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(ominous music)

(regulator hisses)

- Brass nails, that's (bleep) Feversham.

(waves crashing)

(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.

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 gonna 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!

(narrator): But he only has

eight weeks to do it.

- Are you okay?

(narrator): Can Jeff and his team find the treasure he seeks?

- Find me something.

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

(Jeff): It's time for us to get outta here.

- Pull him out. Pull Doug out.

(narrator): ...make diving impossible.

(gripping music)

(narrator): At their headquarters

in Louisbourg, Nova Scotia,

Jeff meets with his team to decide their next move.

They have spent the last ten days

diving on the French shipwreck, the Chameau.

- We've been on the Chameau for about ten days now.

We've made some good recovery.

But the weather is starting to change.

It's getting worse.

Now, I got a problem.

I am limited in time.

(narrator): With only a few weeks left in the dive season,

the team needs to decide whether they double down on the site

or move on to one of the five other shipwreck sites.

- You know, we've had a lot of good recovery on the Chameau

in the past several dives. We got a coin.

(Dan speaking over radio)

- That's beautiful.

- A god (bleep) coin.

(narrator): Following the discovery of the coin,

the team then finds a piece of silverware.

(Jeff): Well, that's Chameau silver.

(narrator): But then, the team unearths a find

that changes the direction of the search.

(radio transmission)

- Holy (bleep).

It's an American coin.

(narrator): But the search for a possible American pay ship

in the same area has so far come up empty.

(Jeff): So?

- We got nothing.

(narrator): With the Chameau site seemingly at a standstill,

Jeff is considering moving on to a new site.

The Feversham, a British ship that sank in 1711

off the coast of Scatarie Island.

The 32-gun frigate was 107 feet long,

28 feet wide,

and was carrying 500 pounds in New England coins.

These coins can be worth up to $100,000 today,

enough of a payday to force Jeff and the team to decide

if they stay on the Chameau or move on to the Feversham.

- Everything in my body wants me to stay at Chameau.

I, I don't want to leave there. I don't.

But you guys see what we're up against here.

You see the weather; you see the conditions.

So, I'm just wondering what you guys would like to do here?

And I'm open to debate, as long as I get the last say.

- My thought is that Chameau is a huge, huge area.

My position, is you're limited for time,

Feversham is a very, very compact site,

and I think that's a great spot to, to work

because we can probably

get a lot of recovery right there, very quickly.

(Jeff): You're right, it is compact.

It's a good site to work.

What do you think, Dan?

- At the new section of the Chameau site,

there could be a wreck on top of a wreck

and we're just starting to find stuff there.

- Yeah, I'd like to go back to the Chameau.

We've got an 1838 US coin and a 1721 French coin.

All those things add up

to there's more than one wreck there,

maybe more than that.

- But Mike pointed out

that we've already got a lot of important finds

from the Chameau,

so I think we should move to the Feversham.

- Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with you.

- Well, we also have a logistic issue here, though.

We're steaming now from Louisbourg,

all the way up here to the Chameau.

We've got to go another at least half that distance

to get over to Feversham.

That's taking two hours of our day out of diving,

so we got to make sure it's worth it.

- That's the $64,000 question, is it worth it?

And I personally think it is.

- Let's see what we can get done today.

(tense music plays)

(wave crashes)

(narrator): Later that morning...

- We're at 11 fathom here.

(Johnnie): I got the track on.

(narrator): ...Jeff and his team make the long trip north

towards the Feversham site at Scatarie Island.

With the clock ticking,

they're gambling that a smaller site

will make the recovery process faster.

- Just about ten minutes straight ahead.

Almost there.

(narrator): On October seventh, 1711,

while sailing from New York, up the Atlantic coast

to support the British invasion of the French colony, Quebec,

the Feversham and her convoy ships,

the Mary, the Joseph, and the Neptune,

are driven into the coast of Scatarie Island by a gale.

The Feversham sinks just off the coast.

The three other convoy ships suffer the same fate.

A month later, New York's Governor, Robert Hunter,

reported that only 48 of the 150 sailors aboard

the Feversham survived.

(gripping music plays)

- Hey, we're almost to Scatarie Island.

