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Wade: CAN FRESH INSIGHTS INTO
ANCIENT BOAT-BUILDING
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TECHNIQUES SHED NEW LIGHT
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ON THE TRUTH BEHIND
THE GREAT BIBLICAL FLOOD?
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FOR MANY OF US,
THIS DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE.
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YOU'VE GOTTA
LOOK AT IT THROUGH
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THE PRISM OF THE PEOPLES
OF THE PAST.
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Wade: IS A MYSTERIOUS UNDERWATER
PHENOMENON BEING USED
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AS A SECRET WEAPON
OF WAR?
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THE GLOW REVEALED THIS UNEARTHLY
SHAPE MOVING THROUGH
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THE WATER.
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THE SAILORS COULDN'T BELIEVE
WHAT THEY WERE SEEING.
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Wade: AND DOES A SPINE-CHILLING
RIVER DISCOVERY
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HOLD THE KEY
TO A LOST WORLD?
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THESE BONES ARE BROKEN
AND TWISTED AND CRACKED.
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THERE'D BE THOUSANDS
OF BODIES.
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Wade:
THE UNDERWATER REALM
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IS ANOTHER DIMENSION.
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IT'S A PHYSICALLY HOSTILE
PLACE WHERE DREAMS OF PROMISE
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CAN SINK INTO DARKNESS.
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I'M JEREMY WADE.
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I'M SEARCHING THE WORLD
TO BRING YOU
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THE MOST ICONIC AND BAFFLING
UNDERWATER MYSTERIES
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KNOWN TO SCIENCE.
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SHIPWRECKS CAN'T JUST
DISAPPEAR...OR CAN THEY?
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Wade: IT'S A DANGEROUS,
UNEXPLORED FRONTIER THAT
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SWALLOWS EVIDENCE.
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WE KNOW MORE ABOUT THE FACE
OF MARS THAN WE DO
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OUR DEEPEST OCEANS.
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Wade:
WHERE UNKNOWN IS NORMAL
AND UNDERSTANDING IS RARE.
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THE STORY OF HOW NOAH SURVIVED
A GREAT FLOOD BY BUILDING
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AN ARK IS ONE OF THE DEFINING
TALES OF THE HUMAN RACE.
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FOR SOME, IT'S A MYTH.
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FOR OTHERS,
IT'S A LITERAL TRUTH.
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BUT COULD RECENT DISCOVERIES
TELL US ONCE AND FOR ALL
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WHETHER THIS FAMOUS
BIBLICAL STORY
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WAS BASED ON
REAL-LIFE EVENTS?
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♪
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NOAH'S ARK IS ONE OF
THE MOST ICONIC TALES THERE IS.
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Goodman: GOD COMES TO NOAH
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AND EXPLAINS TO HIM
THAT HE NEEDS TO GO,
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AND HE NEEDS TO BUILD
A GIGANTIC ARK.
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IN THAT ARK,
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HE NEEDS TO PUT IN THE ANIMALS
THAT ARE ON THE PLANET
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TO SAVE THEM FROM A FLOOD,
WHICH IS GOING TO FOLLOW.
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Rondeau: THE FLOOD, AS DESCRIBED
IN THE BIBLE, IS A STORM
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THAT RAGES FOR 40 NIGHTS,
AND FOR 40 DAYS.
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IT'S ALLEGED TO HAVE COVERED
THE ENTIRE GLOBE.
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AND AT THE END,
ALL LIFE IS DESTROYED
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EXCEPT FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS
AND THOSE ANIMALS
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THAT ARE ONBOARD THE ARK
WITH NOAH.
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Wade: IT'S A MUCH-LOVED STORY
THAT MOST OF US
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HAVE GROWN UP WITH,
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BUT IS IT BASED ON
A REAL FLOOD?
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ON THE ONE HAND, WE DON'T
EXPECT IT TO NECESSARILY BE
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THE TRUTH,
BUT ON THE OTHER HAND,
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MANY OF THESE THINGS
ARE ANCHORED IN
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SOME REALITY.
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Wade: IN FACT,
MANY CULTURES AND BELIEFS
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HAVE A VERSION
OF THE NOAH STORY.
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THE OLDEST COME FROM
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA,
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MORE THAN A MILLENNIUM BEFORE
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THE OLD TESTAMENT ACCOUNT
WAS WRITTEN.
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Elliott: MANY CULTURES HAVE
A MYTHOLOGICAL STORY
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ABOUT A DELUGE,
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SO IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THIS WAS
A VERY REAL EVENT IN SOME WAY,
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SHAPE, OR FORM.
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Wade: WHEN THE ICE AGE ENDS
AROUND 10,000 YEARS AGO,
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IT BRINGS HUGE RISES
IN SEA LEVEL,
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WHICH SEPARATES CONTINENTS
AND CHANGES THE WORLD MAP
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TO THE ONE
WE RECOGNIZE TODAY.
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BUT THIS IS
A GRADUAL CHANGE
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OVER MANY YEARS.
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THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT DESCRIBES
NOAH'S FLOOD
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AS BEING MUCH MORE SUDDEN.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT NOAH'S
FLOOD HAPPENED OVER A PERIOD
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OF WEEKS,
NOT HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
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Wade: THERE IS ONE EVENT THAT
COULD BE BEHIND THE NOAH STORY,
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A FLOOD OF TRULY
EPIC PROPORTIONS.
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IT HAPPENS IN THE BLACK SEA
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OVER 7,000 YEARS AGO.
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THE BLACK SEA WAS
ORIGINALLY A GREAT LAKE,
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AND IT WAS SEPARATED FROM
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
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Wade: BUT RISING GLOBAL
SEA LEVELS FROM
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THE MELTING ICE EVENTUALLY
REACH A CRUCIAL POINT.
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THIS GOT TO THE POINT
WHEN THE PLUG,
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WHICH SEPARATED THE BLACK SEA
FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN,
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WAS BREACHED.
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Wade:
ACCORDING TO SOME ESTIMATES,
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THIS GLOBAL WARMING EVENT
POURS WATER INTO THE BLACK SEA
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WITH A FORCE AROUND 200 TIMES
THAT OF NIAGARA FALLS.
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SOMETHING WITH 200 TIMES
THE POWER OF
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NIAGARA FALLS WOULD BE
A MONSTROUS EVENT
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THAT WOULD BE EARTHSHAKING,
LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY.
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Wade: BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM --
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EVEN THE BLACK SEA DELUGE
DOESN'T COVER THE ENTIRE EARTH.
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THERE IS NO GEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT
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A WORLDWIDE FLOOD
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AS DESCRIBED IN
THE NOAH STORY.
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Wade: BUT TO PEOPLE LIVING
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO,
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IT COULD HAVE FELT LIKE THEIR
ENTIRE WORLD HAD DISAPPEARED.
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WE UNDERSTAND
THE WORLD VERY DIFFERENTLY
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THAN PEOPLE WOULD HAVE
AT THE TIME.
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FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN
THAT PART OF THE WORLD,
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IT WOULD HAVE LOOKED TO THEM
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THAT EVERYTHING ON
THE HORIZON WOULD HAVE
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BEEN SUBMERGED.
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Wade: WITH THIS IN MIND, IT
SEEMS REASONABLE TO HYPOTHESIZE
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THAT THE GREAT FLOOD WAS
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BASED ON REAL-LIFE EVENTS,
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LIKE THE BLACK SEA DELUGE.
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AND IF THAT'S THE CASE,
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WE WOULD EXPECT TO FIND OTHER
EVIDENCE THAT BACKS UP
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THE BIBLICAL TALE,
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SUCH AS CLUES TO
THE EXISTENCE OF NOAH'S
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FABLED ARK.
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A CHANCE DISCOVERY
IN A MIDDLE EASTERN
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MARKETPLACE IN 1948
COULD BE THE MISSING LINK.
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Elliot: A ROYAL AIR FORCE PILOT
GOES TO A LOCAL MARKET IN IRAQ
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AND COMES ACROSS A CLAY TABLET
WITH VERY STRANGE WRITING
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ON IT.
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HE BUYS THE TABLET
AND TAKES IT HOME TO ENGLAND,
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BUT THEN, IT STAYS THERE,
FORGOTTEN ABOUT FOR YEARS.
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DECADES LATER,
HIS SON TAKES IT TO
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THE BRITISH MUSEUM TO FIND OUT
IF IT'S OF INTEREST.
