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00:00On Isle St. Marie, Madagascar, the atmosphere is tense.
00:13Word of the team's extraordinary fines has spread,
00:16and the Madagascan government has suspended diving
00:19until they've had a chance to take a closer look at Barry Clifford's operation.
00:23After three days without news, morale is at breaking point.
00:30We're all kind of tired from doing nothing.
00:34It's just really freaking ridiculous.
00:37Barry's team is trying to unravel the mystery of how 17th-century pirates
00:44were directly connected to the medieval knight's temple,
00:48in the hope that the answers will lead to long-lost treasure.
00:53The centerpiece of their investigation is a metallic ingot Barry discovered last week.
01:03This weighs at least 100 pounds.
01:05He firmly believes in silver treasure that once belonged to the infamous Captain Kidd.
01:12It's beyond priceless.
01:14To keep it safe from looters until expeditions end,
01:17Barry left the priceless artifact right where he found it, hidden on the seabed.
01:24To the back, clip it into here, get out there, then all you gotta do is unclip.
01:29But now, he may never see it again.
01:33The team's fate is in the hands of this government general.
01:38We're putting the general in the water, and he's gonna scope out the site,
01:43and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, he's gonna see that we're doing as advertised.
01:54All right, here we go.
01:56Showtime!
01:57Showtime!
01:58This could be the most important dive of the whole, you know, operation that we have here.
02:11The general's checking to make sure the site is being excavated properly.
02:15If he doesn't approve, Barry and his team could be heading home.
02:22It's a tense moment for us.
02:24A lot is riding on a good dive for the general.
02:28So we're keeping our fingers crossed it all goes smoothly.
02:36Coming up!
02:38Generals at the surface!
02:41Flying up.
02:42That's not good.
02:43Woo-hoo!
02:44Hey!
02:45Hey!
02:46The dive operation and investigation are back on track.
02:51It's an exciting day for us because we're finally actually doing what we came here to do.
03:04Now we're there.
03:05The divers are in the water, and we'll be bringing up artifacts today.
03:10Meanwhile, more than 8,000 miles away, at home in the States, historian Scott Wolter is also investigating the Templar pirate connection.
03:29In New York City, where Captain Kidd lived over 300 years ago, Scott learned that the symbols on the 100-pound ingot are both Masonic and Templar in origin.
03:42Every royal arch Freemason in the world would recognize this as one of the symbols of royal arch mystery.
03:53It also has a connection to the medieval Knights Templar.
03:57Scott also learned that Kidd was backed by a group of high-powered Scottish businessmen that he believes were early Freemasons.
04:09We have a group of people who became prime business players together with Kidd being the guy out collecting the booty. Am I understanding this right?
04:18Yes, yes, you've got it.
04:21Convinced there's a connection between the Masons and Templars, Scott developed a radical new theory.
04:28Could Kidd have been involved in a high-stakes and highly secretive mission to get his hands on Templar treasure?
04:38Following Kidd's trail, Scott's now in Boston, where Kidd landed in 1699 amid rampant rumors that he had turned pirate.
04:47This guy had been away for three years. He didn't know what was going on. All he was getting was bits and pieces of a story.
04:54And the more he heard, the worse it got. So he was bound and determined to get to Boston to clear his name.
05:00In 1696, Scottish Captain William Kidd sailed from New York to the Indian Ocean on a government-backed mission to attack the ships of England's enemies and to bring down any pirates he came across.
05:18Kidd was funded by English nobility, including his long-standing business partner, Lord Belomont, governor of New York, Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire.
05:31On the high seas, Kidd struggled to find enemy ships. His crew, eager for plunder, urged him to raid any vessel.
05:44Ultimately, Kidd succumbed, attacking trading ships at will, and finally seizing an Armenian ship, the Kuwaita merchant.
05:54It netted Kidd a fortune worth millions today. But in the eyes of many, he crossed a line and turned pirate.
06:03When Kidd returned from his voyage in 1699, he strongly denied the allegations of piracy and, at Lord Belomont's request, sailed to Boston to clear his name.
06:15This is Lord Belomont's town, and I'm here to try to learn more about this guy.
06:28Scott's first stop is the Boston Public Library to try and understand what happened when the two men met.
