1 00:00:02,121 --> 00:00:05,755 The Amazon... teeming with wildlife riches 2 00:00:05,865 --> 00:00:09,140 But one part lies totally unexplored. 3 00:00:09,781 --> 00:00:11,524 Under the water. 4 00:00:14,138 --> 00:00:18,278 Now there's an expedition searching for animals hidden in the depths. 5 00:00:21,124 --> 00:00:24,989 It's an international team of scientists, jungle trackers, 6 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:27,078 divers and cameramen. 7 00:00:27,161 --> 00:00:29,442 All of them experts in their field. 8 00:00:30,332 --> 00:00:33,376 Already they found creatures completely new to science, 9 00:00:33,428 --> 00:00:37,473 and tracked down 24 species never filmed before in the wild. 10 00:00:41,625 --> 00:00:45,778 But the world's greatest river doesn't give up her secrets easily. 11 00:00:57,236 --> 00:00:59,184 They're half way through the expedition. 12 00:00:59,306 --> 00:01:03,042 and now they're searching for new dive sites in the heart of the jungle. 13 00:01:06,559 --> 00:01:10,295 The team is surrounded on all sides by a forest full of life. 14 00:01:12,340 --> 00:01:14,153 But where dangers lurk. 15 00:01:19,998 --> 00:01:23,049 The Amazon is home to the largest snake in the world. 16 00:01:23,146 --> 00:01:26,422 Anacondas grow up to 9 meters. 17 00:01:26,609 --> 00:01:33,304 They can live and hunt on land, but are far more at home in the murky water of the river. 18 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:43,174 The expedition has two local guides who know the risks better than anyone. 19 00:01:43,833 --> 00:01:47,952 Samuel Basilio and Eduardo Gomez are briefing the divers. 20 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:51,071 Anacondas maybe, like , does 21 00:01:51,343 --> 00:01:55,048 break your leg, your arm or your body easily. 22 00:01:55,477 --> 00:01:57,322 They may kill you. 23 00:01:57,637 --> 00:02:02,329 I recommend everybody to buy and have a knife, very sharp one. 24 00:02:02,501 --> 00:02:05,791 Don't be too confident after you get in the water, 25 00:02:05,219 --> 00:02:08,824 because that's when happeds the big accidents in the Amazon, even with us. 26 00:02:14,359 --> 00:02:19,194 You have to assume, with an animal that has evolved in a water that is this murky 27 00:02:19,251 --> 00:02:25,345 has evolved a way of detecting a 5 and a half or 6 foot body down there, 28 00:02:25,546 --> 00:02:28,779 You know on the back your head, that they know you're there. 29 00:02:28,864 --> 00:02:33,170 You don't know they're there, and that puts them in a big advantage, 30 00:02:33,270 --> 00:02:35,273 and I don't necessarily like that. 31 00:02:35,473 --> 00:02:40,265 My head's say, yes , ofcourse there are risks, and play it carefully 32 00:02:40,351 --> 00:02:46,216 but my heart says, great, you know, I just wanna do it, I'm not thinking about ... "Is is dangerous ?" 33 00:02:50,908 --> 00:02:53,884 Now they must put their anxieties to one's side. 34 00:02:54,026 --> 00:02:55,671 The have a mission. 35 00:02:55,714 --> 00:03:00,263 Tonight , they are on the shore of this huge river, with the aim of finding a local legend. 36 00:03:00,750 --> 00:03:02,796 A giant catfish. 37 00:03:03,497 --> 00:03:07,316 It's very rare and is never been filmed in the wild. 38 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:13,453 Kate Humble has found out from local fishermen, 39 00:03:13,524 --> 00:03:16,285 this is a perfect spot for these creatures. 40 00:03:16,955 --> 00:03:21,051 She's diving with cameraman Mike De Gruy to try and catch them on film. 41 00:03:24,232 --> 00:03:27,471 Their best chance is to wait until darkness falls. 