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It's been called the holy grail of north american shipwrecks.
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gates: This map could change the entire search?
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Oh, definitely.
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Gates: Oh, my god!
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They have a submarine.
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Looks like we got some debris in the water.
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oh! We got something!
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What is that? Zoom in on this.
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Van heest: That's a straight line.
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That could be the beginning of a debris field.
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what is that? Wow!
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the world's oceans are littered with countless shipwrecks
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that have never been found,
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but the most famous lost wreck in north american history
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isn't missing out at sea.
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It's somewhere in the great lakes.
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Her name -- the griffon.
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the year is 1679,
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and famed french explorer robert de la salle
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has arrived in the new world with a vision --
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to create a massive fur-trading empire
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and to discover a westward sea route to asia.
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He constructs the griffon.
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It is the first true ship to explore the great lakes,
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but less than two months after it launches,
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it vanishes into thin air...
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...Never to be seen again.
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But now a historian has discovered long-lost documents
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and plans to use cutting-edge technology to crack the case,
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and a pair of leading researchers believe
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that a forgotten wreck may turn out to be the historic ship.
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So, what happened to the griffon,
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and where is she now?
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I'm diving into the great lakes' greatest mystery.
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my name is josh gates...
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Look! Ha ha ha!
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...Explorer, adventurer...
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That is it!
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...And a guy who ends up in some very strange situations.
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Uh, uhh! Ah, ahh!
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With a degree in archaeology and a passion for the unexplained,
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I travel to the ends of the earth
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investigating the greatest legends in history.
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Okay, let's punch it.
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This is "expedition unknown."
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-- captions by vitac -- www.Vitac.Com
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captions paid for by discovery communications
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my search for the most legendary lost ship of the great lakes
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brings me to america's front yard.
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Welcome to upstate new york, and I mean way upstate.
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I'm only a few thousand feet from the border of canada,
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and the only thing standing between me
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and our neighbors to the north
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is nearly a million gallons of water a second rushing by.
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niagara falls -- majesty in motion.
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Four of the five great lakes --
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nearly one-fifth of the world's freshwater supply --
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drain over the falls.
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and it's here beneath these surging cascades
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that the story of the griffon begins.
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So, I'm meeting maritime historian joan forsberg
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to get my feet wet.
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Joan. Hi, josh.
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How you doing? I'm good. Nice to meet you!
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I take it we're going for a ride.
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Yes, a wet ride.
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♪
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those of you watching at home may want to grab an umbrella.
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if you've never been here,
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just picture climbing into a washing machine.
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[ laughs ]
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unbelievable!
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Hoo-hoo, hooo!
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come on! [ laughs ]
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now, joan, today, this is a huge tourist attraction.
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What would this place have been like 300, 400 years ago?
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It was pure and wild.
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The only people that were here were the seneca indian tribe.
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It was their land, but in 1678,
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french explorers came right to this spot.
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They were led by the legendary la salle.
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gates: With a name as big as his dreams,
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rene-robert cavelier, sieur de la salle
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is a french ex-priest turned explorer.
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In the 1670s, america is still very much the new world.
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The 13 british colonies have just been established,
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and eastern canada and the american midwest
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are known as new France.
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Giant swaths of the continent have yet to be mapped.
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La salle sets out to change that.
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His dream is to set up a fur-trading empire
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and find the fabled northwest passage,
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a hypothetical east-west sailing route above canada to asia.
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But here in niagara, he hits a major roadblock.
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There was this insurmountable obstacle.
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yeah, coming up against this would be pretty imposing.
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Yes.
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He needed a great ship,
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and he knew he was going to have to build it above the falls.
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Speaking of "above the falls,"
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maybe we should continue this talk there.
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[ laughs ] sounds good.
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joan and I escape the deluge
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and head to high ground above the falls,
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only a few miles from where la salle built his ship.
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Once the griffon is constructed here above the falls,
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where does she sail?
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She was the first ship to traverse lake erie,
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lake huron, and went into lake michigan.
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Wow.
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His ship was a trailblazer.
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Gates: But it's far from smooth sailing.
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between the lakes, the ship has to be manually pulled with ropes
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more than 40 miles up the shallow st. Clair river.
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The men face brutal storms and hostile encounters with tribes
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as they trade furs within their territory.
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These furs were effectively gold, right?
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I mean, they were worth a lot.
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They were.
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the griffon sets sail near niagara falls
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on August 7, 1679.
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After a thousand-mile voyage through lake erie,
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lake huron, and lake michigan,
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la salle and his crew land at rock island
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in what's now green bay, wisconsin,
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where they pick up a shipment of furs.
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La salle stays behind to explore the head of lake michigan
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while his crew sails back to niagara
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to sell the furs and return with supplies.
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And they sail off into lake michigan,
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and where does she go?
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we don't know. That's the mystery.
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That's the mystery.
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♪
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it's been called the holy grail of north american shipwrecks.
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gates: While it's been suggested that the griffon
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could have been attacked by natives
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or even sabotaged by mutinous members of the crew...
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...Most believe that she wrecked in a storm.
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After all, the great lakes are famous
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for unpredictable and deadly weather
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that could have overwhelmed the ship.
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It is the most hunted and the most found shipwreck
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in the great lakes and maybe in the world.
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Gates: Each of the great lakes is a veritable ships graveyard,
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and over the years, countless divers and explorers
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have come forward to claim victory
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in the hunt for the griffon.
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And none of those have panned out?
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Well, not quite.
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there are two claims still out there
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that are really interesting.
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Gates: One serious griffon hunter believes the ship sank
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in the waters of lake huron...
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...While another promising theory
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claims she never made it out of lake michigan.
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So, if I'm gonna find the griffon...
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You have to follow that trail the griffon blazed for you.
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All right. I just got to get back across that river.
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[ laughs ] thank you so much.
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♪
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since lake michigan was where la salle's ship was last seen,
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that's where I'm starting, too.
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My first stop is downriver, in buffalo, new york.
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once a shipping powerhouse and factory town...
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I'd like to solve, please, pat -- "wonder tread."
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[ buzzer ]
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[ ding ]
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[ ding ]
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[ audience groans ] damn!
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...Today, the city is best known for an invention
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that's become an american icon.
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I'm talking about the mighty buffalo wing.
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Mmm.
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[ muffled ] history is delicious.
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Probably subtitle that.
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What that says.
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♪
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I clean my plate, then check out another buffalo legend --
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the site where the griffon was built.
