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This is the script for Episode Twelve of Lords of the Ocean is a reality TV show that follows Matt and Robin, two brothers who’ve inherited Dominion Diving, a family salvage, diving and marine service business.
The Lohnes brothers have also maintained a family legacy; their father’s love of uncertainty, the unknown, the undiscovered, and the unworkable.
| 00:01:02:00 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s searching the seabed for lost metal |
| 00:01:05:19 | worth it’s weight in gold. |
| 00:01:07:18 | MATT: Hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
| 00:01:09:11 | NARRATOR: And for that they’re busting out |
| 00:01:11:12 | the newest ship in their fleet. |
| 00:01:13:05 | ROBIN: It’s a Swiss army knife. |
| 00:01:14:08 | That’s what it is. |
| 00:01:15:04 | NARRATOR: But is searching for buried treasure |
| 00:01:17:06 | at the bottom of the ocean, |
| 00:01:18:18 | a doomed fools errand? |
| 00:01:20:20 | GARRY: It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. |
| 00:01:22:19 | NARRATOR: By hook or by crook, |
| 00:01:24:15 | they want their anchors. |
| 00:01:26:05 | MATT: Bring daddy an anchor. |
| 00:01:28:19 | NARRATOR: For 50 years, |
| 00:01:30:07 | this family’s built a business |
| 00:01:32:02 | where nobody else dares. |
| 00:01:33:22 | Recovering, |
| 00:01:35:00 | repairing |
| 00:01:36:06 | and resurrecting anything |
| 00:01:38:04 | in the world’s most dangerous waters. |
| 00:01:40:12 | This is their world, |
| 00:01:43:08 | salt water in their blood |
| 00:01:45:07 | come hell and high water. |
| 00:01:47:04 | MATT: It’s go time. |
| 00:01:48:08 | Do or die. |
| 00:01:49:06 | º THEME MUSIC º |
| 00:02:20:02 | NARRATOR: At Dominion HQ, everybody’s up early |
| 00:02:23:04 | prepping for a big recovery mission. |
| 00:02:26:05 | MATT: All right, guys, safe travels. |
| 00:02:28:00 | CHRISTIAN: Yeah, see you there. |
| 00:02:28:20 | MATT: A ship has lost its anchor. |
| 00:02:30:14 | We’ve been called in to |
| 00:02:32:03 | get the client back their lost missing anchor. |
| 00:02:35:15 | NARRATOR: It was lost off a massive |
| 00:02:37:13 | search and rescue vessel. |
| 00:02:39:15 | It’s a huge anchor. |
| 00:02:41:12 | MATT: This anchor is 10 tonnes roughly. |
| 00:02:43:06 | A heavy duty piece of metal. |
| 00:02:46:10 | NARRATOR: Now Matt’s hitting the road |
| 00:02:48:10 | armed with GPS coordinates |
| 00:02:50:04 | of the anchor’s precise location. |
| 00:02:52:23 | MATT: Today we’re gonna start mapping the seabed |
| 00:02:55:21 | to see if we can find that hard target. |
| 00:02:57:22 | If we find that hard target, |
| 00:02:59:13 | we send the divers in to connect up |
| 00:03:01:18 | the anchor to the A-frame on the Bearcat. |
| 00:03:04:09 | This’ll be easier than when E.T. |
| 00:03:06:11 | was looking for his home. |
| 00:03:08:15 | [LAUGHS] |
| 00:03:11:04 | NARRATOR: Matt’s feeling good, and who can blame him? |
| 00:03:13:21 | It’s a beautiful day for a drive |
| 00:03:15:19 | up Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. |
| 00:03:18:00 | MATT: The missing anchor’s in Sheet Harbour. |
| 00:03:20:00 | It’s an old historic port. |
| 00:03:22:04 | Beautiful picturesque town, |
| 00:03:24:09 | but very remote. |
| 00:03:26:20 | NARRATOR: Sheet Harbour’s 150 kilometers |
| 00:03:29:08 | northeast of Halifax. |
| 00:03:31:09 | A thin channel fed by two raging rivers. |
| 00:03:35:00 | MATT: Right now, we’re crossing over |
| 00:03:37:06 | the river that used to have a power generating dam. |
| 00:03:40:23 | NARRATOR: This is an area Matt knows well. |
| 00:03:43:15 | MATT: Dominion Diving has done quite a few jobs |
| 00:03:46:21 | over its history down in Sheet Harbour. |
| 00:03:49:03 | Just recently we did a massive bridge replacement, |
| 00:03:52:19 | and we had to remove the old bridge in sections. |
| 00:03:57:05 | And actually, we’re gonna |
| 00:03:58:05 | meet up with Herbie and boys |
| 00:04:00:13 | right next to that bridge. |
| 00:04:02:24 | NARRATOR: The dive team’s waiting when Matt arrives, |
| 00:04:05:17 | but Herbie’s nowhere to be found. |
| 00:04:08:09 | MATT: What up, dude? |
| 00:04:10:19 | MATT: Pretty much. CHRISTIAN: Yeah. |
| 00:04:12:16 | NARRATOR: Herbie’s one of Dominion’s old guard. |
| 00:04:15:23 | He’s just as well to take the ocean highway to this job, |
| 00:04:19:03 | even if it means an early morning. |
| 00:04:22:03 | MATT: Herbie left at 3:00 a.m. |
| 00:04:23:20 | because it’s gonna take a lot longer for the vessel |
| 00:04:25:15 | to transit that distance. |
| 00:04:27:13 | A boat does 10 knots max. |
| 00:04:32:00 | That’s not very fast. |
| 00:04:33:24 | NARRATOR: When Herbie does arrive, |
| 00:04:35:13 | the water’s too shallow for the Dominion Bearcat to land. |
| 00:04:42:02 | MATT: So we’re gonna try to get in |
| 00:04:43:18 | to the big dock over there. |
| 00:04:46:03 | NARRATOR: There’s a public dock just up the way, |
| 00:04:49:04 | but they’re locked out. |
| 00:04:54:11 | A combo of sure-footedness and acrobatics prevail. |
| 00:04:59:04 | MATT: See? Simple. |
| 00:05:02:03 | HERBIE: Oliver! Throw the lines over, let’s go. |
| 00:05:05:19 | NARRATOR: Finally, they’re loaded up, |
| 00:05:08:07 | but they’re also behind schedule, |
| 00:05:10:13 | and they haven’t even started working. |
| 00:05:13:11 | With the GPS coordinates locked in, |
| 00:05:15:22 | Herbie sets course for the missing anchor. |
| 00:05:18:08 | MATT: The black dot is the vessel, |
| 00:05:20:08 | that’s the Bearcat, |
| 00:05:21:11 | you can see it move along the screen. |
| 00:05:23:07 | Going to be coming out of Sheet Harbour, |
| 00:05:25:12 | then we’re gonna come out and around |
| 00:05:27:07 | to where the anchor is. |
| 00:05:28:19 | NARRATOR: It may all seem like a lot of work |
| 00:05:31:05 | to retrieve something designed for the ocean floor. |
| 00:05:34:11 | MATT: It’s a highly designed piece of metal, |
| 00:05:36:11 | to be able to take certain forces |
| 00:05:38:20 | and restrict that vessel |
| 00:05:40:06 | from failing and going on land. |
| 00:05:42:06 | NARRATOR: They’re the brakes of any boat. |
| 00:05:44:17 | Without it you’re at the mercy of tide. |
| 00:05:47:10 | MATT: That anchor might be life or death. |
| 00:05:49:18 | NARRATOR: Anchors ain’t cheap either. |
| 00:05:52:05 | MATT: The cost on these things |
| 00:05:53:19 | goes from a hundred dollars |
| 00:05:56:05 | up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
| 00:05:59:16 | NARRATOR: And a boat this size |
| 00:06:01:20 | is gonna have an anchor too big |
| 00:06:04:00 | to write off as a sunk cost. |
| 00:06:06:14 | Believe it or not, |
| 00:06:08:02 | they’re easier to lose than most people think. |
| 00:06:10:13 | HERBIE: I’ve lost three of ’em. |
| 00:06:13:12 | MATT: A ship can lose an anchor a few different ways, |
| 00:06:15:10 | but the most common way is your master link. |
| 00:06:17:20 | The area where the anchor swivels and pivots |
| 00:06:20:10 | and is hooked to the chain itself. |
| 00:06:22:04 | So there’s lots of stress and strain put on that area. |
