All language subtitles for The.Bermuda.Triangle.Into.Cursed.Waters.S01E06.Death.From.Below.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-BurCyg_track3_[eng]

- Dive, dive, dive.

narrator: For months,
Mike Barnette and the team

have been identifying wrecks

in and around
the Bermuda Triangle.

- We're actually doing
true exploration,

trying to figure out
what's on the bottom.

And that gets the blood racing.

- Yeah!

I'm so excited.
- Whoa.

narrator:
They've been the first

to lay eyes on ships
lost for a century...

- It's another Bermuda Triangle
victim identified.

narrator: Have positively ID'd

Air Force planes
lost for decades...

- Oh, there's a P.
Look at the tail.

- That is incredible.

narrator: And made history
finding a piece

of the space shuttle
"Challenger"

well outside the triangle.

- You've discovered
"Challenger."

- It literally takes
your breath away.

narrator:
Now the search continues...

- Let's do this.
- Okay.

- Let's go identify a wreck.

narrator: A discovery
that may hold the key

to why so many vanish here.

- Wow.
- Look at it.

- That is insane.
- That's crazy.

narrator:
Is this Big Wreck a lost ship

whose disappearance caught
the attention

of the President
of the United States?

- We came to find out
about the "Hewitt."

We didn't think
we would get involved

with the U.S. government.

narrator: Was it an explosion
or sabotage

or a strange kind
of undersea eruption?

- Some sort of a crater

from hydrate escaping
the ocean floor.

- A crater as if, for instance,
a bomb went off.

- I think the government,
as a whole,

feared that there was something
potentially going on.

- We now have evidence

that methane gas explosions
do occur.

- Could this be
the smoking gun?

narrator: In pursuit
of the ultimate answer

to the mystery
of the triangle,

the team gears up
for one more dive.

- We're looking actually
inside the hull,

a lot of cabling,
potential hazards right here.

narrator: But after months
tempting fate

in these cursed waters,

will their luck finally
run out?

[alarm beeping]
- So not here to alarm you.

- Okay.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

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 gonna take
these wrecks away,

and these mysteries
are never gonna be solved.

The clock is ticking.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

- Are you clear for us
to roll the submarine out?

- Yep, clear to roll out.

♪ ♪

- When you're trying
to identify a shipwreck,

it's a team effort.

It's the hunt.

It's trying to answer
the question,

what is a shipwreck?

What story can it tell us?

My goal is to try
to tell the story,

what happened to this vessel.

narrator:
For their latest case,

Mike Barnette and a team of
Bermuda Triangle investigators

are bringing back
the big guns.

[dramatic music]

Enter the RV "Odyssey."

- "Odyssey" is
a fantastic platform

that has two submarines,

has remote
sensing capabilities.

The "Odyssey" opens up
a whole new world for us

as far as shipwrecks
that we can potentially find.

narrator: Today,
they're heading 300 miles

off the Florida coast, going
after a large mystery wreck

near the triangle
on Barnette's map,

which fishermen have nicknamed
simply the Big Wreck.

The team hopes
it's the answer to a mystery

that's consumed everyone
from wreck divers

to the White House.

♪ ♪

January 25, 1921,
the SS "Hewitt,"

a 400-foot
steel-hulled freighter

with a crew of 41 sailors

is 222 miles
off the Florida coast

at the western edge
of the Bermuda Triangle,

carrying a load of sulfur

earmarked
for gunpowder production.

At 7:00 pm, she makes
a routine radio transmission

to shore
and is never heard from again.

- One of my favorite mysteries
of the triangle

is the SS "Hewitt."

It's a freaky,
really unusual story.

narrator:
Despite an intensive search,

no wreckage or bodies
were found.

Theories range from
an explosion or a mutiny.

[guns firing]

And strangest of all

that the ship plummeted
to the bottom

as if the ocean itself
gave way.

- There's quite a few
different theories.

- Well, the one that we do know
is that it was catastrophic,

and it was fast.

There's the specs.

- Oh, there we go. Right here.

Got the generation plans here.

narrator: Barnette is joined
by team members

Jimmy Gadomski,
a wreck specialist,

underwater photographer
Evan Kovacs,

and historical investigator
Wayne Abbott.

