All language subtitles for The Lost U-Boats of WWII S01E03 1080p WEB h264-EDITH_track3_[eng]

-Oh, my God.
-What is it?

Your hands are shaking.
-I know. Look at it.

-Oh, get the hell
out of here.

That's a Nazi swastika.

-In 1981, Darrell Miklos
and his father,

legendary treasure hunter
Roger Miklos,

obtained classified blueprints
of modified Nazi U-boats --

submarines allegedly altered
to move some of the billions

in gold and priceless artifacts
looted by Hitler

out of Germany.

-My father searched for these
U-boats until the day he died.

But I have something
that he didn't.

A chart by a former
U.S. Navy pilot,

and it shows the location
of not one, not two,

but seven possible U-boats
located near the Dominican.

-Armed with this naval chart...

-That's priority target
number one.

-...Darrell has assembled a team
of divers and experts

to pursue his father's dream.

-I'm looking for answers.

Can this chart lead us
to modified U-boats?

Were they carrying
valuable treasure and secrets?

Where were they headed, and why?

♪

[ Sonar pinging ]

♪

-Let me turn the air off
for transport.

[ Air hissing ]

-Nearly two weeks
into his month-long search,

treasure hunter Darrell Miklos
and his team

return to the remains
of a pier in Monticristi...

[ Sonar pinging ]

...one allegedly used to refuel
and provision Nazi U-boats.

-Got it?

-While diving in this same area
last week,

Darrell and expert diver
Steve Bender salvaged

a number of World War II-era
German artifacts...

...most notably,
shards of porcelain

bearing the insignia
of the Germany's air force,

the Luftwaffe.

-So, if we get down
on the buoy line,

I think the drop zone
is almost right on it.

-Darrell is hopeful the site

could provide
additional insights

in their hunt
for possible Nazi treasure.

-Time to go diving.

We really need to cover every
inch of this old dock for clues.

It's very possible that
we find something here

that could help lead us
to one of those treasure subs.

Was the plate
just a one-off find,

or are there more objects
hidden here?

Personally, I don't think
this place

has given up
all its secrets yet.

-Darrell and Steve want to sweep
as much of the area as possible

with their handheld
metal detector.

[ Metal detector squealing ]

-When we dive
on the chart locations,

we're looking
for a giant object,

hopefully a U-boat.

Here at the pier,
it's just the opposite.

We're looking for something
much smaller,

artifacts that we hope
were left behind by a U-boat.

Maybe there's something here
that can help us figure out

what the subs were actually
doing here.

[ Metal detector squealing ]

We're getting tons of hits
on the metal detector

because of all the nails
they used to build this pier.

It's really hard to determine
which one of these hits...

...might be that actual clue.

♪

-After getting a hit
on their metal detector...

[ Metal detector squealing ]

...Darrell and Steve battle
the turtle grass and sand

to locate the anomaly.

♪

The divers return to the boat

to show their finds to team
archeologist Garth Baldwin.

♪

♪

The team wants to learn
what the object is

and whether it possibly came
from a U-boat.

Is it something
that could establish

that Nazi submariners were
in the water around the pier?

This find might help them
make a connection

to the U-boats
they're looking for.

-We have a couple of pins.

These are just really nothing.

But this piece here --

I want to clean this here

and find out
what this may have been.

It's either maybe
a shaving tool,

but it's the only one
that stands out

completely different
than the rest.

-It's a different metal.

-Yeah, and it's --
I think it's pewter.

Check that out.
I think it's pewter.

-I'd buy that.

You got something
to clean it off?

-Yeah, well, that's exactly
what I was gonna do.

-Probably use that heavy brush.

-So, I'm gonna put this
in the vinegar.

Let's give it a little
polishing here.

-Hopefully it's got something
like the plate on it

that's just --

even a maker's brand
or something.

-Dude, there is something
on here.

♪

[ Gasps ]

-What is it?

-You guys are gonna freak.

-Your hands are shaking.
-I know. Look at it.

-Oh, get the hell out of here.
-[ Laughs ]

That's a Nazi swastika.

-Oh, my goodness.

Come on.
-Wow.

-That's exactly what that is.

-Look how clear it is.
-Oh, wow.

