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narrator: Tonight on

"The Bermuda Triangle:
Into Cursed Waters."

- It's been down for a while.

Probably a 100 years or more.

narrator: What happened
to the largest ship

to ever go missing
in the Bermuda Triangle?

- Could this potentially
be the "Cyclops"?

- Ship departs,
never to be seen again.

Sails off into oblivion.

narrator: Did the "Cyclops"
fall prey

to a rare
and dangerous phenomenon?

- That were seen as fables,
seen as fisherman's tales.

- You're talking
a catastrophic event...

- Yes.

narrator: A challenging dive
into the darkness,

in search of a lost giant.

- All under the umbrella
of the Bermuda Triangle.

[dramatic music]

[waves crashing]

narrator: There is a place

that evokes fear
and fascination.

Bounded by Florida,
Bermuda, and Puerto Rico,

the Bermuda Triangle
has swallowed

countless ships, planes,
and people.

But why?

Now an elite team dives in.

- These are dangerous dives.

- Any sane person
would not be doing this.

narrator: Their secret weapon,
a map decades in the making,

which pinpoints
unidentified wrecks.

- There's all these shipwrecks
out there

in the Bermuda Triangle
that there's no names to.

- Dive, dive, dive.

♪ ♪

narrator: Their mission,

solve the mystery
of the Bermuda Triangle

one wreck at a time.

- Mother nature is going
to take these wrecks away,

and these mysteries
are never going to be solved.

The clock is ticking.

♪ ♪

- Ones without regs on it
go in the far end.

Ones with regs go right here.

narrator: Diver Mike Barnette
is preparing to investigate

the mystery of
another unidentified wreck

in the Bermuda Triangle.

Barnette has turned decades
of leads

into our closely guarded map.

The secret location
of hundreds of wrecks

in or near
the Bermuda Triangle,

including today's target,

50 miles northeast of Miami,

known to locals
as Cal's Wreck.

- I've known about Cal's Wreck
probably about 15 years,

but it's taken me this long
to actually get to it.

The name comes
from the fishermen

that originally found it.

Sometimes, they name it
after themselves.

Sometimes, they'll name it
after their boat,

their girlfriend,
an event that happened

that day, something notable,
and a lot of times,

we don't know the origin
of the name.

Just 'cause it's been--
happened 50, 60 years ago

when they first found
the wreck.

- How far off the bottom
do you think it is?

Is it tall?
- It's probably...

narrator: Barnett's
best source for mystery wrecks

are local fisherman.
- There's a wreck right here.

- OK.

- And I'll get you
the exact numbers.

- It's neat
to actually know in this case,

with Cal Owens the fisherman,
it was named after himself.

He's the first one,
that we know of,

that was fishing it.

These guys
know where the wrecks are.

They don't know
what the wrecks are,

but they know there's
something on the bottom.

♪ ♪

narrator: The fishermen
who snag their nets

on Cal's Wreck claim
whatever's down there is big,

which has the team thinking
it could be the wreck

behind the Bermuda Triangle's
deadliest mystery,

the USS "Cyclops".

[waves crashing]

On March 3, 1918,
at the height of World War I,

the "Cyclops", a Navy ship
as long as two city blocks,

sails out of Barbados
with 309 men aboard,

bristling with heavy cranes
and thousands of tons of cargo

in her hold.

She travels north
towards Puerto Rico,

crosses into
the Bermuda Triangle,

and suddenly vanishes.

No SOS.
No lifeboats.

- There's so many questions.

I mean,
this ship just vanished.

Not a piece of wreckage
was found.

narrator: To this day,
it remains

the largest noncombat loss
of life in U.S. Navy history.

- It is still one
of the greatest

Bermuda Triangle mysteries
just because what happened?

I think the legend
and lore of the "Cyclops"--

I mean, that's an iconic

Bermuda Triangle story,
obviously.

To really explain what happened
to the "Cyclops",

the wreck needs
to be found first.

♪ ♪

narrator: Could Cal's Wreck be

the "Cyclops"'
final resting place?

To find out,
the team is headed

into the Bermuda Triangle,

determined to be the first
to reach a wreck

that has eluded divers
for decades.

