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The Death Coast S01E03

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00:00Topside! I may have something here.
00:09But you're not going to believe this.
00:14I got brass everywhere.
00:18Pocket is filled with this stuff. I got it all over here.
00:24Brass nails? That's f***ing Feversham.
00:26Shh. The brass farm down here. I got them all over here.
00:33It's known as the Death Coast.
00:36An area of rough sea in the North Atlantic that's claimed more than 6,000 vessels.
00:44Casting those aboard and treasure into its turbulent depths.
00:49We got to turn this thing around. Here we go.
00:52Gold, silver, and other priceless objects from the wrecked ships...
00:59Oh my God, you're not going to believe this.
01:02...lie scattered across the ocean floor.
01:04Gold coin right there.
01:05That is gorgeous.
01:07But salvaging here has been banned for more than a decade, thanks to rampant looting.
01:13Now.
01:16Storm is a-brewin'.
01:18Oh, boy!
01:22After a long battle, third-generation shipwreck hunter Jeff McKinnon has won the exclusive right to dive in these treacherous waters.
01:30Oh, yeah!
01:31But he only has eight weeks to do it.
01:35Are you okay?
01:35Can Jeff and his team find the treasure he sees...
01:39Find me something!
01:40...before the stormy waters of the Death Coast...
01:43It's time for us to get out of here.
01:44Hold on, man. Hold me down, yeah.
01:46...make diving impossible.
01:48At their headquarters in Lewisburg, Nova Scotia, Jeff meets with his team to decide their next move.
02:07They have spent the last ten days diving on the French shipwreck, the Shemoe.
02:12Now, we've been on the Shemoe for about ten days now.
02:14We've made some good recovery, but the weather is starting to change.
02:18It's getting worse.
02:20Now, I got a problem.
02:22I am limited in time.
02:26With only a few weeks left in the dive season, the team needs to decide whether they double down on the site...
02:33...or move on to one of the five other shipwreck sites.
02:37You know, we've had a lot of good recovery on the Shemoe in the past several dives.
02:41We got a coin.
02:42Top side, I found something.
02:46That's beautiful.
02:48I've got a coin.
02:50Following the discovery of the coin, the team then finds a piece of silverware.
02:55That's Shemoe silver.
02:57Is it? Well, it's down there, then.
02:59But then, the team unearths a find that changes the direction of the search.
03:05Check that out.
03:06Holy s***.
03:08It's an American coin.
03:09But the search for a possible American payship in the same area has so far come up empty.
03:18So, we got nothing.
03:20With the Shemoe site seemingly at a standstill, Jeff is considering moving on to a new site.
03:26The Feversham, a British ship that sank in 1711 off the coast of Scattery Island.
03:34The 32-gun frigate was 107 feet long, 28 feet wide, and was carrying 500 pounds in New England coins.
03:42These coins can be worth up to $100,000 today.
03:48Enough of a payday to force Jeff and the team to decide if they stay on the Shemoe or move on to the Feversham.
03:55Everything in my body wants me to stay at Shemoe.
04:01I don't want to leave there.
04:03I don't.
04:04But, you guys see what we're up against here.
04:07You see the weather.
04:08You see the conditions.
04:09So, I'm just wondering what you guys would like to do here.
04:11And I'm open to debate, as long as I get the last say.
04:15My thought is that Shemoe is a huge, huge area.
04:18My position is you're limited for time.
04:20Feversham is a very, very compact site.
04:23And I think that's a great spot to work because we can probably get a lot of recovery right there very quickly.
04:29You're right.
04:29It is compact.
04:30It's a good site to work.
04:32What do you think, Jeff?
04:33At the new section of the Shemoe site, there could be a wreck on top of a wreck.
04:37And we're just starting to find stuff there.
04:40Yeah, I'll let you go back to the Shemoe.
04:41So, we've got an 1838 U.S. coin and a 1721 French coin.
04:46All those things add up to there's more than one wreck there, maybe more than that.
04:50But, Mike, you've pointed out that we've already got a lot of important finds from the Shemoe.
04:55So, I think we should move to the Feversham.
04:58Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you.
05:00We also have a logistic issue here, though.
05:02We're steaming now from Lewisburg all the way up here to the Shemoe.
05:09Well, we've got to go another at least half that distance to get over to Feversham.
05:14That's taken two hours of our day out of diving.
05:16So, we've got to make sure it's worth it.
05:18That's the $64,000 question.
05:20Is it worth it?
05:21And I personally think it is.
05:23Let's see what we can get done today.
05:24Later that morning...
05:32We're at 11 Fathom here.
05:34I got the track on.
05:35Jeff and his team make the long trip north towards the Feversham site at Scattery Island.
05:41With the clock ticking, they're gambling that a smaller site will make the recovery process faster.
05:48It's about 10 minutes straight ahead.
