What was responsible for the loss of
a nasa space capsule deep in the mid-atlantic?
It's not losing a needle in the haystack.
It's like losing the head of the needle in the haystack.
What is the underwater secret
behind ship disappearances in the devil's sea?
It is the bermuda triangle of the pacific,
and, in many ways, it is just as deadly.
And is a ticking time bomb at the bottom
of the baltic sea about to go off?
One can only imagine how horrifying that would be
to be confronted with the spectacle of
your impending doom.
The underwater realm
is another dimension.
It's a physically hostile place where dreams of promise
can sink into darkness.
I'm jeremy wade.
I'm searching the world to bring you
the most iconic and baffling underwater mysteries
known to science.
Shipwrecks can't just disappear... Or can they?
It's a dangerous, unexplored frontier that
swallows evidence.
We know more about the face of mars
than we do our deepest oceans.
Where unknown is normal and understanding
is rare.
At the dawn of the space race,
a pioneering sub-orbital flight is about to put the usa
in pole position,
boy that's some sight.
But things go horribly wrong when
the capsule splashes down into the atlantic.
American dreams, along with years of research
and development,
sink to the ocean floor.
Exactly what happened on that fateful day remains a mystery.
But can a fresh investigation by an amateur sleuth
succeed where officials have failed
and finally reveal the answer?
July 21, 1961.
Returning to earth after his pioneering
sub-orbital flight, commander gus grissom
splashes down into the atlantic ocean
in the liberty bell 7 capsule.
A recovery helicopter arrives to secure
the capsule and take it back to base.
But suddenly, without warning, the spacecraft's emergency hatch
blows off,
leaving a gaping hole in its side.
Gus grissom is in the capsule, and water's now flooding in.
The astronaut hauls himself out through
the narrow hatch and into the sea,
but his ordeal is only just beginning.
The man's in outer space one minute,
and the next minute, he's on the surface of the earth,
and this is where he has the highest possibility of dying.
The retrieval helicopter focuses on the capsule,
but it struggles to maintain control.
Liberty bell 7 is taking on water and getting heavier
by the second.
The helicopter is dragged downwards.
Inside, emergency lights come on.
The engine is close to failing.
As the chopper's propeller creates
a churning wash of air and water,
grissom, beneath, struggles to stay afloat.
And there's, you know, all this prop wash coming down on gus.
They're not paying any attention to him.
They're concentrating on getting the spacecraft.
He's in his spacesuit, in his spacesuit
starts filling up with water.
He's taking on water,
and he's losing buoyancy.
With the capsule now weighing 1,000 pounds more
than the retrieval helicopter can handle,
the pilot is forced to make a tough, split-second decision.
He cuts the cord.
Liberty bell 7 sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
Nearby, gus grissom is facing a similar fate.
He's fighting to keep his nose above the water,
literally, until the backup recovery helicopter
comes in.
And then there is the iconic picture that
everybody remembers
about liberty bell 7 of gus like a dead fish
being hauled up into the backup recovery helicopter.
Why the mission goes so badly wrong
is one of nasa's greatest unsolved mysteries,
and, for some, a blemish on its reputation.
To lose liberty bell 7 in the moment was horrible.
It represented
the high point of nasa's space program.
It was an emblem of america itself.
So to have it in one's grasp
and to lose it,
it was seen as a real loss
of pride in the american space program.
The public want answers.
What went wrong, and who was to blame?
With the physical evidence lost deep under the atlantic,
people look to grissom for answers,
but the astronaut can shed little light
on those fateful moments.
Nasa's initial investigation finds no fault
in grissom's actions, but some are skeptical.
Pilot error is, of course, a potential.
There's always the potential.
It's very easy to blame the organic matter in the cockpit.
Gus grissom's reputation as a flyer with
the right stuff is called into question.
An astronaut hero falls to earth.
Grissom's mission was part of project mercury,
the united states' manned spaceflight program.
The space race with the soviet union is in full flow.
Expectations are great, and the stakes are high.
Rockets are exploding left and right,
and these guys have to figure out how to
fix them and ride them and not get killed.
The race to the moon is on,
so every mission needs to drive progress.
Grissom's flight tests several innovations,
including, significantly,
a quick-release emergency hatch.
The hatch is sealed with 70 titanium bolts
embedded in an enclosed explosive casing.
A push button plunger detonates
the charge and releases the hatch.
For safety reasons,
detonation is a multi-step process.