- This is a site that's resting
in 385 feet of water.

We're on the western edge
of the Gulf Stream.

narrator: Blocking access
to the wreck

is the Gulf Stream,

a massive underwater river
winding along the U.S. coast

pushing nearly
8 billion gallons

of water per minute,

more than all of
the Earth's rivers combined.

♪ ♪

Divers who attempt to cross
this aquatic superhighway

risk being dragged out
into the open ocean.

- We know we have
high current,

so this is not your ordinary,
run-of-the-mill dive.

narrator: But mother nature
has given the dive team

a break they've been
waiting 15 years for.

- We had a tropical storm
go right over our head.

As the tropical storm
moves offshore,

it pulls the Gulf Stream
out with it.

And that, hopefully,
would give us

an opportunity
to dive this wreck

without any strong current.

Anything that
makes a dive easier

increases your odds of success.

narrator: Accompanying
Barnette on this mission

is his right-hand man,

technical diver
Jimmy Gadomski,

along with a support team
of dive specialists.

- There is a certain level
of danger

that goes into
the dives that we're doing.

♪ ♪

narrator: 40 miles offshore,

the team arrives
at the coordinates

of Cal's Wreck.

- Well, that's
the top of the wreck.

369, right?
- We're sitting on top of it.

- Oh, sweet.
- Any current so--

narrator:
Jimmy checks for a current.

narrator:He needs to
precisely position the boat.

The team will use
the 4-mile-an-hour current

to hit the wreck.

- We're basically
what you call hot dropping

and drifting into the wreck.

Yeah, go ahead
and give us a good spot.

I'll set the shot line up.

Throwing!

♪ ♪

narrator: Mike drops an anchor

tied to a rope
called the shot line.

The 400-foot cable
will guide him, Jimmy,

and underwater photography
specialist Evan Kovacs

through the Gulf Stream

to the seafloor
near Cal's Wreck.

♪ ♪

- It's really hard to describe
diving a total unknown wreck

Knowing that no one's
been on this wreck before.

You're going to be
the first eyeballs

to see what's on the bottom.

It pulls at you stronger.

narrator: They will have
only 15 minutes on the bottom.

At that depth,
they'll be prone

to a condition
called nitrogen narcosis.

- At 360 feet of water,

you can't use
normal compressed air,

what we breathe every day

because at depth,
at these extreme pressures,

nitrogen is narcotic,
and it can be debilitating.

- So narcosis makes you feel
a little bit loopy underwater,

kind of like semi drunk.

- Your situational awareness
is impaired.

Your responsiveness
is impaired,

and it's just
not a good thing.

♪ ♪

- Right at about 200 feet
or so,

it started getting dark,

and by the time
we got past 300,

it was very dark.

♪ ♪

narrator: At 385 feet,

the team reaches
the sea floor.

♪ ♪

Their dive clocks begin
a 15-minute countdown.

♪ ♪

At this depth,
water pressure exerts

ten times the force of gravity
on the human body.

♪ ♪

- You know you're close,

but is the wreck
10 feet that way,

or is it 10 feet that way?
You just don't know.

You're struggling,
looking through the gloom,

Waiting for
something to appear.

♪ ♪

narrator: Then debris.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Narrator: It's Cal's Wreck.

♪ ♪

But as the team moves in
to study the wreck,

there's a problem.

The water pressure
is affecting

their most basic gear,
their lights.

- Everything seemed
to not go right on the bottom.

Equipment is usually rated
for 100 meters,

and we're going
well beyond that,

so certain things could
stop working on the bottom.

♪ ♪

We're pushing the limits.

We're pushing a lot
of this equipment

past its rating,
especially the lights.

♪ ♪

Narrator: At 380 feet down,
losing their lights

won't just end their dive.

The divers will be
dangerously disoriented,

a situation
that could be deadly.

♪ ♪

- It was just pitch black
on the bottom.

♪ ♪

- Coming up port side, Aaron.

narrator: At the surface,
the support team stays alert.

They'll keep an eye
on the red dive buoys,

which track
the divers' location.

♪ ♪

But then trouble.