05:51Almost there.
05:52On October 7th, 1711, while sailing from New York up the Atlantic coast to support the British invasion of the French colony, Quebec,
06:02the Feversham and her convoy ships, the Mary, the Joseph, and the Neptune,
06:08are driven into the coast of Scattery Island by a gale.
06:13The Feversham sinks just off the coast.
06:16The three other convoy ships suffer the same fate.
06:19A month later, New York's Governor Robert Hunter reported that only 48 of the 150 sailors aboard the Feversham survived.
06:28Hey, we're almost to Scattery Island.
06:36Hey, we're almost to Scattery Island.
06:36As the easternmost point of Cape Breton, Scattery is constantly pummeled by the Labrador Current,
06:52a cold southward-flowing current that originates in the Arctic.
06:58Jeff's hoping that these same currents over the years may have done him a favor.
07:03The Feversham is my next target.
07:06I want to hit that hard.
07:09Anything small like coins from the Feversham would have been carried to the west
07:14and pushed into the shore away from the wreck site.
07:17But diving in that area, it's going to be dangerous.
07:21Welcome to Scattery!
07:25Before mooring, Jeff needs to make sure their boat, the family run,
07:30doesn't meet the same fate as so many others along the Death Coast.
07:35There's a sunker right here, so stay away from that.
07:38That bell buoy's marking us.
07:41The sunker is an underwater feature.
07:43It's either an outcropping of bedrock or an actual giant boulder
07:47sitting just under the water surface, so you can't see it.
07:51The Feversham is surrounded by three major sunkers.
07:55The Cape Breton, the Little Sunker, and the Western Breakers.
08:00Jeff needs to ensure his boat is moored far enough away from the rocks
08:04to avoid being pulled into them.
08:09Yep.
08:11Yep.
08:11Here we go!
08:17So basically what you got here, there's the sunker,
08:20and on the inside of that is the wall of the island.
08:24You know, there are two very prominent features.
08:27You'll see them no problem.
08:29And what I want you to do is go down, get yourself acclimated,
08:32have a good look around, go get me something good.
08:34All right.
08:35All right.
08:36As the divers embark on their first Feversham dive,
08:42Jeff keeps a close eye on the conditions.
08:45This close to the rocks,
08:47they're diving in shallower and more dangerous waters than before.
08:52Unlike the Shemocite, Scattery is unprotected.
08:56Every inch of Scattery is dangerous.
08:58Topside, this is Griego.
09:13Radio check, over.
09:15This is Topside, Griego.
09:17I hear you loud as Sunday.
09:22Conditions down here look pretty kelpy.
09:25Just go to Topside, we are on the bottom,
09:31and we've got our good friend Kelp still all over the place here.
09:36It's a ****.
09:46The divers are looking for coins or any small artifacts
09:50that may have been carried west by the current.
09:52Nothing's easy in this world.
10:01Off the topside, I have a head.
10:03I will be attempting to recover.
10:06Over.
10:08Talk to me here, fellas.
10:09What do you got?
10:14You may have something here.
10:17What do you think it is?
10:19Topside, I have recovered an artifact, over.
10:33You may have something here.
10:35What do you think it is?
10:37While searching off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,
10:40for British shipwreck, the Fever Sham,
10:43diver Mike Haas has located what he thinks may be a piece of the wreck.
10:47Topside, I have recovered an artifact, over.
10:51If it's something good, bring it up.
10:53If it is from the Fever Sham,
10:55it could prove Jeff's theory
10:57that small items like coins and other treasures
11:00may have been pushed over the years by the current
11:03toward nearby Scattery Island.
11:06Bring it up.
11:07Scattery up!
11:11Somebody got a smile on their face?
11:13What do you got for me?
11:19Oh, boy.
11:20What do you got?
11:21I got a sword pummel,
11:24and it looks like it is copper,
11:28but it almost got a little bit of gold on it.
11:31Look, it had gold filigree.
11:34See the gold?
11:34Look.
11:36So an officer's sword, maybe?
11:39Could have been, or a dagger.
11:41God, that's nice.
11:43The fact that this artifact is damaged like this
11:46tells me that it's been dragged across the bottom of the sea.
11:48It must have been pounded against the rocks.
11:51Yeah, have a look.
11:54It's been badly banged around.
11:57Right now, in its condition, it's hard really to say much.
12:00Yeah.
12:01So this part here would be threaded,
12:03and it'd be screwed into the end of the sword?
12:04The end of the handle.
12:06This right here would be the pommel.
12:09This would be the decorative finial at the end of the sword.
12:12That is beautiful.
12:14Beautiful, beautiful.
12:16Good job.
12:18This pommel is an important find.
12:20It's gold gilded.
12:21That means it could be somebody important who owned it.
12:24We've got to get back in there and get some more.