The hatch must first be armed before pressure
is applied to the plunger to detonate the charge.
Although grissom's memory of the splashdown disaster
is hazy,
there is one thing he remembers with clarity.
Grissom claims that he armed
the explosive bolts but that he didn't, in fact,
detonate them.
But not everybody is convinced.
There are rumors immediately after this happened
that grissom panicked
and that he prematurely detonated the hatch.
Later, astronauts who detonate the plunger
suffer bruises... One even suffers a laceration.
Grissom didn't have those bruises.
But the damage to grissom's reputation is done.
Grissom was victimized because of the loss of
liberty bell 7 and was really almost shamed
as a result of it,
and he really never recovered from that.
And it was the defining moment of his... of his career,
to lose that spacecraft really hurt.
He was dogged for the rest of his life
over what he referred to as the "hatch crap."
In 1967, gus grissom is killed
in the apollo 1 launch fire
with the mystery of what happened
in the liberty bell capsule still unsolved.
It's now 1999.
Salvage expert curt newport is armed with
cutting-edge technology
and an unerring desire to find liberty bell 7
and bring her home.
The mission to recover liberty bell 7 brought together
the best marine recovery people in the world
at the time.
Newport gets all of the tracking data,
all of the telemetry he can find about
the flight of liberty bell 7,
and he begins to sort of zero in on an area where he thinks
it might be.
Operating at depths of up to three miles,
the team's submersible uses sonar to locate objects
on the seabed,
but can it spot a nine-foot-high capsule in a search area
which covers 24 square miles?
These capsules are unbelievably tiny.
To lose a space capsule in the middle of the ocean,
it's not losing a needle in the haystack.
It's like losing the head of the needle in the haystack.
But they're very systematic.
They call it mowing the lawn.
Go back and forth in grids,
and you look for your best possible targets.
And he decides to start with target 71.
The controllers send their submersible towards it.
They point their video cameras at it.
Curt says, "that thing's got some height to it."
and as they slowly move in through the darkness,
the words united states appear on the side of this object.
I don't believe it.
And he has found liberty bell 7 after 38 years.
But will the capsule provide the key to
the mystery of what happened and restore the reputation
of astronaut gus grissom?
The loss of the liberty bell 7 capsule deals
a severe blow
to the american space program and leaves her commander's
reputation in tatters.
Finally, in 1999, the lost capsule
is raised from the ocean floor.
But can she help solve the mystery of what went wrong?
It was an opportunity to finally look at
the physical hard evidence
of the condition of the capsule and to understand
what happened.
However, crucially, the hatch door is not found,
and despite extensive investigation,
the capsule does not provide definitive answers to the many
questions that remain.
The investigations are wound up,
but some people are still determined to find answers.
Years pass before nasa agrees to open up
its archive to writer and grissom biographer,
george leopold.
They think that the loss of liberty bell 7
is... is probably one of the great mysteries.
With the passage of time,
he's hoping that a cold, objective eye
will unearth some fresh clues.
One piece of eyewitness testimony stands out.
Lieutenant john reinhart, one of the retrieval team,
is first on the scene.
His job is to remove the capsule's antenna
before attaching the winch hook from the helicopter.
He was in the helicopter opening with a hook
and a snipper,
and he said that when he touched
this ungrounded spacecraft,
he saw an arc.
A powerful electrostatic discharge.
You've got a helicopter hovering over a spacecraft
and this vortex that's got a lot of energy in it,
and the metal touches metal, some of that energy is probably
gonna get transferred,
and that's what john reinhart thought he saw.
He was the closest person to the spacecraft when he sees
this arc,
and at that moment, the hatch blows.
So that leaves us with, you know,
the possibility that maybe it was the electrostatic discharge
that blew the hatch.
Upon further investigation,
leopold learns that in sea helicopter rescues,
static electricity discharge is a common phenomenon between
surface water and hoisting devices.
What's more, he finds evidence that nasa was aware of this.
The procedure that the coastguard of the u.S. Navy
uses is that you would never touch something
in the water with a helicopter over it until it's grounded.
Over the years, other theories have been put forward
for the premature detonation of the liberty bell 7's
hatch bolts
and the subsequent loss of the capsule,
but nasa didn't reach a definitive conclusion.
They were in a hurry, they wanted to get on
to the next flight,
so they basically reproduce as many scenarios as they could
think of, and then they moved on.
So in the end,
you really don't know exactly what happened.