| 00:06:25:08 | You might think you’ve got a good master link, |
| 00:06:27:07 | you can inspect it all you want, |
| 00:06:29:17 | it could fail at any time. |
| 00:06:33:15 | HERBIE: We’re 56 feet off it. |
| 00:06:36:13 | NARRATOR: As the Bearcat pulls up on location, |
| 00:06:38:15 | Matt’s confident his team can find the anchor |
| 00:06:41:14 | and make their client very happy. |
| 00:06:43:20 | MATT: We’re gonna find this. |
| 00:06:45:01 | We gotta… no gotta, we’re gonna. |
| 00:06:48:05 | Gonna, not gotta. |
| 00:06:50:15 | We don’t give up. |
| 00:06:51:20 | NARRATOR: But the dive team |
| 00:06:53:07 | and dive supervisor Garry, |
| 00:06:55:12 | isn’t quite so sure. |
| 00:06:57:07 | GARRY: It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack. |
| 00:07:00:10 | NARRATOR: They got precise GPS coordinates |
| 00:07:02:17 | where the anchor’s supposed to be |
| 00:07:04:15 | 15 meters below. |
| 00:07:06:20 | But it’s not that easy. |
| 00:07:10:02 | A ship might pay out up to 25 meters or more |
| 00:07:13:12 | of anchor chain at this depth. |
| 00:07:15:24 | That means depending on the drift of the boat |
| 00:07:19:11 | at the moment the anchor was lost, |
| 00:07:21:18 | it could be anywhere within a 50 meter diameter |
| 00:07:25:00 | of where they think it is. |
| 00:07:26:20 | HERBIE: Okay, Garry, let her go there. |
| 00:07:29:18 | NARRATOR: They start the search by dropping a buoy |
| 00:07:32:07 | on the coordinates given to them. |
| 00:07:35:04 | They’re finally ready to start their search, |
| 00:07:38:16 | and step one means dropping their own anchor, |
| 00:07:41:18 | a gigantic rusty disc known as a clump weight. |
| 00:07:45:00 | MATT: The reason why we use a clump weight |
| 00:07:46:13 | is so that way we’re not hooking |
| 00:07:47:20 | or damaging anything underwater, |
| 00:07:49:20 | it’s just basically a park brake, |
| 00:07:52:20 | then we’ll send the divers in |
| 00:07:53:22 | to try to locate the anchor. |
| 00:07:56:03 | If at that point they’re not successful, |
| 00:07:59:12 | then we’ll go to Plan B. |
| 00:08:01:16 | NARRATOR: Plan B is a side-scan sonar. |
| 00:08:05:08 | MATT: That’s how you do your seabed mapping. |
| 00:08:07:20 | NARRATOR: It’s great tech, |
| 00:08:09:00 | but more expensive and time consuming |
| 00:08:11:10 | than anything Matt had hoped for today. |
| 00:08:14:02 | MATT: So right now, our beams are pointing far apart. |
| 00:08:16:21 | We’re gonna bring them in a little closer. |
| 00:08:18:23 | NARRATOR: While Garry preps for a possible Plan B… |
| 00:08:21:13 | OLLIE: All right, good luck in there, bud. |
| 00:08:22:20 | AIDEN: Yup. |
| 00:08:23:15 | NARRATOR: …diver Aiden’s hoping that Plan A |
| 00:08:25:24 | will be A-okay. |
| 00:08:29:12 | NARRATOR: But Garry knows the challenge ahead. |
| 00:08:32:19 | GARRY: Finding anything underwater is not easy. |
| 00:08:36:00 | Even with all the technology. |
| 00:08:38:00 | NARRATOR: They got the GPS location |
| 00:08:40:04 | and the diver in the water, |
| 00:08:41:20 | but if they don’t find it here, |
| 00:08:43:18 | this haystack’s gonna get a whole lot bigger. |
| 00:08:50:00 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s been hired to find an anchor |
| 00:08:52:06 | lost somewhere in this remote harbour. |
| 00:08:55:15 | Diver Aiden’s already in the water |
| 00:08:58:02 | searching for that precious weight. |
| 00:09:00:13 | GARRY: So do you wanna swim over to the buoy? |
| 00:09:02:21 | NARRATOR: Aiden’s armed with 15 meters of rope, |
| 00:09:06:04 | which he’ll attach to the buoy’s anchor. |
| 00:09:09:23 | GARRY: All right. Yeah, go down. |
| 00:09:13:13 | NARRATOR: Underwater, Aiden follows the buoy line |
| 00:09:16:01 | down into the murky world below. |
| 00:09:20:09 | GARRY: Starting to see bottom there? |
| 00:09:21:18 | AIDEN: Yeah, starting to see bottom. |
| 00:09:24:01 | GARRY: We’ll try to stay off bottom. |
| 00:09:25:08 | Is it a rocky bottom? No, don’t stir it up. |
| 00:09:30:20 | GARRY: Yeah. |
| 00:09:32:18 | NARRATOR: At this depth, he’s only got |
| 00:09:34:09 | an hour of dive time to find the anchor. |
| 00:09:41:11 | GARRY: Yeah, I guess so. |
| 00:09:42:22 | NARRATOR: Using the 15 meter rope as a guide, |
| 00:09:45:22 | the diver must search in ever widening concentric circles, |
| 00:09:49:24 | using the buoy as a starting point |
| 00:09:52:05 | and widening out from there. |
| 00:09:55:04 | And the visibility is terrible. |
| 00:09:57:18 | It looks like a chocolate milkshake down here. |
| 00:10:01:11 | GARRY: Don’t really see any evidence |
| 00:10:02:06 | of anything down there, eh? |
| 00:10:06:10 | GARRY: Yeah, I was kind of hoping that there’d be |
| 00:10:07:20 | a drag mark or something. |
| 00:10:09:21 | MATT: We’re gonna look now for anything on the seabed, |
| 00:10:13:04 | so instead of being flat and smooth, |
| 00:10:15:12 | something that has penetrated the seabed, |
| 00:10:17:15 | trails, drag marks, |
| 00:10:19:04 | then we’ll know we’re in the region. |
| 00:10:21:12 | NARRATOR: Garry thinks maybe the drag |
| 00:10:23:03 | from the broken anchor chain |
| 00:10:24:18 | left a trail to the anchor itself. |
| 00:10:27:08 | GARRY: Ooo, what’s that? Something? No? |
| 00:10:32:14 | GARRY: Or just crabs and lobsters |
| 00:10:34:09 | crawling across making lines. |
| 00:10:39:06 | NARRATOR: But the only thing down here |
| 00:10:41:03 | is a whole lotta nothing. |
| 00:10:44:08 | GARRY: Pretty unexciting bottom, eh? |
| 00:10:46:22 | We’ll be able to figure out where you’re at. |
| 00:10:49:09 | Just dirt. |
| 00:10:51:06 | NARRATOR: With this thick layer of silt, |
| 00:10:53:00 | it’s possible Aiden’s swimming right on top of the anchor |
| 00:10:56:14 | and doesn’t even know it. |
| 00:10:58:03 | GARRY: Is there like a pile of stuff there? |
| 00:10:59:05 | AIDEN: Yeah. |
| 00:11:00:00 | GARRY: If you reach your hand in, is there anything in there? |
| 00:11:01:14 | When they dropped it, |
| 00:11:03:14 | it probably would have just sunk in |
| 00:11:05:05 | and so there probably is not even a drag mark, right? |
| 00:11:07:18 | It’s heavy, it might be, you know, buried. |
| 00:11:10:05 | NARRATOR: Aiden’s shoulder-deep in the mud, |
| 00:11:12:10 | but all he comes up with is more silt. |
| 00:11:23:21 | GARRY: Yeah. |
| 00:11:24:14 | NARRATOR: Aiden’s completed the circle search, |
| 00:11:26:24 | but no anchor. |
| 00:11:28:20 | He uses the little dive time he’s got left |
| 00:11:30:24 | to keep searching. |
| 00:11:32:08 | But down here, |
| 00:11:33:20 | everything is just flat and featureless. |
| 00:11:37:02 | GARRY: Well, we failed. |
| 00:11:40:01 | NARRATOR: Finally, he comes up for air. |
| 00:11:43:01 | GARRY: We didn’t find the anchor on this first dive, |
| 00:11:45:09 | so we’re gonna switch to the side-scan |
| 00:11:48:06 | and see if we can find anything with that. |
| 00:11:52:00 | NARRATOR: But first they need to |
| 00:11:53:20 | pull up the clump weight anchor. |
| 00:11:56:13 | Dominion’s small anchor was buried three metres in silt. |
| 00:12:00:15 | Just imagine how deep a two tonne anchor |