12:35Encouraged by the find, and with the weather holding steady,
12:39Jeff immediately sends the dive team back down,
12:42and even closer to the rocks.
12:45If this sword pommel is this close into shore,
12:50that means there's probably coins here, too.
12:52If the current is pushing artifacts and coins past the wreck site,
12:56then eventually they're going to get hung up on something.
12:59Not seeing anything yet.
13:01You've got the natural topography of the bottom.
13:04Your first inclination is to find a crack or a cannon where a coin will get stuck.
13:08Think like a coin.
13:09Gold is heavy.
13:10It sinks.
13:13Wind's picking up a little.
13:16Just ten minutes into the dive,
13:19the weather takes a turn for the worse.
13:22Well, here we go again.
13:25Wind.
13:27A southwest wind comes straight up the coastline.
13:30It creates big, unmanageable waves,
13:34and when the current picks up, it gets way worse.
13:39Southwest winds.
13:41The worst kind.
13:42The only kind.
13:45We have to take our time and make sure this is done very safely.
13:50The combination of high wind and high tide
13:54make conditions on the seafloor especially dangerous.
13:58Topside, we have a problem.
14:02Current is intense.
14:03Copy that.
14:05Griego.
14:06Do you read me?
14:07Over.
14:08Topside, I can hear you.
14:10I am inside and fighting the current in here.
14:13I can't talk right now.
14:15Copy that.
14:19Unbeknownst to Jeff,
14:21the divers make the decision to abandon the search
14:24and return to the surface.
14:26We've got a diver up here on the surface.
14:31What is going on here?
14:33Lost the topside, I am surfacing.
14:35Over.
14:39I said, who's on the surface there?
14:41That's PZO.
14:42He just got in.
14:46We're going to have a little talk with him when he comes up.
14:48Though safety is the top priority,
14:52Jeff knows that every minute of every dive is precious,
14:55especially when it takes two hours just to get to the site
14:58from their headquarters in the Whisper.
15:00What the hell happened out there?
15:07The conditions were really, really bumpy.
15:10We were getting pushed around, in and out.
15:12We had a lot of surge, hanging on to kelp,
15:14trying to dig holes.
15:15We were getting beat up pretty good.
15:18We had a beautiful forecast and a beautiful morning,
15:20and it really turned around on us.
15:23Yeah.
15:24Yeah.
15:24And we came up to this.
15:28It got real rough real quick.
15:31We can't keep losing dive days.
15:34This place ain't going to beat us.
15:39As the wind continues to pick up,
15:42the team pulls anchor
15:43and starts the long journey back to Lewisburg.
15:47This is what happens with a southwest wind out here.
15:49It creates huge swells.
15:52Everything gets pushed towards the shore,
15:54and I mean everything.
15:56That means that anything that floats
15:58needs to be away from the rocks.
16:02That's the safest bet.
16:04This is just a taste.
16:06This weather here,
16:07in a couple of weeks' time,
16:09this is going to get real bad.
16:13The next day,
16:23Jeff is back at the Fever Sham site,
16:25but not with his divers.
16:29Jeff is instead accompanied by Ryan Howlett
16:31from engineering firm McElhenney.
16:35Keep going up a little.
16:36Up, up.
16:37His hope is that their cutting-edge sonar mapping technology
16:41will find structures on the seafloor
16:43at the Fever Sham site.
16:45Below it a little?
16:46With this survey,
16:48they'll get an up-to-date,
16:49three-dimensional picture of conditions on the bottom.
16:52Aim for that crack in the...
16:54Right there.
16:55That point.
16:57The problem with this area
16:58is that it's covered in kelp,
17:00and it makes it nearly impossible
17:02to see the cuts in the grooves
17:03where the smaller items would get caught.
17:06Are you seeing any prominent features, Ryan?
17:09Lots of grooves on these rocks.
17:11Hard to tell as we're cutting across here.
17:13We'll have to check it out
17:14in post-processing for sure.
17:16But Jeff is taking a risk.
17:18To do the survey,
17:20he is sacrificing a dive day.
17:22My time is very precious this season.
17:26Having this survey done
17:28cuts my time in half.
17:30It's going to help me find the spots
17:32that I need to dive.
17:33While Jeff continues the survey
17:42over at the Fever Shams site
17:44along Nova Scotia's Death Coast...
17:46Are you seeing any prominent features, Ryan?
17:49We got tide coming in?
17:50Let's do one more pass along the shore.
17:53Team archaeologist Jim Sinclair
17:55meets with Matt Easton,
17:57an ancient weapons expert
17:58who consults with the Royal Armory's Museum in England
18:01to determine if the sword pommel
18:03found earlier at the site
18:05could be linked to the British wreck.
18:09Hi, Matt.
18:09We found an object
18:10we think you can probably help us with.
18:13Absolutely.
