The Extraordinary Hunt For Preserved Ancient Shipwrecks From Civilizations Long Lost | Timeline

Four years in the making, this two-part television series follows the world’s largest Maritime Archaeological Expedition in exploring how the Black Sea formed after the last ice age. Could it have been the origin of Noah’s flood?
Led by charismatic chief scientist Jon Adams, the team send space aged remote survey vehicles 2 kilometres underwater to scan the seabed. In seeking geological clues, they quickly make remarkable finds: over 70 shipwrecks almost perfectly preserved in the chilly, oxygen-depleted water of this near landlocked sea. The films reveal extraordinary ships from the Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Greek civilisations.
They include discoveries that are unique worldwide: the most perfectly preserved Roman vessel ever and the only preserved Greek warship known. The series witnesses the highs and lows of the handpicked international team of world-class scientists, on their remarkable journey into the past. Their adventures at sea include extreme dives to depths of 100m, tense recovery operations struggling to salvage amphora from Roman ships and costly equipment failures that threaten their entire operation.
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[@gladtech4740]

Whoever did the cinematography for this doc deserves a raise. Movie level shots in a standard level documentary

[@itsallmyfault264]

Timeline is a PBS production lol

[@DillonDaVillain222]

BBC and Discovery channel as well which is cool AF ​@@itsallmyfault264

[@southeastcoastalphotography]

@@itsallmyfault264this might have originally been made and aired by PBS but Timeline is a History Hit channel along with around 10 other channels.

[@goofyfish]

@@itsallmyfault264 ty.

[@LRSNRCNG309]

The fact that the most important shipwreck of the black sea could literally be just right there in the darkness but the darkness keeps it from being found. Incredible

[@crs50]

Shout out to all Research Team for these thousand year old discovery

[@jbrobertson6052]

I could watch videos like this 24/7 and I would like to see more documentaries of diving and research of the Black Sea. I spent many years on a Canadian Research Vessel during the Cold War period and I would drop everything to get a chance to hop on a Research Vessel in the Black Sea

[@garylong7423]

I wish I could live long enough to see what new discoveries man can find to give a real face to how we lived 2000+ years ago. How people lived loved, traveled, knowing what was truly important. Today people take it for granted.

[@codmpink]

"We have state of the art technology". Whips out a plunger to save the day.

[@UpRisingDown]

😂

[@avysark2034]

Which shows, imo, that the most simple and situationally adapted solutions can be the best, or maybe even tend to be. The human mind is also quite inquisitive and performs better for a brief period when put under certain forms of short-term stress.

[@manuellubian5709]

😮😮 I know that John made the decision to go diving himself down to 95 meters I'm just wondering wouldn't it have been a more prudent decision to send the ROV instead down to that depth?

[@Archangel3083]

Awesome documentary, thank you

[@TravisBrady-wn8fr]

The daredevils of their time were the ancient sailors

[@davidb2206]

Or slaves.

[@jeffhough7460]

This was incredible thank you crew for your wonderful dedication!

[@lornaperryman489]

So fascinating. I can't even explain. How I felt just watching this program. Thank you so much for letting us watch with you

[@lidiamartin5245]

I hope what they recovered in Bulgarian waters stays in Bulgarian museums.

[@barbaraphippen7874]

Thanks!

[@ronvagedes6313]

This looks like the first of two documentaries I watched a few weeks ago on this channel about the black sea wrecks, has this been re titled and re released?

[@user-gz2qh1ie8d]

Great discoveries! Great video!! Hope more can be founded. But that Roman ship was fantastic!

[@KFerg9]

my 2010 truck has fallen apart more then that!! sure don't build things like they did in yesteryears

[@marcuscollins7018]

The last wreck… what a discovery. And so intact still. As if it is ready to sail away.. unbelievable…. After 2000 years….. wow

[@FirstMetalHamster]

Very interesting and great images. Thanks for posting.

[@adriaanboogaard8571]

I love the entire program but what hit home is in the beginning when one of the diver's says diving to him means peice. I think other divers know that feeling like lots of us think of deserts and mountains or a day working the farm. The only more rare that most don't is what a Astronaut feels looking back at planet earth and the moon. How incredible and precious life is.

[@reyhounds4567]

Wow....❤❤❤

[@nivek5031]

Diving blue waters for ancient ship wrecks helps get to the bottom of historically unanswered questions and provides far deeper understanding, indeed! 😑

[@karenfyhr2363]

Very interesting and Well Done documentary. And narrated perfectly👍

[@merenuisence]

Watch this crew over a few episodes. Very riveting stories

[@alka7145]

An excellent watch.

[@arnhemseptember2009]

Totally fascinating!

[@Andrew.D.Gillis]

If it was a slow fill over thousands of years, you would have evidence of the lake shore beach the entire way to the modern shore not just 56km off the modern shore, unless there was a catastrophic flood from the Mediterranean, or global flood.

[@lidiamartin5245]

For them to allow for this to have happened, they would have to entertain the idea that the story of the flood is at least partially true. And they would never do so.

[@alka7145]

To get the evidence of the ancient lake beach, they needed to find a core (No 59?) that had metres and metres of beach evidence (mixture of finely ground shells almost as a sand as well as newer complete shells). If it is a slow, constant fill over thousands of years, you possibly can't find those thick layers of shell in the higher areas where the beach gradually but consistently moves inland.

[@marcoscaba3846]

Impressive documentary .

[@insanitydefined3112]

What a spectacular documentary. Thank you

[@lukehorning3404]

Really interesting 👍

[@kylemorris-qr2bp]

Good show, but it is definitely not new. Seen it at least 3 times with a different name on here!

