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(ominous music)

(oxygen hisses)

(radio crackling)

(metal detector beeping)

(Jeff): We got a hit!

- Talk to me, pal.

- What? What is it?

(music swells)

(narrator): It's known as the Death Coast.

(wave crashes)

An area of rough sea in the North Atlantic

that's claimed more than 6,000 vessels.

(sailors shouting)

Casting those aboard, and treasure,

into its turbulent depths.

(Jeff): We gotta turn this thing around! Here we go!

(narrator): Gold, silver, and other priceless objects

from the wrecked ships...

- Oh, my God, you're not going to believe this.

(narrator): ...lie scattered across the ocean floor.

- Gold coin right there.

- That is gorgeous.

(narrator): But salvaging here has been banned

for more than a decade, thanks to rampant looting.

Now...

- Storm is a-brewin'.

(thunder cracks)

Nothing could- whoa, boy!

(narrator): After a long battle, third generation

shipwreck hunter, Jeff MacKinnon, has won

the exclusive rights to dive in these treacherous waters.

- Oh, yeah!

- But he only has eight weeks to do it.

- Are you okay?

- Can Jeff and his team find the treasure he seeks?

- Find me something.

- Before the stormy waters of the Death Coast...

- It's time for us to get outta here.

- We got people in the water.

- ...make diving impossible.

(dramatic music)

(tense music)

(gulls squawking)

(narrator): It's been 14 years since Jeff MacKinnon

has searched for shipwrecks off the coast of Nova Scotia.

But now, Jeff and his team of divers

are finally heading back out to sea.

(Jeff): Johnnie! (Johnnie): Yes?

(Jeff): I wanna load that rope aboard.

Can you swing that crane out?

- Roger that.

(Jeff): Incoming! Swing 'er in, slow!

(narrator): They've identified six wrecks they want to locate

and salvage during their short dive window,

and every second counts.

- Lower 'er down! Quickly, quickly. Pull that slack in.

You see this fog here?

This is the stuff that has been taking down ships

for hundreds of years.

Slop, fog, crap. And that's it. And we're about to sail into it.

Away we go!

- Okay, stern line!

(Jeff): We're all missing a few screws, obviously,

in order to do this. There's something wrong with us.

Come on, divers!

(narrator): Jeff and his team

are exploring the coast off Cape Breton Island,

just off the northern tip of Nova Scotia.

Cape Breton lies directly in the Atlantic hurricane belt,

and its deadly waters

are the final resting place for countless ships,

including many from the colonial era.

(soldiers shouting)

During the 17th and 18th centuries,

constant fighting erupted here as the English and French

fought for control of Louisbourg,

a wealthy French port named for King Louis XIV.

Today, Louisbourg serves as the starting point

for Jeff's expedition.

(Johnnie): Hey, we all set?

- Reverse! (Johnnie): Okay!

(engine roars)

(Jeff): Bring 'er in. Slow! Slow!

(Jeff): Diving in these waters

is like nothing anybody has ever seen.

It's dangerous.

We're (bleep).

But I'm a treasure hunter

and I will die a treasure hunter.

(ominous music)

(wave crashes)

(Johnnie): Radar's on.

Just gotta keep an eye on me track

'cause I can't see nothin' else.

- The first of the team's six targets is the wreck site

of the French naval ship, The Chameau.

In 1725, The Chameau set out from La Rochelle, France

on its annual supply trip to Louisbourg.

It carries 200 soldiers and 116 wealthy settlers.

And its stern held a pay chest with an estimated

82,000 French livres,

the equivalent of over $20 million today.

(thunder cracks)

On August 17th, with the rugged coast of Nova Scotia in sight,

a gale hurled The Chameau into a massive offshore rock.

(boat creaking)

No one survived.

(wave whooshes)

(flags fluttering)

(Jeff): Been a long time.

- I'm anxious to get back in.

I mean, we haven't seen this in a while.

- Yeah, well it's, water's getting awful warm,

we got great white sharks up here now.

- We got sharks? I'm not goin'.