18:13I'm happy that I can help.
18:15Our team's been diving on an area
18:17where a convoy of ships
18:19went down in 1711.
18:21And we recovered an object
18:24that we're wondering
18:25would it have come from the lead ship,
18:27the Fever Shams,
18:28or possibly one of the others.
18:31It's a lovely little piece.
18:34What do you think it is?
18:37Basically, the two options of things
18:38it could be
18:39is a pommel for a dagger
18:41or a pommel for a sword.
18:42But I think it's probably a sword
18:44given the size.
18:46Around this time, around 1711,
18:48there's a particular type of sword
18:50that we're going to be looking at,
18:51which is known as the small sword.
18:54And this is the sort of archetypal
18:56gentleman's sword of this period.
18:58And to me,
18:59that looks like a small sword pommel.
19:01So I've got some examples here
19:03I can show you.
19:03I would love to see them.
19:05So this is a silver hilted example.
19:07And this is English.
19:08The type of blade,
19:09you'll notice it's very slender.
19:11Wow.
19:11It's a thrusting blade.
19:12So it's actually triangular cross-section.
19:14Obviously, you don't have that part.
19:16You've only got the pommel.
19:17But these are thrusting swords.
19:18And these were used for dueling.
19:19And then this is the pommel.
19:21The pommel there is essentially a balance.
19:23So it's there to form
19:25a counterbalance to the blade,
19:27which means that you can be
19:28very nimble with the tip
19:30and have a lot of control
19:31of that tip when you're fighting.
19:32So, Matt, is your opinion then
19:34that this would be from a small sword
19:36or a dagger of one of the British officers
19:38that were on board?
19:39I think with 90% certainty,
19:42given that the historical context
19:44of where this was found,
19:46it's very, very likely
19:48that this is a British officer's small sword.
19:52The Feversham was the only royal ship
19:54in the convoy.
19:56And that's where most of the officers
19:57would have been.
19:58If the current pushed this pommel
20:00in towards the coast,
20:02there's no telling what else
20:03got pushed in there with it.
20:09Back at their headquarters
20:15in Lewisburg,
20:16Jeff and diver Mike Haas
20:18sit down with Graham Christie
20:20from McElhinney
20:21to go over the early data
20:22they received from the survey.
20:25How you doing, Graham?
20:26Great, Jeff.
20:26How are you?
20:27Graham Christie
20:28is a hydrographic surveyor.
20:30He measures and maps
20:31underwater surfaces
20:32to analyze the seabed.
20:34Jeff is hoping
20:35he can identify targets
20:36for the team to dive.
20:38So I got your message.
20:39You said you got something for me.
20:41What is it?
20:42We're looking for places
20:43where these artifacts
20:44and other items might collect.
20:47And the best place for those
20:48from what I understand
20:49is sort of in the bottom
20:50of little collection bowls
20:52or troughs.
20:53Yeah.
20:55This is kind of the best look
20:56that we can get
20:57looking right through that kelp
20:59and being able to see
21:00the bottom as it is.
21:02Right here,
21:03this is a connection
21:04between a north-south
21:05and an east-west
21:06that could potentially
21:07be a great spot
21:08for things to play.
21:09If you don't mind,
21:10can you spin that
21:11a little bit?
21:13Yeah.
21:13There, stop.
21:14See that?
21:16Yep.
21:16That's the kind of thing
21:17that we're looking for.
21:18Just like that.
21:19That's about
21:20six and a half,
21:22seven feet deep
21:22down in the bottom
21:23of that cut right there.
21:25What's the width?
21:2710, 12 feet across
21:28at the top.
21:29That's what you're looking for.
21:29The narrow at the bottom,
21:31it's a natural catch-all
21:32that Mother Nature
21:33put there.
21:34And anything that
21:35could get caught in there
21:36is still going to be in there.
21:38Yeah.
21:38I'm liking the idea
21:39going in these cuts.
21:40It gets us out of the
21:41current that we're seeing
21:43down there,
21:43which is pretty severe,
21:44has been pretty severe.
21:45It looks like a great area
21:46to go take a look-see.
21:48All right, pal.
21:48Thanks very much.
21:54With good weather,
21:55Jeff and the team
21:56head to the new
21:56fever sham target
21:58identified in the survey.
22:01It's an area
22:01that we've never been,
22:03so what I want you
22:03to do is go
22:04down your main
22:05pennant line,
22:06make a 10-foot swath,
22:08and then work your way
22:10in a westerly direction
22:11while we've got
22:11this good wind.
22:12All right.
22:14And that's it.
22:15Let's go.
22:16Jeff is sending
22:17the divers to the cuts
22:19revealed in the 3D maps
22:20from the scan.
22:21The team is optimistic.
22:23This could be where
22:24some of the ship's
22:25treasure has come to rest.
