1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 What gets found? What washes up? 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000 There was nothing. 3 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,000 It was as if those vessels just vanished off the face of the Earth. 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Why have these two ships been so hard to find? 5 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 The weather can change here dramatically, very quickly. 6 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Wasn't that ugly witch? 7 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 There's a head down there. 8 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,000 All hell breaks loose. 9 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Tell me you found a piece of wreckage. 10 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 We did better than that. We have a body. 11 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:24,000 What? 12 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 This completely alters the search zone for this investigation. 13 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,000 It does. 14 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Ready to fly? 15 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Ready to roll, man. Let's do it. 16 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Make Superior never gives up her debt. 17 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 Look at this wreck! 18 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Where has this document been hiding? 19 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 You've been keeping this a secret? 20 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Nobody asked me. 21 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Holy hell, what is that? 22 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 This is dynamable. 23 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Wait, something is definitely down here. 24 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 It's a wreck! It's a big wreck! 25 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 What is going on? 26 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,000 During the First World War, 27 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Germany attempts to choke off France and Britain 28 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 by setting tens of thousands of mines in the English Channel, 29 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 sinking more than 700 ships and killing thousands. 30 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:22,000 Desperate to stop the attacks, 31 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 the French Navy commissions a factory in Thunder Bay, Canada 32 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 to build a fleet of minesweepers 33 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 to remove these deadly bombs one by one. 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 The last three minesweepers to be completed 35 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 sail into Lake Superior in November of 1918. 36 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,000 But only one survives the journey. 37 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,000 The ships are caught in a massive raging storm, 38 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 and two of them vanish without a trace, 39 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:53,000 taking 79 French and Canadian heroes with them. 40 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 No wreckage was ever found. 41 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 No bodies recovered. 42 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 The disappearance of the ships Sarasols and Incermen 43 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,000 stands as Lake Superior's largest loss of life 44 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,000 and its greatest mystery. 45 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,000 A century of searches have proven fruitless, 46 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 but now relentless investigators have found new leads to pursue. 47 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,000 A recently unearthed eyewitness account 48 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 has radically changed the search zone, 49 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,000 and a newly found report from a remote Canadian island 50 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,000 suggests that not every sailor went down with the ships. 51 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 So join me on a great adventure in the Great Lakes 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 as we attempt to write one of the final chapters 53 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,000 of the First World War. 54 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Where are the missing minesweepers? 55 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:46,000 My name is Josh Gates. 56 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Hello! 57 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:48,000 Explorer. 58 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,000 There goes nothing. 59 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Adventurer. 60 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 Oh, that's a long way down. 61 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 And a guy who ends up in some very strange situations. 62 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I'm alive for now! 63 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 With a degree in archaeology and a passion for the unexplained, 64 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 I travel to the ends of the earth, 65 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 investigating the greatest legends in history. 66 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Ready to rock and roll! 67 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 This is Expedition Unknown. 68 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 My search for the deadliest wrecks in Lake Superior's history 69 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,000 begins here in the city of Sioux St. Marie, Michigan, 70 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 or more accurately, just offshore. 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 I am traveling through the Sioux Lochs, 72 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 a critical gateway between Lake Superior up ahead 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 and Lake Huron where I am. 74 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 Now, these locks don't just sit between lakes. 75 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 They also sit between nations. 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,000 The city of Sioux St. Marie has an American side to my left 77 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 and a Canadian side over to the right. 78 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,000 Oh, hey there, Canada! 79 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Thanks for all the movie stars named Ryan, eh? 80 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Getting from one lake to another isn't quite as simple as just sailing through. 81 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,000 That's because Lake Superior is actually 21 feet higher than Lake Huron. 82 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 So these locks, they're not just gates. 83 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 They act as a kind of water elevator. 84 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:15,000 10,000 vessels a year pass through one of five locks 85 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,000 to get from one lake to the other, 86 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 though most are significantly bigger than mine. 87 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,000 We are now entering the locks. 88 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 You know, a little nerve-wracking. 89 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 There's about a billion tons of water behind that gate, 90 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 but I'm sure it'll hold. 91 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,000 Right, guys? 92 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 To equalize the levels, 93 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 they pump more than 2 million gallons of water into the lock 94 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 using only gravity, and it takes about 15 minutes. 95 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 And go. 96 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,000 We should probably cut to a time lapse. 97 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 And done. 98 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 15 minutes later and 21 feet higher, I'm free to carry on. 99 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,000 All right, we are through. 100 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 It is beautiful over here. 101 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 I gotta say, this lake is definitely superior. 102 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,000 What? 103 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Oh. 104 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Great lake's humor. 105 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:40,000 In November 1918, three French minesweepers set out 106 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 on a remarkable journey, 107 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 starting where they were built in the Canadian port city of Thunder Bay. 108 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 They intended to sail what's known as Highway H2O, 109 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,000 a 2,000-mile watery maze that extends from Lake Superior 110 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:58,000 through the Sioux locks into lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, 111 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 and out to the Atlantic Ocean. 112 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 To learn why only one of the ships made it, 113 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 I've carried in my paddle for a set of keys 114 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 and ride down the coast of Lake Superior. 115 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I'm driving through the Upper Peninsula, or the UP, of Michigan. 116 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 This area takes up about 30% of the state's land mass, 117 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,000 but only 3% of the population. 118 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 The people who do live here call themselves U-Pers. 119 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 UP, U-Pers, get it? 120 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 It's kind of a different world up here, but in a good way. 121 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 There's a lot of cheese curds. 