(waves crash)

(narrator): As the easternmost point of Cape Breton,

Scatarie is constantly pummeled by the Labrador Current,

a cold, southward flowing current

that originates in the Arctic.

(wave crashes)

(narrator): Jeff's hoping that these same currents

over the years may have done him a favor.

- The Feversham is my next target.

I want to hit that hard.

(wave crashes)

Anything small like coins from the Feversham

would have been carried to the west

and pushed into the shore, away from the wreck site.

But diving in that area...

(wave crashes)

...it's going to be dangerous.

(Jeff): Welcome to Scatarie.

(narrator): Before mooring,

Jeff needs to make sure their boat,

The Family Run, doesn't meet the same fate

as so many others along the Death Coast.

- There's a sunker right here, so stay away from that.

That bell buoy's marking it.

The sunker is an underwater feature.

It's either an outcropping of bedrock

or an actual giant boulder

sitting just under the water's surface,

so you can't see it.

(narrator): The Feversham is surrounded

by three major sunkers:

the Cape Breton, the Little Sunker,

and the Western Breakers.

Jeff needs to ensure his boat is moored far enough

from the rocks to avoid being pulled into them.

- Yep. Yep.

- Here we go!

(anchor clangs then splashes)

- So, basically what you got here, there's the sunker.

And on the inside of that is the wall of the island.

You know you... they're two very prominent features.

You'll see them, no problem. - Yeah.

- What I want you to do is go down,

get yourself acclimated, have a good look around.

Go get me something good.

(dramatic music)

(narrator): As the divers embark on their first Feversham dive,

Jeff keeps a close eye on the conditions.

This close to the rocks,

they're diving in shallower

and more dangerous waters than before.

(Jeff): Unlike the Chameau site, Scatarie is unprotected.

Every inch of Scatarie is dangerous.

(diver splashes in water)

(tense music plays)

(radio static) (Jeff): This is topside, Griego.

I hear you loud as Sunday.

(regulator hisses)

(regulator hisses)

(bleep)

(waves thunder)

(narrator): The divers are looking for coins

or any small artifacts

that may have been carried west by the current.

- Nuttin's easy in this world.

(metal detector beeping)

(regulator hisses)

- Talk to me here, fellas, what do you got?

- Well, what do you think it is?

(music swells)

(narrator): As the divers battle the Death Coast.

- What the hell happened out there?

(narrator): They unearth a significant find.

- Did you say a coin?

- You're talking tens of thousands of dollars

for one of these. - Wow.

(narrator): And discover remains from the British convoy.

- See this here? That's Feversham.

(tense music plays)

- What do you think it is?

(narrator): While searching off the coast of Cape Breton,

Nova Scotia for British shipwreck, the Feversham,

diver Mike Haas has located

what he thinks may be a piece of the wreck.

- If it's something good, bring it up.

(narrator): If it is from the Feversham,

it could prove Jeff's theory

that small items like coins and other treasures

may have been pushed, over the years,

by the current, toward nearby Scatarie Island.

- Diver up!

(Jeff): Somebody got a smile on their face.

What do you got for me?

(Jeff): Oh, boy.

(Aaron): What do you got?

(Jeff): I got a sword pommel.

- And it looks like it's copper,

but it almost got a little bit of gold on it.

Look at that gold filigree.

See the gold? Look.

(Aaron): So, an officer's sword, maybe?

- Could have been, or a dagger.

God, that's nice.

(Jeff): The fact that this artifact is damaged like this

tells me that it's been dragged across the bottom of the sea.

It must have been pounded against the rocks.

Yeah, have a look.

(Aaron): It's been badly banged around.

Right now, in its condition, it's hard really to say much.

- So, this part here would be threaded,

and it would be screwed into

the end of the sword or the--

- The end of the handle.

This right here, would be

the, the pommel.

This would be the decorative finial at the end of the sword.

That is beautiful.

Beautiful, beautiful.

Good job.

(Jeff): This pommel is an important find.

It's gold gilded.

That means it could be somebody important who owned it.

We gotta get back in there, get some more.

(Aaron): Yeah.

