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I absolutely love coming to the southwest of Australia.

It's a photographer's paradise.

Part of the appeal is this incredible forest

that makes its way down to the rocky coastline.

You push through the forest,

and then you open up into this expanse of bright blue water, white beaches,

and it's just absolute nature at its best.

And that's what draws me down here.

Well, there's that, and there's shipwrecks.

Over 120 years ago, there's a story of a young Norwegian sailor

that was lying on a beach wrapped in a sail,

but he was dead.

And he was from a ship called the Langston,

which is wrecked somewhere out there,

and it's never been found.

And the story and the mystery around that shipwreck

still survives today.

You see, what happens with sailors is they carry these superstitions with them,

and I want to figure out, did they play a part in the wrecking?

But in order to find that out, we have to find this ship.

There were rumors that Langston was cursed.

Far off the unforgiving southwest coast of Australia...

We're getting smashed out here. Everyone's seasick, and it's risky.

...the Shipwreck Hunters are investigating a dark tale of fears and superstitions...

Left on the wrong day, 13 crew, changed the name of the boat.

...that, long ago, cost a young sailor his life...

He was incoherent, he was mad, he was losing his mind.

...and sank his ship in heaving seas, far from help...

-You seein' the rock? -That is treacherous in there.

...setting the scene for the ultimate shipwreck mission.

All right, we're off to find the Langston!

How good's this? Welcome to Australia's longest jetty.

-It's huge, mate. Look at the size of it. -It's 1.8 kilometers long.

-It's incredible. -Yeah.

The Shipwreck Hunters have arrived in Busselton,

220 kilometers south of their home base in Fremantle.

From here, they will launch their mission to find the Langston shipwreck.

Steve, how are you?

-How are you? -How's it goin'?

Look at this.

Look at it. Absolutely beautiful ship, the Langston.

Three-masted, iron hull. Just stunning.

You can imagine what that'd have been like floating on the high seas.

And the story that surrounds, it's just amazing.

It came to grief purely on a superstition.

The captain left port a day later,

because he thought it was bad luck to leave on a Friday,

and that decision ultimately brought about a disastrous wrecking event.

Langston was a Norwegian cargo ship

that was loaded with over seven hundred tons

of valuable Western Australian karri and Jarrah timber

destined to pave the roads of London.

Captained by C.B. Mörck, with a total crew of 13,

the 57-metre iron-hulled sailing ship

left the port of Bunbury on Saturday, February 8th, 1902.

Six hours into the journey, an unexpected storm hit.

Heavy seas affected navigation,

and Langston crashed into the remote Naturaliste Reef

and quickly sank.

-Thanks, Deb. -You're welcome.

Have you roped them up on...

The team's loading up the gear.

We have everything to throw at this search.

The only thing we don't have is Captain Ash.

He's overseas. He'd love to be here, but he couldn't make it.

But we've got Steve on board, who's gonna fill those boots.

Steve has skippered boats here for decades. He'll keep us out of trouble.

Also joining the Shipwreck Hunters on this mission

is maritime archaeologist, Dr. Deb Shefi, from the Western Australian Museum.

It would be really significant to find Langston.

This is a ship that's in that transition period

between the wooden sailing ships and the iron steamship,

so, basically, we have an iron sailing ship.

We're looking at a vessel that's essentially a time capsule of trade

in the early 1900s.

And here, it's trading Western Australian timber.

We're pretty sure nobody has searched for this vessel,

so we're looking at an untouched wreck, so, fingers crossed, we're pretty excited.

The fateful journey started right here in the Port of Bunbury,

which is north of where we are now.

It took off in a northwest direction,

and the captain actually knew of Naturaliste Reef,

which is out here, you know, in the middle of nowhere,

and made the conscious decision,

because the wind started to pick up south, southwest,

and he decided, "We're gonna get blown off course,

"I don't wanna hit the reef," and turned westerly.

And unfortunately...

-Ugh. Right into the reef. -So unlucky.