122 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,000 The cholesterol capital of the Midwest may not be a bustling metropolis, 123 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 but it does have a hell of a view. 124 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 I steer my way to Whitefish Point and the sprawling campus 125 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, 126 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 where I'm meeting with Executive Director Bruce Lynn. 127 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Bruce. 128 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:08,000 Josh. 129 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Nice to meet you. 130 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Nice to meet you as well. 131 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 Welcome to Whitefish Point. 132 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Thank you so much. 133 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 I have to say I'm blown away by this place. 134 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 Look, for people who aren't from the Great Lakes, 135 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 who aren't from around here, 136 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 they might be saying to themselves, 137 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 an entire museum devoted to shipwrecks, 138 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,000 really, aren't these just beautiful scenic lakes? 139 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 And people might believe that if they come here on a sunny day, 140 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 the weather can change here dramatically, very quickly. 141 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:36,000 We've had 90-mile-per-hour winds clocked up here, 35-foot waves. 142 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 People find it hard to believe that we have 550 shipwrecks 143 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,000 and lakes superior alone. 144 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,000 And in the Great Lakes total? 145 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:42,000 6,000. 146 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 6,000 shipwrecks. 147 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 6,000 shipwrecks across the Great Lakes. 148 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,000 And this is more than a museum here to these shipwrecks. 149 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,000 You're also actively searching for wrecks, right? 150 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 That's absolutely true. 151 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 We have a research vessel that we go out. 152 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 When the weather cooperates, we can go out and search for these shipwrecks. 153 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Since 1978 alone, we've found dozens of shipwrecks. 154 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Wow. 155 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 And as I look around at the displays here, 156 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 this has to be the most famous wreck in the history of the Great Lakes, 157 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,000 the Edmund Fitzgerald. 158 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:10,000 Absolutely. 159 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:11,000 This is the one that everybody knows about. 160 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 This is one of the main reasons people come up and visit the museum. 161 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 As a matter of fact, we've got a nice model of the Fitzgerald 162 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 you can see right here. 163 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 Immortalized in song by Canadian balladier Gordon Lightfoot, 164 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 the Edmund Fitzgerald was a 700-foot-long freighter, 165 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:30,000 which sank in a massive storm in 1975, 166 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 tragically taking 29 souls with her. 167 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,000 What was so surprising to me is that for as famous as this wreck is, 168 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 it's not the greatest loss of life on Lake Superior. 169 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 It's not at all. 170 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 No, that would be the minesweepers. 171 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,000 The minesweepers. 172 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,000 So let's talk about these minesweepers. 173 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:52,000 First of all, these ships are built to do a very particular, very dangerous job, right? 174 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,000 Absolutely, yeah. 175 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:57,000 So during World War I, there were thousands of mines that were put around ports 176 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,000 and shipping lanes over 43,000 by the Germans alone. 177 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,000 Wow. 178 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 So the French Naval Commission needed to build more minesweepers. 179 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Desperate to clear the English Channel of Explosives and to protect Allied vessels, 180 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,000 the French commissioned a small fleet of steel hulled ships over 140 feet long. 181 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:20,000 They were able to clear bombs from the water by trawling beneath them to sever their anchors. 182 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Once detached from the bottom, the mines would float to the surface, 183 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 where they could be destroyed by guns mounted for and aft. 184 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 And so why not build them in France? 185 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 So the French shipyards were overrun. 186 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:34,000 They were overwhelmed. 187 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:39,000 So at that point, they looked at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Thunder Bay, Ontario. 188 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 They don't sound like a ship company. 189 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 No, they built railroad boxcars. 190 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Okay. 191 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,000 They had to transition. 192 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Indeed, the Canadian Car Company had never built ships before, 193 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,000 yet they agreed to deliver 12 brand new minesweepers in just six months. 194 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Nine of the vessels launched from the shipyards in Thunder Bay 195 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 made it to the Atlantic uneventfully. 196 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,000 And it seemed like the last three would follow when they left port midday on November 23rd, 1918. 197 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 So the three ships are... 198 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Increments, Cirrus Soul, and Sebastopol. 199 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 And under the command of a man by the name of Marcel Leclerc. 200 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:23,000 So under his command, those three left Thunder Bay, and it was just beautiful conditions. 201 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 So they left, not a cloud in the sky, everything's fine. 202 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,000 Exactly. 203 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,000 And some of the people in the port said, 204 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:29,000 you're going to have smooth sailing all the way to Sault Ste. Marie. 205 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Hmm. 206 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,000 So Leclerc is on the Sebastopol. 207 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Correct. 208 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:35,000 This is the only ship that will make it of the three. 209 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,000 That's absolutely correct. 210 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 And at what point do things start to turn? 211 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Probably around 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock at night, on the 23rd. 212 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:47,000 And now the waves are getting bigger. 213 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,000 He's noticing the wind is picking up. 214 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,000 And then soon after that, now they have waves that are crashing over the bowels of the vessel. 215 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Now he knows he's getting into some weather. 216 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 Forget whatever image you have of a day at the lake. 217 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:06,000 The Great Lakes are more like inland seas, with weather that is notoriously unpredictable. 218 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,000 And for thousands of ships caught in her grip, unsurvivable. 219 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 But he can see the other two ships. 220 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 He can see Inkerman and Sarasol, right? 221 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 He could. 222 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Yep, they were all three still together at that point. 223 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Around 11 o'clock at night on the 23rd, then things really started to get bad. 224 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:32,000 According to Captain Leclerc, 50 mile an hour winds generating 18 foot waves are threatening to roll the ships over. 225 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:37,000 The water is getting to the Sebastopol's engine room, and steering is undependable. 226 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Right around 1 a.m., Leclerc loses sight of Inkerman and Sarasol. 227 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 And that's the last time anybody ever saw those ships again. 228 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Eventually, the weather breaks, and the Sebastopol limps onward through the Great Lakes. 229 00:11:53,000 --> 00:12:00,000 Leclerc makes the disastrous assumption that the other two ships and their 79 crewmen are sailing behind him. 230 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:03,000 How long does it take before Leclerc realizes something's wrong? 231 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,000 It was nearly two weeks. 232 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Wow. 233 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 And after that two week period, I think they knew that there was a real problem. 