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Wade: THE MUSEUM CURATOR
IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZES
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THE STRANGE MARKINGS
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AS ANCIENT CUNEIFORM TEXT,
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THE WORLD'S OLDEST
FORM OF WRITING.
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HE'S SEEN THOUSANDS
OF TABLETS,
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BUT THIS ONE IS SPECIAL.
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Tuttle: HE STARTED READING IT,
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WAS TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY
BY WHAT HE WAS READING.
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Wade: IT REVEALS A SECRET
ABOUT NOAH'S ARK THAT HAS
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BEEN HIDDEN FROM THE WORLD
FOR NEARLY 4,000 YEARS.
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INSCRIBED ON IT IS
THE FAMILIAR STORY
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OF THE GREAT FLOOD
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WITH ONE INTRIGUING NEW DETAIL
ABOUT THE DESIGN OF THE ARK.
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Elliot: NOT ONLY DOES IT TELL US
THE STORY OF THE DELUGE
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FROM A TIME BEFORE NOAH,
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BUT ALSO, CRUCIALLY,
AND HERE'S THE NEW THING --
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IT SAYS THE BOAT
SHOULD BE ROUND.
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Wade: THIS SIMPLE STATEMENT
GOES AGAINST
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THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF
ANECDOTAL HISTORY.
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NOAH'S ARK, THAT ICONIC
ANCIENT WOODEN BOAT,
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IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMILIAR
AND ESTABLISHED IMAGES OF
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ALL TIME.
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SO HOW COULD IT
POSSIBLY BE ROUND?
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THE BIBLICAL TALE OF NOAH
AND THE ARK IS
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ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN
STORIES OF ALL TIME.
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BUT COULD IT HAVE
A BASIS IN REAL EVENTS?
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AN ANCIENT CLAY
TABLET PREDATING
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THE BIBLE CONTAINS A DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF A HUGE ARK
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BUILT TO SURVIVE
A CATASTROPHIC FLOOD,
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BUT THERE'S ONE CRUCIALLY
IMPORTANT DETAIL
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THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM
THE TRADITIONAL STORY.
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ACCORDING TO THIS TABLET,
NOAH'S ARK IS ROUND.
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I THINK FOR MANY OF US,
THIS DOES NOT MAKE ANY SENSE,
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BECAUSE WHEN WE THINK OF
A SEAWORTHY CRAFT,
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IT IS RECTANGULAR
OR CYLINDRICAL IN SHAPE --
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IT'S NOT CIRCULAR.
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Elliot: WE ASSOCIATE BOATS
WITH BEING WHAT
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WE WOULD CALL BOAT-SHAPED,
SORT OF LONG, NOT ROUND.
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SO HAVING A ROUND SHAPE LOOKS
TO US TO BE ODD,
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BUT YOU'VE GOTTA LOOK AT IT
THROUGH THE PRISM OF
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THE PEOPLES OF THE PAST.
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Wade: RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT
AMONGST ANCIENT CULTURES
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IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD,
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CIRCULAR VESSELS
WERE NOT UNUSUAL.
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Clarke: CIRCULAR BOATS WERE
A COMMON CONSTRUCTION,
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SO IT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE
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COMING FROM THAT REGION
TO BUILD A CIRCULAR VESSEL,
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BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE WHAT
THEY ALL KNEW HOW TO BUILD.
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Wright: I THINK IF WE TRY TO GET
OUR MINDS OFF OF NOAH
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AND HIS COMPANIONS HAVING TO
TRAVEL FROM POINT A TO POINT B,
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IF WE THINK ABOUT THEM JUST
HAVING TO SURVIVE,
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THEY JUST NEEDED
TO STAY ABOVE WATER,
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AND IF WE THINK IN THAT WAY,
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A CIRCULAR CRAFT STARTS
TO REALLY MAKE SENSE.
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Wade: IN FACT, TODAY'S NAUTICAL
ENGINEERS ARE BEGINNING
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TO UTILIZE THE UNIQUE
PROPERTIES OF
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CIRCULAR-SHAPED VESSELS.
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MODERN LIFEBOATS ON SHIPS ARE
OFTEN A ROUND SHAPE,
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BECAUSE THE PURPOSE
OF IT IS TO PROTECT
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THE PEOPLE AND TO KEEP THEM
FLOATING ON THE SURFACE,
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NOT NECESSARILY TO TRAVEL
ANY DISTANCE.
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Clarke: CIRCULAR LIFEBOATS ARE
SUPPOSED TO HAVE A FAR
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HIGHER SURVIVABILITY RATE
THAN TRADITIONAL LIFEBOATS.
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THESE SHAPES ARE
INCREDIBLY STRONG.
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THEY'RE INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE.
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Wade: IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE
A CIRCULAR BOAT,
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WHICH OFFERS SHELTER TO
A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE.
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BUT IT'S QUITE ANOTHER
TO BUILD ONE
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BIG ENOUGH TO HOUSE
NOAH'S FAMILY,
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PLUS A MENAGERIE OF ANIMALS.
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THE TABLET ACCOUNT GIVES VERY
PRECISE MEASUREMENTS
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FOR THE ARK.
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AT 222 FEET ACROSS,
IT'S ABOUT 2/3
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THE LENGTH OF
A FOOTBALL FIELD.
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A ROUND VESSEL OF
THESE DIMENSIONS WOULD HAVE BEEN
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A HUGE UNDERTAKING THOUSANDS
OF YEARS AGO,
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SO COULD IT ACTUALLY BE BUILT?
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ONE MAN IS DETERMINED
TO FIND OUT.
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WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT IT,
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I WAS THOUGHT, OH YEAH,
THAT'S AN EXAGGERATION.
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BUT THE MORE I ACTUALLY
STARTED IT,
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I ACTUALLY REALIZED THAT
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THAT TABLET TELLS YOU EXACTLY
HOW TO BUILD A ROUND VESSEL.
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THE TECHNOLOGY
AND THE CONSTRUCTION METHOD --
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IT'S -- IT'S REAL.
IT'S GOOD.
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Wade: IN FACT,
THE TABLET GIVES WHAT IS
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EFFECTIVELY A 4,000-YEAR-OLD
CONSTRUCTION BLUEPRINT.
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THESE TABLET, FOR THE FIRST
TIME, ACTUALLY TELLS US QUITE
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VITAL INFORMATION
ABOUT THE BOAT,
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THE SIZE,
AND THE MATERIALS.
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YOU HAVE, UH,
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SPECIFIC FIGURES
ABOUT THE SHAPE,
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WHICH IS THE MOST IMPORTANT
AND MOST INTERESTING ASPECT,
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AND ALSO,
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CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE
AND METHODS.
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Wade: DR. ALESSANDRO GHIDONI
IS A LEADING EXPERT
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ON ANCIENT
BOAT-BUILDING TECHNIQUES.
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ALONG WITH A TEAM OF
OTHER SCIENTISTS,
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HE PLANS TO FOLLOW
THE DIRECTIONS ON
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THE TABLET AND CREATE
A REPLICA OF THE ARK.
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THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE CLEAR.
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THE VESSEL IS TO BE BUILT
PRIMARILY FROM REEDS.
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SO REEDS ARE HOLLOW,
WHICH MAKES THEM BUOYANT.
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THEY'RE EASY TO MANIPULATE,
THEY'RE EASY TO HANDLE.
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YOU CAN MAKE ALMOST
WHATEVER YOU WANT.
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Wade: THE TABLET MENTIONS
JUST TWO OTHER MATERIALS --
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WOOD FOR THE SUPPORTING
FRAMEWORK AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY,
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BITUMEN TO WATERPROOF
THE VESSEL.
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BITUMEN IS A TYPE OF THICK OIL
THAT SEEPS OUT
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OF THE GROUND, AND IT WAS
WIDELY USED BY ANCIENT PEOPLE.
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Ghidoni: BITUMEN IS
A GREAT MATERIAL,
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BECAUSE YOU CAN USE IT
FOR MULTIPLE PURPOSE,
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AND WE KNOW THAT THEY HAD
BITUMEN FOR EVERY PURPOSE.
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SO THEY HAD BITUMEN
FOR BIG BOAT BUILDING,
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THEY HAD BITUMEN
FOR PLASTERING WALLS
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OR BITUMEN JUST
USED AS GLUE.
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Wade: HARNESSING
ALL THEIR KNOWLEDGE
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OF ANCIENT
BOAT-BUILDING TECHNIQUES,
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GHIDONI AND HIS TEAM
SUCCESSFULLY BUILD
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A CIRCULAR VESSEL 1/5
THE DIAMETER
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OF THE TABLET
SPECIFICATIONS.