| 00:12:03:05 | would sink into this silty seabed. |
| 00:12:06:06 | They gotta get the boat moving |
| 00:12:08:00 | just to flush the muck off, |
| 00:12:09:14 | before they can bring the anchor back aboard. |
| 00:12:14:10 | Good thing Matt’s got a Plan B. |
| 00:12:17:00 | MATT: We’ve got a different approach now. |
| 00:12:19:04 | We’re gonna go try side-scanning, |
| 00:12:20:20 | plot our coordinates. |
| 00:12:22:03 | If we can plot something that seems pretty viable, |
| 00:12:24:20 | we’ll throw the next diver in. |
| 00:12:26:05 | NARRATOR: Traditional sonar sends soundwaves |
| 00:12:28:21 | from the boat, straight down. |
| 00:12:30:20 | But side-scan sonar shoots a beam of sound |
| 00:12:33:15 | from both sides of the boat, |
| 00:12:35:03 | mapping the area from surface to seabed. |
| 00:12:39:00 | MATT: It’s another tool in your tickle trunk |
| 00:12:40:16 | to go at uncovering the ocean’s mysteries. |
| 00:12:43:23 | NARRATOR: The monitor shows the boat’s path, |
| 00:12:46:14 | with the vessel’s location in the middle. |
| 00:12:49:22 | Herbie circles the Bearcat |
| 00:12:51:07 | around the area where the anchor was lost. |
| 00:12:54:00 | There’s enough feedback below |
| 00:12:55:23 | to convince Matt it’s worth a second look. |
| 00:12:58:12 | MATT: See? Right there. GARRY: Yeah. |
| 00:13:01:03 | MATT: So we’re hitting a couple of hard targets. |
| 00:13:03:12 | We’ve gone over it a few different ways, |
| 00:13:05:00 | transitioned across. |
| 00:13:07:00 | There’s an indication of disturbance on the seabed, |
| 00:13:10:08 | and then this hard target is in the same location. |
| 00:13:13:22 | We’re gonna drop a diver in to see what we can find. |
| 00:13:16:20 | NARRATOR: Christian kits up and leaps into the fray. |
| 00:13:20:19 | He begins another circle search, |
| 00:13:22:24 | this time around the new target Matt found |
| 00:13:25:05 | during the side-scan. |
| 00:13:27:10 | But when Christian gets down there, |
| 00:13:29:20 | the hard target is just a bed of seaweed. |
| 00:13:32:20 | GARRY: Nothing out of the ordinary, eh? |
| 00:13:34:11 | CHRISTIAN: Nope. It is a muddy bottom |
| 00:13:37:01 | and that is it. |
| 00:13:38:18 | NARRATOR: He continues his circle search for an hour, |
| 00:13:41:05 | while Matt waits anxiously. |
| 00:13:43:19 | MATT: C’mon. Christian. |
| 00:13:46:11 | Bring Daddy an anchor. |
| 00:13:48:15 | NARRATOR: But in the end, Plan B is a bust. |
| 00:13:52:00 | GARRY: Alright, we don’t have the viz |
| 00:13:53:06 | to be able do this effectively with just a diver |
| 00:13:56:00 | so you can leave bottom |
| 00:13:57:17 | CHRISTIAN: All right then, Garry. |
| 00:14:00:00 | NARRATOR: Garry logs his diver’s bottom time |
| 00:14:02:15 | and Christian aborts his mission. |
| 00:14:04:23 | This anchor’s becoming a real white whale for Matt. |
| 00:14:08:08 | But he’s not giving up yet. |
| 00:14:11:04 | Bring on Plan C. |
| 00:14:13:08 | MATT: Don’t worry about talking to anybody. |
| 00:14:14:18 | If no one’s at the gate, just drive through to the dock. |
| 00:14:17:15 | MATT: Plan C, we’ve already called in for back-up. |
| 00:14:20:04 | We’re gonna bring down the Chinook. |
| 00:14:23:00 | NARRATOR: The Chinook ROV’s already on its way down here |
| 00:14:26:04 | from Dominion headquarters. |
| 00:14:27:21 | But they gotta detour back into Sheet Harbour |
| 00:14:31:00 | to pick it up this small but mighty |
| 00:14:33:02 | remotely operated vehicle. |
| 00:14:37:06 | With the Chinook, |
| 00:14:38:11 | Matt can check out hotspots quicker, |
| 00:14:40:22 | as they adjust their flight path |
| 00:14:42:15 | to cover even more ground with the side-scan. |
| 00:14:47:18 | MATT: Before we were heading north to south, |
| 00:14:50:06 | now we’re gonna be heading west to east, |
| 00:14:52:10 | east to west, back and forth. |
| 00:14:54:10 | So again, that gives us a 100 percent coverage, |
| 00:14:57:06 | cross grid over the area |
| 00:14:59:15 | where the last known coordinates were. |
| 00:15:01:16 | NARRATOR: Herbie’s criss-crossed the area |
| 00:15:03:11 | several times now, and Matt’s zeroed in on |
| 00:15:06:11 | a couple of targets warranting some robotic investigation. |
| 00:15:10:05 | MATT: Yeah, it’s one of those things. |
| 00:15:12:24 | You don’t like going home empty handed, |
| 00:15:15:19 | so that’s why we’re throwing more technology, |
| 00:15:19:17 | more options, more plans at this. |
| 00:15:21:22 | GARRY: Yeah so, we’re puttin the ROV in |
| 00:15:23:23 | and it’s got unlimited bottom time |
| 00:15:25:17 | and it can see further than we can with the sonar. |
| 00:15:28:01 | It can see about 75 feet. |
| 00:15:29:22 | So, as we’re searching, if we see any hard targets, |
| 00:15:32:13 | then we know and we can just bee-line right for it. |
| 00:15:36:19 | NARRATOR: Matt stations himself at the control panel |
| 00:15:39:10 | connected to Chinook by 300 meters of cable. |
| 00:15:43:12 | MATT: Okay, we’re now on bottom. |
| 00:15:47:05 | At this time at this direction, |
| 00:15:48:10 | I’m not seeing anything. |
| 00:15:51:15 | A hard target on here |
| 00:15:52:21 | will show up as a brighter colour. |
| 00:15:59:10 | Look at that. |
| 00:16:00:23 | She’s glowing. |
| 00:16:02:01 | That’s a hard target. |
| 00:16:04:14 | I did find a hard target. |
| 00:16:06:10 | It was an anchor. |
| 00:16:09:11 | Unfortunately, I got too excited |
| 00:16:12:05 | when I hit the target. |
| 00:16:15:00 | It’s the clump weight that we’re using |
| 00:16:16:10 | to hold ourselves on position on site, |
| 00:16:19:21 | and of course, it was buried in the seabed. |
| 00:16:23:20 | NARRATOR: This was supposed to be |
| 00:16:25:01 | like catching fish in a barrel, |
| 00:16:27:06 | but after a full day of searching, |
| 00:16:29:08 | Matt’s unwavering optimism is running dry. |
| 00:16:32:08 | MATT: If we don’t pick up the anchor |
| 00:16:36:09 | in the next couple of locations, |
| 00:16:39:09 | then at some point in time |
| 00:16:41:11 | we’ll have to be like E.T. and phone home. |
| 00:16:43:24 | NARRATOR: All anyone can do now is wait |
| 00:16:46:20 | as Matt desperately scans through the silt below. |
| 00:16:50:10 | MATT: They could give us the exact coordinates, |
| 00:16:52:22 | could be pinpointed with the offsets and everything, |
| 00:16:56:06 | and the anchor’s just gone in the mud |
| 00:16:58:08 | ’cause this seabed is |
| 00:17:00:05 | really soft, muddy crud. |
| 00:17:06:00 | NARRATOR: They’ve exhausted Plan A, B and C, |
| 00:17:10:00 | and the hunt that was supposed to be a lock, |
| 00:17:12:02 | has gone completely off the chains. |
| 00:17:15:05 | MATT: We’ve done all the different methods |
| 00:17:16:24 | that we’ve utilized in the past |
| 00:17:19:09 | to locate something. |
| 00:17:21:04 | It might just be |
| 00:17:23:13 | gone to Davey Jones’ locker. |
| 00:17:26:13 | NARRATOR: Matt’s master plan |
| 00:17:28:10 | is officially stuck in the mud. |
| 00:17:31:03 | Time to pick up their own anchor and head home. |
| 00:17:38:11 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s fleet of ocean-going vessels |
| 00:17:40:11 | is unmatched. |
