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I think most people have never heard this guy's name.

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He had one of the greatest scores in pirate history.

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Henry Avery was the ultimate celebrity pirate.

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People went nuts, and it results in the first global manhunt.

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We think it's more than a letter. We think it's a treasure map.

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Any idea what the current value of this would be?

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Today's value, over $100 million.

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Here we are at the ends of the earth.

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Oh, here we are.

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That is 100% a musketball.

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Oh, big hit.

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If I'm a pirate, this is where I'm burying treasure.

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Oh, right there!

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Holy s***, look at this!

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It is the 18th century, and the lifeblood of Great Britain is trans-oceanic trade.

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So when the scourge of piracy threatens the empire, King William III releases this.

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His proclamation for the apprehension of pirates, effectively declaring war against the skull and crossbones,

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with a promise of mercy to any pirate who surrenders.

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Except one.

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There was one pirate so reviled, feared, and ruthless that the crown refused any offer of clemency.

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He was also the most successful pirate in history.

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Yet incredibly, you've probably never heard of him.

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His name? Captain Henry Avery.

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On September 7th, 1695, the so-called King of the Pirates pulled off the greatest heist in maritime history.

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Capturing the Gangesawai, the richest treasure ship on the planet.

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A score worth hundreds of millions of dollars today.

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It ignites the first ever global manhunt, but somehow Avery and his loot disappear without a trace.

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Now, more than 300 years later, treasure hunters in the United Kingdom believe they're zeroing in on his stolen fortune.

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A centuries-old coded letter may point to a pirate cave fit for one-eyed Willie himself.

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And a team of salvage divers think they may have uncovered the prize in a graveyard of shipwrecks off the English coast.

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Dead men tell no tales, but I do, and this one is a classic in the making.

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It's time to hit the high seas in search of the treasure of the pirate king.

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My name is Josh Gates.

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Explorer.

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Adventurer.

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That's a long way down.

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And a guy who ends up in some very strange situations.

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I'm alive for now.

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With a degree in archaeology and a passion for the unexplained, I travel to the ends of the earth, investigating the greatest legends in history.

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This is Expedition Unknown.

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My hunt for Henry Avery's treasure begins in London on the banks of the River Thames, at a place where many a pirate's story came to a sudden end.

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Despite all the romance and adventure they inspire, the truth is very few pirates sailed off into the sunset with their treasure.

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Most met a bitter end, many at London's execution dock.

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Men convicted of piracy were hanged, including six members of Henry Avery's crew in 1696.

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Just up the stairs from Execution Dock is a pub, known as the Prospect of Whitby.

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Inside I meet one of the foremost authorities on piracy, my old friend Colin Woodard.

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I've been lucky to have had Colin as my pirate whisperer since my investigation into Olivier Lavassure, aka the buzzard.

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Alright, here we are again on the hunt for pirate treasure. Cheers!

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Indeed, cheers.

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And what better place than here at the Prospect of Whitby pub?

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This is one of the oldest pubs in all of London. It was founded in 1520.

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Very unusual to be at a bar with a view of a noose.

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I know, right?

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Okay, let's talk about this guy, Henry Avery, or Henry Avery, depending on how his name is spelled.

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Other than a few books, including yours, and the uncharted video game, I think most people have never heard this guy's name.

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And that would have been absolutely shocking to people living in the 1690s, because Henry Avery was the ultimate celebrity pirate.

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He had one of the greatest scores in pirate history.

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Blackbeard and Steve Bonnet were inspired by the stories of Henry Avery and the myths that surrounded him.

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He's the archetype. He's the genesis.

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He's the genesis.

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So let's make him a household name again. Where does his story really start?

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So he was born in 1659 in a tiny English port, a little village called Newton Ferris, not far from Cornwall.

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And he becomes, over time, a good sailor.

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Well, he's involved with the Royal Navy and serves on large ships of the line, so he's an officer on kind of the battleships of the age.

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So when does this life of crime emerge?

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He sees a better opportunity and he takes it.

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That opportunity comes in the form of privateering, basically state-sponsored piracy.

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At this time, Spain and England are allies against France, so English ships are encouraged to pillage anything flying a French flag.

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Henry Avery becomes first mate on the Charles II, an extremely fast and well-armed ship which raided French vessels with abandon in the Atlantic.

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Following one successful mission, they put support in a Spanish harbor.

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The crew is anticipating a well-earned payday, unable to go ashore until it arrives.

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The money, however, never shows up, and though the ship's captain begs for patience, Henry Avery isn't willing to wait.

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So this is the moment. This is where Henry Avery is going to become a pirate.

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This is the moment where he steps off the straight and narrow, for sure.

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Avery organizes these forgotten sailors and with a hundred men stages a mutiny,

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stealing the Charles II and fleeing the harbor before the Spanish can even react.

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The vessel is renamed the Fancy and becomes Avery's flagship.

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Colin has helpfully brought a map to track Avery's new life of crime.

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This all goes down in northern Spain, yes? And so where does he go?

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Avery hightails it out of Spain on his boosted boat and works his way south,

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raiding ships and pirating supplies along the coast of Africa and around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean.

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Ultimately, though, where is he going?

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Well, ultimately, he will end up here at the mouth to the Red Sea.

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Henry Avery targets this area because it's the main trade route for the Mughal Empire.

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The Mughals were the Islamic rulers of India and their emperor was literally the richest man in the world.

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In 1695, Avery comes up with a plan, Ocean's 11 on an actual ocean.

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He puts together an armada of pirate ships and stakes out the mouth of the Red Sea,

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waiting for the 25 ship Mughal Fleet to sail through on its way home from Mecca.

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The annual Muslim pilgrimage there was also the peak of the Mughals trade each year.

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These ships would be returning with all kinds of treasures of Arabia in the Middle East.

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You know, piles of elephant tusks and incredible amounts of gold and jewels and the like.

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This treasure fleet was the amazing score that Henry Avery had been looking for.

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The primary treasure galleon of the emperor of the Mughal Empire was this enormous floating fortress,

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much larger than the fancy was.

