:51:52,986
Just because you've found
a shipwreck, or even pieces

1128
00:51:53,111 --> 00:51:55,072
that you think are part
of a shipwreck,

1129
00:51:55,197 --> 00:51:57,741
if you don't have a permit,
you can't remove it.

1130
00:51:57,866 --> 00:52:00,410
FISHBURNE: Treasure hunters
who ignore these rules

1131
00:52:00,535 --> 00:52:02,746
often find themselves
in trouble with the law.

1132
00:52:02,871 --> 00:52:04,665
Not having the correct permit

1133
00:52:04,748 --> 00:52:06,792
is what got Roger Miklos banned

1134
00:52:06,917 --> 00:52:09,169
from ever returning
to Turks and Caicos.

1135
00:52:10,754 --> 00:52:12,214
That's where Roger
seemed to run amok

1136
00:52:12,381 --> 00:52:14,007
of the Turks and Caicos
government.

1137
00:52:14,091 --> 00:52:16,635
They claim he didn't
take out the right permits

1138
00:52:16,718 --> 00:52:18,553
when he recovered an anchor.

1139
00:52:19,513 --> 00:52:20,555
FISHBURNE: Photography
is the best way

1140
00:52:20,722 --> 00:52:22,391
for divers
to stake their claim

1141
00:52:22,516 --> 00:52:23,684
when they find a wreck.

1142
00:52:23,850 --> 00:52:25,936
With so much more
potentially at stake,

1143
00:52:26,061 --> 00:52:29,314
it's not uncommon for
unscrupulous treasure hunters

1144
00:52:29,398 --> 00:52:30,816
to swoop in.

1145
00:52:31,692 --> 00:52:34,111
There's always somebody
after your discovery

1146
00:52:34,236 --> 00:52:37,030
who want to tell the public
they found it first,

1147
00:52:37,155 --> 00:52:38,490
they have rights.

1148
00:52:38,615 --> 00:52:42,244
It's a no‐holds‐barred
fight to the death

1149
00:52:42,369 --> 00:52:43,829
when it comes to shipwrecks,

1150
00:52:43,912 --> 00:52:46,081
and especially shipwrecks
with treasure.

1151
00:52:47,082 --> 00:52:49,626
I found a very important
historical wreck,

1152
00:52:49,751 --> 00:52:52,295
and treasure hunters
learned that I'd found it.

1153
00:52:52,379 --> 00:52:56,174
It led to this really
precedent‐setting court battle,

1154
00:52:56,299 --> 00:52:58,343
trying to determine
who had found it first

1155
00:52:58,468 --> 00:53:00,011
and who had rights.

1156
00:53:00,178 --> 00:53:03,390
As it turned out,
it was my photographic evidence

1157
00:53:03,515 --> 00:53:05,142
that proved my case.

1158
00:53:06,810 --> 00:53:08,520
FISHBURNE: It's a lesson
Roger Miklos

1159
00:53:08,603 --> 00:53:11,106
had to learn the hard way.

1160
00:53:11,231 --> 00:53:13,024
MIKE: Roger claims
that he took photographs

1161
00:53:13,191 --> 00:53:15,444
of his U‐boat.

1162
00:53:15,569 --> 00:53:17,946
He also claims that
all of those photographs

1163
00:53:18,071 --> 00:53:21,366
were lost when
he was run off the island.

1164
00:53:22,242 --> 00:53:25,203
If just one of those photographs
still existed,

1165
00:53:25,287 --> 00:53:28,415
this whole story
would be very different.

1166
00:53:29,416 --> 00:53:31,835
FISHBURNE: Once Mike and Chris
have documented their find,

1167
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,129
they begin to follow
the trail of parts,

1168
00:53:34,212 --> 00:53:36,840
hoping that it will lead
to the missing U‐boat.

1169
00:53:54,775 --> 00:53:57,903
So, we followed the trail
of bits and shards of metal

1170
00:53:58,028 --> 00:54:00,197
until it disappeared
into the abyss.

1171
00:54:01,782 --> 00:54:03,033
It leads you to wonder,

1172
00:54:03,158 --> 00:54:06,828
was there a U‐boat here
that just slid off the edge

1173
00:54:06,953 --> 00:54:08,330
and dumped into the abyss?

1174
00:54:09,956 --> 00:54:11,541
When you look at the seabed,

1175
00:54:11,666 --> 00:54:13,293
you can see a groove,
almost a trough

1176
00:54:13,418 --> 00:54:15,587
that takes you all the way
to the edge of the wall

1177
00:54:15,712 --> 00:54:18,757
and then drops off
into about 3,000 feet of water.

1178
00:54:18,882 --> 00:54:20,175
Everything else
is covered in coral.

1179
00:54:20,300 --> 00:54:22,594
Everything else looks like
you would expect.

1180
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,264
But this trough
is kind of almost boat‐shaped.

1181
00:54:26,389 --> 00:54:29,392
You could imagine this U‐boat
sitting there on the edge,

1182
00:54:29,559 --> 00:54:31,686
and over time,
it's very likely

1183
00:54:31,812 --> 00:54:33,814
that a storm could have
pushed that off the edge.

1184
00:54:34,731 --> 00:54:37,442
Down to 3,000 feet of water?
We don't know.

1185
00:54:40,237 --> 00:54:42,280
Roger talks about the sub
being inside of a cave

1186
00:54:42,405 --> 00:54:44,157
or partially inside of a cave.

1187
00:54:44,282 --> 00:54:45,992
But could that be Roger

1188
00:54:46,117 --> 00:54:48,370
trying to throw us off
the scent again?

1189
00:54:49,329 --> 00:54:52,374
We need to find out.

1190
00:54:58,004 --> 00:54:59,673
FISHBURNE: Mike and Chris
are in the deep waters

1191
00:54:59,756 --> 00:55:01,424
off Turks and Caicos

1192
00:55:01,550 --> 00:55:04,094
in search of an underwater cave,

1193
00:55:04,219 --> 00:55:06,263
attempting to get a visual
of the Nazi U‐boat

1194
00:55:06,388 --> 00:55:07,931
that Roger described.

1195
00:55:11,226 --> 00:55:13,353
MIKE: There really was
the right incline,

1196
00:55:13,478 --> 00:55:18,066
as Roger described
some 45 feet down to 100‐plus.

1197
00:55:21,862 --> 00:55:23,613
CHRIS: Mike and I reached
our limits.

1198
00:55:23,738 --> 00:55:26,616
We got down about 130 feet
and realized

1199
00:55:26,741 --> 00:55:29,369
that we're over
almost like an abyss,

1200
00:55:29,452 --> 00:55:30,829
and we can't dive down there.

1201
00:55:33,248 --> 00:55:35,041
FISHBURNE: Mike and Chris
have no choice

1202
00:55:35,208 --> 00:55:38,003
but to give up
and return to the boat.

1203
00:55:38,128 --> 00:55:40,630
MIKE: Now that we've found
the shards in this gulley,

1204
00:55:40,755 --> 00:55:42,048
I just want to keep
going down,

1205
00:55:42,215 --> 00:55:44,384
get into deeper water,
see if there's more shards

1206
00:55:44,551 --> 00:55:47,804
and more evidence of something
that was on the shelf.

1207
00:55:47,929 --> 00:55:51,099
We got to the edge,
we looked over the edge.

1208
00:55:51,224 --> 00:55:53,435
Everything that Roger describes,

1209
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:57,856
the valley leading down,
the incline, it all matches.

1210
00:55:59,274 --> 00:56:01,401
It's time for you to send
this thing down there

1211
00:56:01,526 --> 00:56:02,736
and look over the edge.

1212
00:56:02,903 --> 00:56:06,990
If the dive is beyond 100
and, say, 65, or 180 feet,

1213
00:56:07,115 --> 00:56:09,951
then it's time to bring in
Sam with the ROV.

1214
00:56:10,076 --> 00:56:12,287
She can go places
we can't go as divers.