| 00:17:42:05 | But Robin’s always on the lookout |
| 00:17:44:12 | for ships that’ll take things to the next level. |
| 00:17:48:04 | ROBIN: I was on the internet searching around |
| 00:17:50:09 | and looking for cargo tugs. |
| 00:17:53:05 | Tugs that could carry cargo and self-unload, |
| 00:17:55:15 | and I kept running into these multi-cats. |
| 00:17:58:10 | NARRATOR: The multi-cat is a relatively |
| 00:18:00:04 | new kind of ocean-going vessel, |
| 00:18:02:19 | prized for maneuverability and versatility. |
| 00:18:06:04 | ROBIN: It’s a Swiss army knife, that’s what it is. |
| 00:18:08:03 | NARRATOR: Whether it’s towing, tugging, |
| 00:18:10:13 | installing offshore equipment, |
| 00:18:12:09 | or conducting maintenance and repairs, |
| 00:18:14:13 | multi-cats’ powerful winches, |
| 00:18:16:13 | offshore cranes |
| 00:18:18:10 | and spacious flat deck |
| 00:18:20:06 | make them an ideal vessel for almost any offshore job. |
| 00:18:27:03 | Robin wanted to bring that kind of capability |
| 00:18:30:00 | to the Dominion fleet, |
| 00:18:31:22 | and today he is finally getting the keys |
| 00:18:34:07 | to a multi-cat of his own. |
| 00:18:37:23 | The Dominion Warrior. |
| 00:18:40:08 | ROBIN: It’s name from the previous owners |
| 00:18:42:00 | was the Coastal Warrior, |
| 00:18:43:10 | and we found the name to be fitting so we kept it. |
| 00:18:45:23 | NARRATOR: Classed as a tug, this workhorse vessel |
| 00:18:48:18 | sports a pair of twin fixed pitch propellers. |
| 00:18:51:22 | Its engines max out at 1200 horsepower, |
| 00:18:55:02 | capable of towing up to 15 tonnes. |
| 00:18:57:23 | Multi-cats are commonplace in Europe, |
| 00:19:00:19 | but Robin found his on a job offshore |
| 00:19:03:18 | in Guinea, Africa. |
| 00:19:05:13 | ROBIN: Went down, took her for a spin, kinda liked it. |
| 00:19:07:20 | It was 10 years old. |
| 00:19:09:22 | It was a couple million bucks, |
| 00:19:11:19 | and I came back and made a deal. |
| 00:19:13:13 | NARRATOR: But getting it home was a mega job. |
| 00:19:17:07 | ROBIN: We contracted Jumbo Shipping. |
| 00:19:20:15 | They came in with a ship that picks it up |
| 00:19:22:20 | and puts it inside of its belly. |
| 00:19:25:05 | Something out of Star Wars kind of thing. |
| 00:19:28:12 | The Warrior weighs 200 tonnes. |
| 00:19:31:11 | Right now they’re doing the preliminary hook-up. |
| 00:19:34:00 | They’re positioning all the rigging |
| 00:19:36:16 | and getting the vessel completely prepared to lift. |
| 00:19:42:15 | It’s a complicated lift; |
| 00:19:43:20 | it’s a tandem lift between two cranes. |
| 00:19:48:21 | Every movement that’s made by one crane |
| 00:19:50:09 | has to be counteracted by the other, |
| 00:19:52:05 | to ensure that the distance between the rigging |
| 00:19:54:24 | doesn’t change at all. |
| 00:19:56:13 | Everything has to go perfect, |
| 00:19:58:19 | has to be perfectly under control the entire time, |
| 00:20:01:05 | or it’ll undo like a zipper. |
| 00:20:06:00 | Three years of hard work. |
| 00:20:08:03 | A lot of money. |
| 00:20:10:20 | There ya go. |
| 00:20:11:15 | First multi-cat in North America |
| 00:20:13:02 | just touched the water. |
| 00:20:15:21 | NARRATOR: But once it arrived, |
| 00:20:17:19 | the Warrior needed to be retro-fitted |
| 00:20:19:23 | to make it street legal for work |
| 00:20:21:18 | 320 kilometers out at sea. |
| 00:20:25:16 | They added a lifeboat and a crane, |
| 00:20:27:22 | modified the air intake, |
| 00:20:29:18 | and expanded the crew quarters |
| 00:20:31:11 | from four berths to ten. |
| 00:20:34:13 | ROBIN: So we’re down below deck on the Warrior. |
| 00:20:36:17 | This is the Captain’s cabin here. |
| 00:20:38:10 | As you can see, very spacious and luxurious. |
| 00:20:41:17 | This is our second area in here. |
| 00:20:44:10 | This is a two-person cabin. |
| 00:20:46:21 | In here, this is the cattle car. |
| 00:20:48:14 | Four bunks in this room. |
| 00:20:50:03 | So this is nice and cozy. |
| 00:20:51:13 | NARRATOR: The Warrior even has a special spot |
| 00:20:53:13 | for a key member of the Dominion family. |
| 00:20:56:05 | ROBIN: This is the most important part |
| 00:20:57:07 | of the boat right here, this is the galley. |
| 00:20:59:18 | And this is the most important person on the boat. |
| 00:21:01:21 | This is the cook, Carolyn Lohnes, |
| 00:21:03:15 | just happens to be my sister. |
| 00:21:05:10 | [LAUGHTER] |
| 00:21:09:10 | ROBIN: This is the engine room down here. |
| 00:21:13:02 | These are tier two emissions rated engines |
| 00:21:17:01 | and they’re each kicking out 600 horsepower. |
| 00:21:20:00 | Both these engines were rebuilt completely |
| 00:21:23:10 | from the bottom to the top at time of purchase. |
| 00:21:26:07 | As you go down through here, |
| 00:21:28:09 | these are our two generators. |
| 00:21:31:04 | We move through here, the centerpiece |
| 00:21:33:01 | of the whole vessel as far as controls go. |
| 00:21:35:10 | This is all your electrical supply |
| 00:21:37:08 | and control and distribution, |
| 00:21:39:07 | this wall that we’re looking at here, |
| 00:21:41:17 | this is the fuel tank. |
| 00:21:43:04 | These are your fuel gauges, |
| 00:21:44:17 | good old-fashioned sight glasses. |
| 00:21:47:01 | This thing holds about 50 tonnes of fuel. |
| 00:21:49:04 | This vessel can run at full power for almost a month |
| 00:21:51:15 | with the fuel and the water that it has available. |
| 00:21:55:17 | This vessel only draws two meters of water. |
| 00:21:59:04 | So, a little bit bigger than me deep in the water, |
| 00:22:03:07 | and we’re able to carry a hundred tonnes of cargo. |
| 00:22:06:23 | It’s pretty amazing. |
| 00:22:08:07 | A lot happening here in a small package. |
| 00:22:11:19 | NARRATOR: The warrior’s been on active duty |
| 00:22:13:06 | with Dominion for about a year now, |
| 00:22:15:17 | but neither Matt or Robin |
| 00:22:17:11 | has actually taken it out on a job. |
| 00:22:19:16 | MATT: You ready to go find some stuff? |
| 00:22:21:02 | LARAE: Oh yeah. |
| 00:22:21:21 | NARRATOR: That changes today. |
| 00:22:24:14 | MATT: We’re gonna go after another anchor. |
| 00:22:27:05 | ROBIN: The anchor weighs about six tonnes, |
| 00:22:29:11 | so the only vessel that we’ve got |
| 00:22:31:16 | that’s got handling gear to handle that |
| 00:22:33:14 | is the Warrior. |
| 00:22:35:05 | NARRATOR: They’re putting together a team |
| 00:22:36:14 | of Dominion’s top ranks for a scavenger hunt |
| 00:22:39:17 | in search of an old family heirloom. |
| 00:22:43:00 | ROBIN: It’s an anchor that the old man lost |
| 00:22:45:05 | years and years ago. |
| 00:22:46:09 | MATT: Way back in the day, my father lost an anchor |
| 00:22:49:10 | and recorded the coordinates. |
| 00:22:51:08 | ROBIN: A five or six tonne anchor |
| 00:22:53:02 | might be 10 or 15 grand |
| 00:22:54:20 | if you had to go and buy one brand new. |
| 00:22:58:05 | MATT: With the Warrior, Herbie, Sean, |
| 00:23:01:02 | Robin, LaRae, |
| 00:23:03:05 | this is a fun family outing is what this is, |
| 00:23:05:20 | and we’re gonna go get Dad’s anchor back. |
| 00:23:09:00 | NARRATOR: On its way out of Duck Rock, |