There was 13 crew on board too, and that was unlucky.

They changed the name of the boat, the biggest.

Can't do that. You're supposed to have a de-naming ceremony

and then christen it with the new name,

-and the captain never did it. -Here's a picture, and...

In this image, you see it still has the "E,"

-you know, "Langstone." -Oh! "Langstone."

Some of the superstitions still carry on today,

and people take it really seriously.

Like, seafarers now will not bring bananas on the boat.

Luckily, they allow women on boats now,

but that wasn't a thing back in the day.

Superstitions aside, we'll need all the luck we can get

'cause it's absolutely gnarly out there, so let's get ready to go.

-Let's do it. -All right.

Let's throw the ropes, boys!

Notorious Naturaliste Reef

is 40 kilometers northwest of Busselton jetty.

It's a three-hour journey.

Along the way is the stunning wreck of HMAS Swan,

an Australian naval destroyer escort

which was deliberately sunk in 1997 to create an artificial reef.

It's a diving opportunity the team can't resist.

How are you feeling about the Swan?

-I'm excited. Yeah, it's a cool wreck. -Yeah.

It's massive. It's deep.

The water's pretty clear, and it's such a intact shipwreck

that it's... I think will be really beautiful.

And it's upright, which is so cool.

-So, there's so many levels to explore. -Yeah.

And the beauty is we don't have to search for it.

-We know where this one is. -Yeah.

-Hopefully, we won't miss it. -Yeah.

The HMAS Swan wreck also provides the team

with an important opportunity to test all of their search and diving equipment

before the mission begins in a more volatile location.

We're gonna test all the gear

and make sure we're super-prepared for going out to Naturaliste Reef,

because out there, you do not want to be trying to figure problems out

and troubleshooting, you wanna have everything ready to go.

You get out there, you're searching, and hopefully we'll find the Langston.

The Langston wreck could be in deep water,

so Andre will test his rebreather system

that allows him to dive deeper and for longer than the rest of the team.

So, I'm gonna run in the rebreather, which is kind of my favorite apparatus.

It's nice and silent.

With this system there's no bubbles.

I breathe out, it goes in the loop,

recycles in the unit on the back, and then it gives me fresh air again.

And the best thing about it, I can be down there a lot longer now.

There's a few dangers in diving this site.

Because it is one that you can penetrate and swim through,

entanglement and entrapment is a real danger.

So, we'll just stick together as a team,

and any trouble we'll just surface and back to the boat.

It's a little bit murky down here, but, wow, the wreck is so cool.

HMAS Swan is now a world-class wreck dive site.

Wow, have a look at the size of it.

Okay, team, we're at 20 meters now. Stick together as we descend.

Andre has just disappeared down a huge, black hole inside the wreck.

It's crazy down here to be inside such a massive ship.

It's so dark and eerie.

This is where we need to stay focused.

There's lots of things to get caught on here. Be careful.

It's so amazing to see how the sea just claims it back.

There's so much growth.

I can see the light shining through.

Watch out for snags as you exit here.

There's lots of entanglements.

Approaching 30-meters depth now. Hope everyone's feeling okay.

Roger, feeling fine.

Keeping eyes on other divers.

The 113-meter-long wreck sits on the ocean floor

at a depth of 32 meters,

with its tall crow's nest rising to eight meters below the surface.

Massive crow's nest here.

Fish everywhere. Such a crazy, intact wreck.

-That was epic. So cool. -That was crazy. That was amazing.

That's such a mind-blowing wreck

to be able to go inside something so huge.

-Yeah. -It was so surreal, eh?

Some pretty, like, astonishing life down there,

and just the structure as well.

Beautiful artificial reef teeming with life.

-That's what shipwrecks become. -Yeah.

The Langston's about half the size of this.

-Yeah. -It's still pretty cool,

we're looking for a big ship.

-That's for sure. -Yeah.

So, today was an absolute success in terms of testing all of our equipment.

And the real search for the Langston begins.