42 00:03:27,528 --> 00:03:30,527 The time when many predators prefer to hunt. 43 00:03:31,935 --> 00:03:35,345 A whole support team of divers and crew are on hand. 44 00:03:36,685 --> 00:03:38,459 Safety is paramount. 45 00:03:42,430 --> 00:03:46,184 Shorediving brings new risks from creatures that live on the land, 46 00:03:46,264 --> 00:03:48,049 but hunt in the water. 47 00:03:56,701 --> 00:04:01,095 Dive marshall Richard Bull listens for any note of danger. 48 00:04:13,111 --> 00:04:17,540 Under the water, all concerns have to be put to the back of the mind. 49 00:04:17,735 --> 00:04:21,100 The focus is on finding the giant catfish. 50 00:04:30,380 --> 00:04:35,553 With 3000 species of fish in the Amazon, they never know what they may stumble across. 51 00:04:49,516 --> 00:04:53,876 Previously, these knive-fish, have only been seen from preserved specimens. 52 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:58,419 Until this was filmed, scientists never knew they swam vertically. 53 00:05:04,290 --> 00:05:07,735 The, in the gloom, they find what they've been searching for. 54 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:09,841 Megalodorus. 55 00:05:24,210 --> 00:05:28,307 They're built like a battle tank, with bony plates along their back, 56 00:05:28,421 --> 00:05:33,754 and chainsaw spines along their side to protect them from even larger predators. 57 00:05:38,125 --> 00:05:41,101 And they don't like being followed. 58 00:05:48,644 --> 00:05:51,093 We're looking at this weird catfish, 59 00:05:51,127 --> 00:05:56,128 with big spikes all along its side, really really long antenna, 60 00:05:56,231 --> 00:05:59,367 then, right next to it is the most gorgeous ciclyde, 61 00:05:59,539 --> 00:06:04,220 that you would see in a finest home aquarium, anywhere in the world. 62 00:06:04,589 --> 00:06:08,285 Unbelivable beauty of the fish that live here, 63 00:06:08,411 --> 00:06:11,947 and we've just scratched the surface, we've only just begun. 64 00:06:20,383 --> 00:06:24,354 Spurred on by success, the team head deeped into the jungle. 65 00:06:25,452 --> 00:06:29,916 As they travel, they see tantalising glimpses of a troop of monkeys. 66 00:06:30,568 --> 00:06:33,417 They decide to split into two groups. 67 00:06:33,486 --> 00:06:37,606 Kate will strike out in the forest, to try and track down the monkeys. 68 00:06:37,846 --> 00:06:41,863 So rich... there is so much wild life, 69 00:06:42,149 --> 00:06:45,571 insect life, bird life, monkeys, 70 00:06:45,732 --> 00:06:49,585 extraordinary plants, it would be nice to get out there more, 71 00:06:49,679 --> 00:06:53,303 because , you know, I feel the pull of it. 72 00:06:55,350 --> 00:06:58,759 She heads off with Samuel, an expert forest tracker. 73 00:07:01,830 --> 00:07:07,013 You know what, it's so amazing about looking at this forest 74 00:07:07,191 --> 00:07:11,182 Every tree is different, 75 00:07:11,351 --> 00:07:13,839 the diversity is extraordinary. 76 00:07:20,158 --> 00:07:22,468 Another brief sighting of the monkey troop, 77 00:07:22,684 --> 00:07:25,557 running through the tops of the highest trees. 78 00:07:29,182 --> 00:07:34,534 The dive team's task is to get to the very bottom of the deepest Amazon. 79 00:07:37,238 --> 00:07:39,529 Hidden in the water is an abyss, 80 00:07:39,632 --> 00:07:43,013 a deep channel, gouged into the river bed, beneath them. 81 00:07:43,492 --> 00:07:46,891 Scientists have no idea what lies in its depths. 