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It's pristine waters are amongst the world's most beautiful.

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But could the island paradise of Turks and Caicos hold the answers to a long-standing

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Nazi mystery?

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Magnetometer, ROV, you name it, it's in our bed.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's sitting in British waters in the carabines.

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Would you want to say exactly where?

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No, I'm trying to keep that protected as much as I can.

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A submarine he believes is full of gold and other priceless treasures.

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The island is a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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Magnetometer, ROV, you name it, it's in our bed.

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It's in our bed.

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You can see it.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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It's a very beautiful place.

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You can follow the trail of clues to search for the Nazi's top secret lost to U-boat

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and its astonishing contents.

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Using original documents never seen by anyone other than Roger Miklos himself.

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A team of divers will attempt to unlock the mystery

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and find what many consider the most elusive shipwreck in history.

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Guys, I think I got a hit.

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I'm Lawrence Fishburne and tonight can Mike Fletcher finish the mission

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that Roger Miklos started so many years ago?

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The future of the island

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Brought to you by the U-boat

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Brought to you by...

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Off the coast of Florida and just 384 miles from Cuba

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Lay the islands of Turks and Caicos.

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Their beauty, color, and perfect weather

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makes these islands a destination for travelers worldwide.

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But looks can be deceiving.

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Under these turquoise waters, the terrain

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is jagged, unpredictable, and often deadly.

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And these islands are a graveyard of sunken vessels

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and lost treasure.

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And that's where Mike Fletcher comes in.

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You name it, I've done it underwater.

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I started out with a passion for maritime history

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and specifically shipwrecks.

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And then when you combine that with my ability

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to dive in deep, difficult conditions,

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I got really good at finding shipwrecks.

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I get a lot of attention for having found the Carpathia,

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which was the ship that saved the Titanic survivors.

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I found three really significant submarines.

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Mike!

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I think we got ourselves a submarine.

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Woo-hoo!

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Two famous youth boats, so this would be the third.

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I went from being a commercial diver

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to a recognized international shipwreck finder.

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Mike has been finding sunken vessels for over 40 years.

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But today, he begins the hunt for a shipwreck

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unlike any other in history.

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Out of the blue one day, I get a call from this guy.

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I've never met.

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And he says, Mike, can we get you to go on a mission for us?

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Turns out that mission was following up on treasure hunter

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Roger Miklos' claim that he had found a U-boat full

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of Nazi treasure.

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40 years ago, treasure hunter Roger Miklos

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claimed to have discovered a U-boat on the ocean floor

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off an island of Turks and Caicos.

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During World War II, Nazi U-boats

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terrorized the Atlantic, sinking over 2,500 ships.

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Official Navy pictures of the smashing of a U-boat

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supplies on the surface by carrier-based planes.

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By the end of the war, the Allies had sunk over 600

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of these German subs.

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A direct hit from a depth charge

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and another Nazi menace destroyed.

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But the U-boat Roger Miklos' claims to have found

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was not just any German sub.

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For decades, there had been rumors and stories

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that in the waning days of World War II,

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the Nazis built a fleet of nine specially modified cargo

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subs to ferry looted gold, priceless artwork,

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and possibly even top Nazi officers to South America

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as they attempted to flee a crumbling Third Reich.

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We do know that there's billions of dollars

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in looted personal possessions, gold,

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all sorts of valuable material that

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went missing during the war.

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It certainly made sense that some of this could have been

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loaded on U-boats to smuggle them out of Europe

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and into a safe haven.

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Over the years, many U-boats have been discovered.

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But no one has yet found the specialized German subs.

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Until in 1981, Roger said he had discovered one of these subs.

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They welded all the torpedo hatches up,

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removed all torpedoes for cargo, for all of the treasure.

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If he was right, it would be among the greatest

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underwater finds in history.

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But Roger never told anyone where the U-boat was located.

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Then in 2018, he died suddenly of a heart attack,

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leaving behind only cryptic documents and incomplete clues

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as to where he found the U-boat.

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But now, Mike Fletcher has those documents.

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Miklos' family has hired Mike to continue Roger's mission,

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and they have turned all of his records over to Mike.

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It is the first time ever that anyone other than Roger Miklos

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has had access to these maps and records.

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No one else has these documents.

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Roger made sure that no one else saw them.

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There was a lot going on in Roger's world,

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but he didn't leave us really good notes.

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So much of what he leaves behind is cryptic,

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and you can tell he was being very secretive.

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Roger's the only guy who knows where it is.

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So now we have to look at his notes and try and work backwards.

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It's as if Roger's working with us from the grave,

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but he's not making it easy.

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For 37 years, Roger kept the location of the U-boat

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a closely guarded secret.

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But why?

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Well, to understand that, you need

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to know the story of the man who discovered it.

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My name's Roger Miklos, and I've been in the salvage business

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for just about 56 years.

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Born in the Florida Keys, Roger Miklos

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worked as a police officer in Reno, Nevada,

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before the lure of sunken treasure drew him back to Florida

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to seek his fortune.

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Roger Miklos is here.

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At the time he says he discovered the U-boat,

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Roger Miklos was already a treasure hunting legend,

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having collected between $200 and $300 million

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in sunken treasure before the age of 40.

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Roger was at perfect balance, a successful treasure

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hunter who had the credibility mixed with the showmanship.

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Roger's first major discovery was the El Capitan,

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a Spanish galleon laden with gold and silver that

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was lost off the coast of Florida in 1715.

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The gold pieces here are all that exist

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left of the El Capitan's treasure.

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There is no more available anywhere.

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I didn't think you were allowed to keep treasures.

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You see, when you salvage treasure in Florida,

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they get 25% for the state of Florida for the museums.

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So then they turn to the other 75% over to the salvage company.

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Throughout his career as a treasure hunter,

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Roger would continue to make significant fines.

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The atotcha yielded $148 million.

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The El Capitan yielded $86 million.

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The Maraviglia yielded a little over $100 million.

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35 years later, Roger Miklos gave his final interview

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before his death.

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Tell us about the ultimate piece of treasure

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you think you have found.

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I just want to move.

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Well, as far as the item, just that U-boat,

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that's got to be what I'll tell you why.

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Because you want to get into the U-boat?

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I'll tell you the story of it.

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Roger never set out to find a U-boat.

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The story begins in 1981, when Roger traveled to the Caribbean

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to pick out a crew for a new expedition.

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This is Captain John Christensen.

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He is a Viking.

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John and Roger spent six weeks sailing around Turks and Caicos

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on the hunt for the remains of the pinta, one of the three

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ships Columbus sailed to the new world.

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One day, their magnetometer, the device that

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detects metal objects on the sea floor,

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picked up something unusual.

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The magnetic field is disturbed by iron and heavy metals.

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Maybe a car, a refrigerator, but it's definitely iron, man.

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Roger went off on his own to investigate.

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This anchor here in the deep water,

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I'll take the zodiac and take a look at it.

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I swam down 45 feet.

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I saw the two back propeller blades.

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They're highly polished from going into sand up and down

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into sand.

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And there's these enormous zeffelin fins on this damn thing.

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And I'm, what?

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Roger knew this was something extraordinary.

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And I realized, holy cow, this thing goes and goes and goes.

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It's under an island.

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And I got to the top of the conning tower.

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And then I noticed a glint, a gold glint color.

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They put a commission plaque in the teakwood deck

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on the starry side of the conning tower.

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And I rubbed it, grass off of it.

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And there it is, man.

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Blooming floss.

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Humberg, 1944, with a German eagle and swastika on the damn

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thing.

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Now I know it's German.

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This is a hubo.

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Roger returned to the ship, but never revealed to his crew

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what he had found.

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The world of treasure hunting is very cloak and dagger.

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When you make a big discovery like that,

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there are people hiding in the weeds,

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waiting to take it away from them.

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It's got to be worth a fortune, man.

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But I don't know anything about it.

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So I've just let it set.

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Nobody going to discover this.

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Roger would have been OK if he had just stayed focused

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on the hubo, got permissions and pursued that.

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Instead, Roger continued to search for the pinta.

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Days later, his crew made a discovery,

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an anchor they believed to be several centuries old.

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This is us at the surface transferring it

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from the Captain Jack to the Hedwig Land.

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And I'm a little shot there standing.

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This thing weighed about 1,400 pounds.

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I said, he really had to get it good and lashed to swing it

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over on that boom.

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What the crew didn't know was that the Turks and Caicos

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government had declared that Roger's permit to salvage

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items from the shipwreck was invalid.

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And the next morning, law enforcement officers

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approached Roger's ship with orders to arrest him and the crew.

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I told Christian, send port of power on, dude.

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We're out of here.

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So all of a sudden, I see the two cops jumping

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in their little skiff with this diesel motor in it.

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And here they come, man, firing away at us at M16, man.

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The bullets are ricocheting off of my hull.

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I collected 168 rounds of bullets off of my deck.

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Roger and John escaped, but the government of Turks and Caicos

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had now cut Roger off from ever returning

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to find his submarine.

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Could the sunken sub that Roger claimed to have found

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be one of these modified Nazi U-boats?

