underwater archaeology

Records the search for the remains of the shipwrecked Santa Mar?ia which brought Columbus to the New World and discusses the historical and archaeological implications of this search.

Dr. Robert Ballard leads an expedition to photograph the wreckage of the R.M.S. Titanic, 2 1/2 miles below the surface of the Atlantic. Includes newsreels and photographs of the Titanic before the wreck.

An account of the final hours and rescue after more than a century of the Confederacy submarine the H.L. Hunley which disappeared off the coast of South Carolina on February 17, 1864, after an encounter with an Union battleship.

Describes some of the important finds in marine archaeology and what they have revealed about ships and the people who built and sailed them.