06:35What I'm doing is going through the source documentation here, and I've got an exchange of letters between Belomont and Kidd.
06:42Kidd is writing and saying, I understand, you know, that people are upset with me, that they think I've been out pirating myself, and that's not the case.
06:53Now, he says, 95 men went away from me and committed several acts of piracy as I am informed, and I'm afraid the report has gone home against me.
07:04So, Kidd is saying, look, because it was my man, people think that I did it, and I didn't do it.
07:11Okay, well, that's Kidd's side of the story.
07:15Belomont writes to Kidd,
07:16You may be assured of having my interest employed to do all the service you can reasonably desire.
07:23Your friend and servant, Belomont.
07:27Belomont is trying to be sympathetic in his response to him.
07:31You know, it's okay, we'll take care of it, get in here, and then let's sort it out.
07:36But as Scott sifts through Belomont's archives, other letters suggest the governor had another motive in luring Kidd back to Boston.
07:46Reading these letters, the truth is beginning to emerge.
07:50I think this is the most telling one right here.
07:53In a letter to his bosses back in London, Belomont writes,
07:56There was never a greater liar or thief in the world than this kid.
08:05It's absolutely clear from these letters that Belomont had made the decision that Kidd had outlived his usefulness.
08:13He had to be eliminated.
08:18Three days after he arrived in Boston, Belomont had Kidd thrown in jail and ultimately executed.
08:27Did Belomont, a respected public figure, simply want to distance himself from Kidd?
08:38Shortly after, Belomont seized a stash of Kidd's treasure, which the pirate had buried on a small island on route to Boston.
08:45Does this play into Scott s theory that Kidd had gotten his hands on Templar treasure, treasure that Belomont was after all along?
08:58I know for sure that Belomont recovered all of Kidd's treasure on Gardner Island.
09:05And Belomont is part of this group of guys that were financing him.
09:09And I think their end game was to somehow recover lost Portuguese Templar treasure.
09:14The question is, what happened to that treasure? I mean, it's out there somewhere.
09:26Underwater explorer Barry Clifford and historian Scott Walter are on a mission.
09:31To uncover hidden connections between the medieval Knights Templar and 17th century pirates.
09:42Scott's looking for evidence to prove his new theory.
09:45That Captain Kidd was sent on a secret mission by early Scottish Freemasons to recover lost Templar treasure.
09:55But when Kidd returned from his mission to the Indian Ocean, what happened to all his loot?
09:59To this day, people think that Kidd buried multiple caches of treasure up and down the eastern seaboard as he slowly sailed to New York and realized about his newfound notoriety as public enemy number one.
10:18One of those supposed spots is just south of Boston in Mount Hope Bay, Massachusetts.
10:23Home of a 40-ton boulder known as Dighton Rock.
10:33It's said that Kidd himself carved a coded map onto the rock face, showing the location of his buried treasure.
10:42If you look right here, you can see that we have what looks like it could be one-armed cross.
10:48Here's another symbol that is clearly a triangle.
10:53I want to find out if this is a map of kid's treasure.
10:56But Scott has other motives, too.
10:59The rock is also said to bear a much older inscription.
11:03Made by 16th century Portuguese explorer, Miguel Corte Real.
11:08Some people think this is a one, a five, an S-shaped five, a one and a one.
11:16The date, 1511, which would correspond with Corte Real possibly being here in southern Massachusetts.
11:22For Scott, his mission to unravel the mystery connecting the Knights Templar to pirates has come full circle.
11:33His journey began by investigating an ivory carving of Christ Barry found on a pirate wreck in Madagascar.
11:40That's been on a long journey.
11:43Yeah.
11:44And it's spent over 300 years under water.
11:47All right, I'm blown away.
11:49A relic Scott's convinced once belonged to the Templars.
11:53Scott traced the Templars' ancient path from Israel to Portugal, where he uncovered stunning information.
12:00After the put-down of the Knights Templar in 1307, they existed in Portugal.
12:08And all they did was change their name to the Order of Christ.
12:12Scott believes that under the banner of the Order of Christ, a sect of Portuguese Templars thrived for another 500 years.
12:22And led Portugal's great age of discovery.
