BBC - Coast Series 9 (2014) Part 4 Offshore!

Coast: Series 9

Coast continues to uncover the secrets of our shores, through untold tales of explorers from as far apart as Cornwall and Australia; it reveals little-known gems, including a coastal walk that takes in the history of Britain; investigates the clandestine sex trade that scandalised Victorian Britain and decimated the Royal Navy; discovers how Greenwich became the global centre of sea navigation and reveals what becomes of our coast in winter. Coast also crosses the Atlantic to find out why Nova Scotia, in Canada, appealed to its Scottish settlers, and it ventures to the French channel coast to unearth its connection with the birth of Britain's Ordnance Survey maps.

Part 4: Offshore!

Nick Crane crosses the Atlantic to Nova Scotia to investigate why there was a flood of Scottish settlers to Canada two hundred years ago, while an archaeological dig also reveals the 400-year-old secrets of the first English colony in the North American country. Tessa Dunlop visits a radio network outside Rugby to explore a story from the Falklands War, while Miranda Krestovnikoff is in the Outer Hebrides to go in search of Britain's oldest puffin. Naval historian Nick Hewitt examines the history of the Nab Towers, which was positioned in the Straits of Dover to protect merchant shipping from German U-boats during the First World War.

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