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Today, griffon park is a quiet and unassuming place,
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but more than three centuries ago, this is where la salle
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began construction of the mighty griffon.
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It was a project that seemed almost cursed from the start.
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la salle and his crew began work in January of 1679...
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...Battling wind, snow, and the local seneca tribe,
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who were hostile to a foreigner like la salle
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exploring their homeland.
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By spring, they had miraculously completed construction
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of the griffon, but for modern-day explorers
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searching for the wreckage, there's just one problem --
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nobody can seem to agree on what she looked like.
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scant information exists on the griffon's size,
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weight, and design.
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Some accounts say she was 30 feet long,
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with one mast and square sails.
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Others say a 60-ton three-masted bark.
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Or was she a 40-foot two-master?
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Whatever her construction,
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it's believed that she carried seven cannons
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and that her namesake, the mythical griffon,
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was carved on the bowsprit or stern.
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it's not much information to go on,
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but I'm making the long drive to the last place
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where the griffon was seen -- manistique, michigan --
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to meet brendon baillod,
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founder of the great lakes shipwreck research foundation.
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baillod: Hey, josh!
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Yes? God?
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Up here, josh!
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Brendon!
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Hey, come on up!
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All right, I'm coming up!
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Is there an elevator?
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it turns out there is not.
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[ grunts ]
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okay.
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I made --
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no, there's more stairs. Okay, great.
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here we go. Brendon!
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Hey, josh. How are you, man?
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Good to see you. Good to see you, as well.
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A little winded from the walk up.
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Unbelievable view. It is.
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It's really something.
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gates: All right, here's the little bit that I know.
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The griffon left what's now green bay, wisconsin,
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and she was sailing where?
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She was sailing to the straits of mackinac.
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They're that direction, almost due east from here.
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And, obviously, she never makes it there.
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That's right.
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there's a very detailed historical account
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from la salle himself.
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He wrote a letter exactly a year
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after the griffon was lost in the fall of 1680,
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basically giving the excuse to his creditors
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about why he failed on his first expedition.
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♪
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in this rarely seen letter, la salle states that the ship
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was on its way from what's now green bay
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to its first way point, in st. Ignace, michigan,
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when it was forced to shelter from a storm.
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"some indians called potawatomis who had anchored with them
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on the northern coast tell me
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that two days after the vessel left the island,
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this storm arose."
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♪
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there's only one place where ships can shelter
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between green bay and st. Ignace safely,
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and it's right here.
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This? This bay right here?
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Yes. And it's called seul choix.
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And this is the seul choix lighthouse.
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That's right. Do you know what that means?
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My french is a little rusty, to put it mildly.
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What does it mean? It means "only choice."
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♪
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now I see why you wanted to meet here.
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We're on the north end of the lake.
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We're in a protected area.
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We're literally standing on the only choice,
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the only safe harbor for that ship.
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That's right.
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Gates: But where did the griffon go next?
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Brendon's study of la salle's letters
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may reveal an answer to that question, too.
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"the pilot, believing the wind to be favorable,
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set sail, contrary to their advice.
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The wind increased very much, and after that,
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the bark could not keep a straight course
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but drove obliquely towards some islands
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in the offing called the huron islands."
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doesn't that put us in lake huron?
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Aren't those the islands of lake huron and not michigan?
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First of all, there are no islands called the huron islands
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in lake huron and never were.
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Gates: In fact, on contemporary maps,
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you won't find the huron islands anywhere the griffon sailed.
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This map is from 1690.
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It was drawn here in the new world.
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It was not drawn with secondhand information in paris.
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This is lac du michigane. This is michigan lake?
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This is lake michigan, this is lake huron,
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and if you look up here
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at the top of lake michigan, you're gonna see the islands
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right out there -- the beaver islands,
325
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but on this map, they're called des iles huronnes.
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♪
327
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hot damn. Look at that. The huron islands.
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Just like in la salle's account.
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That's incredible.
330
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This map could change the entire search.
331
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Oh, definitely.
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♪
333
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♪
334
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gates: I'm on the hunt
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for the holy grail of american shipwrecks --
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the griffon, legendary explorer robert de la salle's vessel,
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missing for nearly 400 years.
338
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Now maritime historian brendon baillod
339
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believes he's zeroed in on the ship's location.
340
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On this map, they're called des iles huronnes,
341
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just like in la salle's account.
342
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Hot damn. Look at that. The huron islands.
343
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That's incredible.
344
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This map could change the entire search.
345
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Oh, definitely.
346
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Gates: According to la salle's report,
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the griffon struggled in a storm,
348
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taking on water as it made its way toward the huron islands,
349
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now known as the beaver islands, before it disappeared forever.
350
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This area seems to fit perfectly with la salle's own writing.
351
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So, what have you done about it?
352
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I've been searching for the griffon up here,
353
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and we've established a search grid for the wreck.
354
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It's about a hundred square miles.
355
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Brendon's search grid covers the waters
356
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between the area of the lighthouse
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and the beaver islands.
358
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Between these boundaries,
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he's using historical records and data on water currents
360
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to hone in on the most likely search zone.
361
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And how much of this grid would you say you've searched?
362
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We've only searched about 10% of this grid.
363
00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:11,470
And has anything promising come up so far?
364
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We have one that looks really promising,
365
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and we're pretty excited about it.
366
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It looks a lot like a ship.
367
00:15:16,710 --> 00:15:17,740
Really? Yes.
368
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And have you been down to it yet?
369
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No, we haven't.
370
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But I've got the sonar image.
371
00:15:23,180 --> 00:15:25,350
Whatever it is, it doesn't look natural.
372
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That could be a ship.
373
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You want to go find out?
374
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Hell yeah, I do.
375
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♪
376
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the next morning, we head to the docks
377
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to meet up with brendon's search team.
378
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,270
Morning. Morning.
379
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How are you? Oh, good.
380
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How about yourself? Really well, thanks.
381
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Josh, this is my friend greg busch.
382
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He's an oceanographer. Gates: Terrific.
383
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And I take it this is what we're going out in?
384
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Yeah, what we're taking in.
385
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Then we got a little extra something here.
386
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Okay.
387
00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,520
Okay, boys, bring it in.
388
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♪
389
00:16:00,460 --> 00:16:03,090
our target is more than a hundred feet deep.
390
00:16:03,090 --> 00:16:06,360
Scuba divers can spend very little time at that depth,
391
00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:07,960
and that's why greg brought something
392
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that can handle the strain...