But with the final piece of evidence,
the hatch door itself, still under the sea,
the mystery endures.
But one thing seems clear... With what we now know,
surely it's safe to conclude that astronaut
gus grissom had the right stuff all along.
Conflicts fought out on our seas leave behind
a potentially lethal legacy,
discarded mines and all kinds of other dumped hardware
and unexploded ordinance often hidden deep beneath the waves.
Can new technology find a way of locating
and defusing this underwater time bomb before it's too late?
2005, the baltic sea.
A dutch fishing vessel is trawling
the relatively shallow waters of this semi-enclosed,
brackish body of water between scandinavia and europe.
They're basically scouring the sea floor, and they're
pulling up... In addition to fish,
they're also pulling up anything that's on the sea floor.
The trawler's crew are hauling in their catch
when they notice something strange in the nets.
Their nets were arrayed on the seabed,
catching fish as normal, but they caught something
very unusual.
The details of what happens in the next few minutes
remain unknown,
but the conclusion is clear.
An explosion rips through the boat, killing three men.
Elsewhere on the baltic coast,
beachcombers find what they think
are pieces of amber in the sand.
They're picking them up and putting them in their pockets,
and the heat of their body is warming these up,
and it's causing people to have very serious
chemical burns.
Around the same time, scientists studying fish in
the baltic find some specimens containing cancerous tumors.
Multiple mysterious incidents in the same
body of water are cause for alarm.
But are they linked,
and if so, what's going on under
the cold surface of the baltic sea?
Surrounded by nine different countries
and a historical boundary between east
and west europe, the baltic sea has been
the front line in conflicts
from the crimean to the cold war.
But it was world war ii that really set fire to this region.
There was a nonstop mine warfare going on.
Millions of mines were laid in these waters.
But they were not the only munitions
dropped into the baltic.
At the end of the war,
an estimated 300,000 tons of ordnance... bombs,
shells, and ammunition... were dumped into the depths.
The immensity is...
Is really unthinkable... We don't have accurate maps
as to where this was dumped or by who,
so, really, it's anybody's guess
as to the extent of this problem.
Now,
75 years later, this explosive underwater legacy is thought to
be responsible for dozens of deaths and serious injuries
every year.
And new evidence reveals that there's an even
greater danger at the bottom of the baltic.
Hidden in the depths of the baltic sea are
hundreds of thousands of tons of world war ii munitions
with a combined explosive force capable,
it is estimated, of flattening a city.
We know these ticking time bombs are there on the seabed.
There's a high risk of fishermen bringing
up this unexploded ordnance from the sea floor.
This, it turns out, is exactly what
the unlucky dutch crew hauled up in their nets.
One can only imagine how horrifying that would be
to be confronted with the spectacle of
your impending doom.
But in addition to this obvious, volatile danger,
there's something more insidious going on.
Some describe these unexploded ordinances,
or uxos, as weapons that wait.
In the ocean,
these metal canisters can degrade over time.
That leads to the potential for toxic materials
to leak into the environment.
The beachcombers who suffered serious burns
unwittingly picked up
pieces of phosphorous used in incendiary devices.
And the baltic marine life displaying abnormalities
tested positive for the chemical compound, tnt.
Tnt is one the most common explosives used in
the world today and certainly was used in the 20th century
in the context of the first world war
and the second world war
As well as being highly explosive,
tnt is poisonous.
It's toxic to life... It can cause cancer.
It can bioaccumulate in the environment,
meaning small organisms take it in,
larger organisms eat those.
These materials can then be transmitted up
the food chain to the animals above them.
And so this is how it's ending up in fish.
We're talking about the potential
for a biological catastrophe.
The massive quantities of world war ii munitions
hidden on the bottom
of the baltic sea now pose a multifaceted threat.
The extent of the problem is phenomenal.
Wait, where is this stuff?
It's everywhere, but nowhere.
How do we find them?
How do we neutralize them?
How do we keep them from
causing any kind of environmental damage?
Specialist divers are normally at
the heart of such cleanup operations.
They're bomb disposal experts, but they're also divers.
They combine these two very, very high skillsets.
Their work is complex and hazardous.
The traditional method was that once a mine was found,
it would either be hoisted aboard a ship
if it was considered safe and disarmed on the ship,
or it would be disarmed in the water.
That's very complicated.
It's very expensive.
It's also very dangerous.
Over the years, dozens of military divers
have bean killed in mine clearing operations.