-Yeah, excited! -All right. Let's get out there.

Having dived HMAS Swan,

the team is now steaming for another hour to the isolated Naturaliste Reef

to begin the search for the Langston shipwreck.

The draft of the boat was six meters, right, Deb?

So that's six meters underwater.

-So it's easy to run aground on something. -Yeah.

If you look at the chart, there's a lot of rock around here,

but it's pretty much this middle bit

-that's less than five meters. -Yeah.

So, we have to assume,

because there's nothing else for them to hit anywhere around here,

that this is where they would've struck.

Ten minutes to get the lifeboats off and another ten and the ship had sunk,

so, realistically, it can't have moved that far.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

So, I think what we do is we're gonna plan today's survey

based around the assumption we're making

that they hit somewhere along the reef here.

And based on the sea conditions,

we're gonna have to play it safe, in a sense.

It's pretty rough around the central parts,

so we're gonna have to go run some east-west lines

and then some north-south lines,

and then we'll go around the reef in this direction.

We're gonna have a hundred meters of cable out,

hundreds of thousands' worth of equipment towing behind,

we can't afford for it to get snagged,

otherwise we'll become a shipwreck as well.

So, the story was that they didn't see the reef, there was no water breaking,

and then, all of a sudden, they crashed into the reef and sank quickly.

So, we're pretty confident we have an idea of where they would have struck,

and now it's just kind of working back roads

and figuring out exactly where they would have sunk.

Naturaliste Reef is a system of rocky outcrops

that sit at varying depths just below the surface of the Indian Ocean.

It's a dangerous location if the swell is up

and the wind is against you.

Far out.

There's the Indian Ocean in your face, Ry.

-Look at that! -Whoo!

-So much turbulence. -Here we go.

-Oh... -Why don't you have a little body surf?

You feel alive when you're standing next to this sort of stuff.

Come unstuck so quick.

You seein' the rock?

-You see the reef there exposed? -Ryan?

That is treacherous in there.

Wow, this is a horrible place to be thrown in the water upside-down.

Yeah. Must have been some good crew on board.

Just to keep your composure

-is the hardest part. -Yeah.

-Yeah. -Not to panic and make mistakes

-because it's so critical. -Yeah.

Man, they were lucky to get out of here alive.

-Ready? -Yep.

Let's go.

-You guys want forward momentum? -Yes, just a little bit.

-Righto. -All right, goin' out.

The Shipwreck Hunters start the search

by deploying a side-scan sonar...

Goin' out.

...which will create a real-time digital image

of the sea floor.

Next is a magnetometer,

which detects iron-rich anomalies that could indicate a shipwreck.

-Rightio. -Let's go. Let's find the Langston.

Steve will carefully drive the boat in straight, evenly-spaced lines

over the search area in a pattern known as "mowing the lawn."

The team will need to focus on screen readings for hours on end,

as the boat pitches in the swell.

The search for the Langston is officially underway.

So good.

So now we just... It's the waiting game.

-Yeah. -We all stare at this screen

for the next five hours

-hoping to see a mast. -Just hoping.

-Yeah. -Look at that.

You can just see the sea floor perfectly, can't ya?

Following Deb's lead,

they are targeting an area close to the shallowest point of the reef,

on the southeastern edge,

where they believe Langston may have struck.

What excites me about this wreck is

all the evidence is pointing to it being in quite a small area,

so the chances of finding it are quite high.

Yeah, it really escalates our opportunity.

Show me a shipwreck.

Come on. Come on!

Maintain course, guys.

Okay, depth coming up 25 meters.

And we are coming up into the impact zone.

After five hours of scanning,

while battling a rising swell,

Langston is being elusive.

Maintaining line.

And it's frustrating the crew.

I just keep looking and going, "This is where it should be.

-"Here." -Yeah, I know.

-I liked our first search area. -Yeah.

And all we're seeing is rock.

And if there...

Even if it was lots of rock and the iron hull,

you would see straight lines in and amongst it because where the cargo was...