393
00:16:09,830 --> 00:16:11,530
♪
394
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...Otherwise known as pc-1201.
395
00:16:15,570 --> 00:16:17,500
Oh, my god!
396
00:16:17,510 --> 00:16:19,210
They have a submarine.
397
00:16:19,210 --> 00:16:22,640
♪
398
00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:24,980
and it's even painted the right color.
399
00:16:24,980 --> 00:16:26,910
Literally, a yellow submarine.
400
00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:28,880
This state-of-the-art three-person sub
401
00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:30,420
has five thrusters,
402
00:16:30,420 --> 00:16:33,350
underwater-to-surface communications, sonar,
403
00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,960
and is rated to descend down to a thousand feet.
404
00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,430
I mean, all my dreams have come true now.
405
00:16:39,430 --> 00:16:47,230
♪
406
00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,170
so, I've got the coordinates here, greg.
407
00:16:49,170 --> 00:16:50,740
Wreck's in about a hundred feet of water.
408
00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:52,240
About how far out are those coordinates?
409
00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,470
It's about 7.8 miles.
410
00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:57,410
♪
411
00:16:57,410 --> 00:17:00,510
aboard the somerset, we tow the sub to the beaver islands
412
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,620
and brendon's sonar target.
413
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♪
414
00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,490
we're coming up on the target pretty quickly here.
415
00:17:08,490 --> 00:17:10,260
There seems to be a fair amount of current.
416
00:17:10,260 --> 00:17:12,890
Where you'd need to board the submersible quickly
417
00:17:12,890 --> 00:17:14,330
and now submerge.
418
00:17:14,330 --> 00:17:16,500
The waters of lake michigan can be dangerous
419
00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:18,660
on the surface and below.
420
00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:21,630
With strong currents and high winds in the forecast,
421
00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,700
it's imperative that we complete our mission
422
00:17:23,710 --> 00:17:25,570
before the weather turns.
423
00:17:25,570 --> 00:17:27,610
♪
424
00:17:27,610 --> 00:17:29,180
how many people can fit in the submersible?
425
00:17:29,180 --> 00:17:31,110
Three. Three. So, it'll be who?
426
00:17:31,110 --> 00:17:32,480
Me, you, and the camera.
427
00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,380
I'll be monitoring up here from the surface
428
00:17:34,380 --> 00:17:36,080
while you guys go down.
429
00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:39,320
♪
430
00:17:39,320 --> 00:17:40,520
here we go.
431
00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:48,390
♪
432
00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:50,660
okay. A little tight.
433
00:17:50,670 --> 00:17:51,660
Oh!
434
00:17:51,670 --> 00:17:56,300
♪
435
00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:58,970
we squeeze in and stand by for the descent.
436
00:17:58,970 --> 00:18:01,270
♪
437
00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,510
fortunately, I came prepared.
438
00:18:03,510 --> 00:18:07,510
The ocean is filled with many mysteries.
439
00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,280
Greg, there is a bathroom in this, right?
440
00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:10,720
Busch: [ laughs ]
441
00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:11,880
just anywhere?
442
00:18:11,890 --> 00:18:13,890
♪
443
00:18:13,890 --> 00:18:15,860
okay, we're gonna descend.
444
00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:17,160
♪
445
00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,030
roger that. Keep in touch.
446
00:18:19,030 --> 00:18:24,200
♪
447
00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:25,900
okay, we are headed down.
448
00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:34,070
♪
449
00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,780
okay, passing 20 feet.
450
00:18:35,780 --> 00:18:40,950
♪
451
00:18:40,950 --> 00:18:44,920
gates: Because of the strong current, the sub drifts as we drop down.
452
00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,520
Okay, we are passing 50 feet.
453
00:18:47,520 --> 00:18:50,960
♪
454
00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:52,660
looks like 75 feet or so.
455
00:18:54,300 --> 00:18:57,460
♪
456
00:18:57,470 --> 00:18:59,130
I see it. We're coming up on it.
457
00:18:59,130 --> 00:19:03,440
♪
458
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,140
contact. We're down.
459
00:19:05,140 --> 00:19:09,210
♪
460
00:19:09,210 --> 00:19:12,680
we've just touched down, and we're at about 95 feet.
461
00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,080
Roger that. I'll wait to hear from you.
462
00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,920
Spooky down here -- like a moonscape.
463
00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,350
♪
464
00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:23,160
we're not sure how far we've moved off the target,
465
00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:26,290
and these lakes can be a treacherous place to work.
466
00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:28,930
Visibility here could be anywhere from crystal-clear
467
00:19:28,930 --> 00:19:30,300
to pea soup.
468
00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:33,900
And a cold current is pulling us to even deeper waters.
469
00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:36,170
Are you seeing anything on the bottom?
470
00:19:36,170 --> 00:19:38,070
Gates: Nothing, man. It's really desolate.
471
00:19:38,070 --> 00:19:40,270
Just soft sand, a little bit of algae,
472
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but nothing else so far -- not even a rock.
473
00:19:45,510 --> 00:19:49,280
♪
474
00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,980
okay, we're underway here.
475
00:19:50,990 --> 00:19:54,720
Visibility is probably only about five or six feet.
476
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Let's try to shine a little light on things.
477
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♪
478
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:04,900
we are scanning the bottom.
479
00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:06,430
Fortunately, the sub is equipped
480
00:20:06,430 --> 00:20:08,570
with a state-of-the-art sonar system,
481
00:20:08,570 --> 00:20:11,900
so we survey the area to try to rediscover the anomaly
482
00:20:11,910 --> 00:20:14,570
brendon picked up on the surface scans.
483
00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:16,740
♪
484
00:20:16,740 --> 00:20:18,240
anything on the sonar, greg?
485
00:20:18,250 --> 00:20:20,610
No, I'm not really seeing anything there, either.
486
00:20:20,620 --> 00:20:22,850
[ beeping ]
487
00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:27,990
greg, that terrifying-sounding alarm is nothing?
488
00:20:30,460 --> 00:20:31,860
[ beeping continues ]
489
00:20:31,860 --> 00:20:34,190
at what point do you pass out from that?
490
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,660
.5 is the danger level, and we're only at 0.39.
491
00:20:38,670 --> 00:20:40,300
[ beeping continues ]
492
00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:41,330
oh, good.
493
00:20:44,070 --> 00:20:45,240
Copy that.