- For my research
with the Hewitt,

I mean, it disappeared.

There is not a postage size
stamp piece or anything.

narrator: The wreck lies
on the Blake Plateau,

a vast undersea plain

that reaches depths
of more than 3,000 feet.

It's on the edge
of the surging Gulf Stream,

carrying 8 billion gallons
of water per minute.

The area is known
for fierce bottom currents

and has seen dozens

of unexplained
ship disappearances.

♪ ♪

In the sonar room,
the team scans the target area

for any signs of Big Wreck.

[tense music]

Sure enough, they detect
the unmistakable outline

of a large shipwreck.

- We've got a wreck.

- A big-ass wreck.

narrator: But is it big enough
to be the 420-foot "Hewitt"?

♪ ♪

The "Odyssey's"
multibeam sonar

paints a picture
of the bottom.

- I'm not sure.

I'm starting to wonder now
if it's broken in half,

'cause what the picture
is painting on the bottom

is not a--a nice intact ship
in one long piece.

narrator:
The ship is 600 feet down,

and they immediately notice
something.

It looks like
it's been torn apart.

- It's like some weird [bleep]
going on there.

♪ ♪

narrator: To dive a wreck this
deep, they'll need a ride.

- All clear?

- All clear.
- Clear.

- Sub's clear. Yeah, it's live.

narrator:
The Trident submersible

can dive to 3,000 feet

and stay submerged
for up to 72 hours

using a life support system

that filters carbon dioxide
and recycles oxygen.

- Ready for launch.

- Understand.

Sub and bridge are ready
for launch.

[dramatic music]

- Dive, dive, dive.

- Let's do this.
- Okay.

- Let's go identify a wreck.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

narrator: Despite
a powerful bottom current,

the sub creeps
toward the target.

- Okay, we're close.

Yeah, we're--
amberjack around us now.

So we're getting close.
- All right.

♪ ♪

- Keep your eyes peeled.

♪ ♪

Follow the fish.

narrator: Amberjack fish

are one of Barnette's
most reliable indicators

of a shipwreck.

Metal shipwrecks act
like a magnet for life

and become a rich oasis

in an otherwise barren
sea bottom.

♪ ♪

- Oh, we're getting
bottom fish now.

We have snapper.
Yeah. We're close.

The wreck is right--
- Wait, wait, wait.

- I'm seeing it right here,
right here.

Wreck, wreck, wreck, wreck.
- Got it. Got it. Got it.

♪ ♪

- There it is.

Holy [bleep].

♪ ♪

- It was euphoric.

And all of a sudden,
you're seeing

this beautiful side
of the wreck.

And immediately
what you can tell

is that it's encrusted.

There's almost a glow
to the wreck.

narrator: It's the stern or
back end of a large shipwreck

and possibly the tomb
of 42 men.

♪ ♪

- Yeah. We're at the very
fantail right here.

You can definitely see
the taper,

the way it kind of curves
under the fantail.

♪ ♪

narrator: The fantail
is the very end of the ship

and extends over the water.

It provides extra buoyancy
and helps protect the rudder.

♪ ♪

To give Barnette a close look,
pilot Steven Chapell

must maneuver within inches
of the wreck.

Stray fishing lines or debris
could easily entangle the sub

and trap them on the bottom.

A collision
would spell disaster.

The water around the sub
at this depth

exerts hundreds of pounds
of pressure

on every square inch
of the sphere.

Any rupture would
rapidly flood the sub,

leaving the crew
no time to react.

[whirring]

- Oh, yeah. Nice.

[dramatic music]

narrator:
The screw is a nautical term

for a ship's propeller.

The "Hewitt" had
a large single propeller

just like this wreck.

♪ ♪

Then a grim detail.

- Yeah.
Definitely broken there.

narrator: Cracks like this
could be a sign

that the crew met
a violent end

as their ship broke
into pieces.

♪ ♪

[rapid beeping]

- Gotta stop
just for a second here, please.

- Yep.

[beeping continues]

- Oh, come on.

- So--
- Go with--

- Not here to alarm you.
- Okay.