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They knew that they would need all the firepower they could get.

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The ship that the fancy is chasing is the galleon called the Gangesawai

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and it is the Mughal Fleet's greatest prize.

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The Gangesawai holds enough treasure to fund a country and Avery has no intention of letting it go.

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So how does Avery pull this off?

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Well, they're hoping to catch them unawares.

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They hide in some of the little islands at the mouth to this channel,

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but the fleet goes through silently.

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There's like 25 ships in the treasure fleet and they miss the first 24.

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But the very last ship, they actually notice it.

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They pull up their anchors and there starts this crazy, you know, like,

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car chase across the Indian Ocean that lasts for days.

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Avery and the fancy being the swiftest vessel slowly close in on the grand treasure ship.

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And?

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They come alongside the Gangesawai finally

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and it looks like the sort of battle that they would be, you know, doomed to be attacking.

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You're attacking the Death Star. There's no hope for you.

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But they get very lucky.

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The captain of the Gangesawai rolls out the guns.

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He orders the gunners to train on the fancy.

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The Gangesawai attacks Avery, but a faulty cannon backfires,

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killing several crew and giving the fancy a chance to respond.

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Remarkably, their volley takes out the treasure ship's main mast.

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The pirates board the Gangesawai.

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And when the battle is over, Captain Avery and his crew have grabbed treasure worth 500,000 English pounds,

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the largest pirate score in history.

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With 300 years of inflation, that's over $100 million today.

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An opening weekend, even Disney would love.

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However, no amount of money can wash away the stain of what Avery did to get it.

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Avery turns out to be a true villain.

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I mean, the treatment of the people on this ship is, is abominable, right?

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When he captures this treasure galleon, there's just this debauchery, this violence, execution.

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I mean, it's just an absolute horror show on the vessel.

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Word of this, I'm sure, travels fast.

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It does with remarkable speed.

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Avery had just created a horrific international incident with one of England's most important trading partners

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and upset the East India Company by far the most powerful economic entity in the entire empire.

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Back in England, heads must have exploded.

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Oh, people went nuts, and it results in the first global manhunt.

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No one had ever seen anything like this.

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It all points bulletin throughout the world.

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The chase is on.

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Avery and his crew flee with their treasure to the British colony of the Bahamas.

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There, Avery bribes the corrupt governor for safe harbor.

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He also ditches the fancy for three smaller ships, which his crew used to scatter from the law.

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Some men stay in the Caribbean, others hide in North America,

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but two of the ships, including one carrying Henry Avery, continue on to Europe.

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The crew on one boat goes to England, where they're quickly caught and hanged on execution dock.

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As for Avery, he sails straight for Ireland.

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Why do this? I mean, he's sailing literally back toward the Vipers Nest.

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I mean, he's got this incredible amount of treasure, and he, you know, needs somewhere to go to ground with it.

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Why not go to places where you have family?

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And so he and a bunch of men land on a sort of deserted stretch of coast in Northern Ireland

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and crossing to Scotland and then down towards Devon and Cornwall, where he was from.

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And then, poof, vanishes.

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Disappears from the historical record.

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So there are various myths about what became of him.

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One that I've read is he dies penniless drunk in a gutter somewhere.

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Another version of the story that I've heard is that he dies a pirate king, fat and happy.

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But the truth is, we have no idea.

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We have no idea.

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But what is striking, this huge treasure hoard never really comes back on the map anywhere.

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Yeah, and you're talking, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars today that he would have had on himself personally.

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If you were a guy looking for Henry Avery's treasure, where would you look?

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I would be looking in Devon and Cornwall, where there's many stories that he hid his treasure somewhere along that coast.

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All right. It's a Cornwall.

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Cornwall.

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Cheers.

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Cheers.

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I pay our bar tab and then by the light of a new day, I take to the English countryside to find Henry Avery's fortune.

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Well, we are headed to the southwest corner of the United Kingdom to Cornwall to meet a group of treasure hunters that are not only convinced that they know where Henry Avery's treasure is buried.

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They say they've got a handwritten letter that proves it.

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Hey, the sun is out and it's foggy.

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Now it's raining.

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Welcome to England.

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It's a long trip, but fortunately I brought lunch.

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This here is a Cornish pasty.

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This is what they used to play rugby with.

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It's huge.

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It is the official dish of Cornwall invented in the 14th century.

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Flaky dough filled with meat, potatoes, cheese.

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Mmm.

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And lava.

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Oh, oh, hot.

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Woo.

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The lava even pulled out.

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So good.

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There's like a hot pocket, but without the deep sense of shame.

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A pasty or four later, and I've gone 300 miles to the rough coast where the English Channel meets the Atlantic Ocean, a peninsula long known as the lizard.

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On a windswept bluff, I find my old friend Tyrone Leech, who I met in the Seychelles investigating the buzzard.

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Today, he's teamed up with treasure hunters Adam Cochran and Rob Jenner.

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Tyrone, last time I saw you, I nearly drowned.

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Hold on, hold on.

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Yes, hopefully it doesn't happen this time again.

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You promise?

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I hope so, yeah.

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That wasn't a promise.

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Here we are at the ends of the earth, literally.

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We're at the very edge of the UK here.

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Why here?

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Well, we think Henry Avery, the pirate, buried his treasure right here.

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Right here?

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Well, around here.

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Okay, it's a bold claim.

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Why do we think that?

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Well, we found a letter and it basically tells you Henry Avery buried his treasure around here.

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Simple as that.

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Yeah, pretty much.

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Can I see it?

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Oh, my word.

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First of all, it says Avery, the pirate, so we're on the right track.

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And so, do we know where this letter came from originally?

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It was passed down through a merchant family here in Cornwall.

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On the western shores of England, treasure hunters Adam Cochran, Robert Jenner and Tyrone Leech have a letter that may lead to the lost fortune of the notorious pirate king, Henry Avery.

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And who do we think wrote it?

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So we think Avery originally wrote it?

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And then over time, it's been transcribed by people who were actually doing their own searching for the treasure.