-I'm -- I'm still shaking.
This is like...

-[ Chuckles ]
What do you think that is?

-It's a kitchen knife.
-Oh.

-If this artifact came
from a Nazi submarine,

it could be a significant clue.

-Oh, my God.

That's better than
anything we found,

that right there.
-No, no, that's it.

No. That's it.

-I just can't get over this.

I can't even speak right now,
I'm so excited.

-Oh, my God.

♪

♪

-Later that same day,

Garth meets with renowned
wreck diver Bill Palmer.

Palmer gained notoriety in 1972

when he became one of the first
recreational divers

to explore U-boat 853

just off the coast
of Rhode Island.

The submarine
was reportedly sunk

just days before the Germans
surrendered in 1945.

Over his career, he has
collected and studied

over 100 U-boat-related
artifacts.

Following a previous Zoom call,

the team asked Palmer
to come to Monticristi

to help their investigation.

-We've got something to show
you that we brought in.

This is something, okay?

This is something
I got to show you.

Okay, so, this is --

this is the latest find
right there.

-Wow.

-I mean, I thought butter knife,
but you tell me.

-I mean, that's what I would
be led to believe.

You can see the swastika
clearly.

They used the swastika,
to me, as propaganda...

-Mm-hmm.
-...as well as a proofmark.

Because everything
had swastikas on it.

And you can also see that
beneath the swastika,

there is an "M,"
which stands for "Marine."

This is definitely Kriegsmarine
because of the "M."

-Mm-hmm.

-Before the Nazis took power,

the German navy was known
as the Reichsmarine,

or "imperial navy."

It was associated
with the Weimar Republic,

a democratic German government
that existed between World War I

and the rise of Nazi Germany.

Hitler changed the name
to Kriegsmarine, or "war navy,"

reflecting the shift in focus
from a peacetime naval force

to one prepared for war
and expansion,

in line with Hitler's ambitions
for territorial conquest

and the pursuit of a more
powerful German military.

-But the one thing
that absolutely,

positively certain of
is that it's -- it's Nazi

and it's the naval service,
Kriegsmarine.

-Oh, yeah, absolutely,
unlike the plate that was found.

The plate was probably
Luftwaffe.

So, this -- this could very well
have come from a U-boat.

-Really?

♪

-This -- This could very well
have come from a U-boat.

-While meeting
with Garth Baldwin

at the team's base camp
in Monticristi,

U-boat expert Bill Palmer
shares his assessment

that the recovered knife
may be from a German U-boat.

-Look at this.
There's a manufacturer's name

or initial on this handle --
GC&L and the date, '42.

So, '42 is when the U-boats
came to America.

It was, if I'm pronouncing
it correctly,

Operation Paukenschlag,

or the English translation
is "Operation Drumbeat."

That's when they virtually
roamed up and down our coast

with no interference.

-In January 1942, over two years
into the Second World War,

five Type IX German U-boats
launched an offensive

on the Eastern Coast
of North America

under orders from U-boat
commander Karl Doenitz.

The mission of the offensive,
nicknamed Operation Drumbeat,

was to sink American merchant
vessels heading to England.

It was a great success
for Germany.

In just nine months,

the U-boats sank 609 ships,

accounting for roughly
one quarter of all ships sunk

by submarines
during World War II.

-See, as I understand it,
if Karl Doenitz had had his way,

he would have sent 15 boats.

But Hitler had told him, "No."

Well, even then, at one point,

those boats had sunk
so much cargo

and so many oil tankers
and so much bauxite

that the English were five days
from running out of oil.

-Had Hitler given
Admiral Doenitz

the boats that he wanted,

it's very possible --
I mean very possible --

that England would have
folded in '42.

-Because this German Navy knife
is dated to 1942,

three years before
the end of the war,

it is unlikely that it came off
one of the modified U-boats

the team is searching for.

-So, it's Nazi,
and it's the naval service.

-Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
-Kriegsmarine.

-I think you're on to something.
Keep looking.

If you don't look,
you're not gonna find.

So, man, keep going.

♪

-Later that night,

Garth rejoins
Darrell and Steve at base camp

to plot out
the team's next moves.

-Let's kind of recap
what we've got here.