234 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:14,000 And at that point, he had to organize a search, and that would encompass the North Shore, the Southern Shore. 235 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Quite an undertaking that time of the year. 236 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 And so what gets found? What washes up? 237 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I think this is one of the most surprising parts of this whole story. 238 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 These 243 foot long vessels, 80 men nearly on board. 239 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,000 There was nothing, nothing. Not a trail of wreckage. There wasn't anything floating. 240 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,000 It was as if those vessels just vanished off the face of the Earth. 241 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:40,000 In fact, all that was left behind was a mystery that remains unsolved. 242 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Why have these two ships been so hard to find? 243 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,000 That's a really good question. 244 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,000 And part of the reason for that is Lake Superior is huge. 245 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,000 Yeah. 246 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 It's big, it's deep. 247 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 There's a lot of areas where those wrecks could hide. 248 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 But there are some logical places to look. 249 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,000 When the storm gathered, instead of continuing through the middle of the lake, 250 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Leclerc tried to stay close to the Southern Shoreline. 251 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:09,000 It's here, along the Kiwenaugh Peninsula, that they likely became separated. 252 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Almost all of the searches for incerman and serisoles have been in this zone, 253 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 and they've all turned up nothing. 254 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 So how are you going to find them? 255 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 So we still have a lot of work to do, 256 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 but we also have to rely on some clues that might come out of the blue. 257 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 And we have one that's really exciting, 258 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 that I think is probably going to take this search in a whole different direction. 259 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 A new piece of evidence. 260 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,000 A new piece of evidence. 261 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:33,000 We may have a potential witness. 262 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,000 A witness? 263 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Yes. 264 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,000 While I'm not sure how Bruce could have an eyewitness to a 105-year-old shipwreck, 265 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,000 I rush from Whitefish Point to meet him, 266 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:47,000 30 miles to the west along the Southern Shore of the lake. 267 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 Though getting there is going to be a challenge. 268 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 Roads, where we're going, we don't need roads. 269 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,000 Alright, I am headed along the Southern Shore of the lake to a place known as Deer Park. 270 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:31,000 I'm on the hunt for evidence of two World War I minesweepers that sank just over a century ago. 271 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Bruce Lin from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum has directed me to a historic location a few miles ahead. 272 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:43,000 There used to be an old life-saving station there to help stranded ships see, 273 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,000 and Bruce has asked me to meet a guy named Jack Hubbard, 274 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 who apparently has a story that I've just got to hear. 275 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Little squirrely. 276 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,000 I pull up at the edge of the lakeshore where I discover a lone figure, 277 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:16,000 lifelong Uper Jack Hubbard, who waits to tell me a firsthand account of the minesweepers' demise. 278 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Jack? 279 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Yes, sir. 280 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,000 Hey, I'm Josh. Nice to meet you, man. 281 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Nice to meet you too. Sit down and have a seat with me. 282 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 You've got a great spot here. Look at this. Beautiful day. 283 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 Yeah, absolutely gorgeous day. 284 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Alright, Bruce at the museum said that there may be an eyewitness to the minesweepers. 285 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Yes. 286 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Now, either you've aged really well. 287 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Yeah, I have. 288 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,000 And you have, or it's not you. 289 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,000 No, it's not me. 290 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Who's the eyewitness? 291 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,000 My great-grandfather, Richard Chilson. 292 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Your great-grandfather? 293 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Yeah, he worked out of the Deer Park Life-Saving Station. 294 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 And that was like right around here, right? Like right here? 295 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Right here. 296 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 There's a picture of him here. He would be the one in the middle. 297 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,000 This is him right here? 298 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Right there. 299 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Is this the station? 300 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Yes. 301 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 Okay. And this is like the precursor to the Coast Guard. 302 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Yes, yes. 303 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:08,000 The U.S. Life-Saving Service operated full-time stations along the coast where treacherous 304 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 weather threatened sailors crossing the Great Lakes. 305 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Brave volunteer crews would attempt to row out in storms to administer aid to those in distress. 306 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 So he's stationed here, and what's the story? What did he see? 307 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Back in those days, men would have to walk the beach a certain amount of miles every night in patrol of the beach. 308 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:38,000 He was walking the beach. He saw the ships out there in the storm coming in close to shore, 309 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,000 and he wanted to get them back out onto deeper water again. 310 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 So what does he do? 311 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Yeah, he took two oil lanterns, and he was trying to wave them off. 312 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Trying to make them understand that this is the shoreline here. 313 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Right. 314 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:01,000 But he waved them so much they had those old lanterns back then that he actually burned his arms. 315 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,000 They were scarred forever after that. 316 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Wow. So this isn't just some old rumor. This is like he bore the scars of this event. 317 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:13,000 Oh, yes. 318 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,000 And he talked about it. 319 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:15,000 Yeah. 320 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,000 So why is this story just coming out now? Have you been keeping this a secret? 321 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 Nobody asked me. 322 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,000 The fact is, this information could be a game changer. 323 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:29,000 It represents something that rec hunters never knew existed. 324 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:34,000 A credible eyewitness report of the minesweepers on the night of their disappearance. 325 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 So if you were a betting man, where are those minesweepers? 326 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:41,000 They're somewhere out here. That's where I would be looking for them. 327 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:49,000 The account from Jack's great-grandfather places the ships a hundred miles east of where they were separated during the storm. 328 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 It's a long way from where everybody else has been looking. 329 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Thanks for asking me. 330 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 You got it. 331 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,000 As we sit here, I'm struck by the fact that this lake today is dead calm. 332 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,000 Yeah. 333 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000 If you'd never been here, you might think it doesn't look dangerous at all. 334 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:16,000 You look out there right now. That is the most beautiful place to be in the world out there. 335 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,000 It's so serene. But I'll tell you what. 336 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:26,000 When that ugly witch rears her head out there, all hell breaks loose. 337 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And it's the most God-pursaic place in the world you ever want to be. 338 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,000 It's an ominous warning with a lot of tragic history to back it up. 339 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 But it's also where I need to go. 340 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Returning to Whitefish Point, I head to the research vessel from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Society. 