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I was out with my good mates at one of their fishing spots,

way off the northwest coast of Australia.

And there was this one random spot in the middle of nowhere,

just teeming with marine life, which made us really curious.

I had an underwater camera, and I lowered it to the sea-floor.

When we checked the footage, I absolutely lost my mind.

The camera had perfectly followed the mast of a shipwreck.

So, I've come back with my diving mates to take a closer look.

Andre, Nush, Ryan, and Captain Ash.

Yeah, this is the spot, Ash.

I'll pull up.

So, we've come back here today to jump in together and have a closer look

and see if we can uncover what this thing really is.

Such a small area in the ocean.

It's a complete desert out here, and for you to just drop that camera

-straight on the wreck. -I know.

This is so exciting, Johnny. I can't wait to get in there.

Me too.

Okay.

There's something so special about diving an unknown shipwreck.

You know that, probably, the last people that saw this ship

were the people that went down on it.

Just love the mystery that surrounds a shipwreck.

They are like an underwater time capsule.

So finding this wreck has just sparked this burning curiosity inside of me.

Just to figure out what ship this is and why it sank.

It's insane, mate.

Really? What'd you see?

Bits of timber. Big ribs coming up. Johnny was swimming in amongst the ribs.

-Wow. -Sharks swimming under it.

The biggest buzz. Everything there is just on steroids.

Wow. Can't wait to see the footage.

It's such a big wreck. It's so much to look at.

-That thing is huge. -True.

Yeah, that was awesome.

Yeah, we've got a bit of a job ahead of us. I think.

I can't wait to look at the footage tonight.

Yeah, definitely.

I just wanna get back there again.

The Western Australian coastline spans

more than 20,000 kilometres.

A vast and treacherous stretch of ocean

that has deceived even the most experienced sea captains.

A graveyard for more than 16 hundred vessels

and a keeper of lost stories and dark secrets.

The shipwreck hunters are on an adventure of a lifetime.

People say that shipwreck fever, it's a bit like gold fever.

To unravel a gripping maritime mystery…

Seeing something on the sea-floor that no one else has seen

and trying to piece it all together.

…in one of the planet's last marine frontiers.

It's an unknown shipwreck in a wild, wild place.

Fremantle, Western Australia.

A modern shipping hub,

and for centuries, a safe haven for seafarers from across the world.

It's also the base for a team of shipwreck hunters with a mystery to solve.

What do you reckon that is?

It looks like a windlass to me.

Like, one of the big deck winches that they'd pull the anchors in and out of.

You can definitely see masts.

-So it's some sort of sailing ship. -I know.

And it's like 60 to 70 metres long.

-That's a massive ship. -It is.

I wonder how long it's been down there, you know?

It's just this magnet for so much marine life.

Looking at the ribs, and even the mast,

you can see some of it's corroded.

So it looks like it's made of steel.

Yeah, steel ships with sails.

-So, that helps us, right? -Yes, true.

But there's so many shipwrecks on the WA coast.

It's gonna be quite hard to narrow down what exactly this ship might be.

It gives us, like, a really rough age.

But, um, it's a bit of a detective trail, you know?

Well, is there any other cool pictures in here

-that we can relate to? -There you go. Look at that.

This one here. This one was built in 1887.

And just, like, loosely, like, from what we've seen, you know...

We've got a big steel hull.

-We've got these big masts like that. -Yeah.

-It could be something like that, so… -Wow.

Such beautiful ships.

-Look at that. -They are.

I've just become absolutely obsessed with this ship.

Like, I just need to know what it is.

-It gets you hooked. It really does. -Yeah.

For years, this fearless group of ocean-loving friends have explored

the waters off Western Australia's coast.

We've all got this amazing passion for adventure.

The ocean really is our work.

It's our life. It's our... It's our everything.

Our team's called Terra Australis,

and we specialise in underwater cinematography.

But more than that, we're just a bunch of best friends

that love diving and exploring the coastline.