22:28But it will take them
22:29closer to shore
22:31and danger.
22:36Haas, the top side.
22:38Radio check.
22:39Are you receiving?
22:40Over.
22:41I read you loud
22:43and clear, Haas.
22:44You guys go to the bottom
22:45and cling to it.
22:49Dive time?
22:501052.
22:51This is Pizio.
22:56Rego on the bottom,
22:5740 feet of water.
22:59Copy that.
23:00Start your search.
23:02Once underwater,
23:03the divers have to pinpoint
23:05the exact location
23:06of the cuts.
23:07But this close to shore,
23:10heavy surf
23:10and the strong current
23:12make for poor visibility.
23:13I can't see s**t.
23:1910 minutes into the dive,
23:21they find an access point
23:22to the canyon
23:23formed by the cuts.
23:24We have a lot of rocks,
23:26a lot of structure,
23:27big height,
23:29dramatic cliffs
23:30on both sides of us.
23:32The cliff forms a wall
23:33that blocks the current
23:35and catches materials
23:36like sand
23:37and small rocks
23:38at its base.
23:39A potentially perfect
23:41hiding place
23:42for shipwreck treasure.
23:44That's the top side.
23:46I am right at the rock
23:47and I will be attempting
23:50to estimate a good hit.
23:51Over.
23:52Copy that.
23:56Top side,
23:57I have something.
24:02I believe I have a coin.
24:05Is it a coin?
24:07While diving off the coast
24:14of Scattery Island
24:15at the site
24:16of the fever sham,
24:17you may have something here.
24:19Diver Mike Haas
24:21has uncovered an object.
24:22Top side,
24:23I believe I have a coin.
24:25He said a coin.
24:27That's what I heard.
24:28Could you bring it up with you
24:30when you're coming, please?
24:31This is Griego surfacing.
24:35I am low on air.
24:37Watch you do
24:39in there, Dan.
24:40You're going to be
24:40in the current.
24:42With the wind picking up,
24:44so too is the current
24:45that runs east to west
24:46along the island.
24:49The chase boats
24:50have to relocate
24:51to pick up the divers
24:52before they're swept
24:53into the rocks.
24:55Diver up, diver up.
24:57There's Dan.
24:58He's up.
25:0010-4, he's getting
25:01out of the oak head.
25:02The Zeal and Hoffs
25:03are leaving bottom.
25:05Two divers up.
25:07Yes, I do.
25:11We have a tower.
25:12Everybody's in.
25:17What do you make of that?
25:19I make that's what happens
25:20when you leave stuff
25:21on the bottom.
25:22That's...
25:23Catch the lake just right.
25:26Sometimes you can almost
25:27see a shield or something,
25:29but it's the walls.
25:32I can't see anything.
25:33I see something there,
25:34but it looks like an eight.
25:36It's just beat.
25:38Aaron, tell me what you think.
25:40Honestly, it is so beaten
25:43until we get it back,
25:46and I don't even know
25:47how much cleaning
25:48we can do on it.
25:49I can stabilize it.
25:51That's about it.
25:52Right now,
25:52it's possibly a coin.
25:54I think it is a coin,
25:56and I've seen the planchettes,
25:58the New England coins,
25:59that big.
26:00Yeah.
26:01But not in that shape.
26:04That's a sin.
26:06New England coins
26:06from the Feversham site
26:08are very valuable,
26:09and there's still
26:10a lot of them out here.
26:12And if this coin
26:13that we found
26:14is one of them,
26:15then we might have
26:16found them all.
26:21Back at the lab,
26:26Jeff and Aaron
26:27take a look at the coin
26:28the divers recovered
26:29from the Feversham site,
26:31hopeful they can
26:32clean it up enough
26:33to identify it.
26:35Oh, yeah,
26:37in rough shape.
26:38Let me see what we can do.
26:42Jeff is using a process
26:43called an electrolytic bath.
26:45An electrical charge
26:47is used to help
26:48remove debris,
26:49revealing any
26:50identifiable markings.
26:53Oh, I see bubbles.
26:56It's quick,
26:57it's dependable,
26:58and it's not going
26:58to hurt the object.
27:00After 20 minutes,
27:01the coin is ready
27:02to be examined.
27:08You can make anything up.
27:11There's nothing left of this.
27:13It's an absolute slug.
27:15So that sucks.
27:18You know,
27:19to put it into perspective,
27:21take a look
27:21at that coin, Aaron,
27:22and then look at this.
27:23These are the coins
27:24the dad was recovering
27:2525, 30 years ago.
27:27Oh, my God.
27:28In that little amount
27:29of time,
27:30what a shame.
27:31It's obvious
27:32that this coin
27:32is in bad shape,
27:34but it does tell me
27:34one thing.
27:35It tells me
27:36that the flow of wreckage
27:37is pushing down
27:39from the Feversham site
27:40to the target area.