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As they were looking for it themselves, they added their own notes.

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Right, we see little things scribbled in here.

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Question marks and stuff like that.

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So the question is, what's in the letter?

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Well, we think it's more than a letter.

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We think it's a treasure map.

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So let's see if we can read it.

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On his return from India, either landed or was shipwrecked near the lizard, where he buried three treasure hunters.

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And it's been called that since the 13th century.

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Okay, that's really compelling.

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And then after that, is it in French?

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Yeah, so it's in French, but we've got a translated version here.

229
00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,000
Okay, that's good. I took Spanish in high school.

230
00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000
So what does the French section say?

231
00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000
So the French section says,

232
00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000
So the French section says,

233
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,000
So the French section says,

234
00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000
So the French section says,

235
00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000
So the French section says,

236
00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000
So the French section says,

237
00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000
So the French section says,

238
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,000
So the French section says,

239
00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,000
So the French section says,

240
00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000
Okay.

241
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000
So the French section says,

242
00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,000
With a question mark.

243
00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,000
Okay, so what are your three stones?

244
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000
Right where we're standing.

245
00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:50,000
And actually, this formation in Cornish is known as Karaglas, which actually translates to gray rock.

246
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000
And it mentions the lizard.

247
00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,000
We've got the lizard, we've got a place known as gray rock.

248
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,160
What he's burying, does the letter mention that?

249
00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:58,840
Yeah, there's an inventory in the letter.

250
00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,840
Precious stones, rubies, diamonds,

251
00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:02,880
and then you got gold, silver.

252
00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:03,680
OK.

253
00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,080
Any idea what the current value of this would be, Tyrone?

254
00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:09,720
In today's value, over $100 million.

255
00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:11,080
So enough for all of us.

256
00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:12,440
Yeah.

257
00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,200
Then it switches back to English and says,

258
00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,400
it is near where the corner of a high promontory

259
00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,000
juts out into the sea.

260
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,200
High promontory?

261
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:24,960
Right behind you.

262
00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:25,800
These cliffs right here?

263
00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:26,800
Absolutely, right there.

264
00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:28,320
And that is right above a beach?

265
00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:29,640
Right above a beach or a cove?

266
00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,560
A cove that has three chests full of treasure in the sand?

267
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:33,440
That's the hope.

268
00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,760
So has anybody gone down there and searched that beach?

269
00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:39,640
Well, we got permission, so that's the plan.

270
00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,760
All right, we got the lizard, we got the stones,

271
00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,920
we got the cliff, we got the cove.

272
00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:45,200
Now we just need the treasure.

273
00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:46,200
Let's go find it.

274
00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:53,920
MUSIC

275
00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:55,600
Look at this, beautiful.

276
00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,040
Welcome to the cove, Josh.

277
00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,320
I mean, if I'm a pirate, this is where I'm burying treasure,

278
00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:01,120
right?

279
00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:02,560
I mean, look at this coastline.

280
00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:04,240
It's so goonies, isn't it?

281
00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:05,600
So let's get to work.

282
00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,240
Yeah, well, we got some people for you to meet.

283
00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,000
Other folks?

284
00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:08,400
Yeah.

285
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:08,800
Other folks?

286
00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:09,680
Yeah, sure, come on.

287
00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,440
MUSIC

288
00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,640
If the British love anything, well, it's boiling food.

289
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,480
But if they love anything more than that,

290
00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:18,840
it's metal detecting.

291
00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:21,440
As the group assembled here, surely shows.

292
00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,680
Look at this.

293
00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:24,480
It's an army.

294
00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:25,480
What's going on?

295
00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:27,000
Josh, meet the rest of the team.

296
00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:27,280
Why?

297
00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:29,000
You guys are ready for battle here.

298
00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,040
And is this a treasure sniffing dog?

299
00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:31,840
Gold sniffing.

300
00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,360
Gold sniffing, perfect.

301
00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:34,520
All right, should we get into it?

302
00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,000
Let's do it.

303
00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,000
Come on, here we go.

304
00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:36,880
Thank you.

305
00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,120
Last one to find treasure buys the beers.

306
00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:44,160
MUSIC

307
00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:47,720
We comb the beach, and whether we have two legs or four,

308
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,680
everyone here is determined to find Avery's loot.

309
00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,360
MUSIC

310
00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,560
I can feel it, Tyrone, this is it.

311
00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,840
BEEPING

312
00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:00,840
Uh-huh.

313
00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,800
MUSIC

314
00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:04,920
You know what that is?

315
00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,000
It's a piece of scrap aluminum.

316
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,200
You ever seen that before?

317
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,960
Lots of times, unfortunately.

318
00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,560
MUSIC

319
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,160
The good news is, we do find more in the sand.

320
00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,080
The bad news is that it's this.

321
00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:19,040
Found a bracket.

322
00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,520
What do you think, part of a...

323
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,480
Probably a light, some freezers, or something.

324
00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,320
Yeah, part of a flashlight, maybe, right?

325
00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:28,920
MUSIC

326
00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:29,920
Dude.

327
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:31,840
MUSIC

328
00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:32,760
It's a beer bottle.

329
00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:33,520
Yeah.

330
00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,120
BEEPING

331
00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,960
But it is a sand Miguel, so that's from overseas.

332
00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:41,320
MUSIC

333
00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,040
Eventually, though, the sand gives up something

334
00:19:44,040 --> 00:19:46,040
worth a close examination.

335
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,040
BEEPING

336
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,040
BEEPING

337
00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,040
BEEPING

338
00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:53,040
BEEPING

339
00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:54,040
What have we got?

340
00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,040
BEEPING

341
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,040
Something small.

342
00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:00,040
BEEPING

343
00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,040
Oh, right there.

344
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,040
Yeah. Yeah.

345
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:03,040
Maybe, maybe.

346
00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:04,040
Is that...

347
00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,040
Oh, no, no, it's a little ring.

348
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,040
It is a ring, look at that.

349
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,040
Yeah.

350
00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,040
Copper?

351
00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,040
Copper, yeah, by the looks of it.