-You'd see something, right? -You'd see...

It's not like the timber would just disappear.

With a three-hour journey to get back

to the mainland before the sun sets,

the Shipwreck Hunters only have time

for one last shot at finding Langston today,

moving the search to the northwest of the shallowest point of the reef.

We don't nail it now, we'll be back tomorrow.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

It's a good little pocket here, though.

-I like it. I really like it. -Yeah, me too.

Managed to cover some really good ground today, though.

-So, at least we've done a lot of lines... -Yeah.

...and eliminated a fair bit of the seafloor.

Hey, look, if it was easy, they'd all be found, right?

-Yeah. -Yes.

-Hey, is it going... -I don't know.

-Oh, wow. Wow. Good hit. -Okay.

Yeah. That is a good hit.

We got stuff on the screen at all?

This is a really good hit, a proper one.

-It's a proper hit. -Wow.

What are we call that?

-Last line. -Area three. Area three.

-Area three. -Area three, last line.

-Coming up. -Up. Coming up.

-Wow. We can't go home right now, can we? -No.

-Should we run another line? -Yes.

-One. -It's worthwhile.

-Closer to the reef? -Yeah. Like, if we can...

Steve, that was cool. We had a reasonable hit.

I can go down a little bit closer.

Having scored a spike in the data close to the reef,

the team will go back over the mark with the magnetometer

to determine if it was a false reading

or a possible shipwreck target.

-One more. -All right.

-We're coming up to the money now. -One more line.

Twenty meters right.

That was a bit weaker.

All right. I'll...

-Can't get that much closer to this reef. -No. No.

Hooley dooley.

It's tight.

We're gonna do a turn and come through the middle.

Rightio, come on.

Lucky last.

-Come on, Langy. -Lucky last.

Come on, Langston.

This is our last run.

Come on, Langston. On the last line of the day. Come on.

How many lines do you think we've run today?

-A lot. -One million.

A million.

Okay, nothing. Nothing.

Nothing.

Ugh.

-Brutal. -Brutal.

The first hit on the magnetometer was a false reading,

likely caused by movement from the unrelenting swell,

affecting the equipment.

-We gave it a red-hot crack. -Yeah.

-And the sun is definitely setting. So... -Yeah. Still a long trip home, eh?

-Logging off. -Well done, everyone.

Yeah.

No luck today,

but the Shipwreck Hunters will be back tomorrow to expand the search.

With Langston rapidly sinking,

the crew of 13 scrambled into two small lifeboats.

Strong winds and surging seas pushed them

almost 60 kilometers north of the port of Bunbury

before making it to the safety of the coast.

The closest land is about 20 miles away.

But they couldn't go that way because of the wind.

They couldn't set sails in these little dinghies,

so they had to use oars to try and make their way back to land.

Water's filling up the boat. They're bailing as well as trying to row.

-Yeah. -Mate, they are under the pump so bad.

Yeah, but listen to this. This is the captain's account.

"At 10 o'clock in the evening,

"one of the crew, a man named Andreas J. Larsen,

"suddenly dropped his oar

"and fell to the bottom of the boat in a state of madness.

"He was totally exhausted and raved incoherently."

"His condition unnerved the other men."

Mate, they are living their worst nightmare...

-Yeah. -...and this guy's going.

-Screaming, going crazy. -Yeah.

And there was actually something else really interesting about this story.

And the captain said in this newspaper article

that Andreas Larsen was actually in a shipwreck in Madagascar

in the previous few months to this wreck.

So, he was the guy that's lost his mind.

-Mad. -And you can see why.

He's already been in a shipwreck not that long before this one.

He was seen as the 13th crew member.

The bad luck, the Jonah that's kinda caused all this.

You know, they were so superstitious back then.

They think this guy was the bad luck.

So, left on the wrong day, 13 crew, changed the name of the boat.

-Yeah. -And a guy on board

had already been recently shipwrecked.

Yeah. And there's another report that says that they would never sail again

with 13 people on board after this happened.