1215
00:56:12,412 --> 00:56:14,247
CHRIS: Sam McDonald
has her own company,

1216
00:56:14,414 --> 00:56:17,751
Deep Trekker, who makes
amazing underwater ROVs

1217
00:56:17,876 --> 00:56:19,669
that are really,
really important

1218
00:56:19,836 --> 00:56:21,630
for the kind of stuff
that we're doing.

1219
00:56:21,755 --> 00:56:22,839
The ROVs allow us to look

1220
00:56:23,006 --> 00:56:24,424
into deep, dark spaces

1221
00:56:24,549 --> 00:56:25,675
that divers can't go into,

1222
00:56:25,842 --> 00:56:26,843
and go to those deeper depths

1223
00:56:26,968 --> 00:56:28,887
that the divers can't reach.

1224
00:56:29,888 --> 00:56:33,183
FISHBURNE: ROVs have helped
locate and document

1225
00:56:33,308 --> 00:56:35,727
some of the world's
most famous shipwrecks.

1226
00:56:35,894 --> 00:56:37,520
ROVs are being used
in shipwreck hunting

1227
00:56:37,604 --> 00:56:38,855
every day now.

1228
00:56:38,939 --> 00:56:40,857
ROV technology was used

1229
00:56:41,024 --> 00:56:43,401
to take some of the first looks
at the Titanic,

1230
00:56:43,568 --> 00:56:46,321
as well as a famous
whaling ship from 1902

1231
00:56:46,404 --> 00:56:48,448
called the Nova Zembla.

1232
00:56:48,573 --> 00:56:50,033
And we even got to go inside

1233
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:51,868
of the USS Arizona
for the first time,

1234
00:56:52,035 --> 00:56:54,704
and got eyes
on some of the damage

1235
00:56:54,829 --> 00:56:56,331
and some of the items
and artifacts

1236
00:56:56,456 --> 00:56:58,917
that are still inside
of that ship.

1237
00:56:59,084 --> 00:57:01,836
FISHBURNE: ROVs also helped
locate two vessels

1238
00:57:01,962 --> 00:57:03,838
from one of the great tragedies

1239
00:57:04,005 --> 00:57:06,591
in the age
of Victorian exploration,

1240
00:57:06,716 --> 00:57:08,510
the mysterious disappearance

1241
00:57:08,635 --> 00:57:10,845
of Britain's
Franklin expedition,

1242
00:57:10,971 --> 00:57:14,182
sent in 1845 to map Canada's

1243
00:57:14,265 --> 00:57:17,644
supposed Northwest passage
through the Arctic.

1244
00:57:17,769 --> 00:57:21,856
Though many missions were sent
to find the doomed ships,

1245
00:57:21,982 --> 00:57:25,026
their location remained
a mystery until 2014,

1246
00:57:25,193 --> 00:57:29,447
when ROVs found the vessels
on the ocean floor.

1247
00:57:29,572 --> 00:57:31,783
And of course,
the great thing about an ROV

1248
00:57:31,908 --> 00:57:36,121
is it's not limited like divers
to time or depth.

1249
00:57:36,246 --> 00:57:38,206
You can send an ROV
to the deepest spot

1250
00:57:38,289 --> 00:57:39,833
in the oceans.

1251
00:57:39,958 --> 00:57:43,253
And that has changed
the whole game.

1252
00:57:43,378 --> 00:57:45,672
They'll go into spots
that you wouldn't want to go

1253
00:57:45,797 --> 00:57:47,507
as a human,
because there's a good chance

1254
00:57:47,590 --> 00:57:49,050
you won't ever come back.

1255
00:57:49,217 --> 00:57:51,177
And I can tell you,
there's a lot of shipwrecks

1256
00:57:51,302 --> 00:57:55,015
with ROVs trapped in them
that aren't coming home either.

1257
00:57:55,140 --> 00:57:56,975
So, this is the Revolution.

1258
00:57:57,058 --> 00:57:58,685
So, it's got six thrusters
on it,

1259
00:57:58,768 --> 00:58:00,228
so it's gonna hold
nice and steady.

1260
00:58:00,395 --> 00:58:04,149
But for searching,
we've got the 4K HD camera,

1261
00:58:04,274 --> 00:58:05,984
and then the multibeam
forward‐facing sonar.

1262
00:58:06,109 --> 00:58:07,944
ROGER:
Here's my original drawing,

1263
00:58:08,069 --> 00:58:09,112
the way that thing is set.

1264
00:58:09,237 --> 00:58:10,739
She's up more at the ceiling,

1265
00:58:10,864 --> 00:58:13,366
then that island
comes clear up here,

1266
00:58:13,450 --> 00:58:14,701
because I had a hell of a time
getting around

1267
00:58:14,826 --> 00:58:16,202
to the front of the gun.

1268
00:58:16,286 --> 00:58:17,954
SAM: Roger tells us
that this U‐boat

1269
00:58:18,079 --> 00:58:21,791
is on a cliff
maybe partially submerged

1270
00:58:21,916 --> 00:58:23,668
inside of a cave.

1271
00:58:23,793 --> 00:58:24,836
ROGER: And it's lodged.

1272
00:58:24,961 --> 00:58:28,006
It's even lodged farther up
than the way my drawing is.

1273
00:58:28,173 --> 00:58:29,132
I‐‐ you know,
I did this so quick.

1274
00:58:29,215 --> 00:58:30,842
SAM: We're going back
a lot of years here.

1275
00:58:30,925 --> 00:58:32,093
Things move around.

1276
00:58:32,218 --> 00:58:33,970
We know that there's been
a few hurricanes out here.

1277
00:58:34,054 --> 00:58:35,889
An object as a large
as a U‐boat

1278
00:58:36,056 --> 00:58:38,224
could be pushed
by storms, hurricanes,

1279
00:58:38,391 --> 00:58:40,185
surges, and push it
right over that edge.

1280
00:58:40,351 --> 00:58:42,228
I saw the two
back propeller blades,

1281
00:58:42,395 --> 00:58:44,272
they're highly polished
from going in the sand,

1282
00:58:44,397 --> 00:58:46,024
up and down in the sand.

1283
00:58:46,191 --> 00:58:47,609
Even Roger tells us,

1284
00:58:47,734 --> 00:58:50,195
it's going up and down,
and up and down.

1285
00:58:50,278 --> 00:58:52,572
So, it's already got some
buoyancy. So, it's tender.

1286
00:58:52,739 --> 00:58:55,742
Now, there's decades have
passed since Roger was here.

1287
00:58:55,909 --> 00:58:57,202
Did it, like,
go in a hurricane,

1288
00:58:57,285 --> 00:58:58,995
slide down that slope,
and just...

1289
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:01,623
drop over the edge?
We can't know.

1290
00:59:01,748 --> 00:59:04,334
We'll cruise down that cliff
and look for a cave,

1291
00:59:04,459 --> 00:59:06,211
and maybe there's a U‐boat
hanging out of it.

1292
00:59:06,377 --> 00:59:07,212
You ready to get this
in the water?

1293
00:59:07,337 --> 00:59:08,963
I wanna go find a U‐boat.

1294
00:59:09,089 --> 00:59:10,882
‐ Come on, let's fly it.
‐ Let's do this thing.

1295
00:59:11,007 --> 00:59:13,009
Let me know if you guys
need a hand here.

1296
00:59:13,134 --> 00:59:14,302
Looks like you got it.

1297
00:59:15,929 --> 00:59:19,849
All right, let's do this!
Let's go!

1298
00:59:19,974 --> 00:59:21,059
Let's go fishing for U‐boats!

1299
00:59:24,270 --> 00:59:26,856
FISHBURNE: The crew
now deploys the ROV,

1300
00:59:27,023 --> 00:59:28,691
hoping it can pinpoint
the location

1301
00:59:28,817 --> 00:59:30,860
of the missing U‐boat.

1302
00:59:30,985 --> 00:59:32,195
CHRIS: We're descending.

1303
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,531
FISHBURNE: And ultimately
help them find the treasure

1304
00:59:34,614 --> 00:59:37,617
that's been lost at sea
for decades.