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AND IT FLOATS.
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IT'S A HUGE STEP FORWARD
IN FINDING
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SOLID EVIDENCE TO UNDERPIN
THE NOAH'S ARK STORY,
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BUT SO FAR, GHIDONI HAS
STRUGGLED TO BUILD ANYTHING
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EVEN CLOSE TO THE FULL SIZE
OF THE ARK.
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WHEN YOU ACTUALLY START
INCREASING THE SIZE OF BOAT,
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THEN IT'S WHERE --
WHEN YOU START HAVING PROBLEMS.
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BITUMEN IS A GREAT MATERIAL,
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BUT IT ALSO HAS LIMITS,
AND THE MAIN ISSUE IS THAT
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USUALLY REEDS ARE MORE FLEXIBLE
THAN THE BITUMEN,
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AND THAT CAN CAUSE
THE BITUMEN TO CRACK.
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ONCE THE BITUMEN LAYER,
THIS COATING, CRACKS,
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THEN YOU SINK.
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Wade: SO DID ANCIENT PEOPLE HAVE
A SPECIAL BOAT-BUILDING
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TECHNIQUE THAT HAS BEEN LOST
IN THE MISTS OF TIME?
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THEY HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE -- THEY
HAVE EXPERIENCE OF HUNDREDS,
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IF NOT THOUSANDS, OF YEARS OF
USING THIS MATERIAL,
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WHICH WE -- WE DON'T HAVE.
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SO NOW THE BIG QUESTION
IS LIKE HOW,
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YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST
WOULD THEY MAKE SUCH A BIG ARK
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AND ACTUALLY AVOIDING ALL THESE
ISSUES THAT WE ENCOUNTERED?
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THAT'S THE MAIN QUESTION --
I DON'T KNOW --
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NOT SURE I HAVE
AN ANSWER FOR THAT.
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I'M STILL WORKING ON
PROTOTYPES JUST TO SEE IF
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THIS TIME WE WILL BE ABLE
TO MAKE IT WORK.
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GHIDONI BELIEVES THAT IF
HE CAN CRACK THE SECRETS OF
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THE ANCIENT BOAT BUILDERS,
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THE CIRCULAR ARK MIGHT FINALLY
BECOME ACCEPTED AS REALITY
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AND CHANGE THE WAY
WE THINK ABOUT
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ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MARINE
MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME.
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[ THUNDER CRASHING ]
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ON MY TRAVELS
AROUND THE GLOBE,
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I SPENT MANY NIGHTS ON BOATS
OUT ON THE OCEAN.
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LOOKING OUT
ACROSS THE WATER,
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I'VE OCCASIONALLY BEEN LUCKY
ENOUGH TO WITNESS
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AN INCREDIBLE SPECTACLE,
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A SPOOKY UNDERWATER FIREWORK
DISPLAY KNOWN
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AS BIOLUMINESCENCE.
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I'VE NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS AS
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ANYTHING MORE THAN
A BIZARRE MARINE PHENOMENON,
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BUT I'VE RECENTLY COME ACROSS
A MYSTERIOUS INCIDENT,
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WHICH SUGGESTS
SOMETHING A LOT MORE SINISTER.
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THE STORY COMES FROM
THE UKRAINIAN CITY
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OF SEVASTOPOL.
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UKRAINE'S SECRET SERVICE RAIDS
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THE OFFICE OF THESE
UNSUSPECTING MARINE BIOLOGISTS.
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Wade: THEY BREAK INTO
THE INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY
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OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS,
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INTERROGATE FOUR OF
ITS SCIENTISTS,
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AND SEARCH THEIR HOMES.
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WHAT HAVE THESE MEN
GOT THAT THE GOVERNMENT
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IS SO EAGER TO GET
ITS HANDS ON?
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PERHAPS THE ANSWER LIES
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IN THE ONE THING THAT ALL FOUR
OF THESE MEN HAVE IN COMMON.
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IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT THEY
WERE STUDYING BIOLUMINESCENCE.
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Wade: BIOLUMINESCENCE IS
THE LIGHT THAT MANY
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MARINE CREATURES PRODUCE
TO HELP THEM FIND PREY,
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AVOID PREDATORS, OR COMMUNICATE
IN THE DARKNESS.
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WHY WOULD THE SECRET
SERVICE BE
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INTERESTED IN THE LIGHT
OF MARINE CREATURES?
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IS THERE MORE
TO THIS BIZARRE OCEAN SPECTACLE
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THAN MEETS THE EYE?
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THE ANSWER COULD LIE IN
A LITTLE KNOWN EVENT
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THAT ALLEGEDLY TOOK
PLACE DURING WORLD WAR I.
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NOVEMBER 9, 1918.
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THE STORY GOES THAT BRITISH
NAVY VESSEL, HMS PRIVET,
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IS OUT AT NIGHT IN
THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR.
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MANY VESSELS ARE STATIONED
IN THE STRAIGHT IN
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AN EFFORT TO PREVENT
GERMAN SUBMARINES LEAVING
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THE MEDITERRANEAN.
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ALL OF A SUDDEN,
THERE'S AN EERIE SHAPE
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GLOWING IN THE DEPTHS
BENEATH THE SHIP.
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THE GLOW REVEALED
THIS UNEARTHLY SHAPE
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00:17:44,664 --> 00:17:46,264
MOVING THROUGH THE WATER.
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00:17:47,934 --> 00:17:49,867
THE SAILORS COULDN'T BELIEVE
WHAT THEY WERE SEEING.
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Wade: THEY IDENTIFY IT
AS THE SILHOUETTE OF ONE OF
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THE MOST DANGEROUS SUBMARINES
IN THE ENTIRE GERMAN FLEET.
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SM U-34 WAS ONE OF
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL,
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00:18:02,014 --> 00:18:04,749
IF NOT THE MOST SUCCESSFUL,
SUBMARINES OF ALL TIME.
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FOR 117 MISSIONS,
SHE SANK 119 SHIPS.
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Wade: SM U-34 HAS ELUDED
DETECTION FOR YEARS,
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00:18:19,699 --> 00:18:22,200
BUT NOW,
SHE'S EASY PICKINGS.
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THE BRITISH NAVAL
RECORDS INDICATE
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THAT THE SUBMARINE
WAS IDENTIFIED,
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AND THAT IT WAS SUNK
BY DEPTH CHARGE.
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00:18:33,846 --> 00:18:35,779
NOW THE STORY GOES THAT
THE REASON THAT THEY WERE ABLE
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00:18:35,848 --> 00:18:38,115
TO FINALLY SEE
THIS SUBMARINE WAS
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BECAUSE IT WENT THROUGH
A PATCH OF BIOLUMINESCING
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00:18:41,921 --> 00:18:45,789
ORGANISMS, WHICH LIGHTS UP
THE PATH OF THE SUBMARINE.
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00:18:45,858 --> 00:18:48,659
Wade: MORE SPECIFICALLY,
EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT
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THE ORGANISMS
WHICH BETRAYED SM U-34
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WERE BIOLUMINESCENT PLANKTON,
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VAST SWARMS OF THEM.
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THERE'S MILLIONS AND MILLIONS
OF PHYTOPLANKTON IN THE OCEAN,
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00:19:01,941 --> 00:19:04,509
AND WHEN THEY'RE DISTURBED,
THEY LIGHT UP.
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Wade: MOST PLANKTON IS INVISIBLE
TO THE NAKED EYE
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00:19:12,418 --> 00:19:16,687
UNTIL SOMETHING MOVES THROUGH
THE WATER AND DISTURBS IT.
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00:19:16,755 --> 00:19:18,622
IF I WAS ON A SHIP
IN THE MIDDLE
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OF THE NIGHT, AND ALL OF
A SUDDEN I SEE
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00:19:22,361 --> 00:19:26,230
THIS -- THIS LIGHT GLOWING,
THAT'S AN INDICATION TO ME
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00:19:26,299 --> 00:19:28,466
THAT THERE'S SOMETHING
LARGE IN THE OCEAN.
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00:19:30,436 --> 00:19:33,904
Wade: THE NAVY HAPPENED
TO SPOT SM U-34
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AS IT PASSED THROUGH
A HUGE CLOUD OF
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BIOLUMINESCENT PLANKTON.
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00:19:39,979 --> 00:19:41,712
BUT IT WAS PURE FLUKE --
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00:19:41,914 --> 00:19:44,682
A CASE OF RIGHT PLACE,
RIGHT TIME.