82 00:07:47,557 --> 00:07:50,984 This is going to be their most challenging dive yet. 83 00:07:53,229 --> 00:07:56,947 But in order to dive in it, first they have to find it. 84 00:07:58,008 --> 00:08:02,149 I feel very comfortable, that we're gonna see something we have never seen before. 85 00:08:02,252 --> 00:08:06,956 I really strongly feel that. We're gonna be far deeper than we've been before. 86 00:08:07,013 --> 00:08:09,886 I'm realy excited about what we're doing right now. 87 00:08:18,877 --> 00:08:22,702 Kate and Samuel are on their search for the monkey troop. 88 00:08:22,826 --> 00:08:26,898 Moving throught the jungle safely takes experience and care. 89 00:08:27,037 --> 00:08:29,798 Just be careful, don't put your hand on the trees 90 00:08:32,976 --> 00:08:35,860 watch if there's no disguised insects 91 00:08:36,108 --> 00:08:40,119 They won't kill you, but it really hurts. 92 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:47,014 It's full of scorpions,.. also, there are a lot of snakes... 93 00:08:47,106 --> 00:08:52,968 The rainforest is full of animals that protect themselves with poisons, even caterpillars. 94 00:08:53,169 --> 00:08:57,149 Very strong ones, touch it, burn and hurts a lot, 95 00:08:57,241 --> 00:09:01,468 It hurts for like 2-3 hours. It looks toxic. 96 00:09:01,730 --> 00:09:04,568 Incredible piece of design, those. 97 00:09:06,651 --> 00:09:10,708 Hidden under the leaf litter, the forest teems with life. 98 00:09:13,577 --> 00:09:15,999 They have to watch where they thread. 99 00:09:20,426 --> 00:09:24,390 In a hole on the edge of the path, a creature lurks. 100 00:09:31,887 --> 00:09:35,003 The giant white-kneed tarantula. 101 00:09:35,299 --> 00:09:39,655 So, this spider would be trapping what ... Small mammals, 102 00:09:39,764 --> 00:09:41,088 birds... 103 00:09:43,425 --> 00:09:45,970 ...insects. Is it poisonous ? Yes. 104 00:09:48,317 --> 00:09:52,092 Samuel can lasso this spider, he must take care. 105 00:09:52,308 --> 00:09:54,900 This tarantula defends itself by flicking 106 00:09:54,937 --> 00:09:58,102 stinging hairs through the air at any potential foe. 107 00:09:59,172 --> 00:10:01,097 Incredible jaws 108 00:10:07,810 --> 00:10:10,421 I never seen this kind before. 109 00:10:10,487 --> 00:10:14,891 In the Amazon, new animals are waiting to be discovered all the time. 110 00:10:22,363 --> 00:10:28,326 Back on the river, their search for unusual species is also one step further. 111 00:10:29,133 --> 00:10:32,626 The deep trench has been located. At 45 meters, 112 00:10:32,654 --> 00:10:36,016 it's deep enough to hide the Statue of Liberty. 113 00:10:36,090 --> 00:10:38,447 No one has ever been to the bottom. 114 00:10:41,132 --> 00:10:43,958 The curents here are fast and unpredictable. 115 00:10:44,287 --> 00:10:47,903 It would take good seamanship to secure the boat safely. 116 00:10:56,503 --> 00:10:59,620 Kate and Samuel have heard monkey calls. 117 00:11:03,179 --> 00:11:05,094 The've caught up with their troop, 118 00:11:05,207 --> 00:11:07,320 and they're squirrel monkeys. 119 00:11:10,437 --> 00:11:14,465 I'ts just one of over 50 species of monkeys in the Amazon. 120 00:11:16,755 --> 00:11:22,107 They spend their lives in the treetops, searching for insects, young birds, and fruit. 121 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:04,926 Life is bursting from the top of the jungle. 122 00:12:07,198 --> 00:12:10,184 But the bottom of the river is a complete mystery. 123 00:12:11,235 --> 00:12:12,822 The boat is safely anchored, 124 00:12:12,850 --> 00:12:16,944 and now the divers must compose their minds, before the enter the water. 