<i>- It's been 35 years</i> <i>that I've spent</i> <i>and I believe, ultimately,</i> the "Republic" wants me
to find her treasure. <i>The "Republic"
departed New York</i> <i>January 22, 1909.</i> <i>She was known
as the "Millionaires' Ship"</i> <i>because of the luxuriousness,</i> <i>and considered unsinkable,</i> <i>just like "Titanic."</i> <i>Newspapers reported
the "Republic" sank</i> <i>with a fortune in gold,</i> <i>but whose money was it?</i> <i>Why was it on "Republic"?</i> <i>Why is there no manifest?</i> <i>Why was there
no formal inquiry?</i> <i>There was a cover-up.</i> <i>- My father went out
for the gold once before.</i> <i>- We're joined this morning
by Martin Bayerle.</i> <i>- Martin Bayerle, one of the
many who dreamed of finding--</i> - Over $1 billion worth
of gold. - But he failed. <i>The wreck ruined his life</i> <i>and destroyed our family,
but...</i> <i>this is my dad's last chance.</i> - This is what
we are looking for. <i>- We've assembled a team.
We've gathered the equipment.</i> <i>We've put up the dough.</i> We're ready to go out
and recover the gold. [motor sputters] <i>- Wow. We just lost power.
Hold on a second.</i> - The primary generator's down. <i>- This is a debacle.</i> - Heading back to Boston. - Reminds me of the 1987 effort. - Now you believe that there's
a lot of gold on that ship. - Mm-hm. <i>- Martin had investors' money,
our money,</i> everything tied up
in this '87 salvage attempt, and it failed. <i>- Generator coming on board!</i> <i>- I told Martin
I wanted a divorce.</i> <i>I'd had it.</i> I met somebody else. <i>[ominous music]</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- My research,
if I say so myself,</i> is impeccable. It's--all right, I won't be--
I won't be shy. I believe my research
is brilliant. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>Remember,</i> <i>when Italy
was in a desperate need,</i> <i>following the earthquake
at Messina,</i> <i>President Roosevelt promised
$800,000</i> <i>as a relief fund.</i> <i>That's just the beginning
of the money trail.</i> <i>The U.S. Navy
was in the Mediterranean</i> <i>when the earthquakes occurred,</i> and the U.S. government,
since we were on site, <i>said, "Well, we're gonna assign
battleship supplies--</i> <i>surplus supplies that we don't
immediately need--</i> <i>to earthquake relief.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> But then those supplies
had to be replenished. <i>So the RMS "Republic"
wasn't carrying gold for Italy.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>She carried gold
for the U.S. Navy.</i> <i>But that gold never arrived.</i> The money now lies
40 fathoms deep in the North Atlantic. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Got everybody in position?</i> <i>We are over the wreck.</i> <i>Just farther astern
than where we want it.</i> Around cargo hold six
to seven. Let's go down
and take a look around. - After being forced to cut
short our salvage efforts, we are now back
over the "Republic." <i>We've already had our share
of setbacks,</i> <i>and now we've wasted
all of our daylight</i> <i>getting back
into our anchor spread.</i> This is how it is
working offshore-- working on this wreck
in particular. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>But we need a diver
in the water.</i> <i>We have to move
this effort forward.</i> We're gonna dive at night. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Joe, real quick,
come with me. - The route to the gold would begin
with those double doors. - So do you want to call dive objective one is trying
to find the double doors? - Yes.
- Dive objective two is targets of opportunity
on the way there... - Yes.
- And the way back? - Perfect.
- Okay. <i>- The dives we've made
on this expedition</i> <i>have just scratched
the surface.</i> <i>This is an immense wreck.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>To get to the gold chamber,
we have to get inside the ship.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>There are a set of double doors
near hold number 6.</i> <i>We believe that we can access
the gold chamber</i> through those double doors. We have to take a look at them. We now want to see
the starboard side and see what these
double doors look like, 'cause there may be access
into our specie room location. This would be the start
of the route to the gold. - Yep.
- Yeah. - Understood. - You're our man, Joel.
[laughs] - All right.
Break a leg. - Yep. <i>- Be safe, Joel!
- Thank you.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- This wreck is hard enough
to navigate</i> <i>when you've got some daylight
shining through.</i> <i>But at night, all you have
is your helmet light,</i> <i>which makes it
even more difficult.</i> It's not ideal to be diving
this wreck at night, but we're running out of time. We've got to do it. <i>[dramatic music]</i> - He's in.