[@etiennenobel5028]

Very moving. One feels the lives lost there still very close

[@antoniomoreira5921]

I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's naval history playlist on the subject

[@cincyjohn69]

Great video

[@Mr_Mgun]

super badass...

[@jone8626]

So in 1000 years there is already that much sediments or mud covering the shipwreck. Wonder how covered a shipwreck from 18 000-25 000 years would be. If there is such a thing, not to mention it would be at a much deeper depth than these wrecks are. As sea level has risen by 400 feet since then. If there were ancient shipwrecks over 18 000 years old, would they even be above all the sediments and mud? Or would they be fully covered by now and it would only look like a small hill on the sea bed with maybe a piece of mast sticking out. Humans has been on this planet in modern form for over 100 000 years, but we can only find shipwrecks from a few thousand years ago. Are they even looking at those depths for ancient shipwrecks? Probably needs to be a satellite that can scan the ocean floor and pick up every thing that's down there to finally figure it out and close down the forgotten civilization theory for good.

[@brettmuir5679]

Did you watch this program? Most of your questions are answered therein

[@alka7145]

Much older wrecks would almost inevitably be under much deeper layers of sediment if conditions had allowed their preservation long enough.

[@MrFreezook]

Chapeau !

[@CannonRanger2023]

Incredible show. Along with the amazing moments of discovery, NEVER underestimate the true power of a plunger.

[@user-zt1ey8kp3m]

There are no more words

[@raymondrothenwander1943]

Imagine cradling the one that fell off the pallets.

[@LindaCasey]

💞💞

[@Zyworski]

A 95-meter dive is insanely deep and too risky for the reward presented. Dee[p sea exploration is better done robotically than risking human life.

[@alka7145]

They dived to and recovered an amphora from another wreck at 95m in the first part of this 2 part documentary. They mentioned how dangerous it was.

[@jodiehighroller9820]

Fascinating

[@jackiehocker4960]

Iveseen.this at least 3 times. New one???

[@roberttalada5196]

Is this a reupload?

[@carterl4506]

naw its part 2 of the other one starts at the end of the first

[@brettmuir5679]

Yes. I watched a week ago. I was hoping this was part 3

[@jackieclements677]

Incredible!

[@joelrivard5598]

To many commercials

[@__Koala__]

That's why I have premium 😂

[@mehim678]

2kms is not correct. Submarines only go about 400m deep. I can accept 200m for a dive of this nature. Apart from that, super story.

[@alka7145]

The remotely controlled vehicles used in these expeditions can go much deeper than 400m.

[@samuelj2408]

Another 20 year old documentary re uploaded with a different title ?

[@MooPotPie]

No. This is fairly recent and quite excellent.

[@samuelj2408]

@user-iv1po3rr8g the amount of confidence too lol, "fairly recent and excellent" yeahhh loll

[@brittac.fleck-zink2863]

Does that really matter, don't watch if you don't like it

[@skyhigh1154]

Men could not dive 20 yrs ago, a part from muffdiving that is..

[@samuelj2408]

@@skyhigh1154 did u win your brain from a cereal box? or McDonald's kids meal ?

[@damsonahoe2437]

The Black Sea was created from the melting of glaciers I would assume.

[@alka7145]

Yes, the prehistoric lake was primarily filled by melted glacier waters flowing through the Danube, Dnipro and Don rivers.

[@lga9046]

This one painted a vivid picture, thumbs up

[@Marotonella]

Oh wait, we have quite a bunch of macroscopic bacteria colonies over timber remains, would they be feeding from it? I don't know why mo Nobel price was awarded for it.

[@DanzoTheManzo13]

Y'all need to stop reposting the same video on different channels 😒

[@scottgust9709]

its so weird how they always say "it wasnt a biblical flood" the great flood has been proven throughout multiple cultures throughout the world but not to these peeps?

[@Kohlmeise1000]

cmon, could have shown more artefacts, otherwise you can go and hide everything

[@Ivartshiva]

again?

[@donaldbrown4731]

excelente

[@onezapmariner.9943]

Just say what you can prove

[@ernestoleonarte]

OMG

[@TylerWest1776]

How cool would it be to find ancient shipwrecks like that! If only the people that was on these ships could see the world now.

[@jodiehighroller9820]

Would be a sad sight I’m sure

[@TylerWest1776]

@@jodiehighroller9820 As in the technology aspect but yes very true also

[@Joseph-dq5wb]

They'd probably flee as fast as possible back to there own time I'm pretty sure

[@skipmagil]

Nah

[@skipmagil]

In a thousand years humans will be rescuing space ships from the bottom

[@terezipyrope6884]

The way byzantatine is pronounced hahaha its hurts

[@alexanderkidonakis9185]

Bye zan tine

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[@edwardreeves6]

If ship still here why should bring up?

[@richiewalker0114]

At 35:00 in when discovering the ancient ship, what was the reasons saying it would take at least 3-4 days to prepare for the divers to go down?? Also, why is it always that these ‘discoveries’ are happening near the end of the trip, no doubt to add extra phony dramaI? I believe that all these adventures are fully staged and scripted.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Archeological exploration for showing ancient existence of Roman empire wierk boats and Ottoman empire wierk boats...in black sea 🌊..are these missions carrying political messages to Northern Russian neighborhoods?

[@anderson3510]

As someone who worked on schilling ROVs for over a decade and 3 different iterations of that manipulator the fake noises they made for it is nearly peak cringe. It’s laughable that they have a hydraulic powered arm servo noises.

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"People facing climate change" lololol.... no.

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