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A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated process, many layers and sections are carefully applied. He goes over the side. Some men row out to what looks like a wrecked barge and set dynamite. Then the diver returns and now laughs and acknowledges the camera. The other men, now safely away, blow up the barge.

A diver discovers something unusual in the sea.

A group of divers are trying to bring up the wrecked ship from the Black Sea bottom.

Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...

Men risk life and livelihood to salvage a sunken luxury yacht from the bottom of Lake Superiour.

The Dungeness lifeboat crew launched their brand new motorised lifeboat.

On those long undersea voyages, horny men in such close quarters can only hold out for so long. It's not just the submarine that's going down ...

In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II, lying undetected only 60 miles off the New Jersey shore, its unexploded torpedoes and the bodies of its crew still aboard. This two-hour special follows Chatterton and his dive partners in their dangerous quest to identify the missing U-boat, a pursuit that takes six years and costs three lives. The U-boat's history involves unusual coincidences and a startling twist of fate.