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Now, after examining Roger Miklos' documents,

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Mike has assembled a team of two men,

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and after a few seconds, Mike has assembled a team

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to look for the U-boat.

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Diver and underwater photographer Chris Atkins.

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When it comes to diving, it's Chris Atkins.

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He's very trustworthy.

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He works hard.

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He's my dive partner.

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He's the underwater shooter.

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And undersea electronics and robotics expert Sam McDonald.

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Beyond Chris and myself, we need somebody with the tools.

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We need the magnetometer.

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We need the side scan.

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We need an ROV because we don't know how deep we may have to go.

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Sam McDonald is the person I turned to for underwater robotics.

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She not only develops and operates this stuff,

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she invents this stuff.

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She brings all of the stuff we need.

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What have you got for us today?

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We're going to go to the Caribbean and look for one of Hitler's missing U-boats.

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It was in route, according to the story,

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from Germany to maybe South America, loaded with treasure.

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Pilfered out of Nazi Europe at the end of the war.

259
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Really?

260
00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:29,400
Wow.

261
00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,400
Now, Roger never told anybody exactly where he'd found it.

262
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All's we know is it's in the Turks and Caicos.

263
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While Roger wasn't allowed to go back into the country, I am.

264
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I've gone through that box.

265
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I've read all the articles, looked at the maps, read the reports.

266
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I think I've cracked the code.

267
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I carried a 45.

268
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He wasn't letting anybody know what was in that briefcase.

269
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But now I've got that briefcase.

270
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I get to look at the records that Roger held so dearly that nobody else got to see.

271
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Where is it?

272
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It's sitting in British waters in the caribouns.

273
00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,400
Did you want to say exactly where?

274
00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,400
No, I'm trying to keep that protected as much as I can.

275
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Now, Mike has assembled his team to go look for the U-boat.

276
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That is, if he can decipher the mountain of clues Roger amassed throughout his decades of research

277
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into the murky origins of the Nazi submarine.

278
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His diagram superimposed on an ordinary U-boat shows that it has special modifications for long underwater journeys.

279
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He says it's in perfect condition.

280
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Roger's research convinced him that this sub had been modified to carry treasure.

281
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Here's the normal counting tower and all these machine guns and stuff.

282
00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,400
They eliminated all that. They moved the bridge forward. They modernized the bridge, made it very narrow.

283
00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,400
There's 50 tons of gold on that thing.

284
00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:31,400
All them paintings, Leonardo's, Monet's, all of the famous works of art, 600 of them, distributed between these nine U-boats.

285
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Here's my original drawing of the way that thing is set. This is the overhang of the island.

286
00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:42,400
Roger's description of the terrain where he found the U-boat were vague and secretive.

287
00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:51,400
He said the sub was in 125 feet of water, either partially under an island or sticking out of a cave that had a steep slope on one side.

288
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We're the only people to see this stuff.

289
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Really?

290
00:15:55,400 --> 00:16:02,400
Roger Miklos was so paranoid that somebody was going to find his U-boat that he never wrote the location down.

291
00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,400
True treasure hunter.

292
00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,400
I've watched hours of Roger talking to camera, read all of his documents, looked at his maps.

293
00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,400
I think I've cracked his code.

294
00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:15,400
The one thing you haven't seen is this.

295
00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:16,400
And what is that?

296
00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:22,400
There's a simple pad of paper that lists some of the wrecks that Roger's found in Turks and Gagos.

297
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At a glance, it didn't mean anything to me.

298
00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,400
But look there, French frigate.

299
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Number seven, 1724 French frigate.

300
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And watch what Roger says.

301
00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,400
And I coded the U-boat as a 1724 French frigate.

302
00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,400
Nobody had a clue that that wasn't a French frigate.

303
00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:44,400
Old shipwreck.

304
00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:48,400
He just said the French frigate was code for the U-boat.

305
00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,400
So he's telling us that he's keeping the code.

306
00:16:51,400 --> 00:17:01,400
Towards the end, when Roger's health was really failing, it was like he had one last chance to tell the world what he kneeled to say.

307
00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:10,400
So by putting the yellow sheet, Roger's words together, the code is cracked, we now have a location.

308
00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,400
I think we make a trip to Turks and Gagos.

309
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Seven weeks after the team's first meeting, Mike heads to Turks and Gagos to get his first look at the local topography.

310
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It's not every day I get asked to go on a submarine.

311
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Roger makes a big, big deal about caves.

312
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,400
The idea that the submarine is sort of parked inside a cave.

313
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So if I was going to take on this project, I want to see if we can find a cave big enough to house a big portion of a U-boat.

314
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We're here.

315
00:17:54,400 --> 00:18:00,400
Somewhere out there where those waves are breaking should be Roger's U-boat.

316
00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:08,400
We know that a likely spot would be on a very craggy ocean bed with cliffs and perhaps valleys.

317
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:16,400
So if I get underwater and I don't see those topographical features, this trip will have been a big waste of my time.

318
00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,400
Given the vast area to look in, Mike decides to approach the search methodically.

319
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His first step, investigate the underwater landscape.

320
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If the underwater geography doesn't match Roger's descriptions, he could scrap the entire expedition.

321
00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:39,400
I'm finally going to see for myself if there's anything to Roger's story, the moment of truth.

322
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,400
I'd never visited the Turks and Caicos before.

323
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:55,400
And certainly the geography of what Roger describes.

324
00:18:55,400 --> 00:19:00,400
Everything's adding up. This is a really, really craggy seabed.

325
00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:06,400
It's not like anything you normally see with big overhangs and sharp drop-offs and gullies.

326
00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:11,400
This is the overhang of the island. It goes way out there, about 400 feet.

327
00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:17,400
And there's a shelf that comes up. But there's 700 highlands in that chain.

328
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,400
And that's like looking for a needle in a haystack, man.

329
00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:26,400
We haven't found the U-boat yet, but we're certainly in the right area according to Roger's descriptions.

330
00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:37,400
After completing his first dive, Mike returns to local headquarters to meet up with the team.

331
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,400
U-boats are being found every day.

332
00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:48,400
There's a lot of evidence before Roger Michels to point to this part of the world.

333
00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:52,400
We know that during the war there was a lot of U-boat activity in the Caribbean,

334
00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:56,400
because a lot of the Allied oil came from South America.

335
00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:01,400
The Caribbean was an unexpected hotbed of U-boat activity,

336
00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:08,400
as German and Italian submarines tried to prevent Great Britain from being supplied with oil from Venezuela.

337
00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:15,400
In addition, Britain's largest oil refinery was on the island of Trinidad, a UK colony.

338
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:26,400
From 1941 to 1945, enemy subs took out 319 Allied ships in what historians call the Battle of the Caribbean.

339
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,400
By 1943, the area was under Allied control.

340
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:39,400
So why would a 1944 specialized German U-boat be in these waters?

341
00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,400
Is it possible it was on its way to South America, laden with treasure?

342
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,400
That part of Roger's story is very much supported by the historical facts.

343
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:59,400
So that's what's told me, that's what said to me, Mike, you're going to have to follow this crazy man and see if he was speaking the truth.

344
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:04,400
There's a U-boat out there and I intend to bring it up shortly.

345
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:12,400
Mike's research convinced him Roger's story could indeed be true.

346
00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,400
Looks like a nice vessel.

347
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:16,400
Hi.

348
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:18,400
Come on aboard.

349
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:19,400
Oh, thank you.

350
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,400
Wow.

351
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:26,400
The team boards the Explorer II, the dive boat that will be their home for the next several days.

352
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,400
Ultimately, we want to go to the south bottom corner of West Caco.

353
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,400
I think we can work that out.

354
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:35,400
No problem.

355
00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:36,400
No problem.

356
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,400
We have a lot of gear we got to get on board.

357
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,400
We should probably...

358
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,400
Yeah.

359
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,400
Like, have you seen how much stuff we have?

360
00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:51,400
To track down the sub, Mike and his team will be using state-of-the-art equipment that Miklos could not have dreamed of back in 1981.

361
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:52,400
Got it, Chris?

362
00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,400
Yeah, I'm good.

363
00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,400
We're going out here with everything under the sun.

364
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,400
I've never been this well prepared.

365
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,400
Magnetometer, ROV, side scan.

366
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,400
You name it, it's in our bevy of electronic tricks.

367
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:10,400
But in the end, it will all come down to the trail of breadcrumbs left by Roger Miklos himself.

368
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:16,400
Roger has left us with this crazy bunch of hidden clues about what we may or may not find.

369
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,400
Something tells me that this is not going to come easy.

370
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,400
We're about to find out.

371
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,400
You really work to get inside Roger's head.

372
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,400
And you think you've got him figured out, but he might surprise us yet.

373
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,400
Mike knows they are looking for what Roger labeled as a French frigate.

374
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,400
And they know it's in Turks and Caicos.

375
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,400
But that's still an area covering thousands of square miles.

376
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,400
So the next step is to narrow the search.

377
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,400
You often hear that it's a hunt for a needle in a haystack.

378
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,400
In this case, we've got to find the haystack before we can find the needle.

