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Intrigued
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Legend and here this is the Bermuda Triangle
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now using new technology we can strip away the water layer by layer
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done
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hidden
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escape
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will drain the Bermuda Triangle
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working our way deeper and deeper to explore its darkest corners
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tackling some of the triangles greatest mysteries
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the water is fully drained what will we find at the bottom of the Bermuda
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Triangle
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yeah
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bermuda and island oasis 650 miles off the east coast of the United States
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for centuries it's been a refuge for atlantic shipping but the islands waters
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conceal a deadly threat
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the same time as being incredibly attractive for me to also represents a
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serious no go area for Mariners without specific for me to experience
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Bermudez name comes to strike fear into the hearts of sailors and earns a
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reputation as the Isle of devils
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the paradox of burritos paradise is that it was literally a ship graveyard for
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its first - 300 years as custodian of the wrecks to leap Lucia tracks and
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monitors bermudez historic shipwrecks
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and there are plenty to keep him occupied
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in fact these waters may have claimed up to three hundred vessels
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why have so many ships perished in these crystal-clear sees so close to land
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Philippe sets out to visit several wrecks that could shed some light on
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this mystery
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first the Mary Celeste an iron hold steamship carrying supplies in the
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American Civil War
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yeah
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she like Bermuda she came down so short and came to my eyes right here which is
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a very curious thing because we're literally only 800 meter control and
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having on the flat calm day
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there's a lot of intrigue about it trying to figure out just how this came
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to be
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in fact according to police records numerous Rex completely and circle
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Bermuda
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there's clearly something out there
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imposes a deadly threat to shipping
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to address this and other long-standing Bermuda Triangle mysteries
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we need to see the underwater lay of the land
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removing the ocean layer by layer
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to gradually reveal an extraordinary landscape
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never seen before
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- look into the Bermuda triangles depths we use a fast evolving technology called
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sonar mapping sonar mapping fires sound waves to the ocean floor
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the return signals display the shape and depth of the land beneath and its sonar
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technology that may help uncover the cause of the hundreds of shipwrecks
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surrounding the island
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all right good man how you doing
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geologists Nick Hutchings is a modern-day prospector
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he's using sonar mapping to hunt for signs of specific underwater formations
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close to where some of Bermuda's Rex line
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wait what we're looking for our mineral deposits and they could be in the form
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of extinct vents hydrothermal vents known as black smokers
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Nick believes the now-extinct events could contain rare metals and minerals
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we would be looking at gold and copper in with the crusts there
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you're looking at platinum cobalt nickel and particularly the rare earth and the
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rarest are are important now because then they're vital to all of our modern
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technology
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in order to seek out the valuable metals Nick's using a multi-beam sonar device
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the data reveal an extraordinary underwater landscape around Bermuda
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including what appears to be a mountain edge
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we have a big sur flat plateau will steam out to what we call the edge you
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get to the side and then it runs down at a slope of about 60 degrees and that run
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down 350 fathoms
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why are we finding the edge of an underwater Mountain just off the coast
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of Bermuda
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to find out we need to see the bigger picture
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the latest sonar data from all around Bermuda allow us to virtually drain this
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entire area
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water gone the tiny island appears to perch on a spectacular mountain top a
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seam out two and a half miles high
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all alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
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so how did it get here
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the reason why the island is here today is because of a very significant
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volcanic eruption took place in this relatively isolated spot in the ocean
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plate that stretches from the be the earliest phase of development of the
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Atlantic Ocean
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the volcano grew bigger and bigger over millions of years until it finally
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towered above the ocean surface
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it erupted and completed a huge volcanic island that would have stuck up three or
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four thousand feet above current sea level now after the volcano became
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extinct
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30 million years ago wind and rain eroded the mountain down to a flat
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plateau then as sea levels rose after the ice age
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bermuda was left as a small island on