(gripping music plays)

(narrator): Encouraged by the find,

and with the weather holding steady,

Jeff immediately sends the dive team back down,

and even closer to the rocks.

(Jeff): If this sword pommel is this close into shore,

that means there's probably coins here, too.

If the current is pushing artifacts and coins

past the wreck site,

then eventually they're going to get hung up on something.

(Jeff): You got the natural topography of the bottom.

Your first inclination is to find a crack or a canyon

where a coin will get stuff.

Think like a coin.

Gold is heavy, it sinks.

(waves crashing)

(Jeff): This wind's picking up a little.

(narrator): Just ten minutes into the dive,

the weather takes a turn for the worse.

(Jeff): Well, here we go again.

Wind.

The so'west wind comes straight up the coastline.

It creates big, unmanageable waves.

And when the current picks up, it gets way worse.

(wave booms)

So'west winds.

(Aaron): The worst kind.

- The only kind.

We have to take our time

and make sure this is done very safely.

(narrator): The combination of high wind and high tide

make conditions on the seafloor especially dangerous.

(Jeff): Copy that.

Griego, do you read me? Over.

(regulator hisses)

- Copy that.

(narrator): Unbeknownst to Jeff, the divers make the decision

to abandon the search and return to the surface.

(radio transmission)

(Jeff): What is going on here?

- And who's on the surface there?

- We're gonna have a little talk with him when he comes up.

(narrator): Though safety is the top priority,

Jeff knows that every minute of every dive is precious,

especially when it takes two hours

just to get to the site

from their headquarters in Louisbourg.

(Jeff): What the hell happened out there?

(Pizzio): Conditions were... were really, were really bumpy.

We were getting pushed around, in and out.

We had a lot of surge. Hanging on to kelp.

Trying to dig holes.

We were getting beat up pretty good.

We had a beautiful forecast, a beautiful morning,

and that really uh... really turned around on us.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

- And we came up to this.

It got real rough, real quick.

- We can't keep losing dive days.

This place ain't gonna beat us.

(narrator): As the wind continues to pick up,

the team pulls anchor

and starts the long journey back to Louisbourg.

(Jeff): This is what happens

with the southwest wind out here.

It creates huge swells.

Everything gets pushed towards the shore,

and I mean everything.

That means that anything that floats

needs to be away from the rocks.

(wave crashes)

That's the safest bet.

This is just a taste.

This weather here, in a couple weeks' time,

this is gonna get real bad.

(wave booms)

(light tense music plays)

(narrator): The next day,

Jeff is back at the Feversham site,

but not with his divers.

Jeff is instead accompanied by Ryan Howlett,

from engineering firm, McElhanney.

- Keep going up a little. Up, up.

(narrator): His hope is that their cutting-edge SONAR

mapping technology will find structures on the seafloor

at the Feversham site.

- Pull out a little.

(narrator): With this survey, they'll get an up-to-date

three-dimensional picture of conditions on the bottom.

(Pizzi)o: Aim for that crack in the...

- That, right there.

That point.

The problem with this area is that it's covered in kelp,

and it makes it nearly impossible

to see the cuts and the grooves

where the smaller items would get caught.

Are you seeing any prominent features, Ryan?

(Ryan): Lots of grooves on these rocks.

Hard to tell as we're cutting across here.

We'll have to check out in post-processing, for sure.

(narrator): But Jeff is taking a risk.

To do the survey, he is sacrificing a dive day.

(Jeff): My time is very precious this season.

Having this survey done cuts my time in half.

It's going to help me find the spots that I need to dive.

(narrator): While Jeff continues the survey over at

the Feversham site along Nova Scotia's Death Coast...

- Are you seeing any prominent features, Ryan?

(Ryan): We got tide coming in.

Let's do one more pass along the shore.

(narrator): Team archaeologist, Jim Sinclair,

meets with Matt Easton,

an ancient weapons expert who consults with

the Royal Armouries Museum in England,

to determine if the sword pommel found earlier at the site

could be linked to the British wreck.

- Hi, Matt. We found an object

we think you can probably help us with.

- Yeah, absolutely, I'm happy that I can help.

- Our team has been diving on an area

where a convoy of ships went down in 1711.