We are highly trained,

so we've got a lot of confidence in each other.

We've got an amazing team of professional divers.

We go where other people would be pretty scared to go.

We just love ships. It's the chase. Solve that mystery.

So, something that really hooks me into shipwrecks

is the stories that haven't been told.

This mystery wreck has really got under my skin.

I've spent a lot of late nights up till two o'clock in the morning

going through old documents, trying to uncover some clues.

I've got a really good hunch of what I think it might be.

But I've got no concrete evidence that it's actually that ship yet.

After reporting the find to the Western Australian Museum,

Johnny and the team are keen to see if the experts can help

fill in the missing pieces of their shipwreck puzzle.

My gut feeling is that it is something of historical significance.

It's a big wreck. You know, we've had a quick, sort of, look over it.

Um, but I really don't know. It's quite hard to identify a shipwreck.

So coming here to the experts,

hopefully, we can really pinpoint what this ship is.

I'm feeling really excited, but I'm also a bit nervous as well.

You know, we've got big dreams for this shipwreck.

So, hopefully, we can work together on this

and uncover what wreck it actually is.

The WA Museum is home

to one of the world's most respected maritime archaeology departments.

Hey, guys.

-Good day. -How you going?

-Hey, I'm Johnny. -Hi.

Johnny, Ross. Nice to meet you. And this is Deb.

Good day, Deb.

-Hi, nice to meet you. -You too.

I hear you've got something pretty interesting to show us.

We do. We've got something pretty epic to show you guys.

Maritime archaeologists Dr Ross Anderson and Dr Deb Shefi

are trained to identify and manage historic shipwrecks.

Was there any signs of engine or anything like that, propellers or...

No, we didn't see anything like that. We just saw a lot of big structure.

A lot of wreckage that's sort of broken up.

And, yeah, just those big mast-looking structures.

Yeah.

And what depth are we talking about?

It's between about 33 and 36 metres.

So, there's a lot of water there?

-Yes. -Yeah.

-It's incredible. -Yeah, I've never seen anything like it.

Certainly a new wreck. We don't have a record of this one…

-Wow. -…in this area. So…

-Awesome. -It's a new discovery!

That's good.

Yeah.

If it's iron or steel, as it appears to be,

it's going to be mid to late 19th century to 20th century.

So, this could be over a hundred years old?

Potentially, yeah. Definitely.

-That's awesome. -Wow. That's so exciting.

Well, I'm really keen to see exactly where you found this site.

We'll have a look at the maps.

-Yeah, sounds awesome. -Sounds good.

Okay, yeah, so northwest of Australia, Dampier Archipelago,

and then from Legendre Island here,

you just go out to open ocean, out to around here.

And yeah, that's where the wreck is.

Well, this is a really tricky part of the coast.

One of the areas with the most number of Category 3 cyclones.

-Wow. -Really?

So, it's a real danger zone.

That's crazy.

So, yeah, there's a lot of shipping activity going on through here

with pearling, early mining activities.

So, that's a pretty interesting area.

-Yeah. Wow. -Definitely.

And given that there's... You know, where it is, we...

There's no reef, no land anywhere close.

So, you know, maybe it was a storm that took it.

Well, from everything you've shown us, this looks like a really great discovery.

So, you know, we want to go and have a look at it.

Yeah.

We always do that with the reporters at site.

We'll have to start getting into gear and planning a trip.

-Yeah. -Wow. Sounds awesome.

Our dive gear's already in the car, mate.

So, whenever you're ready.

You guys like sharks? 'Cause there's a lot of sharks there.

Who doesn't love a good shark underwater?

-Good. -Depends on what sort.

-Yeah. -All right.

All right. Well, it sounds like we need to get our gear ready,

our boats ready, and get ready for a mission.

-Woo-hoo! Can't wait! -Yeah!

Bring it on, mate. Bring it on.

With Ross and Deb on board to hopefully identify the wreck,

Johnny, Andre, Nush and Ryan prepare their underwater cameras

and specialist dive gear.