352
00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,040
Um, I think possibly a paupers ring.

353
00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:15,040
Really old?

354
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,040
Yeah, yeah, yeah, probably, I'd say 19th century,

355
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,040
maybe a bit earlier, 17th.

356
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:20,040
Look at that.

357
00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:22,040
That is so cool.

358
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,040
So a paupers ring, which would be like a simple wedding band.

359
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:26,040
A simple wedding ring, exactly.

360
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,040
Yeah, yeah, yeah, not everybody could afford gold.

361
00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,040
Right.

362
00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:32,040
Yeah, yeah, they just hammer it out with a piece of spare copper.

363
00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:33,040
That is wild.

364
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,040
Really beautiful.

365
00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,040
Yeah, that's lovely.

366
00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:39,040
Isn't that unbelievable to think that centuries ago,

367
00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,040
maybe somebody lost this?

368
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:43,040
Yeah, I mean, what a beautiful spot to do it as well.

369
00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:44,040
Right.

370
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,040
Yeah.

371
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,040
Not a pirate treasure, but a real treasure.

372
00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,040
Exactly right, a real treasure.

373
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:50,040
Yeah.

374
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,040
After hours of beach combing,

375
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,040
I've picked up some interesting artifacts and a decent tan,

376
00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,040
but I'm hoping for more.

377
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:04,040
So Tyrone, we've pretty well scoured this beach, I would say.

378
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,040
A few cool finds, but no pirate treasure.

379
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,040
Nothing yet, Josh, but there's another place I think we should go search.

380
00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:12,040
Okay, where's that?

381
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,040
Remember in the letter, they mentioned the word cove.

382
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,040
Yes, with a question mark.

383
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:18,040
Exactly.

384
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,040
What if it wasn't cove?

385
00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,040
What if it was cave?

386
00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:23,040
Uh-huh.

387
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:28,040
So we have a few sea caves along here within our target zone.

388
00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:30,040
I feel we need to really search.

389
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,040
Do you remember what happened last time we went into cave?

390
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,040
I do, Josh.

391
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:35,040
I almost died.

392
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,040
I know, sorry.

393
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,040
Are these dry caves, at least?

394
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,040
Unfortunately not.

395
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:41,040
Oh, for God's sake, come on.

396
00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:49,040
Longstanding rumors suggest that treasure may have been buried within a sea cave nearby.

397
00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:53,040
So we leave Rob and Adam to continue metal detecting the beach

398
00:21:53,040 --> 00:21:57,040
and prepare for a swim so relaxing it requires a helmet.

399
00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,040
Tyrone, this is definitely the last time we're working together.

400
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,040
Let's find some treasure.

401
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,040
That's a fair point.

402
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,040
Okay.

403
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:13,040
The cave where Tyrone wants to look is inaccessible via land.

404
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:18,040
We'll need to get into the raging water and hug tightly to the shore to get there.

405
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:25,040
Against my better judgment, we swim out into the ocean and start moving toward the cave.

406
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:35,040
The water is frigid, and even at low tide, we're getting a dangerous lesson in how easy it is to get dragged out to sea.

407
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,040
We're going to get into the ocean.

408
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:53,040
Tossed around like ragdolls in the water, we struggle around the coastline until we find a way out.

409
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,040
The water is getting deeper and deeper.

410
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,040
Bruised and battered, we manage to get out of the water.

411
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,040
They're raising.

412
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:20,040
Then I follow Tyrone, three words that may be etched on my tombstone as he leads me up the rocks closer to the cave entrance.

413
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:33,040
Incredibly, we've made it this far in one piece.

414
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,040
Those are the caves.

415
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,040
Oh, that is a sea cave.

416
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,040
Okay, what do we do?

417
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,040
Let's arm move.

418
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,040
We're going to jump off the ledge and swim into the cave.

419
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,040
What?

420
00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:53,040
Oh, come on.

421
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,040
Really?

422
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:55,040
Yeah.

423
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:04,040
This is Tyrone's ridiculous idea, so it's only polite that he should go first.

424
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,040
And then, it's my turn.

425
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,040
Okay, here we go.

426
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,040
I'm alive!

427
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,040
For now.

428
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:45,040
I'm off the coast of Cornwall, England on the search for Captain Henry Avery's pirate treasure.

429
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:47,040
And I do mean off the coast.

430
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,040
This is crazy.

431
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:55,040
There's a drawl over there.

432
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,040
Yes!

433
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,040
There's a beach.

434
00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,040
Okay, let's go, Martin.

435
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:08,040
As if the tide isn't enough of a challenge, turns out we're not alone in here.

436
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,040
Seal.

437
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:15,040
Seals may be cute, but they are also territorial and potentially aggressive animals.

438
00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,040
And right now, we're in this guy's living room.

439
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,040
I don't see him now. I think he's out.

440
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,040
Wave.

441
00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,040
Oh!

442
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,040
Oh, I see him.

443
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:35,040
I see him.

444
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,040
I see him.

445
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,040
Wave.

446
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:44,040
Eventually, Mr. Whiskers swims out, leaving the entrance open for us to pass.

447
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,040
He's going out the other side.

448
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,040
Get up on the trial, man!

449
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,040
Oh, my word!

450
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,040
Hey!

451
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,040
Oh, no way.

452
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,040
Okay.

453
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,040
Check the escape app.

454
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,040
I'll detect this, yeah?

455
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,040
Okay.

456
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,040
You got it.

457
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,040
Let's do it.

458
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:14,040
On dryish land, Tyrone and I only have an hour to work before the tide comes in.

459
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,040
We hurry to search the temporary beach with handheld metal detectors.

460
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,040
Tyrone!

461
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,040
I see something.

462
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,040
Try to reach.

463
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,040
What is it?

464
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,040
Is that a golf ball?

465
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,040
Yeah, it's a golf ball.

466
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,040
Oh, look, they're everywhere.

467
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,040
This cave is just collecting everything that washes by.

468
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,040
That is somebody's really f***ing golf.

469
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:57,040
We push further back into the cave to see what else is in here.