1305
00:59:39,911 --> 00:59:41,162
Still going out.

1306
00:59:42,580 --> 00:59:44,124
FISHBURNE: Sam steers the rover

1307
00:59:44,249 --> 00:59:46,251
towards the edge
of the underwater cliff.

1308
00:59:48,336 --> 00:59:50,004
We're about 12 meters down?

1309
00:59:50,171 --> 00:59:51,965
‐ Twenty meters.
‐ Twenty meters down.

1310
00:59:52,090 --> 00:59:53,466
SAM: Descending. All right,

1311
00:59:53,550 --> 00:59:55,260
so if you feel tight
on that tether, Mike.

1312
00:59:55,385 --> 00:59:56,761
‐ It is.
‐ Just keep paying out,

1313
00:59:56,886 --> 00:59:57,971
'cause I'm doing down.

1314
00:59:58,054 --> 00:59:59,514
MIKE: Going down.

1315
01:00:02,851 --> 01:00:06,062
ROVs, because they're providing
information in real time,

1316
01:00:06,229 --> 01:00:08,523
have to have a tether
to send that data back.

1317
01:00:10,358 --> 01:00:11,359
That can be a challenge.

1318
01:00:11,484 --> 01:00:13,194
If you're on a swinging boat,
there's a chance

1319
01:00:13,319 --> 01:00:15,113
of the tether getting
caught up on things.

1320
01:00:15,238 --> 01:00:17,365
Plus, you're limited
to how much tether you've got.

1321
01:00:17,490 --> 01:00:19,033
You can only go as far
and as deep

1322
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:20,660
as that tether
allows you to go.

1323
01:00:24,789 --> 01:00:26,374
CHRIS: So, you're working
really hard to avoid

1324
01:00:26,499 --> 01:00:28,877
all hang‐ups, and of course,
damaging the coral.

1325
01:00:29,002 --> 01:00:29,836
‐ Yeah.
‐ Yeah.

1326
01:00:29,961 --> 01:00:31,087
Yeah, we don't want to be,

1327
01:00:31,212 --> 01:00:32,922
you know, ruin anything that‐‐

1328
01:00:33,047 --> 01:00:34,382
‐ No. No.
‐ That nature made us.

1329
01:00:42,223 --> 01:00:43,683
I‐‐I would say
we're probably moving

1330
01:00:43,808 --> 01:00:46,686
like over 200 degrees
on this mooring.

1331
01:00:46,811 --> 01:00:50,064
So, I don't know, Sam,
are you okay with this?

1332
01:00:50,190 --> 01:00:51,774
SAM: We're on a big boat.

1333
01:00:51,900 --> 01:00:54,819
We've only got a bow anchor
on a 100‐foot ship.

1334
01:00:54,903 --> 01:00:57,655
It's gonna swing
150 feet one way,

1335
01:00:57,739 --> 01:00:59,699
150 feet the other way.

1336
01:00:59,824 --> 01:01:00,533
This is a challenge.

1337
01:01:00,617 --> 01:01:01,826
FISHBURNE:
The crew can't afford

1338
01:01:01,951 --> 01:01:04,245
for the rover's umbilical
to become entangled

1339
01:01:04,412 --> 01:01:06,456
in the boat's propeller,
or even worse,

1340
01:01:06,581 --> 01:01:09,375
on the coral of the sea floor.

1341
01:01:09,500 --> 01:01:11,127
Sam guides the rover
to the area

1342
01:01:11,252 --> 01:01:14,214
where Mike and Chris
found the metal debris.

1343
01:01:14,380 --> 01:01:16,841
Yeah, yeah, no.
A little bit over to the right.

1344
01:01:16,925 --> 01:01:18,927
‐ That's it, that's it.
‐ Okay, yeah, there it is.

1345
01:01:19,052 --> 01:01:20,511
‐ Oh, very cool.
‐ Yeah.

1346
01:01:20,637 --> 01:01:21,638
MIKE: Now, just sail her
down that gully.

1347
01:01:21,763 --> 01:01:23,932
CHRIS: Yeah, follow that down.
Yeah, that‐‐

1348
01:01:24,057 --> 01:01:24,807
MIKE: Chris, stop her
when she gets

1349
01:01:24,933 --> 01:01:26,351
to where we found
the chunks of iron.

1350
01:01:26,476 --> 01:01:27,852
Yeah, I'm watching for it.

1351
01:01:29,270 --> 01:01:31,314
It's right around...

1352
01:01:31,439 --> 01:01:32,523
Yeah, right around there.
Right around there.

1353
01:01:32,607 --> 01:01:34,150
That's where Mike‐‐
that's where Mike got that hit.

1354
01:01:34,234 --> 01:01:35,193
‐ Okay.
MIKE: Just a little more

1355
01:01:35,318 --> 01:01:36,778
‐ to port.
‐ Okay.

1356
01:01:36,903 --> 01:01:39,948
Whoa, now, see how deep
an blue that is?

1357
01:01:40,073 --> 01:01:41,532
That's the abyss.

1358
01:01:41,699 --> 01:01:43,743
That's where Chris and I
were not gonna go.

1359
01:01:43,868 --> 01:01:45,370
Okay, yeah, look here.
I got like a glowy

1360
01:01:45,536 --> 01:01:46,579
on the‐‐ on the sonar there.

1361
01:01:46,704 --> 01:01:47,914
‐ Oh yeah.
‐ Yeah, look at‐‐

1362
01:01:48,039 --> 01:01:48,915
look at the formation.

1363
01:01:50,541 --> 01:01:52,126
SAM: So, the ROV goes down,

1364
01:01:52,252 --> 01:01:55,088
it sees the geography
that Mike and Chris described.

1365
01:01:55,213 --> 01:01:57,131
It sees the bits of metal

1366
01:01:57,257 --> 01:01:58,758
that indicate something
would be there,

1367
01:01:58,883 --> 01:02:01,010
and then off into the abyss,
we see the big cliff.

1368
01:02:03,638 --> 01:02:06,015
Wow, this boat is swinging
all over the place.

1369
01:02:06,140 --> 01:02:06,891
‐ Yeah.
‐ Yeah.

1370
01:02:07,016 --> 01:02:08,351
I think it's gonna be
too difficult

1371
01:02:08,476 --> 01:02:10,687
to keep doing it from
the back of this boat.

1372
01:02:10,812 --> 01:02:11,688
SAM: See this here?
CHRIS: Yeah.

1373
01:02:11,813 --> 01:02:14,857
SAM: I would like to get
a visual on that.

1374
01:02:14,983 --> 01:02:16,484
CHRIS: Okay.
SAM: So, what is that, right?

1375
01:02:16,567 --> 01:02:17,193
CHRIS: Yeah.
SAM: It's certainly different

1376
01:02:17,318 --> 01:02:18,444
than everything else we see.

1377
01:02:18,569 --> 01:02:19,696
‐ See this line?
‐ Yeah, you see...

1378
01:02:19,821 --> 01:02:22,240
So, it's making like a,
you know.

1379
01:02:22,365 --> 01:02:23,825
There's no straight lines
in nature, right?

1380
01:02:23,950 --> 01:02:25,868
Whoa, we're really swinging,
guys.

1381
01:02:25,994 --> 01:02:27,870
All right, guys,
I think that it's probably best

1382
01:02:27,996 --> 01:02:28,705
to pull this one up.

1383
01:02:28,788 --> 01:02:31,291
Let's go check out
that one marking

1384
01:02:31,416 --> 01:02:32,500
that I got on the sonar.

1385
01:02:32,625 --> 01:02:34,210
I've taken the GPS location

1386
01:02:34,377 --> 01:02:35,753
that we want to go to
on the Zodiac,

1387
01:02:35,878 --> 01:02:37,714
and then drop
the little one in

1388
01:02:37,839 --> 01:02:39,007
‐ and see what we can find.
‐ Okay.

1389
01:02:39,132 --> 01:02:40,717
Okay, hauling it in.