| 00:23:10:23 | you can see the Warrior appears a little different |
| 00:23:13:13 | from the rest of Dominion’s fleet. |
| 00:23:15:16 | ROBIN: It kinda resembles a barge that’s self-propelled. |
| 00:23:18:02 | NARRATOR: But its flat bottom and square sides |
| 00:23:20:17 | are what keeps it stable on the rockiest of waters. |
| 00:23:24:13 | And with the deck barely four feet above the waterline, |
| 00:23:27:23 | waves crashing aboard is a fact of life. |
| 00:23:31:10 | ROBIN: You don’t try to keep all the water off the deck, |
| 00:23:33:08 | they’re designed to operate with a lot of water |
| 00:23:35:21 | all around them, you know what I mean? |
| 00:23:37:16 | They don’t stay up above the water. |
| 00:23:39:08 | A lot of water will pass over its deck. |
| 00:23:42:03 | NARRATOR: But it’s the crane at the bow |
| 00:23:43:12 | that’s this boat’s real muscle. |
| 00:23:45:15 | It can lift up to 30 tonnes. |
| 00:23:49:05 | It’s a telescopic crane, |
| 00:23:51:03 | which means it can extend up to 15 meters, |
| 00:23:54:16 | and even at full height, it can still lift 11 tonnes. |
| 00:23:58:05 | To support all that weight, |
| 00:24:00:10 | a thick column extends all the way through the boat |
| 00:24:03:11 | and connects to the shell plating. |
| 00:24:05:11 | ROBIN: It kinda makes the boat, |
| 00:24:06:15 | because it just gives you the ability to |
| 00:24:08:11 | handle stuff on deck, overboarding large items. |
| 00:24:11:08 | It’s a really nice little system. |
| 00:24:15:19 | NARRATOR: Once they arrive on the location |
| 00:24:17:12 | of the long-gone anchor, |
| 00:24:18:23 | Robin can finally get this crane into action |
| 00:24:22:07 | and drop their own anchor. |
| 00:24:24:06 | ROBIN: So, what the crane’s going to do |
| 00:24:25:12 | is just put it over the edge, |
| 00:24:27:07 | then we’re gonna lower it down with the winch, |
| 00:24:29:04 | with the deck winch over the deck roller. |
| 00:24:32:02 | NARRATOR: They get their massive clump weight anchor |
| 00:24:34:08 | into the water, |
| 00:24:36:12 | but then change the cable over |
| 00:24:38:09 | to the 25 tonne deck winch. |
| 00:24:42:00 | Now they wait. |
| 00:24:45:01 | It’s a long wait. |
| 00:24:46:20 | They’re out on the open ocean now |
| 00:24:49:01 | and staring down at the depths below. |
| 00:24:53:23 | MATT: The depth is our biggest obstacle. |
| 00:24:56:07 | We’re at 64 meters. |
| 00:24:58:11 | That’s beyond any normal diving limits. |
| 00:25:02:15 | Yes, there are divers that have done it in the past, |
| 00:25:05:04 | but not… not our divers. |
| 00:25:08:15 | I won’t… we will not allow |
| 00:25:10:17 | that danger for our divers. |
| 00:25:14:05 | To do it in a safer manner, |
| 00:25:15:23 | you’d have to use mixed gasses and chambers |
| 00:25:18:24 | and that’s a whole other program. |
| 00:25:20:21 | NARRATOR: But it’s only a $20,000 anchor. |
| 00:25:23:21 | To do this job with divers, |
| 00:25:25:16 | you’d spend ten times that. |
| 00:25:27:16 | MATT: Now that $20,000 |
| 00:25:29:01 | doesn’t look so shiny any more. |
| 00:25:31:04 | NARRATOR: So instead of divers, |
| 00:25:33:06 | they’re bringing out the Chinook, |
| 00:25:35:02 | their trusty workhorse, with a six digit price tag. |
| 00:25:38:11 | ROBIN: We’re gonna go down, just with the ROV free-flying, |
| 00:25:41:03 | and have a look. |
| 00:25:42:11 | NARRATOR: Shawn launches the ROV. |
| 00:25:45:21 | Now LaRae takes centre stage. |
| 00:25:48:20 | She flies the ROV straight down to the bottom, |
| 00:25:51:12 | where no light penetrates. |
| 00:25:55:08 | The ROV lights reveal something totally unexpected. |
| 00:25:59:02 | MATT: Next thing you know, |
| 00:26:01:00 | Uncle Matt, come take a look. |
| 00:26:07:03 | I go inside. |
| 00:26:08:15 | Right fast we figured out why the anchor is lost. |
| 00:26:11:21 | What it got snaggled on. |
| 00:26:13:15 | It’s a shipwreck! |
| 00:26:16:08 | NARRATOR: They were looking for a single anchor, |
| 00:26:19:10 | but it looks like Dominion may have gotten |
| 00:26:21:23 | a lot more than they bargained for. |
| 00:26:32:20 | NARRATOR: Forty years ago, |
| 00:26:34:06 | Matt and Robin’s dad lost an anchor |
| 00:26:36:16 | in this precise location, |
| 00:26:38:13 | at the mouth of the harbour. |
| 00:26:41:12 | Now his sons want to salvage it |
| 00:26:43:21 | and put it back into use. |
| 00:26:46:11 | They found the anchor. |
| 00:26:48:10 | LARAE: Your anchor’s right here. |
| 00:26:51:13 | NARRATOR: But that’s not all they found. |
| 00:26:55:15 | ROBIN: It made perfect sense what it got lodged in, |
| 00:26:57:18 | and why it got stuck there in the first place. |
| 00:26:59:09 | It was a shipwreck |
| 00:27:00:10 | that was located right there. |
| 00:27:02:10 | NARRATOR: This is one of the oldest |
| 00:27:03:19 | settled harbours in North America. |
| 00:27:06:17 | And its deepest depths are a graveyard |
| 00:27:08:21 | for centuries of ships, |
| 00:27:11:05 | at least 50 we know about, |
| 00:27:13:04 | and countless more still undiscovered. |
| 00:27:16:20 | But one thing’s for sure, |
| 00:27:18:19 | retrieving this anchor |
| 00:27:19:24 | just got a whole helluva lot more difficult. |
| 00:27:24:16 | ROBIN: Shipwrecks and ROV’s just don’t mix all that well, |
| 00:27:27:17 | mainly because because of |
| 00:27:28:16 | the cord that’s going down there. |
| 00:27:30:00 | I mean, there’s a million different |
| 00:27:30:23 | snags and hazards down there. |
| 00:27:32:20 | MATT: Okay. We got a lot of jagged metal. |
| 00:27:35:17 | Lots of fishing rope, |
| 00:27:38:01 | ropes from the vessel itself. |
| 00:27:40:07 | We’re still now gonna get our anchor back, |
| 00:27:42:13 | but we’ve got this other level of hazards |
| 00:27:45:12 | that we’ve gotta identify and work with. |
| 00:27:47:10 | NARRATOR: They have a plan, |
| 00:27:48:22 | and they’re sticking to it. |
| 00:27:50:20 | MATT: LaRae came up with this unique tool, |
| 00:27:53:10 | that folds and then springs open |
| 00:27:56:10 | when it’s on the opposite side of the shackle |
| 00:27:59:04 | that’s on the anchor. |
| 00:28:00:10 | ROBIN: It’s a spring-loaded hook |
| 00:28:02:06 | that allows the rope of the buoy or the float |
| 00:28:06:11 | to be on the other side of the loop, and come up. |
| 00:28:08:24 | SHAWN: So, the ROV’s gonna fly down, |
| 00:28:12:10 | and LaRae’s gonna stab this unit, |
| 00:28:14:15 | she’ll back the ROV up, |
| 00:28:16:24 | and we’re gonna be left with this, |
| 00:28:18:20 | with a rope |
| 00:28:20:11 | tied on the end here. |
| 00:28:22:18 | NARRATOR: LaRae then has to dislodge the custom tool, |
| 00:28:26:12 | swinging Chinook around to catch a loop of rope |
| 00:28:29:08 | with a metal hook attached to the ROV. |
| 00:28:32:16 | It’s the same idea as threading a sewing needle, |
| 00:28:35:10 | but done with an underwater robot. |
| 00:28:38:20 | SHAWN: Take that up to the surface, |
| 00:28:40:11 | and that will establish a rope, a running line, |
| 00:28:42:18 | down through the shackle, back up to the surface. |
| 00:28:45:02 | NARRATOR: But that’s just the first rope |