Really pumped for this opportunity to dive the wreck site.

First time was a real quick dip. We didn't get to see much.

This time we've got all the tech. Great dive gear.

It's gonna give us a really good opportunity to identify the ship.

The team will fly to the mining town of Karratha.

They'll meet Captain Ash in the nearby industrial port of Dampier

for the 65-kilometre voyage northeast to the wreck site.

About to pick up the crew.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this expedition.

It's pretty rare to be able to find a shipwreck in the middle of nowhere.

There she is. The mighty Optimus.

All right. Come on, guys. Let's go get it.

-Hi, Ash. -Hey, mate.

Hey, mate. How are you?

Mate.

With the crew safely on board the expedition vessel, the Kuri Pearl II…

All clear, buddy.

Thanks, skip.

…Ross has an incredible image of the wreck site to show the team.

The WA Museum commissioned a multibeam echo sounder survey.

This is a sonar map of what the sea bed looks like right over the wreck.

-Incredible! -Amazing.

-Have a look. -And yeah,

I've never seen anything like this one.

A multibeam echo sounder uses sound waves

to generate a picture of the sea-floor.

Looks like this is the hull.

There's obviously some masts here, so it's a large sailing ship.

It's about 70 metres long.

If it's 70 metres that way, it must be about 50 that way, as well.

So, that's a massive site, isn't it?

-That's right, yeah. -Yeah.

And Johnny has some exciting news from the archives.

Guys, I've been doing a lot of research.

A lot of research.

And, um, I'm pretty convinced that it is this.

It's the Glenbank.

-Wow! -My God.

That fits the bill.

This ship went down in this area during a cyclone. 1911.

-And still no one's found it? -No one's found it. No.

-My God. This is so crazy. -Wow.

-It looks so similar. -Yeah, yeah. It does.

Could be the one.

Although these latest developments

are pointing towards a ship called Glenbank…

These are beautiful drawings.

…diagnostic artefacts from the wreck site

that can be directly linked to the sailing ship

will deliver a definitive conclusion.

These were kind of like the bread and butter of world trade

much of the 19th and into the 20th centuries.

Roughly the equivalent of our bulk carriers that we see today.

This was just all cargo space in the ship.

How many crew would normally be on these ships?

Probably around between 15 and 20.

-Wow. -Yeah.

-So, they really would have to work hard? -That's right.

Glenbank was a 73-metre steel barque registered in Finland.

In October 1910, the ship sailed 16,000 kilometres from Argentina

to collect 2,000 tons of copper ore

from the tiny Western Australian port of Balla Balla.

The advent of electricity saw the demand for copper wiring skyrocket.

Bags of West Australian copper ore were transported across the globe

in ships like Glenbank.

Once fully loaded,

Glenbank was to sail 21,000 kilometres to the United Kingdom.

Today, some of the world's biggest bulk carriers still come to the Pilbara region

to load up with precious Western Australian metals.

It's like a highway for big ships. That's how busy it gets.

So, I have to stick to the highways.

And once I'm through there, then I can adjust course.

It's very exciting to be coming out here

and do this dive and see the wreck for the first time.

The team that we're working with,

they're all commercial divers and professional filmmakers.

So that's really gonna be a massive benefit to the recording of the site.

This day and age, we know the best thing for the site is to preserve it in situ.

So, we don't, as archaeologists, just excavate everything

and bring it up to the surface.

We just like to record what's there.

I'm so excited to get down on the wreck with Deb and Ross.

They're going to see it in such different eyes to us.

And I think that they're going to be able

to really help us piece together the puzzle.

We just really wanna find out what this wreck is

and just get behind the story of why it wrecked out there.

Whale!

A lot of these shipwrecks up here have been taken by cyclones.

250 kilometre an hour winds.

So, it's pretty dangerous. Especially if you're on the water.

Just adjust course here, otherwise we will become a shipwreck victim ourselves.

For us, this is about as exciting as a dive can get.