- We have a little bit
of a water alarm in the sphere.

We've got a sphere alarm.

[beeping continues]

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[rapid beeping]

- We've got a sphere alarm.

narrator: 300 miles
off the Florida coast,

while investigating
a mystery target

with the apt nickname
Big Wreck,

submarine pilot Steve Chapell
notices water in the sub.

- You okay?

- I've just checked the water,
and I've tasted it.

It's not salt. It's fresh.

So that leads me to believe

that the hose
from the AC drain

that drains all that condensate
into a bag

isn't draining
into the bag properly.

- Okay.
- So...

[beeping continues]

narrator: It's a malfunction

in the sub's
life support system.

Steve makes a call to abort.

- Not a major issue,
but it could have been,

so Steve made the right call,
brought us up to the surface.

- It's just not worth trying
to push things too much,

'cause no wreck is worth
another life.

♪ ♪

narrator: The team reviews
the footage.

The wreck has
a single propeller

just like the SS "Hewitt."

Even more provocative
is the shape of the fantail.

It's an exact match
for the "Hewitt."

- Yeah,
the cutout's pretty telling.

I mean--
- Yeah.

narrator:
There's just one problem.

According to the sonar data,

this wreck is not as long
as the "Hewitt."

- We have some questions about
the accuracy of the multibeam.

They estimated it to be about
80 to 90 meters in length.

narrator:
That's about 100 feet short.

But ships commonly break up
as they sink.

For example,
the "Titanic" is laying

in two pieces on the bottom.

The bow section is nearly
half a mile from the stern,

and the debris field stretches
over 15 square miles.

- You have a section over here,
then miles away,

have another section.

narrator: The broken hull
plates seen on the wreck

could be evidence
this ship is also in pieces.

But the search
for the rest of this wreck

will have to wait.

The sub needs
extensive repairs.

♪ ♪

They're headed back to port.

[tense music]

Back on shore,
Barnette and Abbott meet

with team member
David O'Keefe.

- Wow, the "Hewitt."
That's a big one.

Were you able
to assemble anything

that conclusively proved
or disproved

that this was the "Hewitt?"

- At this point, no.
We're just getting started

with our analysis
of this wreck.

We have more work to do.

- Whatever happened,
we could not tell

if there was any damaged area.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Additional news reports

suggest that "Hewitt"
had exploded.

It could have been from
her flammable cargo of sulfur.

So this would explain
why "Hewitt" never radioed

an emergency call,

but you would think
an explosion like this

would likely leave behind
a large debris field

floating on the water.

- Once things like that happen,

a Pandora's box of theories
open up, right?

- And the intriguing thing
is that

it truly just disappeared.

Not a trace of the "Hewitt"
was ever found.

narrator: What else could sink
a ship so fast,

it has no time to send
an SOS and leave no wreckage?

♪ ♪

- They thought everything
from, you know,

hurricanes to mutiny to piracy.

There's even speculation
that there's methane hydrate

that could have somehow,
you know, enveloped the ship

in this giant explosion.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Like other fossil fuels,

methane hydrates are formed

when microbes break down
buried organic matter.

One theory
on why ships disappear

in the Bermuda Triangle area

is that these deposits
can burst,

forming huge bubbles
that turn the ocean to foam.

An unlucky ship would fall
into the void and sink.

- It's possible to get
a larger methane burst

that could be a danger
to shipping.

narrator: But could
a natural methane explosion

have sunk a steamer
as big as the "Hewitt"?

It's something to consider
but not the only theory.

♪ ♪

Wayne and David dig
into the record

with historian Mike Dash,
who's uncovered documents

related to "Hewitt's"
disappearance.

- So what can you tell us
about the "Hewitt"?

- The "Hewitt" was
a steel steamer

which ran the sulfur route
from Texas up to Boston

and Portland and Maine
during the First World War.

And no one knows
what happened to her.

She is associated with
a broader mystery as well.

[tense music]

narrator: Dash says
the "Hewitt" was part

of a rash
of ship disappearances in 1921

that spooked Herbert Hoover,
then secretary of commerce,

to order an investigation.