379
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,400
Guys, maybe we'll just take a table and spread the chart out.

380
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,400
Sure.

381
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,400
So, complete Lorraine chart.

382
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:07,400
On the pad of paper where Roger lists a bunch of his shipwrecks,

383
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,400
some of those locations are clearly latitude-longitude.

384
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,400
But then there's the French frigate.

385
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,400
And there is this cryptic number beside the French frigate.

386
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,400
143228.

387
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,400
Right away, I went, that's got to be a Lorraine number.

388
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:28,400
A system of navigation sailors used before there was GPS.

389
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,400
Used for plotting and converting measure data lines to latitude and longitude,

390
00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,400
long-range navigation, or Lorraine for short,

391
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:43,400
was set up by the United States in World War II as a special navigational aid.

392
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:49,400
Before the advent of GPS, it was used by ship captains for decades.

393
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,400
I haven't seen one of these in a long time.

394
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,400
You've actually seen one?

395
00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,400
Yeah, I've been one as young as I look.

396
00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,400
These were state-of-the-art back in Roger's day, but...

397
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,400
Come a long way.

398
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:03,400
Nobody knows where the Lorraine chart is anymore.

399
00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:09,400
For me to try and find his location based on Lorraine means I had to find an old Lorraine chart.

400
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,400
That was not easy.

401
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:12,400
But I did find one.

402
00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,400
I did find one chain or one coordinate that makes sense with what Roger's telling us.

403
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,400
So, French frigate, one Lorraine line.

404
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,400
Okay.

405
00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:22,400
143228.

406
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:24,400
Come straight up this line.

407
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,400
We're looking for 3228.

408
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,400
Bingo.

409
00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,400
French frigate.

410
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:35,400
It's the only place in the entire country that that line crosses the water depth that we're looking for,

411
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:40,400
somewhere between 45 and 100 plus feet.

412
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:45,400
When I saw a French frigate on the list and I saw the bits and pieces of a position,

413
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,400
I went, that's where we go.

414
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,400
That's where we go first.

415
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,400
So, there's one of two things here, a French frigate or a U-boat.

416
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:59,400
Like any good treasure hunter would, they're not going to put a real X on a real map on a real location.

417
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:05,400
That's done uncommon for treasure hunters to often code their finds, right, to keep looters?

418
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,400
No, they are the sneakiest bastards on the planet.

419
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:13,400
What they do is they give you a piece of the truth and then they...

420
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,400
They're just that big, right?

421
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,400
They need to protect their finds.

422
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:17,400
Oh, absolutely.

423
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:22,400
Like if they've got something serious to find, they don't want their competitor finding it.

424
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:28,400
Treasure hunters are very territorial and they really hate to see a competing boat on the horizon.

425
00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,400
It's every man for himself.

426
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,400
Gold changes people like you wouldn't believe.

427
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:40,400
I could tell you stories of guys that had on my boat and the greed just fires off like you can't believe.

428
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:50,400
All the secrecy and code underscores how little the team really knows about what Roger found on that day in 1981 and where it might actually be.

429
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,400
They're putting together a puzzle without all the pieces.

430
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,400
He went to a lot of trouble to hide whatever it is he found here, right?

431
00:25:58,400 --> 00:25:59,400
Does it make sense?

432
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:00,400
It does.

433
00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,400
Look at the torture he put himself through.

434
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,400
I think he found a U-boat.

435
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:04,400
I really believe that.

436
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,400
His story stayed consistent from the time he first discovered it to the day he died.

437
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:10,400
Exactly.

438
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,400
Treasure hunters can be a bit of snake oil salesman, right?

439
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:19,400
They all want to find something so they tell you they found it, but he for his entire life was completely dedicated to this.

440
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:27,400
It would be the biggest tale on the planet, man, but if anybody used their head, there ain't no way I could come up with this bullc*** out of my head, man.

441
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,400
One thing about bullc*** you can't remember unless you're really good.

442
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,400
But you can always remember the truth.

443
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,400
No matter how hard you try, you can always remember the truth.

444
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,400
It always comes out the same way twice.

445
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:41,400
This guy's a character, but he did dedicate his entire life.

446
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,400
Anybody who's truly a fraud usually gives up before Roger did.

447
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:46,400
Roger found a U-boat.

448
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:47,400
I'm convinced of it.

449
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:53,400
You know, whether it's Hitler's U-boat full of treasure, that remains to be seen, but I believe in Roger.

450
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,400
I really, evidence tells us, history tells us there's a U-boat here.

451
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:10,400
There's a lot of what Roger says that is plausible, but then there's just one thing that he claims is on the U-boat, and I just went, wow.

452
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,400
Roger Miklos.

453
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:29,400
Where is it?

454
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,400
It's sitting in British waters in the Caribbean.

455
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,400
Did you want to say exactly where?

456
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,400
No, I'm trying to keep that protected as much as I can.

457
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:48,400
After the government of Turks and Caicos banned him in 1981 from returning to the site where he says he found the U-boat, Roger spent the rest of his life keeping the sub's location secret.

458
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:56,400
Now, after his death, the unique personality that was Roger Miklos casts a long shadow over the team's mission.

459
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:06,400
Roger Miklos has some very significant finds that he has discovered over the years, so he is a legit treasure hunter, but he has a lot of controversy surrounding him.

460
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:12,400
One of those controversies involves a claim Roger made about the contents of his U-boat.

461
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:22,400
He says his research convinced him that the sub was filled with gold, paintings, and maybe even Nazi officers attempting to escape Germany.

462
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,400
And the facts do lend credibility to Roger's theory.

463
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:37,400
Nazi subs did indeed sail the Caribbean, and at the end of the war, many Nazis successfully fled Germany to live in South America.

464
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:44,400
But so far, there is no evidence to support his last most controversial claim.

465
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:52,400
There's just one thing that he claims is on the U-boat, and I just went, wow.

466
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:57,400
Hitler supposedly to the public a committed suicide.

467
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:01,400
Him and Brom are on board that damn U-boat.

468
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:10,400
It's an extraordinary statement, but could it be true? Could the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Ava Braun be in tune to board Roger's submarine?

469
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:16,400
He's not the only one out there who thinks that there might have been some mystery and intrigue with what actually happened to Hitler.

470
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:26,400
Roger claimed that meeting with Nazi hunters and retired German officers convinced him that Hitler faked his own suicide and escaped on a modified U-boat.

471
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:32,400
Hitler got away clean and was taken to where the U-boats were waiting, and off they went.

472
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:36,400
Do I believe Roger found a U-boat? Absolutely.

473
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:45,400
Do I believe that the U-boat was carrying gold and paintings looted from Europe after the war? It's possible.

474
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:53,400
But do I think that Hitler was on board his U-boat? No.

475
00:29:53,400 --> 00:30:00,400
It's obvious to me that Roger loved a good headline. He'd like to be in front of the news camera.

476
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:07,400
He needed the attention. He needed to garner support for his idea. He needed investors' dollars.

477
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:16,400
But more critically, he needed permits to go back to the Turks and Caicos, prove to the world that he had actually found a U-boat.

478
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:23,400
Did Roger get a bit eccentric over all the years at trying to convince the world he'd found a U-boat? I don't know.

479
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:32,400
Most shipwreck hunters are a little kind of off base. You become obsessed with finding that treasure. You become obsessed with constantly looking.

480
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:39,400
But the one thing about Roger over all those years is that his story didn't change. He said he found a U-boat.

481
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:55,400
One of the nine buboats ordered by Hermann Göring at the last part of the war in 1944 to remove high command, art objects, to South America.

482
00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:10,400
In 1944, Hermann Göring and U-boat commander Carl Donitz ordered the construction of a technologically advanced Nazi sub, the XV-2B, built at the Blumenfloss shipyards in Hamburg.

483
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:20,400
It was faster and quieter, designed to combat new allied strategies against U-boats in the Atlantic, including depth charges and convoys.

484
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:27,400
According to Roger, the sub he saw was branded with a logo from the Blumenfloss shipyard.

485
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:45,400
Now, after months of research, the team feels they have made a breakthrough in their search and have identified a possible location of what could be the final resting place of the mysterious Nazi U-boat.

486
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:53,400
Roger said there is a shipwrecked French frigate there, but we also know that Roger has said that the French frigate is really the U-boat.

487
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:59,400
What I know is this is where Roger says to look. I gotta think we're in the right spot.

488
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:07,400
But knowing where to look is only half the battle. Finding a U-boat that has been submerged over 70 years is a daunting task.

489
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:11,400
There's been a lot of passage of time, right? Things move around under the waters.

490
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:22,400
Well, and the dangerous thing is that we know this thing is sitting on a steep incline. Once it moves, let's say in a hurricane, if it did let loose, it would plummet into the abyss.

491
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:29,400
The ocean is a huge place that's constantly changing, so anything on the seabed is going to be affected by that change.

492
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:39,400
Hurricanes, earthquakes, even a tsunami. Shipwrecks roll over, break apart, even fall off cliffs.

493
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,400
The next question is do we dive first or we just go out with the mag first?