It's an unknown shipwreck in a wild, wild place full of wildlife.

The spectacular Dampier Archipelago is a network

of more than 40 uninhabited islands

in one of the most biodiverse marine habitats on the planet.

Home to bottlenose dolphins, green turtles,

and a haven for migrating humpback whales.

It's been a lot of work to get to this stage,

a lot of research and a lot of planning from everyone on our team.

After a four-hour journey in perfect conditions,

they've arrived at the wreck site.

It will be a bit tricky to anchor on the wreck.

Yeah, I don't wanna damage the shipwreck at all.

Captain Ash wants to position the mother ship

as close as possible to the wreck.

So, we'll drop the anchor about 50 metres away from the ship

and just drift back on top of the shipwreck.

Where is it now, Dre? Which direction?

-Straight out the front. -Righto.

So excited to get down there.

Yeah, mate. It's awesome.

We're pretty much smack in the middle of it.

-All right! -All right. Shot line's going in.

The wreck is more than 70 metres in length

and sitting at a depth of 36 metres,

an equivalent height of an 11-storey building.

A shot line will guide the dive team to and from the site.

Still nice, hey, even with that swing of the wind.

The pressure at this depth means the team can only dive

in five-minute blocks.

We've separated into two teams,

and that will allow us to dive safely and also do multiple dives in the day.

Andre is trained to use specialist rebreather gear,

so he can go on every dive with much shorter breaks.

Recycles your breath.

So you breathe out, it goes into the machine,

removes your carbon dioxide and then adds O2.

So we'll have underwater communication today.

So the people on the surface will be able to hear what the divers are talking about,

and the divers will be able to talk between themselves as well.

Hello. Testing. You got me in there?

One, two. One, two.

Yeehaw, grandma.

All right. Well, we're all here together for our first dive on this wreck.

So, as far as having just a good plan of attack,

we'll try and focus on what looks like the bow area here.

Maybe have four of us go in to start with.

People on film and doing some measurements,

and then three to follow.

Our aim is to look for things that will help us identify the site.

You see something, try and take a visual. Get it on film so that we can look.

You know, come back and look and see whether or not if it's diagnostic,

or if it's something that we feel should be raised to have a closer look.

So, in this case, vision really is the treasure for us.

And just remember, I mean, there is a potential for this site

to have human remains on it, if anyone was trapped in the hull.

So, it is a grave-site. Just keep that in mind.

Nush, Johnny, Andre and Ross are up first.

So tight, hey?

At this depth, there's a risk of nitrogen narcosis,

which hinders brain function…

while returning to the surface too quickly can cause the bends.

That is potentially fatal.

-Time check. -11:48.

11:48. Divers left surface.

Dive time's super-limited. We're trying to execute the plan,

but if anything went wrong or something was a little amiss,

we're always gonna come back to the top, because there's no wreck worth dying for.

Topside. Johnny, you got a copy?

It just makes me jealous.

This shipwreck is a thriving marine habitat teeming with sharks.

The largest species can grow up to five metres.

The bow is of particular interest for us as maritime archaeologists

because it gives us a chance of measuring the stem post.

And that will give an indication, really, of the size of the ship.

And then we also wanna try and measure the angle

at which the ship is keeling over to see how collapsed is the site itself

and better understand how the ship has made it to the bottom of the ocean.

Ash, if you were going to jump in the water,

where would you wanna have a look around today?

The stern, where the captain and the hierarchy used to live.

All their quarters is up there?

Yeah. There'll be navigational equipment there.

There'll be beautiful, you know... There'll be a sextant.

There'll be brass objects, like the bell, which would be great.

Especially if it's got the name written on it.

Roger. Coming up on the umbilical.

It's really cool down there, but, yeah, you've got a couple of minutes

and you've got to come back up from the depth.

It's really hard to look for artefacts when it's such a big site.

As we landed right on the bow, so…

And there was a beautiful, big bow triangle just lying on its side,

so the big clipper bow of the vessel there.

Yeah, it was magnificent.