-With a clear window of weather
in the forecast,

Darrell wants to return
to his prime objective --

to dive the remaining targets
marked on the 1948 naval chart.

-So, right now, I kind of
want to just go over

where we've been.
We got target two.

Most likely a sunken merchant
ship from the early '40s.

What exactly happened
to the boat, I don't know.

-Catastrophic damage.
We know that.

-Completely.

Then we've got target
number four out here.

Found the gun.

So, that's pretty amazing.

I mean, trust me,
we're not done with four.

There's so much more
to do out there.

-Of the seven targets listed,

the team has effectively
eliminated target two,

leaving six sites
where magnetometer scans

have corroborated
possible metal targets

that could be U-boats
or U-boat wreckage.

-So, you know, this gets --
this gets me thinking

because I'm trying to figure out
what we're gonna do next.

-I say four.
I say four.

You got the biggest
mag hit there.

We have material there.

-Yeah.
-We've got a handgun.

We've got a very large
signature that's there.

We just touched the surface
on that.

We need to devote
more time to that

and clearly figure out
what we're looking at there.

-Target four is no doubt
the most promising,

but it's proven to be one of
the trickiest dive sites so far.

It's in a sweet spot for wind
gusts and fast currents,

and we know from experience

how fast the weather
changes out there.

We're already
hearing predictions

that hurricane season could be
here in less than three weeks.

My biggest fear would be we end
up spending all our time

at one spot,
only to find nothing.

But I'm not gonna disagree
with logic.

I like it.
Let's go there.

Target four, guys, alright?

-Alright.
-Let's do it.

♪

♪♪

-The next morning,

Darrell and his team head
eight miles west of Monticristi

to target four.

-Which marker are you
going to first?

-We're gonna hit
the yellow one first.

Target four still remains
our top priority.

We've already found
a German gun there.

But as the site
with the biggest mag hit,

we could find something
really big here.

Is it a treasure sub?

Well, there's only one way
to find out.

♪

-As Darrell and expert diver
Steve Bender explore below,

archeologist Garth Baldwin
oversees the operation topside.

-We've had some pretty
harsh conditions

that have chased us off
target four in the past,

so my job today is about
watching out for the guys

and making sure
they get what they need,

but it's keeping an eye
on weather conditions up here

in case they get bad.

-Darrell and Steve look
for any sign of the anomaly,

which, according to
the magnetometer data,

could be as much
as 180 feet long.

This is consistent with the size
of the modified U-boats

depicted in blueprints
that Darrell and his father,

Roger Miklos,
acquired in 1983.

Unfortunately for the team,
their visibility is mere feet,

thanks to previous days of rain

and heavy gusts that have
stirred up sand and silt.

It means that spotting
their target by sight,

even one as large as
the magnetometer anomaly,

could be near impossible.

-I see your surface bubbles.

You're slightly north and east
of the floating marker.

The mag is gonna get us
within 100 yards.

They're gonna --
It's gonna put you within about

a football field of the target,

but that's
a football field squared...

in the fog.

♪

-While diving off he coast
of Monticristi, Darrell Miklos

and his team battle
harsh visibility conditions

as they search target four,
one of the possible locations

of a modified U-boat theorized
to be transporting treasure.

After spending nearly
a half an hour of searching

without any sign
of the large anomaly

surveyed by the magnetometer,

Darrell calls off today's dive.

-It's so soul-crushing
to continually struggle

to find the source
of our hit at this target.

It's so murky, we could swim
five feet from a U-boat

and totally miss it.

Even with the silt
blinding our dive,

we've covered a ton of ground
at this site.

I feel like we should have found
the source of the hit by now.

Every failed dive is a day
ripped from our calendar.

[ Sighs ] Nothing.

When you don't make progress,

things begin
to get away from you.

-That's tough.
-It's [bleep] up.

-Yeah.
-This could mean not getting

to one of the other
targets this season.

♪♪

♪

-With hurricane season
approaching rapidly,

time is running out,
and Darrell feels the pressure,

fearing that his dream
may be slipping away.

-So, you know, target four,
my favorite target of all...

[ Stammers ]

Weather's been working
against us, and it's --

it's very frustrating because
it's one of my favorite targets,

because the magnetometer
reading on that

is larger than anything
that I've ever seen.