He's in. - You ready?
- Yeah, I'm ready. - All right, Allen.
Let's go ahead and put him in the water. [indistinct chatter] - All right, now,
everybody clear. Go down. - The diver is descending.
This is a night dive. <i>We'll just have to see
what the diver finds.</i> <i>[ominous music]</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Crossing over.</i> - Roger that.
Crossing over to the stage. <i>- No current to speak of.</i> <i>All right.
Dropping down.</i> <i>- Roger that.</i> <i>Leaving surface,
he's dropping down.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - We may not be able
to recognize it. We may not be able to recognize
the doors, and we might not-- the path to get to the doors
may not be clean, so it's gonna be
a lot of looking around, a lot of trying to get
his bearings. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- I see the bell.</i> - Roger that.
Bell in sight. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- I am on the bell.</i> - Roger that. You ready for gas? <i>- Ready for gas.</i> <i>- Here you go.
Ventilate, ventilate.</i> <i>- Ventilating.</i> <i>- Roger that.
Diver's on gas. 1-5-0.</i> <i>Let's come down
on the wet bell.</i> <i>Down on the wet bell.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Touchdown.</i> We're on the wreck. Now he's gonna try
to find the--all right. There's the ROV light.
- ROV right there. <i>- That's pointing
his direction.</i> - All right, what I need you
to do is go wave at the ROV and then turn around
and go the opposite direction. <i>Wave hi to your little buddy.</i> <i>All right, bud, let's turn
around and go the other way,</i> <i>mindful of your hose
all the time.</i> - 30 minutes of bottom time,
roughly. You agree? - Yeah, we have the clock
running, so... <i>- The diver has 30 minutes.</i> <i>He's got to make his way
to the starboard side,</i> find the double doors, and try to make his way
inside the wreck. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- I believe that's off the
starboard side to your right.</i> <i>Is it not?</i> <i>Kind of looks like it's
off in the abyss there.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - All right.
25 feet, or about 20 feet farther forward
on the starboard side is where the double doors are,
okay? - You have got about
another 20 minutes left. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>What's all--is that net?</i> <i>- Yeah, that's net.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- What?
Oh, that's fishing net, okay.</i> - Yeah, that's net. - Yeah, fishing net.
- Eww. <i>- And you can see all the fish
around here.</i> <i>This wreck's become a reef.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - Quite a pile of junk, huh? <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Yeah, that thing's a mess.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>You should be forward
of the double doors.</i> <i>- Dave, the diver's actually</i> <i>ten feet forward
of the double doors.</i> <i>- Okay. Perfect.
All right.</i> All right, you are
in the prime viewing area for the double doors, so just be looking around there,
buddy. <i>♪ ♪</i> - There's a lot of debris
down there. It's tough to come up with any
kind of recognizable feature... - Yeah.
- That you can map off of. It's too wiped out. - Looks like one of our
other lines. - Yeah.
- He should be-- <i>he should be right over
the double doors.</i> <i>- I've been with this
for 35 years,</i> <i>and I've learned</i> that perseverance will prevail. - Less than 15 minutes left
in this dive. - Whether that's being able
to solve a over-100-year-old mystery... <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>Or...</i> He's close. Protecting my...family. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- So we have $800,000
in Navy money</i> <i>connected to the Italian
earthquake victims</i> <i>in Messina, Italy.</i> Well, $800,000 today-- <i>bring in
the unique coin value--</i> <i>the collector's value
of the coins,</i> <i>since they're
turn of the century coins--</i> you're talking
way over $1/4 billion. $250 million. [horn blares] <i>But that wasn't the only gold
aboard "Republic."</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>[electronic beeping]</i> <i>- I think I'm close.</i> - What's that? <i>[ominous music]</i> What did you say, Joel? <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- He's close.</i> <i>[dramatic music]</i> We are looking for the starboard
set of double doors adjacent to hold number six. <i>- We're trying to locate
a set of double doors</i> that hopefully
would provide access into where we believe the gold
to be. <i>♪ ♪</i> Ten minutes left. <i>But time is running out quickly
on our diver,</i> and we still haven't met
our objective. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Inside the hull? <i>You think that--so that's not
the side shell there or--</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Oh, you think the side shell
has fallen away.</i> - It's getting confusing. - We're also at an angle. I mean, that's
an angular distance. - No, no, I get it. - He's staying
above decks though. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- It seems like he's forward--</i> like, we had to have
just passed them. I don't see
the double doors. I don't see the door casing. I'm not seeing any kind
of definitive...landmarks. I... <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>That area is just chaos.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - Five minutes left. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Just keep looking around.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>Ooh, is that a porthole?</i> <i>- I think so.</i> - What's that?
both: Porthole. - Uh... - We found a nice porthole. - Roger. Hang on to that
porthole, okay, buddy? <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- About two minutes left there,
bubba.</i> - Two minutes. Two minutes left. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Roger.