| 00:28:47:04 | of a three-rope maneuver. |
| 00:28:49:00 | MATT: You hook that rope to the bigger rope, |
| 00:28:51:04 | which would be the one inch. |
| 00:28:52:13 | NARRATOR: The crew will then pull a one-inch rope |
| 00:28:54:22 | back through the shackle, |
| 00:28:57:15 | finally tying rope number three, |
| 00:28:59:24 | which is actually a one and a half inch steel cable. |
| 00:29:05:02 | MATT: That’s hooked to a 50 tonne winch. |
| 00:29:07:21 | That is gonna be our main lifting cable. |
| 00:29:10:19 | Once we get that down through the shackle |
| 00:29:12:18 | of the anchor, |
| 00:29:14:12 | we can start bringing it back up |
| 00:29:16:06 | with the anchor in tow. |
| 00:29:18:15 | NARRATOR: It’s a totally hair-brained scheme, |
| 00:29:21:06 | but it might just be crazy enough to work. |
| 00:29:25:05 | ROBIN: One, two, three. |
| 00:29:29:01 | NARRATOR: From the control room, |
| 00:29:30:16 | LaRae flies Chinook down onto the shipwreck. |
| 00:29:34:00 | MATT: How are you making out? |
| 00:29:34:19 | LARAE: Good. |
| 00:29:37:17 | Okay, I’m going in for it. |
| 00:29:40:05 | MATT: No pressure. Ahh, LaRae! |
| 00:29:42:15 | [CHUCKLES] |
| 00:29:44:05 | LARAE: It’s not side-slipping very well right now. |
| 00:29:46:02 | MATT: No. |
| 00:29:47:15 | LARAE: It’s not turning very well at all, |
| 00:29:49:00 | to be honest with you. |
| 00:29:50:12 | MATT: It’s the depth. |
| 00:29:52:03 | You got currents, you’ve got sea swell. |
| 00:29:54:16 | You got everything pulling and moving you around, |
| 00:29:57:05 | throwing the ROV around. |
| 00:29:58:15 | So you’re trying to control |
| 00:30:00:07 | the out of control effects that are happening. |
| 00:30:03:23 | It’s right there. You can see it. |
| 00:30:05:07 | We have to go for it. |
| 00:30:09:05 | LARAE: Ahh, fuck! |
| 00:30:11:03 | NARRATOR: LaRae’s floating all around it, |
| 00:30:13:06 | but she can’t hook it. |
| 00:30:14:16 | LARAE: It’s pulling me all over the place. |
| 00:30:18:15 | NARRATOR: Matt’s eager for a turn at the controls. |
| 00:30:21:20 | MATT: You want me to try? |
| 00:30:22:16 | LARAE: Yeah. MATT: Okay. |
| 00:30:24:05 | NARRATOR: Finally, he steps in. |
| 00:30:35:17 | NARRATOR: But Matt isn’t faring much better. |
| 00:30:38:12 | The ROV’s bouncing around like a bucking bronco. |
| 00:30:43:15 | LARAE: There is quite a swell down there. |
| 00:30:46:10 | SHAWN: How’s it going, Matt? |
| 00:30:48:15 | MATT: Ahhh, it’s a bit of a bastard. |
| 00:30:52:00 | Soon as I get near it, |
| 00:30:54:03 | it starts going wonky on me. |
| 00:30:55:15 | NARRATOR: Matt comes close, but too close. |
| 00:30:59:05 | He makes contact with the anchor, |
| 00:31:01:09 | dislodging the spring tool. |
| 00:31:04:20 | Round one ends. |
| 00:31:06:08 | Advantage anchor. |
| 00:31:10:22 | With Chinook back onboard, |
| 00:31:12:12 | they need to modify the tool’s design, |
| 00:31:15:01 | so it’ll only dislodge when they want it to. |
| 00:31:17:23 | MATT: You don’t want too much resistance |
| 00:31:19:07 | where the ROV can’t pull away from it, |
| 00:31:21:12 | but you don’t want too little resistance |
| 00:31:23:04 | so it keeps falling out. |
| 00:31:25:04 | So we just added zip ties, some resistance, |
| 00:31:27:20 | and another layer of black tape. |
| 00:31:30:08 | NARRATOR: Thank god for black electrical tape. |
| 00:31:33:19 | Back she goes. |
| 00:31:35:10 | MATT: …three. |
| 00:31:38:00 | NARRATOR: LaRae’s at the control once again, |
| 00:31:41:00 | gaining confidence, she almost gets it. |
| 00:31:44:03 | LARAE: [GROANS] |
| 00:31:47:00 | NARRATOR: And then… |
| 00:31:48:09 | MATT: Yeah, baby! |
| 00:31:50:02 | NARRATOR: …she hits it. |
| 00:31:52:05 | But there’s a problem. |
| 00:31:55:10 | MATT: It’s a lot bigger than we thought it is. |
| 00:31:57:13 | NARRATOR: The shackle’s too large for their tool. |
| 00:32:00:12 | The anchor wins the second round too. |
| 00:32:02:23 | LARAE: No, it came out! God dammit! |
| 00:32:06:06 | MATT: All right. Pull ‘er up. |
| 00:32:10:05 | NARRATOR: Even more modifications are needed. |
| 00:32:13:10 | SHAWN: You were close, were ya? |
| 00:32:14:08 | MATT: We were in it. |
| 00:32:15:12 | You can go in like that, Robin, |
| 00:32:16:20 | and you won’t touch either side. |
| 00:32:18:10 | NARRATOR: Once again, it’s black tape to the rescue. |
| 00:32:21:16 | They extend the wingspan |
| 00:32:23:11 | of the spring-loaded grappling tool. |
| 00:32:25:10 | ROBIN: Try that, homie. |
| 00:32:27:05 | NARRATOR: The never-say-die Dominion crew |
| 00:32:29:22 | is ready for round three. |
| 00:32:34:15 | LaRae’s back in command. |
| 00:32:37:00 | LARAE: Ay, fucker! |
| 00:32:38:10 | NARRATOR: She’s a born and raised sea dog, |
| 00:32:40:10 | just like her uncles Matt and Robin… |
| 00:32:42:10 | MATT: Listen to your potty mouth! |
| 00:32:43:16 | NARRATOR: …so cursing like a sailor’s in her DNA. |
| 00:32:46:15 | LARAE: God dammit! |
| 00:32:49:15 | LARAE: Could it be? MATT: Could it be? |
| 00:32:53:20 | LARAE: It’s pushing me, eh? MATT: Yeah. |
| 00:32:56:00 | LARAE: Ahhhh! See? [CHUCKLES] |
| 00:32:59:16 | Am I allowed to swear? |
| 00:33:02:02 | NARRATOR: But flying an ROV runs in her blood too. |
| 00:33:09:00 | MATT: Right now, we got it inside the… |
| 00:33:12:10 | …shank. |
| 00:33:15:10 | NARRATOR: They got it through the shackle, |
| 00:33:17:06 | but now the tool won’t dislodge. |
| 00:33:20:08 | Maybe a little too much of that trusty black tape. |
| 00:33:23:20 | MATT: Now we’re trying to get it to release the ROV, |
| 00:33:27:01 | so that we can go around the opposite side |
| 00:33:28:20 | and grab it with the hook, |
| 00:33:30:19 | and drag it to the surface. |
| 00:33:33:17 | NARRATOR: LaRae alternates quickly |
| 00:33:34:23 | between forward and reverse, |
| 00:33:36:23 | like trying to free a tire that’s stuck in the mud. |
| 00:33:46:10 | LARAE: There we go. |
| 00:33:47:10 | MATT: Ahh! We’re released! We’re released! |
| 00:33:51:20 | So now we got the task of hooking the loop. |
| 00:33:56:00 | NARRATOR: They finally got the anchor on the ropes, |
| 00:33:58:22 | but this fight’s only just begun. |
| 00:34:04:08 | NARRATOR: The Dominion brothers |
| 00:34:05:10 | are fishing for an anchor |
| 00:34:07:11 | from one of their Dad’s old ships. |
| 00:34:10:04 | MATT: See how big it is, Robin? |
| 00:34:11:07 | ROBIN: Yeah. |
| 00:34:12:10 | MATT: It’s not tiny. |
| 00:34:13:15 | But we have established the quarter inch rope |
| 00:34:15:16 | through the anchor. |
| 00:34:17:16 | We gotta make the ROV now |
| 00:34:19:06 | go to the opposite side, |
| 00:34:20:20 | to grab onto it |
| 00:34:22:01 | and bring it to the surface. |
| 00:34:23:10 | Try to go in behind it, |
| 00:34:25:19 | and pull the hook up. |
| 00:34:26:20 | NARRATOR: But operating the ROV |
| 00:34:28:07 | in blustery underwater conditions, |
| 00:34:30:12 | is taking a toll on LaRae. |
| 00:34:32:07 | LARAE: Man, I’m so close! It’s literally right there! |
| 00:34:34:18 | MATT: Can I try a couple of things? |
| 00:34:36:06 | LARAE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 00:34:39:10 | NARRATOR: Matt takes a turn, |