12:24Among them, Miguel Corte Real, a pioneer explorer of America's Atlantic coast.
12:33But in 1502, Corte Real on his shin vanished in sea.
12:40Legend has it, he was shipwrecked and carved his name on the Dighton Rock.
12:45The big problem is the weathering of these carvings.
12:49It's so advanced, they're just hard to read.
12:52If Scott can find concrete evidence that Corte Real was here, it would not only change history, but also break the case wide open.
13:03Is it possible that Captain Kidd followed in the footsteps of the Portuguese Templars here in America?
13:11And did they both hide treasure near Dighton Rock?
13:14Hey Steve.
13:15To find out, Scott needs a much clearer image of the inscriptions.
13:22I'm very anxious to see what you can pull out, because I would like to try to do some interpretations.
13:28He's called in an expert to perform the first ever laser analysis of the rock.
13:32What exactly are you going to do here?
13:35Well, what we're using is a 3D laser scanner.
13:39And what this will do is fire out a laser millions of times a second as it scans across the face of the rock.
13:45It should highlight all the different kind of undulations and carvings that are in this rock, some of which we can't see with the naked eye.
13:53Hopefully you'll be able to shed more light on this and we'll be able to see things more clearly and maybe make some sense of it.
13:59So, let's get rolling. What do you say?
14:02Okay.
14:06As the laser scan begins...
14:10On Isle St. Marie, Madagascar...
14:14Barry Clifford's team are investigating the shipwrecks that lie beneath the waters of Pirate Bay.
14:22So, I'm going to go down and deal with the pirates.
14:24After several wasted days, a government general has given them the green light to resume diving.
14:38But fearful they're being watched, Barry stays away from the wreck he believes is Captain Kidd's adventure galley.
14:46And where the priceless Indy remains hidden.
14:49Instead, the team turns their attention to another shipwreck.
14:55Hey, Claudia, where are you?
14:58I am close to the item bar right here.
15:03Okay. I'll come get you.
15:05After 15 years of research and diving in the area, Barry is convinced this is the wreck of the fiery dragon.
15:13It's where Barry found the ivory figure of Christ he believes once belonged to the Knights Templar.
15:19Him!
15:20You're right.
15:21I had to go see.
15:22Lens, I think there is a barrage trial going in one direction.
15:25Go to the gate!
15:28I had to go see.
15:33To go see.
15:34We have got a barrage tile going in one direction...
15:38...and we have got the cambridge pointing in another direction.
15:40Timber is pointing in another direction.
15:44I think there are two wrecks.
15:48Definitely two shipwrecks.
15:52I can see, I can see clearly in this chapter.
15:55A very large ship.
15:58Very big timbers.
16:01Okay, timers coming to the surface.
16:04Dodgers to the surface.
16:06Roger that, roger that.
16:08Overnight, sediment has shifted.
16:11Revealing what Barry believes is yet another shipwreck.
16:14It's a very, very well-built ship.
16:17It was built for serious work.
16:21I think there's going to be a lot of material there.
16:24Based on what I just saw.
16:28But whose ship was it?
16:30And where did it come from?
16:31And is it linked to the Knights Templar?
16:34For Barry and the team, it could be a game-changing discovery.
16:38We have really good reason to expect, you know, incredible things to be found on both these vessels.
16:44Are the medieval Knights Templar directly connected to 17th century pirates?
16:54And if so, will the answers lead to history's most famous lost treasure?
17:00Explorers Barry Clifford and Scott Walter are trying to find out.
17:06Scott's on the Massachusetts coast, just south of Boston, following the trail of the notorious pirate, Captain Kidd.
17:14Legend has it that when Kidd passed through here in 1699, he carved a treasure map on a 40-ton boulder known as Dighton Rock.
17:24Centuries of weather erosion have made the cryptic markings nearly impossible to read.
17:33But Scott has commissioned the first-ever laser scan of the rock.
17:39And the results are in.
17:42So, what are we looking at?
17:44Well, this has come out really quite well.
17:46And already you can see a lot of the different carvings of the rock really pop out.
17:51It's really helping me see a lot more than I could see before.
17:54So, it's really done its job in that way.