27:41And if it's anything
27:43like the coins
27:44my father found,
27:45that means
27:46it could be valuable
27:47and there could be
27:47a lot more of them.
27:48As a new day dawns
28:01in Lewisburg,
28:02team archaeologist
28:03Jim Sinclair
28:04meets with coin expert
28:05Doug Mudd.
28:07Doug is a long-time consultant
28:09for the Smithsonian Institute
28:10and International Monetary Fund.
28:13Their mission,
28:14determine the country of origin
28:16for the coin the team
28:17found the previous day.
28:20Any insight you can give us,
28:21we'd really appreciate.
28:23Okay, yeah.
28:25If it's a New England coin,
28:26it could mean the area
28:27they're diving
28:28holds the rest
28:29of the Feversham's
28:30treasure trove.
28:31Okay.
28:32It looks silver to me.
28:34To me,
28:34that suggests
28:35it could be Spanish silver
28:35because that's the most
28:36common material
28:37we'd see out there,
28:38but maybe something else.
28:39Let's take a little
28:40closer look here.
28:41Okay, I'm looking at it
28:48and there's really
28:49not a lot of detail
28:50that's left.
28:52It's been basically
28:53smoothed out by the ocean.
28:55Look how thin that is.
28:56It's like a razor blade almost.
28:58Yeah.
28:59It's interesting
29:00because if this is
29:01Spanish silver,
29:02I expect them to be
29:03a lot thicker.
29:05It could be something
29:06much more rare than that.
29:08Based on the size
29:09and the thickness,
29:11I'm wondering
29:12if this could be
29:13Massachusetts' piece.
29:14Wow.
29:15It makes sense
29:16because they follow
29:18the story.
29:18You know,
29:19the Feversham was carrying
29:20some Massachusetts silver.
29:21We know in the past
29:22they found them,
29:23but this may be
29:24more of it.
29:26In 1649,
29:28following the beheading
29:29of King Charles,
29:30the caste-strapped
29:31colonial government
29:32of Massachusetts
29:33orders the production
29:35of its own money.
29:37In 1711,
29:38as the Feversham
29:39is being loaded
29:40for voyage,
29:41these coins make up
29:42a large portion
29:43of the Feversham's pay chest.
29:45Eventually,
29:46with the return
29:47to power of the monarchy,
29:48New England coins
29:49are outlawed,
29:51making them very rare.
29:55Yeah,
29:56I mean,
29:56it's interesting.
29:59I think the next step
29:59is to weigh this
30:00because if this is
30:01too heavy,
30:02it suggests
30:03it might be Spanish
30:04because the Spanish coins
30:04tend to be larger
30:05and heavier,
30:06but if it's lighter,
30:08that might help us
30:09prove it might be
30:10Massachusetts silver.
30:11Oh,
30:11that would be exciting.
30:13Let's take a look.
30:22After recovering
30:23a badly worn coin
30:24at the Feversham wreck site,
30:26team archaeologist
30:27Jim Sinclair
30:28and coin expert
30:29Doug Mudd
30:30are attempting
30:31to determine
30:32its origin.
30:33Very interesting.
30:34Depending on its weight,
30:36it could be
30:37from a cache
30:37of the rarest
30:38and most valuable
30:39American coins
30:41in existence.
30:42So let's take a look.
30:43Let's check it out.
30:44It is 4.3 grams.
30:51So this is missing
30:52at least 0.3,
30:530.4 grams of weight.
30:54That suggests
30:55that this could be
30:57Massachusetts silver.
30:58Wow.
31:00The fact that
31:01this is 4.3
31:02and it's as worn
31:02as it is,
31:03that tells us
31:04that this easily
31:05could be one of those.
31:06So that's very exciting
31:07to me.
31:08So what would the value
31:09of this have been?
31:11Well, at the time,
31:12these coins
31:12were the shilling,
31:13so this would have been
31:14something like
31:15two or three days
31:16worth of pay
31:16for the average person.
31:18So this is
31:18significant value,
31:20$100, $200 today.
31:22Now, as a collector's item,
31:24if this was in great shape,
31:26you're talking
31:27tens of thousands
31:27of dollars
31:28for one of these.
31:29Wow.
31:30And the fact
31:31that there may be
31:32still more out there
31:33to find,
31:34hopefully in better condition,
31:35and that gives us
31:36something to search for
31:37on the feedership.
31:43Armed with this
31:47new information,
31:48Jeff meets with the team
31:49to plan the next dive.
31:51This bathymetric survey
31:52has proven to be
31:53well worth its weight
31:54in gold.
31:56And these cuts
31:57have definitely
31:58been proving out.
31:59This coin,
32:00you know,
32:01even though it's a sin
32:02that it's been beat
32:02to death,
32:03it proves my point
32:04that the current
32:05is picking these items up
32:06and pushing them
32:07closer to the island.