Bow measurements can reveal the size, type and era of a ship.

Up next are Deb, Ryan and Andre.

I think this dive, our second dive,

it'd still be good to go and have a look a bit more around this bow area,

try and work out what's going on with the structure a bit more.

This is a very handy slate.

It essentially is an underwater notebook where I can flip up the pages,

write notes to my dive buddy.

So I've drawn the site plan to try and help me orientate underwater,

as well as mark any objects or interesting features

which we might find on site.

What's going on there, Ry-Dog? What are you seeing?

-We're up! -Right there.

When can we go back in?

That was a ripper day.

We all had a good dive. We all had a good look at the wreck.

I don't think I'm gonna sleep much tonight. I'm pretty excited.

Yeah, I'm getting a full, good understanding of the site now.

I'm getting a massive visual in my head, and I can kind of, um...

kind of know where I'm going now, which is quite cool.

End of diving day one,

and we focused our attention on the bow section of the ship.

And right now we can narrow down the identity of the potential wreck,

just based on the measurements we've taken thus far.

But we need to find a few more things

to help us really nail an identity on the head.

With mounting evidence pointing towards Glenbank,

Johnny's diving into his research

for a clearer picture of the ship's final moments.

Captain Moberg and his young Finnish crew were anchored close to shore

with a deadly cyclone bearing down on them.

By 3:00 p.m., things were getting really bad,

and the captain's made the decision to head out to open water,

because if he didn't, then the Glenbank would have definitely been wrecked

-on shore there. -Absolutely.

With no time to secure the load,

Captain Moberg headed for the open ocean.

Once at sea, the heavy copper ore shifted in the horrific storm,

and Glenbank soon capsized.

He must have had a lot of faith in the Glenbank as a ship

to head out into open water when a storm's approaching.

Well, maybe he hadn't experienced a true cyclone or typhoon…

…because, mate, it's horrendous.

I've been through three cyclones.

One of them at sea, but a really low Category 1,

and it's horrific.

Even my skipper at the time said it was, like,

twice as bad as the Southern Ocean in a roaring gale.

-You're kidding. Wow. -Yeah.

-And that was a Category 2 cyclone. -Yeah.

The Glenbank captain, in hindsight, he would've said,

"Well, I should've just let it wreck on the rocks,

-and then the crew would've been safe." -Yeah.

The next day, the hunt for artefacts to identify the ship moves

to a different part of the wreck.

Today, I wanna target around the most forward mast.

That's where the ship's bell was, so we'll be concentrating on that a lot.

There might be some other artefacts around there that can really pinpoint it.

But it would be really exciting and really awesome

if we can find something beautiful like that.

I think this dive, go and have a look a bit more around this midships area.

See if there's any remains of the cargo or something diagnostic,

um, bit of information about what's down here. What do you think?

-Sounds awesome. -Yeah.

I mean, just from that first dive,

we reckon that there's quite a bit still buried on-site.

-So... -Yeah.

The midsection of the ship is the widest and deepest area of the hull.

It could hold artefacts that could be directly linked to Glenbank.

Surface to divers. Comms check.

The first job for Johnny is to move the shot line

from the bow to the midship area.

Surface to divers. Do you copy? Over.

Hey, Ryno?

Can hear them.

With communications down,

36 metres below the surface, Johnny signals there's something wrong.

Andre takes over moving the shot line.

Johnny needs to surface.

Johnny! Up!

Got 'em. Divers on the surface.

Coming up!

You all right?

Yeah, I'm fine. I just felt... I didn't feel great on the dive.

I was narced on that dive. I was off my head.

-Really? -That's why I was holding on to the rope.

Why don't you sit?

We'll get your kit off, and then we'll grab the rest of the stuff.

Breathing in nitrogen gases at pressure

can confuse and disorientate a diver.

It's got the bailout.

I felt a bit average on that dive, to be honest.

I, um, might've gone down a bit too quick or something.