494
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,840
Brendon, we have a co2 alarm going off in here.
495
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,810
Every time we breathe out, we emit carbon dioxide,
496
00:20:50,810 --> 00:20:52,780
poisoning the air around us.
497
00:20:52,780 --> 00:20:54,450
♪
498
00:20:54,450 --> 00:20:57,520
the co2 scrubber absorbs this noxious gas.
499
00:20:57,520 --> 00:21:01,020
But right now it's got some serious catching up to do.
500
00:21:01,020 --> 00:21:02,560
The clock is ticking.
501
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,820
We think maybe the pellets in that co2 chamber
502
00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:05,990
are packed in too tight.
503
00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:10,500
So we got a tenth of a percent
504
00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:12,670
before folks start blacking out in here.
505
00:21:12,670 --> 00:21:14,670
[ high-pitched tone rings ]
506
00:21:14,670 --> 00:21:19,510
♪
507
00:21:25,910 --> 00:21:29,520
♪
508
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,780
gates: I'm with submarine captain greg busch,
509
00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:33,890
searching for the wreck of the griffon,
510
00:21:33,890 --> 00:21:37,690
the fabled lost ship of explorer robert de la salle.
511
00:21:37,690 --> 00:21:39,530
We're plumbing the depths of lake michigan
512
00:21:39,530 --> 00:21:40,930
near the beaver islands,
513
00:21:40,930 --> 00:21:43,160
where it reportedly sank in a storm.
514
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:44,360
[ beeping ]
515
00:21:44,370 --> 00:21:47,100
brendon, we have a co2 alarm going off in here.
516
00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:50,340
But the sub's carbon dioxide scrubbers are malfunctioning,
517
00:21:50,340 --> 00:21:53,270
and it's getting harder and harder to breathe.
518
00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:57,580
So, we got a tenth of a percent
519
00:21:57,580 --> 00:21:59,650
before folks start blacking out in here.
520
00:21:59,650 --> 00:22:02,680
[ high-pitched tone rings ]
521
00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,750
you doing okay air-wise? Busch: Yeah.
522
00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:06,650
If you get lightheaded or anything, let me know.
523
00:22:06,650 --> 00:22:08,320
[ high-pitched beeping ]
524
00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,890
okay, co2 levels are coming down now.
525
00:22:10,890 --> 00:22:13,160
♪
526
00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,160
.3.
527
00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:15,760
♪
528
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:16,760
.28.
529
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,960
♪
530
00:22:18,970 --> 00:22:21,570
looks like the scrubber's back online. We're good.
531
00:22:21,570 --> 00:22:22,640
Pfffft!
532
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:24,970
Glad to hear.
533
00:22:24,970 --> 00:22:26,110
Okay.
534
00:22:26,110 --> 00:22:27,510
Well, that was fun, greg.
535
00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:28,840
[ chuckles ]
536
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,240
♪
537
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,280
gates: I can finally exhale.
538
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,480
We continue our sonar scan for the wreckage
539
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,120
that might be la salle's legendary lost ship the griffon.
540
00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:41,050
Might be something up ahead.
541
00:22:41,060 --> 00:22:42,420
Greg, you see that? Yep.
542
00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:44,360
Think that's our target, yeah? That's it.
543
00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:48,730
I think we might have our target.
544
00:22:48,730 --> 00:22:50,900
♪
545
00:22:50,900 --> 00:22:53,470
we should be almost on top of it now.
546
00:22:53,470 --> 00:22:55,670
Still nothing.
547
00:22:55,670 --> 00:22:57,370
Damn thing's a ghost.
548
00:22:57,370 --> 00:22:59,340
Oops. I just saw something go by there.
549
00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:00,940
♪
550
00:23:00,940 --> 00:23:02,040
oh! We got wood.
551
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,210
Brendon, we've got some debris in the water.
552
00:23:04,210 --> 00:23:06,580
Looks like we got a piece of wood down here.
553
00:23:06,580 --> 00:23:08,750
♪
554
00:23:08,750 --> 00:23:10,320
can we come around? Sure.
555
00:23:13,190 --> 00:23:15,250
It's partially covered in the sand.
556
00:23:15,260 --> 00:23:16,490
We're just passing over it.
557
00:23:16,490 --> 00:23:19,020
We're gonna see if there's anything else to it.
558
00:23:19,030 --> 00:23:22,290
♪
559
00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:24,130
definitely not a piece of driftwood.
560
00:23:24,130 --> 00:23:26,600
This looks like it was something that was milled.
561
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:28,200
This could be a piece of planking.
562
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:29,600
Trying to turn around here a little bit
563
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,100
to see if there's more of a debris field.
564
00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:32,140
Stand by.
565
00:23:32,140 --> 00:23:34,410
♪
566
00:23:34,410 --> 00:23:36,140
oh! We got something!
567
00:23:36,140 --> 00:23:37,240
♪
568
00:23:37,250 --> 00:23:38,410
what are you seeing?
569
00:23:38,410 --> 00:23:40,550
Just coming around to it. Stand by.
570
00:23:40,550 --> 00:23:42,650
♪
571
00:23:42,650 --> 00:23:44,620
ha ha!
572
00:23:44,620 --> 00:23:46,290
There's rows of planking,
573
00:23:46,290 --> 00:23:48,650
and it looks like there's some ribs sticking up.
574
00:23:48,660 --> 00:23:50,520
♪
575
00:23:50,530 --> 00:23:51,860
this is a wreck, man.
576
00:23:51,860 --> 00:23:54,390
We've got a wreck down here -- confirmed.
577
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,900
♪
578
00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:00,970
gates: But the million-dollar question is,
579
00:24:00,970 --> 00:24:04,040
did we just find the ghost ship of the great lakes?
580
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,870
Is this actually the wreckage of the griffon?
581
00:24:06,870 --> 00:24:09,040
Does the ship look like it's intact?
582
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,740
It's broken up pretty bad.
583
00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:13,080
There's just bits and pieces of it down here.
584
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,820
I can see what looks like 20 or 30 feet of wreckage.
585
00:24:15,820 --> 00:24:18,420
It looks like part of the bottom of the hull.
586
00:24:18,420 --> 00:24:19,720
It's definitely very old.
587
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,390
It's a wooden vessel. This is not a modern ship.
588
00:24:24,030 --> 00:24:26,490
Do you have any idea how big they are?
589
00:24:26,490 --> 00:24:27,890
They're not enormous.
