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If you ask people what searching for
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I think they probably imagine there's a
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single target sitting alone in the
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darkness just waiting to be found.
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The reality is very different.
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Wreck hunting in deep water just doesn't
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And the search for US Coast Guard Tampa
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is a really good example of that. We had
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to look at an enormous area of seabed in
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some of the most inaccessible parts of
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the sea around the British Isles. But
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while searching for for that wreck, we
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Some had vanished so completely from
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memory that nobody even knew that they
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And some, like the one that I'm going to
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talk about today, the French trawler
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it was a relatively small fishing vessel
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lost off the south coast of Ireland in
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while fishing in extremely heavy fog.
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She collided with a German cargo ship,
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the Regine. In fact, I think the cargo
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ship collided with the Thierry.
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The impact was catastrophic.
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Contemporary newspaper reports described
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this trawler as being virtually cut in
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What makes the story particularly
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haunting is the accounts from the
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As the small fishing vessel disappeared
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the skipper, Maxime Guichard, was
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trapped inside the wheelhouse.
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His shouts for help were heard by the
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crew who desperately tried to reach him.
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They could hear him calling, "Save me.
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But but was nothing they could do before
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more than 50 years later, the wreck lies
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in deep water offshore.
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>> It's a sort of wreck that divers don't
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casually stumble across. It's too far
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out in the approaches. Basically, nobody
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will would ever dive it.
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The reason is because it was small
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compared to the large liners, the
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the big merchant ships that divers are
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usually interested in.
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But because we were looking for the
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Tampa, which is a small vessel,
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we went and and dived a whole load of
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these small wrecks across this massive
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And that meant that we were able to find
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these small tragedies, solve mysteries
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like the Tiara. So, in today's video,
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I'm going to show you
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how we found it, and how we identified