♪ ♪

The topside team spots
a solitary green inflatable.

Green means bad.

It's a signal
that the dive team

is having some kind
of problem.

♪ ♪

Derek, the safety diver,
retrieves the buoy.

He sees no signs
of what's happening below.

♪ ♪

He preps his scuba gear
and waits.

- So I'm going to gear up,
if they have any more problems

while they're underwater,
in case

they have equipment failure.

♪ ♪

narrator: 380 feet down,
the malfunctioning lights

are not the divers'
only issue.

The 4-mile-per-hour current
is still a monster.

- With the intense current
we have from the Gulf Stream,

it's pulling us away.

♪ ♪

narrator: The team is losing
precious minutes on the wreck.

- And obviously
on a dive this deep,

your time
is extremely limited.

You're racing the clock
to get information.

- And we still
had a little bit

of narcosis
on the bottom as well.

[grunting]

♪ ♪

So it takes a little bit
of extra time

to do simple tasks
on the bottom.

♪ ♪

narrator: After a delay,
the lights seem to be working.

♪ ♪

But now they have
less than five minutes.

♪ ♪

Narrator: In places,

sections of a steel hull
and railing

are visible, but nothing
that could definitively

link it to the "Cyclops".

♪ ♪

- We need to figure out what
we're actually dealing with.

What kind of vessel?

Are we dealing
with the whole vessel

or a half a vessel?
I mean, we don't know.

♪ ♪

narrator: Then they see it.

narrator: A coral-encrusted
metal post

nearly 10 feet long.

♪ ♪

Could this be the first image
of the "Cyclops" in 100 years?

♪ ♪

Confirmation
will have to wait.

If they don't retreat
to the surface soon,

pressure at depth will become
dangerously debilitating.

[dramatic music]

narrator: 380 feet below
the Bermuda Triangle,

Mike Barnette
and Jimmy Gadomski

have run out of time.

♪ ♪

After extensive delays,
due to gear malfunctions,

they've barely scratched
the surface

of the giant ship
they've discovered at the site

nicknamed Cal's Wreck.

Now, they have a choice.

Push the envelope
and keep exploring,

or pull back.

♪ ♪

Meanwhile, on the surface,

the support team
is still trying to determine

the meaning
of the green balloon

the divers sent
to the surface.

Green means bad,

but when the divers
are at depth,

there's nothing they can do,
even if lives are in danger.

♪ ♪

Then red inflatables.

It means,
whatever the issue was,

the divers are safe
and heading to the surface.

- Part of me was
a little frustrated

because we were so close.

We were right here
on the wreck,

and there's more data
to be gathered,

but you have to make
the most of it.

♪ ♪

For me, personally,
it wasn't a great dive.

Just it was frustrating,
but we got down.

Obviously
that passing storm

has turned the water
over majorly.

Visibility was low,
but there was a wreck there.

It's really broken down.

It's hiding
its secrets very well.

♪ ♪

We've got a lot of footage
to work through with the team.

In this case,
in Cal's Wreck,

we just got into
the tip of the iceberg.

I mean, there's so much more
underneath the surface

waiting to be discovered.

♪ ♪

narrator: They return to land

and join up
with members of their team.

Historian David O'Keefe

and investigator
Wayne Abbott

are the team's
research muscle,

chasing down leads
into the Bermuda Triangle's

famously dark corners.

♪ ♪

- This is a wreck that's
never been explored before.

You guys are the first ones
to set eyes on it?

- Yes.

It's definitely old.
It's broken down.

Narrator: Barnette and
the team are looking for clues

that connect the wreck
to the "Cyclops,"

and they see
a big one blanketing

the ship's steel posts.

- Based on the amount
of biological--

the coral growth
is a pretty good indicator

it's been down for a while...
- OK.

- Probably 100 years or more.

narrator: A century
of coral growth

fits the timeline
of the "Cyclops".

It disappeared in 1918.

♪ ♪

Then they zero in
on the steel beams.

- There's some things on there
that are very strange

from what I could see.
- What's that?

♪ ♪

narrator: The "Cyclops"
had an extensive structure

on its deck designed
to aid in the loading

and unloading of its cargo.