And we recovered an object that we're wondering would it

have come from the lead ship, the Feversham,

or possibly one of the others?

It's a, it's a lovely little piece.

What do you think it is?

- Basically, the two options of things it could be

is a pommel for a dagger or a pommel for a sword.

But I think it's probably a sword, given the size.

Around this time, around 1711,

there's a particular type of sword

that we're going to be looking at,

which is known as the small sword.

And this is the sort of archetypal

gentleman's sword of this period.

And to me, that looks like a small sword pommel.

So, I've got some examples here I can show you.

- I would love to see them.

- So, this is a silver hilted example,

and this is English. The type of blade,

you'll notice, it's very slender.

- Wow. - It's a thrusting blade,

so it's actually triangular cross-section.

Obviously, you don't have that part,

you've only got the pommel.

But these are thrusting swords,

and these were used for dueling.

And then, this is the pommel.

The pommel there is essentially a balance.

So, it's there's to form a counterbalance to the blade.

- Uh-huh. - Which means that you can be

very nimble with the tip and have a lot of control

with that tip when you're fighting.

- So, Matt, is your opinion then that this would be

from a small sword or a dagger of one of the British officers

that were on board?

- I think with 90 percent certainty.

Given that the historical context of where this was found,

it's very, very likely

that this is British officer's small sword.

- The Feversham was the only royal ship in the convoy,

and that's where most of the officers would have been.

If the current pushed this pommel in towards the coast,

there's no telling what else got pushed in there with it.

(gripping music plays)

(gulls caw)

(narrator): Back at their headquarters in Louisbourg,

Jeff and diver Mike Haas sit down with Graham Christie

from McElhanney to go over the early data

they received from the survey.

- How you doin', Graham? - Great, Jeff, how are you?

(narrator): Graham Christie is a hydrographic surveyor.

He measures and maps underwater surfaces to analyze the seabed.

Jeff is hoping he can identify targets for the team to dive.

- So, I got your message.

You said you got something for me. What is it?

- We're looking for places where these artifacts

and other items might collect,

and the best place for those, from what I understand,

is sort of in the bottom

of little collection bowls or troughs.

(Jeff): Yeah.

Graham: This is kind of the best look that we can get,

looking right through that kelp,

and being able to see the bottom as it is.

Right here, this is a connection

between a north-south and an east-west,

that could potentially

be a great spot for things to collect.

- If you don't mind, can you spin that a little bit?

Yeah, there. Stop.

See that? - Yep.

(Jeff): That's the kind of thing that we're looking for.

Just like that.

- That's about...

about six and a half, seven feet deep down in the,

the bottom of that, that cut right there.

- What's the width? - 10, 12 feet across at the top.

- That's what you're looking for, the narrow at the bottom.

It's a natural catch-all that Mother Nature put there and,

and anything that could get caught in there

is still gonna be in there. (Jeff): Yeah.

(Haas): I'm liking the idea of going in these cuts.

It gets us out of the...

the current that we're seeing down there,

which is pretty severe, has been pretty severe.

It looks like a great area to go take a look-see.

- All right, pal, thanks very much.

(exciting music plays)

(narrator): With good weather,

Jeff and the team head to the new Feversham target

identified in the survey.

(Jeff): It's an area that we've never been,

so what I want you do is go down your main pennant line,

make a 10-foot swath,

and then work your way in a westerly direction

while we've got this good wind.

And that's it.

Let's go!

(narrator): Jeff is sending the divers to the cuts

revealed in the 3D maps from the scan.

The team is optimistic this could be where

some of the ship's treasure has come to rest.

(divers splash)

But it will take them closer to shore...

and danger.

(tense music plays)

(Jeff): I read you loud and clear, Haas.

You guys go to the bottom and cling to it.

(water bubbles)

Dive time?

(Aaron): 10:52.

- Copy that. Start your search.

(narrator): Once underwater,

the divers have to pinpoint the exact location of the cuts.

But this close to shore,

heavy surf and the strong current

make for poor visibility.

(narrator): Ten minutes into the dive,

they find an access point to the canyon formed by the cuts.