- Yeah, ya are. (laughs) Yeah.

- Treasure hunting is in Jeff's blood.

His father, Robert MacKinnon,

spent the better part of the last 20 years

exploring wrecks off the Death Coast.

His work was captured in a 1988 TV documentary.

(documentary narrator): Robert MacKinnon

makes a living from fishing,

but his real passion is hunting for treasure.

He's discovered over 100 shipwrecks.

- I followed my father. I watched him from the top.

Watched the way that he set up a site.

I watched him in awe, my entire life.

And now, the onus is on us.

My father spent his life here in Cape Breton,

searching for gold. Gold, always gold.

When I was a boy, I got to watch my father

bring up all kinds of treasure.

(Robert): We've got all the series of coins.

Some of the New England coins are worth

as high as $75,000 now.

(Jeff): This has been my life. It has shaped my life,

ever since I was a kid.

And now I do this because it's my family's legacy.

- Well, we better find something.

(Jeff): Yeah, you better. (laughs)

- Despite years of searching,

only 40 percent of The Chameau pay chest has been found.

A key prize is a coin known as an 8 L écu.

This large, silver coin was commonly carried on vessels

like The Chameau.

- When The Chameau broke up,

the stern section drifted away from the rest of the ship.

That's where the wealthy passengers and the captain's

quarter's were. It's also where all the coins were kept.

You know what? The stern section's never been found.

(tense music)

(boat thunders in waves)

(Jeff): Keep heading that course, Johnnie.

(Johnnie):Okay.

(Jeff): Right now we're headed to Chameau Rock.

This is where The Chameau met its fate in 1725.

- There's little evidence on the surface,

but hiding just below is a massive rock formation

deadly to unprepared captains.

- See it breaking just the water.

Heh. On a calm, calm day,

you don't even know that it's there.

(Jeff): See it? You just hold that course there.

- With Johnnie keeping the boat at a safe distance,

Jeff throws the anchor line to prevent the boat

from drifting and meeting the same fate as The Chameau.

- Right on the mark? - Yep!

- Okay!

(anchor clangs, splashes)

(anchor thuds)

(Jeff): Now that the fog's just blown out,

this is like a brand new day here. And here we are.

I know it's been a long time but I got a plan.

- Jeff's dream is locating whatever remains of the stern.

As a guide, he's using a chart made in 1725

by French captain, Pierre Morpain,

who investigated the site immediately after

The Chameau sank.

(thunder cracks)

He sketched a map showing his thoughts

on how the vessel broke up, and its possible debris field.

- We were shut down before we could search

what Morpain's map described as the debris line.

I believe the stern broke off

and drifted with the current to the west.

That's where the stern section is

and that's where I'm gonna search.

Let's see what we can find. (Team): Let's do it.

(Jeff): Let's go. Let's get ready.

- Jeff's dive team is a collection

of ex-military and law enforcement experts,

with over two decades of experience

diving on the Death Coast.

- Go find gold! - You got it.

- Let's do it. - Go, go, go.

- As the divers suit up, Jeff takes a look

at the conditions.

(Jeff): The current, it's a buzz saw.

When you got the wind and the tide

going in the same direction, you know, you end up with

a giant conveyor belt that can sweep a diver

out to sea in a second.

(Jeff): Let's make this happen.

- Because of the danger the rocks pose to the boat,

the dive team and camera crew load into the inflatables

to get to the target.

(Jeff): On the mark, head south. Find me something.

(boat engine whirs)

Get me a gold, boys!

(tense music)

- Haas, this is topside. I read you loud and clear. Over.

- As the divers begin their descent,

they face an immediate problem.

- (Bleep)

- Then, on the surface--

(cameraman gasps)

...a bigger challenge appears.

- Hey, need your help!

- Hey!

- We got people in the water!

- Pull him out. Pull Doug out.

- The strong current separates one of the camera operators

from the team, threatening to carry him out to sea.

- Okay, I lost him, Chris. - Yeah, he missed the buoy.

- Both hands, point directly at him.