1390
01:02:44,846 --> 01:02:46,556
FISHBURNE: Mike and his team
are searching the waters

1391
01:02:46,723 --> 01:02:48,266
of Turks and Caicos

1392
01:02:48,391 --> 01:02:50,810
for a highly specialized
Nazi U‐boat,

1393
01:02:50,935 --> 01:02:54,022
one of only nine commissioned
in 1944.

1394
01:02:56,607 --> 01:03:00,445
Roger Miklos claimed
he saw it here in 1981,

1395
01:03:00,570 --> 01:03:03,531
and that it's carrying what
could be billions

1396
01:03:03,656 --> 01:03:05,491
in gold, treasure, and art.

1397
01:03:08,870 --> 01:03:11,622
The team wasn't able
to dive deep enough,

1398
01:03:11,748 --> 01:03:15,376
so Sam is using an ROV
to assist the search

1399
01:03:15,543 --> 01:03:16,753
at greater depths.

1400
01:03:16,878 --> 01:03:19,297
But the constant sway
of the current

1401
01:03:19,422 --> 01:03:21,883
is causing the boat
to swing wildly.

1402
01:03:22,008 --> 01:03:23,926
Whoa! We're really swinging,
guys.

1403
01:03:24,052 --> 01:03:25,970
FISHBURNE: And the ROV
is in danger

1404
01:03:26,095 --> 01:03:28,056
of getting snagged
on the sea floor.

1405
01:03:31,351 --> 01:03:34,354
Sam decides it's time to move
the search to a smaller boat,

1406
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:35,730
the ship's Zodiac.

1407
01:03:41,444 --> 01:03:43,529
Okay, let's take this one out.

1408
01:03:43,654 --> 01:03:46,157
‐ This is the DTG3.
‐ I like this little guy.

1409
01:03:46,282 --> 01:03:47,492
Little wee guy.

1410
01:03:47,575 --> 01:03:49,660
Great for boats
just like this.

1411
01:03:49,744 --> 01:03:51,204
All right, send that‐‐

1412
01:03:51,329 --> 01:03:52,830
You just throw the Deep Trekker
in like that?

1413
01:03:52,955 --> 01:03:54,040
Just manhandled.

1414
01:03:54,123 --> 01:03:55,416
That's no way to treat
your baby.

1415
01:03:55,583 --> 01:03:56,918
No way to treat your baby.

1416
01:04:01,339 --> 01:04:04,008
MIKE: I was really happy
to just use the small Zodiac

1417
01:04:04,133 --> 01:04:05,927
and not have to contend
with anything

1418
01:04:06,052 --> 01:04:08,930
swinging or moving.
It worked really a lot better.

1419
01:04:11,808 --> 01:04:14,852
As I got deeper, the marine
life got less and less,

1420
01:04:14,936 --> 01:04:18,189
and it just became gray rocks
as I went down the wall.

1421
01:04:18,272 --> 01:04:19,690
It just got darker and darker.

1422
01:04:20,650 --> 01:04:22,110
FISHBURNE: But even with
the added stability,

1423
01:04:22,235 --> 01:04:24,862
the rover is quickly nearing
the end of its umbilical.

1424
01:04:24,987 --> 01:04:27,115
CHRIS:
About how deep are we now?

1425
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:28,783
SAM: About 275 meters.

1426
01:04:28,908 --> 01:04:30,034
CHRIS:
Can we go much further?

1427
01:04:30,159 --> 01:04:32,286
‐ We got like 25 left.
‐ [groans]

1428
01:04:32,412 --> 01:04:34,831
SAM: It doesn't look like
there's a bottom here.

1429
01:04:34,956 --> 01:04:36,499
MIKE: Can you see‐‐reach out
with the sonar?

1430
01:04:36,624 --> 01:04:38,209
Is there anything?

1431
01:04:38,334 --> 01:04:39,419
SAM: You know what?
I have the sonar range

1432
01:04:39,544 --> 01:04:43,005
at 50 meters, and it's not even
picking up the sea floor.

1433
01:04:43,172 --> 01:04:44,465
‐ MIKE: Wow.
‐ SAM: I point that sonar

1434
01:04:44,549 --> 01:04:46,592
straight down, nothing.

1435
01:04:48,761 --> 01:04:50,513
SAM: So I flew the ROV
to the edge of the cliff,

1436
01:04:50,638 --> 01:04:52,098
I turned around to face it,

1437
01:04:52,223 --> 01:04:53,933
and I started to descend
straight down the cliff.

1438
01:04:55,476 --> 01:04:59,147
So, in the first probably
300 feet,

1439
01:04:59,272 --> 01:05:02,442
we saw corals, we saw different
marine life on the wall.

1440
01:05:02,567 --> 01:05:04,485
I picked up on the sonar

1441
01:05:04,569 --> 01:05:06,904
a bit of an overhang,
almost a cliff there

1442
01:05:07,029 --> 01:05:09,699
and so I went a little bit
to the starboard side

1443
01:05:09,824 --> 01:05:11,701
and had a look,
had the camera out.

1444
01:05:11,826 --> 01:05:12,785
Didn't look like what‐‐
you know,

1445
01:05:12,910 --> 01:05:14,620
a place where a U‐boat
could really hide,

1446
01:05:14,745 --> 01:05:16,038
so I continued to descend.

1447
01:05:22,211 --> 01:05:24,130
I'm gonna be honest‐‐
this is as deep

1448
01:05:24,213 --> 01:05:26,841
as I've personally ever
taken this stuff.

1449
01:05:27,842 --> 01:05:30,011
MIKE: See any more evidence
of pieces or chunks

1450
01:05:30,136 --> 01:05:31,929
‐ as you went off the cliff?
‐ SAM: You know, sort of, maybe.

1451
01:05:32,054 --> 01:05:34,640
There was an area where it
just sort of looked...

1452
01:05:34,765 --> 01:05:37,518
beaten up, like something
may have scratched it,

1453
01:05:37,643 --> 01:05:39,687
for lack
of a better description.

1454
01:05:39,854 --> 01:05:42,106
But if it did that,
it wasn't a smooth journey,

1455
01:05:42,231 --> 01:05:43,316
that's for sure.

1456
01:05:44,317 --> 01:05:47,069
So a lot of the places
in the Turks and Caicos

1457
01:05:47,195 --> 01:05:50,198
where Roger's U‐boat could be
are either too deep

1458
01:05:50,323 --> 01:05:53,034
or in very enclosed spaces.

1459
01:05:53,951 --> 01:05:55,745
FISHBURNE: The rover follows
a trail of debris

1460
01:05:55,912 --> 01:05:58,915
down the abyss,
as Mike, Chris, and Sam

1461
01:05:59,081 --> 01:06:02,043
hold out hope that the
trail of debris and scratches

1462
01:06:02,168 --> 01:06:05,087
will end in the big discovery
of Roger's U‐boat.

1463
01:06:05,213 --> 01:06:07,507
SAM: That's the end, boys.
That's it.

1464
01:06:07,673 --> 01:06:09,217
I got nothing left.

1465
01:06:09,383 --> 01:06:12,386
Like any good treasure hunt,
we hit another roadblock.

1466
01:06:12,512 --> 01:06:14,263
SAM:
I can't definitively say.

1467
01:06:14,388 --> 01:06:15,515
If there was a U‐boat there,

1468
01:06:15,598 --> 01:06:18,851
it would be on the bottom,
and I just couldn't get there.

1469
01:06:19,018 --> 01:06:23,022
I think we can call this one
checked out, truth.

1470
01:06:23,105 --> 01:06:26,317
Let's pack it up
and head back to the boat.

1471
01:06:26,442 --> 01:06:28,152
CHRIS: Still so much
more depth to get down.

1472
01:06:28,277 --> 01:06:30,446
I think we need to try
to identify

1473
01:06:30,571 --> 01:06:32,323
the pieces that we found,

1474
01:06:32,448 --> 01:06:34,617
and hopefully that gives us
enough reason

1475
01:06:34,742 --> 01:06:37,328
to come back with more tether
and better equipment.

1476
01:06:37,411 --> 01:06:39,163
Good to go.