341 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 In command is Captain Daryl Urtel. 342 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,000 I hear you're a man looking for some minesweepers. 343 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,000 Yes, we are. 344 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Should we go find them? 345 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,000 Let's go. 346 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Come on. 347 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Daryl is a master of Lake Superior, having discovered dozens of shipwrecks over 40 years of exploration. 348 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 This ship is really kitted out. Tell me what we've got in here. 349 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 Obviously we've got some sonar systems aboard. 350 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Yeah. 351 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:30,000 We've got five plotters. We've got infrared cameras for night vision. 352 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 And we've got the side scan sonar from Marine Sonics, the Explorer II. 353 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,000 And we've got a couple ROVs on board. 354 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,000 I mean, you can do it all from right here. 355 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Yeah, we've got the lake covered. 356 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,000 What would it mean to you to find the minesweepers? 357 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:47,000 It is a great loss of life. 358 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:56,000 We try to find the shipwrecks, document them, and it gives families, even though it's two, three, four generations down the road, closure. 359 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Right. 360 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:09,000 This is, in a way, a sacred mission with which the Shipwreck Society is tasked, to settle the ghosts of history by searching far from where most people have looked. 361 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:15,000 Okay, so now we have this new lead that Jack Hubbard, saying his great-grandfather, this guy out of this life-saving station, 362 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:20,000 sees these ships offshore much further to the east over here in Deer Park. 363 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000 Do you think he could have seen the minesweepers? 364 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Definitely possible. 365 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,000 We went back and checked the Coast Guard life-saving records. 366 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Right. 367 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:32,000 And sure enough, there was a record of him waving off two ships off the shoreline. 368 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 So could have been the minesweepers? 369 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Could have been. 370 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:44,000 Daryl has done a preliminary sonar scan of Jack's new search zone and found some potential anomalies almost 300 feet down. 371 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:49,000 Luckily, we have a diver aboard who can easily reach that depth. 372 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:58,000 This state-of-the-art remote-operated vehicle has precision thrusters to reach the targets and real-time video cameras to relay images from the bottom. 373 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:04,000 We use a crane to carefully lift the robot out over the water to deploy. 374 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:06,000 Okay, ROV's in. 375 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:14,000 And with that splash, the ROV powers up and we're ready to begin exploring the unforgiving depths of Lake Superior. 376 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 All right, so we are headed down. 377 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Looks like we're passing 50 feet. 378 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Conditions look pretty clear, yeah? 379 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Yep. 380 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 Coming up on 120 feet now. 381 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000 The ROV descends along our anchor line. 382 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,000 At the other end is an unknown target waiting in the darkness. 383 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,000 And this is onboard sonar on the ROV? 384 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,000 Yes. 385 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:54,000 The ROV's sonar should guide it to whatever's down there, which we're hoping is a pair of 140-foot steel-hulled minesweepers. 386 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Our target should be down at 250 feet or so. 387 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,000 We are passing 200 feet. 388 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,000 240. 389 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000 All right, so we're- it could be 10 feet from glory here. 390 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 We're starting to see something on the sonar. 391 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 There's something ahead of us here for sure. 392 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 So we want to go straight ahead. 393 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Oh, oh, oh! 394 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 Is that a wreck? 395 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 We got a wreck! 396 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Look at that! 397 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,000 Oh, my word! 398 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Look at this wreck! 399 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Are you kidding me? 400 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 We're underneath it. 401 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Look at this wreck! 402 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Nearly 300 feet under the surface of Lake Superior, a remote-operated vehicle is hunting for a pair of lost World War I minesweepers, and it just bumped into something massive. 403 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Is it just sitting there? 404 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 Yep. 405 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000 That's the rudder right there. 406 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Get out of here! 407 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,000 That's the back of a shipwreck. 408 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,000 This is the rudder right in here. 409 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Unbelievable. 410 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:05,000 It is pitch black, and we're relying on the ROV's onboard lights to illuminate the stern of the ship. 411 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Could this be one of our ships? 412 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,000 The size looks like it could be right. 413 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000 This is a large vessel. 414 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,000 Let's get up close to it. 415 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,000 So we see white paint, and we see a lot of white paint. 416 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000 We see a lot of white paint. 417 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,000 We see a lot of white paint. 418 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 We see a lot of white paint. 419 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 We see a lot of white paint. 420 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 We see a lot of white paint. 421 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 This is wood. 422 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:24,000 That's wood. 423 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,000 It's not the minesweeper. 424 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Not a minesweeper. 425 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,000 But who cares? 426 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Like, look at this thing. 427 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:41,000 The minesweepers were steel-plated warships, so the wooden hull we see here is proof that this wreck is not one of them. 428 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000 It is, however, a remarkable discovery. 429 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 This is not on any chart? 430 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,000 No, there's nothing charted here. 431 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Look at this. 432 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,000 There's a cabin here. 433 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 It's an upper deck. 434 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,000 Right. 435 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,000 The spindles. 436 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Look at the woodwork. 437 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000 We fly the ROV over the length of the wreck. 438 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Every foot that we travel offers an incredible new detail to savor. 439 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,000 There's the boiler, so it's steam-powered. 440 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,000 Is it like a tug? 441 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 Is it like a cargo ship? 442 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:12,000 What is it you think? 443 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:13,000 It's a tug. 444 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,000 This is a tug. 445 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,000 How old do you think this is? 446 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:20,000 It's got to be over 100 years. 447 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Daryl believes the wreck is a steam tug, vital vessels used to support and tow other ships and barges operating on the Great Lakes. 448 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,000 This one appears to have been retired rather suddenly, almost certainly in a storm. 449 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:40,000 This is literally the first time people are seeing this in a century. 450 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Like, that's unbelievable. 451 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 It's just been sitting down there waiting. 452 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Oh, there's a compass. 453 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 That's a compass? 454 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:49,000 That's a compass. 455 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,000 Right here. 456 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Right there. 457 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,000 It's a brass compass? 