0:00intrigued
0:01Legend and here this is the Bermuda Triangle
0:09now using new technology we can strip away the water layer by layer
0:16done
0:17hidden
0:18escape
0:20will drain the Bermuda Triangle
0:24working our way deeper and deeper to explore its darkest corners
0:31tackling some of the triangles greatest mysteries
0:36the water is fully drained what will we find at the bottom of the Bermuda
0:42Triangle
0:46yeah
0:48bermuda and island oasis 650 miles off the east coast of the United States
0:57for centuries it's been a refuge for atlantic shipping but the islands waters
1:02conceal a deadly threat
1:06the same time as being incredibly attractive for me to also represents a
1:09serious no go area for Mariners without specific for me to experience
1:14Bermudez name comes to strike fear into the hearts of sailors and earns a
1:19reputation as the Isle of devils
1:22the paradox of burritos paradise is that it was literally a ship graveyard for
1:27its first - 300 years as custodian of the wrecks to leap Lucia tracks and
1:34monitors bermudez historic shipwrecks
1:38and there are plenty to keep him occupied
1:42in fact these waters may have claimed up to three hundred vessels
1:49why have so many ships perished in these crystal-clear sees so close to land
1:59Philippe sets out to visit several wrecks that could shed some light on
2:03this mystery
2:10first the Mary Celeste an iron hold steamship carrying supplies in the
2:19American Civil War
2:22yeah
2:24she like Bermuda she came down so short and came to my eyes right here which is
2:28a very curious thing because we're literally only 800 meter control and
2:32having on the flat calm day
2:34there's a lot of intrigue about it trying to figure out just how this came
2:39to be
3:14in fact according to police records numerous Rex completely and circle
3:19Bermuda
3:21there's clearly something out there
3:25imposes a deadly threat to shipping
3:30to address this and other long-standing Bermuda Triangle mysteries
3:36we need to see the underwater lay of the land
3:44removing the ocean layer by layer
3:50to gradually reveal an extraordinary landscape
3:59never seen before
4:07- look into the Bermuda triangles depths we use a fast evolving technology called
4:12sonar mapping sonar mapping fires sound waves to the ocean floor
4:20the return signals display the shape and depth of the land beneath and its sonar
4:26technology that may help uncover the cause of the hundreds of shipwrecks
4:30surrounding the island
4:32all right good man how you doing
4:36geologists Nick Hutchings is a modern-day prospector
4:40he's using sonar mapping to hunt for signs of specific underwater formations
4:44close to where some of Bermuda's Rex line
4:49wait what we're looking for our mineral deposits and they could be in the form
4:55of extinct vents hydrothermal vents known as black smokers
5:04Nick believes the now-extinct events could contain rare metals and minerals
5:09we would be looking at gold and copper in with the crusts there
5:15you're looking at platinum cobalt nickel and particularly the rare earth and the
5:21rarest are are important now because then they're vital to all of our modern
5:25technology
5:27in order to seek out the valuable metals Nick's using a multi-beam sonar device
5:33the data reveal an extraordinary underwater landscape around Bermuda
5:38including what appears to be a mountain edge
5:42we have a big sur flat plateau will steam out to what we call the edge you
5:47get to the side and then it runs down at a slope of about 60 degrees and that run
5:52down 350 fathoms
5:54why are we finding the edge of an underwater Mountain just off the coast
5:59of Bermuda
6:04to find out we need to see the bigger picture
6:10the latest sonar data from all around Bermuda allow us to virtually drain this
6:15entire area
6:20water gone the tiny island appears to perch on a spectacular mountain top a
6:26seam out two and a half miles high
6:29all alone in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
6:35so how did it get here
6:39the reason why the island is here today is because of a very significant
6:44volcanic eruption took place in this relatively isolated spot in the ocean
6:48plate that stretches from the be the earliest phase of development of the
6:52Atlantic Ocean
6:54the volcano grew bigger and bigger over millions of years until it finally
6:58towered above the ocean surface
7:02it erupted and completed a huge volcanic island that would have stuck up three or
7:08four thousand feet above current sea level now after the volcano became
7:14extinct
7:1530 million years ago wind and rain eroded the mountain down to a flat
7:20plateau then as sea levels rose after the ice age
7:25bermuda was left as a small island on top of the seam out
7:34today reefs have built up on the slopes of this ancient volcano and now surround
7:39most of Bermuda reviews reefs are natural barrier for predicti