Slack diver ten.</i> That's about all the dive hose
you got, there, buddy. We can give you a little more,
but not much. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Yeah, less than a minute. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Roger that.
Roger that, buddy. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Time's up. - Yeah, we're at zero. <i>[ominous music]</i> - All right, let's head on back
to the bell up there. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Diver's headed back
to the stage. <i>♪ ♪</i> - We didn't identify
the double doors on this trip, but we're in the area. <i>♪ ♪</i> - The diver was all across
the area where I expected
the double doors to be. No sign of them. <i>- Coming up.</i> <i>- On the surface.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - Hold on.
- Cancel that. - All right. - Okay.
We need to check that. <i>♪ ♪</i> - This trip, we now have
different problems. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>But the operation
was successful</i> in that we acquired
more information. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>We've examined
the starboard side.</i> [gas hissing] - They're saying
right now starboard side is kind of a waste of time. - I think so. <i>♪ ♪</i> - There is no access to the gold
chamber on the starboard side. - Port side's gonna be
the next target, I guess. - Yeah, exactly. - Now we're gonna look
on port side. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>You have to gauge your decision
on information.</i> The information is primary. <i>[distorted keypad tones]</i> <i>- After I talked
to Mr. Robotti,</i> when he said, you know,
"Pay me $10,000 and I'll stay away
from your wife and children," <i>I thought to myself,
"Well, let's find out</i> <i>who this person is."</i> <i>I hired a private investigator.</i> I did a background check on him. He had never worked for anywhere <i>for more than two or three
months.</i> <i>He was a transient, basically.</i> <i>One job, he lived in his car.</i> And he'd just gotten a job
up in Pennsylvania. So I actually drove up there
to confront him. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>We had a very interesting
conversation.</i> He said--
and I love this quote. He says, "You know, you should
mind your own business." I said, "Wait a minute,"
you know. "This is my wife.
This is my children. This is my business." <i>♪ ♪</i> - It became clear, particularly
after I met Mr. Robotti, <i>that he was unstable.</i> <i>For my own safety,
I thought it prudent</i> <i>to tape-record
our conversations.</i> <i>I had looked
at the legal avenues.</i> I tried getting
the FBI involved. And it was-- everyone considered it
a domestic situation. It wasn't their family.
It wasn't their children. You know, what legal options
did I have? It wasn't their family.
It wasn't their children. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- I believe the RMS "Republic"</i> <i>carried $800,000 in Navy monies</i> <i>bound for the Great White Fleet
down at Gibraltar.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> Well, the Navy monies alone
would justify a salvage or recovery. But now we get into
the big monies. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>On the days after the sinking,</i> <i>rumors circulated in New York.</i> The amount of the rumor
was always, specifically, $3 million in newly minted
gold eagles, <i>U.S. currency.</i> <i>That gold is in addition
to the $800,000 Navy monies.</i> <i>As I researched the rumor,</i> I managed to isolate
a specific transaction that occurred in New York that
was reported by the newspapers, <i>and the amount
of the mysterious transaction</i> <i>was $3 million.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>The magic number corresponded</i> <i>to the rumored money
aboard "Republic."</i> <i>The newspapers reported it
because it was unusual</i> <i>in that it was substantially
below the money market rate.</i> But they didn't identify--
they didn't identify the lender or the borrower. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>But as I dug further,</i> <i>I found out
who the borrower was.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>[electronic beeping]</i> <i>- All right, gentlemen.</i> <i>We're getting ready to dive.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> All right, Allen. <i>- Diver's ready.</i> <i>Launch the stage.</i> [machinery whirring] - Watch your shoulder, brother. <i>♪ ♪</i> - We are looking
for the set of double doors. <i>♪ ♪</i> And, of course, the specie room
would be below that, so we want to examine the doors
to see if that area's accessible from the port side. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Diver's 30 feet
from the bell.</i> - We've previously looked at the
area from the starboard side. [gas hissing] - Here we go. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Here we go.</i> - Roger that.
