
National Geographic: The Search For the Battleship Bismark
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On February 14, 1939,
the massive hull of au
unfinished German warship
slid into the water at Hamburg.
For the Nazi party,
it was a day to celebrate the
country's resurgent military power...
a moment to be savored
by the Fuhrer himself.
Two years later, the ship was
finally ready for action.
When she left port in the
spring of 1941,
the most elegant
and the most dangerous
battleship ever built.
Her name was the Bismarck,
and she was about to become a legend.
Summer, 1988.
Starella leaves Spain,
bound for the North Atlantic...
where the Bismarck sank nearly
half a century ago.
the battleship during her brief moment
on the world's stage
has captured the imagination of almost
everyone who's heard it
including Bob Ballard,
the man who found the Titanic.
Now he's looking for the Bismarck.
Come around... one, five, three.
One, five, three.
I knew the story of the Bismarck,
as a child.
It was an elegant ship, a warship.
It was very much like the Titanic,
in the sense it was on a maiden voyage.
It had such a short life and a very
exciting and violent life.
I mean, it was alive for less
than two weeks at sea.
It's an exciting story.
To find it gives you the opportunity
to retell it to
a new generation of people.
Even before the search begins,
Ballard is feeling the pressure.
Well, if I don't find it,
I'll be disappointed, obviously.
So will a lot of other people.
But, it was sort of
interesting on this one.
When I did the Titanic,
on one believed I would find it.
Now, on one believes
I won't find the Bismarck.
And I don't... I think I preferred
when they didn't think I would find it.
If the Bismarck is as elusive today
as she was half a century ago,
Ballard has his work cut out for him.
Nineteen forty one. Monday, May 19th.
The Bismarck leaves German waters
on her first mission
What her commanders hope will be a
three-month reign of terror
the North Atlantic.
She is a monumental weapon
a sixth of a-mile long,
displacing 53,000 tons.
Her 15-inch guns are aimed with the
help of stereoscopic range finders
and can hurl a one-ton shell
Her crew of over 2,000 men
has been hand-picked
for duty on a ship rumored
to be unsinkable.
Many are 18 or 19 years old,
about to see combat for the first time.
The Bismarck is like a huge cat
waiting to pounce on unsuspecting prey.
But first she must prowl into enemy
Two days out of port the Starella
approaches the Bismarck's
last known position,
Because no one knows exactly
where she sank,
the search could cover nearly a
hundred square miles.
As far as the location of
where the Bismarck was lost,
we have four separate positions.
One was by the Dorsetshire,
which was the ship
that dogged the Bismarck
and then actually dealt the final blow
when it torpedoed it from both sides.
It gives its position over here
Then there's the position of one of
the destroyers
which was over in the western area.
it in the same area.
Then we have a secret document
that puts it even yet in a fourth area.
Ballard is a pioneer
in the use of sophisticated technology
to explore the deep sea.
Over. This is bridge... three,
four, zero, now.
All right. Let's put it in.
take over the control.
Okay, bridge... one, eight, five, three
These transponders will sink to the
seabed and begin to emit
powerful acoustic signals,
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