And, um, we were trying to move something, so I might've been breathing a bit heavy,

and I think I had a bit of nitrogen narcosis.

And I just felt a bit uncomfortable.

The weights are still back there, right?

Weights are there, but that's all right. We'll get 'em.

Yeah, get 'em later. Yeah.

For Johnny, it's a devastating blow.

After months of research and planning,

he's made the tough decision to sit out his ultimate shipwreck dive.

-Let's do it. -Go.

To be on the safe side, I'm just gonna be on the panel for this one.

Just supervise the other guys.

For this dive, they'll be starting around midships.

Still looking for any identifiable artefacts,

you know, pieces of the copper ore that it was carrying

or anything else that can, yeah, really lock in that it's the Glenbank.

Yeah, right. If you guys locate anything down there,

just get lots of footage for us so we can have a look, please.

Looking forward to getting you back on deck, mate.

I've got some footage here, and this is the shot.

So, there's Nushie pointing at it.

But you guys, with your trained eyes, you'll know if it's copper ore or not.

It could also just be a rock, but I'm hoping that's what it was.

I'll look. It's certainly worth a look.

-Dre, you think you can take us there? -Yeah. I know exactly where it is, so, um…

So let's go and get it.

Copper ore will be definitive evidence that the wreck is Glenbank.

Go get 'em, Deb.

Wow.

There's actually quite a bit in there.

-Yeah. -Wow.

Nice.

-Awesome. -You guys wanna see what we found?

-Yeah. -Yes!

This is all thanks to Nush. I have to say.

-I can see little traces of green on it. -Wow.

Yeah. It does have a bit of green on there.

-That's the copper in there. -Yeah.

These all came from the same site.

I think this was the one that I first saw.

And it was just so dark,

and it didn't look similar colour to anything really around it.

When you first get down there, you've probably got the best eyes

in terms of things that are gonna stand out.

It just really stood out to me.

Ross, in terms of our mystery,

do you think that these samples would be definitely identified as the Glenbank?

Yeah, I think this is just the cherry on the top, that we've got these samples.

So we know this ship's 73-metres long, the same as the Glenbank.

We know the Glenbank was lost off Legendre Island, where this site is.

And we've got the samples of copper ore.

-So, yeah, there's no doubt about it. -It's the Glenbank.

-Cool. -! So good!

-Go, Johnny. Go, Johnny! -Whoo!

Love this ship.

It's in my heart.

It's a pretty huge moment for you, mate.

It is, bro. Yeah, it is. Um…

Yeah, it's awesome. So happy.

And, yes, this ship has kept me up a lot of nights,

but I'm... I'm glad that we can share this beautiful story

with the whole world now, really.

It's an incredible moment, discovering and identifying a shipwreck.

In the 21st century,

with all the technology, we still find these virgin wrecks.

It's just unbelievable.

The next day, the team gets Johnny back in the water,

after his brush with nitrogen narcosis.

And the curious local marine life come to say hello.

My God.

That was actually the best ocean experience ever.

What an awesome last dive on the Glenbank.

I know. It was like everything came to say goodbye.

Right. It's special.

Well, Johnny boy.

-What a send-off. -It's your shipwreck.

-Woo-hoo! -Yay!

-All right. -It's so good. So good.

Yes! Kings of the earth.

With the ship formally identified,

Johnny's been sharing more riveting details

of the Glenbank tragedy with the team.

-Remarkably, one sailor survived. -His name was Antti Ketola.

I really like this article here.

It's from the Perth Daily News, February 21st, 1911.

And it describes Antti, the sole survivor of the Glenbank, really well.

And, um, it says he was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Finn

who looked a bit like a modern-day Viking at the time.

That's what they thought.

A big reason why he survived was because he was one of the brave ones

that climbed up the main mast to unfurl the sails.

And that's when the ship went over.

When a ship like that goes over, you don't wanna be on the deck

where there's all these heavy things and rigging and stuff like that.

-Caught up in the rig... Right. -Yeah.