125 00:12:22,878 --> 00:12:25,685 For Mike and his partner, Florian Graner 126 00:12:25,732 --> 00:12:29,911 it would be all too easy to get lost, or swept away by the current. 127 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:37,235 They will be diving deeper into the Amazon, than anyone has ever been. 128 00:13:07,196 --> 00:13:10,360 The river is a soup of stirred-up sediment. 129 00:13:10,614 --> 00:13:13,694 The deeper they drop, the worse it gets. 130 00:13:32,490 --> 00:13:35,335 The surface crew monitor every word. 131 00:13:35,561 --> 00:13:38,490 And a safety diver waits on stand-by. 132 00:13:39,064 --> 00:13:42,125 The visibility is so bad, that he's having to hold on to Florian. 133 00:13:51,138 --> 00:13:56,800 At the bottom of the hole, the divers sink to their waists in thick, clinging mud. 134 00:14:07,902 --> 00:14:12,954 The decide to abort the dive, and send a surface marker to guide them up. 135 00:14:18,512 --> 00:14:24,569 The have the most advanced camera in the world, but all they have filmed is mud. 136 00:14:30,859 --> 00:14:34,183 It is complete blackness, mud, not-- 137 00:14:34,351 --> 00:14:37,891 I mean, the particles, that's why I said, lets just stop and see what it is 138 00:14:37,938 --> 00:14:40,821 It was big particles of... gunk... 139 00:14:47,093 --> 00:14:50,417 No one had expected the visibility to be this bad. 140 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:55,357 There's going to be no way to film deep water creatures in this stretch of the river. 141 00:14:58,296 --> 00:15:01,901 For now, they're forced to head back to shallower water. 142 00:15:02,774 --> 00:15:05,450 The team put togheter a plan. 143 00:15:07,816 --> 00:15:10,764 The belive that there may be a site with clear water, 144 00:15:10,896 --> 00:15:13,215 hidden in the trees. 145 00:15:14,332 --> 00:15:16,200 It's the end of the dry season, 146 00:15:16,275 --> 00:15:20,313 and in the past 4 months, the water level here has dropped 8 meters, 147 00:15:20,388 --> 00:15:22,886 creating lakes into the forest. 148 00:15:23,618 --> 00:15:27,637 They hope that these trapped lakes have water clear enough to film in. 149 00:15:30,332 --> 00:15:35,524 To test the theory, Mike and Kate set off to recon a lake ahead of the main dive party. 150 00:15:50,575 --> 00:15:55,373 Jungle guide Eduardo Gomez knows these shallow lakes hide danger. 151 00:15:55,617 --> 00:15:59,842 Did anyone mentioned aligators and snakes to us, before we set off in this expedition ? 152 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:01,391 I missed that part. 153 00:16:05,561 --> 00:16:07,082 That's it. It's clear ! 154 00:16:07,326 --> 00:16:10,199 This is the first time we heard anything about clear water. 155 00:16:10,425 --> 00:16:11,692 And it's actually clear. 156 00:16:23,871 --> 00:16:26,312 The opening to the lake. 157 00:16:34,763 --> 00:16:38,116 The've stumbled across a treasure chest. 158 00:16:40,331 --> 00:16:44,266 A lake that is full of the most beautiful tropical fish. 159 00:16:50,482 --> 00:16:53,712 It's like an aquarium down there, there so many different-- 160 00:16:54,895 --> 00:16:58,050 Seen 7 different species so far... 161 00:16:58,219 --> 00:16:59,994 and we have't even started. 162 00:17:00,548 --> 00:17:04,426 After all that muck, we're in danger of getting vertigo. 163 00:17:13,382 --> 00:17:16,481 The found a school of flag ciclydes. 164 00:17:16,687 --> 00:17:19,908 These peaceful fish choose their partners with care, 165 00:17:20,011 --> 00:17:23,326 mate for life, and even guard their young. 166 00:17:30,490 --> 00:17:34,846 Richard Bull has arrived, to keep a weary eye on the snorklers. 