Diver has got the gas. <i>♪ ♪</i> All right, my friend.
Starting your time. <i>- Thank you.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Coming down in the wet bell.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - The diver is close
to the wreck. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Roger that.
Doing okay, buddy? <i>- Roger.
Doing good.</i> - Starboard or port? <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Get some hose
and pull your way port.</i> <i>- Slack diver.</i> - Roger.
Slack the diver. - Slacking diver. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Slack diver.</i> - Slack me a little faster. <i>♪ ♪</i> Man, how far do we think? <i>- 38 feet.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Roger that.
Working your way to the center.</i> - If he's inboard,
he should be somewhere right over the top of six. <i>♪ ♪</i> - We're thinking you are, at this point in time,
kind of over cargo hold six. - We're in the area approximate
to the double doors. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Slack diver.</i> <i>- I will attempt to do so.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - He seems to have stopped
at this one spot. <i>♪ ♪</i> - So is he returning? <i>♪ ♪</i> - That's it.
He's done. <i>- Up on diver's slack.</i> - Up on diver's slack.
Coming up on your slack. <i>♪ ♪</i> - The diver couldn't get
to where we wanted him to go simply because his umbilical
isn't long enough to get there. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>That's it.
There's no argument.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - Here we go.
Traveling. <i>- Traveling.</i> <i>- Diver is off bottom.</i> - We cannot access the
gold chamber from this location. <i>♪ ♪</i> - All right, Allen.
Here we go. <i>- Roger, roger.</i> <i>- We will be briefed thoroughly
by our diver.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>And we are going to examine
the tape that we acquired.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Oh, really?
- Yeah.</i> <i>- Anything interesting on it?
- Oh, yeah.</i> <i>Okay?</i> <i>- Oh, wait,
so am I offering you money now</i> <i>to buy this tape so you don't
turn it in to the FBI?</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>The man tried to blackmail me.</i> He not only had designs
to destroy my marriage and manipulate my wife
and separate her, <i>but he also had intentions
of destroying my life.</i> This is the type
of psychopathic, manipulative control
that this man exercised. - I was concerned about how,
indeed, this man was affecting my wife
and my children, <i>but I couldn't get
a restraining order</i> <i>to keep this man away.</i> <i>I had no control
over the situation.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>♪</i> ♪ <i>- Through an examination
of the Ellis Island records...</i> <i>I found that a
Mr. Gregory Wilinken</i> <i>had arrived
on January 14, 1909.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> One day before these mysterious
newspaper articles regarding the $3 million
30-day loan appeared. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>Gregory Wilinken
was a financial agent</i> <i>of the Russian czarist
government.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> Officially, the cover story
was that he was in New York <i>on his way to take up
a permanent post in Japan.</i> <i>And he stays in New York
for approximately a week.</i> <i>He leaves New York
one day after "Republic" sails.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> I believe that he was
in New York to acquire money
for the Russian government. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Allen, how are you?
- Good.</i> - All the joints
still working? - So far. - That's always
a good thing. - So tell us about your dive. - I think I was probably up
in this location. - Okay. - So with the little bit
of umbilical that I had left, I could only get
to about this area. <i>♪ ♪</i> We're outside of where we need
to be to work effectively. <i>♪ ♪</i> - So we have to move the boat? - For safety and productivity,
we got to move the vessel. - All right. - I would say
we're about here, so we need to move
to the southeast. - Slack up on the port stern,
come up on the bow anchor. - Right. <i>- We need to be on dives
that are providing us</i> with intelligence as to how we
go about accomplishing our goal. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>We need to get our anchors
in position and set</i> <i>before we can get back
to diving.</i> - All right.
Let's go. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Having to reposition the boat
is an expensive proposition. We are spending thousands
of dollars every hour. It's extremely disappointing
to have to do this <i>in order to conduct
diving operations.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - All right. The wreck is probably
about 40, 50 feet out in front of us. We need to maintain that tension
on the bow rope and be slacking slowly
on the stern. <i>♪ ♪</i> - We're gonna creep up
on it, okay? - Roger that.
Here we go, guys. Take it as she gives. <i>♪ ♪</i> - We're almost over top
of the wreck again. Pull us forward a little bit, and stay tight
on this bow anchor. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Come on, baby! <i>♪ ♪</i> - All stop.
