Soldier's Girl Page #5

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to a mere 200 square miles.

It's very difficult locating shipwrecks.

Un, with all the sophisticated

equipment we have today,

it's still quite a chore.

Keep in mind right now

we're 433 feet above the seafloor,

trying to put a small vehicle

on a shipwreck.

There is no road sign over there.

It has taken Rearden and his colleagues

years of hard work

to reach this point.

Now, using some of the same high tech

tools to Ballard.

They are hoping to claim their fortune

500 feet down.

Yeah. The vehicle is on the bottom.

Roger that, I copy.

The vehicle is on the bottom.

According to Seahawk,

the Golden Eagle, in 1865,

found herself caught in a hurricane

with nowhere to hide.

They fought the storm for two days

all hands and passengers bailing

and bucketing water out.

And finally,

the seas and the weather calmed down,

and it went under.

She went to the bottom,

carrying a bellyful of

gold coins $400,000 at the time,

now valued at 20 million.

Six years of work coming down to a dive

with a remote vehicle and, hopefully,

when we get in on the site,

it'll be the right wreck.

We have a very good sonar images

of the wreck,

and dimensions are almost exact

the same with target vessel

a code name Gold Eagle.

...get the target at the right.

As the ROV descends into

the glittery murk of the deep sea,

project manager Brett Hobson discerns

the ghostly outlines of the past.

That's the beautiful part

of these old wrecks.

They're little time capsules

and nobody's seen it.

And we're just sleuthing

through trying looking for clues.

And it you definitely feel like

a detective.

So far, everything we have seen

is a, telling us it could be the one.

Looking straight down, now, right?

Yes.

We've got the way over there

near the site, OK?

It's very quiet here

and the scenes is very dark.

The light, the first one illuminated

when we went down.

It's a very weird feeling.

As the ROV makes a closer pass,

they see things that don't match.

Round.

Really round.

Well, we've got some very

flat-sided bulwarks here.

See the big cutout going down to

the keel, and the on the right?

I don't know what else it could be.

It looks just like what

I had hoped we would not find.

No paddle wheels I know of

has a propeller like that.

I think we're in trouble.

It's very disappointing at this moment

to be sitting here

with a target that we have pinned high

hopes on and now have proved that it,

it's not the right vessel.

But can't think of the right words

to describe how I'm feeling right now.

It's not good.

It takes time and luck to find

a pot of gold in a vast, deep ocean.

And Reardon has run out of both.

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