It was led
by special investigator

Agent Lawrence Ritchie.

- If you make a count
of the vessels mentioned

just in the Ritchie papers,

there's about
half a dozen of them.

The government were getting
a cascade of letters

offering information,
proposing theories.

I think the government
as a whole feared

that there was something
potentially going on,

and they needed to get
to the bottom of it.

- Ships do go down.

I mean, these things happen.

But you know,
it was fascinating

that the federal government
of the United States

would find this
suspicious enough

to actually launch
an investigation.

narrator: Two of the ships
Ritchie investigated

were the "Hewitt"

and a ship called
the "Carroll A. Deering."

The "Deering" left Brazil
with a full crew

and entered
the Bermuda Triangle

in January 1921.

Ten days later, she washed up

in Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina.

- Strange thing about
that one: nobody onboard.

Zero crew.

An empty vessel
that runs aground.

- The U.S. government
is concerned

with possible bolshevism
and with communism

and the possibility
of mutiny and piracy.

narrator:
Ritchie found no evidence

of a communist conspiracy,

but there was a connection
between the ships.

- The last radio report
from the "Hewitt"

was January 25, 1921,

and the "Deering" ran aground
about four or five days later.

- And the harbormaster working
in the New England area,

he was the first person
to suggest that there's

this link here between
the "Hewitt" and the "Deering"

and, in fact,
that the "Hewitt"

might have picked up
the "Deering's" crew,

and then both crews
went down together.

- It's unbelievable, though.

The layers and the complexity
of the story is crazy.

♪ ♪

narrator: Dash's research
shows the U.S. government

was investigating
the Bermuda Triangle

decades before the area became
famous for its disappearances.

♪ ♪

- When Mike Dash told us

about this
federal investigation

that was led by
the Commerce Department

and even included the FBI,
I mean, it kind of shocked us.

- That in and of itself
is notable.

And it raises
a couple of questions.

Why would the "Hewitt"
have to rescue

the crew of the "Deering?"

And what happened
to all of them?

So the only way we might be
able to solve this

is if you get back down there

and find the evidence we need
on the ocean floor.

narrator:
A large unidentified shipwreck

just north
of the Bermuda Triangle

may be the SS "Hewitt",

lost without a trace in 1921.

Wayne Abbott and David O'Keefe
are chasing the theory

that it may have sunk

because of large
methane bubbles.

They want to know
how real they are

and how dangerous.

- We understand
you've conducted

some pioneering research.

So we're here to find out
all about it.

narrator:
Marine geologist Mali'o Kodis

may have the answers.

- I was a fellow with

the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration.

And I was looking
for methane seeps

on the U.S. continental shelf.

So a sort of novel method
using multibeam sonar data.

[dramatic music]

narrator:
While mapping the seafloor

of the continental shelf
in 2012,

NOAA researchers noticed
odd sonar returns.

Kodis analyzed the data
and confirmed

the anomalies were
methane bubbles called seeps

rising to the surface.

- Is it possible, though,
to get an enormous amount

of methane going to the surface

which could indeed
be a hazard to shipping?

- I think with different types
of deposits,

that could be possible.

♪ ♪

narrator: Such an eruption
happened off Norway in 1985.

The nearly 300-foot-long
oil platform West Vanguard

was disabled by
a sudden burst of methane gas.

If the "Hewitt" was sunk
by the same thing,

there might be evidence
on the seafloor.

- So if we were dealing
with something that perhaps

was a lot bigger,
what kind of signatures

would we be looking for
at the bottom?

- I'd think some sort of
a crater from, you know,

the--the hydrate escaping
the ocean floor.

- So it'd leave a crater as if,
for instance, a bomb went off.

♪ ♪

narrator: A bomb so big
it scars the ocean floor.

A 2010 expedition

to map a stretch
of the Bermuda Triangle

revealed craters,

some larger across
than three football fields.

- We now have evidence

that methane gas explosions
do occur.

They're much more common
in the Bermuda Triangle

than we ever suspected before.

- Could this be
the smoking gun

that actually sank the wreck?

