1977
Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the island of Atlantis once housed an advanced civilization - which. then vanished completely in a violent cataclysm. Merely a myth? Or did Atlantis really exist? In an engrossing journey back to the ancient world, Jacques Cousteau and crew travel to the islands near Greece to see whether there was a connection between the violent earthquakes that racked the region and the fall of the gracious Minoan civilization that flourished on Crete during the Bronze Age. Could the Minoan civilization indeed have been the basis for the Altantis legend? Cousteau also examines the roots of Plato's account of Atlantis. Was it a folk memory passed through generations or Plato's own views on war and corruption?
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Mon, Nov 21, 1977
For 70 years, the sudden sinking of the mighty British ship Britannic - larger than the sister ship Titanic - has been shrouded in mystery. Jacques Cousteau reveals the full story of November 21, 1916 when, on her sixth journey as a hospital ship, Britannic exploded and sank into the Aegean Sea. With recollections of a survivor, then a young nurse. Cousteau and crew uncover whether the vessel was mined or torpedoed, if it secretly carried British troops and how a single mine or torpedo could sink a supposedly impregnable ship.
1977
Jacques Cousteau and the Calypso crew journey across two seas - mediterrean and Caribbean - to recover the remains of great ships. Off northern Crete they find skulls, scattered bones and round pellets of grape-shot fired in a 300-year-old battle and at another site, 1st-century Roman jars. Their biggest wreck is uncovered at Martinique. In 1902, 30,000 people died when Mount Pele erupted and a harbor of ships disappeared into the depths. But at 150 feet, Cousteau's divers sight the Roraima - broken in two but intact.