17:58This area here, many people thought was the bottom arm of a cross.
18:03And it does look like that.
18:04But clearly, you can see it's connected to a face up here and a body very stylized and simplistic.
18:11But definitely not a cross.
18:13So, that one's out.
18:16Unfortunately, I'm not seeing anything that clearly says,
18:19This is a map of kids' treasure.
18:23But there's another legend linked to Dighton Rock.
18:29That Portuguese explorer, Corte Real, carved his name on it after being shipwrecked here in the early 1500s.
18:37What's more, Scott wants to know if Corte Real was part of a surviving sect of Portuguese Templars known as the Order of Christ.
18:48Here we have what some people have suggested is the name of the early Portuguese Templar explorer, Corte Real.
18:58While it's even more clear here, I can see the C and this diamond-shaped O, a T, an R.
19:06I see where Corte Real is carved.
19:10But here is really an important part of this because the date of 1511 is on here.
19:16The one and five with a one and a one, this is big.
19:22This is really a step in the right direction.
19:25While the results are in no way definitive, could the legend of Corte Real in America indeed be true?
19:33The Portuguese were at the very center of the age of exploration.
19:42And there is a huge body of factual evidence that supports the fact that the Knights Templar were here in North America.
19:50To have the Portuguese Templars here is really an exciting thing, and it's brand new.
19:56If Scott's theory is correct, is it possible that Captain Kidd knew about the legend of Corte Real?
20:06And if Kidd did come back to Dighton Rock, was it to bury his own loot?
20:11Or to look for Templar treasure instead?
20:18As Scott downloads to the team, he consults with Chris McCourt, the project historian in Madagascar.
20:25Is there any of Kidd's treasure that's still left?
20:28I mean, anything that might still be extant that we could take a look at?
20:33There may be something at the East Hampton Library.
20:37Really?
20:38Yeah.
20:39I've heard about it, but I've never seen it, never seen any pictures.
20:42If you could get down there to the East Hampton Library, see what that's all about, that would be my suggestion.
20:49Scott takes to the water to follow Kidd's journey along the East Coast.
20:56According to legend, Kidd buried his pirate food in multiple locations among these islands and estuaries.
21:0475 miles southwest of Dighton Rock, Scott passes the tiny Gardner's Island,
21:11privately owned by the descendants of English settler John Gardner, for nearly 400 years.
21:16Kidd came here to Gardner's Island where he made contact with the family
21:21and he negotiated a deal where they allowed him to bury 50 pounds of gold and 50 pounds of silver.
21:29And in today's dollars, the gold alone would have been worth about a million dollars.
21:33The only documented piece of Kidd's buried treasure came from this Gardner's Island stash.
21:46And today, it's held at the East Hampton Public Library in Long Island, New York.
21:52Hi.
21:55So, this is the cloth of gold.
22:00So you can see there's some gold and silver woven in.
22:05Right.
22:05And this would have been very rare.
22:07It would have been quite special.
22:10This fabric was given to Mary King Gardner, the wife of John Gardner.
22:14He was the third owner of Gardner's Island, and it was given to her by Captain Kidd when he stopped at the island.
22:23Well, I have to say, I've been chasing after this guy for a while now,
22:28trying to understand this whole story of Captain Kidd and imagining what that treasure could be.
22:33And now I'm actually holding a piece of that treasure.
22:36This is a neat moment for me to actually see it and hold it.
22:40That's been, we actually believe this is a portion of the fabric.
22:43Do we know anything about how it was made?
22:45We do know that it was gold fabric.
22:48We have this report from Cooper Union.
22:52Okay.
22:52They authenticated this item in 1961.
22:56They looked at the fabric under a microscope, and they said the fibers were silk,
23:00and they were able to determine that it was from India.
23:04India?
23:05India.
23:06That's interesting.
23:07For Scott, his entire investigation is starting to add up, and all signs point to one place.
23:17And if we look on this map, if you're traveling either to or from India to Europe or the United States,
23:24you have to go around the southern tip of Africa, and you run right into southern Madagascar.
23:32Now, we know that Kidd was in northern Madagascar.
23:35There's no doubt about that.