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00:19:46,986 --> 00:19:48,986
THE QUESTION IS,
HAS ANYBODY FOUND
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00:19:49,055 --> 00:19:51,956
A WAY TO HARNESS THIS
UNPREDICTABLE PHENOMENON
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00:19:54,327 --> 00:19:57,461
AND TURN IT INTO
A RELIABLE WEAPON OF WAR?
357
00:20:07,273 --> 00:20:11,142
SCIENTISTS ARE INVESTIGATING
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MYSTERIOUS
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OCEAN PHENOMENON KNOWN
AS BIOLUMINESCENCE.
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00:20:14,347 --> 00:20:17,949
HAS IT SECRETLY BEEN TURNED
INTO A WEAPON OF WAR?
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00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:22,486
BIOLUMINESCENCE GAVE AWAY
THE LOCATION OF THE SUBMARINE,
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00:20:22,555 --> 00:20:25,956
SO IF YOU CAN IMAGINE, IF YOU
COULD HARNESS THAT TECHNOLOGY,
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00:20:26,025 --> 00:20:29,427
IT WOULD BE ONE WAY TO EXPOSE
THE LOCATIONS OF YOUR ENEMY.
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00:20:31,230 --> 00:20:34,365
MILITARY POWERS
ARE INTERESTED IN ANY
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TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT
OR MILITARY APPLICATION
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00:20:38,037 --> 00:20:40,838
THAT WILL GIVE THEM
AN EDGE AGAINST THEIR ENEMY.
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00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:46,444
Wade: THERE'S EVIDENCE TO
SUGGEST THAT AFTER THE SINKING
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OF SM U-34,
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BIOLUMINESCENT PLANKTON
BECOMES A FOCUS
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OF NAVAL ENGINEERS
AROUND THE GLOBE.
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AND DURING THE COLD WAR,
THE STAKES ARE HIGHER
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THAN EVER BEFORE.
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THE COLD WAR WAS MOSTLY FOUGHT
UNDER THE WATER
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WITH NUCLEAR SUBMARINES,
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00:21:12,004 --> 00:21:14,405
AND THESE NUCLEAR SUBMARINES
WERE GETTING MORE AND MORE
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00:21:14,474 --> 00:21:17,275
SOPHISTICATED
AND HARDER TO TRACK.
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00:21:17,477 --> 00:21:20,411
SO THERE WAS THIS IDEA OF
USING BIOLUMINESCENCE
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00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,415
TO DETECT SUBMARINES THAT WERE
UNDETECTABLE ANY OTHER WAY.
378
00:21:24,484 --> 00:21:27,684
Wade: RAPID DEVELOPMENTS IN
SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY COULD
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MAKE BIOLUMINESCENCE
AN EXTREMELY POWERFUL TOOL.
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00:21:33,026 --> 00:21:36,059
I SUSPECT, AND AGAIN, THIS IS
ONLY SPECULATION ON
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MY PART, THAT YOU COULD USE
SATELLITES TO
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00:21:38,831 --> 00:21:40,498
DETECT BIOLUMINESCENCE.
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00:21:42,034 --> 00:21:43,901
Figueroa: SAY YOU'RE LOOKING
DOWN AT THE OCEAN,
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00:21:43,970 --> 00:21:46,370
AND THERE'S A MASSIVE BLOOM
BEING DISTURBED,
385
00:21:46,572 --> 00:21:50,141
YOU COULD POTENTIALLY SEE
THE BIOLUMINESCENCE FROM SPACE.
386
00:21:53,379 --> 00:21:55,446
Wade: THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT
THAT MILITARY POWERS
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ON BOTH SIDES OF
THE IRON CURTAIN ATTEMPTED TO
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WEAPONIZE BIOLUMINESCENCE.
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00:22:02,188 --> 00:22:03,654
BUT WITH WHAT SUCCESS?
390
00:22:05,658 --> 00:22:07,692
THAT'S WHERE
THE TRAIL GOES COLD.
391
00:22:08,827 --> 00:22:10,594
WE DO KNOW
THAT BOTH SIDES HAVE
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00:22:10,663 --> 00:22:12,663
HAVE EXPERIMENTED WITH
BIOLUMINESCENCE
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00:22:12,865 --> 00:22:14,732
AND HAVE STUDIED IT,
394
00:22:14,801 --> 00:22:16,533
AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW
SUCCESSFUL IT'S BEEN.
395
00:22:16,602 --> 00:22:18,936
SO IN SOME WAYS,
THAT'S STILL A MYSTERY.
396
00:22:19,138 --> 00:22:21,472
Figueroa: IF THE MILITARY
DID FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE
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BIOLUMINESCENT PLANKTON AS
MEANS FOR DETECTING VESSELS,
398
00:22:26,945 --> 00:22:27,778
WOULD WE EVEN KNOW?
399
00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:32,483
Wade: MILITARY RESEARCH IS
HIGHLY SECRETIVE,
400
00:22:33,552 --> 00:22:35,752
BUT NEW INFORMATION
FROM THE U.S. MINISTRY
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00:22:35,821 --> 00:22:38,489
OF DEFENSE REVEALS
THAT MARINE CREATURES
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00:22:38,557 --> 00:22:41,058
ARE STILL VERY MUCH
ON THE RADAR.
403
00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:45,495
DARPA ARE THE AMERICAN
DEFENSE RESEARCH AGENCY.
404
00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:48,399
THEY ARE THE ONES CHARGED
WITH INVENTING THE FUTURE.
405
00:22:50,303 --> 00:22:54,171
Wade: DARPA HAS RECENTLY
LAUNCHED AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT.
406
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,639
AS WELL AS USING THE LIGHT
407
00:22:55,842 --> 00:22:58,575
OF MARINE ANIMALS TO
TRACK SUBMERSIBLES,
408
00:22:58,644 --> 00:23:01,912
THEY'RE INVESTIGATING
THE POSSIBILITY OF USING SOUND.
409
00:23:04,517 --> 00:23:07,785
ONE OF THE SPECULATIONS IS
AS OBJECTS LIKE A SUBMARINE
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00:23:07,987 --> 00:23:08,919
MOVE PAST,
411
00:23:08,988 --> 00:23:11,722
ANIMALS WILL MAKE
DIFFERENT SOUNDS,
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00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:17,328
SO THEY MAY BE TALKING TO ONE
ANOTHER, SAYING, "HEY,
413
00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:19,930
THERE'S SOMETHING BIG
THAT'S JUST MOVED BY."
414
00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:22,800
Wade: ANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
IN THE SOUNDS MADE BY
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00:23:22,869 --> 00:23:27,270
THE ANIMALS CAN BE PICKED UP
BY HIGH-TECH HYDROPHONES.
416
00:23:27,339 --> 00:23:29,005
ACCORDING TO DARPA,
THIS IS A REAL PROGRAM
417
00:23:29,074 --> 00:23:31,275
THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON
RIGHT NOW.
418
00:23:32,879 --> 00:23:34,879
Wade: PERHAPS MARINE ANIMALS
WILL SOON
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00:23:35,081 --> 00:23:37,648
BE OPERATING AS
UNDERWATER SPIES...
420
00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:40,718
IF THEY'RE NOT ALREADY.
421
00:23:43,689 --> 00:23:46,957
JUST LIKE A LOT OF
CLOSELY-GUARDED NAVAL SECRETS,
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00:23:47,059 --> 00:23:51,695
IF IT IS BEING USED
AS A SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY,
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00:23:51,764 --> 00:23:52,963
IT WILL REMAIN A SECRET.
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♪
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♪
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00:24:04,710 --> 00:24:08,111
ALMOST A CENTURY AGO,
A TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS MADE
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00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:12,449
AN EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY --
THE REMAINS OF TWO LARGE,
428
00:24:12,518 --> 00:24:16,119
LUXURIOUS ROMAN SUPERYACHTS
UNLIKE ANYTHING EVER
429
00:24:16,188 --> 00:24:17,788
SEEN BEFORE.
430
00:24:17,857 --> 00:24:20,324
BUT RUMOR HAS IT
THAT THE MOTHERSHIP,
431
00:24:20,393 --> 00:24:23,660
A VAST VESSEL EVEN BIGGER
AND MORE EXTRAVAGANT,
432
00:24:23,729 --> 00:24:26,463
IS STILL TO BE FOUND.
433
00:24:26,532 --> 00:24:31,535
NOW, A NEW LEAD PROMISES TO
REVEAL THE LONG-HIDDEN TRUTH.