494
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,400
How big of an area do you think we need to cover?

495
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,400
At least a thousand square meters or yards.

496
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:55,400
Let's go take the magnetometer out and see if we get a hit and then at least we know where to start.

497
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,400
Let's hope we get a huge hit.

498
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:05,400
With such a large area to cover, with depths hundreds of feet, putting divers in the water is not feasible yet.

499
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:12,400
You don't just jump in the ocean and find a shipwreck. The ocean is just so big, thousands of miles in every direction.

500
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,400
Imagine trying to find something as small as a U-boat.

501
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:22,400
To narrow the search, the team breaks out the first piece of gear, Sam's trusty magnetometer.

502
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,400
So let's get her hooked up to the laptop.

503
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,400
Back in Roger's day, the mag was just a needle whipping up and down on paper.

504
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,400
This new sophisticated mag will paint a chart with magnetic hits.

505
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:41,400
You're looking for a pattern that shows you that, hey, something's different than the things that are surrounding it.

506
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,400
Hey, Cap, you got a couple minutes?

507
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,400
Yeah, come on in.

508
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:47,400
Great, so we're finally going to get the magnetometer in the water.

509
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,400
Weird question, but how slow can we go in this boat? Can we go four knots?

510
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:52,400
No problem.

511
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:57,400
Okay, so we're going to run about four knots, and what we're going to try to do is what they call mowing the lawn.

512
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,400
Drive the boat in one direction for a little while, turn around, drive it back in the other direction.

513
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:06,400
Certainly, if there is something that shows up, even if it's a small object, it'll probably get you to stop.

514
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:07,400
Okay.

515
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,400
So we'll communicate, if you don't mind, using this here.

516
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:10,400
Okay.

517
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,400
So we'll give you a call when we're about to get started. That work?

518
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,400
Perfect. That sounds good.

519
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,400
I can't wait to get there and have a look what's down there.

520
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,400
We have everything that a shipwreck hunting team could want.

521
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:29,400
We've got a magnetometer, we've got slide scan sonar, we've got multiple ROVs with multi-beam sonar.

522
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:35,400
Nobody has this much equipment, so if there's something to be found, I think we're going to find it.

523
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,400
Hey, boys, how's my Maggie?

524
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:38,400
She's almost ready for a swim.

525
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,400
Awesome.

526
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:40,400
All ready for you.

527
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,400
The GPS is hooked up.

528
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,400
Chris, if you carry that, Sam and I will carry the reel.

529
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:46,400
Okay, perfect.

530
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,400
I want to be careful because there's a very delicate, expensive glass sensor in this thing.

531
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:51,400
I know you're going to be careful.

532
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:53,400
I do think Roger is credible.

533
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,400
Could he be incorrect, possibly?

534
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400
But there's only one way to find out.

535
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:58,400
We have to go and see.

536
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,400
We are ready to deploy the mag.

537
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:09,400
Because we're all chasing the Eureka moment, but it all begins with that moment when you throw off the lines and you're on your mission.

538
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,400
Watch that reel, she's going to pull fast.

539
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,400
All right.

540
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,400
This is a very, very important first step.

541
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,400
If there's something made of metal down there, we're going to know soon.

542
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:19,400
You got it?

543
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:20,400
I got it.

544
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:22,400
There she goes.

545
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:34,400
Off the coast of Turks and Caicos, Mike, Sam and Chris are taking a vital step in their search for a sunken Nazi U-boat.

546
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,400
There she goes.

547
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:43,400
They've deployed a magnetometer to scan for metallic objects on the ocean floor.

548
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:49,400
As we throw the magnetometer into the water, it feels like all of the hard work that we've done over the past months,

549
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,400
all the logistics to get out here is finally coming to fruition.

550
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,400
All right, slowly letting it out.

551
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:58,400
You should have signal.

552
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,400
Connecting.

553
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,400
But towing this advanced piece of equipment is not without its challenges.

554
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:10,400
The ever-changing terrain of Turks and Caicos makes the team's mission particularly difficult.

555
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,400
Turks and Caicos is absolute paradise.

556
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:16,400
But there are some challenges.

557
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:22,400
One side of the archipelago is just completely filled with rocks and coral, and it's super dangerous for boats to get in.

558
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:29,400
Formed by coral reefs, the islands sit on a foundation of soft limestone.

559
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:39,400
Centuries ago, when ocean levels were lower, acid rainwater collected in pools and over time began to dissolve the surrounding limestone.

560
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:47,400
The result is a topography of ridges, fissures, sinkholes and caverns, many of which have never been explored.

561
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,400
Normally you look for a shipwreck, it's going to be obvious, flying there on the ocean floor.

562
00:36:56,400 --> 00:37:01,400
But imagine how hard it is to find a U-boat when it's underground.

563
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,400
It just happens to be underwater underground.

564
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,400
Are you good there, Chris?

565
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,400
Yeah, I'm good. How's it looking up there?

566
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,400
It's good. It's marking.

567
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,400
Magnetometer work is long and tedious.

568
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,400
You spend a lot of time in front of a screen.

569
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,400
So just let it out nice and slow. That's good, Chris. Just keep letting it out slow like that.

570
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,400
Still going.

571
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:32,400
We're going to see a graph that's coming up on our computer screen and we're looking for a big blip.

572
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,400
Whoa, hang on. We got something here. There's something.

573
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,400
There we go.

574
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:43,400
Whoa.

575
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,400
We got a hit. We did get a little hit there.

576
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,400
Yeah.

577
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,400
Like, look at all that.

578
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,400
Islands is stuff coming on here.

579
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:51,400
So we hit something.

580
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,400
Now it's a U-boat size.

581
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,400
The good news is that we are getting some hits.

582
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:04,400
They're not some marine size hits, but we are showing some magnetic anomaly.

583
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,400
So there's something here to do.

584
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,400
But we haven't really hit our sweet spot yet.

585
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,400
The spot that Roger told us should be the French frigate.

586
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,400
If it's there and we cross by it, we'll get a huge hit.

587
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,400
As Mike and the crew get closer to the sunken U-boat location,

588
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:27,400
the one constant is the unpredictable nature of the open seas.

589
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,400
Chris, you notice that as we're coming more south, there's more sea running.

590
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,400
Yeah.

591
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,400
Yeah, we're getting into some, some chop here.

592
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,400
It's going to get rough.

593
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:37,400
Yeah.

594
00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,400
Operating the magnetometer in even small waves is difficult.

595
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:47,400
And now we're in really rough seas and we really have to monitor the mags buffer to the bottom.

596
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,400
It looks like the weather is turning on us a little bit.

597
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,400
The seas have picked up.

598
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,400
It's not as nice and flat calm as it was when we started.

599
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:03,400
Extending the cable helps to balance out the variations in the water depth caused by sudden swells.

600
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,400
But that comes with a risk.

601
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,400
A longer tether makes it much more difficult to make quick adjustments,

602
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:16,400
making it vitally important that they maintain enough speed to keep the magnetometer off the sea floor.

603
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,400
Hey, Chris, Chris, we're not going fast enough to hold the mag up.

604
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,400
Captain's got to pick up the speed or you got to roll tide there like now.

605
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,400
Because I got 18 feet of depth and 20 feet of bottom.

606
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:35,400
J.F., we're going to have you pick up the speed by one knot, please, so we can go five.

607
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:36,400
Five.

608
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,400
Five.

609
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:38,400
Very good.

610
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:39,400
Five would be great.

611
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:40,400
Thanks.

612
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,400
With the ship speed adjusted, the magnetometer's sweep resumes.

613
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,400
Turning to starboard slowly.

614
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:56,400
So far, none of the data suggests that there is a U-boat in the area, but the team holds out hope.

615
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,400
We're not getting a hit, but I'm still convinced this could be the spot.

616
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:07,400
We're going to make one more pass across what I call the sweet spot.

617
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:12,400
And hopefully we're going to see this great big change in magnetic field.

618
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,400
Guys, I think I got a hit.

619
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:15,400
Are you serious?

620
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,400
What do you got?

621
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:20,400
I think that could be it.

622
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:22,400
Oh my God.

623
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:35,400
In Turks and Caicos, the team believes they're closing in on what could be a lost Nazi U-boat when Sam gets some promising data from the magnetometer.

624
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:38,400
I think I got a hit.

625
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,400
Check this out right now.

626
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:41,400
Come on, quick.

627
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:42,400
Are you serious?

628
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:47,400
When you find something, when you get that hit, you can feel the excitement in everybody.

629
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:49,400
Where do you got?

630
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:50,400
All right, check this out.

631
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,400
So this is where it starts to drop on the cliff a little bit so we get a big gore.

632
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:54,400
Oh yeah, there it is.

633
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,400
And then there's the classic S.

634
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,400
Oh my God.

635
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,400
Okay, look where we are too.

636
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,400
This is pretty close to their location.

637
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,400
I think that could be it.

638
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:12,400
Getting a hit on the magnetometer, this means we've got an indication of metal.

639
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:17,400
And it's exactly in the area where Roger tells us to look for the French frigate.

640
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,400
But a hit doesn't mean it's a submarine yet.