470
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,040
What? We can smash an idea.

471
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:01,040
Do you think we can get underneath?

472
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,040
Ha ha.

473
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:06,040
Looks like it goes further back.

474
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,040
You want to see if you can get in there?

475
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,040
I'll see you, but...

476
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,040
Take a look.

477
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,040
Can I borrow that one? Yeah.

478
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,040
Okay, can you see anything?

479
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,040
I'm trying to get back.

480
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,040
If you get back, you're going to be flat.

481
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,040
If we don't get out of here soon, we're all going to be flat.

482
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,040
That's a Goonies reference, Tyrone.

483
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,040
Okay, come on.

484
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,040
Neither one of us is flat enough to get into the crevice,

485
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,040
but we want to scan every inch of land here before the tide swallows it up.

486
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,040
Got a hit?

487
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,040
Got a hit?

488
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,040
I got an 18.

489
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,040
In here.

490
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,040
Oh, oh, oh, stop.

491
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,040
You see it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

492
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,040
Look.

493
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,040
It's heavy.

494
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,040
You know what that is?

495
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,040
It's not a sinker, but...

496
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,040
Is it lead? Yeah, it's lead.

497
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,040
It's a musket ball.

498
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,040
It's a musket ball. Wow.

499
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,040
That is 100% a musket ball.

500
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,040
Wow.

501
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,040
From golf balls to musket balls, right?

502
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,040
Crazy, exactly.

503
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,040
Let's see if there's more here.

504
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,040
Something here.

505
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,040
You have something? Yeah.

506
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,040
Oh, there, see it? Yeah.

507
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,040
Look, is it another one?

508
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,040
Those are musket balls.

509
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,040
That's great.

510
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:39,040
Dude.

511
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,040
Unbelievable.

512
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:44,040
Could these musket balls be from Avery and his crew?

513
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,040
They're definitely from the right time period, so it's an encouraging find.

514
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,040
Now, though, the tide is starting to rush in.

515
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,040
I'm feeling my throat tighten up a little.

516
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,040
I think we have a lot of time. Those waves are getting louder.

517
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,040
Sounds like thunder.

518
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,040
Okay, let's go.

519
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,040
We make our escape from the cave as quickly as possible,

520
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,040
taking some side-eye from the seal on our way out.

521
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,040
The musket balls we found are missing the smoking gun

522
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,040
that proves Avery was here.

523
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,040
But Tyrone and his team remain convinced

524
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:16,040
that the treasure is buried near their beach.

525
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,040
The discovery of artifacts inside the sea cave

526
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,040
has me considering a line in Avery's letter.

527
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,040
The one which says the treasure was either buried or shipwrecked.

528
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,040
I can't shake the feeling that maybe this treasure

529
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,040
isn't so much buried as washing ashore.

530
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:36,040
And nearby, there are two researchers who feel the exact same way.

531
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,040
So, from buried treasure to sunken treasure,

532
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,040
we find that the treasure is buried in the sea cave.

533
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,040
So, from buried treasure to sunken treasure,

534
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,040
the team I'm meeting is on the other side of a small,

535
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,040
Cornish town that is synonymous with pirates.

536
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,040
Penzance.

537
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,040
Finally, a chance for me to show off

538
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,040
my comprehensive knowledge of 19th century British light opera.

539
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,040
Animally modelled of modern-legion generality,

540
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,040
international-vegetable animal and mineral.

541
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,040
I know the kings of England and they qualify

542
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,040
historical from marathon to waterloo and older categorical.

543
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,040
I'm very well acquainted to with matters mathematical.

544
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,040
I understand equations both as simple and quadratical,

545
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,040
but I know a theory of iron-teaming with a lot of news.

546
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,040
Lot of news, lot of news.

547
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:22,040
Ah, with many cheerful facts about the swear of the hypotenuse.

548
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,040
Still in matters of legend, the lannermil and mineral

549
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,040
I am the very model of a modern-legion generality.

550
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,040
The quiet seaside resort town of Penzance

551
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,040
never actually harbored any pirates.

552
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,040
In fact, the very idea of a pirate of Penzance

553
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,040
was meant to be ironic.

554
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,040
In modern times, though, the people here know a good racket

555
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,040
when they see one.

556
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:57,040
This is a pirate yarmulke?

557
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,040
A hoivé.

558
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,040
My sword!

559
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,040
You tried doing this with one eye.

560
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,040
I'll tell you something.

561
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:08,040
Pirate depth perception.

562
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,040
It's a real disability.

563
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,040
Out.

564
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,040
Damn.

565
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,040
We're getting thrown out of here.

566
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,040
With a lot of pirate junk in my trunk,

567
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,040
I continue my quest a short distance away

568
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,040
in nearby St. Ives.

569
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,040
In the 19th century, an eccentric mayor here,

570
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,040
John Nill, spent years trying in vain

571
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,040
to find Avery's treasure.

572
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,040
How eccentric was he?

573
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,040
Well, he built this for himself as a mausoleum.

574
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,040
And it's here I meet Rob Stacey and Don Russell,

575
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,040
a pair of salvage divers who think they're about to do

576
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,040
what John Nill couldn't.

577
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:01,040
Hey, nice to meet you. Beautiful view up here.

578
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,040
I keep meeting people in dramatic places on this trip.

579
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,040
And this is really dramatic. This is Nill's steeple.

580
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,040
And John Nill, like a lot of people,

581
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,040
was obsessed with finding Henry Avery's treasure.

582
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,040
This is too. Yeah.

583
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,040
And like a lot of people, he didn't find it.

584
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,040
He didn't. No.

585
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,040
So are you guys bucking the trend? Do you have some idea where it is?

586
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,040
We found it. We found it.

587
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,040
Hold on. Pretty sure you found it? We are, yeah.

588
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,040
OK. Well, what does that mean? How?

589
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,040
Well, Josh, you've seen the letter.

590
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,040
I've seen the letter.

591
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:32,040
In the letter, it states that the treasure

592
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,040
was taken ashore or shipwrecked.