That's why I keep wanting
to stay at target four.

This is something
that my dad would have done.

He would have never let go.

My father and I started
this together.

He didn't get to finish it,

so it raises the stakes
for me personally.

I need to see this through --
for him and for me.

We've come up with
enough targets so far

that have proven to me

that there's something
bigger out there.

And I-I truly believe
that I have the right crew.

I've got the right information.

We've already come up
with a ton of evidence.

And I just -- I don't want
to let myself down

because this is allowing me
to forge a new path

and prove to my dad that I was
the one who forged through

until we made this a success.

You know, this is my project.

This is my time.

I'm not getting any younger.

Time is always working
against us,

and I want
to make this happen.

But I want to make it
happen now.

♪

♪

-The next morning,

Darrell heads
into the town of Monticristi

to search for leads by speaking
with a few local fishermen.

-Every time my dad landed
at a new location,

he would always check in
with the local fishermen.

As a treasure hunter,
you quickly learn

that they know the local waters
better than any chart or guide.

So, I got a tip here that
a bunch of fishermen

have all been talking about
getting hung up

in the same place,
which is not unusual.

Some of the best fishing holes
are shipwrecks,

which basically turned into
an artificial reef over time.

There's actually been a
U-boat wreck that was discovered

because fishermen
found them first.

-In 1991, local deep-sea
fishermen noticed concentrated

fish activity 60 miles
off the coast of New Jersey.

Suspecting a shipwreck,
they alerted Captain Bill Nagle,

who ferried a team
of scuba divers to the spot.

Diving down 230 feet,

they discovered more than
they bargained for --

a World War II-era
German U-boat.

Later, historians would
identify the ship as U-869,

which, due to faulty intel,

was previously recorded as being
sunk in 1945 off Gibraltar,

nearly 6,000 miles away.

For wreck divers,
this discovery highlights

how important local fishermen
are as a resource.

-Uh-huh.

These guys are all telling
a very similar story.

Their lines occasionally snag
between the island

and the peninsula
that form the bay.

El Zapato is a unique
shoe-shaped rock

at the tip of the bay,

so that helps us really zone
in on our location.

Coincidentally, we just happen
to have a U-boat marked

on our original 1948 chart

that's not too far
from this location.

If there's some sort of
connection between the two,

that would be incredible.

What I started looking for
was more details on target four.

What I got was something
that matched target three.

♪♪

♪

After meeting
with local fishermen,

Darrell shares his findings
with the rest of the team.

-So, I took a walk today,

and I just happened to walk and
talk to several local fishermen.

And I asked them,
"When you guys go out fishing,

you throw your nets out there,

do they ever get caught
on anything unusual?"

Every single one of them pointed
to this area right there.

-That's target three
right there.

We've got mag data there, right?
-That's right.

-The fact that the suspected
wreck seems to line up

with target three makes
the location hard to ignore.

It raises the possibility
that this target may be

one of the modified U-boats
they're searching for.

-How many shipwrecks
have been found

by local fishermen
getting caught in nets?

If everybody's telling me

to go there that's local
in the area, why not?

-I hate to walk away
from target four,

but I need a break.

Let's -- Let's dive three.

-So, target three it is, okay?

-As a new day begins,

Darrell Miklos and his team head
five miles away from Monticristi

to the site
known as target three.

-I'm pretty excited about this.
-Nice.

-But this is a pretty
important site for us.

-You happy with the conditions?
-Very happy.

I'm -- I'm absolutely surprised.

Hey, somebody's on our side
today, so I'm really excited.

This is a good one,
and let's make this one count.

Okay, bro?
-Yeah, man.

-Alright.
-Come on.

-With the weather forecast
showing promise,

they're eager to see
if this deep-water target

could be a piece of one
of the modified U-boats

believed to be carrying
treasure.

♪

♪

Using their anchor line
as a starting point,

Darrell and Steve begin
to search the ocean floor

for any signs of a vessel
or important clues.

-We dropped our anchor directly
at the center of our mag hit.

This is where we'll
start our search.

-While not as severe as their
previous dive at target four,

the team once again
battles poor visibility.

To help their search,
Darrell uses a metal detector

to comb the ocean floor
for buried clues.