(Mike P): Right, right, just keep an eye on him.

Don't take your eyes off for any reason, all right?

(Jeff): Go, boys. Go get him.

This is the reason it's called the Death Coast.

- Coming up.

(narrator): As the team races to save

a member of the crew drifting away on the surface.

(Jeff): Right ahead of ya!

(tense music)

- The divers fight a formidable obstacle beneath it.

(wave crashes)

- And later, a dense fog rolls in.

- Johnnie, do you see them?

(Johnnie): Not yet. - Come on!

(splashing)

- Before an unforeseen discovery sends Jeff's search

in a new direction.

(Jeff): This ain't Chameau.

We're an entirely new wreck here.

find me something! s,

(narrator): It's been over a decade since Jeff MacKinnon's

been able to dive for treasure in the turbulent waters

of Nova Scotia's Death Coast.

(narrator): Now, as they attempt to find The Chameau's stern,

Jeff and his team are reminded why this is known

as the Death Coast.

- Hey! - Need your help!

- Hey! Pull him out! Pull Doug out!

- A cameraman is swept up

by the strong current. - Went to find the boat.

- Okay, I lost him Chris, where is he?

- Mike, where they at?

(Mike P): Keep an eye on him.

Don't take your eyes off for any reason, all right?

(tense music)

- What happened was one of our cameramen came down

the port side and then he tried to come around the back

of the boat, around the stern.

The current got him and he couldn't get towards the boat.

So, I've got archaeologist being a spotter,

keeping an eye on the man overboard.

We called for another Zodiak

to come in to try to go pick him up.

- Go, boys. Go get him.

He's right there. Look! Right ahead of ya!

(tense music)

(Jeff): One of the most dangerous things about diving

on these sites in Cape Breton is the current.

It'll take them and it'll spit them out if we're not careful.

- Yeah, hey, no problem.

(narrator): With the cameraman safe and secure,

the divers and the rest of the camera crew

continue their descent.

- But as they approach the bottom,

they run into an obstacle.

- Yes, this is topside, Griego, we hear you loud and clear.

(Dan): We have a problem.

(tense music)

- (Bleep) man.

- Since the wood of The Chameau rotted away long ago,

this blanket of kelp makes it much tougher for the divers

to spot gold, silver, or any other metal objects.

- Rising water temperatures over the last 25 years

have caused a bloom of sugar kelp.

- With so much ocean floor to cover,

Jeff's plan is to have each dive last at least 50 minutes.

- But after just 28 minutes,

the divers return to the surface.

(Jeff): These divers are some of the best in the business,

and if they're coming up early, I know there's a problem.

So explain to me what the (bleep) happened there,

why you guys came up. What happened?

(Dan): Burned through my air.

(Bleep) fighting the current and trying to fight through

the kelp. There was never any uh, sand areas. It was just kelp

and rock. And just caused you to go through your air.

- Okay. All right.

(Jeff): It's not bad enough that we deal with weather, wind,

and tide here in Cape Breton,

but now I've got kelp.

(Mike P): I think we got a big problem here.

(sighs)

- Bloody hell. I've never seen anything like this. Not up here.

- Whole bottom's covered like this. You got to work

for every inch of space you're covering.

- Yeah, and you don't know what you're missing,

you don't know what you're not seeing. Hmm.

(Jeff): I don't know what the hell is going on here

with the kelp. It has never been this bad. Ever!

When my dad and his team were diving 30 years ago,

there wasn't as much kelp. There was nothing like this.

Even 15 years ago.

This is insane.

I mean, you're dealing with a mess on the bottom.

Well, well, well. What do you suggest?

- I don't know, I mean all you can do is slog through it.

You don't really have much of a choice.

It's not like we could cut it out.

It's just too much of it. Everywhere you go.

- Well this is, this wreck spans over four square miles.

It'd be like cutting four square miles of grass

with a pair of scissors. You'd just, you couldn't do it.

This is not good.

This is going to be a problem.

(Jeff): Okay, we gotta get back down.

