MSP - Deep Wreck Mysteries Series 2 (2008) Part 5 Death of a Battleship

Britain and Ireland, island nations, have the richest of maritime histories, but much of their underwater heritage has been beyond the reach of investigation. Thousands of vessels lie wrecked off the shores, many sank in time of World Wars and are yet to be discovered. Deep below the surface of the sea they remain silent witnesses to conflict and carnage. Among those hidden victims are some of the largest and most impressive ships ever to plummet to the bottom – giant battleships, massive cargo carriers, and towering ocean liners. Our island nation has more maritime history buried beneath its waves than anywhere else on earth. Britain's deep-sea wrecks are the gold-dust of underwater exploration - and just as elusive too hard to find, too deep to reach, too dark to film. And because of this its most intriguing wrecks have remained in an eerie, twilit world, silent witnesses to the conflict and carnage of their sinking. The ghost ships of the deep, holding the secrets of the dead. Now, advances in dive technology bring these deep sea wrecks to the screen, revealing a world of secret weapons, negligence and atrocity. This series finally sheds light into these murky depths through some of the best deep-sea cameramen in the world. Delving into the waters off the southwest coast of England, they apply their unparalled technical experience to an exciting new challenge filming recently discovered wrecks, both fabled and forgotten. Come explore the hidden world of these deep wreck mysteries.

Part 5 Death of a Battleship

Off the north coast of Ireland, deep-sea divers discover the wreck of a massive battleship. She is the British superdreadnought, HMS Audacious, which sank in the early days of the First World War. The pride of the Royal Navy, Audacious was considered unsinkable. Today she lies 23 kilometres out to sea, in 64 metres of water, in perhaps the best visibility for a warship of her size anywhere in the world. The expedition's divers find evidence of a mysterious catastrophic explosion, strewing wreckage across the seabed. They reveal how one of the world's most advanced ships was brought down by a single unexpected blow, a chance event that began a new chapter in naval warfare and changed the course of history.

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