So a different approach is needed.
Operation open spirit is an international
maritime mission to clear the baltic
led by the navies of lithuania, latvia, and estonia.
It's using the latest technology like the remus
autonomous underwater vehicle,
specially developed to search out mines.
The remus 600 is one of the most advanced of
the auvs available.
It has great imaging sort of equipment.
It has great sensory equipment to find mines,
and it's very, very moveable.
But what they do mainly is they keep divers out of the water.
The self-piloting mini submarine
uses sonar to locate mines.
They can literally survey miles and miles
of seabed per day.
Once a mine is found, the remus auv
can destroy it using a directed explosive charge.
It's a significant advance on using divers,
but with hundreds of thousands of pieces
of dangerous munitions on the sea floor,
even with the latest tech, this deadly task
could take years.
The latest underwater technology is being used
to find and destroy
world war ii weaponry on the baltic sea floor.
This painstaking process could take years,
but recently, a team of scientists at keele university
in germany has made a remarkable breakthrough.
They have come up with an ingenious way of neutralizing
tnt, the most abundant explosive in the baltic
and one that is starting to poison the environment
by employing the services of
a mysterious microscopic organism.
There are microorganisms that
can take energy or metabolize tnt.
They exist, scientists have found them.
The bacteria essentially consume the tnt,
breaking it down into its component elements.
We call it biotransformation, because it's taking
energy and it's transforming it into something else.
Basically, the idea is that you enclose the munitions with
some sort of membrane
that has this bacteria, and the bacteria will transform
the tnt into nontoxic materials.
So far, the microorganism has only
been tried out in the laboratory.
How it will work in the sea itself is still unknown.
It's super hard, like, this is not easy science.
We have to redesign the experiment and figure out
what this looks like in the field.
There's a lot of unknowns, but the potential is there.
Introducing a new bacteria into the sea has risks.
So whether this turns out to be the silver bullet
for a dangerous wartime legacy
or another environmental time bomb,
we wait and see.
The reputation of history's most famous pirate,
blackbeard, has long been debated.
For some, he is a brilliant leader of man,
a generous captain who commanded great loyalty.
For others,
he's a ruthless brute who exploited his crew
and stole their share of the treasure.
Can the latest research into the wreck of his flagship shed
light on the mystery of the true character
of this ultimate pirate?
June 1718.
For months, blackbeard and his pirate fleet have been
terrorizing the caribbean
and the east coast of the american colonies.
With his famous flagship, the queen anne's revenge,
in need of maintenance,
blackbeard sails his flotilla north up the coast
from charleston in search of a place to lie low.
Blackbeard had just mounted
a highly successful raid on charleston.
So his fleet, which includes the queen anne's revenge,
is fully loaded with all the things he's captured.
At the end of 18 months of raiding,
his ships are probably in need of repairs, refitting,
and they're looking for a place to, uh,
dock up their ships.
Led by the fleet's
smaller ships, the queen anne's revenge heads
for the secluded port of fish town.
The flotilla sails in through a series of
narrow channels known today as the beaufort inlet.
Blackbeard's fleet enters beaufort inlet,
and they're going at full speed, full sail.
As the pirates navigate the tight waterway,
something happens to blackbeard's flagship.
The 100-foot fighting ship crashes
at speed into a shallow sandbar.
The main mast cracks, and some of the ship's timbers rupture,
so from that point onwards on the sandbar,
the ship is not seaworthy, but it is still
fully laden with all his plunder.
The treasure on board is transferred
to smaller vessels in the pirate flotilla.
But there's no room for the majority of the crew,
so blackbeard selects a few essential personnel and leaves
the rest on a nearby island.
The basic facts of what happened to blackbeard's ship
and his crew have never been in dispute.
But the same can't be said of the pirate captain's motives.
There is no debate that what happened
is the queen anne's revenge runs aground.
The debate is on whether or not
it was intentional or whether it was unintentional.
So was this an accident?
Or part of a plan?
One rare eyewitness account strongly suggests
a pirate plot.
David harriet is a guy who was captured by blackbeard
and later became a very important member of his crew.
He says that blackbeard deliberately ran
his ship aground, and this is in the historical record.
Putting his flagship out of action would have given
blackbeard the excuse to leave behind many of his crew.
But to what purpose?
In a pirate crew as in any crew,
there's shares that get divided up.