(narrator): The cliff forms a wall that blocks the current

and catches materials like sand and small rocks at its base.

A potentially perfect hiding place for shipwrecked treasure.

(metal detector beeping)

- Copy that.

- Did you say a coin?

(narrator): While diving off the coast of Scatarie Island

at the site of the Feversham.

(narrator): Diver Mike Haas has uncovered an object.

- He said a coin. - That's what I heard.

- Could you bring it up with you when you're coming, please?

(regulator hissing)

(narrator): With the wind picking up,

so too is the current that runs east to west along the island.

The chase boats have to relocate to pick up the divers

before they're swept into the rocks.

(Jeff): Diver up. Diver up.

There's Dan. He's up.

- Two divers up!

(radio static hisses)

(Aaron): What do you make of that?

(Jeff): I make that's what happens

to when you leave stuff on the bottom.

That's (bleep).

- Catch the light just right, sometimes you can almost see a,

like a shield or something but it's (indistinct).

- I can't see anything.

I see something there but looks like an "8."

It's just beat.

Aaron, tell me what you think.

(Aaron): Honestly, it is so beaten,

until we get it back and...

I don't even know how much cleaning we can do on it.

(Jeff): I can stabilize it. That's about it.

- It's, right now it's possibly a coin.

- I think it is a coin and I've seen the planchets,

the New England coins that big.

(Aaron): Yeah. - But not...

not in that shape. That's a sin.

New England coins from the Feversham site

are very valuable,

and there's still a lot of them out here.

And if this coin that we've found is one of them,

then we might have found them all.

(gripping music plays)

(narrator): Back at the lab,

Jeff and Aaron take a look at the coin the divers recovered

from the Feversham site,

hopeful they can clean it up enough to identify it.

- Oh. - Yeah, in rough shape.

- Let me see what we can do.

(narrator): Jeff is using a process called

an electrolytic bath.

An electrical charge is used to help remove debris,

revealing any identifiable markings.

(bath bubbling) - Oh, I see bubbles.

It's quick, dependable, and it's not gonna hurt the object.

(narrator): After 20 minutes,

the coin is ready to be examined.

- Can you make anything out?

(Jeff): There's nothing left of this.

That's an absolute slug.

So, that sucks.

You know, to put it into perspective,

take a look at that coin there, and then look at this.

These are the coins that Dad was recovering 25, 30 years ago.

- Oh, my God.

And that little amount of time.

What a shame.

(Jeff): It's obvious that this coin is in bad shape,

but it does tell me one thing.

It tells me that the flow of wreckage is pushing down

from the Feversham site to the target area.

And if it's anything like the coins my father found,

that means it could be valuable

and there could be a lot more of them.

(tense music playing)

(narrator): As a new day dawns in Louisbourg,

team archaeologist, Jim Sinclair,

meets with coin expert, Doug Mudd.

Doug is a long-time consultant for the Smithsonian Institute,

and International Monetary Fund.

Their mission: determine the country of origin

for the coin the team found the previous day.

- But any insight you can give us,

we'd really appreciate it.

- Okay, yeah.

(narrator): If it's a New England coin,

it could mean the area they're diving

holds the rest of the Feversham's treasure trove.

(Doug): Okay.

It looks silver to me.

To me, that suggests it could be Spanish silver,

because that's the most common material we'd see out there.

But maybe something else.

Let's take a little closer look here.

(curious music plays)

(Doug): Okay, I'm looking at it and there's really not a lot

of detail that's left.

Been basically smoothed out by the ocean.

Look how thin that is. It's...

(Jim): It's like a razorblade, almost.

(Doug): Yeah.

It's interesting, because if this is Spanish silver

I expect it to be a lot thicker.

Could be something much more rare than that.

Based on the size and the, the thickness,

I'm wondering if this could be a Massachusetts piece?

- Wow.

- It makes sense because they,

they follow the story that you know,

the Feversham was carrying some Massachusetts silver.

And we know in the past that they found them,

but this may be more of it.

(narrator): In 1649, following the beheading of King Charles,

the cash-strapped colonial government of Massachusetts

orders the production of its own money.

In 1711, as the Feversham is being loaded for voyage,

these coins make up a large portion

of the Feversham's pay chest.