434
00:24:31,603 --> 00:24:39,476
♪
435
00:24:39,545 --> 00:24:42,179
LAKE NEMI,
CENTRAL ITALY.
436
00:24:44,750 --> 00:24:47,451
A MAN IS FISHING AT
THE WESTERN END OF THE LAKE
437
00:24:48,754 --> 00:24:51,288
WHEN HIS NET CATCHES
ON SOMETHING SOLID
438
00:24:51,356 --> 00:24:52,590
UNDER THE WATER.
439
00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:02,032
LOCAL PEOPLE BELIEVE
THAT IT COULD BE
440
00:25:02,101 --> 00:25:05,135
THE REMAINS
OF A HUGE ROMAN SHIP,
441
00:25:07,507 --> 00:25:08,973
AND FOR GOOD REASON.
442
00:25:14,313 --> 00:25:19,783
IN 1927, FASCIST ITALIAN
DICTATOR, BENITO MUSSOLINI,
443
00:25:19,986 --> 00:25:22,353
ORDERS HIS MEN
TO DRAIN THE LAKE.
444
00:25:24,056 --> 00:25:27,057
Rondeau: MUSSOLINI,
WHO WAS FASCINATED WITH ROME,
445
00:25:27,125 --> 00:25:30,461
CAME UP WITH THIS GRAND SCHEME
TO DRAIN THE LAKE.
446
00:25:30,663 --> 00:25:33,597
IT'S THE KIND OF AMBITIOUS
PROJECT THAT
447
00:25:33,666 --> 00:25:37,468
PROBABLY ONLY A DICTATOR
COULD GET AWAY WITH.
448
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,938
Wade: MUSSOLINI HAS HEARD
THE RUMORS OF MAGNIFICENT
449
00:25:41,006 --> 00:25:44,141
ROMAN VESSELS LYING ON
THE LAKE BED.
450
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:45,742
IF HE CAN FIND THEM,
THEY COULD
451
00:25:45,845 --> 00:25:48,612
BE USED FOR HIS OWN
POLITICAL GAIN.
452
00:25:48,681 --> 00:25:53,484
IT WAS TRYING TO SHOW
THE GLORY OF THE ITALIAN STATE
453
00:25:53,552 --> 00:25:56,420
BASED ON THE ROMAN PAST.
454
00:25:56,489 --> 00:25:58,422
Wade:
AND HE ISN'T DISAPPOINTED.
455
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:02,325
Polakowski: AS THEY DRAIN
THESE LAKES,
456
00:26:02,361 --> 00:26:04,695
WHAT WAS EXPOSED
WAS THESE TWO MASSIVE,
457
00:26:04,764 --> 00:26:07,698
BEAUTIFULLY BUILT SHIPS BEING
RAISED UP OUT OF THE BOTTOM
458
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:08,766
OF THE LAKE.
459
00:26:08,968 --> 00:26:11,302
Wade: EXAMINING THE REMAINS
MORE CLOSELY,
460
00:26:11,504 --> 00:26:14,838
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER THAT
THESE ARE NO ORDINARY SHIPS.
461
00:26:17,243 --> 00:26:18,308
IN THEIR DAY,
THEY WOULD HAVE
462
00:26:18,377 --> 00:26:21,412
LOOKED MORE LIKE FLOATING
ROMAN PALACES.
463
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:24,314
THESE ARE MASSIVE,
MASSIVE SHIPS,
464
00:26:24,383 --> 00:26:25,983
AND NOT ONLY THAT,
BUT THEY WERE FOUND
465
00:26:26,185 --> 00:26:27,952
WITH THESE
BEAUTIFUL DECORATION.
466
00:26:29,388 --> 00:26:31,054
THEY WERE REALLY
KIND OF DECKED OUT
467
00:26:31,156 --> 00:26:34,591
WITH THE MOST LUXURIOUS
GOODS OF THE TIME.
468
00:26:34,660 --> 00:26:37,594
IT WAS REALLY IMPRESSIVE --
NOT ONLY DID THEY HAVE WATER
469
00:26:37,663 --> 00:26:38,662
SYSTEMS ON THE SHIP,
470
00:26:38,864 --> 00:26:41,865
IT APPEARED THAT THEY HAD
HOT WATER AND COLD WATER,
471
00:26:42,068 --> 00:26:44,334
ALSO PLATFORMS THAT
COULD ROTATE
472
00:26:44,403 --> 00:26:47,071
AND -- AND ALL SORTS
OF CONVENIENCES
473
00:26:47,273 --> 00:26:48,472
THAT WAS VERY ADVANCED.
474
00:26:50,009 --> 00:26:53,277
Wade: BUT THE QUESTION IS,
WHAT ARE THESE VAST SHIPS
475
00:26:53,345 --> 00:26:56,813
DOING IN SUCH
A TINY, LANDLOCKED LAKE?
476
00:26:56,882 --> 00:26:59,215
WHAT USE WOULD THEY SERVE?
477
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:01,318
AND WHAT'S THEIR PURPOSE?
478
00:27:03,088 --> 00:27:06,356
IT'S A MYSTERY -- UNTIL
ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVER
479
00:27:06,425 --> 00:27:08,291
THAT BEHIND
THESE SUPERYACHTS
480
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:12,196
IS ONE OF HISTORY'S
MOST UNHINGED AND INFAMOUS MEN.
481
00:27:21,707 --> 00:27:25,842
IN 1929,
TWO LUXURIOUS ROMAN SUPERYACHTS
482
00:27:25,911 --> 00:27:28,612
WERE DISCOVERED IN
ITALY'S LAKE NEMI.
483
00:27:29,848 --> 00:27:32,048
BUT THERE ARE RUMORS
THAT A THIRD, EVEN
484
00:27:32,117 --> 00:27:36,153
MORE EXTRAVAGANT, SHIP REMAINS
HIDDEN BENEATH THE SURFACE.
485
00:27:38,190 --> 00:27:40,457
IT IS A TANTALIZING
MYSTERY AS TO
486
00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:42,092
WHAT IS AT THE BOTTOM OF
THE LAKE.
487
00:27:43,329 --> 00:27:45,262
Wade: LOCALS BELIEVE THAT
LIKE THE TWO FOUND
488
00:27:45,398 --> 00:27:46,864
IN THE 1920s,
489
00:27:47,066 --> 00:27:49,933
THE MISSING SHIP ONCE BELONGED
TO NOTORIOUS ROMAN
490
00:27:50,136 --> 00:27:51,801
EMPEROR CALIGULA,
491
00:27:51,870 --> 00:27:54,304
ALSO KNOWN AS THE MAD EMPEROR.
492
00:27:56,875 --> 00:28:01,745
CALIGULA IS THE MAD EMPEROR --
WE HAVE REFERENCES TO ORGIES.
493
00:28:01,847 --> 00:28:04,347
WE HAVE KILLING OF
FAMILY MEMBERS.
494
00:28:04,416 --> 00:28:06,350
WE HAVE THE KILLING
OF SENATORS,
495
00:28:06,552 --> 00:28:10,554
HE WAS A PLAYBOY
WITHOUT THE LIMITATIONS
496
00:28:10,623 --> 00:28:12,222
OF A CREDIT CARD.
497
00:28:12,424 --> 00:28:14,424
HE WANTED THE FINEST PALACES.
498
00:28:14,493 --> 00:28:16,627
HE WANTED THE FINEST
OF EVERYTHING,
499
00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:20,163
AND HE MADE SURE HE GOT IT.
500
00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:22,232
Wade: THE LAKE NEMI SHIPS
WERE BUILT
501
00:28:22,434 --> 00:28:25,502
TO SUIT CALIGULA'S
FLAMBOYANT TASTE.
502
00:28:25,570 --> 00:28:29,572
THESE SHIPS WERE THE EQUIVALENT
OF A BILLIONAIRE'S
503
00:28:29,641 --> 00:28:31,575
MEGAYACHT TODAY.
504
00:28:31,777 --> 00:28:33,911
Wade: EXPERTS BELIEVE
THAT CALIGULA HOSTED
505
00:28:33,979 --> 00:28:36,847
HIS INFAMOUS PARTIES
AND ORGIES ON BOARD.
506
00:28:38,784 --> 00:28:42,753
HE HAD HIS SHIP BASICALLY
BUILT FOR HIS WANTS,
507
00:28:42,855 --> 00:28:44,121
DESIRES, NEEDS,
508
00:28:44,256 --> 00:28:48,191
AND THEY WERE BUILT
IN THE MOST ADVANCED FASHION
509
00:28:48,260 --> 00:28:49,560
OF THE DAY.