-Every dive, we're looking
for the same basic things.

We've got blueprints
showing these modified U-boats

had very unique features we can
use to identify them with --

jump wire, deck guns,

and cannons
by the conning tower.

But we're also keeping an eye
out for a debris trail.

Sure, it would be nice to swim
up to a U-boat

and -- bam! -- we're done,
but it's more likely

we're going to find a trail
of smaller artifacts,

like the kind that
gets snagged in the reefs.

The hope is these little clues
will lead us to the big find.

♪♪

♪

-Having found an artifact
so seemingly fragile,

Dave and Steve return topside
so that Garth can examine it.

-Hey.
What you got?

-Not sure what that is,
but there's writing on there.

Be careful 'cause that --
-Oh, it's coming apart.

-Yep.
-They're batteries.

Batteries, Siemens, the German
company that makes batteries

and the communication devices,
things like that,

probably a disposable
kind of thing, like a --

-There's another insignia
right there.

-That's the --
Yeah, that's the same sign.

-Yeah.
-Yeah. Siemens and Halske.

-But that thing's not gonna
last very long.

-No.
We got to put this somewhere.

Yeah.

I have to get it
out of this wind.

-Yep.

-While Garth inspects
the battery,

Darrell and Steve resume
their dive on target three.

-As ocean currents pick up,

Darrell and Steve face
an added challenge.

-When it comes to diving wrecks,

ocean currents
are just part of the game,

but it makes our job finding
these U-boats a lot harder.

Not only does it kick up
the sand and sediment

so we can't see very far,
we're also having to swim

twice as hard to cover
the same amount of ground.

-What are you looking at?

What are you screaming at
down there?

Six- or seven-inch links?

A chain that size is --

You know, you're talking
about links that are this big.

♪

♪

♪

-While diving off the coast
of Monticristi at target three,

Darrell and Steve
make a huge discovery.

Although this towing mechanism
is likely too small

to be the source
of the magnetometer hit,

it could still be
an important clue.

Darrell is looking for
any evidence

that could provide a connection

between this towing mechanism
and treasure subs.

Excited by their discovery,

Darrell and Steve
return topside

to report their findings
to Garth.

-Whew! How about that, huh?

-That was pretty [bleep] cool.

-What you got?
-What you got?

-So, I think
it's part of something,

a towing package
that they had on the aft end

end of a ship -- whatever,
ship, sub, I don't know.

It's got to be, what, that tall?
It's massive.

-Oh, yeah. It's massive.
-It's massive,

and the walls
are like that thick.

-Well, if that broke off
and someone was towing it,

they might have just cut it
loose from the other end.

-It's possible, yeah.
-'Cause you're gonna be

dragging an anchor
at that point, right?

-Yeah.
-I'm not sure if this find

is the actual source
of the mag hit or not.

There's all sorts of things
that that type

of towing mechanism
can be used for.

But I'm very interested

in what the object
could have been towing

and if it's connected
to our search.

♪

-The next morning,

Garth meets
with historian Rich Loud

to get his professional
assessment of their discoveries.

-So, Rich, we got something
that we --

we really need
to get your input on

and see if it looks
like anything

you can help
us identify.

-Okay.

-With over 40 years' experience
as a salvage diver

and archeologist,

Richard Loud has spent
over 1,500 hours

diving on wrecks
off the coast of Florida

and North Carolina,

recovering a wide range
of World War II artifacts.

-The object that we found
at target three

is way too big
for two divers to bring up.

So, we're bringing Rich
the next best thing,

and that's the footage that was
shot when we were down there.

We're hoping that this has
something to do

with the treasure U-boats
that we're trying to track down.

Yeah, so that's, you know,
that's essentially what we're --

what we're looking at.

-What's interesting about this
is U-boats

had towing devices like this.

One of the things
they had was a --

a trailer they'd attach
to the back of a submarine.

And they could use it
for carrying supplies,

extra supplies,
or military weapons.

It's also rumored that
the Germans used trailers

to smuggle loot out of --

out of Germany
at the end of the war,

and these trailers were attached
to submarines

with coupling devices
that looked like this.

-The Kriegsmarine,
or German navy,

created 100-foot-long trailers

to increase the U-boats'
capacity to transport materials.