So, Johnny, once Antti hit the water, what happened to him then?

He was actually flung away from the ship,

which, you know, was actually a good thing.

He saw the Glenbank turn upside down.

And it was upside down with the keel facing up to the sky

for a couple of minutes

-before it sank down to the bottom. -Wow.

A lot of poor sailors probably would've been stuck within the wreckage.

Others would've probably made it out,

but then they had the cyclone and the seas to fight against.

Well, there was one crazy story

where he said he could hear voices all around him.

-Yeah. -That's what it says here. It says,

"Ketola went on to say that in five minutes more,

he rose on top of another mountainous wave,

and he could see a portion of the ship.

There was no men visible,

but the sea around him seemed to be alive with voices."

Other mentions there where he could hear 'em,

and then the next minute, he couldn't hear 'em.

And he had a dog there,

and the next minute it, like, yelps and disappears.

With his 19 crew members swallowed up by the raging sea,

Antti was all alone, 35 kilometres from mainland Australia.

I think about half an hour later, after the dog's gone missing,

he's, he's heard a rush of water behind him,

and he's turned around, and there's a shark with its mouth open,

trying to... trying to have a go at him.

And he's ended up wrestling with this shark for... Yeah.

With a knife, I think. It's just like a boot knife or something.

Yeah, he had his sailor's knife that he was stabbing the shark with.

-That's so crazy. -That's so heavy. That's so heavy.

You can imagine what the seas would've been like,

and just staying above water would be really hard.

-Yeah. -And at night.

Yes, at night.

Like, trying to fight off a shark in a storm at night with a small knife.

The 23-year-old Finn drifted all night,

clinging to an oar for 15 kilometres.

Early the next morning, Antti washed up on Legendre Island.

It said he was washed up on the most eastern end of Legendre,

and it was on a very small beach.

So this is the most eastern end here.

I think that's where he was.

The waves washed him onto a reef, which is probably this Legendre Reef.

Imagine if his knife was there that he fended off the sharks.

With his name inscribed into it.

Antti Ketola. I would lose my mind.

My gosh. Same.

More than a hundred years later,

Johnny and the team are retracing Antti's journey.

So I'm just walking the shores of Legendre Island

where Antti Ketola was stranded for three days.

And, um, it is really, really desolate.

There is just no one but us in sight.

There's plenty of sea-life, but there's no fresh water in sight.

And, yeah, it's pretty desolate.

So, this is the beach, Johnny?

Yeah, this is where Antti washed up from the Glenbank,

eight miles out that way.

Washed up from the cyclone.

He got smashed into that reef up there.

He was all lacerated and cut.

He survived here for three days in the middle of summer,

and he was that exhausted that he was having...

He was falling in and out of consciousness.

He would've been so delirious and so dehydrated,

because up here, at that time of year, it must have been 45 degrees, almost.

Nushie, this is obviously a turtle track.

He would've seen this,

and that would've been an indication of a food source for him.

Yeah. It's pretty horrible to think about,

but at the same time, when you've got no other food,

you would've had a really good feed off a whole turtle.

I think fresh water would be the hardest thing to find out here.

Well, there is little wells up there,

but they dried up pretty quick with the summer heat.

He kept seeing ships pass by.

There was pearling luggers working around here,

and he was trying to wave them down, but they couldn't see him.

So, he's headed out to the end of the island,

and he swam across this channel to the other island.

Three days after surviving a deadly shipwreck,

Antti was rescued by a passing pearl lugger.

It's an amazing landscape,

and you can see how brutal and hard it would've been to survive here,

especially after the ordeal he's gone through.

It's... It's just such an incredible story of survival and a testament to human will.

It's... It's... Yeah, it gives me chills being here.

It's really amazing.

-That was one off-the-hook trip. -Yeah.

It's just such a exciting feeling to have found something

that's been laying at the bottom of the ocean for 110 years.

Feel like this story sort of slipped through history, you know?

Back in Fremantle,

Johnny spent weeks researching what happened to Antti Ketola

after his shipwreck ordeal in 1911.