590
00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,630
I mean, they're maybe 12, 18 inches across.
591
00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:34,830
...To see if anything's holding them there?
592
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,940
♪
593
00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:39,270
I see what looks like a bolt headed through there,
594
00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:41,010
fastening that frame on.
595
00:24:41,010 --> 00:24:43,180
It looks like it might be a threaded bolt.
596
00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:44,940
Gates: While nails and other metal fittings
597
00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:47,150
were likely used in its construction,
598
00:24:47,150 --> 00:24:48,480
most experts believe
599
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,720
that the griffon was primarily held together
600
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,090
with large wooden pegs known as treenails.
601
00:24:54,090 --> 00:24:57,760
These threaded bolts suggest that we found a different ship.
602
00:25:00,260 --> 00:25:02,190
...But definitely not the griffon.
603
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,860
♪
604
00:25:03,870 --> 00:25:05,360
gates: Our efforts leave brendon
605
00:25:05,370 --> 00:25:08,000
with a fascinating new wreck to research --
606
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,640
another historic find to add to the log
607
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,010
of previously-lost vessels in the great lakes.
608
00:25:14,010 --> 00:25:15,770
Not a bad day at the office, brendon.
609
00:25:17,550 --> 00:25:18,980
Hey, greg. Nice work, man.
610
00:25:18,980 --> 00:25:20,350
Oh, thank you. [ laughs ]
611
00:25:20,350 --> 00:25:22,450
♪
612
00:25:22,450 --> 00:25:24,680
okay, let's head to the surface. It is cramped down here.
613
00:25:24,690 --> 00:25:27,290
Let's go stretch our legs.
614
00:25:27,290 --> 00:25:29,690
Brendon vows to continue searching the area
615
00:25:29,690 --> 00:25:32,220
around the beaver islands, where he's convinced
616
00:25:32,230 --> 00:25:35,060
la salle's ship will one day be found.
617
00:25:35,060 --> 00:25:38,800
♪
618
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,630
but there are other griffon hunters out there who believe
619
00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:44,240
that the vessel survived the storm in lake michigan
620
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,770
and sailed all the way into lake huron.
621
00:25:46,770 --> 00:25:48,440
♪
622
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,410
do you remember joan from back in niagara falls?
623
00:25:51,410 --> 00:25:53,010
Well, she's a maritime historian,
624
00:25:53,010 --> 00:25:54,380
and so is her husband,
625
00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:55,950
and that's who I'm going to meet.
626
00:25:55,950 --> 00:25:58,320
He believes that wreckage of the legendary vessel
627
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,350
may already have been found.
628
00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:04,420
♪
629
00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:08,060
I leave manistique and drive across michigan and into canada,
630
00:26:08,060 --> 00:26:10,830
where I board a ferry to manitoulin island...
631
00:26:10,830 --> 00:26:11,930
[ ship horn blows ]
632
00:26:11,930 --> 00:26:14,030
...And get a small taste of the conditions
633
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,370
the crew of the griffon might have faced.
634
00:26:16,370 --> 00:26:19,270
[ wind gusting ]
635
00:26:19,270 --> 00:26:22,440
welcome to the beautiful waters of lake huron!
636
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:23,910
♪
637
00:26:23,910 --> 00:26:25,610
it's so peaceful!
638
00:26:25,610 --> 00:26:28,650
♪
639
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:37,090
♪
640
00:26:37,090 --> 00:26:39,120
I reach dry land in one piece
641
00:26:39,130 --> 00:26:41,190
and meet with cris kohl and valerie van heest
642
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,030
at the william purvis maritime museum.
643
00:26:44,030 --> 00:26:46,030
Gates: So, I see a lot of shipwreck stuff.
644
00:26:46,030 --> 00:26:47,570
How many other ships besides the griffon
645
00:26:47,570 --> 00:26:48,800
are unidentified out there?
646
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,540
Anywhere between 4,000 and 5,000, at least.
647
00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:52,910
4,000 to 5,000?
648
00:26:52,910 --> 00:26:54,710
These are dangerous bodies of water.
649
00:26:54,710 --> 00:26:56,480
Wow.
650
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:58,410
Gates: The great lakes were the aquatic highways
651
00:26:58,410 --> 00:27:00,310
of the north american frontier,
652
00:27:00,310 --> 00:27:03,280
but these shipping routes were extremely hazardous.
653
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,750
The sheer size of the lakes allows massive waves to build
654
00:27:06,750 --> 00:27:09,360
and even creates its own weather systems.
655
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,620
Storms come fast and hard.
656
00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:16,300
The largest storm victim was the 729-foot edmund fitzgerald.
657
00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,100
♪
658
00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:20,330
with so many ships littering the bottom,
659
00:27:20,330 --> 00:27:23,240
there have been countless cases of mistaken identity,
660
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,910
but there is one wreck that cris thinks could be the holy grail.
661
00:27:26,910 --> 00:27:29,480
You think there's one potential identity of the griffon
662
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,880
that might hold up?
663
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,540
Yes. In fact, it's right here.
664
00:27:32,550 --> 00:27:34,410
♪
665
00:27:34,420 --> 00:27:35,810
this is wreckage that washed up
666
00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:39,520
on the rocky western shoreline of this island.
667
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,350
A lot of photographs were taken of it.
668
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,890
A lot of documentation was made -- drawings and so on.
669
00:27:43,890 --> 00:27:45,590
And these artifacts here are from that wreck, as well?
670
00:27:45,590 --> 00:27:46,590
Yes.
671
00:27:46,590 --> 00:27:47,790
And so if this is the griffon,
672
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,400
how do you think this ship ended up on this beach?
673
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,430
I believe that ship was
674
00:27:51,430 --> 00:27:52,870
blown through the straits of mackinac
675
00:27:52,870 --> 00:27:55,070
and being driven onto the rocks at a dangerous place
676
00:27:55,070 --> 00:27:57,670
called magnetic reef.
677
00:27:57,670 --> 00:28:00,140
Magnetic reef sounds like a place that a ship would wreck.
678
00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:03,240
Supposedly, the ship's compasses went awry
679
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,710
when they got there because of some iron magnetic anomaly.
680
00:28:06,710 --> 00:28:09,050
♪
681
00:28:09,050 --> 00:28:11,980
gates: In 1679, when the griffon set sail,
682
00:28:11,990 --> 00:28:14,920
this reef likely wasn't marked on any map,
683
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,720
making it deadly to passing ships.