♪ ♪

narrator:
On board the "Odyssey,"

the sub's been repaired,

and the team's ready
to get to sea again

for a second dive
on the wreck.

[dramatic music]

Meanwhile,
Wayne heads to Baltimore.

He's found a ship
that's nearly identical

to the "Hewitt."

♪ ♪

Getting to know
this ship's features

could help them make an ID
on the next dive.

- So there she is.

narrator: To help,
he's recruited Greg Mucci,

a veteran steamship engineer.

- God, it's in great shape.

Must take a lot
to maintain her.

- Yeah.

narrator: They know
from their first dive

that the mystery wreck
has a canoe-shaped stern.

- Yeah, we're at the very
fantail right here.

You can definitely see
the taper,

the way it kind of
curves under.

narrator: Just like
the "John Brown" and "Hewitt."

♪ ♪

- This is a great
perspective here.

- It's under the water.

narrator: Greg points out
more features to look for,

like the distinctive
pilot house,

the brain center of a ship
where crews would navigate,

send radio reports,
and issue orders.

- That original design
had a split house,

and the deck crew
was in the forward house,

and the engine crew
was in the after house.

narrator: And deck guns.

♪ ♪

- One of the things
we're gonna look for

with the "Hewitt"
is that she was outfitted

with a 6-inch gun in 1917
during World War I.

- Yes, you can see
the 3-inch gun up there.

- You know, Greg, I mean,
this has been amazing.

You've definitely shown us
some clues

and some bits of evidence
that we'll have to search

when we're down
on the second dive.

- Give you some homework to do.

- Exploring the "John Brown,"
some features

and some elements on this ship
could help us prove

that our wreck
is the SS "Hewitt."

♪ ♪

narrator:
Armed with this new intel,

Wayne joins the team
as the RV "Odyssey"

sets sail again
for the Big Wreck.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

narrator:
The team is back to sea.

They're once again approaching
a target

fishermen have nicknamed
the Big Wreck.

The team thinks it may be
the long-lost SS "Hewitt."

But on sonar, the Big Wreck
isn't quite big enough

to be the 400-foot "Hewitt."

So before they take
the subs down

for a second look
at the wreck,

they scan the seafloor
looking for what they hope

is the rest of the ship.

- The money lane is P1.

But we might get lucky
on the center lane

because we just saw
potentially some debris there.

Well, I mean,
we do another lane,

we're gonna be
in the right depth range.

So again,
we saw a hint of the wreck.

We're getting closer.

♪ ♪

narrator: Sure enough,
just a mile away

from the Big Wreck,
they find a second target.

- There we go.
- There we go.

- We're starting
to see something.

- There we go.
- Okay, we got a hard turn.

- Look at the point, though.

It's not very far off.

- No, that's a pretty
good number, isn't it?

Pretty accurate.

- Just keep this lane going,
though,

in case there's other debris.

- Yeah.

- Wow.

Wow.
- Look at it.

- That is insane.

- That's crazy.

narrator: It's an unidentified
acoustic signal.

♪ ♪

- It actually makes me wonder

if there's SOSUS or something
out there.

♪ ♪

narrator: SOSUS
or Sound Surveillance System

is the U.S. Navy's
passive sonar system.

It's a network of sensors

that monitors
for foreign submarines.

- It's conceivable that
there's military exercises

going on right now
just to keep their edge.

♪ ♪

narrator: But there's
another possibility.

A methane seep.

- Here you can see, you know,
some plumes coming out.

narrator:
As the team has learned,

NOAA researchers identified
methane seeps

by detecting
their odd sonar returns.

Could this be
what the team has seen?

This area is full of

potentially dangerous
deposits.

Now the question is,
does the team risk a dive?

- It'd be anywhere between

50 to potentially 70 meters
in length,

so something sizable.

narrator: If the second target
is a piece of the Big Wreck,

that could make
the sunken ship large enough

to be the team's main suspect,
the SS "Hewitt."

♪ ♪

They decide to go for it.

♪ ♪

- I was a bit more nervous
the first time.

The only concern I have
right now is visibility,

so we can get down
on this wreck

and really explore it
properly.

♪ ♪

- Permission to vent.
- Roger.