-Don't blame 'em. -No, you can't.

Collapsed in the bottom of one of the lifeboats,

22-year-old Andreas Larsen was in serious trouble.

As the 13th crew member,

and having recently been in another shipwreck,

the crew most certainly would have branded him a Jonah.

Now, they were his only chance of survival.

I've been doing some research and found an article,

which is actually the coronial inquest to Andreas' death.

And in that, Captain Mörck said that Andreas died in the lifeboat.

So, in transit from the wreck site to the shore.

But what's really interesting about that is there's another account

from the first mate, and this is what he said.

"When we got ashore, the poor fellow who had gone mad was nearly dead.

"So, we laid him carefully on the beach, wrapping him in a sail.

"And as night was approaching, I went to look for a house

"and was fortunate to find one just half a mile away.

"This was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Salter.

"They did what they could for us and gave us everything they had.

"The captain told Salter that there was a man lying on the beach in a dying state,

"and he would not live long, but nothing was done.

"We remained there that night at the homestead,"

"and the mad man died on the beach."

So, what he's saying, Larsen didn't die in the lifeboat,

he was still alive on the shore,

and the rest of the crew and the captain left him there to die.

And they went and got food, water,

warm clothes and had a warm bed to sleep in,

and he was just, on the beach, wrapped in a sail for his last moments.

Which is so bizarre.

They've all been through a shipwreck.

You'd think that, even in chaos and trauma

that would bond them together, because they all survived.

And he wasn't dead. He was still alive. So, he survived technically as well,

but they just left him there.

I really feel for that young man, Andreas Larsen.

-All right, we're off. Let's go! -Let's go!

Yeah, let's go.

Having ruled out the wreck being close

to the shallowest part of the reef,

the next two days are spent tirelessly scanning a wider area of the seabed.

The methodical search takes the team further out to sea,

and away from the reef,

as they look for any signs of the lost Langston wreck.

One thing that I am starting to realize is we started the search

in that shallower, more treacherous area around the reef,

but as we go out, it's getting deeper and deeper.

So, it's looking more and more like this wreck's gonna be really deep

and really challenging to dive.

-It's just hard yards. -Yeah.

Totally. We've eliminated so much of the area

and we have to keep going until we find it.

Getting closer every day.

-That's it. -Every day.

You're right. Yeah.

We've covered a lot of ground, but there's more to go.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

-God. That's so clear. -What's this?

Wait. Hold on.

-Do we have something? -There.

-Got something? -Yeah.

Is anything on the side-scan?

-It's messy. -Bing.

Show me a shipwreck.

It's another false reading. There's nothing on the side-scan.

It's the biggest tease.

The thing is, 'cause we haven't found it yet,

there's always hope, right? So, no matter how much effort you put in,

we've been doing lines for hours and hours of the same thing with no result,

but it's still out there.

So, no one wants to stop,

because there's a chance we could find an undiscovered shipwreck.

It's painstaking work.

The team has covered more than 150 kilometers of seafloor,

while navigating the rough swell, avoiding the jagged reef,

and trying to focus on the screens for any sign of a shipwreck.

Deb, we have covered so much of the ocean. You can see the lines there.

Yeah.

Everyone's starting to scratch their heads. Where's this ship?

Langston.

You just want something to appear on the screen so bad.

Especially now, we've been watching it for so long,

and you just wanna see, like, those straight lines and structure,

and you wanna see the mag have a big hit.

Do you feel a bit of doubt creeping in?

-Yeah. -That we may not find it?

I suppose so, that time's running out.

I was pretty confident, you know, a few days ago.

But, yeah, I suppose that confidence

-is slowly fading away. -Right.

Seriously running out of time and weather.

I still feel like we're gonna get it.

-Do you? -Yeah, I'm committed.

Okay. That's good, Dre.

-Confidence, man. -Yes.

-I like his positivity. -Yeah.

We're gonna get it.

That's the end of the line.

-Thanks, Dre. -Thank you.