32:09Where did you find that?
32:10So that coin was found
32:12on the western edge
32:13of these cuts
32:14that are in here.
32:15If we keep moving west,
32:17at least theoretically speaking,
32:18we know there's
32:19other wrecks in there
32:20like the Mary,
32:21the Joseph,
32:22and the Neptune.
32:23I really need to start
32:24heading down
32:25towards that western breaker
32:27because it almost forms
32:31a natural catch-all.
32:34It also forms
32:35a hell of a break zone
32:36right there.
32:36We're going to get
32:36beat up pretty good
32:37in that area.
32:38We'll be diving
32:39in the break zone.
32:41A break zone
32:42is the section of water
32:43nearest the shore.
32:45As waves approach,
32:46they collide
32:47with the ocean floor,
32:49getting taller,
32:50steeper,
32:51and more dangerous.
32:52It is a rough spot, Mike,
32:53I'll give you that.
32:54You're right.
32:55And that's why
32:56it's never been searched before.
32:57That's why we're going
32:58to be the first ones
32:59to do it.
33:00You've got to get down
33:00and dirty,
33:01and the only way
33:02we're going to find out
33:03is if you go down there
33:04and have a look.
33:08later that morning,
33:20the team heads out
33:21to Scattery Island.
33:22That's where I want to go.
33:24Usually coming through
33:25this trip,
33:26I take the autopilot off
33:27and steer my hand
33:28because there's so many
33:29friggin' rocks and stuff,
33:31and sometimes
33:32you can't see them.
33:33Their plan,
33:36to keep moving west
33:37with the current,
33:38to search for items
33:39from the fever sham wreck.
33:41Okay, guys,
33:42we're coming up
33:42on Scattery Island.
33:47You see that, Johnny?
33:48Yes.
33:50On the other side
33:51of the ragged rocks.
33:52That's where I want to go.
33:54That's the western breaker.
33:55Jeff's plan
33:58for diving
33:58in the break zone
33:59is to take advantage
34:00of a short period
34:01of calm
34:02referred to
34:03as slack tide.
34:04Hey, Johnny,
34:05when's low?
34:06Slack tide
34:07in about 10 minutes.
34:09Slack tide
34:10is the transition period
34:11between high
34:12and low tide
34:13where it becomes
34:14like a bathtub.
34:15It is nice.
34:17It's a window
34:18of opportunity
34:18for about an hour,
34:20but then,
34:21bam-o,
34:22she's going
34:23in the other direction
34:23again.
34:25It's a bathtub.
34:27Now,
34:27just pretend
34:28you're in a bathtub
34:28with coins in it.
34:30They're rubber duckeys, eh?
34:34Coins?
34:35Please.
34:36Not toys.
34:40Now,
34:41you be careful
34:41in there.
34:51Hey,
34:52I'm going to move
34:52over to the right
34:53so I'm a little bit
34:54away from you guys.
34:55Let's move slowly.
34:58With precisely
34:59one hour to search,
35:00the dive team
35:01makes their descent,
35:02working westward
35:03along the shoreline.
35:07Let's head that way.
35:10PZO,
35:10lead the way.
35:11dig up that hit, Mike Haas.
35:29I can't be without a hit today.
35:35PZO's going to hit.
35:36Bullshit.
35:37Bullshit.
35:40May I have something here?
35:47While searching the jagged coast
35:49of Scattery Island,
35:51both divers,
35:52Mike Pizio
35:53and Mike Haas,
35:54finally get hits
35:55on their metal detector.
35:56May I have something here?
35:58I'm going to go to the top side.
36:02I just worked a hot spot,
36:03but I think it's
36:04working hot rock.
36:08Disregard.
36:08Find me something else,
36:09please.
36:12Off the top side,
36:14the, uh,
36:15it tends to be a piece
36:17of water and iron.
36:18Go ahead.
36:20Keep searching.
36:21Move yourself into shore.
36:22Move yourself all over the place.
36:24It's a bathtub.
36:27The calm conditions
36:29allow the divers
36:30to move quickly
36:31and cover more ground.
36:33I'm sorry.
36:34This is busy.
36:35This is really nice down here.
36:37But after 30 minutes,
36:39there's still no sign
36:40of anything
36:41that might be
36:42from the fever sham.
36:43Slack tide
36:44is a beautiful time
36:45where I don't have to worry
36:46about divers getting picked up
36:48and thrown into the rocks.
36:51But we are running
36:52out of time.
36:54Donnie?
37:01Yes?
37:0111-06.
37:04Roger that.
37:06The tide
37:07is going to change here
37:08real soon,
37:09and when it does,
37:10I'm going to have
37:10to pull them out.
37:12So if they're going to
37:12find something down here,
37:14they better do it quick.