- All stop. <i>♪ ♪</i> - That's all you got.
Dog her off. - All right,
we think we got it. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Oh, boy!</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> At least one anchor's gotten
fouled up on bottom. <i>♪ ♪</i> We're not doing any diving. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- The ocean's
constantly moving.</i> <i>The wind's shifting.
The currents are shifting.</i> <i>Moving that anchor this way</i> tangled two of our
mooring lines into the wreck. <i>It's not a good situation.</i> <i>Another little chat
we're having.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>That's nice.</i> <i>- Well, you're a real animal,
buddy.</i> <i>- You play poker?</i> <i>Eh.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- In 1905...</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>The Russians ended a costly war
with Japan.</i> <i>[gunfire and shouting]</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>The czar was deeply in debt.</i> The war had cost Russia
approximately $150 million. They raised a war bond
to fight that, and that war bond now required
to be repaid in 1909. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>When the "Republic" sank,
the rumors circulated.</i> The governments neither
confirmed nor denied the rumors. That is the only choice
they had. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>So we have $800,000
of Navy money,</i> <i>$3 million in Russian gold,</i> <i>negotiated by Gregory Wilinken,</i> <i>all being shipped aboard
RMS "Republic."</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>That alone,</i> <i>based primarily on mint-state
condition coins,</i> <i>highly collectible,</i> would be worth at least
$1 billion. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>[electronic beeping]</i> <i>- The two balls
that were over here,</i> <i>one's hung up on the wreck.</i> <i>The other one is fetched up</i> <i>right around hold five and six.</i> <i>- It's not a good situation.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - What's up? - Well, we have
two anchors fouled, but they're visible. At least we know
where they are. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Okay. - It's par for the course. You have your problems
working offshore. So you get the problem,
identify and deal with it. - Yeah. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>[indistinct radio chatter]</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- The anchor problem
is a huge issue.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> The only way that we can safely
splash a diver to 270 feet <i>is to make sure that we're
securely anchored</i> <i>to the seabed.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> We really need
to get these anchors unfouled. So we got plan A
is get the ROV in the water. - Good.
- Yeah, good. - They got the manipulator on it
so that if we do have to... - Just in case. - Then we can grab the line
and swim it around. - Maneuver it.
- Yep. - Perfect.
- Plan B, we'll cross that bridge
when we get there. - Yeah. - Tell him to come up--
swing right faster if he can. <i>♪ ♪</i> - I've spent most of my life attempting to recover
"Republic's" gold. - All stop.
Wire down. <i>♪ ♪</i> - It's frustrating
being on top of "Republic" in these ideal conditions
and not being able to dive. <i>♪ ♪</i> [propeller whirs] - ROV's in the water. <i>♪</i> ♪ <i>- Launched the ROV.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- You're over the top.</i> <i>You need to come back
over the stern line</i> <i>if you're gonna go in between.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> [motor whirring] <i>[dramatic music]</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>We're at a critical point
right here.</i> <i>We've got to send the ROV down</i> <i>and try to untangle
the mooring lines.</i> If these mooring lines snap,
we're done. That's it. Pack it up
and head to shore. - Worst-case situation,
if it's snagged. <i>♪</i> ♪ <i>We have no eyes on the bottom.</i> <i>We don't want to lose the ROV</i> <i>trying to fetch an anchor.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- While the ROV's on bottom,</i> the only thing holding it
to the ship is a small, little umbilical
the size of your thumb. <i>If the boat shifts,</i> <i>and the ROV is held up
on the wreck,</i> <i>the umbilical's gonna break,</i> and we lose a $500,000 piece
of equipment. <i>This expedition cannot afford
to lose a $500,000 ROV.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - I see...something coming up. - Yep.
There she is! <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- How the hell?
- We see where the, uh--</i> <i>where she's wrapped around.</i> <i>- That's the mast.</i> - There is our problem.
- Yep. - You can see it's just--
- One turn, it looks like. So now we get to see how good
Aaron is playing video games. - [laughs] <i>[ominous music]</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- The anchor line is tangled up
in the shipwreck.</i> <i>The ROV has a manipulator arm</i> <i>that we're gonna try to use
to free it.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>It's no easy task.</i> <i>The currents down there
are pushing that ROV</i> <i>all over the place.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>If we don't do it
with perfect precision,</i> the ROV could cut the line,
and that's game over. - Can we have a little slack,
please? - Slack up on that line.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on, all stop. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Oh, maybe! Grab it!