641
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,400
Determining that will require eyes on the sea floor.

642
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,400
The magnetometer is not like a sonar or a camera.

643
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,400
It doesn't draw you a picture.

644
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:37,400
It's just going to give you an indication that there is something different than normal and it happens to be metallic.

645
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:39,400
We don't know what's there.

646
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,400
It could be an old car, a sunken ship that we're not looking for.

647
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,400
And we've got to find out what that iron is that's down there.

648
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,400
The next step is to put divers in the water.

649
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,400
If there's something big there, I'm ready to jump in and just swim down and see what it is.

650
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,400
But once again, the weather refuses to cooperate.

651
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:03,400
Rough seas pick up and with sunset on the horizon, the team makes a difficult decision.

652
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:09,400
As much as we want to just jump in the water and dive, it's pretty choppy.

653
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,400
So we're going to pull the mag. We're going to wait for it to calm down.

654
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,400
Maybe tomorrow we'll do that first dive then.

655
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:22,400
The next morning in calmer seas, Mike and Chris decided safe to prep for the dive.

656
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:25,400
Can you tuck that into Chris?

657
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:26,400
Yeah.

658
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,400
I couldn't hold back Mike and Chris for a moment longer.

659
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,400
Once we got that hit on the magnetometer, they needed to go in the water.

660
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:40,400
The magnetometer has given Chris and Mike the area to explore, but it's by no means precise.

661
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,400
They have no idea what kind of terrain awaits them.

662
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,400
Just because there is something metal down there doesn't mean it will be easy to find.

663
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:56,400
U-boats were built to dive to great depths, both to evade detection and to hunt their own prey.

664
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:07,400
It's possible the sub-Roger says he saw, partially submerged in a cave, was there playing possum

665
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,400
and then was unable to surface or that it was hit and sunk.

666
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:24,400
Diving in caves and in areas like the geography that creates caves is a step beyond the regular dive.

667
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:32,400
You're in a very unusual underwater environment that's not like diving in a river or lake.

668
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:33,400
It's totally unique.

669
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:37,400
It is a sense of adventure that you can't imagine.

670
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:46,400
The sense of awe that no one has been in that particular cave ever in the history of mankind on the planet.

671
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:53,400
There's a lot of things about diving shipwrecks, especially in low visibility. It's extremely dangerous.

672
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:59,400
For Roger, it was an accident several decades ago that changed his life.

673
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:05,400
Don't do the diving anymore. I did the diving for 38 solid years. I damaged my heart.

674
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:13,400
I had bought a brand new Spooble Pro tank that I went in and we were down at 80 feet tall

675
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,400
and all of a sudden on it, exhale, the line on the tank blew off.

676
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,400
I thought I was dead.

677
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,400
They got me out of the water and they brought me into the Key Westenburg.

678
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:31,400
I was in a coma for seven days and I've got ventricular liberation on the lower part of my heart.

679
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:41,400
It's the kind of story that stays with every deep water diver, but when there's a potentially historic discovery on the line,

680
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,400
the rewards outweigh the risks.

681
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:52,400
It's a big, big deal to find a U-boat.

682
00:44:53,400 --> 00:45:00,400
And it's that spark of history and real adventure that drew me to U-boats specifically.

683
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:07,400
Although I'm not after the alleged billions or millions of dollars in the U-boat, the treasure is history.

684
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:16,400
The treasure is in the hunt. The treasure is in finding that item that's lost that no one else has been successful at finding.

685
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:26,400
Sam DeCrisse, if you read what's your depth, give me a depth check.

686
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:51,400
This is a really, really craggy seabed. It's not like anything you normally see with big overhangs and sharp drop-offs and gullies.

687
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:59,400
The way Mike and I work is he goes down with his hand-held metal detector and he starts scanning the area.

688
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:06,400
But everything's covered in sand or coral and you could have a U-boat that's been down there for quite a long time, completely covered.

689
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:12,400
And you could be looking at it with your eyes and swim over it and not realize that you've just swam over a U-boat.

690
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:19,400
We see shifting of sands. It could one day be completely covered, six months be open, and then covered back up again.

691
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:29,400
So we're really looking for small artifacts, indications that something might have been there at one time, and then pathways of debris that might lead us to the mothership.

692
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:39,400
With the hand-held metal detector, if there is something even as small as a paperclip, I'm going to know it's there even though I can't see it.

693
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:47,400
Chris, just wondering what you're seeing down there. What's the bottom conditions? Does it look like somewhere a U-boat might have wrecked?

694
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:54,400
It's really hard to tell. It still looks coral. Whenever we get, we have to vent here for a while. Completely covered.

695
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:04,400
It's a time-consuming and methodical search, and Mike and Chris make several trips back to the surface for more air.

696
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:14,400
Is anything of interest down there?

697
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:21,400
Chris, I'm not sure. Mike is watching. He hasn't said anything yet.

698
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,400
Roger that. Keep me updated.

699
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,400
Then something catches Mike's eye.

700
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,400
Okay, we're checking something out here.

701
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,400
Amazing. What do you got?

702
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,400
Surface to Mike. Do you read? Over.

703
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,400
Ma'am, you've got something here.

704
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,400
Something.

705
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:28,400
Don't leave me hanging, Chris. The anticipation's killing me. What do you got?

706
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,400
Look what the coral model is.

707
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,400
Another one.

708
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,400
Another one.

709
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:47,400
Following the piecemeal clues Roger left behind, Mike and his team believe they may have found a promising lead.

710
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:53,400
Now the team's instruments have detected iron on the seafloor.

711
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,400
And Mike and Chris dive down to investigate.

712
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:02,400
You're?

713
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:03,400
What do you got?

714
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:06,400
I put up the trail of metal pieces.

715
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,400
But in another one.

716
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,400
Sorry, I've got something here.

717
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,400
As we're following this metal trail, we come across a metal pipe flange.

718
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:30,400
To me, this is a pressure fitting. This is exactly the kind of thing that you would use in the construction of a submarine.

719
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:41,400
Most of the metal pieces are hard to identify except for one piece.

720
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,400
And that piece could be a very significant find.

721
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:50,400
And it appears to be a flange for pressure fitting or a sub.

722
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:57,400
Sub flanges are used to connect pipes, valves and equipment to provide a pressurized seal.

723
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:06,400
When compromised by a catastrophic disaster on board a U-boat sub, this would be the type of debris one would find.

724
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,400
We're finding these bits and pieces of iron that shouldn't be there.

725
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:19,400
It could lead us to a shipwreck, but hopefully are you about.

726
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,400
Cameras are extremely important when you're searching for shipwrecks.

727
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:41,400
There are legal reasons that you would like to have your shipwreck undocumented to prove that you are the one that found it, to prove that you also didn't do anything illegal.

728
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,400
Shipwreck and treasure hunting has been around for centuries.

729
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,400
The discovery of an old wreck can be worth millions of dollars.

730
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:56,400
However, finding treasure or valuable property is not always as simple as finder's keepers.

731
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:03,400
A key question is whether the discovery of goods is deemed salvage or treasure hunting.

732
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:09,400
A salvage refers to when someone sees property drifting, lost or abandoned at sea.

733
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:18,400
Under international conventions, the salvager is required to return the found goods to the original owner in return for a reward.

734
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:28,400
Treasure hunting typically means exploration aimed at unearthing antiquities and other valuables from shipwrecks for financial gain.

735
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:36,400
If the find lies in international waters and there's no one to claim ownership, the finder is probably in the clear to keep it.

736
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:47,400
However, because of the ambiguity, most countries have enacted laws to establish government ownership for the majority of shipwrecks found in their waters.

737
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:56,400
Just because you've found a shipwreck or even pieces that you think are part of a shipwreck, if you don't have a permit, you can't remove them.

738
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,400
Treasure hunters who ignore these rules often find themselves in trouble with the law.

739
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:08,400
Not having the correct permit is what got Roger Miklos banned from ever returning to Turks and Caicos.

740
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,400
That's where Roger seemed to run amok of the Turks and Caicos government.

741
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:17,400
They claim he didn't take out the right permits when he recovered an anchor.

742
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:22,400
Photography is the best way for divers to stake their claim when they find a wreck.

743
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:29,400
With so much more potentially at stake, it's not uncommon for unscrupulous treasure hunters to swoop in.

744
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:37,400
There's always somebody after your discovery who want to tell the public they found it first. They have rights.

745
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:45,400
It's a no-holes barred fight to the death when it comes to shipwrecks and especially shipwrecks with treasure.

746
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:51,400
I found a very important historical wreck and treasure hunters learned that I'd found it.

747
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:59,400
I went to this really president-setting court battle trying to determine who had found it first and who had rights.

748
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,400
As it turned out, it was my photographic evidence that proved my case.

749
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:09,400
It's a lesson Roger Miklos had to learn the hard way.

750
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,400
Roger claims that he took photographs of his U-boat.

751
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:20,400
He also claims that all of those photographs were lost when he was run off the island.

752
00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:27,400
If just one of those photographs still existed, this whole story would be very different.