Hey. Thanks, guys.

-End of the line. End of the survey. -Yeah.

-Good job, team. -Yeah. Good job, everyone.

I keep thinking about the wreck and, like, finding it.

We know how hard it is, and we know the commitment,

and, like, we all love it.

It's like... It takes over.

And then you're trying to sleep, and you're looking at maps,

you look at where you been,

you just got all these things,

and so it's just running through your head.

Despite three intensive days

of searching without success,

the Shipwreck Hunters refuse to give up hope.

Tired and weary, they regroup,

determined to push on,

with one final effort to find the Langston shipwreck.

We're getting into desperate measures, though. We have been going hard,

but like, if it's not in this area, then, like, what are we gonna do next?

We'll have to keep spreading out.

Well, that's it. I mean, it's extensive what we've done.

We haven't seen anything that looks anything like a shipwreck.

-It's just rock and sand. -No.

We've done 170 kilometers of searching so far.

And unfortunately, we haven't come up with anything.

I'm starting to, like, question whether we got the right spot or not.

I know.

And what we still don't really understand is how far the current

-and the wind can push a vessel. -Yeah.

You know, how long did it float for?

It might have taken on a lot of water, but could still be able to move, right?

I think that it's really worthwhile for us to kind of just keep pushing

in that north to that deeper water, just in case.

It makes sense to fill in that gap.

-It has to be here. -There's only one reef.

It has to be here.

-Yep. -Yeah.

The only problem's we haven't got a great weather

and there's a massive storm coming.

-We're racing against time. -We are.

The Shipwreck Hunters have searched three large areas

around the Naturaliste Reef system.

Today, they will move even further from the reef

to an area the team believes

the sinking ship could have been pushed by a strong ocean current.

Well, it's definitely a bit sloppier today.

I think it's the best weather we'll get.

It only gets worse from here.

Oh, no.

Sort of borderline magable.

-It is a bit borderline. Yeah. -It is.

With the weather conditions beginning to change,

they desperately launch the side-scan sonar

and magnetometer one more time.

-Going down, everyone. -Okay.

We are in some really trying conditions,

almost borderline for what you can operate in.

It's dangerous for everyone on the deck.

You know, a lot of moving around, but what it means is when the boat is,

you know, going over the chop and the swell,

it tugs on the line of the magnetometer and the side-scan

and creates, like, a jerking movement.

Sometimes that can affect your readings.

Now it's all eyes on the screen.

Everyone's gonna be looking at it super close

to make sure that we're not missing anything,

and hopefully we'll see something come down that screen

because it's been days of nothing,

and this could be our last shot.

You know, if we can manage to find this wreck,

it'd pay homage to Andreas, to his death,

and bring back a bit of an amazing maritime history as well.

-We're starting far south... -Mmm-hmm.

...and working our way north in an area we haven't surveyed yet.

Nail-biting.

-It is. -And now you can just see

that we're all glued to the screen.

Just waiting.

I can feel the anticipation in the room.

Feel the tension.

It'll be interesting to see how it's lying on the sea floor.

It could be upright, you know, the...

-That would be spooky... -Be wild.

...if it was just sitting upright with the mast sort of broken and...

Oh, come on.

Here we go.

-Wow. It's so intense. -It's intense.

It's been a long and tiring day,

with six hours of non-stop scanning,

covering 24 kilometers of ocean floor.

And with conditions getting worse,

they can only run one last search line.

It's still at five knots.

-Okay. Thank you. -Good job.

-Oh, no. -No, we have... That's all right.

-Say that again, Deb. What's this? -Because we're going this way...

-Hey! -That's it! Oh, my God!

You're kidding me!

That's it! Oh, my God!

Yeah, we got it!

Oh, my God!

Oh, God!

-Oh, my God! -My, God!

-Oh, my God! -Oh, my God!

-Holy! Oh, my God! -Oh, my God!

-Oh, my God! I cannot believe it. -Yeah!

Like, how many lines have we done to find it?