684
00:28:17,730 --> 00:28:19,220
[ thunder rumbles ]
685
00:28:19,230 --> 00:28:21,090
what evidence do we have,
686
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,860
other than some timbers on a beach,
687
00:28:22,860 --> 00:28:24,660
that this could be the griffon?
688
00:28:24,670 --> 00:28:26,230
Well, some pieces of the wreckage
689
00:28:26,230 --> 00:28:30,470
were sent to the scientific lab at the louvre in paris.
690
00:28:30,470 --> 00:28:32,170
The results came back that those items
691
00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:34,970
were definitely made prior to 1725
692
00:28:34,980 --> 00:28:37,840
because they contained such high amounts of phosphorus.
693
00:28:37,850 --> 00:28:38,840
That's compelling.
694
00:28:38,850 --> 00:28:40,180
Well, that's not all.
695
00:28:40,180 --> 00:28:41,980
♪
696
00:28:41,980 --> 00:28:44,150
in the 1890s, the lighthouse keeper,
697
00:28:44,150 --> 00:28:45,780
pretty close to where that wreckage lay,
698
00:28:45,790 --> 00:28:49,390
stumbled upon a cave in which there were three skeletons,
699
00:28:49,390 --> 00:28:51,920
a silver chain, silver watch case,
700
00:28:51,930 --> 00:28:54,960
and several french coins from the 1600s.
701
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,330
And not too long after that,
702
00:28:56,330 --> 00:28:58,600
the lighthouse keeper found three more skeletons,
703
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,270
and that brings the total number of skeletons to six.
704
00:29:01,270 --> 00:29:03,340
Which is the total number of people on the griffon.
705
00:29:03,340 --> 00:29:04,500
Right.
706
00:29:04,510 --> 00:29:06,470
♪
707
00:29:06,470 --> 00:29:07,910
okay, now we're talking.
708
00:29:07,910 --> 00:29:10,080
We've got six bodies, we've got french artifacts,
709
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,140
we've got wreckage from the right time period.
710
00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:14,150
Why isn't this an open-and-shut case, then?
711
00:29:14,150 --> 00:29:17,080
Well, the trouble with that is nothing remains today
712
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,820
as primary evidence of those discoveries.
713
00:29:19,820 --> 00:29:21,590
The skeletons, the artifacts?
714
00:29:21,590 --> 00:29:24,590
It's all now hearsay.
715
00:29:24,590 --> 00:29:28,390
The wreckage that was onshore was swept away in 1940.
716
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,800
The lighthouse burned.
717
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,000
The skeletons were lost.
718
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,370
That is a problem.
719
00:29:33,370 --> 00:29:34,930
♪
720
00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:37,800
gates: What little survived is here in this museum,
721
00:29:37,810 --> 00:29:40,070
and while these artifacts may have come from a ship
722
00:29:40,070 --> 00:29:42,210
of the same time period, there's nothing
723
00:29:42,210 --> 00:29:45,010
that conclusively ties them to the griffon.
724
00:29:45,010 --> 00:29:46,710
So, what would it take to prove this is the griffon?
725
00:29:46,710 --> 00:29:49,410
Something indisputable, such as finding one of the cannons
726
00:29:49,420 --> 00:29:50,920
that was known to have been on board.
727
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,350
If we could find some left-behind artifacts,
728
00:29:53,350 --> 00:29:54,820
that could be the proof.
729
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:56,660
Well, let's go find it.
730
00:29:56,660 --> 00:29:59,320
♪
731
00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:09,540
♪
732
00:30:09,540 --> 00:30:11,840
gates: I'm in search of the legendary griffon,
733
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,310
the lost ship of famed explorer robert de la salle.
734
00:30:15,310 --> 00:30:18,080
Griffon hunters cris kohl and valerie van heest
735
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:19,910
believe that wreckage from the griffon
736
00:30:19,910 --> 00:30:23,280
may have washed up on the shore of manitoulin island in canada
737
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:24,550
centuries ago.
738
00:30:24,550 --> 00:30:26,490
But there's a hitch --
739
00:30:26,490 --> 00:30:28,520
all the evidence has vanished.
740
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,890
It's gone?
741
00:30:29,890 --> 00:30:33,490
The wreckage that was onshore was swept away in 1940.
742
00:30:33,490 --> 00:30:34,930
The lighthouse burned.
743
00:30:34,930 --> 00:30:37,060
The skeletons were lost.
744
00:30:37,060 --> 00:30:38,100
That is a problem.
745
00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,130
♪
746
00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:42,000
so, what would it take to prove this is the griffon?
747
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,700
Something indisputable, such as finding one of the cannons
748
00:30:44,710 --> 00:30:46,210
that was known to have been on board.
749
00:30:46,210 --> 00:30:48,710
If we could find some left-behind artifacts,
750
00:30:48,710 --> 00:30:50,610
that could be the proof.
751
00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:54,180
Well, let's go find it.
752
00:30:54,180 --> 00:30:56,750
[ thunder crashing ]
753
00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:58,720
gates: When the ship believed to be the griffon
754
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,850
sunk after hitting magnetic reef,
755
00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:04,660
only part of the hull and keel washed up onshore.
756
00:31:04,660 --> 00:31:06,090
Cris and valerie believe
757
00:31:06,090 --> 00:31:08,790
proof that the missing wreckage was, in fact, the griffon
758
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,660
could still be laying on the lake bed
759
00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:12,130
at the foot of the reef.
760
00:31:12,130 --> 00:31:14,330
♪
761
00:31:14,340 --> 00:31:17,740
so we head to the nearby docks on manitoulin's west coast,
762
00:31:17,740 --> 00:31:20,410
where I see some familiar faces.
763
00:31:20,410 --> 00:31:21,670
Josh, I believe you know these guys.
764
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,710
Sure do. Dave, what's up, man?
765
00:31:22,710 --> 00:31:23,880
Hi, josh. Good to see you.
766
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,510
Tom, how are you? How are you?
767
00:31:25,510 --> 00:31:27,380
So, the last time I saw these two guys,
768
00:31:27,380 --> 00:31:29,950
we were looking for dorothy's lost ruby slippers
769
00:31:29,950 --> 00:31:31,320
from "the wizard of oz." crossmon: Yes, yeah.
770
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,120
And I was having hot coffee poured onto my face
771
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,560
to prevent my regulator from freezing up.
772
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:37,890
So it's terrible to see you both.