-Hey, mate. -Brother, how you doing?

-Good. How are you? -Good.

I've got some pretty epic stuff to show ya.

I've been digging through police reports, old ships' logs, old newspapers,

and I've gone down a rabbit hole trying to piece together the story

that's taken me all over the world.

And that's what made me come across this book.

It has a story about Antti Ketola in it, crazily enough.

Was published in 1913, two years after the wreck,

and it's even got a photo of him.

-This... Yeah. So, that's Antti there. -! Yeah.

Antti Ketola, whose remarkable story is here told.

Wow.

Look at that!

That's Antti just fending off a huge shark in cyclonic waters.

It's epic, isn't it? That's not it.

What do you mean? There's more?

There is. There is.

I've managed to track down his grandkid.

-What? -Yeah.

-That's huge! -I know.

And we're gonna talk to him today.

-Are you serious? -I'm serious.

My God!

And they have no idea that we've found the wreck.

In the small town of Ilmajoki, Finland,

is the grandson of Antti Ketola, 84-year-old Matti.

G'day.

I'm Johnny, and this is Ryan.

Really nice to meet you guys.

Nice to meet you, and good morning from Finland.

This is Matti here, and I'm Marjatta.

What do you remember about your grandfather, Matti?

He said that very little.

He was very hard-working man, and he was a farmer here.

But they really don't know... don't know anything else.

Do you know anything about Antti surviving the shipwreck?

Whenever he lived here in Finland,

there were no stories about it, and he never talked about it.

So, it's been totally hidden, what has happened to Antti.

-That's incredible. -Wow.

But we are very much willing to know what you have to share.

And his story of survival is quite incredible.

His ship was caught in a terrible cyclone, and he was the only survivor.

And he managed to swim a great distance in terrible, terrible conditions,

and he made it to an island.

Where the ship capsized, it's very remote.

We were very lucky to locate the ship that your grandfather survived.

It... It... It feels really remarkable.

We're about to show you the area where it was wrecked,

and you'll see the Glenbank.

Really?

I'll just play the video now. So...

That's a surprise. That was really a surprise.

-This is us descending down the rope. -Yeah.

It's in... It's in 36 metres of water, and...

Here you can see the first part of the wreck.

It's in the middle of the ocean.

There's fish all on the sea-floor, but also on the surface as well.

So...

So, that's... that's really... really amazing.

He said that you've done amazing work.

Thank you very much.

So, from now on, the story is gonna live in the family.

All the children and grandchildren will know about it.

We can teach Matti how to dive,

and then he can come and dive the shipwreck with us, if he wants.

He said he... He don't know how to swim too well.

Yeah.

It was great talking to you both,

and, um, we're... we're really happy we could share such an amazing story.

This has been...

He's very pleased, and very happy to… chatting with you.

-Thank you so much. -Thanks. Bye.

-Bye, bye. Bye. -Bye.

It's been one hell of a journey.

It has. It's been the journey of a lifetime, mate.

And we've all done amazingly well.

-So, yeah, congrats to you, brother. -Yeah, cheers, brother.

-Cheers, bro. -You did a good job.

Glenbank, where 19 sailors lost their lives,

is now a protected heritage wreck site.

More than a century after it went down, the ship is teeming with life.

Cheers to the captain and the crew.

-Captain and the crew! -Yeah.

-Now that's nice. -Tastes like seawater.

It's really good to finally, um, confirm that it is the Glenbank.

You know, we all had a bit of doubt that maybe it's another ship,

but, you know, Johnny was pretty sure it might have been the Glenbank.

So it's a pretty good feeling. Yeah, that's for sure.

I really hold this ship and its crew really close to my heart.

It was an untold story until we took this journey.

We've been working together as a team for a long time,

and to be able to live such a beautiful story of this big, old ship,

I feel so proud for what our team's done.

There's still so many out there to find here in Western Australia,

so we're really keen to get out there and see if we can find some more.