- Sorry, Mike. - Collect yourselves

at the anchor and then look for open areas.

Goodbye.

(boat engine whirs)

Give us a kiss, love.

(Jeff laughs)

Get me a coin.

(splashing)

(narrator): Starting at the anchor line, the divers

will depend solely on their metal detectors

to search for the debris trail obscured by the kelp.

(air bubbling)

(Jeff): Hey boys, this is topside.

How are we lookin', over?

(Jeff): When you're dealing with detectors,

the diver's only going to be able to search a swath

about two feet in front of them.

(chuckles)

(Jeff): But the conditions here are so adverse

that you could be one foot away

from the best find that we've ever seen,

we could very well lose something that is going

to change history itself.

(tense music)

- The divers have been in the water for over 30 minutes

without a single hit.

As they move west, following the path on Morpain's map,

they continue to fight the current and kelp.

- Topside to divers, topside to divers,

you have 10 minutes left. Over.

(metal detector beeps)

- Then, diver Dan Griego hears something promising.

(Jeff): We got a hit!

(beeping continues)

- Talk to me, pal.

(beeping continues)

(Jeff): Silver, gold, what? What is it?

(laughing)

(Jeff): Bring it up.

(waves crashing)

(narrator): Over the centuries,

the notorious waters of Nova Scotia's Death Coast

have claimed hundreds of ships and countless lives.

But today, those waters give back to Jeff and his crew.

(Jeff): Silver, gold, what? What is it?

(narrator): Diver Dan Griego pulls a coin from the kelp.

(laughs)

(Jeff): Bring it up.

In order for these sites to produce,

you got to make them produce. You got to take it from them.

You gotta do the work, put the time in,

and then you get rewarded. That's how this works.

Oh, boy, look! Look at this!

Johnnie boy, he got one!

Oh, Aaron!

- All right, lemme see, lemme see.

- Close your eyes and hold out your hand.

The Chameau has provided.

- Wow.

(Jeff laughs) - (Bleep)

(Aaron): That's beautiful.

- A (bleep) coin.

- Good job, guys.

(Jeff): Good job, Dan! You're my hero.

- You can make some numbers on it.

(Jeff and Aaron): 1721.

- Yeah. Hey.

(Aaron): After 300 years, a little scuffed up.

(Jeff): It's a lot scuffed up.

Getting something on the very first dive

on the very first day on Chameau was a great thing.

14 years.

- God. - 14 years.

This ain't an 8L écu but it is a coin

and it's from the right era.

Therefore, I believe we're in a good spot.

And where there's one coin, there's a lot more.

- The Chameau's manifest includes a who's who

of French colonial leaders and high-ranking officials.

All wealthy passengers

and all traveling first class in the stern.

Could this coin mean that Jeff and his team

are on the right path to finding what's left of the stern

and whatever treasure it holds?

- We're gonna get a whole lot more than that, I can tell.

I can feel it.

(mysterious music)

- Later that day,

back at their Louisbourg base camp,

Jeff and the team review their first day.

- So, we had a mixed start here on The Chameau.

We had a good find with that half écu from 1721,

but we have a bigger problem than that.

We have the kelp, obviously,

and we got to figure out a way to deal with it.

- It's absolutely insane.

There's no landmarks down there that can be seen anymore.

You could be sitting right next to a cannon and not see it

because it's covered in kelp.

It's that dense and it's just a, it's a nightmare.

- Every movement we have down there is, is work.

So, you got a metal detector out and you're trying to sweep

as you normally would sweep, but you can't

because the kelp is standing up.

So, you got to go around each one of the stalks of kelp

and poke in to try to cover the area you're in.

So, everything you do takes three times or four times

the amount of time it would normally take you.

- It's so thick that the biggest problem is

when you're under it,

you can't see anything. (Jeff): Yeah.

- So, even when you get a hit and I can smell the concretion,

I know there's something that you can't see anything.

- Yeah. You know, our time is limited here.

We got to get back to that site, regardless of the kelp.

I know it's gonna be a pain.

We're gonna have to knuckle down and deal with it.