But we found it!

This is our last line of the west,

-we were almost gonna go. This was... -We would've gone.

-Oh, my God. -Are you kidding me?

It's here.

-It's just sitting in the middle of sand. -Oh, my God!

There's nothing around it. It's so eerie.

Just sitting at 46 meters.

And intact as well,

-it looks almo... -Beautiful.

It's giving me chills.

It's like a ghost ship just sitting in the sand.

That is a ship and masts.

Oh, my God.

Look, how lucky are we to have these experiences, like...

It's so insane to have these experiences.

-After days and days of staring at sand. -Oh, my God.

To see the ship shape, it's just like nothing else.

And it's, like, prettier than you ever imagined.

It's just so ghostly and deep, and no one's ever seen it before.

-Oh, my goodness. -My mind is still blown.

First, the team deploys a remotely operated vehicle

equipped with cameras,

to confirm the site is a shipwreck

and assess conditions for possible diving.

In the water.

Yep, goin' down. Descend.

All right, here we go.

Wow, it looks clear.

At 20 meters.

-Woo, 15 meters to go. -Getting there.

Wow.

-Wow. -The sea bottom.

-That's it. We've reached the bottom. -Sea bottom.

-That's it. That's it. -Oh, that's it!

That's it!

-Oh! That's so good! -Wow!

We're on the ride!

-Nice! -Oh, yeah.

We got a shipwreck, guys!

Oh, it's so sick!

-Look at all the fish. -Wow.

It's just like a little ecosystem down there.

Oh, my God! It's so epic!

Look at it, it's just all in sand as well.

-Oh, my goodness. -Look at the creatures!

Wow, it's beautiful.

It feels like a dream. I can't believe...

-It's there. Yeah. -...it's happened, eh?

It still doesn't feel real, does it?

What a whirlwind today has been, just finding it like this.

I wanna have a closer look, so we get in the water as soon as we can.

Even though the team is sure

they have found the wreck of Langston,

as a maritime archaeologist,

Deb needs more detail of the site to confirm the identity for certain.

And this means suiting up for a challenging dive.

The priority is to get bodies in the water and eyes on the wreck,

and we're up against it, because it's deep.

What we have to our advantage is Andre is able to go down on a rebreather,

which gives him a lot more bottom time, so that's really handy.

The rest of us will dive to 30 meters to observe

and hopefully get a glimpse of the wreck ourselves.

Andre has specialist qualifications to dive to 45 meters.

A highly-trained dive supervisor, usually working behind the scenes,

will partner with Andre for safety

in an area known for strong currents and great white sharks.

Now we have to really focus, because this is a very technical dive.

It's a dangerous dive.

On this dive, there is definitely a big mission for Andre,

and he's really gotta be meticulous in capturing enough footage

for us to officially declare that, "Yep, this is the Langston."

Armed with a high-end underwater camera,

Andre dives in with the safety diver.

Leaving the rest of the team behind at 30 meters,

he descends to the wreck site.

All right, guys, descending to the bottom.

Wow, I can see the outline of the wreck.

Oh, my God, it's looking incredible.

I can't believe how perfect it is sitting in the seabed.

Safety diver is swimming around the bow of the ship now and, oh, man.

I can see how huge it is.

What a shipwreck. It's unbelievable.

There's so much structure down here.

The deck posts are sticking right up.

They'd have held up the deck of the ship, which has all disappeared.

I can see the ribs and the frames of the hull.

Fellas, this is so, so amazing.

And what looks like the stove, maybe. The galley of the ship.

It's like a big, solid mass in the middle.

There's some huge timber slabs here, they're massive.

It's not ship structure, it's definitely cargo.

It's laying at the bottom of the hull.

This has to confirm we have the Langston.

I can't believe it.

I think this is one of the most incredible shipwreck habitats that I've filmed.

It's just beautiful.

Oh, my gosh.

This is an anchor wedged into the sand. It's so crazy.

This anchor is huge.

Way bigger than me.