| 00:34:40:23 | and gets lucky right off the hop. |
| 00:34:45:07 | MATT: Got it. |
| 00:34:46:15 | MATT: Got it. Got it. |
| 00:34:48:00 | NARRATOR: But then, |
| 00:34:49:05 | everything starts falling apart. |
| 00:34:51:00 | LARAE: Have you still got it? |
| 00:34:52:05 | MATT: Oh yeah. But it’s not coming up. |
| 00:34:54:05 | NARRATOR: The rope isn’t budging. |
| 00:34:57:05 | The messenger line they’re trying to bring to the surface |
| 00:34:59:15 | must be caught up on the shipwreck. |
| 00:35:01:13 | LARAE: You guys want to start coming in on the ROV tether? |
| 00:35:04:20 | NARRATOR: LaRae asks Robin and Sean |
| 00:35:06:09 | to pull up on the umbilical, to loosen the slack. |
| 00:35:11:16 | LARAE: Keep coming in on tether. |
| 00:35:13:10 | ROBIN: We’re pulling pretty hard on it, |
| 00:35:14:08 | it’s not coming. |
| 00:35:15:08 | NARRATOR: But it’s a delicate balance. |
| 00:35:17:16 | If they pull out the umbilical cord, |
| 00:35:20:09 | this hundred thousand dollar ROV is sunk. |
| 00:35:26:20 | MATT: There we go. There we go, there we go. |
| 00:35:28:15 | LARAE: All right. Come in on tether, quickly. |
| 00:35:31:00 | NARRATOR: Matt’s hooked in, |
| 00:35:32:16 | but the rope’s caught up. |
| 00:35:34:17 | There’s so much resistance |
| 00:35:36:07 | the hook begins to straighten out. |
| 00:35:40:05 | And then, things get worse. |
| 00:35:42:01 | MATT: Whoaaa! |
| 00:35:43:00 | LARAE: Hold on rope fast. |
| 00:35:45:22 | MATT: That’s not exactly what I wanted to happen. |
| 00:35:48:12 | Now it’s almost that the messenger line |
| 00:35:51:18 | is threaded backwards. |
| 00:35:53:18 | LARAE: We’re gonna lose it. |
| 00:35:55:00 | MATT: We’re snaggled on something. |
| 00:35:57:15 | NARRATOR: Matt tries to salvage the situation, |
| 00:35:59:23 | but the bent hook is too out of shape. |
| 00:36:03:03 | It slips out of the loop. |
| 00:36:05:02 | MATT: Come back up with the ROV. |
| 00:36:07:15 | LARAE: Recovery ROV. |
| 00:36:09:12 | NARRATOR: As they pull the ROV in, |
| 00:36:11:18 | Matt can see the problem. |
| 00:36:13:10 | The messenger line’s all tangled up |
| 00:36:15:13 | with a piece of the shipwreck. |
| 00:36:20:00 | They need a new plan, and quick. |
| 00:36:23:10 | They’re losing ground by the second. |
| 00:36:26:01 | MATT: Let’s pray that that rope stays there, |
| 00:36:28:05 | and we can grab it and bring it to the surface. |
| 00:36:30:04 | NARRATOR: The retrieval hook was bent |
| 00:36:31:18 | from the strain of pulling. |
| 00:36:33:03 | MATT: Yeah, just kinda bend that around. |
| 00:36:35:02 | Curl it right around. |
| 00:36:37:07 | NARRATOR: Luckily, they can fabricate a new one. |
| 00:36:40:01 | All the grinders and welders they need |
| 00:36:41:23 | are already onboard. |
| 00:36:48:11 | LaRae attaches the new tool to the ROV, |
| 00:36:51:15 | but Robin has serious reservations about Matt’s plan. |
| 00:36:55:11 | MATT: This here, if we hook onto the rope… |
| 00:36:56:20 | ROBIN: We had slack in the rope up here on the surface, |
| 00:36:59:20 | and we couldn’t pull and that umbilical was going tight. |
| 00:37:02:00 | That’s what I’m saying. |
| 00:37:03:04 | Let’s say you get on the rope, |
| 00:37:05:06 | and the rope is caught on something… |
| 00:37:06:10 | LARAE: Yeah. |
| 00:37:07:05 | ROBIN: … what do you do? |
| 00:37:08:20 | What do you do with your ROV? |
| 00:37:11:10 | NARRATOR: Robin’s getting nervous. |
| 00:37:13:01 | If their prized ROV gets tangled again, |
| 00:37:15:24 | and they can’t retrieve it, |
| 00:37:17:18 | they’re flushing over a hundred grand |
| 00:37:19:16 | into the ocean. |
| 00:37:22:05 | Nobody wants that. |
| 00:37:24:08 | So Matt makes some adjustments, |
| 00:37:25:24 | opening the hook to make it easier to free |
| 00:37:28:16 | if necessary. |
| 00:37:30:20 | MATT: All right. |
| 00:37:32:01 | Let’s go and give ‘er another go. |
| 00:37:34:21 | NARRATOR: But as Chinook goes into the water, |
| 00:37:37:01 | Matt knows he’s into the final round. |
| 00:37:42:15 | LaRae takes it to the bottom. |
| 00:37:44:10 | LARAE: I love this little ROV so much. |
| 00:37:46:10 | I really do. |
| 00:37:48:01 | NARRATOR: She’s got her bearings now, |
| 00:37:49:23 | and quickly lands next to the anchor. |
| 00:37:52:02 | MATT: Right now we’re trying to re-establish |
| 00:37:53:21 | connection to the hook, |
| 00:37:57:10 | through the opposite side of the shank. |
| 00:37:59:05 | LARAE: Basically we’re trying to hook the hook. |
| 00:38:01:13 | MATT: Yeah, we’re trying to hook the hook with the hook, |
| 00:38:03:15 | so we can get up through the hook. |
| 00:38:05:20 | Once we get that, |
| 00:38:07:04 | then we can start thrusting up and try to… |
| 00:38:09:09 | there we go. |
| 00:38:12:10 | And start coming up on the… |
| 00:38:13:13 | LARAE: Ayy, fucker! |
| 00:38:14:20 | NARRATOR: LaRae’s frustrated. |
| 00:38:16:22 | Stronger hook or not, |
| 00:38:18:05 | they’re still caught up. |
| 00:38:21:10 | If they’re gonna make any progress, |
| 00:38:23:08 | they need to untangle the messenger line |
| 00:38:25:09 | from the shipwreck. |
| 00:38:28:00 | MATT: With the entanglement, |
| 00:38:29:02 | we don’t have the full range of motion with the ROV. |
| 00:38:33:12 | NARRATOR: Untying it is like trying to untie a knot |
| 00:38:37:08 | with only one hand, under water. |
| 00:38:41:19 | The whole operation’s turned into a spectator sport, |
| 00:38:44:12 | and the fans are getting restless. |
| 00:38:47:12 | Especially Robin. |
| 00:38:49:05 | ROBIN: All kinds of fun. |
| 00:38:51:03 | When you have a diver down there, |
| 00:38:52:10 | he has a larger field of view. |
| 00:38:54:20 | He has more dexterity. |
| 00:38:56:09 | He can do all kinds of stuff. |
| 00:38:58:06 | With an ROV, the field of view is very small, |
| 00:39:01:00 | so its hard to get a general spatial awareness |
| 00:39:03:15 | for everything that’s going on down there. |
| 00:39:05:10 | When they get themselves snagged, |
| 00:39:07:15 | that’s a major problem. |
| 00:39:08:15 | LARAE: Ahh, it’s wrapped underneath. |
| 00:39:10:09 | MATT: That’s all right. |
| 00:39:11:05 | LARAE: There you go. |
| 00:39:14:06 | LARAE: It’s hooked under that corner there too. |
| 00:39:16:06 | HERBIE: Woo-hoo! |
| 00:39:18:13 | LARAE: I’m having a hard time |
| 00:39:19:04 | even just pulling this rope, right? |
| 00:39:21:11 | NARRATOR: The more LaRae tries to free the rope, |
| 00:39:23:15 | the more tangled it gets. |
| 00:39:25:19 | LARAE: So, I don’t know what it is caught under it. |
| 00:39:28:10 | It’s caught under something. |
| 00:39:30:10 | MATT: So you’ve gotta come underneath that, this coil, |
| 00:39:33:00 | so if you come over here and go down, thrust down, |
| 00:39:35:23 | you’ll get a different angle on it. |
| 00:39:37:22 | NARRATOR: Finally, she frees Chinook from the wreck |
| 00:39:41:15 | but things just keep getting worse. |
| 00:39:44:06 | MATT: We’re now entangled around the rope. |
| 00:39:47:20 | NARRATOR: The ROV umbilical |
| 00:39:49:08 | is wound up with the messenger line. |
| 00:39:51:10 | It’s too short of a leash. |