593
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,040
And we think it was shipwrecked.

594
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,040
OK. You think it's out there somewhere?

595
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,040
It's out there somewhere. We think we've actually stumbled across it.

596
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,040
OK. I just need the coordinates from you.

597
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,040
OK. Yeah.

598
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,040
Well, what have you found out there? Why do you think it's shipwrecked?

599
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,040
Well, Josh, because of this.

600
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,040
You found this? We found this, yeah.

601
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,040
Is this Arabic? That is an Arabic coin, yeah.

602
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,040
The Mughal treasure ship where Henry Avery made his fortune

603
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,040
was on its way back to India from a trade expedition to Arabia.

604
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,040
This coin, found 300 years and 4,000 miles away

605
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:11,040
from where it was minted, is surely not here by accident.

606
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:14,040
This is really interesting because this is a link to Avery's world.

607
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,040
There would have been Arabic coins aboard this treasure ship.

608
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,040
Anything else out there?

609
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,040
Well, yeah, there's a small cannon out there as well that we've come across.

610
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,040
Like a ship's cannon? Like a ship's cannon, yeah.

611
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,040
Near the Arabic coin? Near the Arabic coin.

612
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,040
Now I'm interested.

613
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,040
When you found this and that cannon, did you think Henry Avery?

614
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,040
At the time, I didn't know.

615
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,040
And so I didn't really tie into that.

616
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:39,040
I was chatting to someone and they mentioned about the Avery letter

617
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,040
and someone pointed out that, you know, this could possibly be part of that.

618
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,040
Right.

619
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,040
How do you prove this is Avery's shipwreck?

620
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,040
Well, we'll have to find the treasure.

621
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,040
Fair enough. So how do you do that?

622
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,040
Well, we're going to dive to site tomorrow

623
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,040
and you're more than welcome to come along and join us.

624
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,040
You're diving in tomorrow? We are.

625
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,040
It looks really cold out there.

626
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,040
A gentle breeze.

627
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,040
A gentle breeze? OK.

628
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,040
I would love to come. You're more than welcome.

629
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,040
Are you kidding? And what's my cut when we find the rest of it?

630
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,040
We'll have to negotiate that over a beer.

631
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,040
We can discuss it. We can discuss it.

632
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,040
The Arabic coin has done the impossible,

633
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:18,040
making me once again willing to dive back into the waters off of Cornwall.

634
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:24,040
The next morning, we greet the dawn in the port town of Falmouth.

635
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,040
Rob and Don have a small fleet waiting to bring us to the wreck.

636
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:34,040
They didn't have GPS to record the exact coordinates of the cannon they found.

637
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:39,040
So we're going out with both a dive boat and a scanning boat to relocate the target.

638
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,040
Should we get into it? Let's go. Please lead the way.

639
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,040
We push back from the dock and steam out into open ocean.

640
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:56,040
Henry Avery's treasure, dead ahead in our sights.

641
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:17,040
I'm with a pair of salvage divers off the coast of Cornwall,

642
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:22,040
where they're hoping to find the treasure of the notorious pirate Henry Avery.

643
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:28,040
It takes over an hour to tow our survey boat to the area where Rob and Don found a cannon

644
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,040
from what they believe is Avery's ship.

645
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,040
Now, we're hoping to re-find it.

646
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,040
So here we are, Josh. This is the site.

647
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,040
This is it? This is it.

648
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,040
How big an area are we searching?

649
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,040
We're probably searching around about a mile square.

650
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,040
Wow, OK. So how do we begin?

651
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:49,040
Well, what we'd like to do today, Josh, is go out on the smaller boat here with a magnetometer.

652
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,040
Do a survey up here. Right.

653
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,040
And hopefully at least locate the cannon we have.

654
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,040
If we get some hits on iron, those could be cannons.

655
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,040
That could be a more substantial part of the wreck.

656
00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,040
That would be ideal, yeah. Once we find those, we can start searching for the cargo.

657
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,040
Let's find it.

658
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,040
We transfer to the smaller survey boat, which is equipped with a magnetometer

659
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,040
to scan for Rob and Don's wreck.

660
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,040
OK, here we go.

661
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,040
OK, towfish is in.

662
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:20,040
The sensor, known as a towfish, will be pulled behind the boat to scan the sea floor.

663
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:29,040
Covering a square mile of ocean is a slow, methodical job that requires time and patience.

664
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,040
Team member Val is the one with her eye on the needle.

665
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,040
We're now in about 21 feet of water, Josh, just off of the reef.

666
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,040
The previous wreckage we found has been further insured.

667
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:43,040
Right.

668
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,040
We're now in the area that the bigger part is actually down in the reef.

669
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:49,040
Then hopefully we're onto a winner.

670
00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,040
And how does this factor into the search?

671
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:54,040
Sorry, when we found Dory, one of our first jobs.

672
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:56,040
You were the ones who found Dory?

673
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:58,040
We were the ones who first found Dory, yeah.

674
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,040
We're still hunting Nemo.

675
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,040
Josh, keep swimming.

676
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,040
Where are you, Mr. Cannon? You're out here somewhere.

677
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,040
Something metallic down there.

678
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,040
Big hit.

679
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,040
That sounds like we've got a hit there.

680
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,040
Something right there. Can we tag that?

681
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,040
We can tag that now. That's tagged.

682
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,040
And again, can we circle around and go over again?

683
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,040
We can circle around and go back over it, yeah.

684
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:33,040
Rob makes a U-turn to confirm the magnetometer hit.

685
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:39,040
OK, Dom, we're on the spot now. Let's see what...

686
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:41,040
There it is.

687
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:43,040
Hit again. In the same spot?

688
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,040
Hit, exactly the same spot.

689
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,040
Time to get wet?

690
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,040
Time to get wet.

691
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:56,040
We drop anchor and the three of us prepare to dive into water

692
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,040
that's barely hitting 45 degrees.

693
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,040
I'm staying warm today.

694
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,040
Dry suit, baby.

695
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,040
OK, mate, we're heading down the anchor chain.