There's just a massive mast laying across the wreck site.

Like a bridge. Absolutely covered in corals and sponges. It's insane.

It's like a garden down here.

I'm so bloody lucky, what an experience.

All right, coming to the surface.

Becomes the first person to see the Langston in over 120 years.

-Epic, bro. -Yeah.

-Welcome back. -Thank you, sir.

-Well, it's down there. -Yeah.

-So good. -Amazing.

-Oh, my God. -How was it?

Just sitting, like, perfect on the sea floor,

with just enough structure

to, like, show you that it's a shipwreck down there.

-Everything you dreamt of? -It's so nice. It's just beautiful sponges

and fish-life everywhere.

And I just come up around the bow,

big anchor stuck in there.

-So sick. -And swam

straight down the center line.

I just wanted to focus and make sure

to capture beautiful parts of the wreck to show you guys,

and, yeah, focus on the timbers and the hull.

But you can see, like, right on the bottom where the sand is,

you can just see stacks and stacks of, like, hardwood timbers.

You know, like, they're massive slabs of timber.

It was so valuable to them back then,

imagine what it's worth these days.

-There's tons and tons down there. -It's priceless just where it is.

Yes, Deb, it is.

-It's beautiful to see it right there. -So good.

-You're so lucky. -Yeah.

It's so raw and rugged out here

and we're in, you know, 45 meters of water,

so it's an amazing depth to feel a bit of pressure

and to feel a bit nervous.

And it hasn't been dived or seen before,

so that's a crazy, unique experience and privilege.

Oh, what an amazing thing to share together.

-Yeah. -Like,

there can't be many people on the planet that get to do this.

-No. -No.

Here's to Andreas, eh?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

It's pretty significant to be able to tick this one off

and add to the maritime history and maritime heritage that we know

of not just Western Australia, but also the connections to the world.

It's not often that you find a 19th-century shipwreck in your backyard,

and I'm so happy to confirm that together we have discovered the wreck of Langston.

The amazing vision and data captured is that of a truly untouched shipwreck

and that is incredible.

What we see is a testament to the construction

of the 19th-century iron-hulled sailing vessels,

the international timber trade at the time

and also to the sailors of a bygone era.

This is a really significant discovery.

Back at base, the weary but excited team

calls Captain Ash with news of their discovery.

It's been a hard trip, but got some good news.

Are you serious?

-We got it, mate. We got a shipwreck. -Oh, my God.

And it's sitting upright on the sea floor in 45 meters of water.

-It's sitting upright? -Yeah, it's sitting proud.

-Proud and beautiful. -That's the perfect shipwreck

-to find, isn't it? -Yeah.

It's just a needle in the haystack

and you've found the best, sharpest needle.

Yeah. Well, that's amazing.

Hats off to you guys,

and it's great news for Western Australia and the shipwreck community.

Incredible.

-Thanks, Ash. -Mate, we missed you.

-Yeah, we did. -We definitely missed you, Ash.

-See ya, mate. -See ya, Ash.

-Hey! -We got wine.

Nice one, Deb.

Look, I think

-we all deserve a little celebration... -Thank you, Deb.

...after the epic hard find.

So, this is in celebration of finding the Langston

and to Andreas.

Nice one, mate. Nice one.

It's been the best adventure.

-We weren't giving up. There's no way. -No.

And that's 100% dedication from everybody here.

And such a beautiful wreck in such a beautiful place.

-Yeah. -It just feels like a dream.

A hundred percent.

-Look at that model. -Cheers.

-Cheers to the Langston. -Cheers.

It's a huge win for maritime history,

and it's honoring Andreas Larsen,

a lone sailor that was left on the beach.

And to be able to contribute to a legacy and a story

and bring this back to life and to share it with, you know,

millions of people around the world is just such an honor,

and just really proud, you know?

Followed a passion

and the spirit of adventure took us on a wild journey,

and we found an undiscovered shipwreck and...

When do you ever get to do that? And we did it.