773
00:31:37,890 --> 00:31:39,660
I have nightmares still. [ laughter ]
774
00:31:39,660 --> 00:31:41,060
gates: Tom and dave are masters
775
00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:44,960
of the latest and greatest underwater survey technology.
776
00:31:44,970 --> 00:31:46,600
I take it you guys have brought some cool toys.
777
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,330
We have. We have the marine sonic side scan sonar.
778
00:31:49,340 --> 00:31:51,770
It'll give us a near-photo image of the bottom.
779
00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:54,240
Then we'll grab our remotely-operated vehicle
780
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:55,940
and look at it live on the video.
781
00:31:55,940 --> 00:31:59,140
Gates: The r.O.V. Will give our topside team eyes on the bottom,
782
00:31:59,150 --> 00:32:02,450
allowing us to cover more ground.
783
00:32:02,450 --> 00:32:03,880
Well, shall we rock 'n' roll? Let's do it.
784
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,320
Let's do it. Come on. Here we go.
785
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,720
♪
786
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:11,920
you think of a lake,
787
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:14,930
you think of glassy water, something contained.
788
00:32:14,930 --> 00:32:17,060
I mean, this is like looking out into the ocean.
789
00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:19,100
Van heest: Well, there's a reason the griffon's down there.
790
00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:20,570
The water in the great lakes
791
00:32:20,570 --> 00:32:24,000
can get more treacherous than any area in the ocean,
792
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,840
and this boat is about half the size of the griffon.
793
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,510
That's encouraging. That's...
794
00:32:29,510 --> 00:32:31,210
Way to put it in perspective, val.
795
00:32:31,210 --> 00:32:35,580
♪
796
00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:37,480
gates: We reach the strait, and our little boat
797
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,750
struggles in the choppy water.
798
00:32:39,750 --> 00:32:42,320
In stormy weather, it's entirely possible
799
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,960
that the griffon could have been driven into a well-hidden reef.
800
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,360
Okay. Josh, we've arrived.
801
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,560
That's magnetic reef right ahead of us.
802
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,170
That is something a ship could hit, right there.
803
00:32:53,170 --> 00:32:55,200
♪
804
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,370
gates: To protect ourselves from the dangerous rocks
805
00:32:57,370 --> 00:32:58,940
hidden below that whitecap,
806
00:32:58,940 --> 00:33:00,840
we keep our distance from the reef
807
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,380
as dave deploys our side scanning sonar.
808
00:33:03,380 --> 00:33:05,510
♪
809
00:33:05,510 --> 00:33:08,310
it's got fins, and so it just points like a torpedo
810
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,350
and will follow right behind us.
811
00:33:10,350 --> 00:33:11,950
Okay. Tow, baby, tow. Let's go.
812
00:33:11,950 --> 00:33:13,490
♪
813
00:33:13,490 --> 00:33:14,990
we begin circling the reef.
814
00:33:14,990 --> 00:33:17,390
We call it mowing the lawn, 'cause you go back and forth
815
00:33:17,390 --> 00:33:18,860
through your search area.
816
00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:22,490
The sonar unit sends out pulses of sound waves called pings
817
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,300
and then listens for the echo to measure distance
818
00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:28,330
and to build a picture of whatever lies in the depths.
819
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:30,270
So, basically, the boat here is the center line,
820
00:33:30,270 --> 00:33:31,500
and this is the water column here.
821
00:33:31,510 --> 00:33:32,600
This is the bottom. Yep.
822
00:33:32,610 --> 00:33:34,640
So far, this looks pretty featureless.
823
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:36,840
Typically, what's the bottom profile here?
824
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,950
Mostly sandy bottom with the occasional log or rock.
825
00:33:40,950 --> 00:33:43,150
What we're looking for is any anomaly,
826
00:33:43,150 --> 00:33:44,450
maybe with straight lines,
827
00:33:44,450 --> 00:33:46,850
which would suggest height off the bottom.
828
00:33:46,850 --> 00:33:48,990
Nature does not make straight lines very well.
829
00:33:48,990 --> 00:33:52,020
♪
830
00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:53,660
okay, we got together a target there.
831
00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:55,960
Zoom in on this.
832
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,000
What is this?
833
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,500
♪
834
00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:00,970
that's a straight line. And there's shadow.
835
00:34:00,970 --> 00:34:02,330
There's some height there.
836
00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:04,000
That could be man-made, yes?
837
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,370
Possibly. It's straight enough.
838
00:34:05,370 --> 00:34:07,310
Yeah, doesn't look natural. Doesn't look like a rock.
839
00:34:07,310 --> 00:34:08,570
We're right on the edge of the reef.
840
00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:10,280
That could be the beginning of a debris field.
841
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,510
Absolutely.
842
00:34:11,510 --> 00:34:13,510
Want to get wet? Let's do it.
843
00:34:13,510 --> 00:34:23,190
♪
844
00:34:27,130 --> 00:34:29,930
♪
845
00:34:29,930 --> 00:34:32,330
r.O.V. Is in the water.
846
00:34:32,330 --> 00:34:35,200
Gates: The r.O.V. Will give cris eyes on what we're seeing --
847
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,840
and on what we can't.
848
00:34:40,210 --> 00:34:42,470
We are seeing you on the r.O.V.
849
00:34:48,020 --> 00:34:53,050
♪
850
00:34:56,090 --> 00:34:57,490
can you see anything?
851
00:35:02,330 --> 00:35:04,160
Gates: We search for the sonar target,
852
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,100
but the choppy waters have stirred up silt from the bottom,
853
00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:09,730
and visibility is just a few feet.
854
00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:13,110
♪
855
00:35:14,980 --> 00:35:16,940
♪
856
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,850
wonderful-looking timbers.
857
00:35:30,190 --> 00:35:34,230
♪
858
00:35:40,330 --> 00:35:41,930
what is that? Wow!
859
00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:43,340
♪
860
00:35:44,970 --> 00:35:47,470
♪
861
00:35:53,910 --> 00:35:58,820
♪
862
00:35:58,820 --> 00:36:02,290
okay, here we go -- headed to canada.
863
00:36:02,290 --> 00:36:05,520
Gates: Moving a film crew and equipment across international borders
864
00:36:05,530 --> 00:36:07,560
can be a total nightmare.
865
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:08,760
Your fate is in the hands
866
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,700
of whoever is manning the checkpoint.
867
00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:12,900
Hi, there, officer.