You're clear to open vents
and dive.

Thank you.
Have a good dive.

- Here we go.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

narrator: Pilot Kim Lee Doe
takes them down.

♪ ♪

- Contact bottom, I see it.

- That? Nice.
- Yep.

- All right.

Nice.
We got much better visibility.

♪ ♪

Well, relatively speaking.

♪ ♪

Wreck. Got the wreck.
There's the wreck.

- Oh, whoa!

- Wow.
- It's laying on its side.

Bow's right there.

[soft music]

narrator:
It's wreckage from a ship,

just as they hoped.

♪ ♪

But can they link it
to the "Hewitt"?

- Wow.

That looks like
a gunning placement.

You can see the mount floor
right there.

But it's been--
the gun's been stripped.

narrator:
The gunning placement

looks similar
to what Abbott saw

on the "John W. Brown."

During World War I,
the SS "Hewitt"

was armed with a cannon
for submarine defense.

♪ ♪

- I don't know if that's
the sweep of the--

this is the stern
or it actually looks like

it's ripped apart here, though.

Oh, yeah.

Suffered some damage.

We're looking actually inside
the hull, lot of cable

and potential hazards
right here.

So we got to be aware.

It seems very sterile in a way.

narrator: A broken bow is
what they were hoping to find.

But something is off.

- That's a pretty big
gunning placement, isn't it?

Or is that the--
- There's two of them.

There's one on stern,
and there's one up on the bow.

- So three confirmed guns
on this?

- Yes.

narrator: The "Hewitt"
never had three guns.

[dramatic music]

This isn't a section
of the Big Wreck.

Such a piece could still
be out there somewhere.

But this is a different ship.

- So I think
it's World War II vintage.

- But it does look stripped,
though, doesn't it?

Like...

narrator: It appears to be
a landing craft

like the ones used
on D-Day at Normandy Beach.

After the war, hundreds
were later mothballed.

- It gives me the feeling
this was a surplus vessel.

They stripped it down
and used it

for either a test
or just sunk it.

♪ ♪

- I was really hoping that
this smaller target we found

was gonna be the bow section
of Big Wreck,

because if it was the "Hewitt,"
I mean, it's understandable,

the proximity
of the two sections.

But that wasn't the case.

This was clearly a landing
craft from World War II.

But that's shipwreck hunting.

You never know
what you're gonna find

until you get down there.

narrator: A team
of deep-sea investigators

is trying to solve the case

of a large steamer
that disappeared in 1921.

- It looks like a nice day.

Crew today is, Steve's pilot.

I'm SO. Kim Lee's on comms.

It's safe. It's smooth.

It's slow and easy.

[dramatic music]

narrator: Having
determined a nearby wreck

is not part of a debris field,

they still remain hopeful

a second dive
on their primary target

will help tie this wreck

to the missing steamer
the SS "Hewitt."

- The wreck might be trailing
a lot of monofilament,

so potential hazards
you're well aware of.

But we're gonna be trying
to find diagnostic features

to help us to identify
this wreck.

narrator: For Barnette,
years of diving

have taught him that
multiple dives to make an ID

are par for the course.

- I'm just a curious guy
by nature, and I'm stubborn.

And for shipwrecks, especially
ones I've dived on before,

and the identity has eluded me,
I just can't let it go.

I have to try to keep trying
to find what the final chapter

of that vessel was,
what happened to it,

what happened to the people
that were on that vessel.

♪ ♪

- Is it clear for us
to roll the submarine out?

- Yep.
Clear to roll out.

- Roger. Submarine rolling out.

- All right.

♪ ♪

narrator:
They have one last dive,

a final chance
to identify the wreck,

and if they see signs
of a crater,

maybe even established
what sank the ship.

- For me, I mean,
finding the "Hewitt"

would be, you know, the story

that I'd love to wrap up
and give closure

after 100 years
of lying on the bottom.

[tense music]

narrator: On the bottom,
the team again finds

challenging conditions.

- When we return to the wreck,

we're hoping
that the time that elapsed

allowed a cleaner pulse of
water to move in on the site,

but when we got to the bottom,

that was, alas,
not what we found.