510
00:28:51,130 --> 00:28:54,397
Wade: BUT JUST A YEAR LATER,
CALIGULA WAS MURDERED,
511
00:28:54,466 --> 00:28:57,000
AND HIS STATE-OF-THE-ART
PLEASURE PALACES
512
00:28:57,068 --> 00:28:58,936
ENDED UP
ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE.
513
00:29:01,339 --> 00:29:03,540
BY THE TIME MUSSOLINI'S
TEAM FINDS
514
00:29:03,608 --> 00:29:08,212
THE FIRST TWO, THEY'VE BEEN
UNDERWATER FOR CENTURIES.
515
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,948
EVEN THOUGH THESE SHIPS
WERE 2,000 YEARS OLD,
516
00:29:11,150 --> 00:29:13,817
THEY WERE IN A PRETTY GOOD
STATE OF PRESERVATION.
517
00:29:13,885 --> 00:29:16,086
Wade: BOTH SHIPS AND THEIR
CONTENTS ARE REMOVED FROM
518
00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:20,290
THE LAKE AND DISPLAYED
IN A PURPOSE-BUILT MUSEUM.
519
00:29:20,359 --> 00:29:21,558
BUT THEN...
520
00:29:21,627 --> 00:29:23,193
DISASTER STRIKES.
521
00:29:29,635 --> 00:29:32,035
THE TRAGEDY IS THAT, AT THE END
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR,
522
00:29:32,238 --> 00:29:33,904
THE MUSEUM WAS DESTROYED.
523
00:29:34,106 --> 00:29:35,505
IT WAS EITHER HIT
BY ALLIED ARTILLERY,
524
00:29:35,574 --> 00:29:37,907
OR IT MAY HAVE BEEN
GERMAN ARSON -- WE DON'T KNOW,
525
00:29:37,976 --> 00:29:40,744
BUT THE MUSEUM WAS DESTROYED,
AND WITHIN IT, THE SHIPS.
526
00:29:43,516 --> 00:29:47,584
THEY LASTED
OVER 1,900 YEARS UNDERWATER.
527
00:29:47,653 --> 00:29:48,652
THEY WERE THERE.
528
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:50,120
THEY WERE SAFE,
THEY WERE PRESERVED.
529
00:29:50,189 --> 00:29:52,122
AND THEN THEY WERE
ONLY OPEN TO HUMAN EYES
530
00:29:52,190 --> 00:29:54,925
FOR ANOTHER 20 YEARS
BEFORE THEY WERE DESTROYED.
531
00:29:56,795 --> 00:29:58,462
Wade: IT WAS A HUGE LOSS.
532
00:30:00,866 --> 00:30:04,401
BUT WHAT IF THERE'S A THIRD
EVEN LARGER VESSEL
533
00:30:04,470 --> 00:30:08,672
STILL HIDDEN SAFELY AWAY
BENEATH THE SURFACE?
534
00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:10,941
THERE HAVE BEEN STORIES
ABOUT A SHIP IN
535
00:30:11,009 --> 00:30:12,910
THE WESTERN END
OF THE LAKE FOR YEARS.
536
00:30:15,014 --> 00:30:18,015
Wade: COULD THIS BE WHAT
SNAGGED THE FISHERMAN'S NET?
537
00:30:20,152 --> 00:30:21,951
IT WOULD BE GREAT IF
MUSSOLINI MISSED ONE
538
00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:23,020
SO WE COULD FIND IT TODAY.
539
00:30:25,291 --> 00:30:27,558
Wade: TO INVESTIGATE,
THE ITALIAN AUTHORITIES
540
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,928
COMMISSION A THOROUGH SCIENTIFIC
SEARCH OF THE LAKE BED.
541
00:30:33,499 --> 00:30:35,698
THE TEAM IS USING
SIDE-SCAN SONAR.
542
00:30:35,767 --> 00:30:38,835
SO YOU'RE GETTING A SIDEWAYS
VIEW OF THE FLOOR,
543
00:30:38,904 --> 00:30:42,439
AND THIS CAN GIVE YOU A LOT OF
HEIGHTS AND A LOT OF TEXTURES.
544
00:30:43,576 --> 00:30:46,977
Wade: THE SCANS LOCATE ONE
INTRIGUING POINT OF INTEREST
545
00:30:47,046 --> 00:30:48,946
AROUND 60 FEET DOWN.
546
00:30:50,115 --> 00:30:53,250
THEY FIND SOMETHING, BUT THEY
CAN'T MAKE OUT WHAT IT IS.
547
00:30:53,318 --> 00:30:55,285
SO THEY SEND SCUBA DIVERS OUT
TO FIND OUT.
548
00:30:58,256 --> 00:30:59,989
Wade:
SCRABBLING AROUND IN THE MURK,
549
00:31:00,058 --> 00:31:03,393
ONE OF THE DIVERS COMES ACROSS
SOMETHING SOLID,
550
00:31:03,462 --> 00:31:05,062
BURIED DEEP IN THE SILT.
551
00:31:06,532 --> 00:31:07,997
COULD THIS BE THE LOST
552
00:31:08,066 --> 00:31:11,501
PLEASURE PALACE OF MAD
EMPEROR CALIGULA?
553
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,015
THE WRECKS OF TWO PRICELESS
ROMAN SUPERYACHTS BELONGING TO
554
00:31:26,084 --> 00:31:29,218
CRAZED EMPEROR CALIGULA WERE
TRAGICALLY DESTROYED
555
00:31:29,288 --> 00:31:30,654
IN WORLD WAR II.
556
00:31:32,424 --> 00:31:34,891
BUT COULD THERE BE
ANOTHER ONE HIDDEN
557
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,828
SAFELY AWAY IN THE DEPTHS
OF LAKE NEMI?
558
00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:41,898
IS THERE A THIRD
OR EVEN A FOURTH ROMAN SHIP
559
00:31:41,967 --> 00:31:43,533
HIDING IN THE DEPTHS
OF LAKE NEMI?
560
00:31:46,372 --> 00:31:48,572
Wade: SCIENTISTS HAVE
DISCOVERED AN UNIDENTIFIED
561
00:31:48,774 --> 00:31:50,007
OBJECT ON THE LAKE BED,
562
00:31:52,110 --> 00:31:54,577
BUT DIVERS SOON CONFIRM
THAT IT'S NOT
563
00:31:54,646 --> 00:31:56,813
CALIGULA'S MISSING
PLEASURE PALACE.
564
00:31:57,916 --> 00:32:00,717
IT TURNS OUT TO BE A SMALL
BOAT DATING BACK
565
00:32:00,786 --> 00:32:02,318
TO THE 1920s,
566
00:32:02,387 --> 00:32:05,455
POSSIBLY ONE OF THE BOATS
WHICH MUSSOLINI'S MEN WOULD
567
00:32:05,524 --> 00:32:07,758
HAVE USED TO FIND
THE FIRST TWO SHIPS.
568
00:32:09,527 --> 00:32:12,729
Wade: THE INVESTIGATION IS
FRUSTRATINGLY INCONCLUSIVE,
569
00:32:14,266 --> 00:32:17,734
BUT IN 2018, A REVOLUTIONARY
NEW TECHNOLOGY
570
00:32:17,803 --> 00:32:19,002
BRINGS FRESH HOPE.
571
00:32:20,539 --> 00:32:24,674
A COMPANY HAS USED NEW DATA
ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY TO TAKE
572
00:32:24,743 --> 00:32:28,211
COMMERCIAL SATELLITE FOOTAGE TO
EXAMINE THE PART OF THE LAKE
573
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,180
WHICH WASN'T DRAINED
BY MUSSOLINI.
574
00:32:33,152 --> 00:32:36,152
Wade: BY REINTERPRETING
SATELLITE IMAGE DATA,
575
00:32:36,221 --> 00:32:37,420
THEY CLAIM TO BE ABLE TO
576
00:32:37,489 --> 00:32:40,290
REVEAL OBJECTS THAT
WEREN'T VISIBLE BEFORE.
577
00:32:43,428 --> 00:32:46,229
AND AS THEY SCAN LAKE NEMI
FROM SPACE,
578
00:32:46,298 --> 00:32:48,265
SOMETHING INCREDIBLE
EMERGES --
579
00:32:50,569 --> 00:32:56,173
NOT JUST ONE, BUT AT LEAST
THREE LARGE SHIP-LIKE OBJECTS.