If a captain cuts his crew in half,
that all the sudden means more spoils for
the captain and the people that he chooses to share
the spoils with.
But what blackbeard gained in treasure,
he would surely lose by leaving behind his famous ship.
Or would he?
One thing to bear in mind here is that this ship was very,
very recognizable up and down the eastern seaboard of what is
now the united states
and the various navies, they were coming for him.
The question for blackbeard was always how long
would the queen anne's revenge continue to be an advantage?
How long before she attracted so much attention
that the royal navy
was forced to send out larger ships to fight him?
For almost 300 years,
blackbeard's flagship and the pirate captain's
true intentions are lost to history.
But then, in 1996,
underwater archeologists exploring the beaufort inlet
make an astounding discovery.
The queen anne's revenge was found.
The really interesting thing is what will this site tell us?
Will it really tell us what happened on that fateful day?
Did he mean to destroy his ship, or was it an accident?
Did the notorious pirate, blackbeard,
deliberately run his ship aground
in a ruthless bid to
downsize his crew and make off with a larger share of the loot?
Off the coast of north carolina,
the scattered remains of the queen anne's revenge
could hold the answer.
The queen anne's revenge is the only pirate ship that
we've ever found that has been archaeologically identified
as a pirate ship.
The site of the wreck has
been studied continuously since it was found,
and it turns out to be an absolutely extensive site.
It's absolutely huge.
The discovery of the ship's anchors proves
particularly significant and could help
unravel the mystery of what happened to
blackbeard's flagship.
One of the key things we're looking for is the positioning
of the anchors, where they used them
to try and pull the ship off, to try and pull the ship
away from the banks.
The largest anchor was found directly astern and in
a position where you could literally pull the ship
back on it.
The location of the anchors on the seabed
suggests that the sailors
mounted a complex mission to heave the queen anne's revenge
off the sandbar.
That does beg the question,
why did they take so much trouble to try
and get the ship hard aground off the sandbar?
Why would you do this
if you were actually purposely trying to destroy your ship.
And it's not just the anchors.
Experts think that the positioning of the ship's
heaviest cargo
is further evidence of an attempt to save
the stricken vessel.
The evidence on the sea floor shows that the crew might have
been actually moving the goods and cargo
and cannon within the boat to try to move the weight around
to refloat the queen anne's revenge.
If blackbeard was trying so hard to save his flagship,
surely he had no intention of running her aground.
But how else did she end up on the sandbar?
To my mind, what we have here
is an absolutely massive maritime screwup.
You have to remember in this period,
they don't have the charts we have these days.
They don't have the understanding of the depths
and moving of sandbanks,
which we have regularly charted by
oceanographic vessels.
Sandbars in this area shift,
which means that depths change and that you really kind of
have to be on a constant, vigilant lookout.
More likely, he was navigating blind.
Unfamiliarity with the inlet's
dangerous shallows might not have been the only factor.
Blackbeard's flagship was also in poor condition.
The queen anne's revenge has been at sea for a year.
She's got a lot of barnacles on her.
This is not a ship you want to be
taking this close in shore at this speed.
If the running aground was accidental,
it's likely that the decision to maroon the crew wasn't
a selfish act but an unavoidable one.
He's faced with a situation where he knows
now he can't remove the ship from the sandbar.
He's also not got the space on
the sloops and brigs left to remove all
the crew from the queen anne's revenge.
Perhaps blackbeard had no choice,
but leaving the crew did mean keeping the gold.
The odds are it was unintentional,
but he certainly did turn it to his advantage.
It's a tantalizing theory,
but what other evidence could still be found?
For many, the site holds more secrets.
Through modern archaeology,
the hope is we can find out the answers
to all these questions.
The hope is we can discover the information that's
necessary to tell us what happened
to the queen anne's revenge and what blackbeard was thinking
when his ship went down.
Fire-breathing sea dragons are the stuff of ancient legends,
but where do these myths originate?
Stories from an area of ocean south of japan renowned for
the disappearance of many ships
suggest a dramatic new interpretation of
this age-old mystery.
August 1944.
The philippine sea in the western pacific ocean.
A japanese fighter aircraft is
returning from a routine mission.
The japanese pilot saw what looked like
some sort of large dragon-like creature,
fire-breathing creature
swimming in the water.
Could there be some kind of sea dragon out there?
And could it be linked
to multiple ship disappearances?
An area of the western pacific known as the devil's sea
or dragon's triangle is
notorious for ship disappearances, and in 1944
an eyewitness account describes something strange in the water.