The team can't determine
if these beams

are in the right place
to match the "Cyclops,"

but the sheer size
of the wreck

gives them hope
they're onto something.

- We don't know if we're
looking at the whole wreck

or a broken half of the wreck.

Again--
- Interesting.

- Because we
only saw maybe, what,

probably 25 meters
of the wreck.

We don't really have an idea
of the length

or anything
really definitive on it.

♪ ♪

- Jimmy and Mike
found a big-sized wreck.

- With a big mystery attached.

♪ ♪

narrator: It's a major lead,

but the team is cautious
about jumping to conclusions.

♪ ♪

The "Cyclops"
is far from the only ship

lost in this stretch
of the Bermuda Triangle.

Barnette has dug up
information

about another large ship
lost in these same waters.

- I've been looking
over the files.

There's obviously
some historical wrecks

that have gone missing
in this area,

the Bermuda Triangle.

I think we have a really,
really good second suspect.

The "General Whitney,"
which was a steamship

that was lost in 1899.

♪ ♪

narrator: April 23, 1899.

At New Orleans,
the "General Whitney"

fills her cargo holds
with copper and molasses.

The vessel is one
of hundreds of steamships

in the bustling port.

Fueled by the revolutionary
triple expansion steam engine,

the workhorses
of a booming American economy.

♪ ♪

The "General Whitney"
departs and rounds

the tip of Florida and crosses
into the Bermuda Triangle.

♪ ♪

She is suddenly
overtaken by heavy seas.

♪ ♪

Survivor accounts suggest
a powerful rogue wave hit

and cracked a bulkhead.

The "Whitney"
starts taking on water

and begins to sink.

A lifeboat escapes
with half the crew,

but 12 men go down
with the Whitney.

- So, geographically speaking,
it kind of fits.

♪ ♪

narrator: The team splits up.

Since the "Cyclops"
still remains a prime suspect,

Wayne and David will start
by meeting

a leading authority
on the ship.

- My great uncle was a fireman
on the board of the ship.

He was one of the guys
shoveling coal in the boilers.

narrator: In 1918,
Marvin Barrash's great-uncle

went down with the "Cyclops".

This family tragedy
inspired Barrash

to research everything
about "Cyclops",

including details that might
help Barnette ID her.

- So he was one
of the 300-plus men

that lost their lives
out there.

- 309, right.

- Plus the entire ship
just disappears.

- She was 542 feet long
by 65 feet.

A lot of steel.
She was a fuel ship.

The trade journals
when she first came out

called her
a floating coal mine.

- But of course, I understand

you have brought something

that no one
has ever seen before.

- Yes.

narrator:
Barrash has uncovered

a forgotten newsreel.

♪ ♪

- So this hasn't been seen
for over 100 years?

- Yes.

narrator:
These never before seen images

are valuable clues.

- Wow.

- And our divers need to get
as much visual material,

right, because they're
going to be underwater.

- Yes.

- They have to go back
to do a proper identification.

narrator: They zero in on
several identifying features.

- There's a lot
of signature things here

that only this kind
of ship would have.

- That's correct.
These winches were unique.

narrator: A detail the divers
will definitely look for,

"Cyclops" had been outfitted
with two dozen cranes,

each one capable of lifting
two tons of coal at a time.

♪ ♪

- So as we can see
in the film footage here,

they're working
on coal operations.

- Correct.

- What was she carrying
when she disappeared?

- A completely different
sort of cargo.

It was manganese ore.

♪ ♪

narrator: Manganese,
another important clue.

On its last voyage,

it's long been assumed
the "Cyclops"

was carrying coal as usual.

Manganese was used
to harden the steel

the U.S. was producing
for World War I.

If the dive team
can find evidence

of manganese at Cal's Wreck,

it could link it
to the "Cyclops"

and help explain why it sank.

- Now, this has weight to it.
- Oh, my.

- That additional weight.

She was built for coal
and oil, not for manganese.

♪ ♪

narrator: Barrash believes
that this increased load

made "Cyclops"
susceptible to tipping.

♪ ♪

- Next morning, ship departs,
never to be seen again.

Sails off into oblivion.