(tense music)

- The next day, Jeff and his team head back out

to the same site where they found the 1721 coin.

Jeff's all too aware that with the Death Coast's

winter season looming, he has limited time to search for more.

(Jeff): I think we're gonna get something today, John.

- I hope so. Great day to be on the water.

- The team plans to keep following Morpain's 1725

map of The Chameau's wreck.

(Jeff): Throw that, Mike.

- In hopes of finding the ship's stern

and its cache of 8L écu coins.

(Jeff): You know, none of the previous divers that dove

on Chameau found the stern. None of them.

If I find it, that would be a major discovery.

That would be a feather in my hat.

(splashing)

(air bubbling)

(tense music)

- The fierce currents force the divers

to use tethered ropes to reach the bottom.

- Mike Haas, this is topside, I got you. Over.

(Jeff): Copy that, Mike.

(Jeff): The odd thing about this type of work is that

maybe it's luck, maybe it's divine intervention,

I don't know what, but if it wants to be found,

it'll be found. If it doesn't want to be found, forget it.

(metal detector beeping)

(beeping continues)

- Copy that. That's a good sign.

(Jeff): Dig it up, Dan. I want to know what it is.

(suspenseful music)

(Jeff): Are you seeing anything?

- Coming up.

(Jeff): I want you guys up and out.

Johnnie, do you see them?

- No, not yet.

(wave crashes)

(tense music)

(narrator): While diving

the site of a legendary shipwreck

off Nova Scotia's Death Coast,

diver Dan Griego finds something on the sea floor.

- Copy that. That's a good sign.

- Copy that. Bring it up.

(Jeff): Diver up!

They found something. I knew there was stuff still here.

Old Jeff knows the marks, boy.

Good job, Dan. Well, that's something.

(Dan): Something really old.

- Ah! Ah!

- Pewter?

(Jeff): No, this is silver, my friend. This is what's left

of a silver fork.

Maybe it's not a fork. Maybe it's a spoon. I don't know.

Three hundred years has not been kind.

That's Chameau silver. - Is it?

- Yeah.

- Well, it's down there then. (laughs)

- This is just like the ones my father found.

We pulled a pile off of The Chameau.

Okay, boys, let's get some new tanks.

I'm gonna put you on the inside.

Find me a coin.

- Encouraged by the find, Jeff sends the divers

back to the site where he hopes is The Chameau's debris field.

(suspenseful music)

- But as the dive team continues west...

- ...the trail grows cold.

- Anybody having any luck?

- Well, do what ya can.

(Jeff): So?

- (Bleep) me, man.

- In dive after dive,

the team is unable to find any artifacts

in the vast field of kelp.

(Jeff): This is topside. Is there a problem?

Little oppressed up here.

(Jeff): What a disappointment.

This is what happens a lot of the time in treasure hunting,

90 percent of the time you come up empty.

(Jeff): All right, this is topside. Bring yourselves back.

I'm not sure if we've lost the trail or the trail

just stopped so I'm gonna make an adjustment.

- Thinking that the strong current

may be causing them to drift off course,

Jeff sends them a couple of degrees south

to find the debris trail.

- Go get me something!

(tense music)

- As the dive team continues their search.

- See that?

- Jeff spots something troubling heading right towards them.

(Aaron): Geez, it rolling in fast, isn't it?

(Jeff): Yeah.

Weather can change here on a dime.

Fog can shut in, wind can pick up.

You need to know where your divers are at, at all times.

And if you can't see them, you got a real problem.

Hey uh, Chris and Jason,

keep your eyes peeled on your divers.

The fog's starting to roll in here.

(Jeff): Fog like this is very dangerous.

It can cause us to lose sight of the divers.

Even worse, when the diver surfaces, they lose sight of us.

Could only be a blink of an eye and they'd be swept out to sea.

(tense music)

- Just as the fog starts rolling in above them...

(metal detector beeping)

- Diver Mike Haas may have located something.

- Okay, Haas. Get yours dug up quick.