458 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:53,000 Yeah. 459 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,000 This is completely insane. 460 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,000 There's the bow. 461 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,000 There's an anchor. 462 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,000 It's just sitting in place. 463 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Look at that! 464 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,000 I just cannot believe the preservation here. 465 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Like, if this wooden wreck was in the ocean, there'd be, like, nothing left. 466 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Lake Superior preserves our shipwrecks very well. 467 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,000 And it may be that these minesweepers are like this, just kind of frozen in time, right? 468 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Oh, they would definitely be. 469 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,000 If they're in Lake Superior, they're going to be perfectly preserved. 470 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 So what do you think? 471 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,000 What is this? 472 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Can we identify this ship? 473 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000 Oh, we'll identify it. 474 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,000 For sure. 475 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,000 Oh, yeah. 476 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,000 You think you can put a name with a face? 477 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000 Oh, I'm certain we can. 478 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,000 This wreck is historic. 479 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:45,000 One of the lost stories of Lake Superior that has just been rediscovered. 480 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:52,000 After surveying the ship from all sides, we make the long steam back to the dock, 481 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:57,000 thrilled at the prospect that Darryl may eventually be able to ID the vessel 482 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,000 by pouring over old records. 483 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 Meanwhile, I'm back on the road to pursue another hot, new lead 484 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,000 from researchers who have discovered a long lost document 485 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 that could change the search zone even further. 486 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000 The southern shore of Lake Superior isn't the only place that people are hunting for the minesweepers. 487 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:21,000 In fact, right now, another group is getting underway with a search on a remote island along the northern shore. 488 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:25,000 And to reach them, I'm going to have to cross the border into Canada. 489 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:33,000 I start by driving back through Sault Ste. Marie through the most polite checkpoint on the planet. 490 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,000 Thanks, buddy. Thank you. Well, that was easy. 491 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Cheers. 492 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:45,000 From there, I keep on driving north, way north, to the remote city of Wawa, Ontario. 493 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Population 2900, all of whom appear to have some sort of goose fetish. 494 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,000 They're in restaurants, they're in hotels, roving gangs of them terrorize the parks. 495 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,000 Then there's this. 496 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 This here is the Wawa goose. 497 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:08,000 At 28 feet tall, it is the largest goose statue in the world. 498 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000 It's not. 499 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,000 What? Seriously? 500 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,000 There's a bigger one in Missouri. 501 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,000 This is the Wawa goose. It is a large goose statue. 502 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:25,000 I'm about to go meet the next team of minesweepers hunters in one of the most remote corners of Canada. 503 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:32,000 So I make sure to stop at Young's General Store for a few wilderness essentials, like genuine maple syrup. 504 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 How'd you do it? 505 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:41,000 Rule number one of camping in Canada, stay warm, even if it means making some moral compromises. 506 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Remember, fur is murder. Warm, soft murder. 507 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,000 No, it's murder. It's murder. 508 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,000 It feels so good. 509 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Oh, and be careful, Young's General Store does not take shoplifting lightly. 510 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,000 What's up, girl? Son of a... 511 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Once the swelling in my fingers goes down, I'm ready to go find the new team that's hunting the minesweepers. 512 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:17,000 To make things as difficult as possible, they're staging their search on Mitchupacotton, a desolate island 50 miles offshore from here. 513 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 It means I need to trade in my wheels. 514 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000 I step on board a trusty Cessna caravan. 515 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Fun fact, in 2022, a passenger with no flight experience was able to land one of these when the pilot became incapacitated. 516 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:33,000 This guy looks healthy, though. 517 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,000 Okay, Kurt, let's do it. How you doing? 518 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,000 Good. 519 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:39,000 All right, you ready to fly? 520 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 I need to roll, man. Let's do it. 521 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:57,000 On the stick for my trip over the lake is Canadian bush pilot Kirk Brissard. 522 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000 Look at that. Food is still beautiful. 523 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:20,000 We take off toward Mitchupacotton, and as the land peels away behind us, it takes with it the last traces of civilization. 524 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:29,000 Well, it's not until you get up in the air that you realize just how remote this place is. 525 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Forget the island. You look down at the coast. There's no roads. There's no houses. There's no electricity. 526 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000 Everything below us is just pure wilderness. 527 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000 It's a short flight. I don't even get any peanuts. 528 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:52,000 So the island is really coming into view now, and the thing that jumps out at me is it's really mysterious. 529 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:59,000 It's this huge place. It's like 17 miles across, and yet no permanent human population there. 530 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,000 Just wild animals, and according to native legend, maybe a monster. 531 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:11,000 The Anishinaabe people of the Canadian First Nations called the monster Mishipeshu, 532 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,000 a powerful and dangerous god depicted as an underwater panther. 533 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Legend holds that Mishipeshu could cause dangerous storms, 534 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:25,000 a reminder that this lake was famously lethal long before modern minesweepers disappeared here. 535 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:35,000 The island, blanketed in fog, rises up as we approach. If Mishipeshu does live here, he doesn't get many visitors. 536 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Okay, coming in. Here we go. 537 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,000 Okay, we're down. 538 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:54,000 We gently touch down in a protected bay that is, at least so far, free of water panthers. 539 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,000 Alright, welcome to the middle of nowhere. 540 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,000 A skiff comes out to meet us and ferries me the rest of the way to Mishipeshu, 541 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:12,000 where, amidst abandoned buildings, I finally see a familiar face. 542 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,000 Tom Crossman. 543 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Josh Gates, how are you? 544 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Good to see you, man. 545 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 Nice to see you. How you been? 546 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Good, how are you? 547 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:20,000 I'm great. 548 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Search and rescue expert Tom Crossman is an expedition unknown regular by now. 549 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:30,000 I worked with him, along with his partner Dave Phillips, on two other Great Lakes adventures. 550 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:37,000 Exploring the history of the lost ship the Griffin, and investigating the legend of John Dillinger's loot. 551 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:43,000 But now, he's looking for two minesweepers in what appears to be the location of a 70's slasher flick. 552 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000 This was a, like, a fishing camp? 553 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000 It was. 554 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000 And how many buildings are out here? 555 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000 There's like a dozen. 556 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Spooky. You're sleeping out here? 557 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:50,000 Oh yeah. 558 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:56,000 Why have you dragged me up here? I mean, we are, we are very far from the point last seen of these minesweepers. 559 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 We are. 560 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,000 Tell me you found a piece of wreckage. 