753
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:36,400
Once Mike and Chris have documented their find, they begin to follow the trail of parts, hoping that it will lead to the missing U-boat.

754
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,400
The trail leads this way.

755
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:51,400
The trail is leading over the cliff and you can't even see the bottom.

756
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:59,400
So we followed the trail of bits and shards of metal until it disappeared into the abyss.

757
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:07,400
At least you'd have wondered, why is there a U-boat here that just slid off the edge and dumped into the abyss?

758
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:17,400
When you look at the seabed, you can see a groove, almost a trough that takes you all the way to the edge of the wall and then drops off into about 3,000 feet of water.

759
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,400
Everything else is covered in coral. Everything else looks like you would expect.

760
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:35,400
But this trough is kind of almost boat shaped. You can imagine this U-boat sitting there on the edge and over time, it's very likely that a storm could have pushed that off the edge down to 3,000 feet of water.

761
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:37,400
We don't know.

762
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:50,400
Roger talks about the sub being inside of a cave or partially inside of a cave, but could that be Roger trying to throw us off the scent again? We need to find out.

763
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:07,400
Mike and Chris are in the deep waters off Turks and Caicos in search of an underwater cave, attempting to get a visual of the Nazi U-boat that Roger described.

764
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:17,400
There really was the right incline, as Roger describes, from 45 feet down to 100 plus.

765
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:30,400
Mike and I reached our limits. We got down about 130 feet and realized that we're over almost like an abyss and we can't dive down there.

766
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:36,400
Mike and Chris have no choice but to give up and return to the boat.

767
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:46,400
Now that we found the shards in this gully, I just want to keep going down, get into deeper waters, see if there's more shards and more evidence of something that was on that shelf.

768
00:55:47,400 --> 00:56:01,400
We got to the edge, we looked over the edge. Everything that Roger describes, the valley leading down, the incline, it all matches. It's time for you to send this thing down there and look over the edge.

769
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:10,400
If the dive is beyond, say, 165 or 180 feet, then it's time to bring in Sam with the ROV. She can go places we can't go as divers.

770
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:20,400
Sam McDonald has her own company, Deep Trekker, who makes amazing underwater ROVs that are really, really important for the kind of stuff that we're doing.

771
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:27,400
The ROVs allow us to look into deep dark spaces that divers can't go into and go to those deeper depths that the divers can't reach.

772
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:34,400
ROVs have helped locate and document some of the world's most famous shipwrecks.

773
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:46,400
ROVs are being used in shipwreck hunting every day now. ROV technology was used to take some of the first looks at the Titanic, as well as a famous whaling ship from 1902 called the Nova Zembla.

774
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:56,400
And we even got to go inside of the USS Arizona for the first time. We got eyes on some of the damage and some of the items and artifacts that are still inside of that ship.

775
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:04,400
ROVs also helped locate two vessels from one of the great tragedies in the age of Victorian exploration.

776
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:15,400
The mysterious disappearance of Britain's Franklin expedition sent in 1845 to map Canada's supposed Northwest Passage through the Arctic.

777
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:27,400
Though many missions were sent to find the doomed ships, their location remained a mystery until 2014 when ROVs found the vessels on the ocean floor.

778
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:41,400
And of course the great thing about an ROV is it's not limited like divers to time or depth. You can send an ROV to the deepest spot in the oceans. And that has changed the whole game.

779
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:53,400
They'll go into spots that you wouldn't want to go as a human because there's a good chance you won't ever come back. And I can tell you, there's a lot of shipwrecks with ROVs trapped in them that aren't coming home either.

780
00:57:53,400 --> 00:58:04,400
So this is the revolution, so it's got six thrusters on it, so it's going to hold nice and steady. But for searching, we've got the 4K HD camera and then the multi beam forward facing Sonos.

781
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:14,400
Here's my original drawing, the way that thing is that she's up more at the ceiling and that island comes clear of here because I had a hell of a time getting around to the front of the gun.

782
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:22,400
Roger tells us that this U-boat is on a cliff, maybe partially submerged inside of a cave.

783
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:28,400
And it's lodged, it's even lodged farther up than the way my drawing is. I did this so quick.

784
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:33,400
We're going back a lot of years here, things move around, we know that there's been a few hurricanes out here.

785
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:39,400
An object as large as a U-boat could be pushed by storms, hurricanes, surges and push it right over that edge.

786
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,400
I saw the two back propeller blades, they're highly polished from going into sand up and down into sand.

787
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:51,400
Even Roger tells us it's going up and down and up and down, so it's already got some buoyancy, so it's tender.

788
00:58:52,400 --> 00:59:00,400
Now there's decades of pass since Roger was here, did it let go in a hurricane, slide down that slope and just drop over the edge? We can't know.

789
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:05,400
We'll cruise down that cliff and look for a cave and maybe there's a U-boat hanging out of it.

790
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:07,400
You ready to get this in the water? I want to go find a U-boat.

791
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:09,400
Come on, let's do this thing.

792
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:13,400
Let me know if you guys need a hand here, looks like you got it.

793
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:20,400
All right, let's do this, let's go. Let's go fishing for U-boats.

794
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:29,400
The crew now deploys the ROV, hoping it can pinpoint the location of the missing U-boat.

795
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:31,400
We're descending.

796
00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:36,400
And ultimately help them find the treasure that's been lost at sea for decades.

797
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:40,400
Still going up.

798
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:45,400
Sam steers the rover towards the edge of the underwater cliff.

799
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:48,400
We're about 12 meters down.

800
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:50,400
20 meters.

801
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:52,400
Descending.

802
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:56,400
All right, so if you feel tight on that tether, Mike, just keep paying out because I'm going down.

803
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:58,400
Going down.

804
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:07,400
ROVs, because they're providing information in real time, have to have a tether to send that data back.

805
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,400
That can be a challenge if you're on a swinging boat.

806
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:13,400
There's a chance of the tether getting caught up on things.

807
01:00:14,400 --> 01:00:15,400
Plus you're limited to how much tether you've got.

808
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,400
You can only go as far and as deep as that tether allows you to go.

809
01:00:23,400 --> 01:00:28,400
So you're working really hard to avoid all hangups and of course damaging the coral.

810
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:32,400
Yeah, we don't want to be, you know, ruin anything that nature made us.

811
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:34,400
No.

812
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:43,400
I would say we're probably moving like over 200 degrees on this mooring.

813
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:47,400
So I don't know, Sam, are you okay with this?

814
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:49,400
We're on a big boat.

815
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,400
We've only got a bow anchor on 100 foot ship.

816
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:57,400
It's going to swing 150 feet one way, 150 feet the other way.

817
01:00:58,400 --> 01:00:59,400
This is a challenge.

818
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,400
The crew can't afford for the rovers in Billicle to become entangled in the boat's propeller.

819
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:07,400
Or even worse, on the coral of the sea floor.

820
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:12,400
Sam guides the rovers to the area where Mike and Chris bound the metal debris.

821
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,400
Yep, yep, no, a little bit over to the right.

822
01:01:16,400 --> 01:01:17,400
That's it, that's it.

823
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:19,400
Okay, yep, there it is.

824
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:21,400
Oh, very cool.

825
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:23,400
Just sail her down that gully.

826
01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:25,400
And follow that down.

827
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,400
Chris, stop her when she gets to where we found the chunks of iron.

828
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:30,400
Yeah, I'm watching for it.

829
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:31,400
Yeah, right around there, right around there.

830
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:33,400
That's where Mike got that hit.

831
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:35,400
Just a little more to port.

832
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,400
Well now, see how deep and blue that is?

833
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:40,400
That's the abyss.

834
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:42,400
That's where Chris and I were not going to go.

835
01:01:43,400 --> 01:01:44,400
Okay, yeah, look here.

836
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:46,400
I got like a glowy on the sonar there.

837
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:48,400
Look at the formation.

838
01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,400
So the ROV goes down, it sees the geography that Mike and Chris described.

839
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:57,400
It sees the bits of metal that indicate something would be there.

840
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,400
And then off into the abyss we see the big cliff.

841
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,400
Wow, this boat is swinging all over the place.

842
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,400
Yeah, I think it's going to be too difficult to keep doing it from the back of this boat.

843
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:10,400
See this here?

844
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,400
I would like to get a visual on that.

845
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:15,400
So what is that, right?

846
01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:17,400
It's certainly different than everything else we see.

847
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:19,400
See this line?

848
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,400
It's no straight lines in nature, right?

849
01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:24,400
Whoa, we're really swinging, guys.

850
01:02:24,400 --> 01:02:27,400
All right, guys, I think that it's probably best to pull this one up.

851
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,400
Let's go check out that one marking that I got on the sonar.

852
01:02:31,400 --> 01:02:33,400
I've taken the GPS location that we want to go to on the Zodiac

853
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,400
and then drop the little one in and see what we can find.

854
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:39,400
Okay, I'll hold it in.

855
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,400
Mike and his team are searching the waters off Turks and Caicos

856
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:48,400
for a highly specialized Nazi U-boat.

857
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,400
One of only nine commissioned in 1944.