We got the fog rolling in. I repeat, Mike, the fog

is shutting in thick here. Get that thing dug up quick.

- Aaron? Aaron: Yeah?

- Tell those guys they only have two minutes left.

- Topside to divers, you have two minutes left.

Two minutes. Over.

(tense music)

- I think I'm gonna call it.

This is topside to divers, I'm gonna have you abort.

Things are shutting in pretty thick here.

Let's get you guys out of the water.

(tense music)

- I want you guys up and out.

It's starting to shut in thick here.

(Jeff): Tenders, I am recalling all of the divers.

I need you to keep an eye on those bubbles.

Do not lose sight of their bubble trails.

(tense music)

- Johnnie, do you see them?

- No, not yet.

(suspenseful music)

(wave crashing)

(narrator): While searching the turbulent waters

of Nova Scotia's Death Coast...

- Johnnie, do you see them?

- No, not yet.

(narrator): The topside team struggles to locate

the divers in the dense fog.

(tense music)

- Yeah, I got 'em. Diver up! Diver up!

- Topside to Pizzio, we see you

and we're sending a boat for you. Over.

(Jeff): I don't like nerve-wracking stuff

at the end of the day.

And this fog is frigging nerve-wracking.

Right now I need to get these divers back on the boat

and this boat out of this (bleep) fog.

(engine rumbling)

(Jeff): Show me what you got.

(laughs happily)

(Jeff): Ain't that somethin'.

- What is that? - Have no idea. Yeah.

(Mike P): Would there be like, a rubber piece around that?

'Cause it looks like it's not...

- It's not symmetrical. (Mike P): It's not symmetrical.

(Jeff): I'm wondering if it's just worn?

Isn't that sometng. That's brass.

-Three hundred years.

Now that would have been lost forever.

Good job, Mike. You're the boat hero.

I am buying you supper next year.

- Next year? (laughs)

- Well, this is not paying off just yet

but let's see what happens.

(all laugh)

(Jeff): This find is definitely the same period as Chameau,

but I need to find out what it is.

There's no doubt in my mind, with a find like this,

we're definitely on Chameau's debris field.

- That evening, Jeff sends archaeologist

Jim Sinclair to learn more about the curious object they found.

He's meeting with Dr. Andrew Lambert,

Head of Naval History at King's College, London.

- We found this object that we think you can help us with.

We've been following a trail that we believe is part

of The Chameau's scatter, and this, this came up

and I thought at first

it was some sort of a decorative finial,

but I think it might be something else.

- Yeah, let's have a let's have a look at that.

That's... it's clearly been made

very specifically to do a job.

I think it's designed to give you a vertical.

I think it's what we might call a plumb bob.

- A plumb bob.

- It's a basic piece of measuring equipment

which gives you an angle.

But it's also very important if you're laying out

to fire a cannon on shore.

- Right.

- You want to measure the angle

at which you're firing,

so you get a vertical and then you get the angle

from the vertical that the cannon is pointing.

This is part of a gunner's equipment, I think.

- So, so Andrew, you know, could this

have been actually used aboard the ship?

- I would expect it to be used by land based artillery units.

I think gunners on board ship may have had such a thing

and if they'd taken their guns ashore to use them,

as they often did.

- Is there anything about this particular object,

this plumb bob, that tells us where it would have been made?

- I think the best evidence for where it comes from

is where you found it, in the wreck of The Chameau.

It's a French ship carrying French stores

to a French fortress.

It's highly likely it's French.

- That's amazing.

- It ties into gunnery and engineering,

and Louisbourg is obvious place for that to be happening.

- Right.

- And it's a prestigious ship. Yeah, it's carrying a pay,

and it's carrying stores, so it looks like an obvious fit.

(tense music)

(narrator): The next morning,

Jeff and his team head back out to The Chameau site.

(Johnnie):Let me just stop for a second.

See how bad the frigging current is.

(Jeff): Yeah, that's what I'm (bleep) seeing here.

- The tide was just about to,

just starting to come back up,

so we'll see how fast we're drifting.