561 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 You did better than that. We have a body. 562 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:02,000 What? 563 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,000 You found a body? 564 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,000 Yes. 565 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,000 What do you mean? 566 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,000 I'll show you what I mean. 567 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:19,000 Search and rescue expert Tom Crossman has been looking for two French minesweepers lost in Lake Superior for the last hundred years. 568 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,000 And he may have recently found the clue he needs to locate them. 569 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:24,000 What is this? 570 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000 This is a report that was submitted from a lighthouse keeper here on the island. 571 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000 And this is from 1919? 572 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000 1919. 573 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,000 To whom may concern one Charles McDonald, that's the lighthouse keeper? 574 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Yes. 575 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:46,000 On the third found a dead man on the shore of Mitchupacotton Island about two miles west of Quebec Harbor. 576 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000 This is Quebec Harbor. 577 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,000 Yes, it is. 578 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,000 So two miles west of here is down here? 579 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Yes, West San Bay. 580 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Upon examination found that it was that of a sailor officer off some vessel. 581 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:12,000 He had on a blue uniform with a stripe on each wrist of his coat, also a red anchor mark on each side of his coat collar, brass buttons on which there were marked equipage de la flotte in French. 582 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Correct. 583 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,000 This guy found a French sailor. 584 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,000 Yes. 585 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:22,000 And if you go to the last page, there's an example of a button from a French naval officer from that era. 586 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Look yet out of here. 587 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Look at this. 588 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,000 A brass button with an anchor. 589 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000 And what does it say on the rim? 590 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Equipage de la flotte. 591 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000 This is incredible. 592 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:39,000 The report shows that only months after the disappearance of the two minesweepers, the body of a French sailor was found here on Mitchupacotton. 593 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,000 So this body must have been from the minesweepers. 594 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,000 There's no question. 595 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,000 Where has this document been hiding? 596 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,000 We worked on a tip from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and buried in the archives. 597 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000 We discovered this document. 598 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,000 Just sitting in there the whole time? 599 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Yes. 600 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:00,000 For years, there's been rumors that two other French sailors were found in West San Bay in the 1930s. 601 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Which would mean three bodies found there. 602 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,000 Correct. 603 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,000 But with this, it feels like this is real. 604 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,000 Oh, I mean, no question. 605 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:11,000 This is a guy giving a very detailed, specific report and describing the uniform in detail. 606 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,000 So even if all three of these bodies are from the minesweepers. 607 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000 Dumb question. 608 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Couldn't they have floated here from anywhere in Lake Superior? 609 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:20,000 Very unlikely. 610 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000 That they would all land in the same bay. 611 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000 Josh, we have an expression here. 612 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Lake Superior never gives up her debt. 613 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:35,000 The reason for that is it's so deep and so cold that if it's beyond 150 feet, those bodies are likely not coming back up. 614 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,000 Wow. 615 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Okay. 616 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000 Because of what? 617 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,000 Pressure and the cold temperatures. 618 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000 So if we've got these three bodies washing up in one bay, maybe that wreck isn't in deep water out in the middle of the sea. 619 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Maybe it's close by. 620 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:46,000 That's right. 621 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,000 This completely alters the search zone for this investigation. 622 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000 It does. 623 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,000 Because this is really the most compelling piece of evidence in this case. 624 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Yes. 625 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,000 So how are you going to find these wrecks? 626 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,000 I'm going to show you. 627 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000 What do you got, Tom? 628 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:06,000 Tom leads me to a nearby dock where he has a vessel waiting to hunt the minesweepers. 629 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,000 At the helm is my old friend, David Phillips. 630 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Josh, remember, Dave? 631 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Hey, how are you, man? 632 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,000 Great to see you, Josh. 633 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Good to see you as well. 634 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,000 How you been? 635 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,000 Oh, wonderful. 636 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Shall we do it? 637 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000 Let's go. 638 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000 Let's go. 639 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000 Come on, man. 640 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:28,000 Dave pilots us into the lake and I quickly see that no matter what, we're guaranteed to encounter shipwrecks. 641 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Known wrecks litter the sheltered harbor here, a testament to how dangerous Lake Superior truly is. 642 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000 Mishipechu has certainly been busy over the years. 643 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Let's talk strategy here. 644 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,000 I know your lethal weapon is sonar. 645 00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,000 Absolutely. 646 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:44,000 Right? 647 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,000 We got a big towfish back here. 648 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000 How powerful is this thing? 649 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Really powerful. 650 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000 OK. 651 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,000 You can literally look out 3,000 feet per side in that sonar. 652 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,000 6,000 feet across. 653 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,000 6,000 feet. 654 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,000 That's insane. 655 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000 It is. 656 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Over a mile in one pass. 657 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,000 Yes. 658 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000 So let's talk about where you want to point this thing. 659 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Like, we know these bodies washed up on West Sand Beach. 660 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Yes. 661 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 Does them washing up give us any forensic clues? 662 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,000 Where do you think the ships could be? 663 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,000 We're thinking we'll work to the southwest. 664 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,000 The very wind that night was from the southwest. 665 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000 The idea being that maybe the wind blew the bodies northeast into the bay. 666 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000 That's exactly right. 667 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:19,000 So we go to where the wind was blowing. 668 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000 That's right. 669 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:21,000 All right? 670 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000 Dave? 671 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000 Yes, sir. 672 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Southwest? 673 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Away we go. 674 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Away we go. 675 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,000 We cruise around the shoreline of Mishipekaten toward the southwestern edge of the island. 676 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:38,000 It's in this area, near where the bodies reportedly washed up in 1919, that Tom hopes 677 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,000 the minesweepers might be hiding. 678 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:44,000 The boat maneuvers into position. 679 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Now it's time to deploy the sonar towfish that will scan for the wrecks. 680 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000 Okay, keep going out. 681 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 It's clear. 