23:36But another thing that I learned when I was in Portugal is that the Portuguese Templars in the mid-16th century
23:43were in southern Madagascar as well.
23:46Wow.
23:47That's launching me to Madagascar.
23:56Underwater explorer Barry Clifford and historian Scott Walter
24:00are investigating possible links between the medieval Knights Templar and 17th century pirates.
24:07Scott's on his way to Madagascar, where Barry's team are exploring pirate shipwrecks off the island of Isle St.
24:17St. Marie.
24:23Barry's just discovered a mysterious new wreck underneath what they think is the fiery dragon.
24:29Could it, too, have links to pirates or even the Knights Templar?
24:35The team needs to gather more evidence.
24:40They've called in cutting-edge technology to build a 3-D model of the two wrecks on the sea floor.
24:47We're going to paint a very high-definition picture.
24:50It's really the latest technology.
24:52It will send impulses down and will record everything that's on the bottom.
24:58First, they'll use the side-scan sonar, nicknamed the fish,
25:03which bounces sonic pulses off the bottom to create a high-definition image of the sea floor.
25:08They'll then combine the results with a cross-section of the seabed called a sub-bottom profile
25:15to create a 3-D image of the wreck site.
25:18Okay, let's go take some pictures.
25:24So we have GPS signal.
25:27The navigation is working properly.
25:29Yeah, it's working good.
25:32Go ahead.
25:33Barry lines the boat up for the first pass over the wreck sites.
25:37Okay.
25:38I like that.
25:39It's a delicate task because they lie close to shore in shallow water.
25:44We have to take an eye on the fish because if we break it,
25:49that costs maybe 50 grand easily.
25:52That will be a complete disaster.
25:54If you're getting shallow, you're going to lose this fish.
25:57It gets really shallow over here.
25:59It's in the ground.
25:59Look out!
26:02It's too shallow.
26:05It's a narrow escape.
26:07No problem.
26:09It's right where it should be.
26:11The team proceed cautiously.
26:14Any minute now, you should see the fiery dragon.
26:17You got it yet?
26:17Yes, we have the ballast pile.
26:21You can see the ballast pile clearly.
26:23Look, look, look.
26:24Yeah.
26:25Yeah.
26:25Oh, definitely.
26:26Yeah.
26:26It's all dismantled.
26:28It's just like that.
26:28To a trained eye, the 300-year-old wreck is clearly visible on the sea floor.
26:33It's just...
26:34See, there's a chain.
26:35Oh, it's just a chain.
26:36Yeah, we can see a chain on the port side.
26:38Yeah, that's the chain.
26:39It's a complete shipwreck.
26:40It's simply complete, yeah.
26:41The initial results look encouraging.
26:45Barry hopes the 3-D image will confirm his belief, after 15 years of extensive field research, that the first wreck is indeed the fiery dragon.
26:56And if they can identify the second wreck as a Portuguese Templar ship, it will take the team one step closer to finding long-lost treasure.
27:07This is picking up a lot of stuff that we haven't seen before, because, you know, when you're underwater, swimming around in circles, you can't see it like this thing.
27:15This sees it all at once.
27:16As Barry waits for the 3-D analysis, historian Scott Walter is coming in to land 600 miles away on southern Madagascar.
27:30The dots to me are starting to connect.
27:33I've done my homework.
27:34There's a real chance that there could be a huge treasure, and we could be on the verge of a huge discovery.
27:40For the last four weeks, Scott's been on a worldwide journey.
27:47First, tracing the path of the Knights Templar, and then, following the travels of the infamous pirate, Captain Kidd.
27:55Scott learned that in the early 1500s, a Portuguese sect of Templars were among the first Europeans to set foot on Madagascar, on the island's southern end.
28:05Scott also knows that in 1697, six months after Captain Kidd set sail from New York City to the Indian Ocean, he made a pit stop in southern Madagascar.
28:22The two trails Scott's been following have led to the same place.
28:26All right, we're on the southern part of Madagascar.
28:33I'm feeling good about what we might find.
28:41Did the Portuguese Templars bring their legendary lost treasure to Madagascar?
28:46And did Captain Kidd get hold of it almost 200 years later?
28:50To answer the question, Scott starts on this tranquil beach where the Portuguese Templars came ashore nearly 500 years ago.