1477
01:06:39,247 --> 01:06:40,623
FISHBURNE:
Mike, Sam, and Chris

1478
01:06:40,748 --> 01:06:42,500
make their way back
to the boat.

1479
01:06:45,002 --> 01:06:47,296
After storing their gear,
they reconvene

1480
01:06:47,421 --> 01:06:48,923
to discuss the state
of their mission.

1481
01:06:50,758 --> 01:06:52,009
Let's look at
what we've learned.

1482
01:06:52,093 --> 01:06:54,637
There may be something
yet beyond

1483
01:06:54,762 --> 01:06:56,264
what Deep Trekker
could reach today.

1484
01:06:56,389 --> 01:06:59,183
‐ Yes.
‐ We have these bits of iron

1485
01:06:59,308 --> 01:07:02,186
that may be indicative
of a U‐boat,

1486
01:07:02,311 --> 01:07:05,022
this round flange
of some sort, right?

1487
01:07:05,189 --> 01:07:07,024
‐ SAM: Yeah.
‐ MIKE: That's gonna be

1488
01:07:07,191 --> 01:07:09,443
some sort of high‐pressure
piping flange.

1489
01:07:09,569 --> 01:07:10,861
Submarines are full of that.

1490
01:07:11,028 --> 01:07:12,196
According to Roger,
this was like

1491
01:07:12,321 --> 01:07:15,116
a submarine freighter, right?

1492
01:07:15,241 --> 01:07:19,203
Heading to South America
with the spoils of World War II.

1493
01:07:19,328 --> 01:07:22,665
Roger was on the trail
of a U‐boat,

1494
01:07:22,790 --> 01:07:25,209
and he was convinced that
it carried billions of dollars

1495
01:07:25,334 --> 01:07:28,462
worth of gold bullion
and treasure.

1496
01:07:28,546 --> 01:07:31,048
So now as we look in deeper
and deeper water

1497
01:07:31,173 --> 01:07:34,343
and more out‐of‐the‐way
places

1498
01:07:34,468 --> 01:07:36,387
like the Turks and Caicos,

1499
01:07:36,512 --> 01:07:39,515
it's a big, big deal
to find a U‐boat.

1500
01:07:39,640 --> 01:07:42,184
Guys, it's time to leave here.
We gotta move on.

1501
01:07:42,310 --> 01:07:43,894
Right?
'Cause we just don't know.

1502
01:07:44,020 --> 01:07:47,356
But let's regroup,
let's talk to the experts.

1503
01:07:47,481 --> 01:07:50,192
Let's just be determined to
be openminded,

1504
01:07:50,318 --> 01:07:52,361
‐ get more information.
‐ Agreed.

1505
01:07:52,528 --> 01:07:56,907
‐ Let's pack it up.
‐ Okay. Let's do it.

1506
01:07:59,076 --> 01:08:01,037
FISHBURNE: Shortly after
the team completed

1507
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,873
their underwater search,
their expedition was shut down

1508
01:08:03,998 --> 01:08:06,167
due to the COVID‐19 pandemic.

1509
01:08:08,836 --> 01:08:09,670
MIKE:
We just learned that

1510
01:08:09,837 --> 01:08:11,297
the entire project's
been shut down...

1511
01:08:12,590 --> 01:08:13,549
due to COVID.

1512
01:08:14,967 --> 01:08:16,510
I just... [sighs]

1513
01:08:16,677 --> 01:08:18,554
hate the thoughts of
going home right now...

1514
01:08:18,679 --> 01:08:22,683
and truly believe that Roger's
U‐boat is out there

1515
01:08:22,767 --> 01:08:24,560
waiting for us to find.

1516
01:08:29,106 --> 01:08:30,858
FISHBURNE: Two months later,
they regrouped

1517
01:08:31,025 --> 01:08:33,527
at home base to hear intel
from U‐boat expert,

1518
01:08:33,653 --> 01:08:35,196
Rob Carmichael.

1519
01:08:36,405 --> 01:08:39,200
MIKE: Sam was able to track down
a U‐boat expert,

1520
01:08:39,283 --> 01:08:41,827
a guy named Rob Carmichael.

1521
01:08:41,952 --> 01:08:43,954
FISHBURNE: In 2016,

1522
01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:47,041
divers located a mysterious ship
resting in darkness

1523
01:08:47,208 --> 01:08:49,794
in about 700 feet of water.

1524
01:08:49,919 --> 01:08:52,755
Forty‐four sailors
were entombed within it.

1525
01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:55,508
It was a Nazi submarine.

1526
01:08:55,591 --> 01:08:58,344
U‐576.

1527
01:08:58,469 --> 01:09:00,680
It was sunk in 1942.

1528
01:09:00,763 --> 01:09:02,598
Look at that.

1529
01:09:02,723 --> 01:09:03,808
‐ Topside!
‐ Ha ha!

1530
01:09:03,891 --> 01:09:05,976
We got a visual.

1531
01:09:06,102 --> 01:09:07,186
FISHBURNE: In World War II,

1532
01:09:07,353 --> 01:09:10,523
the greatest concentration
of U‐boat attacks on America

1533
01:09:10,690 --> 01:09:13,401
happened off of
North Carolina's outer banks

1534
01:09:13,567 --> 01:09:15,736
where dozens of ships
passed daily.

1535
01:09:16,696 --> 01:09:19,865
The U. S. military didn't want
people to worry,

1536
01:09:20,032 --> 01:09:22,910
so news reports of enemy boats
near the coast

1537
01:09:23,077 --> 01:09:26,080
were classified for
national security reasons.

1538
01:09:26,247 --> 01:09:30,668
The discovery of U‐576
also revealed a submarine

1539
01:09:30,751 --> 01:09:34,338
that was mysteriously intact.
This suggests the vessel

1540
01:09:34,422 --> 01:09:36,966
may have dove to the bottom
intentionally

1541
01:09:37,049 --> 01:09:40,761
to play possum but somehow
couldn't surface again,

1542
01:09:40,886 --> 01:09:43,347
killing
all crew members inside.

1543
01:09:43,472 --> 01:09:47,351
Roger claims the U‐boat
he found was also intact.

1544
01:09:47,435 --> 01:09:50,146
Is it possible
that the U‐boat Roger found

1545
01:09:50,229 --> 01:09:53,524
may have tried a similar trick
in Turks and Caicos

1546
01:09:53,607 --> 01:09:55,693
to avoid Allied detection

1547
01:09:55,818 --> 01:09:57,695
only to meet a perilous fate?

1548
01:10:03,242 --> 01:10:05,453
Hey Robert,
it's good to see you.

1549
01:10:05,578 --> 01:10:07,496
My pleasure.
Good to see you today.

1550
01:10:07,621 --> 01:10:10,291
So for the sake of everyone
on the call,

1551
01:10:10,416 --> 01:10:12,793
Robert Carmichael
is a friend of mine

1552
01:10:12,918 --> 01:10:15,546
who is well‐versed
on all things ocean,

1553
01:10:15,671 --> 01:10:18,007
and so we're hoping that,
Robert, you can provide us

1554
01:10:18,090 --> 01:10:21,260
with some expertise on
the things that we've found.

1555
01:10:21,385 --> 01:10:23,387
We've sent you a few
photographs, Robert.

1556
01:10:23,512 --> 01:10:26,932
Metal objects that we found
with the eye

1557
01:10:27,057 --> 01:10:30,060
and with our handheld
metal detector.

1558
01:10:30,186 --> 01:10:34,982
We did, however,
get a large magnetic hit.

1559
01:10:35,107 --> 01:10:35,941
These little pieces clearly
are not

1560
01:10:36,066 --> 01:10:38,444
part of the mag hit
that we got.

1561
01:10:39,403 --> 01:10:42,156
They seem to be pieces
scattered on a trail

1562
01:10:42,281 --> 01:10:44,784
leading down and dropping
over into the abyss

1563
01:10:44,909 --> 01:10:47,036
into deep water.