858
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:58,400
Roger Michlos claimed he saw it here in 1981

859
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:03,400
and that it's carrying what could be billions in gold, treasure and art.

860
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:09,400
The team wasn't able to dive deep enough,

861
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,400
so Sam is using an ROV to assist the search at greater depths.

862
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:19,400
But the constant sway of the current is causing the boat to swing wildly.

863
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:22,400
Whoa, we're really swinging, guys.

864
01:03:22,400 --> 01:03:26,400
And the ROV is in danger of getting snagged on the sea floor.

865
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:34,400
Sam decides it's time to move the search to a smaller boat, the ship's Zodiac.

866
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:43,400
Okay, let's take this one out. This is the DT G3.

867
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:45,400
I like this little guy.

868
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:47,400
This little wee guy. Great for boats just like this.

869
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:49,400
All right, send that.

870
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,400
You just throw the deep chucker in like that.

871
01:03:52,400 --> 01:03:53,400
Manhandle.

872
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:54,400
That's no way to treat your baby.

873
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:55,400
No way to treat your baby.

874
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,400
I was really happy to just use the small Zodiac

875
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,400
and not have to contend with anything swinging or moving.

876
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:07,400
It worked really a lot better.

877
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:13,400
As I got deeper, the marine life got less and less.

878
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,400
And it just became gray rocks as I went down the wall.

879
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:18,400
It just got darker and darker.

880
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,400
But even with the added stability, the rover is quickly nearing the end of its imbilical.

881
01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:25,400
How deep are we now?

882
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:27,400
About 275 meters.

883
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:29,400
Can we go much further?

884
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:30,400
We got like 25 left.

885
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:32,400
It doesn't look like there's a bottom here.

886
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,400
Can you see, reach out with the sonar? Is there anything?

887
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,400
You know what? I have the sonar range at 50 meters

888
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:41,400
and it's not even picking up the sea floor.

889
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:43,400
Wow.

890
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:45,400
If I point that sonar straight down, nothing.

891
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,400
So I flew the RLE to the edge of the cliff.

892
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:52,400
I turned around to face it and I started to descend straight down the cliff.

893
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:58,400
So in the first probably 300 feet, you know, we saw corals,

894
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:00,400
we saw different marine life on the wall.

895
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:05,400
I picked up on the sonar a bit of an overhang, almost a cliff there.

896
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,400
And so I went a little bit to the starboard side and had a look, had the camera out.

897
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,400
Didn't look like what, you know, a place where a U-boat could really hide.

898
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,400
So I continued to descend.

899
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:21,400
I'm going to be honest.

900
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,400
This is as deep as I've personally ever taken this stuff.

901
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:29,400
Can you see any more evidence of pieces of chunks as you went off the cliff?

902
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:33,400
You know, sort of maybe there was an area where it just sort of looked beaten up.

903
01:05:34,400 --> 01:05:37,400
Like something may have scratched it if for lack of a better description.

904
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:41,400
But if it did that, it wasn't a smooth journey, that's for sure.

905
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:47,400
So a lot of the places in the Turks and Caicos where Roger's U-boat could be

906
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:51,400
are either too deep or in very enclosed spaces.

907
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,400
The rover follows a trail of debris down the abyss

908
01:05:56,400 --> 01:06:00,400
as Mike, Chris and Sam hold out hope that the trail of debris and scratches

909
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,400
will end in the big discovery of Roger's U-boat.

910
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:07,400
That's the end boys, that's it. I got nothing left.

911
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:10,400
Like any good treasure hunt, we hit another roadblock.

912
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:15,400
If I can't definitively say if there was a U-boat there, it would be on the bottom

913
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:17,400
and I just couldn't get there.

914
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,400
I think we can call this one checked out truth.

915
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:24,400
Let's pack it up and head back to the boat.

916
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:27,400
There's still so much more depth to get down.

917
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,400
I think we need to try to identify the pieces that we found

918
01:06:31,400 --> 01:06:35,400
and hopefully that gives us enough reason to come back with more tether and better equipment.

919
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:37,400
Good to go.

920
01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:41,400
Mike, Sam and Chris make their way back to the boat.

921
01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:48,400
After storing their gear, they reconvene to discuss the state of their mission.

922
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:50,400
Just look at what we've learned.

923
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:55,400
There may be something yet beyond what Deep Trekker could reach today.

924
01:06:56,400 --> 01:07:01,400
We have these bits of iron that may be indicative of a U-boat.

925
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:04,400
This round flange of some sort, right?

926
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:07,400
That's going to be some sort of high pressure piping flange.

927
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:09,400
Submarines are full of that.

928
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,400
According to Roger, this was like a submarine freighter, right?

929
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,400
Heading to South America with the spoils of World War II.

930
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:26,400
Roger was on the trail of a U-boat and he was convinced that it carried billions of dollars worth of gold bullion and treasure.

931
01:07:26,400 --> 01:07:34,400
So now as we look in deeper and deeper water and more out of the way places like the Turks and Caicos,

932
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,400
it's a big, big deal to find a U-boat.

933
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,400
Guys, it's time to leave here. We've got to move on, right?

934
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:42,400
Because we just don't know.

935
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,400
Let's regroup. Let's talk to the experts.

936
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,400
Let's just be determined to be open-minded, get more information.

937
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:51,400
Agreed.

938
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:53,400
Okay, let's do it.

939
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,400
Shortly after the team completed their underwater search,

940
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,400
their expedition was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

941
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:12,400
Just learned that the entire project's been shut down due to COVID.

942
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,400
I just hate the thoughts that are going home right now

943
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:22,400
and truly believe that Roger's U-boat's out there waiting for us to fly.

944
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:33,400
Two months later, they regrouped at home base to hear intel from U-boat expert Rob Carmichael.

945
01:08:35,400 --> 01:08:39,400
Sam was able to track down a U-boat expert, a guy named Rob Carmichael.

946
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:47,400
In 2016, divers located a mysterious ship resting in darkness at about 700 feet of water.

947
01:08:48,400 --> 01:08:50,400
44 sailors were entombed within it.

948
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,400
It was a Nazi submarine.

949
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:59,400
U-576. It was sunk in 1942.

950
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:01,400
Look at that.

951
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:03,400
Top size. We got a visual.

952
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:14,400
In World War II, the greatest concentration of U-boat attacks on America happened off of North Carolina's outer banks, where dozens of ships passed daily.

953
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:24,400
The U.S. military didn't want people to worry, so news reports of enemy boats near the coast were classified for national security reasons.

954
01:09:25,400 --> 01:09:31,400
The discovery of U-576 also revealed a submarine that was mysteriously intact.

955
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:41,400
This suggests the vessel may have dove to the bottom intentionally to play possum, but somehow couldn't surface again, killing all crew members inside.

956
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:45,400
Roger claims the U-boat he found was also intact.

957
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:56,400
Is it possible that the U-boat Roger found may have tried a similar trick in Turks and Caicos to avoid ally detection only to meet a perilous fate?

958
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,400
Hey Robert, it's good to see you.

959
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:05,400
My pleasure. Good to see you today.

960
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:13,400
So for the sake of everyone on the call, Robert Carmichael is a friend of mine who is well versed on all things ocean.

961
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:19,400
So we're hoping that Robert you can provide us with some expertise on the things that we've found.

962
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:21,400
We have sent you a few photographs Robert.

963
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:27,400
Metal objects that we found with the eye and with our handheld metal detector.

964
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:36,400
We did however get a large magnetic hit. These little pieces clearly are not part of the mag hit that we got.

965
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:44,400
They seem to be pieces scattered on a trail leading down and dropping over into the depths into deep water.

966
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:51,400
The photo that I'd most like you to look at first would be the one that I call the flange.

967
01:10:51,400 --> 01:11:06,400
It definitely looks like flange but you know what does that flange seem to be mounted to or part of?

968
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:17,400
This was just lying loose Robert on the seabed. To me this could be part of a high pressure hull but that's beyond my expertise.

969
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:22,400
Well I think you could say it's pretty certain that it's part of a pressure system of some sort.

970
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:41,400
Is it to have the appearance of some catastrophic failure because if that flange was all by itself and it was part of a pressure system and something catastrophically failed maybe that would explain why this flange component is not attached to its pipe member.

971
01:11:41,400 --> 01:11:50,400
The history of what it is we're researching has no affiliation with an explosion or for that matter a catastrophic event.

972
01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:57,400
But in a storm event like a hurricane where everything can be turned upside down who could say.

973
01:11:57,400 --> 01:12:08,400
Well boy I understand that we just got back from three trips to the Bahamas right following that gigantic hurricane that went up the middle of the Atlantic that lasted for so long.

974
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:20,400
It was 550 miles in diameter and we saw the Gulf Stream flowing backwards for 10 days and it just moved a lot of the South Atlantic Ocean to the North Atlantic Ocean.

975
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:30,400
Wow. The other images are even less definitive. So again tough one but that's the next one I'd like you to comment on if you could.

976
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:39,400
Yeah not enough to tell me anything. You were there in person so did it feel like heavy metal or what was it.

977
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:46,400
Well it is definitely iron or metal based. It triggered the handheld metal detector.