- Wreck, wreck, wreck, wreck.

♪ ♪

- And then we see this wall
of metal in front of us,

and that was a win
just to get to the wreck.

- It's right to my right.

- You guys keep it in sight.

♪ ♪

- This is 006.
- Wow.

[laughter]
At target. Repeat.

At target.

♪ ♪

Also, I really want you guys
to focus on what's out there,

not just on the seafloor.

I want you looking out
in the mid-water column

for anything
that we might be underneath

and floating above us.

Nets, monofilament.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The fish bring fishermen,

who often leave gear
caught in the wreck.

[dramatic music]

Monofilament fishing line

is strong
and nearly invisible.

A piece hanging in the current
could easily be sucked into

one of the submarine's
propellers.

♪ ♪

- This might be the stern.

- Okay.

- Yep. We're on the stern.

narrator:
The team has once again

landed near the stern,
or rear of the shipwreck.

On their first dive,
they had to abort

before they could see
the whole ship.

This time, they want to get
all the way to the bow,

or front of the ship.

- Given the conditions
we've got right now,

what are your thoughts
maneuvering over the wreck?

Is it too sketchy to do that?

- I think.

What I'm doing now
is I'm scanning it,

so where can I go?

- Whatever
you're comfortable doing.

narrator: Going over
the top of the ship

will give the team
a good view of the top deck

with features that could
help them ID this ship.

- So, yeah, what we'll do is
we'll ride this current down

and then we'll look at
going up and over if we can.

♪ ♪

- What do you think this is
over here?

- That was just a vent.

That might be an access
to the cargo hold.

I'm not--
I'm trying to figure out--

how high do you think that is?

- 6 feet?
- It's about 6 feet?

- That's what I--I think

if I were standing up
next to it.

♪ ♪

- Yeah, I'm still trying
to come to grips

of where we're at
on the wreck and the layout

'cause yeah,
it's just so broken down.

♪ ♪

- I can't get Mike
for money shot here.

- [laughs]
- You gonna go over it?

- I'm gonna try.

narrator:
With unstable currents,

the longer they continue
to navigate above the wreck,

the more exposed they are
to potential hazards.

But with a full view
of the ship's top deck,

the team is hoping
to find a smoking gun feature

to ID the wreck.

- So there's another structure
right there.

I wonder if it's the same
as that.

- Yeah. I wonder
if they're smokestacks.

- So where are we now?

We're right over deck?
- The center line

is gonna be
right over there somewhere.

narrator:
They're seeing potentially

valuable puzzle pieces.

But so far,
nothing that firmly ties

this wreck to the "Hewitt."

♪ ♪

- Yeah. It's an anchor, see?

- Wow, that is the anchor.
- So it's, yeah, vertical.

- Whoo!
- That's the shank.

♪ ♪

- Unbelievable.
- Oh, see the stock right here?

So this is the bow right here.
That's the bow.

- This is the bow.
- It is the bow.

- [laughs]
- Holy smokes, guys!

- Whoo-hoo!

Yeah!

- I'm so excited.
Oh, my gosh.

- Unbelievable. Look at that.

- Wow.
- Beautiful.

narrator: Hundreds of feet
below the surface

just north
of the Bermuda Triangle,

the team has found a key clue

to the identity
of the Big Wreck.

- Yeah, it's an anchor, see?

- Wow, that is an anchor.

- So it's, yeah, vertical.

- Whoo!
- That's the shank.

narrator:
The anchor is potentially

a signature detail.

And by reaching the bow,

the team has confirmed that
the wreck is in one piece.

- What we've got here
is consistent with a

80- to 90-meter-long freighter.

narrator:
The team takes one last scan

of the seafloor
around the wreck

for any clues
to how this ship sank.

- Bottom is a little different,
you know,

we're getting more rocks
and shells.

narrator: They're
on the lookout for a crater

or other signs of
a methane hydrate explosion.

- Bottom
is definitely changing.

- Yeah.

It seems smoother
and flatter here too.

[tense music]

narrator:
The flat bottom tells them

that if methane hydrate's
played a role

in sinking this ship,
the swirling bottom currents

have covered up the evidence.