♪ ♪

Narrator: Barrash suspects
that after the "Cyclops"

entered the Bermuda Triangle,

she was hit by a rare
and deadly ocean phenomenon

that took her down
in a matter of seconds.

♪ ♪

- We're talking
almost half a century

before the myth
of the Bermuda Triangle

came into existence.

narrator: Investigators
Wayne Abbott and David O'Keefe

have uncovered valuable clues

that may help prove
Cal's Wreck

is actually the USS "Cyclops",

a U.S. Navy fuel ship
that vanished

with all hands in 1918.

Marvin Barrash says
the "Cyclops"

was already overloaded
with cargo

when she may
have encountered

something called a rogue wave.

[dramatic music]

- Rogue waves,

they can come out of nowhere.

I suspect, at night,
would have probably

easily succumbed
to such a disaster.

♪ ♪

- Mariners have long
told tales of rogue waves...

♪ ♪

70-foot walls of water
that rise from nowhere

to swallow ships whole.

♪ ♪

Famed explorer
Ernest Shackleton

even claimed to have survived
a wave so gigantic,

he mistook it
for the skies clearing.

But for centuries,
lacking hard proof,

rogue waves
were dismissed as fantasy.

- I think it's
the most likely suspect.

- So you're talking
a catastrophic event...

- Yes.

- Compromised engineering
and a rogue wave.

- And all under the umbrella
of the Bermuda Triangle.

narrator: If Marvin is right,
the "Cyclops"

was sunk by a rogue wave.

The team's second suspect,
the "General Whitney",

was also potentially
the victim

of a powerful rogue wave.

The team will need
to know what type of damage

to look for on the bottom
of the Bermuda Triangle.

♪ ♪

But for the last week,
weather has moved

over the suspected
"Cyclops" wreck,

and the team can't get to it.

So Barnette turns
to a target closer

to shore that he added
to his map two decades ago,

the SS "Peconic,"

another vessel
that was allegedly sunk

by a rogue wave.

- Is the wreck
itself fully intact?

- It's fairly intact.

I mean,
it's obviously been down

for over 100 years
in shallow water.

narrator: Wayne Abbott joins
the team for the search.

It's a potential crash course
for their return

to Cal's Wreck.

- I have a shallow wreck

called the "Peconic"
that we identified

about 20 years ago,
which was a victim

of a rogue wave, which is
a phenomenon associated

with the Bermuda Triangle.

Came out of the darkness

and just swallowed up
the ship.

- Sure.
narrator: August 28, 1905.

The steamship "Peconic"
sets sail,

traveling along
the Florida coast,

when a rogue wave
estimated at 70 feet

appears out of the darkness.

Only two sailors managed
to escape in a lifeboat,

as the "Peconic"
is swallowed by the sea.

♪ ♪

- So I think we go down,
dive the wreck,

and try to see
if there's something

that exhibits
some kind of damage

from the rogue wave sinking.

♪ ♪

narrator: Unlike
the 380-foot-deep Cal's Wreck,

the "Peconic" rests
in just 70 feet of water.

It's a more accessible wreck,
and easier to study,

but every dive
comes with challenges.

- Diving these wrecks,
even if they're difficult

due to depth or conditions,

your time
is extremely limited.

If you have a target,
on subsequent dives,

you can focus in on areas

that need
to be scrutinized more.

narrator: To find traces
of a rogue wave hit,

the team is deploying
a technique known

as photogrammetry,
using a camera

designed to generate
a 3D image

of the entire wreck site.

- With photogrammetry,
you can see the whole thing

as it sits on the bottom.

We can model it
in three dimensions

to get a better idea
because sometimes

you can only see this wreck
a couple of meters at a time.

♪ ♪

This technology, we didn't
have this 15, 20 years ago,

but now,
we have these resources,

and it's an
incredibly powerful tool

to help give you a better
perspective of a wreck site.

♪ ♪

narrator: On the ocean floor,
they find carnage.

♪ ♪

The sides of the "Peconic"
are split open,

spilling coal from the ship's
holds onto the sea floor.

♪ ♪

Metal booms
that once held lifeboats

are ripped
from the deck and cast aside.