The pilot's official report describes a serpent-like
monster navigating through wildly churning waters
emitting huge flames.
It's a part of the ocean that we don't
have a clear understanding of what's going on there.
The extraordinary sighting takes place in
an infamous section of the pacific.
The devil's sea is located to the south of japan,
skirting the coast of taiwan and extending into
the philippine sea.
For 1,000 years,
it has been notorious.
This is an area where ships have gone missing for a very,
very long time.
The devil's sea has been swallowing ships
since at least the 13th century.
During the reign of kubla khan, who was the grandson of
genghis khan,
the chinese embarked on a period of exploration.
Kubla khan's navy was... Was lost in this area,
and potentially as many as 40,000 sailors drowned
as a result.
Across the region, scholars attempted to come up
with explanations for this unfathomable tragedy.
One of the founding theories
was that they were being swallowed by
a sea dragon,
and that's early chinese mythology, of course.
These ancient cultures, uh, when they see things,
you know, how do they explain them?
What is it?
It's a sea monster.
Over the centuries, the devil's sea's lethal
reputation has grown as
the number of ships that have been lost in its waters
has increased.
It is the bermuda triangle of the pacific,
and, in many ways, it is just as deadly.
Some cases have involved enormous vessels,
including the largest british ship ever lost at sea,
the mv derbyshire.
Huge ships like the derbyshire,
twice the size of the titanic, being lost...
How in the world is that possible
in any part of the world?
Many argue that high numbers of
disappearances simply reflect high volumes of traffic.
It's a very active part of the ocean.
There's a lot of transit that occurs in that particular part.
And when historic cases have been investigated,
the culprit for many vanished ships in the region turns out
to be one thing.
It's an area that's prone to typhoons,
and some shipwrecks are known to have been the victim of
severe typhoons.
But these tropical cyclones can't explain
away all the disappearances in the devil's sea.
In 1953, a japanese research vessel
is sent to study the area.
She's equipped with the latest in oceanic
surveillance technology,
and expectations are high that she might shed light on
the devil's sea phenomenon.
But she, too, vanishes.
I guess that's a little irony there.
It's sent out to look for lost ships...
Itself is lost.
The research ship disappears
in good weather conditions.
But a crew member on one of
the vessels sent to search for her reports
something remarkable.
He states that a section of sea in the area where
the research ship is thought to have vanished appeared to
boil and spew smoke.
An incident over 30 years later
and nearly 6,000 miles away off tahiti could hold the key to
this mystery.
The oceanographic research vessel, melville, is
studying atmospheric nuclear testing in the pacific.
The scientists on board have already
noted some unknown intermittent
underwater rumblings.
Then, all of a sudden, the ship starts to
shake violently.
The sea around the ship
becomes a boiling soup,
spitting and churning.
The crew are absolutely terrified.
Speculation is that what it may
have been observing was actually volcanic activity.
They may have been floating above
the epicenter of a new volcano forming.
Miraculously,
the underwater volcano does not sink the melville,
and her crew live to tell the tale.
But could what they experienced shed light on some
of the mysterious ship disappearances elsewhere
in the pacific?
The devil's sea straddles four major tectonic plates
and, it turns out, is dotted with underwater volcanoes.
This entire region is part of the pacific rim of fire.
So there's this very active system that exists
right beneath the waters where these events occurred.
So in geologic terms, the edges of the devil's
triangle, at least the eastern edge of the devil's triangle,
is an area that is very seismically
and volcanically active.
So could underwater volcanoes be
the real phenomenon behind the sea dragon legend,
which started with the loss of kubla khan's navy
and which was still inspiring reports centuries later during
world war ii?
If you're a pilot, and you see an underwater volcano,
you might call it a fire-breathing dragon,
especially if lava is being spit into the air.
Underwater volcanoes could be the culprit,
but catching them in the act is an elusive science.
So whether subsea eruptions are a factor in all
the disappearances in the devil's sea
may never be known.
As more and more research is done in the coming years,
we will start to understand what is going on in that
particular part of the pacific.
In my experience, there is often a real phenomenon
behind even the most extraordinary legend
and maybe underwater volcanoes
do play a part in the sea dragon myth,
but there's rarely a single answer to a complex mystery.
So in the case of the devil's sea, we keep on looking.
Subtitles Diego Moraes(oakislandtk) www.opensubtitles.org