- Grab it! Grab it!</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - Slack up on that line.
- Hold on, hold on, hold on, all stop. <i>[ominous music]</i> <i>- Oh, maybe! Grab it!
- Grab it! Grab it!</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - Nice work! - Grabbing.
Thank you. - We just need to unhook
that top portion, and it looks like
it'll fall right off. [motor whirs] <i>[dramatic music]</i> - I'm on it.
- Whoa! - Yes! Yes! Ooh.
- Ooh. - Hold on!
- Yep. - Hold on.
I'm trying to come down. <i>♪ ♪</i> - We should be diving for gold
right now. Instead, we're trying
to untangle our mooring lines from the wreck. <i>This whole expedition right now
is in the hands of Lance,</i> <i>our ROV operator.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> Nobody else can do a damn thing
about the situation, and that's frustrating. Oh, you're all right, you're
all right, you're all right. - It's kind of hard right now
with the-- - You're good, man. Lance has to be spot-on. He's got low vis
and high currents. <i>Because of the currents,</i> the ROV doesn't want to sit
in one place. He's constantly having to fly it just to maintain his position, <i>and then move it
to untangle the line.</i> [motor whirs] - Are you completely free?
- Very good. - Looks like it's fetched up
under something. - We got one more
little snag to grab. <i>♪</i> ♪ - There we go.
- Oh, yeah! - Grabbing.
Thank you. - There we go.
- Over the top. - Look at that. - Over the top. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Grab it over
that little piece there. <i>♪</i> ♪ <i>She's off.</i> [motor whirs] - Nice work, buddy.
- Yeah, good job. - Yes. Excellent work.
- Yeah, great job. - So we got the line
unfouled, Lance, and now we just need
to get our eyes back on it and follow it down
to the chain leader and make sure
that we are truly unfouled before we start putting
a lot of input force on it and part the line
and lose the anchor. <i>♪ ♪</i> - The fate of our operations
for the season... <i>[ominous music]</i> <i>Is now in the arm,
literally, of an ROV.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- It's just like playing
a very real</i> <i>and very expensive video game.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> If we lose,
that's a $500,000 coin gone. <i>♪ ♪</i> - She seems to be entangled
in another piece of wreckage. - That sounded like that was--
- Right out from under. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Apparently runs down
and then back, so it's gonna have to be
pulled out here, and then pulled out below, and then, hopefully,
she'll run free. <i>♪ ♪</i> - Grab.
- Come on. - Agh!
- Come on, baby. - Grab!
- Grab it! <i>♪ ♪</i> - Yes! <i>♪ ♪</i> All right,
Let that go. <i>♪</i> ♪ All right, then go down
and get that bottom bite. Go down and get
that bottom bite. You got this. <i>♪</i> ♪ - Oh, there.
This one looks easy. - That's easy.
- Don't listen to them. It's not easy till it's off. <i>♪</i> ♪ - Pull with what you got.
Don't do a thing. Don't do a thing.
Just hold. <i>♪ ♪</i> All right. <i>♪</i> ♪ - Oh!
- Almost. It's just on it's lip. <i>♪</i> ♪ - Grab, grab.
- Grab it! - Nice.
- There we go. <i>♪</i> ♪ - Oh, oh, there we go.
- Yep! There we go. - Got it. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Nice!
- Yes!</i> - [chuckles] <i>♪</i> ♪ - Nice job, Lance. - Thank you.
- Yes, it was. <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> - All stop. <i>♪</i> ♪ <i>- Finally,
we have our line free.</i> <i>We can get back
into our anchor spread</i> <i>and begin operations.</i> <i>Things are impeding us.</i> [laughs]
I've become so accustomed to it. <i>♪</i> ♪ <i>But we will recover
"Republic's" gold.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Nobody's perfect.
You're not perfect.</i> <i>I know that.
We all do what we have to.</i> <i>Get on the wrong side...
Everything you do...</i> <i>I don't tell you...
Bring 5,000 bucks.</i> <i>- I'm willing to work with you.</i> <i>♪ ♪</i> <i>- Once in a while,
people are drawn together</i> <i>in events that they have
no control over.</i> <i>And, uh, we end up, uh...</i> <i>fighting it out
one way or another.</i>