♪ ♪

Like
a crime scene photographer,

Jimmy begins making laps.

Taking hundreds of photographs
of the crushed vessel

with every pass.

♪ ♪

Each image logs data about
the wreckage in extreme detail

right down to the rivets.

♪ ♪

After an hour
of painstaking work,

the dive team resurfaces.

♪ ♪

- It's a big wreck.

I mean,
you can see all the coal

just strewn out in the sand,

probably when she rolled over.

You know
something catastrophic hit her

to cause her to sink
that quickly.

♪ ♪

narrator:
After a computer algorithm

stitches the photos together,

the investigation team
reviews the results.

- Wow.
- Look what we got for you.

- Oh, look at that.
- Yeah.

- That's phenomenal.

- So this is the wreck
of the "Peconic"

in all its glory.

Basically,
thousands of pictures

all stitched together
to give you

one model of the ship
that we can now manipulate,

zoom in, and rotate.

I've been on the "Peconic"
dozens and dozens of times

over the past 20 years.

In my mind, I've made
a picture of what I think

the wreck site looks like.

narrator: After returning to
the wreck of the SS "Peconic",

seeking evidence
of a rogue wave encounter,

the team reviews a 3D model
of the wreck site

and makes
a stunning discovery.

♪ ♪

- Whatever happened
happened very quickly.

Something that
just grabbed it,

rolled it, and put it
on the bottom like that.

♪ ♪

narrator: The scan reveals

the "Peconic"
is resting on its side,

as if it had been knocked over
and slammed

into the sea floor.

♪ ♪

The team will look
for that kind of damage

on their next dive
on Cal's Wreck.

♪ ♪

Meanwhile, Wayne and David

want to know
how common these waves are

in the Triangle,

and they've found
someone who knows.

- The Bermuda Triangle.

We don't know exactly why

there are
so many shipwrecks there.

Rogue waves
could be part of it.

narrator: Laura Azevedo is
a Florida-based oceanographer

who's built
a career hunting down

rogue waves
in the Bermuda Triangle

and beyond.

♪ ♪

- January 1995,

there was an oil platform
in the North Sea,

and it was the first actual
measurement of rogue wave.

narrator:
New Year's Day, 1995,

workers on an oil rig
in the North Sea

take shelter
as a storm moves in.

High above them,
a laser-based sensor

keeps watch
on the waves churning below.

♪ ♪

When the storm passes,
officials reviewing

weather logs are shocked
at what they find...

♪ ♪

A spike in the data.

Amid seas with
20 to 30-foot swells,

a wall of water
nearly 75-feet-high.

While not photographed,

it was detected
by the laser sensor.

But how common are they
in the Bermuda Triangle?

- This is a waverider.

It's a small buoy
that can measure waves,

and it's small on purpose.

It's supposed
to surf the waves.

And we know the wave height,
the wave period,

the wave direction,

every frame
from this accelerometer

inside of that small buoy.

narrator: This buoy is part
of a vast network

constantly monitoring
wave activity

in the Bermuda Triangle.

In this one spot, Laura has
detected dozens of rogue waves

over a period of six years,

and they've been big.

- We consider
a rogue wave a wave

that's at least twice
the size of the other waves

in the ocean.

Now, it could be twice,
or it could be much more.

We sometimes see
three times the size.

Narrator: So while rare,

they happen
with some frequency

in the Bermuda Triangle.
But why?

One theory is that when
big waves generated by a storm

hit an underwater current
going the opposite way,

they sometimes stack up
and form a rogue wave.

In the Bermuda Triangle,
storms are a way of life,

while just below the surface
churns the powerful

Gulf Stream,
which means this area

is a tinderbox
for rogue waves.

- So, really,
when it comes down to it,

"Cyclops" could have been
hit by a rogue wave.

- Well, put it this way,
there's more of a chance

than I ever thought before.

narrator: But the only way
to be certain

is to find evidence
on the wreck...

♪ ♪

So Mike Barnette
and his divers

must suit up once again.

- We still have
more questions.

And knowing there's
something substantial there

just gives you more motivation
to get back to it.