1564
01:10:47,161 --> 01:10:50,623
The photo that I'd most
like you to look at first

1565
01:10:50,748 --> 01:10:53,751
would be the one
that I call the flange.

1566
01:10:56,420 --> 01:10:59,131
ROB: Yeah, it def‐‐
definitely looks like a flange.

1567
01:10:59,215 --> 01:11:02,635
But, uh, you know...

1568
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:05,596
what does that flange

1569
01:11:05,721 --> 01:11:07,640
seem to be mounted to
or part of?

1570
01:11:07,723 --> 01:11:11,685
This was just lying loose,
Robert, on the seabed.

1571
01:11:11,811 --> 01:11:15,272
To me this could be part of
a high‐pressure pressure hull,

1572
01:11:15,397 --> 01:11:19,193
but...that's beyond
my expertise.

1573
01:11:19,318 --> 01:11:21,320
Well, I think you could say
it's pretty certain

1574
01:11:21,445 --> 01:11:23,906
that it's part of a pressure
system of some sort.

1575
01:11:24,073 --> 01:11:27,701
Does it have the appearance
of some catastrophic failure?

1576
01:11:27,868 --> 01:11:30,955
'Cause if that flange
was all by itself,

1577
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:32,915
and it was part of
a pressure system,

1578
01:11:33,082 --> 01:11:36,001
and something
catastrophically failed,

1579
01:11:36,168 --> 01:11:39,004
maybe‐‐
maybe that would explain.

1580
01:11:39,129 --> 01:11:40,214
why this flange component's

1581
01:11:40,339 --> 01:11:43,467
not attached to its pipe member.

1582
01:11:43,551 --> 01:11:46,303
The history of what it is
we're researching

1583
01:11:46,428 --> 01:11:49,598
has no affiliation
with an explosion

1584
01:11:49,723 --> 01:11:52,184
or for that matter,
a catastrophic event.

1585
01:11:52,309 --> 01:11:55,104
But in a storm event,
like a hurricane

1586
01:11:55,229 --> 01:11:57,857
where everything can be
turned upside down,

1587
01:11:57,940 --> 01:11:59,108
who could say?

1588
01:11:59,233 --> 01:12:00,860
Oh, boy, I understand that.

1589
01:12:00,943 --> 01:12:03,946
We just got back from
three trips to the Bahamas

1590
01:12:04,071 --> 01:12:07,366
right following
that gigantic hurricane

1591
01:12:07,449 --> 01:12:08,659
that went up the middle
of the Atlantic,

1592
01:12:08,742 --> 01:12:10,160
that lasted for so long.

1593
01:12:10,244 --> 01:12:12,705
It was 550 miles in diameter,

1594
01:12:12,788 --> 01:12:15,165
and we saw the Gulf Stream
flowing backwards for...

1595
01:12:15,291 --> 01:12:17,459
‐ Wow.
‐ ...uh, 10 days.

1596
01:12:17,585 --> 01:12:19,879
And it just moved a lot
of the South Atlantic ocean

1597
01:12:20,045 --> 01:12:21,463
to the North Atlantic ocean.

1598
01:12:21,589 --> 01:12:23,299
‐ SAM: Wow.
‐ MIKE: The other images

1599
01:12:23,382 --> 01:12:26,010
are even less definitive.

1600
01:12:26,093 --> 01:12:28,429
So again, tough one.

1601
01:12:28,554 --> 01:12:31,015
But that's the next one
I'd like you to comment on

1602
01:12:31,098 --> 01:12:33,225
‐ if you could.
‐ Yeah.

1603
01:12:33,392 --> 01:12:35,686
Not‐‐not enough to tell me
anything.

1604
01:12:35,811 --> 01:12:38,981
You were there in person,
so did it, uh,

1605
01:12:39,064 --> 01:12:41,525
feel like heavy metal
or what was it?

1606
01:12:41,650 --> 01:12:44,528
Well, it is definitely
iron or metal‐based.

1607
01:12:44,612 --> 01:12:47,740
It triggered
the handheld metal detector.

1608
01:12:47,907 --> 01:12:49,867
It was quite corroded.

1609
01:12:49,992 --> 01:12:52,703
‐ Quite disintegrated.
‐ Yeah, like it's oxidized

1610
01:12:52,828 --> 01:12:56,457
as if it has a really high
iron or steel content.

1611
01:12:56,582 --> 01:12:59,710
I know they're just little
obscure pieces.

1612
01:12:59,793 --> 01:13:02,338
If there's some other
compelling evidence

1613
01:13:02,504 --> 01:13:04,757
that would lead you to devote
resources and time

1614
01:13:04,882 --> 01:13:07,843
to that site, I would say
go back and try it again.

1615
01:13:07,968 --> 01:13:12,765
But based on the evidence and
the imagery I just saw,

1616
01:13:12,890 --> 01:13:16,268
there's nothing there that says
that's related to a U‐boat.

1617
01:13:19,271 --> 01:13:21,774
As far as I can tell,
or any significant,

1618
01:13:21,899 --> 01:13:25,069
reason to keep spending
resources in that area.

1619
01:13:25,194 --> 01:13:27,279
Time to move on.

1620
01:13:27,404 --> 01:13:29,031
‐ Time to move on.
‐ Thank you.

1621
01:13:29,156 --> 01:13:31,033
Bye for now.

1622
01:13:31,158 --> 01:13:36,205
I think Robert has pretty much
told us

1623
01:13:36,288 --> 01:13:39,249
this is not a great indication
of a U‐boat.

1624
01:13:39,375 --> 01:13:41,210
Yeah. When Robert was talking
about the hurricanes

1625
01:13:41,335 --> 01:13:42,878
and the type of damage
they cause‐‐

1626
01:13:43,003 --> 01:13:46,757
you know, the reversal
of the currents underneath,

1627
01:13:46,882 --> 01:13:50,844
the type of changes
to the sea floor that he saw,

1628
01:13:51,011 --> 01:13:53,555
it really struck me because
we didn't see any of that.

1629
01:13:53,722 --> 01:13:57,559
We did a lot of survey
of that cliff edge there,

1630
01:13:57,726 --> 01:13:59,395
and I didn't see anything
in the bathymetry

1631
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,522
that would show me that
there'd been major damage,

1632
01:14:01,605 --> 01:14:02,606
especially the type of damage

1633
01:14:02,731 --> 01:14:05,484
you would think to rip
a flange off a U‐boat

1634
01:14:05,609 --> 01:14:07,236
or that U‐boat
careening over the edge.

1635
01:14:07,403 --> 01:14:09,029
I just didn't see
any of that.

1636
01:14:09,154 --> 01:14:10,280
I think it's time to move on.

1637
01:14:10,406 --> 01:14:12,866
Okay, so basically Robert
said move on,

1638
01:14:12,992 --> 01:14:14,660
Sam, you're saying move on.

1639
01:14:14,743 --> 01:14:16,829
I'm reluctantly saying
move on.

1640
01:14:16,912 --> 01:14:18,706
‐ Just move on.
‐ No, it makes sense.

1641
01:14:18,872 --> 01:14:20,582
Sounds good, Mike.

1642
01:14:20,749 --> 01:14:21,917
FISHBURNE:
The magnetometer hit proved

1643
01:14:22,084 --> 01:14:24,712
that there was something big
at the bottom of that abyss.

1644
01:14:24,837 --> 01:14:28,007
But the team is still perplexed
on exactly what showed up

1645
01:14:28,173 --> 01:14:30,801
on that magnetometer hit.

1646
01:14:30,926 --> 01:14:33,262
Roger was masterful
at keeping everyone at bay

1647
01:14:33,387 --> 01:14:35,681
on the exact location
of the Nazi U‐boat.

1648
01:14:35,764 --> 01:14:39,685
But that just pushed the crew
into more speculation.

1649
01:14:42,438 --> 01:14:44,023
I know where that site was,

1650
01:14:44,189 --> 01:14:45,941
where the average person
ain't got a clue.

1651
01:14:46,066 --> 01:14:47,568
Nobody gonna discover this.