696
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,040
If you want to follow me.

697
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,040
OK, here we go.

698
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,040
The waters off Cornwall can be vicious,

699
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,040
but as you can see, that's not the case right now.

700
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,040
That's because we're working in a tight window called slaktide,

701
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:28,040
with only a half an hour before the waves and current return.

702
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:31,040
When they do, they'll either drag us out to sea

703
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,040
or bash us against the tide.

704
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,040
We're going to get a little bit of a break.

705
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,040
We're going to get a little bit of a break.

706
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,040
We're going to get a little bit of a break.

707
00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:41,040
We're going to get a little bit of a break.

708
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,040
And as you can see,

709
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,040
we're going to have to wait until the water gets out to sea

710
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:49,040
or bash us against the reef wall.

711
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,040
Visibility is not too bad.

712
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,040
We got about 15 feet.

713
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,040
OK, we've made it to the bottom.

714
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,040
Let's cover as much territory as we can.

715
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,040
So we're going to search for all of these crevices?

716
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,040
Copy that.

717
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,040
OK, metal detector is hot.

718
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,040
Here we go.

719
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:13,160
We've brought metal detectors to find whatever set off the magnetometer, which may be buried

720
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,440
under centuries of shifting sands.

721
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,440
Don, you got anything?

722
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,440
No, not yet, Josh.

723
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:29,440
We have found stuff in this sand, so let's just keep on at it.

724
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,440
You got it.

725
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:33,440
Wow.

726
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,440
Hey, get over here, Josh.

727
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,840
We got something here.

728
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,840
You got something?

729
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,840
I'm on my way.

730
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,840
Josh, look at this.

731
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,840
It's a basketball.

732
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,840
Unbelievable.

733
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,840
Look at that.

734
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,840
There's three or four here.

735
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:54,840
This is amazing.

736
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:56,840
I don't know about this one.

737
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:57,840
Look at it.

738
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:58,840
There's something strange.

739
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,840
It's sheared down.

740
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:01,840
Look at the shape.

741
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:02,840
Look on the side.

742
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,840
Is that what I think it is?

743
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:05,840
Dice.

744
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:06,840
Is it a die?

745
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,840
I'm telling you, that's a die.

746
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:09,840
You can see the pits.

747
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:10,840
Look at that.

748
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:11,840
That is so cool.

749
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,840
I have never seen one of these before.

750
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,840
The musket balls are exciting, but the die is something unique.

751
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,340
There's little that's more personal than this, something that a sailor held in his

752
00:40:24,340 --> 00:40:26,840
hand hundreds of years ago.

753
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,840
Okay, we're in the right spot.

754
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:30,840
I want to see what's deeper down here.

755
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,840
Let's see if we can move this sand.

756
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,840
To move a lot of sand in a hurry, Don brings over a motorized scooter.

757
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,840
All right, everybody, get ready.

758
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:42,840
Here we go.

759
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,840
Let's see what's under here.

760
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,840
The blower moves some serious sand.

761
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:57,840
Unfortunately, it moves it into our faces and takes valuable seconds to settle, but

762
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,840
it's worth it.

763
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,840
I saw something up against the wall here.

764
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,840
That stone.

765
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:05,840
That's wood.

766
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:06,840
That is wood.

767
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,840
We got a piece of wood here.

768
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:09,840
Wow.

769
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,840
And another.

770
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,840
That is a small sliver of wood that may be from the wreckage.

771
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:18,840
Do you think it's blanket?

772
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:23,840
It's hard to tell just a few pieces, but I think it may be a piece of timber.

773
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:29,840
After 300 years, there's not likely to be much left of any shipwreck, but these fragments

774
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,840
of milled wood mean we may be exactly where we hope to be.

775
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,840
Josh, let's keep searching closer into the code.

776
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:39,840
Copy that, right behind you.

777
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:51,840
We continue to metal detect the seabed in hopes that there's more down here.

778
00:41:57,840 --> 00:41:58,840
Look, wait.

779
00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,840
Got something here.

780
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:00,840
Hold on.

781
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:01,840
I got something.

782
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,840
Got something here.

783
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:05,840
Whoa, right there.

784
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,840
That's a coin.

785
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,840
I hope you were impressed by my version of the major general's song from Pirates of

786
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:20,840
Penzance.

787
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,840
I also hope you don't think I did it in one take.

788
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,840
I am the very model.

789
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,840
Lot of news, lot of news.

790
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:29,840
Ah.

791
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:30,840
What's in it?

792
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:33,840
Almost had it.

793
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,840
I know there's going to be a shipwreck.

794
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,840
Very good at physical and differential calculus.

795
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,840
I am very good at physical and differential calculus.

796
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,840
I understand the big math.

797
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:56,840
One drop.

798
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,840
Whoa, right there.

799
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:02,840
That's a coin.

800
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:04,840
Rob, look at this.

801
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:05,840
That's a beauty.

802
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:06,840
We are all on a loan.

803
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:07,840
Unbelievable.

804
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:08,840
I just don't believe it.

805
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:09,840
This is just fantastic.

806
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:10,840
Is that Latin?

807
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:11,840
That's Latin.

808
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,840
The size of that, I'd say, that could be an English crown.

809
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:14,840
Solid silver.

810
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:15,840
Unbelievable.

811
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,840
Amazing.

812
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:21,840
We're hoping the English crown means that we're on top of a larger fine.

813
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,840
We're hoping that the English crown is going to be a big one.

814
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:25,840
Amazing.

815
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,840
We're hoping the English crown means that we're on top of a larger fine.

816
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:33,840
With only a few minutes of slack tide left,

817
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,840
we continue to blow down into the sand

818
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,840
and to frantically metal detect the bottom.

819
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,840
Nothing over here.

820
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:52,840
Something else, eh, Josh?

821
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:53,840
We're getting another hit.

822
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:56,840
Oh, there.

823
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:57,840
Right there.

824
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,840
Is that a coin?

825
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:02,840
Holy s***, look at this.

826
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:05,840
It's a coin, and I'll tell you, it's not from here.