37:16Disregard,
37:17I have another hit.
37:21Negative top side,
37:23it's modern.
37:24With only 10 minutes left
37:26in the slack tide,
37:28Mike Pizio
37:28gets another hit.
37:31Top side,
37:32I may have something here.
37:33You're not going to believe this.
37:39I got brass everywhere.
37:43Pocket is filled with this stuff.
37:45I got it all over here.
37:49Brass nails,
37:50that's feversham.
37:51The brass farm down here,
37:53there's nails everywhere.
37:56Bronze pins,
37:57I got them all over here.
37:58I got them all over here.
38:00Bring them up, pal.
38:03I'm a little on air
38:04from Deed.
38:05But this is a very
38:06productive spot.
38:08Hey, thank you.
38:09I can shoot my bag here
38:11at a market plate
38:12if you'd like.
38:12Yeah, shoot the bag,
38:14shoot the bag,
38:14shoot the bag.
38:18This right area
38:19where I'm at right now
38:20is very hot.
38:21A lot of stuff here.
38:23It's only 15 feet.
38:24Brass pins
38:27were essential
38:28to the ship's construction,
38:30holding together
38:31key components
38:31of its framework.
38:34Larger colonial era ships
38:36would contain
38:37thousands of them.
38:39Pins are an excellent
38:39indication of a shipwreck
38:41and these pins
38:42could be exactly
38:43the type of pins
38:44that have been pulled off
38:44of the feversham
38:45over the years.
38:47Hey, Pizio,
38:48this is Topside
38:49with the tide
38:50the way it is.
38:50I'd like you to hurry up.
38:53Pizio's leaving,
38:54right bottom.
38:54I'm boiling air.
38:57With air running low
38:59and the short window
39:00of the slack tide closing,
39:02the divers abandoned
39:03the new hotspot
39:04and returned
39:05to the surface.
39:10We're going to like this.
39:11What is it?
39:12What you find?
39:13All kinds of stuff.
39:14Oh!
39:16That's the stuff.
39:18All these are
39:19from the same area.
39:20Yeah, but something's
39:21different about this.
39:22This doesn't even look
39:24like the stuff
39:25that was coming
39:25off of the feversham.
39:26This stuff was just
39:28laying on the surface
39:29of the sand
39:29and then these nails,
39:33there's just piles
39:33of these laying there.
39:35See this, Aaron?
39:36That's feversham.
39:38See the red brass?
39:40The high copper content
39:41in it?
39:42This is not feversham.
39:44This is something else.
39:46I don't know what it is.
39:48All of this stuff
39:48came from something else.
39:49The feversham brass
39:51has always had
39:52a reddish tint to it.
39:53They call it red brass.
39:55This other brass
39:56that's intermingled
39:57with the feversham brass,
39:59that's another ship entirely.
40:01These ship's fasteners, then?
40:03These are definitely
40:03ship's fasteners.
40:04Yeah, and these bends
40:06are evidence of a violent...
40:08Well, they're indicative
40:09100%.
40:09...violent end to the ship.
40:11Yeah, absolutely.
40:12So even stuff like this
40:13can tell a story.
40:14All this stuff can.
40:15Yeah.
40:16Take a pin or a nail
40:17like this and try to break it.
40:19You can't.
40:20Mother Nature did this.
40:21Yeah.
40:21Imagine where it takes
40:22to bend that.
40:24Like that.
40:26Good job, guys.
40:27That's fantastic, guys.
40:30The red pins
40:31are further evidence
40:32that artifacts
40:32from the feversham
40:33may have been pushed
40:34closer to the shore.
40:36But the green pins
40:37present another mystery.
40:39Could they be
40:42from one of the other
40:43undiscovered shipwrecks
40:44from the ill-fated convoy?
40:47And if so,
40:49what secrets and treasures
40:50might still lie hidden
40:52beneath the waves?
40:55Next,
40:56on the Death Coast...
40:58You boys,
40:59be careful down there now.
41:01...the team's search
41:02for the feversham convoy
41:04takes them further west...
41:05Keep searching.
41:06Hurry up, though.
41:07...and closer to danger.
41:09This current is going
41:10to push us into the rocks.
41:12It's like a quick
41:13washing machine.
41:15The rocks!
41:16Get them away
41:17from the rocks!
41:18...and with a storm
41:19on the horizon...
41:20Storm is a-brewin'.
41:22Whoa, boy!
41:25...a series of
41:26mysterious artifacts...
41:27I don't know
41:28what that is.
41:29Oh, that's fascinating.
41:30...leads to a major
41:31breakthrough.
41:32Oh, what do you got?
41:33Look, that's what
41:34I was talking about
41:35right there.
41:35You can see it.
41:36Look at it right there.
41:37We've got to get more.
41:38We've got to get more.
41:38We've got to get more.