682 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Sonar in the water. 683 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,000 It's in the water. 684 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,000 And we got an image. 685 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000 We do. 686 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Now it's just Mothalon. 687 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000 That's it. 688 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:13,000 The scanning begins as the towfish sends us a real-time image of the lake bed. 689 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:18,000 It's a long and tedious process, one with which I am intimately familiar. 690 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:26,000 It means a lot of watching and a lot of waiting. 691 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:32,000 I see nothing yet. 692 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:37,000 And then after hours of scanning, we get a hit. 693 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,000 What is that? 694 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000 That's really interesting. 695 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,000 We got a huge shadow here. 696 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000 Look at that. 697 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,000 Holy hell, what is that? 698 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,000 This looks like something's broken up in here. 699 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,000 It does. 700 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000 Can you measure the length of that? 701 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000 Yes. 702 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,000 Hard to say. 703 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,000 It's at least 160. 704 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000 160? 705 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,000 Yep. 706 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Minesweepers are 140-some-odd feet. 707 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000 They're not broken up in a debris field. 708 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,000 That's exactly what it should be. 709 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,000 That looks like a shipwreck. 710 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000 It absolutely is. 711 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000 Come on, get out of here. 712 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000 Look at it. 713 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000 This is diveable. 714 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,000 We're only in 50 feet of water here? 715 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,000 Yes. 716 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000 We can dive this. 717 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,000 We can dive this. 718 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000 Okay. 719 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000 We need tanks and we need a dive boat. 720 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000 Anybody in Wawa? 721 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000 Yeah, I can make some phone calls. 722 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000 Dave, will you mark that position for us? 723 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 Got it. 724 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,000 We've discovered a debris field big enough to be one of the 725 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,000 minesweepers, and miraculously, it's in water that's shallow 726 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000 enough for us to dive. 727 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 While Tom starts arranging for scuba support, we return to 728 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Mitchupakotton Island, where we'll be camping for the night 729 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:52,000 with temperatures in the low 30s. 730 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000 On second glance, this little island paradise isn't just 731 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000 spooky. 732 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000 It's terrifying. 733 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 So this place is super creepy. 734 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 We are literally making our camp on the edge of a ghost 735 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000 town. 736 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000 There was copper mining here at one point, which is why a 737 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 lot of this was built, but the late 1800s, the mines gave 738 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,000 out. 739 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,000 Some local fishermen came in and turned this into kind of a 740 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000 fishing camp, but other than that, these buildings are just 741 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000 abandoned and rotting here, and the whole place has a really 742 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000 ghostly vibe. 743 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000 The buildings are in various stages of decomposition, both 744 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000 outside and in. 745 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000 It's enough to let a person's imagination run away with them. 746 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000 I unfortunately have read every novel that Stephen King has 747 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,000 ever written, so I will not be sleeping tonight. 748 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000 But that's fine. 749 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,000 And I have to take some rest for a little while so that 750 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,000 we can get some relief. 751 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000 We are definition of human survival. 752 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:46,000 Solid relationships and living with such overlap, 753 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,000 then we wake up naturally. 754 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000 It's really shrine的話, great story. 755 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000 This is filled in the world with Level 1 main engines and 756 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000 arcades that just seem to look like pretty wood. 757 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000 All right. 758 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000 Okay. 759 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000 Look at this. 760 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,000 It is beautiful and absolutely freezing. 761 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000 We're in Canada. 762 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000 Is there tinny hortons here? 763 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000 Some coffee? 764 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,000 There is no coffee. 765 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,000 I'm not sure. 766 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000 I'm not sure. 767 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,000 I'm not sure. 768 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,000 I'm not sure. 769 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000 I'm not sure. 770 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000 There is no coffee. 771 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000 There is, however, dive support, 772 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000 which has just arrived from the mainland. 773 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000 We're finally going to be able to dive 774 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000 on the anomaly we found yesterday. 775 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,000 We race back out to the coordinates 776 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000 where we got the sonar hit. 777 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000 For much of the year, 778 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000 the water temperature here hovers just above freezing. 779 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:58,000 So my underwater camera operator and I 780 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,000 gear up for a dive into the frigid 781 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,000 and turbulent depths of the lake. 782 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,000 Tom will stay topside to guide me. 783 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,000 The wait is over. 784 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000 Let's see what's down there. 785 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000 Okay. I'm headed down. 786 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Currently at 30 feet. 787 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000 What kind of visibility do you have? 788 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Looking good. 789 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000 Bottom shouldn't be too much further down. 790 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000 Wait. 791 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 Something is definitely down here. 792 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000 It's a rock. 793 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000 It's a big rock. 794 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000 Looks like a steel hole. 795 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000 This could be it. 796 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,000 Crossing into Canada is easy. 797 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,000 We're going to be able to dive 798 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,000 into the water. 799 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,000 We're going to be able to dive 800 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000 into the water. 801 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000 We're going to be able to dive 802 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000 into the water and then dive into the water. 803 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000 Going into Canada is easy. 804 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000 That is, if you can ever reach the border. 805 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 Okay. 806 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000 They have one lane open. 807 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000 It's a good start. 808 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,000 The country that gave us John Candy, 809 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,000 Marty Short, Eugene Levy 810 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000 can't give me a second guy 811 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,000 working this checkpoint? 