And we have
some intelligence now

where we need to refocus
our efforts.

Looking for clues,
looking for artifacts,

that smoking gun.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The divers' primary mission

will be to seek out
unique features

in this wreck's construction
they can match

to the "Cyclops"
or "General Whitney".

- We want to get down
on the wreck,

be as efficient
as possible,

and get basic
diagnostic features.

We want to, obviously,
circumnavigate it

to make sure
it's a whole wreck.

We want to get
an idea of the machinery.

Is it twin screw?
Is it single screw?

Triple expansion engine?

As much information
as possible.

We have a lot more work to do,

and I'm confident
another dive is going

to yield more information.

narrator: Mike Barnette
and the dive team

are headed back
into the Bermuda Triangle,

returning to the target
known as Cal's Wreck.

♪ ♪

- On the first dive
to this mystery wreck,

to Cal's Wreck,
we confirm that there's

a lot of debris down there,
a lot of structure,

but we had very limited time,

so we knew we have
to go back to the wreck.

Narrator: Their goal,
seek out unique features

in the wreck's construction
that would link it

to one of two
potential suspects...

♪ ♪

The "General Whitney",
a steamship

that sank in rough seas
in 1899 as it passed through

the Bermuda Triangle

and the largest ship to ever
go missing in these waters,

the USS "Cyclops",
a Navy fuel ship

that vanished in 1918
with 309 souls aboard.

♪ ♪

- We don't know where
it actually sank,

and that's always
the wild card

when you're diving
these wrecks.

Being familiar
with the layout

and what we think
the wreck is,

we have a better idea
of where to look,

where to focus our efforts.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The evidence suggests both

the "General Whitney"
and the "Cyclops"

were victims of a rogue wave,

so divers will be alert
for any signs

of a rogue wave impact,

but they are limited
to just 15 minutes

at the bottom.

The conditions are,
once again,

working against them.

- As we're descending,
we're fighting a current,

so that eats into
a very finite time limit.

We're basically
racing the clock.

Every minute lost,
that's a huge setback.

♪ ♪

narrator: Equipped with
dive propellers

to cut through the current,

it takes the team just minutes
to reach the sea floor.

♪ ♪

As they reach the bottom,
their dive clocks

begin a 15-minute countdown.

♪ ♪

- Took us a minute
to find it on the bottom

because I got separated,
and also the visibility

was not the greatest.

♪ ♪

- By the time we actually
got on the wreck,

we knew we had
no time to waste.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The divers immediately

observed new details.

♪ ♪

A row of six
rounded portholes stands out

along one side of the ship.

♪ ♪

- [grunting]

narrator:
In a canyon of debris,

Jimmy finds a series of planks
exposed among the coral.

♪ ♪

- We want to get clues
that, in its totality,

will help to support
your theory

of what this wreck
may or may not be.

♪ ♪

narrator: This second dive

has already proven
much more productive

than the first, and the team

has five minutes
of bottom time remaining.

♪ ♪

- You're bird dogging,
looking for clues,

looking for artifacts.

Maybe find it has
a shipping line on it.

You're up on the bow
looking at the general layout

of the vessel.

Maybe looking for the bell
or that smoking gun.

♪ ♪

narrator:
With just minutes remaining,

off to one side
of the wreck site,

an unusual feature stands out.

♪ ♪

A distinctly
spiral-shaped metal shaft.

♪ ♪

Could this be part
of the coal loading system

from the USS "Cyclops"?

♪ ♪

As their dive clock hits zero,
the team again retreats

to the decompression line,

beginning their long journey
back to the surface.

♪ ♪

Back on land,
the team's first move

is to take the new footage
to the man who knows more

about the "Cyclops"
than anyone, Marvin Barrash,

to see if he can make
a positive ID.

- Take a look at these.

We just want to kind of get
your immediate response.

♪ ♪

- I'm trying to think
within the ship itself,

not just the surface pieces.
- Yeah.

narrator: He's waited decades
for a chance

to find the missing Navy ship
and the 309 men,

including his great-uncle,
who vanished with her.

- Well, look at the angle.
Right?