167 00:17:41,166 --> 00:17:42,724 Suddenly there's a problem. 168 00:17:42,752 --> 00:17:46,020 Richard has stepped into the water, and almost stood on a snake. 169 00:17:46,846 --> 00:17:51,165 By the time the camera has got there, the snake has slithered back into the water weeds. 170 00:17:51,306 --> 00:17:52,564 It was quite thin 171 00:17:52,611 --> 00:17:58,489 you know I like constricting snakes, they're quite fat, this was long and stringy, 172 00:17:58,723 --> 00:18:00,676 striped, in one way or another. 173 00:18:02,028 --> 00:18:04,272 And it was heading towards me. 174 00:18:04,366 --> 00:18:06,526 Eduardo, what had happend if I was bitten ? 175 00:18:06,910 --> 00:18:11,126 Your limbs doesn't work anymore, so you can't breathe, and you die in a few minutes. 176 00:18:11,615 --> 00:18:14,892 They are not big snakes, but are very, very poisonous. 177 00:18:19,493 --> 00:18:23,305 Mike, don't go in there, because that coral snake is in there. 178 00:18:25,154 --> 00:18:28,103 What does it look like ? Stripey. 179 00:18:28,299 --> 00:18:30,938 Seemed very, very agile. 180 00:18:30,994 --> 00:18:32,797 Dead man within 3 minutes 181 00:18:34,187 --> 00:18:37,623 It's a 3 minute snake ? It's a 3 minute snake, yeah. 182 00:18:38,375 --> 00:18:41,173 And it's still down there, in that weed, somewhere. 183 00:18:42,994 --> 00:18:46,638 The coral snake is the most deadly reptile on the continent. 184 00:18:46,957 --> 00:18:50,365 Their venom rapidly destroys the human nervous system. 185 00:18:51,107 --> 00:18:55,229 But this is also the perfect habitat for a much larger snake. 186 00:18:56,083 --> 00:18:57,924 The Anaconda. 187 00:19:03,388 --> 00:19:07,397 As evening falls, the rest of the team arrives to start filming. 188 00:19:08,017 --> 00:19:11,782 Wildlife cameraman Mike Pitts approaches cautiously. 189 00:19:15,660 --> 00:19:19,707 Working in locations like this, you're never quite sure what you're gonna see. 190 00:19:19,838 --> 00:19:22,665 Now, we've all been talking about-- 191 00:19:22,806 --> 00:19:25,998 the dangers of these locations, ... and 192 00:19:26,092 --> 00:19:30,242 I don't think you have to look very far to realise that there are gonna be 193 00:19:30,330 --> 00:19:32,395 some things to worry about. 194 00:19:37,682 --> 00:19:40,808 It's a risk the cameraman have to take. 195 00:19:41,512 --> 00:19:44,967 The lake has an extraordinary abundance of life. 196 00:19:58,254 --> 00:20:01,850 After night is fallen, Florian joins Mike. 197 00:20:13,334 --> 00:20:16,141 The contrast with the river could't be greater. 198 00:20:16,450 --> 00:20:21,005 Bringing the latest technology to the remotest Amazon, is at last, paying off, 199 00:20:21,099 --> 00:20:24,986 as the divers film gems hidden in the hollows. 200 00:20:27,295 --> 00:20:31,117 Thread-finned cicydes search for food along the river bed. 201 00:20:32,751 --> 00:20:36,779 While discus-fish hide in a tangle of tree roots. 202 00:20:38,168 --> 00:20:44,065 The scientists belive this is one of the only lakes in the whole of the Amazon with water as clear as this. 203 00:20:55,193 --> 00:20:58,808 But this Eden contains many snakes. 204 00:21:03,587 --> 00:21:06,301 The divers have disturbed a boa constrictor, 205 00:21:06,339 --> 00:21:09,080 as it hunts the lake's edge. 206 00:21:17,183 --> 00:21:20,967 And Florian had found the snake that almost attacked Richard. 207 00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:25,728 I looked down, and I had this coral snake, going through the sand 208 00:21:25,774 --> 00:21:30,497 digging in, and coming out. You got this poisonous snake on the hunt. 209 00:21:30,577 --> 00:21:31,901 Hunting for fish. 210 00:21:33,121 --> 00:21:37,215 There could be even greater dangers out in the darkness. 