Eventually, with the return to power of the monarchy,

New England coins are outlawed, making them very rare.

- Yeah, I mean, it's, it's interesting.

I think the next step is to weigh this

because if this is too heavy,

it suggests it might be Spanish

because the Spanish coins tend to be larger and heavier.

But if it's lighter,

that might help us prove it might be Massachusetts silver.

- Oh, that would be exciting.

Let's take a look.

(gripping music builds)

- We'll be diving in the break zone.

We're gonna get beat up pretty good.

(Jeff): It is a race against time.

I can't be without a hit today.

(Jeff): What? What is it?

(wave crashes)

(narrator): After recovering a badly worn coin

at the Feversham wreck site, team archaeologist,

Jim Sinclair, and coin expert, Doug Mudd,

are attempting to determine its origin.

- Very interesting.

(narrator): Depending on its weight,

it could be from a cache of the rarest and most valuable

American coins in existence.

(Doug): So, let's take a look. (Jim): Let's check it out.

(coin clinks)

- Look, it's 4.3 grams.

So, this is missing at least 0.3, 0.4 grams of weight.

That suggests that this could be Massachusetts silver.

- Wow.

- The fact that this is 4.3 and it's as worn as it is,

that tells us that this easily could be one of those.

So, that's very exciting to me.

- So, what would the value of this have been?

- Well, at the time, these coins were the shilling,

so this would have been something like

two or three days' worth of pay for the average person.

So, this is significant value, $100, $200 today.

Now, as a collector's item, if this was in great shape,

you're talking tens of thousands of dollars for one of these.

- Wow. And the fact that there may be

still more out there to find,

hopefully in better condition, then that,

that gives us something to search for on the Feversham.

(suspenseful music plays)

(narrator): Armed with this new information,

Jeff meets with the team to plan the next dive.

(Jeff): This bathymetric survey

has proven to be well worth its weight in gold.

And these cuts have definitely been proving out.

This coin, you know, even though it's a sin

that it's been beat to death, it proves my point

that the current is picking these items up

and pushing them closer to the island.

- Where did you find that?

- So, that coin was found on

the western edge of these cuts that are in here.

- If we keep moving west, at least theoretically speaking,

we know there's other wrecks in there,

like the Mary, the Joseph, and the Neptune.

- I really need to start heading down

towards that Western Breaker.

(nervous music plays)

Because it, it almost forms a natural catch-all.

- It also forms a hell of a break zone right there.

We're gonna get beat up pretty good in that area.

We'll be diving in the break zone.

(narrator): A break zone is the section of water

nearest the shore.

As waves approach,

they collide with the ocean floor, getting taller, steeper,

and more dangerous.

- It is a rough spot, Mike, I'll give you that.

You're right.

And that's why it's never been searched before.

That's why we're gonna be the first ones to do it.

You gotta get down and dirty,

and the only way we're gonna find out

is if you go down there and have a look.

(music intensifies)

(music fades)

(narrator): Later that morning,

the team heads out to Scatarie Island.

(Jeff): That's where I want to go.

Johnnie: Usually coming through this strip,

I take the autopilot off and steer by hand

because there's so many friggin' rocks and stuff.

And sometimes you can't see them.

(narrator): Their plan, to keep moving west

with the current to search for items from the Feversham wreck.

(Johnnie): Okay guys, we're coming up on Scatarie Island.

(Jeff): You see that, Johnnie? (Johnnie): Yes.

- The other side of the ragged rocks.

That's where I wanna go.

That's the Western Breakers.

(narrator): Jeff's plan for diving in the break zone

is to take advantage of a short period of calm,

referred to as "slack tide."

Hey Johnnie, when's low?

- Slack tide in about ten minutes.

- Slack tide is the transition period

between high and low tide,

where it becomes like a bathtub.

It is nice.

It's a window of opportunity, for about an hour.

But them, bam-o,

she's goin' in the other direction again.

(Jeff): It's a bathtub right now.

Just pretend you're in a bathtub with coins in it.

- Coins, please.

Not toys.

(tense music plays)

Now, you be careful in there.