We've got something
coming up this way,

and then we've got something
with the angle.

narrator: Wayne and David
have brought

new images of the mystery ship
at Cal's Wreck

to Marvin Barrash,
an authority

on the USS "Cyclops".

For decades, Marvin has
poured over every detail

of the ship's construction.

- I'm trying to think
within the ship itself,

not just
the surface pieces.

narrator: His great-uncle
was one of 309 men

who went down with her.

♪ ♪

- That's the interesting piece
right there.

- That looks like
a shield from a piece.

- Anything, though,
say from "Cyclops"?

- Not apparent, no.

No, it's the wrong shape.

- And they were
a little thicker

than what we're seeing, right?
- Yes.

Definitely thicker.

narrator: But none of
the images from Cal's Wreck

match known features from
the long-lost Naval fuel ship.

Cal's Wreck
is not the USS "Cyclops".

The final resting place
of Marvin's great-uncle

will continue
to remain unknown for now.

♪ ♪

- Hugely disappointed
that Marvin said

that Cal's Wreck
is not the USS "Cyclops".

The "Cyclops"
is still out there,

and I think, one day,
we'll find her.

♪ ♪

narrator: With the "Cyclops"
still a mystery,

the team has
at least one lead left.

- So the "Whitney"
is a large ship.

We have a big debris field.

It went down in the same area,
mysterious circumstances.

narrator: On April 21, 1899,

the "General Whitney" passes
through the Bermuda Triangle,

sea conditions deteriorate,
and she's

pummeled by powerful waves
that breach her hull,

and she starts to sink.

The captain and 11 sailors
from the "General Whitney"

were lost at sea.

♪ ♪

Mike and Jimmy have been
comparing the images

from Cal's Wreck to see
if it really is a match

for the "General Whitney".

- We pulled out
some really important features.

narrator: Along with
the massive post the team saw

on their first dive,
they observed a metal railing

running along
the side of the ship,

and a series of portholes.

♪ ♪

It all matches one of
the few surviving lithographs

of the "General Whitney".

- A lot of this lines up.

We have two masts
that are actually broken

and off to the port side that
are just laying straight out.

♪ ♪

- There was an anchor
in other pictures

There's an anchor
that lies to the port side.

narrator: The second dive
also turned up

a key detail that may prove
the smoking gun.

- What do we have over here?

Narrator: After a closer look,
Mike Barnette

thinks he can ID this feature.

- But we do see
a triple expansion engine.

We see a single screw.

narrator: This screw
would have been turned

by the ship's engine
to drive its propeller.

♪ ♪

The screw design
is a distinguishing feature

on any ship.

- It's a single-screw vessel
- OK.

- Machinery midship.

- I guess
the million-dollar question

is have you narrowed it down
and identified it?

- Based on the size,
dimensions, the machinery,

this is probably a steamer.

And just the taper
of the stern

and the bow,
the way the anchor

is rigged up in the bow,
and everything else

is just giving off that vibe
of the era, the layout.

- I think we're about 85%,
90% sure

that this is
the "General Whitney".

narrator: The portholes match
the design

of the "General Whitney".

The single screw,
triple expansion engine

midship is also a match.

And the broken masts
are similar

to what would have been
on the Whitney.

It's all adding up to make
a strong case that Cal's Wreck

is the SS "General Whitney".

- Well, she was on a journey
and she ran into foul weather

and started leaking, and I
think they actually detected

where the leak was coming from,
but at that point,

it was beyond repair.

- It's an amazing story
and an amazing find.

♪ ♪

Narrator: The team
has solved a mystery

over a century in the making,

and for Mike,
it's the culmination

of a 15-year effort
to reach one of

the most elusive wrecks
on his map.

♪ ♪

- Once you can identify,
give it its real name,

then you'll get
the real story.

You'll know the final chapter
of this vessel.

We didn't find anything
that was a smoking gun.

We didn't find any artifacts
or anything with a name

"General Whitney",
but I'm certain

this is the "General Whitney".

♪ ♪

For me, that's the chase.

I'm always trying to dive
on unidentified wrecks,

and trying to put
a name on that wreck,

and that's my mission.

And so to be able to do that,
I mean, that's the goal.

♪ ♪