29:05Portuguese Templar named Manuel Lacerda, sailing in his ship, the Conceição, left Lisbon, came here to the southern tip of Madagascar.
29:14But the ship became hung up on the sandbars, they were shipwrecked, and the entire crew had to abandon ship for shore.
29:26Lacerda and his men were in a desperate situation.
29:40They had pulled all the valuables off the ships, but they were exposed on the beach, and they were dying.
29:45He knew that rescue wasn't coming anytime soon, so he had to make a call.
29:50Lacerda decided to lead his men on an epic trek 200 miles across the island to set up an outpost on the south coast,
30:04where there was more chance of being spotted by a passing European ship.
30:08In a remarkable feat of endurance, he and his men traveled for days across unknown, inhospitable terrain,
30:19in stifling heat, under constant threat of attack by hostile locals.
30:29I read that Lacerda and his men built a permanent structure somewhere in the southern part of Madagascar,
30:35something like a fort.
30:37What I'd like to do is, first of all, find this structure,
30:40and secondly, find evidence of the activities of these Portuguese Templars.
30:47I want to know where they went, how far they explored,
30:52and most importantly, what did they leave behind?
30:54Explorers Barry Clifford and Scott Walter are in Madagascar on a mission to find out
31:09if 17th-century pirates are connected to the Medieval Knights Templar
31:14in the hope that it will lead to long-lost treasure.
31:17In the south, Scott sets off on a 200-mile journey across the island,
31:27searching for a fort that the Portuguese Templar, Manuel Lacerda,
31:31is said to have built in the early 1500s.
31:34We know that the Portuguese Templars that were shipwrecked on this island built that fort.
31:39They had to have had valuables, gold, silver.
31:44They had a treasure on those boats.
31:46They put it in that building.
31:49Now I just have to find it.
31:51But Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world,
31:55twice the size of Arizona.
31:57It would seem an impossible task,
32:00except Scott, a trained geologist, has an ace up his sleeve.
32:04The Portuguese Templars built a stone structure on the island.
32:09They would have needed mortar.
32:11And to produce mortar, they needed limestone.
32:14Mortar would have been essential for the Templars to build European-style stone walls.
32:20And Scott zeroed in on a limestone source in the south of the island.
32:25So what I'm looking for is the transition between the granite,
32:31which we're in now, into the limestone.
32:33And if I can find limestone, then I found the source of the mortar.
32:38You never know.
32:38There could be something exciting in here.
32:41We're going to find out either way.
32:49After a long search, Scott pinpoints an area
32:52which he believes to be the only source of limestone for miles around.
32:57We're definitely getting into the limestone transition here.
33:00There's a bunch of it on the ground over here.
33:03This is limestone.
33:12There is one way to know for sure.
33:14And what I got here is hydrochloric acid.
33:18It's a strong acid.
33:19It's still dilute hydrochloric.
33:20But if this fizzes violently, it's limestone.
33:26No question about it.
33:28This is it.
33:30The Templars had to have come here to get the limestone they needed.
33:34So we're in the raid zone.
33:35If Scott's theory is right, the Templar Fort must be close.
33:42Well, it's been a tough search so far.
33:44So far, empty-handed.
33:45But I'm going to keep looking.
33:46600 miles north on Isle Saint Marie, Barry Clifford has discovered a new wreck lying underneath what they believe to be the pirate ship, the Fiery Dragon.
34:03Lead archaeologist, Claudio Lozano, has completed the 3D model of the wrecks.
34:10I have a really beautiful picture.
34:15This is the port.
34:16This is the area of the port.
34:18And you can see clearly here the shape of the Fiery Dragon.
34:24Wow.
34:24It's very interesting.
34:25You can see the height of this.
34:27It's tall.
34:28When you're down there, you don't...
34:28It's really tall.
34:29It's about two meters tall.
34:31So it's a really huge ship.
34:35The suspected wreck of the Adventure Galley lies to the left.
34:40But after 15 years of field research, Barry believes the 3D image helps validate his argument.
34:47The wreck to the right is the Fiery Dragon.
34:50It's with the second wreck underneath.
34:54Oh, okay.