1652
01:14:49,528 --> 01:14:51,739
MIKE: So for now, we're
still left with a mystery

1653
01:14:51,905 --> 01:14:53,949
of the missing U‐boat.

1654
01:14:54,074 --> 01:14:58,203
And I'm wondering if Roger
isn't up there...

1655
01:14:58,328 --> 01:14:59,913
laughing down at all of us.

1656
01:15:01,749 --> 01:15:03,542
FISHBURNE: Mike is back
to square one

1657
01:15:03,625 --> 01:15:06,587
with no idea where
to turn next.

1658
01:15:06,712 --> 01:15:09,339
MIKE: At this point, I figured
we were out of options.

1659
01:15:09,465 --> 01:15:11,675
We're at a dead end.

1660
01:15:11,759 --> 01:15:14,470
Then I got an email
from Jon Christiansen

1661
01:15:14,553 --> 01:15:18,348
who was not only
Roger's trusted friend,

1662
01:15:18,515 --> 01:15:21,060
but he was Roger's boat captain.

1663
01:15:21,185 --> 01:15:24,021
And he was there with Roger
in 1981

1664
01:15:24,188 --> 01:15:26,482
when all this went down.

1665
01:15:26,565 --> 01:15:28,609
This is Capt. Jon Christiansen,

1666
01:15:28,734 --> 01:15:31,278
captain of the Heather Glynn.

1667
01:15:31,403 --> 01:15:33,572
I have been a ship captain
for over 40 years,

1668
01:15:33,697 --> 01:15:35,365
and I was very fortunate

1669
01:15:35,532 --> 01:15:37,910
to be in the right place
at the right time

1670
01:15:38,035 --> 01:15:42,581
to meet Roger Miklos in 1981
in the Turks and Caicos.

1671
01:15:42,748 --> 01:15:45,375
MIKE: You can imagine
how important it is

1672
01:15:45,542 --> 01:15:47,002
to hear what he's got to say.

1673
01:15:47,086 --> 01:15:50,005
Mike, it's Jon Christiansen.
How you doing, sir?

1674
01:15:50,089 --> 01:15:53,550
Jon, you have no idea how glad
I am to hear from you.

1675
01:15:53,675 --> 01:15:56,345
I understand that you've been
very involved with Roger

1676
01:15:56,470 --> 01:15:59,223
looking for this submarine
that he claims

1677
01:15:59,389 --> 01:16:01,350
to have located
way back in the day.

1678
01:16:01,433 --> 01:16:03,393
MIKE: Yeah, I have.
I think it's amazing

1679
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:06,563
that you were
the captain of his boat.

1680
01:16:06,730 --> 01:16:08,565
He found this U‐boat,
and he managed

1681
01:16:08,732 --> 01:16:11,485
to keep that a secret
even from you.

1682
01:16:11,610 --> 01:16:14,446
Yeah, he kept it a secret
from a lot of people.

1683
01:16:16,156 --> 01:16:18,200
Roger said, "You know,
the next thing we're gonna do,

1684
01:16:18,325 --> 01:16:20,119
we're gonna go find
my submarine."

1685
01:16:20,244 --> 01:16:22,412
And that's when I started with,

1686
01:16:22,538 --> 01:16:24,790
"Well, tell me about
this submarine and where is it?"

1687
01:16:24,915 --> 01:16:26,875
He wouldn't answer it.
He would, you know,

1688
01:16:26,959 --> 01:16:30,170
just say, you know,
"I don't know."

1689
01:16:30,295 --> 01:16:33,340
I have got the logbook
for the, uh,

1690
01:16:33,423 --> 01:16:34,591
for the Heather right here.

1691
01:16:36,051 --> 01:16:38,095
MIKE: Amazing. Wow.

1692
01:16:38,220 --> 01:16:40,889
Be more than happy to share
the logbooks. I can, uh‐‐

1693
01:16:41,056 --> 01:16:43,183
You're willing to share
you logbooks with us?

1694
01:16:49,857 --> 01:16:52,734
FISHBURNE: After meeting with
U‐boat expert Rob Carmichael,

1695
01:16:52,860 --> 01:16:56,405
the team has decided to move on
from West Caicos.

1696
01:16:56,530 --> 01:17:00,117
But now, Jon Christiansen,
Roger's shipmate

1697
01:17:00,242 --> 01:17:02,452
and captain on the Heather,
the ship that made

1698
01:17:02,578 --> 01:17:05,038
that infamous trip
to Turks and Caicos,

1699
01:17:05,164 --> 01:17:07,499
offered up his ship's logbook.

1700
01:17:07,583 --> 01:17:11,086
This logbook could be
the missing piece to the puzzle.

1701
01:17:11,211 --> 01:17:12,838
I was blown away to think that

1702
01:17:12,921 --> 01:17:15,424
Jon would offer up
his logbook.

1703
01:17:15,549 --> 01:17:17,885
This is a great piece
of the puzzle.

1704
01:17:18,051 --> 01:17:20,387
FISHBURNE:
Jon and Roger spent six weeks

1705
01:17:20,512 --> 01:17:22,389
sailing around
Turks and Caicos.

1706
01:17:22,556 --> 01:17:26,560
Everywhere they went was
documented in Jon's logbook.

1707
01:17:26,727 --> 01:17:28,645
JON: We were down there
surveying different areas,

1708
01:17:28,729 --> 01:17:31,106
looking at different wrecks.

1709
01:17:31,231 --> 01:17:33,650
We dove all around
all the Caicos islands.

1710
01:17:33,734 --> 01:17:35,736
We dove South Caicos,
we dove North Caicos.

1711
01:17:35,861 --> 01:17:38,864
We dove Providenciales,
Grand Turk.

1712
01:17:44,203 --> 01:17:47,915
I have got the logbook
for the Heather right here.

1713
01:17:49,249 --> 01:17:50,042
Amazing.

1714
01:17:51,919 --> 01:17:55,172
That ended up with Roger
down in the Turks and Caicos.

1715
01:17:55,339 --> 01:17:56,715
And if that's
your logbook,

1716
01:17:56,882 --> 01:17:59,384
you had to have kept really
detailed records

1717
01:17:59,509 --> 01:18:03,472
‐ about day‐to‐day activity?
‐ Absolutely. Yes sir. Yes.

1718
01:18:03,597 --> 01:18:06,058
Be more than happy
to share the logbooks. I can‐‐

1719
01:18:06,183 --> 01:18:08,143
You're willing to share
your logbooks with us?

1720
01:18:09,519 --> 01:18:11,521
Yes. Yes.

1721
01:18:11,647 --> 01:18:14,316
MIKE: This is the piece
of evidence

1722
01:18:14,399 --> 01:18:17,319
that puts Roger
in the location.

1723
01:18:17,402 --> 01:18:18,862
There's a witness.

1724
01:18:18,987 --> 01:18:21,114
This is really, really critical

1725
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:23,825
to solving this puzzle.

1726
01:18:23,909 --> 01:18:25,744
I think this is just
the beginning of

1727
01:18:25,911 --> 01:18:28,705
what could be a great
adventure together.

1728
01:18:28,789 --> 01:18:29,957
I can't thank you enough.

1729
01:18:30,082 --> 01:18:32,709
This is not something
you see every day

1730
01:18:32,793 --> 01:18:34,503
in the business
of treasure hunting.

1731
01:18:34,628 --> 01:18:36,672
I wish it didn't take
all these many years

1732
01:18:36,797 --> 01:18:39,591
and Roger passing away
that we're all gonna try

1733
01:18:39,716 --> 01:18:43,220
to find‐‐to finally make
this come to fruition for him.

1734
01:18:43,345 --> 01:18:45,389
Well, it's a fascinating story

1735
01:18:45,514 --> 01:18:47,224
that's only just started
for me.

1736
01:18:47,349 --> 01:18:49,559
And it's continuing for me,
so I look forward to it,

1737
01:18:49,726 --> 01:18:50,686
whatever I can do.