580
00:32:56,241 --> 00:32:58,975
IT'S A TANTALIZING POSSIBILITY
THAT THERE COULD BE
581
00:32:59,044 --> 00:33:01,878
MORE SHIPWRECKS
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE.
582
00:33:03,115 --> 00:33:05,582
IF WE DO FIND
ANOTHER NEMI SHIP,
583
00:33:05,784 --> 00:33:07,317
IT WOULD BE
A LITERAL GOLD MINE
584
00:33:07,519 --> 00:33:09,186
FOR ANYONE WHO STUDIED
THE ROMAN EMPIRE.
585
00:33:10,522 --> 00:33:14,591
UNTIL DIVERS EXPLORE FURTHER,
THE CASE OF CALIGULA'S LOST
586
00:33:14,659 --> 00:33:19,129
SUPERYACHT REMAINS UNSOLVED,
BUT IT SEEMS THAT EVEN AFTER
587
00:33:19,198 --> 00:33:20,730
2,000 YEARS,
588
00:33:20,799 --> 00:33:25,468
LAKE NEMI HAS NOT YET GIVEN
UP ALL OF HER SECRETS.
589
00:33:25,537 --> 00:33:31,141
♪
590
00:33:31,209 --> 00:33:39,883
♪
591
00:33:40,085 --> 00:33:43,086
EXPLORING THE DEPTHS OF
A MURKY GERMAN RIVER,
592
00:33:43,288 --> 00:33:45,789
DIVERS MAKE
AN EXTRAORDINARY FIND --
593
00:33:47,358 --> 00:33:52,028
THE LONG-FORGOTTEN REMNANTS
OF A BRONZE AGE BRIDGE,
594
00:33:52,097 --> 00:33:54,965
AND THE DISCOVERY OF
HUMAN REMAINS NEARBY
595
00:33:55,167 --> 00:33:57,968
RAISES A COLOSSAL QUESTION --
596
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:02,171
COULD THIS BE THE SITE OF
EUROPE'S FIRST MAJOR WAR?
597
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:08,111
♪
598
00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:10,680
THE TOLLENSE RIVER,
NORTHERN GERMANY.
599
00:34:14,053 --> 00:34:16,853
Rondeau: THIS STORY BEGINS WITH
AN AMATEUR ARCHAEOLOGIST
600
00:34:16,922 --> 00:34:20,256
FINDING A HUMAN BONE
601
00:34:20,359 --> 00:34:24,260
WITH A FLINT ARROWHEAD,
WITH A FLINT PROJECTILE POINT
602
00:34:24,329 --> 00:34:26,196
EMBEDDED IN IT,
603
00:34:26,398 --> 00:34:29,665
AND THIS IMMEDIATELY
RAISED QUESTIONS.
604
00:34:29,734 --> 00:34:33,403
Wade: RADIO CARBON DATING
ANALYSIS REVEALS THAT THE BONE
605
00:34:33,605 --> 00:34:36,806
IS A RARE RELIC
FROM THE BRONZE AGE
606
00:34:36,875 --> 00:34:40,010
MORE THAN 3,000 YEARS OLD,
607
00:34:40,078 --> 00:34:41,578
BUT WHO DID IT BELONG TO?
608
00:34:44,216 --> 00:34:48,084
THE ARROWHEAD IS HARD PROOF
THAT THIS IS NO
609
00:34:48,153 --> 00:34:49,519
ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
610
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:52,155
THIS IS DELIBERATE.
611
00:34:52,224 --> 00:34:53,223
THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT.
612
00:34:53,291 --> 00:34:55,025
THIS IS NOT SOMEBODY
BEING HURT.
613
00:34:55,227 --> 00:34:57,494
THIS IS SOMEBODY ENGAGED
IN SOME KIND OF CONFLICT.
614
00:35:00,432 --> 00:35:02,031
Wade:
AS UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGISTS
615
00:35:02,101 --> 00:35:05,668
START TO EXPLORE THE RIVER
AND ITS EXTENSIVE FLOODPLAIN,
616
00:35:05,703 --> 00:35:09,239
A MUCH MORE CHILLING PICTURE
BEGINS TO EMERGE
617
00:35:09,307 --> 00:35:10,540
FROM THE GLOOM.
618
00:35:12,044 --> 00:35:15,912
THEY KEPT EXPANDING THE DIG,
FINDING MORE AND MORE BONES.
619
00:35:18,650 --> 00:35:20,116
THEY WERE
SCATTERED EVERYWHERE.
620
00:35:20,185 --> 00:35:24,487
Wade: THEY SLOWLY PIECE TOGETHER
THE REMAINS OF BODY AFTER BODY
621
00:35:24,589 --> 00:35:29,392
UNTIL THEY HAVE AN UNEXPECTED
ASSEMBLY OF OVER 130 SKELETONS.
622
00:35:33,331 --> 00:35:35,865
THEY'VE ONLY DUG
10 PERCENT OF THE SITE,
623
00:35:35,934 --> 00:35:37,868
AND THEY ALREADY HAVE
HUNDREDS OF BODIES,
624
00:35:38,070 --> 00:35:39,602
SO THE POTENTIAL IS
THERE COULD BE
625
00:35:39,671 --> 00:35:43,039
THOUSANDS OF BODIES
STILL TO BE FOUND.
626
00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:47,877
Wade: IT'S CLEAR THAT
SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER
627
00:35:47,946 --> 00:35:50,213
THAN A FATAL DUEL
TOOK PLACE HERE.
628
00:35:51,617 --> 00:35:54,017
WE START TELLING
A MUCH DARKER STORY.
629
00:35:55,687 --> 00:35:58,488
Wade: CLOSER EXAMINATION OF
THE BONES REVEALS SOME
630
00:35:58,556 --> 00:36:01,558
VITAL CLUES ABOUT
HOW THESE PEOPLE DIED.
631
00:36:03,628 --> 00:36:07,897
THESE BONES ARE BROKEN,
TWISTED, CRACKED, SMACKED.
632
00:36:07,966 --> 00:36:09,832
THEY FOUND NUMEROUS SKULLS,
633
00:36:09,902 --> 00:36:12,168
AND SOME OF THESE SKULLS
HAVE WOUNDS IN THEM
634
00:36:12,237 --> 00:36:13,904
THAT ARE PHENOMENAL,
635
00:36:14,106 --> 00:36:16,373
BASICALLY LIKE TAKING
A BASEBALL BAT
636
00:36:16,441 --> 00:36:17,908
AND CRACKING
SOMEBODY'S HEAD.
637
00:36:18,110 --> 00:36:21,111
Wade: BUT THE BIGGEST
MYSTERY OF ALL REMAINS.
638
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:34,658
IN GERMANY'S TOLLENSE RIVER,
DIVERS DISCOVER
639
00:36:34,726 --> 00:36:38,528
REMAINS OF HUNDREDS
OF BRONZE AGE WARRIORS
640
00:36:38,596 --> 00:36:42,098
KILLED IN BATTLE MORE THAN
3,000 YEARS AGO.
641
00:36:43,268 --> 00:36:46,402
WHAT STARTED WITH ONE FIND,
WITH ONE
642
00:36:46,471 --> 00:36:49,272
HUMAN BONE WITH A STONE
PROJECTILE POINT IN IT,
643
00:36:50,408 --> 00:36:54,344
SNOWBALLED AND ESCALATED
INTO THIS MASS BURIAL SITE.
644
00:36:56,948 --> 00:36:58,281
Wade: THE IMMENSE SCALE OF
645
00:36:58,349 --> 00:37:01,418
THE BATTLE SHOCKS SCIENTISTS
AND HISTORIANS.
646
00:37:03,956 --> 00:37:05,422
IT BECOMES CLEAR
THAT THIS WAS
647
00:37:05,624 --> 00:37:08,358
THE SITE OF A HUGE
BRONZE AGE BATTLE.
648
00:37:09,895 --> 00:37:13,630
IN SOME WAYS, IT WAS
REALLY THE WORLD WAR
649
00:37:13,699 --> 00:37:14,831
OF THE BRONZE AGE.
650
00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:18,702
BEFORE THIS FIND,
THERE HAD BEEN NO KNOWN
651
00:37:18,770 --> 00:37:21,238
CONFLICT OF THIS SIZE
NORTH OF THE ALPS.