Toward the end of the war,
some believe Nazis devised plans

to secretly transport high-value
officials, military weapons,

and treasure to neutral
territories like Argentina.

One document shared with
Congress at the end of the war,

known as the Red House Report,
seems to support this idea.

Allegedly written
by a French spy who attended

a meeting of top Nazi brass
and German industrial leaders

in Strasbourg, France, in 1944.

The document suggests that
top companies in Germany

were urged to secure
or hide wealth

to ensure Germany's
post-war future.

-Now I'm thinking that
that coupling device

is not the source of our mag hit
and there might be actually

something bigger just --
just near there.

-A good possibility
there might be a trailer.

-That would be outstanding.

♪

As Garth seeks further insight

into the large object
found near target three,

his conversation with Rich Loud,

an experienced diver and expert
of World War II artifacts,

takes an unexpected turn.

-Have you ever heard
of Operation Prufstand XII?

-No, I haven't.

-That was a top-secret --

one of the most top-secret
operations in Germany.

At the end of the war,
they had the idea

of putting a V-2 rocket
in a waterproof container

and towing it behind
a submarine

over to the coast
of the United States,

then launch the V-2 rocket
at New York City.

-Oh, man.

-Initially fired
in September 1944

against Allied targets
in Europe,

the V-2 rocket was highly
advanced --

the world's first long-range
guided ballistic missile.

That December, fears
of a V-2 rocket attack grew

after the FBI captured two Nazi
spies in New York City

who confessed to an alleged plot

to launch missiles
at the East Coast

from V-2-equipped subs.

-It's like a floating
portable...

-Launch stand.
-...launch base.

Far out.
-Yeah.

And the American government
got wind of it,

and it scared the heck
out of them.

-Uh, yeah.

-And they responded by making
more patrols off the coast.

-Really?

-In the spring of 1945,

the U.S. Navy responded
to this perceived threat,

launching a 44-ship fleet
under Operation Teardrop.

As a result, five Nazi
submarines were destroyed.

-The generals and the admirals
and the politicians

were all really concerned
about this.

But fortunately, after the war,

they found out that none of
those subs had V-2 with them.

So, kind of a big relief
for that.

-Right.

♪

-The next day,

Garth returns to base camp
to regroup with the team

and decide what's the best way
to continue their search.

-So, you know, I think
we're all in agreement

that the coupling device
was used as an apparatus

to tow something
extremely large and heavy.

-We know
it was towing something.

It could have been
a supply chain.

You know, they're bringing
in supplies

and towing them
with that coupling device.

Or were they towing treasure

and transporting it down
to South America?

We have no idea.

We'll never figure that out
unless we continue the search.

-If you're coming from northern
Europe to head to South America,

you're also towing, so your fuel
economy is gonna go way down.

They had to stop somewhere,
and why not here?

-Is it possible
that these trailers

made fleeing to Argentina
challenging

without refueling?

And if so, was Monticristi
a necessary stop along the way?

-We're on the trail of something
with this coupling device.

It had to have been
towing something.

That has to be somewhere
in this area.

-It has to be, and I agree
with you 100%

because whatever
that coupling device was towing,

it's got to be in the vicinity.

As intriguing as this
coupling device is,

it's too small to be the source
of the magnetometer hit.

That means there's
something bigger out there

yet to be found at target three.

Could it be one
of these trailers?

Could it be the U-boat that the
coupling device was attached to?

I mean, there's only
one way to really find out.

We need to go back out there
and dive target three.

-It wasn't just disassembled
and sank there.

-Exactly.
-Something happened there.

Something was under duress.

They wouldn't have just
left it there.

That coupling device
was attached to something.

And that something
is somewhere in this area.

-We have to do this.

-On the next
"Lost U-Boats of WWII"...

-Diving at night is never ideal,

but there's bad weather
moving in tomorrow morning.

Even for experienced divers
like Steve and I,

swimming through a shallow reef
like this is dangerous.

All these reefs are
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-Hey, Darrell,
come check this out.

What the hell is that?

-I'm thinking that something
has to do with this island here.

-What you need to do is get on
that cape and investigate.

-That's a good one.

The further down you go here,

it's the older that it is.

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