34:54That's good, yeah.
34:55I mean, that's exciting as hell.
34:57Yeah.
34:57This is extremely interesting tonight.
35:00It's like a whole new discovery.
35:02A whole new discovery.
35:04Yes.
35:05As the team looks at another image, a hollow chamber is visible near where the two wrecks intersect.
35:12There's some cavities in here in the middle of the shipwreck.
35:15There's a big chamber in there.
35:17Yeah.
35:18Can you show me that side scan one more time?
35:19I think that this is the part of the main...
35:22The heaviest part of the cargo is here.
35:26Guess what?
35:27We're a couple of feet away from it.
35:30Yeah, we're not.
35:31We're on the edge of it, aren't we?
35:32Yeah.
35:33The team is working just a few feet away from the cavity.
35:37It's likely to be the cargo hold for one of the ships, where any precious goods it was carrying may still be in tune.
35:44The side scan sonar shows an indentation of where the cargo hold probably was, and it was a very large ship that had a very large cargo.
35:57The 3D model suggests the team are on the verge of another important discovery, one that would help identify the mysterious second ship.
36:07Is it a long-lost Portuguese Templar vessel, and will it lead the team to more priceless treasure?
36:13That, to me, is high, high priority of very interesting to see what that is.
36:20All right, so, onward and downward.
36:25Explorers Scott Walton and Barry Clifford are trying to solve a mystery that connects 17th-century pirates to the medieval Knights Templar,
36:41and just might lead them to a vast haul of treasure.
36:45In southern Madagascar, Scott's searching for a lost fort built by Portuguese Templars 500 years ago.
36:55Well, it's been a tough search so far.
36:57So far, empty-handed.
36:58But I'm going to keep looking.
37:04Scott's found a limestone source, which he knows the Templars would have needed to produce mortar and build a permanent structure.
37:15It's evidence he's in the right area.
37:20If there's a structure that was built here, it's got to be at the top.
37:31Suddenly, Scott spots a clearing in the trees.
37:34This has got to be it.
37:37This is it.
37:43I found it.
37:44I mean, here it is.
37:48This is really something.
37:52God, it's hard to believe.
37:56It looks like Scott's insight has paid off.
38:03But first, he wants to do one final test.
38:06If this rock sample reacts with the acid, he'll know he's in the right place.
38:12This is a limestone.
38:21I mean, this is stone-and-mortar construction, absolutely European.
38:25The locals here in Madagascar would never build a structure like this.
38:30I've been on this journey to try to find any evidence I can of Templars here in Madagascar, and I found it.
38:39I mean, here it is.
38:40This is a structure that was built by Portuguese Templars in the early part of the 16th century, and look at it.
38:46It's an amazing condition.
38:47This is an important piece of Portuguese Templar history right out in the middle of nowhere.
38:55They put a lot of effort into this.
39:05Look at that window.
39:07And that's a narrow slot.
39:09That's definitely a defensive window.
39:10Well, you know, when you walk around this structure, this is significant.
39:16Thick mortar right here on the outside.
39:20This is a very thick wall.
39:21Definitely defensive.
39:23I mean, have these walls three feet thick?
39:26This is major.
39:29Scott believes the Portuguese Templars were protecting something of enormous value.
39:35Could it have been their legendary treasure?
39:37And was this the treasure, later recovered by Captain Kidd, that Barry discovered off Isle St. Marie?
39:46Scott's convinced the answers are within reach.
39:51Madagascar is the key, because that's where the silver bar came from that looks like it's tied to Kidd.
39:59I found evidence that the Templars were here in Madagascar.
40:02I found a structure.
40:03The question is, can we make that final link to the shipwreck that Barry's working on right now?
40:13We could be just inches away from finding the crucial piece to the puzzle.
40:21Next, a pirate treasure of the Knight's Templar.
40:24What's that down there?
40:26Let's take a look.
40:27Ready to roll.
40:29Did they leave anything in here?
40:32Whoa.
40:32There's something big under our feet.
40:43Grande.
40:44And I want to f***ing jump out of my skin.
40:47I want to know what it is.
40:50Well, take a look at this.
40:52This is big.
40:53This is huge.
40:54This is huge.