But the team's primary mission
was a success.

They were able to see
the entire wreck.

And the clues they've gathered

may help them finally put
a name on it.

♪ ♪

- Gentlemen, congratulations.

- Credit's all to you, man.
- Good job.

- No, man.

This is my very first
unexplored shipwreck.

- Really?
- Yeah.

- All right.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Back on land, the team

compares the new footage
to the sonar scans

to confirm that this
is a 300-foot steamer.

- Obviously, it'd be nice
to wrap this up completely.

But we can say conclusively

we have an entire ship
on the bottom.

- So it's not the "Hewitt."

- Not the "Hewitt" because it's
too short to be the "Hewitt."

- Right.

narrator:
The anchor arrangement

is also inconsistent

with imagery
from the "Hewitt."

[dramatic music]

But the wreck size
and features

are all consistent
with another wreck

from Barnette's archives.

- Doing research, I try to call
a list of suspect vessels

that could have been lost
in the general area,

and one does kind of
jump off the page to me.

It's a steamer called
the "Santa Teresa."

narrator: September 1924.

The British freighter
"Santa Teresa"

has passed through
the Bermuda Triangle,

carrying sugar
from Cuba to Boston.

America's prohibition era

has seen demand for sugar
skyrocket

as Americans replace alcohol
with soft drinks.

And Cuba is the world's
leading sugar exporter.

This is a busy trade route.

"Santa Teresa" encounters
a mechanical issue

and suddenly begins
taking on water.

As the ship starts to sink,

she sends out
an emergency SOS.

Luckily, a passing ship
rescues the crew

before she disappears
without a trace.

Another victim
of these dark waters,

long since forgotten,
until today.

♪ ♪

- The anchor is still tight
up into the gunwale,

so it indicates to me
that, you know,

they weren't trying
to ride out a storm.

It looks like
she sank peacefully,

which is kind of consistent
with the sinking

of the "Santa Teresa."
- Yeah.

The key piece of evidence
is that the wreck

is the right length
to be the "Santa Teresa"

and the location.

- So basically,
you got 95% of the story now,

which is amazing,
because when you guys went down

and found this
for the first time,

you didn't know
anything about this.

And now we are so close
from proving

that this is actually
the "Santa Teresa"

and solving another
Bermuda Triangle mystery.

[dramatic music]

- This is the nature
of shipwreck hunting.

You know, you start
to pull back the layers,

and with each layer,
there's a surprise.

You know, we thought
it was the "Hewitt" at first.

Now we believe
it's the "Santa Teresa."

- So the "Hewitt's" still
out there waiting to be found.

narrator: The SS "Hewitt"
and the mystery

of why it disappeared
in the Bermuda Triangle

goes back on the map.

- My goal is to try
to tell the story,

what happened to this vessel.

So we're just gonna keep
working at this.

narrator:
And there remains the question

of the odd sonar signal.

Was it methane hydrates?

- There's no survivors
to relay what happened.

Dead men tell no tales.

This is still
a maritime mystery.

But we as divers have
the ability and the skill set

to go explore these shipwrecks

and tell their story for them.

♪ ♪

narrator: For the team,
the mystery of the Big Wreck

marks the end of this leg
of the investigation.

♪ ♪

Over the last few months,

they've discovered
and helped identify

seven never-before-seen

Bermuda Triangle
wreck targets.

But it's only the beginning.

- We are just a bunch of...
[chuckles]

Kind of eclectic group
of working guys.

We've strung together
a series of great successes.

- Yeah!

[laughter]
I'm so excited!

- This journey
has been incredible.

To literally be surrounded
by people

who care so much

to put so much on the line
to get answers.

- We found lost shipwrecks,
we found aircraft,

dove for the first time,

getting to the bottom
of the sinkhole,

and also being able
to dive on shipwrecks

I could never reach myself
because they're too deep.

- Gentlemen, congratulations.

- I feel that
we're just scratching

the tip of the iceberg.

There's so much more to do.

- The idea was
to bring closure,

to solve mysteries.

And God knows, when it comes
to the Bermuda triangle,

there are more mysteries
out there.

♪ ♪