812 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Where are they? Where is everybody? 813 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000 This is what happens when you legalize weed 814 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,000 and give away Viagra at discount prices. 815 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000 Nobody comes to work. 816 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,800 probably Maple Syrup Remembrance Day. 817 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,440 Once hockey season starts, nothing gets done. 818 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,600 Oh, my God, it's barely moving. 819 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,780 For the love of Ryan Gosling, come on! 820 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:40,180 Shouldn't this border just be some guy 821 00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:42,680 on a horse in a funny hat? 822 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,380 This is how it ends. 823 00:42:44,380 --> 00:42:47,620 On a bridge, halfway to Canada. 824 00:42:47,620 --> 00:42:49,720 Tell you one thing, Justin Trudeau's office 825 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:52,560 is gonna get a very strongly worded email from me. 826 00:42:56,500 --> 00:43:01,800 I'm in the middle of Lake Superior, 827 00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,940 diving dangerous waters for the wrecks 828 00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:06,400 of two World War I minesweepers. 829 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,400 So far, so good. 830 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:13,320 Wait, something is definitely down here. 831 00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,380 It's a wreck! 832 00:43:15,380 --> 00:43:17,580 It's a big wreck! 833 00:43:17,580 --> 00:43:19,120 Are you kidding me? 834 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,460 Are you seeing as metal or is it just wood? 835 00:43:22,460 --> 00:43:25,320 It's all metal, Tom. 836 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,220 Could be one of the minesweepers. 837 00:43:28,220 --> 00:43:31,420 Looks like it's been down here a long time. 838 00:43:31,420 --> 00:43:35,620 The debris field spreads out all over the bottom. 839 00:43:35,620 --> 00:43:38,920 Wow, pretty busted up. 840 00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,220 For sure. 841 00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:44,000 No doubt whatsoever, this went down in a storm. 842 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,040 It's torn to pieces. 843 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,200 There are hundreds of steel beams down here. 844 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,340 Can't tell if it's structural or cargo. 845 00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,060 Any sign of any guns at all. 846 00:43:57,060 --> 00:44:00,200 There should be one on the stern and one on the bow. 847 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,700 I'm not seeing guns on the stern. 848 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:06,440 Running over to the bow. 849 00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,140 The ship is just motion. 850 00:44:09,140 --> 00:44:10,680 It goes on for armor. 851 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:16,720 Some machinery ahead. 852 00:44:16,720 --> 00:44:20,460 I can see old gears here. 853 00:44:20,460 --> 00:44:24,120 I think this is part of the engine. 854 00:44:24,140 --> 00:44:28,480 I can see what looks like an anchor resting on the bottom. 855 00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:29,780 It still works. 856 00:44:29,780 --> 00:44:32,220 This thing isn't going anywhere. 857 00:44:32,220 --> 00:44:33,720 You know, of course, we're looking for something 858 00:44:33,720 --> 00:44:36,220 that's 140 feet long. 859 00:44:36,220 --> 00:44:38,420 They're X in pieces. 860 00:44:38,420 --> 00:44:40,300 Tough to tell how long it is. 861 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:44,360 I'm going to try to make my way to the end of this. 862 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,160 Oh, my lord. 863 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,240 Look at these boilers. 864 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:51,280 They're the size of a bus. 865 00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,540 That sounds incredible. 866 00:44:54,540 --> 00:44:58,540 Okay, I'm reaching the bow of the ship. 867 00:44:58,540 --> 00:45:00,540 No guns. 868 00:45:00,540 --> 00:45:02,540 No gun mounts. 869 00:45:02,540 --> 00:45:06,040 The physical profile doesn't quite mount. 870 00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,040 I don't think this is a nice sweeper, Tom. 871 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:14,040 Might be from the same period with those steam boilers, 872 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,040 but it's even bigger. 873 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,040 Whatever it is now, it is absolutely awesome. 874 00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:23,960 Josh, why don't you head back up? 875 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,960 We'll see if we can figure out what ship this is. 876 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,960 Okay, coming back to you now. 877 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,960 With the wreck's coordinates recorded, 878 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,960 I return to the surface to review with Tom. 879 00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:40,960 Whoo! 880 00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:41,960 Oh, man. 881 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,960 What a wreck. 882 00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:45,960 Absolutely beautiful. 883 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,960 Not our mind sweeper, but a beauty of a wreck. 884 00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:52,880 Massive boilers, machinery everywhere. 885 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:54,880 I mean, just stunning. 886 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:56,880 Wow, beautiful. 887 00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,880 If it would have been the minesweepers, 888 00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,880 you would have seen those big guns. 889 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,880 You know what, man, those minesweepers are out here, though. 890 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:04,880 Don't stop looking for them. 891 00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,880 No, we won't. I'm not going to give up. 892 00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:08,880 Nothing's going to hide from that sonar for ever. 893 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,880 You'll find them. 894 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,880 You want to get warm? 895 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,880 Yeah, let's get out of here. 896 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:16,880 Let's do this. 897 00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,800 I'm not sure if you can see the wreck. 898 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 899 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 900 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 901 00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:27,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 902 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 903 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:31,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 904 00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:33,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 905 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 906 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 907 00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 908 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:41,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 909 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 910 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,800 I'm not sure if you can see it. 911 00:46:46,720 --> 00:46:48,720 Due to its remote location, 912 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:50,720 the Chicago has been visited by very few divers. 913 00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:52,720 A sadly-faded chapter 914 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:54,720 from the long, tragic maritime history 915 00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:56,720 of the greatest Great Lake. 916 00:46:56,720 --> 00:46:58,720 Largely forgotten. 917 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:00,720 Until now. 918 00:47:00,720 --> 00:47:02,720 But of course, 919 00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:04,720 the Chicago wasn't the only wreck 920 00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:06,720 seen on this expedition, 921 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:08,720 and the other vessel was a genuinely 922 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:10,720 uncatalogued anomaly. 923 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,720 The ship Darryl and I found with the ROV 924 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:17,640 is a brand new discovery. 925 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,640 Using the footage that we took, 926 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,640 the vessel has now been positively ID'd 927 00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,640 as the satellite. 928 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,640 A tugboat that went down in 1879. 929 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,640 We just solved 930 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:29,640 a 150-year-old mystery. 931 00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,640 And I'm even happier to report 932 00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,640 that records indicate 933 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:35,640 the crew of the satellite survived. 934 00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:39,640 The 79 men aboard the increment 935 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:41,640 and serisoles were not so lucky. 936 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,640 They lie not alongside 937 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:46,560 their comrades in a field of poppies, 938 00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,560 but in the deep waters of a country 939 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,560 that was not their own. 940 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,560 And there they stay, for now. 941 00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,560 Lake Superior 942 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,560 may not give up her dead, 943 00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:58,560 but she has given us an incredible new discovery. 944 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,560 A hopeful sign 945 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,560 that makes me even more convinced 946 00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,560 that one day, one day soon, 947 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,560 the Minesweepers will be found.