1738
01:18:53,981 --> 01:18:57,651
These are quite literally
they LORAN coordinates

1739
01:18:57,776 --> 01:19:02,406
and the dive‐‐different
dive sites that we dove on

1740
01:19:02,531 --> 01:19:05,284
for this extended period
of time.

1741
01:19:05,409 --> 01:19:07,411
MIKE: Up to now,
our entire search

1742
01:19:07,536 --> 01:19:10,580
has been focused on West Caicos.

1743
01:19:10,706 --> 01:19:14,042
But this logbook,
it's sending us off

1744
01:19:14,167 --> 01:19:16,169
to East Caicos.

1745
01:19:16,295 --> 01:19:19,089
Two totally different
parts of the country.

1746
01:19:19,214 --> 01:19:21,008
And even though
it's a small country,

1747
01:19:21,091 --> 01:19:24,344
the two places are
as far apart as you can get.

1748
01:19:25,804 --> 01:19:29,516
JON: East Caicos
and even Grand Turk

1749
01:19:29,641 --> 01:19:31,727
it is very deep water

1750
01:19:31,852 --> 01:19:34,646
that are ringed by, you know,
ledges that are...

1751
01:19:36,732 --> 01:19:39,943
Oh, boy, I tell you,
they drop off 200‐300 feet.

1752
01:19:40,068 --> 01:19:43,071
Now, could there be
a, you know, a ledge

1753
01:19:43,238 --> 01:19:46,366
big enough where
a deep‐water German U‐boat

1754
01:19:46,491 --> 01:19:49,536
could actually get up
underneath this ledge and hide?

1755
01:19:49,619 --> 01:19:52,748
It's absolutely possible.
Absolutely possible.

1756
01:19:54,082 --> 01:19:56,543
Certainly the geography
matches perfectly

1757
01:19:56,668 --> 01:19:59,004
to what Roger tells us
to look for.

1758
01:19:59,087 --> 01:20:03,800
We're way more likely
to find a cave in East Caicos.

1759
01:20:03,925 --> 01:20:06,011
I ain't giving the latitude
and longitude

1760
01:20:06,136 --> 01:20:08,764
or GPS readings on her.
You think I'm crazy?

1761
01:20:08,889 --> 01:20:11,433
I can't risk‐‐I've been
protecting that thing

1762
01:20:11,558 --> 01:20:12,851
ever since I found it.

1763
01:20:13,018 --> 01:20:16,396
JON: He was protecting
what he knew.

1764
01:20:16,563 --> 01:20:18,857
Submarine came up,
and I said,

1765
01:20:19,024 --> 01:20:21,151
"I know you can't tell me
where it is,

1766
01:20:21,234 --> 01:20:24,738
"but tell me about
the geography around.

1767
01:20:24,863 --> 01:20:26,656
Where is it that you saw this?"

1768
01:20:26,740 --> 01:20:28,241
He said "It's
a horseshoe‐shaped island

1769
01:20:28,367 --> 01:20:31,912
and it's down here somewhere."

1770
01:20:32,037 --> 01:20:34,373
And he was very vague
about that.

1771
01:20:34,539 --> 01:20:36,249
And it could be that Roger
was simply

1772
01:20:36,416 --> 01:20:37,709
throwing me off the scent.

1773
01:20:37,793 --> 01:20:41,838
But I do have one area in mind
that I think,

1774
01:20:41,922 --> 01:20:44,800
based on discussions
with Roger, again, you know‐‐

1775
01:20:44,883 --> 01:20:46,885
a horseshoe‐shaped island.

1776
01:20:47,010 --> 01:20:49,888
That‐‐I've got a pretty good
idea what he was referring to.

1777
01:20:51,848 --> 01:20:52,849
MIKE:
Everything's adding up.

1778
01:20:52,974 --> 01:20:56,144
I've gotta call the team.
This hunt is back on.

1779
01:20:59,147 --> 01:21:02,526
Hey, guys.
Just got a very important

1780
01:21:02,609 --> 01:21:05,028
bit of information for you.

1781
01:21:05,112 --> 01:21:10,242
Out of the blue,
I get a phone call

1782
01:21:10,367 --> 01:21:11,660
from Jon Christiansen.

1783
01:21:11,785 --> 01:21:14,621
Roger's boat captain

1784
01:21:14,746 --> 01:21:17,624
back in the infamous
1981 survey.

1785
01:21:17,749 --> 01:21:20,669
Believe it or not,
Jon's heard about us,

1786
01:21:20,836 --> 01:21:22,712
heard about our search.

1787
01:21:22,838 --> 01:21:24,881
He sent us his logbook.

1788
01:21:25,006 --> 01:21:26,341
Really?

1789
01:21:26,466 --> 01:21:28,718
What, from
the original expedition?

1790
01:21:28,844 --> 01:21:32,764
Yeah. Every time they went to
a new location,

1791
01:21:32,889 --> 01:21:35,892
he fixed the coordinate and
wrote it in his book.

1792
01:21:36,017 --> 01:21:37,227
No way.

1793
01:21:37,352 --> 01:21:40,021
And when you put
those locations together,

1794
01:21:40,105 --> 01:21:44,484
I come up with a new search
area‐‐East Caicos.

1795
01:21:47,195 --> 01:21:50,157
So not in West Caicos
where we were before at all.

1796
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:52,284
A totally new part
of the country.

1797
01:21:52,409 --> 01:21:56,163
Pack your bags.
We're going back to the islands.

1798
01:21:56,246 --> 01:21:57,831
Amazing.

1799
01:21:57,956 --> 01:21:59,583
Looks like I'm gonna have
to clear my schedule again.

1800
01:21:59,708 --> 01:22:01,751
[laughs] But you're in, right?

1801
01:22:01,877 --> 01:22:03,420
This has already been an
adventure

1802
01:22:03,545 --> 01:22:05,672
full of twists and turns,

1803
01:22:05,797 --> 01:22:06,673
so I'm glad to get going again.

1804
01:22:06,798 --> 01:22:08,592
Okay.

1805
01:22:08,717 --> 01:22:10,218
Way to go, guys.

1806
01:22:10,385 --> 01:22:13,805
When I get this logbook,
it could very easily lead us

1807
01:22:13,889 --> 01:22:16,224
to Roger's U‐boat.

1808
01:22:16,391 --> 01:22:18,935
It's telling me this search
is a long way from over.

1809
01:22:20,979 --> 01:22:23,857
This is a find of a find
of a lifetime.

1810
01:22:23,940 --> 01:22:25,525
It beats Tutankhamun
all to hell.

1811
01:22:25,650 --> 01:22:27,152
There ain't nobody gonna find
anything better than that.

1812
01:22:28,695 --> 01:22:30,989
It's been missing
for 72 friggin' years.

1813
01:22:33,742 --> 01:22:36,453
MIKE: This U‐boat was
Roger's life's work.

1814
01:22:36,578 --> 01:22:40,248
It must've been tremendously
frustrating for him.

1815
01:22:40,373 --> 01:22:44,002
Maybe now we can help him
fulfill that destiny

1816
01:22:44,127 --> 01:22:46,546
and prove once and for all

1817
01:22:46,713 --> 01:22:49,299
whether Roger actually did
find a U‐boat.

1818
01:22:51,301 --> 01:22:54,346
For 40 years, the location
of Roger Miklos's U‐boat

1819
01:22:54,513 --> 01:22:56,515
has remained a mystery.

1820
01:22:56,681 --> 01:22:59,559
Now, Mike Fletcher is
one step closer

1821
01:22:59,684 --> 01:23:01,186
to solving that puzzle.

1822
01:23:01,311 --> 01:23:04,022
And maybe someday soon,
Roger's lifelong dream

1823
01:23:04,105 --> 01:23:07,275
of raising his U‐boat
will finally be realized,

1824
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:10,320
and the world will discover
what's really inside.

1825
01:23:10,403 --> 01:23:12,280
I'm Laurence Fishburne.

1826
01:23:12,405 --> 01:23:15,242
Tune in next time
for another installment

1827
01:23:15,367 --> 01:23:18,203
of "History's
Greatest Mysteries."