868
00:36:14,370 --> 00:36:16,100
Yep.
869
00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:17,640
Here you go.
870
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,070
We have a lot of equipment. We're a film crew.
871
00:36:21,070 --> 00:36:22,840
We're going to manitoulin island.
872
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,050
I am searching for the legendary remains
873
00:36:27,050 --> 00:36:29,050
of a famous french shipwreck called the griffon.
874
00:36:29,050 --> 00:36:30,680
♪
875
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,320
you don't happen to know where it is, do you?
876
00:36:32,820 --> 00:36:34,750
[ laughs ] all right.
877
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,020
That would have made things really easy. [ laughs ]
878
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:39,790
thank you very much.
879
00:36:39,790 --> 00:36:40,990
Have a great day.
880
00:36:40,990 --> 00:36:43,260
♪
881
00:36:43,260 --> 00:36:45,500
canadians are so nice.
882
00:36:51,910 --> 00:36:56,780
♪
883
00:36:56,780 --> 00:36:58,180
gates: I'm on a quest to find
884
00:36:58,180 --> 00:37:00,450
the holy grail of american shipwrecks --
885
00:37:00,450 --> 00:37:02,750
the griffon, the legendary lost vessel
886
00:37:02,750 --> 00:37:05,280
of explorer robert de la salle.
887
00:37:05,290 --> 00:37:07,790
Historians cris kohl and valerie van heest
888
00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:10,090
are convinced that it sank just off the coast
889
00:37:10,090 --> 00:37:12,260
of manitoulin island in canada
890
00:37:12,260 --> 00:37:15,090
after hitting treacherous magnetic reef.
891
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:16,390
♪
892
00:37:20,970 --> 00:37:23,030
what is that? Wow!
893
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:29,170
♪
894
00:38:01,510 --> 00:38:04,680
♪
895
00:38:10,020 --> 00:38:12,380
it's roughly the right size to be the griffon,
896
00:38:12,390 --> 00:38:15,220
but we still don't have our smoking gun.
897
00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:24,800
♪
898
00:38:30,300 --> 00:38:34,640
♪
899
00:38:37,580 --> 00:38:39,080
♪
900
00:38:46,620 --> 00:38:50,920
this vessel is massive -- more than a hundred feet.
901
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,390
So large, it can't possibly be part of the same wreck.
902
00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:05,100
♪
903
00:39:13,980 --> 00:39:15,850
♪
904
00:39:31,130 --> 00:39:33,370
it's a truly puzzling find.
905
00:39:33,370 --> 00:39:35,870
Valerie and I finish surveying the wreckage,
906
00:39:35,870 --> 00:39:39,200
then head topside to decipher what we've seen.
907
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:45,240
♪
908
00:39:45,250 --> 00:39:47,680
oh! Incredible!
909
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,450
Not one shipwreck, but two!
910
00:39:50,450 --> 00:39:52,380
One seemed to be a schooner. Uh-huh.
911
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:53,790
And the other, with the machinery,
912
00:39:53,790 --> 00:39:56,120
might have been a steamship.
913
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,960
Once I saw the machinery on the second ship, it was over.
914
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,330
Definitely not old enough to be the griffon.
915
00:40:02,330 --> 00:40:05,960
It has the characteristics of the mid- to late-1800s.
916
00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:07,830
Wow!
917
00:40:07,830 --> 00:40:09,470
So, what do you think, cris?
918
00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:12,300
Well, we know there were at least four wrecks
919
00:40:12,310 --> 00:40:16,110
here at magnetic reef in the late 1800s, early 1900s.
920
00:40:16,110 --> 00:40:17,140
But those ships have not been
921
00:40:17,140 --> 00:40:18,410
officially identified out here?
922
00:40:18,410 --> 00:40:19,410
No, they haven't.
923
00:40:19,410 --> 00:40:21,210
Wow. New discovery, josh.
924
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:22,750
New discovery. Really cool.
925
00:40:22,750 --> 00:40:24,380
Awesome. Great work.
926
00:40:24,380 --> 00:40:25,680
Hey. Nice work, man.
927
00:40:25,690 --> 00:40:27,020
Kohl: Great work, yeah. That was great.
928
00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:31,360
Well, two more shipwrecks down and about 6,000 to go.
929
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,190
[ laughs ]
930
00:40:33,190 --> 00:40:35,630
gates: With the sun setting, we head back to shore...
931
00:40:35,630 --> 00:40:37,730
♪
932
00:40:37,730 --> 00:40:39,760
...To pore over maritime archives
933
00:40:39,770 --> 00:40:42,370
and investigate the mystery wrecks.
934
00:40:42,370 --> 00:40:46,470
What we discover is nothing short of historic.
935
00:40:46,470 --> 00:40:48,510
On November 10, 1890,
936
00:40:48,510 --> 00:40:51,840
the steam barge bruno was towing the schooner louisa
937
00:40:51,850 --> 00:40:54,980
when they struck a reef and sank.
938
00:40:54,980 --> 00:40:58,850
Miraculously, the crew survived, but the vessels were lost --
939
00:40:58,850 --> 00:41:00,620
until today.
940
00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:03,220
♪
941
00:41:03,220 --> 00:41:06,020
thanks to the efforts of folks like cris and valerie,
942
00:41:06,030 --> 00:41:09,330
we're filling in the blank pages of maritime history --
943
00:41:09,330 --> 00:41:11,530
the story of two missing ships
944
00:41:11,530 --> 00:41:14,870
emerging from the depths after more than a century.
945
00:41:14,870 --> 00:41:16,840
♪
946
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,840
after traversing the great lakes,
947
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:20,970
from majestic niagara falls
948
00:41:20,970 --> 00:41:24,680
to the depths of lake michigan to remote manitoulin island,
949
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:26,280
I can't help but be awed
950
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,080
by the daring mission la salle undertook...
951
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,720
♪
952
00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:32,150
...A true expedition
953
00:41:32,150 --> 00:41:35,090
into the then-unknown american wilderness.
954
00:41:35,090 --> 00:41:37,260
♪
955
00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:39,320
to this day, the legend of the griffon
956
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:44,400
fuels historic finds beneath the waters of the great lakes.
957
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,600
And while she never reached her destination,
958
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,300
she continues to sail on
959
00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:51,140
to the far shores of the imagination,
960
00:41:51,140 --> 00:41:54,470
the place where the greatest stories live forever.
961
00:41:54,470 --> 00:41:58,710
♪
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