| 00:39:52:24 | MATT: We can’t seem to move the ROV. |
| 00:39:54:20 | We have a problem here. |
| 00:39:56:09 | We just don’t have the full range of motion |
| 00:39:58:00 | with the system. |
| 00:39:59:05 | NARRATOR: At this point, |
| 00:40:00:10 | they aren’t trying to retrieve the anchor anymore, |
| 00:40:03:00 | they’re just trying to save the ROV. |
| 00:40:04:22 | Matt takes control of the sticks. |
| 00:40:07:23 | MATT: LaRae’s one of my best pilots. |
| 00:40:09:20 | I have full confidence |
| 00:40:11:08 | in what she’s able to do with that ROV, |
| 00:40:13:08 | but I’ve been doing ROV’s for 20 plus years. |
| 00:40:16:08 | When shit’s hittin’ the fan, |
| 00:40:18:15 | I gotta be the one taking responsibility for it. |
| 00:40:21:10 | So if that ROV’s gonna be lost, |
| 00:40:23:17 | I would like to be the one that’s taking the heat |
| 00:40:25:10 | for something that I did. |
| 00:40:27:00 | NARRATOR: Can they salvage this mission? |
| 00:40:29:13 | Or is Chinook doomed |
| 00:40:31:00 | to join the watery graveyard below? |
| 00:40:39:10 | NARRATOR: Matt and Robin have gone the distance |
| 00:40:41:10 | in a non-stop battle to retrieve their dad’s anchor. |
| 00:40:45:12 | LARAE: So your anchor is right here. |
| 00:40:47:00 | NARRATOR: It was supposed to be a fun family outing, |
| 00:40:50:11 | but nothing’s gone right. |
| 00:40:52:03 | MATT: Whoaaa!! |
| 00:40:53:05 | LARAE: Out on rope fast. |
| 00:40:54:07 | NARRATOR: Ocean currents have made operating the ROV |
| 00:40:56:24 | nearly impossible. |
| 00:40:58:20 | LARAE: It’s like pushing me, eh? |
| 00:41:00:13 | NARRATOR: Their lines are tangled up |
| 00:41:01:20 | with the jagged metal of the shipwreck, |
| 00:41:04:10 | and they’ve had to modify plans |
| 00:41:06:06 | at every stage of the way. |
| 00:41:08:21 | ROBIN: Try that, homie. |
| 00:41:10:08 | NARRATOR: Now the ROV’s umbilical’s tied up |
| 00:41:12:05 | with the messenger line they hooked earlier. |
| 00:41:14:23 | They need to rescue the ROV |
| 00:41:17:14 | from the brink of disaster. |
| 00:41:20:03 | And that burden rests entirely on Matt’s shoulders. |
| 00:41:24:20 | ROBIN: That’s what he does. Matt will sit down, |
| 00:41:26:10 | and take his time and untangle itself |
| 00:41:29:15 | and that’s pretty neat to watch. |
| 00:41:31:00 | He’s a top-notch operator. |
| 00:41:33:04 | NARRATOR: He disentangles just enough |
| 00:41:35:04 | to give himself a little room to maneuver, |
| 00:41:38:02 | and resumes the hunt for the missing anchor. |
| 00:41:41:08 | MATT: So now we’re gonna go after |
| 00:41:43:00 | trying to re-establish a connection point |
| 00:41:47:00 | with the ROV. |
| 00:41:48:21 | NARRATOR: But with all the tugging on the messenger line |
| 00:41:51:16 | it’s just barely protruding out the eye. |
| 00:41:54:21 | MATT: [SIGHS] |
| 00:41:56:03 | The slightest little touch |
| 00:41:58:21 | could change this project. |
| 00:42:01:01 | Okay. |
| 00:42:03:07 | What’s the worst that can happen? |
| 00:42:04:15 | Fall down through? Go to the seabed? |
| 00:42:07:10 | Nothing’s gonna happen if we don’t do something now. |
| 00:42:09:20 | Time’s a-ticking. |
| 00:42:10:20 | We’re gonna go in, |
| 00:42:13:05 | we’re gonna grab it, |
| 00:42:14:08 | we’re gonna bring it to surface. |
| 00:42:17:05 | NARRATOR: Matt tries desperately to control the ROV, |
| 00:42:20:00 | but it’s bobbing and weaving in the current |
| 00:42:22:04 | like a prizefighter in their prime. |
| 00:42:26:10 | He nudges it the wrong way, |
| 00:42:28:22 | and LaRae’s carefully crafted hook |
| 00:42:30:23 | slips through the anchor ring |
| 00:42:32:20 | and heads for the bottom. |
| 00:42:34:20 | MATT: We did exactly what I was hoping wouldn’t happen. |
| 00:42:39:05 | We touched the rope and the tool in such a way, |
| 00:42:42:23 | that it dropped through and went to the seabed. |
| 00:42:45:11 | LARAE: Oh, what?! |
| 00:42:47:05 | MATT: No, I didn’t get it. |
| 00:42:49:07 | So, that there is pretty much it for us |
| 00:42:53:04 | with what we’re doing now. |
| 00:42:54:21 | LARAE: In on the rope, quickly. |
| 00:42:57:06 | ROBIN: Okay. Do you want it pulled right up? |
| 00:42:59:10 | LARAE: Yeah. Pull it up. |
| 00:43:01:15 | MATT: I don’t think it’s gonna happen today. |
| 00:43:05:15 | NARRATOR: They pull the ROV up |
| 00:43:07:15 | and untangle the messenger line from the umbilical. |
| 00:43:10:15 | ROBIN: Risk or reward, Matthew. |
| 00:43:12:04 | MATT: Yeah. |
| 00:43:13:13 | ROBIN: And we’ve proven that the risk is too high. |
| 00:43:16:09 | So that’s that. |
| 00:43:18:04 | You’re gonna lose that, |
| 00:43:20:01 | and you’re not gonna get what you came here to get. |
| 00:43:22:20 | One of the two or both. |
| 00:43:26:05 | NARRATOR: It’s a tough pill to swallow, |
| 00:43:28:16 | but big brother Robin knows the math on this operation, |
| 00:43:32:00 | is just not adding up. |
| 00:43:34:22 | ROBIN: That ROV right there, |
| 00:43:35:23 | is worth about 10 times what that anchor is worth, |
| 00:43:38:10 | so we’re gonna call it. |
| 00:43:39:16 | We’re gonna knock it on the head for today. |
| 00:43:42:10 | NARRATOR: But the fun isn’t over yet. |
| 00:43:45:10 | They pull up their clump weight anchor, |
| 00:43:47:05 | to discover a badly frayed cable. |
| 00:43:50:20 | They were this close to losing their own anchor. |
| 00:43:54:20 | ROBIN: Man, oh man, oh man. |
| 00:43:57:10 | Okay. |
| 00:43:59:00 | Whoa! |
| 00:44:00:10 | Stop. |
| 00:44:01:08 | NARRATOR: They tie on another cable |
| 00:44:03:15 | hooked up to a second deck winch, |
| 00:44:05:24 | and then carefully pull the anchor aboard. |
| 00:44:16:10 | COREY: Okay Herbie, stop. |
| 00:44:19:00 | NARRATOR: Robin is done with this shipwreck. |
| 00:44:21:15 | ROBIN: This got caught up on some debris on the bottom, |
| 00:44:23:09 | and this is just an example of some of the shit |
| 00:44:25:09 | that’s down there that we’re trying to deal with. |
| 00:44:28:12 | NARRATOR: But as they head home, |
| 00:44:30:03 | Matt and Robin still got anchors on the brain. |
| 00:44:33:10 | ROBIN: I know where there’s a couple more anchors, |
| 00:44:35:11 | this isn’t the last one, we’ll… |
| 00:44:37:15 | we got some tricks up our sleeve |
| 00:44:38:20 | that we can fix this up with. |
| 00:44:41:10 | MATT: At this point here, |
| 00:44:43:20 | we’ll have to regroup, |
| 00:44:46:00 | figure out what we’re gonna do next. |
| 00:44:47:20 | There’s anchors all over the place. |
| 00:44:50:04 | So, maybe when we’re re-kitted, |
| 00:44:53:20 | a different technique, |
| 00:44:56:10 | we’ll go after them ones. |
| 00:44:59:15 | Anchors galore. |
| 00:45:02:15 | NARRATOR: Dominion’s 50-year family business |
| 00:45:05:04 | got started by salvaging back |
| 00:45:07:04 | what the sea steals away. |
| 00:45:09:10 | The boats may be bigger, |
| 00:45:11:13 | and the tech never stops improving, |
| 00:45:13:16 | but the bottom of the ocean’s |
| 00:45:15:13 | just as fierce as ever. |
| 00:45:18:00 | They may lose a battle from time to time, |
| 00:45:20:19 | but winning the war is the real mission |
| 00:45:23:14 | of the Lords of the Ocean. |