Well, I guess we're official Newfoundlanders now?
I don't know about official, but we've been screeched in.
Permission to come aboard, captain!
Hey!
Come aboard, yes!
[laughter]
Permission to come
Another great day!
The sun is shining!
NARRATOR: In Harbor Grace, Newfoundland,
Rick Lagina and Matty Blake--
Good morning, everybody.
Good morning.
Hey, good to see you, brother.
Hey, mate.
NARRATOR: --once again join diver Tony Sampson,
along with treasure hunter Bill Smith and his team,
to resume their search for a sunken treasure
related to the 17th century privateer
and pirate Peter Easton.
Its dive day, and this is when the butterflies get going,
but also the excitement.
I love watching masters at their craft.
NARRATOR: To help with today's dive
on the targets established during yesterday's
sonar search, two additional members have joined the team--
diver Allana MacDonald and ROV specialist Ken DeBoer.
So I would just like to introduce you to another couple
of people here.
Allana, she's an underwater archaeologist as well.
Hi there.
And you've met Ken before.
Oh, yeah, I know Ken.
Last time I saw you, we were freezing.
We were freezing, indeed.
That was fun.
We were on a boat.
You were running that ROV, but much different conditions.
I think today is going to be a little better.
I'm looking forward to running it today, yes.
So we'll be dropping into the water
and taking a look at what these divers are-- are doing,
and following them around.
Awesome.
Tony, let's talk about the conditions and--
and what the plan is.
We're going to go out to the site, the potential area
that we're going to look.
And then we're going to drop what we call a shot line.
So the reason we do that is then we
have a marker line that me and Allana can
go down, and visually keep reference
until we get to the bottom.
And it also gives us a point to tie off
so we can do a circular pattern, to hopefully
locate these artifacts.
RICK LAGINA: So we're on the boat,
and the plan is discover the cannons
and any artifacts or structures associated with them.
Is this wreck site associated with Peter Easton,
or is it not?
Because that's the whole goal here.
Well, it sounds like we have a plan.
I know we have a lot of experience
diving and a great team.
So let's do it.
Fins and eyes on the bottom, buddy.
Let's do it.
I love it!
NARRATOR: As the team nears their target location,
they conduct final checks of the dive gear and technology that
will assist in today's search of an area they believe
could contain the wreckage of a treasure ship once belonging
to pirate Peter Easton, that was sunk during a battle
with French forces in 1612.
This is it, man.
This is it what you work for.
All right, guys.
We're just trying to get her hooked in.
So Ken, looks like we're getting close to the position.
I just want to--
I'm a little bit of a gear geek.
So could you go over again what this ROV can do?
How deep can it go?
The ROV is rated for 300 plus feet.
All right. All right.
Yeah.
So it's plenty enough for what we're doing today,
that's for sure.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
So I've got various screens set up here.
One will be for the video screen, what--
we'll be able to see the divers down
there doing what they're doing.
I've got a little mapping screen,
and I've got a sonar screen.
The ROV is equipped with an imaging sonar
that it sweeps back and forth as it looks forward.
Wow.
OK, guys.
Let's get geared up, mate.
[laughter]
All right, let's go.
Flop her in.
All right.
3, 2, 1, splash!
All right!
We've got a good image.
We're ready to go.
That's fair enough.
Go find that cannon, brother.
Looks like they're doing a surface dive to that target,
and hopefully they'll be able to get down there quick.
How's-- how's Buzz looking, Kenny?
So far so good.
I'm just falling right behind them.
Awesome.
Good viz?
Good viz here.
Comms check, comms check.
Oh, there she is.
You have a clear look at them now, Kenny?
Yeah, we do.
Great.
Do you see a target yet, or no?
Just-- it's still hard to say.
This looks like a possible target,
because it's kind of long and narrow.
Let me take a closer look at it.
There we go.
You can see the shadow here.
Right there.
Yeah, it sticks out from anything else around it.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That's cannon-like.
Sure looks like it.
Come on, baby.
Come on, baby!
We have a cannon!
That's what he just said.
He just said, we have a cannon, we have a cannon.
Woo!
This is phenomenal!
They're measuring it.
Scarlett, do you see anything in that cannon shape or design?
I know it's hard-- you're looking at a screen,
you're not down there-- but that-- that
could indicate that that is from the Peter Easton era?
We've got the muzzle end, which is very clear.
And Tony is at the back end.
We're trying to find out where the trunnion
is on it right now.
NARRATOR: Beginning in the 15th century, as larger and more
powerful cannons were developed for use in warfare,
a new system was created to mount and control
these massive weapons.
Trunnions were a part of that system.
These metallic cylinders protruded from a cannon sides,
secured it to a base, and made it easier
to raise or lower its barrel.
Now, with today's discovery, any discernible measurements
that can be taken from the cannon's remaining trunnions
will offer the team some very valuable information.
Measuring them from the bore of the cannon
back, and measuring the distance from the bore to the trunnion,
you can actually tell what period of time a cannon was
from by that measurement there.
Oh, my God, that's gorgeous!
It just feels like Peter Easton wanted
us to tell the story today.
It's clear conditions.
It's sitting right up.
I mean, you can see the whole cannon.
I imagine he knew we were coming, right?
I think he did.
Here's the thing though.
If there's one, there's probably more.
We're on to something else.
Yeah.
Hey, hey, hey, guys, we got a second one.
A second one?
Yeah.
- Second one what? - Cannon.
I don't see it. Where is it?
See? Oh, yeah.
There it is.
MATTY BLAKE: Oh, my God!
Whoa!
Right in front of Tony.
Oh Wow!
Look at that!
My goodness!
Look at that.
Based on what we're looking at,
this is actually a lot shorter than the first candidate
we saw.
OK.
So this might be a carronade, although the width of it
also is a consideration.
If you've found cannons, there's
going to be something else.
There's got to be something else, yeah.
I'm really excited.
I'm down there, I've got the metal detector
going around the bottom.
Just trying to go around the area
and see if there's any other artifacts
we can locate on this reef line, anything
else apart from the cannon.
Knowing Tony, what he'll do is he'll metal
detect around all the crevices in the rocks,
which is what he's doing now.
MATTY BLAKE: Where stuff can be hiding.
Exactly.
And he's working the metal detector back and forth,
but it's not like he's honing in on anything.
So he's not finding anything at this point.
Oh, he's being attacked by a lobster.
[laughter]
Yeah, why don't you come on up?
See you on the surface.
OK, I'm bringing the diver up.
Allana's up.
Second diver coming up.
Yeah, mate!
Yeah!
I could hear you--
I could hear you celebrating.
Unbelievable!
[laughter]
Woo!
Oh, my God.
Well, well, well.
Well done!
[cheering and applause]
Unbelievable!
Yes.
Well done, guys.
Spot on the money, guys.
Absolutely brilliant!
I mean, I could hear you yelling in mask from there.
I knew you were psyched.
It was so unbelievable, buddy.
We got down there, we saw the linear feature on the bottom,
and there she was-- cannon.
So the trunnion were in place, Scarlett?
Yeah, I saw that.
Yeah, I'm pumped.
You'd never guess, eh?
[laughter]
I love it!
OK, guys, I'm just going to get out of my suit,
and then we'll have a proper debrief, OK?
Sounds good.
Excellent.