827
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:06,840
This is what we're looking for.

828
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:07,840
Let me see.

829
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:08,840
Here.

830
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:11,840
Looks like Arabic.

831
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:12,840
Yes, this works.

832
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:13,840
Yes.

833
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:14,840
Unbelievable.

834
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:15,840
Look at that.

835
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,840
It's a coin.

836
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:17,840
What a fine.

837
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:18,840
This is special.

838
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,840
We've just undergone a lot of work.

839
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,840
We've just unearthed an Arabic coin,

840
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,840
similar to the one Rob and Don found on their first dive here.

841
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:34,840
It is a major fine because Avery's big score was the Ganges Sawai,

842
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,840
which was laden with treasure from Arabia.

843
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,840
We're going to bag it, and let's look at it on the boat.

844
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:40,840
You got it.

845
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:41,840
Nice find.

846
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:42,840
Beauty.

847
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:46,840
The Arabic coin is a mind-blowing discovery.

848
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,840
Unfortunately, it's the last thing we're going to find today.

849
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,840
Josh, do you feel that surge?

850
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:54,840
I do.

851
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:55,840
It's getting rough down here.

852
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:57,840
It's not going to be safe to be in here, mate.

853
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:58,840
Yeah, for sure.

854
00:44:58,840 --> 00:44:59,840
That surge is getting worse.

855
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:00,840
Let's head to the boat.

856
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:01,840
We'll regroup.

857
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:02,840
All right.

858
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:03,840
Let's go head to the boat now.

859
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:04,840
Move one up.

860
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,840
The slack tide is ending, and the current begins to pull us out to sea.

861
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:12,840
We quickly surface and climb back aboard the boat

862
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,840
to get a closer look at our hull.

863
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:17,840
Let's start with that big coin.

864
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,840
I'm not sure what it looks to me.

865
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:21,840
It's a cross.

866
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:22,840
We have a cross.

867
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:23,840
It's a cross.

868
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:24,840
We have four shields as well.

869
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:25,840
Yes.

870
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:26,840
This is English, yes?

871
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:27,840
Yes.

872
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:28,840
And this is who?

873
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:29,840
This is, uh...

874
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:30,840
That would be William III.

875
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:31,840
William III.

876
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:32,840
There's a three right there.

877
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:33,840
This puts us in the period, yes?

878
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:34,840
It puts us right back in the period.

879
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:35,840
Couldn't be better.

880
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:36,840
And look at this.

881
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:37,840
Look at the condition of it.

882
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:38,840
Oh, nice.

883
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:39,840
Just sitting down there.

884
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:41,840
It's solid silver, so it's just clean as when it was minted.

885
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:42,840
Yep.

886
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:43,840
Worn but clean.

887
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:44,840
It's just amazing.

888
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,840
God, that is unbelievable.

889
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,840
And then this is a die, right?

890
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:50,840
This, yeah.

891
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:51,840
Well, I wasn't sure at first, because it was shaped.

892
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:52,840
Right, because it looks like a musket ball.

893
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:53,840
Yeah, I just for well.

894
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:54,840
You can see the little pinpricks in it.

895
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,840
It's just amazing, because I believe that gambling was actually banned on pirate ships.

896
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,840
Looking at the shape of it, I said it was probably a musket ball,

897
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,840
and then they've just flattened it on the sides.

898
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:03,840
Right.

899
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:04,840
That would make sense.

900
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:05,840
It's unbelievable.

901
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:06,840
And then this coin.

902
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:08,840
This.

903
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:09,840
This.

904
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:10,840
I thought the show stopped working.

905
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:11,840
This is just amazing.

906
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:12,840
This is Arabic script here, yes?

907
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:13,840
Isn't it?

908
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:14,840
Yeah.

909
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:15,840
This is definitely Mughal.

910
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:16,840
There's no two ways about it.

911
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:17,840
This is a Mughal coin?

912
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:18,840
That is a Mughal coin.

913
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:21,840
This is as close to a smoking gun as we've seen.

914
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:22,840
That is.

915
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:28,840
And Tidium and those other coins is cast iron proof that that has got to be off of one of the Avery ships.

916
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,840
Certainly this Mughal empire was huge.

917
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,840
They were controlling a lot of trade, but taken with the musket balls and the cannons

918
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,840
and the other coinage from the right period.

919
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,840
It's hard to imagine this isn't part of the Henry Avery story.

920
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:42,840
So, now what?

921
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:46,840
Well, now we have to continue magging that area, and we need to find the rest of that vessel.

922
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,840
Well, according to history, there's about $100 million worth of it sitting out there.

923
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:51,840
That would be nice.

924
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:52,840
It'd be really nice.

925
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,840
This may be just the beginning.

926
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:55,840
Let's just hope so.

927
00:46:57,840 --> 00:46:58,840
Nice work, brother.

928
00:46:58,840 --> 00:46:59,840
Yeah, absolutely fantastic.

929
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:00,840
Awesome job.

930
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:01,840
Absolutely amazing.

931
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:02,840
Yeah.

932
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:04,840
Look at that.

933
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,840
Is this the resting place of Henry Avery's last ship?

934
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:10,840
It just may be.

935
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:13,840
The necessary elements seem to be here.

936
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:18,840
Now, it's up to Rob and Don to find the final pieces of the puzzle.

937
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:25,840
History tells us that Captain Henry Avery was a vicious man who thrived in a violent era.

938
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:32,840
But in the 17th century, as today, even the most heinous of crimes could be mistaken for entertainment.

939
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:38,840
Far from repulsing his peers, the tales of Henry Avery's exploits inspired them,

940
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,840
ushering in what we now think of as the age of pirates.

941
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:47,840
Yet the archetype, the man himself who committed the crime of his century,

942
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:49,840
simply disappeared from history.

943
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:53,840
So, what really happened to Henry Avery?

944
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:58,840
His remains an unfinished story, albeit a bloody one.

945
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:02,840
But perhaps the happy ending is reserved not for the pirate,

946
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:06,840
but for the treasure hunters who finally find his missing millions.