978
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:57,400
It was quite corroded. It's like it's oxidized as if it has a really high iron or steel content. I know they're just little obscure pieces.

979
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:06,400
If there's some other compelling evidence that would lead you to devote resources and time to that site I would say go back and try it again.

980
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:15,400
But based on the evidence and the imagery that I just saw there's nothing there that says that's related to a U-boat.

981
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:28,400
But as far as I can tell or any significant reason to keep spending resources in that area. Time to move on. Time to move on. Thank you. Bye for now.

982
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:37,400
I think Robert is pretty much told as this is not a great indication of a U-boat.

983
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:52,400
Yeah when Robert was talking about the hurricanes and the type of damage they caused you know the reversal of the currents underneath the type of changes to the sea floor that he saw it really struck me because we didn't see any of that.

984
01:13:53,400 --> 01:14:05,400
We did a lot of survey of that cliff edge there and I didn't see anything in the bathymetry that would show me that there had been major damage especially the type of damage you would think to rip a flange off of a U-boat or that U-boat careening over the edge.

985
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:18,400
I just didn't see any of that. I think it's time to move on. Okay so basically Robert said move on. Sam you're saying move on. I'm reluctantly saying move on. Just move on. Don't make sense. Sounds good Mike.

986
01:14:19,400 --> 01:14:28,400
The magnetometer hit proved that there was something big at the bottom of that abyss but the team is still perplexed on exactly what showed up on that magnetometer hit.

987
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:38,400
Roger was masterful at keeping everyone at bay on the exact location of the Nazi U-boat but that just pushed the crew into more speculation.

988
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:46,400
I know where that site was where the average person got a clue. Nobody gonna discover this.

989
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:58,400
So for now we're still left with the mystery of the missing U-boat and I'm wondering if Roger isn't up there just laughing down at all of us.

990
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:04,400
Mike is back to square one with no idea where to turn next.

991
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:24,400
At this point I figured we were out of options. We're out of dead end. Then I got an email from John Christensen who was not only Roger's trusted friend but he was Roger's boat captain and he was there with Roger in 1981 when all this went down.

992
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:29,400
This is Captain John Christensen, captain of the Heather Glenn.

993
01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:41,400
I have finished captain for over 40 years and I was very fortunate to be in the right place at the right time to meet Roger Miklos in 1981 in the Turks and Caicos.

994
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:45,400
You can imagine how important it is to hear what he's got to say.

995
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,400
Mike, it's John Christensen. How you doing sir?

996
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:51,400
John you have no idea how glad I am to hear from you.

997
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:59,400
I understand that you've been very involved with Roger looking for this submarine that he claims to have located way back in the day.

998
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:09,400
Yeah I have. I think it's amazing that you were the captain of his boat. He found this U-boat and he managed to keep that a secret even from you.

999
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,400
Yeah he kept it a secret from a lot of people.

1000
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:23,400
Roger said the next thing we're going to do is go find my submarine and that's when I started with, well tell me about this submarine and where is it?

1001
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:28,400
He wouldn't answer it. He would just say, I don't know.

1002
01:16:29,400 --> 01:16:33,400
I have got the logbook for the Heather right here.

1003
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:35,400
Amazing.

1004
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:37,400
Wow.

1005
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:39,400
I'd be more than happy to share the logbook so I can hand it to you.

1006
01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:42,400
You're willing to share your logbooks with us?

1007
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:54,400
After meeting with U-boat expert Rob Carmichael, the team has decided to move on from West Caicos.

1008
01:16:55,400 --> 01:17:05,400
But now, John Christensen, Roger's shipmate and captain on the Heather, the ship that made that infamous trip to Turks and Caicos, offered up his ship's logbook.

1009
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:08,400
This logbook could be the missing piece to the puzzle.

1010
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:16,400
I was blown away to think that John would offer up his logbook. This is a great piece of the puzzle.

1011
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:24,400
John and Roger spent six weeks sailing around Turks and Caicos. Everywhere they went was documented in John's logbook.

1012
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:28,400
We were down there surveying different areas, looking at different wrecks.

1013
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:37,400
We dove all around all the Caicos islands. We dove South Caicos. We dove North Caicos. We dove Provincialis, Grand Turk.

1014
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:46,400
I have got the logbook for the Heather right here.

1015
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:49,400
Amazing.

1016
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:53,400
That ended up with Roger down in the Turks and Caicos.

1017
01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:59,400
And if that's your logbook, you had to have kept really detailed records about day-to-day activity.

1018
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:01,400
Absolutely. Yes, sir. Yes.

1019
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,400
I'd be more than happy to share the logbook so I can...

1020
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:06,400
You're willing to share your logbooks with us?

1021
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:09,400
Yes. Yes.

1022
01:18:10,400 --> 01:18:16,400
This is the piece of evidence that puts Roger in the location as a witness.

1023
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:21,400
This is really, really critical to solving this puzzle.

1024
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:26,400
I think this is just the beginning of what could be a great adventure together.

1025
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:32,400
I can't thank you enough. This is not something you see every day in the business of treasure hunting.

1026
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:41,400
I wish it didn't take all these many years to go and Roger passing away that we're all going to try to finally make this come to fruition for him.

1027
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:45,400
Well, it's a fascinating story that's only just started for me.

1028
01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:48,400
And it's continuing for me, so I look forward to it, whatever I can do.

1029
01:18:52,400 --> 01:19:02,400
These are quite literally the Loran coordinates and the dive, different dive sites that we dove on for this extended period of time.

1030
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:09,400
Up till now, our entire search has been focused on West Caicos.

1031
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:14,400
But this logbook, it's sending us off to East Caicos.

1032
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:23,400
To totally different parts of the country. And even though it's a small country, the two places are as far apart as you can get.

1033
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:37,400
East Caicos and even Grand Turk, it is very deep water that are ringed by ledges that are, oh boy, I tell you, they drop off to 300 feet.

1034
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:51,400
Now, could there be a ledge big enough where a deep water German U-boat could actually get up underneath this ledge and hide is absolutely possible. Absolutely possible.

1035
01:19:52,400 --> 01:20:01,400
Certainly the geography matches perfectly to what Roger tells us to look for. We're way more likely to find a cave in East Caicos.

1036
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:11,400
I ain't given the latitude and longitude or GPS readings on it. Are you think I'm crazy? I can't risk. I've been protecting that thing ever since I found it.

1037
01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:24,400
He was protecting what he knew. The submarine came up and I said, I know you can't tell me where it is, but tell me about the geography around where is it you saw this.

1038
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:35,400
He said it's a horseshoe shaped island and it's down here somewhere. And he was very vague about that. And it could be that Roger was simply throwing me off the scent.

1039
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:48,400
But I do have one area in mind that I think based on discussions with Roger again, you know, a horseshoe shaped island, that I've got a pretty good deal with what he was referring to.

1040
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:54,400
Everything's adding up. I've got to call the team. This hunt is back on.

1041
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:15,400
Hey guys, just got a very important bit of information for you. Out of the blue, I get a phone call from John Christensen, Roger's boat captain back in the infamous 1981 survey.

1042
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:24,400
Believe it or not, John's heard about us, heard about our search. He sent us his logbook. Really?

1043
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:27,400
What, from the original expedition?

1044
01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:34,400
Yeah. Every time they went to a new location, he fixed the coordinate and wrote it in his book.

1045
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:35,400
No way.

1046
01:21:35,400 --> 01:21:43,400
And when you put those locations together, I come up with a new search area, East Kacos.

1047
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:51,400
So not in West Kacos where we were before at all, a totally new part of the country.

1048
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,400
Pack your bags. We're going back to the islands.

1049
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:56,400
Amazing.

1050
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:58,400
It looks like I'm going to have to clear my schedule again.

1051
01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:00,400
But you're in, right?

1052
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:05,400
This has already been an adventure full of twists and turns, so I'm glad to get going again.

1053
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:08,400
Okay. Ready to go, guys?

1054
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:14,400
When I get this logbook, it could very easily lead us to Roger's U-boat.

1055
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:17,400
It's telling me this search is a long way from home.

1056
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:24,400
This is a find of a find of a lifetime at Beach 2 in Common, all the hell.

1057
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:26,400
Ain't nobody going to find anything better than that.

1058
01:22:27,400 --> 01:22:30,400
It's been missing for 72 friggin' years.

1059
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,400
This U-boat was Roger's life's work.

1060
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:38,400
It must have been tremendously frustrating for him.

1061
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:48,400
Maybe now we can help him fulfill that destiny and prove once and for all whether Roger actually did find a U-boat.

1062
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:54,400
For 40 years, the location of Roger Miklos' U-boat has remained a mystery.

1063
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:59,400
Now, Mike Fletcher is one step closer to solving that puzzle.

1064
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:05,400
And maybe someday soon, Roger's lifelong dream of raising his U-boat will finally be realized,

1065
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:09,400
and the world will discover what's really inside.

1066
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:10,400
I'm Lawrence Fishburne.

1067
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:16,400
Tune in next time for another installment of History's Greatest Mysteries.