(divers splash in water)

(narrator): With precisely one hour to search,

the dive team makes their descent,

working westward along the shoreline.

(metal detector beeps)

- Dig up that hit, Mike Haas.

I can't be without a hit today.

(metal detector beeping)

- Bullsh--.

- Brass nails, that's ----ing Feversham.

(narrator): While searching the jagged coast

of Scatarie Island, both divers,

Mike Pizzio and Mike Haas,

finally get hits on their metal detector.

(regulator hisses)

- Disregard. Find me something else, please.

- Keep searching. Move yourself into shore.

Move yourself all over the place.

It's a bathtub.

(narrator): The calm conditions allow the divers

to move quickly and cover more ground.

(narrator): But after 30 minutes,

there's still no sign of anything

that might be from the Feversham.

(Jeff): Slack tide is a beautiful time

where I don't have to worry about divers getting picked up

and thrown into the rocks.

But we are running out of time.

(tense music plays)

(Jeff): Johnnie? - Yes?

- 11:06.

- Roger that.

(Jeff): The tide is going to change here real soon,

and when it does, I'm going to have to pull them out.

So, if they're gonna find something down here,

they better do it quick.

(metal detector beeps)

(regulator hisses)

(beeping continues)

(narrator): With only ten minutes left in the slack tide,

Mike Pizzio gets another hit.

(metal detector beeps)

- Brass nails, that's ----ing Feversham.

- Bring them up, pal!

- Yeah, shoot the bag! Shoot the bag! Shoot the bag!

(narrator): Brass pins were essential

to the ship's construction,

holding together key components of its framework.

Larger colonial-era ships would contain thousands of them.

(Jeff): Pins are an excellent indication of a shipwreck,

and these pins could be exactly the type of pins

that have been pulled off of the Feversham over the years.

(Jeff): Hey Pizzio, this is topside.

With the tide the way it is, I'd like you to hurry up.

(narrator): With air running low and the short window

of the slack tide closing,

the divers abandon the new hotspot

and return to the surface.

- You're gonna like this.

(Jeff): What is it, what'd you find?

- All kinds of stuff.

(Jeff): Whoa! That's the stuff.

(Pizzio): All these are from the same area like--

(Jeff): Yeah, but something's different about this.

This... this doesn't even look like the stuff

that was coming off Feversham.

- This stuff was just laying on the surface of the sand.

And then these nails,

there's just piles of these laying there.

- See this, Aaron? That's Feversham.

See the red brass? The high copper content in it.

This is not Feversham.

This is something else.

I don't know what it is.

l of this stuff came from something else.

(Jeff): The Feversham brass has always had a reddish tint to it.

They call it red brass.

This other brass that's intermingled with

the Feversham brass, that's another ship entirely.

- These ships fasteners, then.

- These are definitely ship's fasteners.

- Yeah, and these bends are evidence

of a violent-- - Well, they're indicative

100 percent. - Violent end to the ship.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- So, even stuff like this can tell a story.

- All this stuff can. - Yeah.

- Take a, take a pin or a nail like this and try to break it.

You can't. Mother Nature did this.

- Imagine what it takes to bend that like that.

- Good job, guys.

- That's fantastic, guys.

(narrator): The red pins are further evidence that artifacts

from the Feversham may have been pushed closer to the shore.

But the green pins present another mystery.

Could they be from one of the other undiscovered

shipwrecks from the ill-fated convoy?

And if so, what secrets and treasures

might still lie hidden beneath the waves?

(narrator): Next on "The Death Coast."

(Jeff): You boys be careful down there now.

(narrator): The team's search for the Feversham convoy

takes them further west.

- Keep searching. Hurry up, though.

(narrator): And closer to danger.

(Jeff): The rocks! Get them away from the rocks!

(narrator): And with a storm on the horizon...

- Storm is a-brewin'.

Whoa, boy!

(narrator): ...a series of mysterious artifacts.

(Jeff): I don't know what that is.

- Wow, that's fascinating.

(narrator): Leads to a major breakthrough.

(Jeff): Well, what do you got?

Look, that's what I was talking about right there.

You can see it. Look at it right there.

We gotta get more. We gotta get more.

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