652
00:37:23,108 --> 00:37:25,841
Wade: COMPARED WITH MORE
SOPHISTICATED CIVILIZATIONS
653
00:37:25,910 --> 00:37:28,244
IN THE NEAR EAST AND GREECE,
654
00:37:28,313 --> 00:37:31,314
BRONZE AGE EUROPE WAS LONG
BELIEVED TO BE A CULTURAL
655
00:37:31,516 --> 00:37:33,916
BACKWATER WHERE VIOLENCE
WAS RESTRICTED
656
00:37:33,986 --> 00:37:35,585
TO SMALL GROUPS OF MEN.
657
00:37:37,989 --> 00:37:40,523
BUT THE TOLLENSE RIVER
SITE SUGGESTS
658
00:37:40,592 --> 00:37:44,460
A BATTLE INVOLVING
AS MANY AS 4,000 WARRIORS.
659
00:37:44,529 --> 00:37:45,928
THESE ARE MAJOR UNDERTAKINGS.
660
00:37:45,998 --> 00:37:48,465
THIS IS NOT
A RUDIMENTARY SOCIETY
661
00:37:48,533 --> 00:37:49,899
THAT CAN PUT THIS TOGETHER.
662
00:37:53,338 --> 00:37:56,006
IT KIND OF FORCED
RESEARCHERS TO REWRITE
663
00:37:56,208 --> 00:37:57,273
THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF
664
00:37:57,342 --> 00:37:59,476
WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THIS
REGION IN THE BRONZE AGE.
665
00:38:06,551 --> 00:38:09,185
Wade: BUT THE BIGGEST
MYSTERY OF ALL REMAINS.
666
00:38:11,089 --> 00:38:15,624
WHO WERE THESE MEN, AND WHAT
WERE THEY FIGHTING OVER?
667
00:38:15,694 --> 00:38:17,527
THERE OBVIOUSLY WAS
A BATTLE AT TOLLENSE.
668
00:38:19,764 --> 00:38:21,564
THE QUESTION IS,
WHY THERE?
669
00:38:23,435 --> 00:38:25,301
WHY DID ALL THESE WARRIORS
COME FROM
670
00:38:25,370 --> 00:38:28,071
ALL AROUND EUROPE
TO FIGHT IN THIS RIVER?
671
00:38:29,974 --> 00:38:32,509
Wade: COULD A NEW DISCOVERY IN
THE MURKY WATERS OF
672
00:38:32,577 --> 00:38:35,645
THE TOLLENSE RIVER
PROVIDE THE ANSWER?
673
00:38:39,384 --> 00:38:42,919
THEY FOUND, RIGHT BELOW
WHERE THE BODIES WERE,
674
00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,588
LAYER OF BODIES,
LAYER OF BODIES, BRIDGE.
675
00:38:48,126 --> 00:38:51,528
Wade: A SERIES OF OAK PILES
AND POSTS PRESERVED WITHIN
676
00:38:51,730 --> 00:38:53,196
THE TOLLENSE RIVER SEDIMENTS
677
00:38:53,264 --> 00:38:57,267
ARE IDENTIFIED AS THE REMNANTS
OF A BRONZE AGE BRIDGE.
678
00:39:01,072 --> 00:39:04,407
FURTHER EXCAVATION REVEALS
THAT THE BRIDGE SEEMS
679
00:39:04,476 --> 00:39:08,011
TO HAVE BEEN CONNECTED
TO A VAST CAUSEWAY
680
00:39:08,079 --> 00:39:11,748
THAT ONCE SPANNED
THE ENTIRE MARSHY VALLEY,
681
00:39:11,816 --> 00:39:15,385
ALLOWING PEOPLE TO CROSS EVEN
DURING TIMES OF FLOOD.
682
00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:18,154
THIS WAS A VERY
SURPRISING FIND,
683
00:39:18,222 --> 00:39:20,557
BECAUSE THE TRADITIONAL
PERSPECTIVE OF THE BRONZE AGE
684
00:39:20,625 --> 00:39:25,628
IS SMALL FARMING CLANS,
VERY SMALL GROUPS.
685
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:28,832
IF THERE WAS A LONG CAUSEWAY
ACROSS RIVER,
686
00:39:28,900 --> 00:39:31,835
THAT WOULD SUGGEST THAT
THERE WAS A MAJOR
687
00:39:32,037 --> 00:39:33,036
INFRASTRUCTURE GOING ON.
688
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,440
Wade: THIS BRIDGE WAS PROBABLY
THE ONLY CROSSING PLACE OVER
689
00:39:37,642 --> 00:39:40,844
THE TOLLENSE RIVER FOR MANY
MILES AROUND,
690
00:39:40,912 --> 00:39:43,580
WHICH WOULD HAVE MADE IT
A KEY POINT ON AN IMPORTANT
691
00:39:43,782 --> 00:39:45,381
TRADING ROUTE.
692
00:39:45,450 --> 00:39:48,384
THIS WAS CLEARLY
A MAJOR THOROUGHFARE,
693
00:39:48,453 --> 00:39:51,987
A MAJOR TRAVEL ROUTE
FOR PEOPLE WITHIN THAT PART
694
00:39:52,056 --> 00:39:53,189
OF EUROPE.
695
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:54,791
BRIDGE CROSSINGS
ARE VITALLY,
696
00:39:54,993 --> 00:39:57,594
VITALLY IMPORTANT
TO TRANSPORTING GOODS,
697
00:39:57,796 --> 00:39:59,662
LET ALONE ACCESSING
RAW MATERIALS.
698
00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:05,134
Wade: HISTORICALLY, MANY BATTLES
HAVE BEEN FOUGHT AROUND BRIDGES,
699
00:40:05,203 --> 00:40:06,535
FROM THE ROMANS
700
00:40:06,604 --> 00:40:11,474
THROUGH TO WORLD WAR II,
VIETNAM, AND IRAQ.
701
00:40:11,543 --> 00:40:14,543
RIVER CROSSINGS
ARE ALWAYS THESE
702
00:40:14,612 --> 00:40:17,880
KIND OF HIGH-PRIORITY TARGETS,
BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE
703
00:40:17,949 --> 00:40:21,217
A WAY OF MOVING
EITHER PEOPLE OR GOODS.
704
00:40:21,286 --> 00:40:23,886
Wade: EXPERTS AGREE THAT
THE BRIDGE MUST HAVE PLAYED
705
00:40:23,955 --> 00:40:26,889
A VITAL ROLE IN THE BATTLE
OF TOLLENSE,
706
00:40:26,958 --> 00:40:29,759
BUT EXACTLY WHAT
THAT ROLE WAS,
707
00:40:29,961 --> 00:40:31,361
WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE.
708
00:40:33,164 --> 00:40:34,964
MAYBE ONE SIDE
709
00:40:35,033 --> 00:40:38,834
WAS FIGHTING WITH THE OTHER
OVER CONTROL OF THIS BRIDGE.
710
00:40:38,903 --> 00:40:41,904
ANOTHER THEORY IS THAT THERE
COULD HAVE BEEN AN AMBUSH.
711
00:40:42,974 --> 00:40:46,709
GIVEN THE FACT THAT THERE WERE
SO MANY COMBATANTS AND THEY HAD
712
00:40:46,778 --> 00:40:48,778
COME FROM SO FAR AFIELD,
713
00:40:48,846 --> 00:40:50,513
IN MY OPINION,
IT SUGGESTS WHAT WE HAVE
714
00:40:50,582 --> 00:40:53,382
REALLY HERE IS EVIDENCE OF
ONE OF THE FIRST
715
00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:56,252
EXAMPLES IN
THE EARLY BRONZE AGE
716
00:40:56,321 --> 00:40:59,322
OF A LARGE-SCALE WAR.
717
00:41:02,126 --> 00:41:05,261
NOBODY KNOWS FOR SURE
WHY THOUSANDS OF WARRIORS
718
00:41:05,330 --> 00:41:07,931
FOUGHT TO THE DEATH BESIDE
THE TOLLENSE RIVER
719
00:41:08,133 --> 00:41:09,332
ALL THOSE YEARS AGO,
720
00:41:09,401 --> 00:41:13,102
BUT THE INCREDIBLE FINDS
MAKE ONE THING VERY CLEAR --
721
00:41:15,073 --> 00:41:18,073
THE SOLUTIONS TO SOME OF
HUMANITY'S MOST ANCIENT
722
00:41:18,142 --> 00:41:21,210
AND ENDURING MYSTERIES
STILL LIE HIDDEN
723
00:41:21,279 --> 00:41:25,748
IN THE MURKY UNDERWATER REALM,
WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED.
724
00:41:25,816 --> 00:41:31,521
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