- Encouraged by their recent discoveries,

the team feels a surge of hope,

believing they may be on the path of a debris trail

that could lead them to the ship's stern

and the possible treasure it once held.

(Jeff): Hey! It better be round!

- Continuing to adjust for the current,

Jeff sends the divers back down.

(splashing)

(air bubbling)

(tense music)

(Jeff): This is topside. Are all my divers

happy and snugged up in the cove?

- Get me something good.

- This time, in addition to a strong current and kelp,

the divers confront poor visibility.

In these conditions, their metal detectors become their eyes.

(metal detector beeping)

- They found something.

Topside to Mike, talk to me, pal. How are we in business?

- Dig 'er up.

(tense music)

(tense music)

(wave crashes)

(narrator): After nearly an hour of fighting

challenging conditions.

(metal detector beeping)

(Jeff): We got a hit!

- Diver Mike Haas finally makes a breakthrough.

- They found something.

Topside to Mike, talk to me, pal.

How are we in business?

- Dig 'er up.

- Copy that.

The divers contend with a lot of things on the bottom,

hot rocks being one of them.

They're ferrous rich rocks, iron rich rocks.

They drive the detectors nuts.

They've got to pick up those rocks and move them

out of the way, and then re-search the area.

(Jeff): Get me something good.

(metal detector beeping)

(Jeff): Copy that, Dan.

Thank you for the... for the update.

(metal detector beeping)

- Diggin' away.

- You say you found a coin?

(tense music)

- Diver up!

Come on down, boys!

Mr. Dan, what do you got?

(Dan): How can you tell? (laughs)

(Jeff): The smile and that glove.

Come on! Get up here, let me see.

I can always tell they got something.

If they've got one glove on, they got something in there,

and it's usually a coin.

Come on, come on, let me see.

- This one ain't gonna make sense.

- Let me see it.

Ooh, baby. I (bleep) told ya.

(laughs) I told ya. I told ya, didn't I?

I told ya.

(calm music)

Holy (bleep).

It's American.

It's an American coin.

- Can you see a date?

(Jeff): Does that say 1838?

It looks it's a little rubbed off.

United States of America half dollar.

- Fifty cents.

- Man, oh, man. - Good job, Dan.

- How deep? - It was only about

eight inches under.

- Was that in the concretion? Was that--

- Yep.

- This ain't Chameau, obviously. - No, no, no,

and the last coin was what?

- French. - It was French, right?

So, you got a French coin from 1721, you got an American coin

from 1838, and what are we,

half a mile in between? - Separated by a half a mile.

- Not even. So, you got a conundrum.

How did that happen?

- I have no idea.

- Separated by a 118, 117 years.

(Jeff): No.

- We're an entirely new wreck here.

An entirely new wreck.

- Finding an American coin like this on The Chameau site

is huge because to me, it indicates there could

possibly be another shipwreck here. And it could be American.

- Could the discovery of this American coin

suggest the presence of another shipwreck,

and another treasure at this same site?

Jeff now faces an unexpected decision.

Is finding this one coin enough to risk halting

their search for The Chameau stern, to concentrate instead

on this mystery wreck?

- Where there's one coin,

there's probably a whole lot more.

I'm not gonna stop until I find them.

- This season, on The Death Coast.

- Storm is a-brewin'!

- As Jeff and his team push deeper into treacherous waters.

- What the hell happened out there?

- It got real rough, real quick.

(Jeff): We can't keep losing dive days.

- They begin to unearth the mysteries of the deep.

- Woo-hoo, boy!

- You're talking tens of thousands of dollars.

- Wow.

- What do ya got?

- But as the clock ticks down...

- We gotta turn this thing around. Here we go!

- ...and hurricane season looms.

(thunder cracks) - Whoa!

- Can Jeff make history?

(Jeff): Holy (bleep).

- Go and get the (bleep) prybar.

- Or will the Death Coast keep its secrets forever?

(Jeff): The stern has been missing for 300 years,

and if this is it,

boy, we're into something. What is it?

(dramatic music)