211 00:21:37,835 --> 00:21:40,812 I just come out to the surface to see where I am, 212 00:21:40,943 --> 00:21:46,990 and there, these big, big eyes, further down, like this far apart, 213 00:21:47,216 --> 00:21:50,840 and, we're thinking, it's either a big anaconda or it's a croc. 214 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,737 Cayman, so it was a little bit hairy. 215 00:22:01,629 --> 00:22:05,000 A million people live along the river margins of the Amazon. 216 00:22:05,075 --> 00:22:07,676 And for them, poisonous snakes and predators 217 00:22:07,714 --> 00:22:09,779 are an unfortunate fact of life. 218 00:22:10,005 --> 00:22:13,892 There are many stories of children and adults attacked and killed. 219 00:22:16,174 --> 00:22:19,836 From a nearby village, a fisherman has come to meet the team. 220 00:22:20,032 --> 00:22:23,929 He has a tale to tell about the biggest predator of them all. 221 00:22:25,515 --> 00:22:28,576 Raymondo Mota was cleaning his hands in the river 222 00:22:28,689 --> 00:22:31,534 when an anaconda grabbed him around the leg. 223 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,821 It was 5 meters long, so it can be like this. 224 00:22:35,384 --> 00:22:37,572 So he felt the pressure, then what ? 225 00:22:42,802 --> 00:22:46,182 The snake was trying to drag him into the water to drown him. 226 00:22:52,153 --> 00:22:56,425 It snapped his leg, but he managed to wrap his arms around a tree. 227 00:22:57,336 --> 00:23:00,369 4 gours he was attached to your leg ? Yes, yes 228 00:23:00,416 --> 00:23:01,975 And he could not do anything, because 229 00:23:02,022 --> 00:23:06,566 if he tried using his hands-- it would drag him... 230 00:23:06,602 --> 00:23:08,283 What happened after 4 hous ? 231 00:23:08,433 --> 00:23:11,100 He thinks that the snake got tired 232 00:23:11,157 --> 00:23:15,119 And when he feld that it wasnt big pressure, he jumped. 233 00:23:16,077 --> 00:23:18,978 That's when he got these lacerations. 234 00:23:23,645 --> 00:23:27,814 Local people sometimes destroy the anaconda when they find them. 235 00:23:27,871 --> 00:23:31,683 For them it can be a case of kill, or be killed. 236 00:23:37,449 --> 00:23:42,802 Samuel and Eduardo hear that there's a large anaconda living close to the lake. 237 00:23:47,829 --> 00:23:50,665 For the sake of the snake, and the local people 238 00:23:50,731 --> 00:23:54,834 they decide to track down, and move the anaconda. 239 00:23:58,664 --> 00:24:01,124 But it's not the only predator around. 240 00:24:01,293 --> 00:24:04,599 Florian is searching for jungle crocodiles. 241 00:24:04,787 --> 00:24:07,500 Since he saw the red eyes staring at him in the lake, 242 00:24:07,594 --> 00:24:11,266 he's been convinced that nearby is a nest of caymans. 243 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:14,223 Here we have... 244 00:24:15,435 --> 00:24:17,754 a whole group of little caymans. 245 00:24:17,923 --> 00:24:20,177 He must approach very slowly. 246 00:24:20,402 --> 00:24:25,069 If these babies make an alarm call, the parents may come. 247 00:24:25,820 --> 00:24:29,463 We're wondering where mom and dad are, really. 248 00:24:43,144 --> 00:24:47,003 If you want to find anaconda, you must follow your nose. 249 00:24:47,172 --> 00:24:49,426 They have a very distinct odour. 250 00:24:55,593 --> 00:24:57,274 I want you feel with me. 251 00:24:58,326 --> 00:25:01,377 Yeah, Yeah... it's a snake. 252 00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:03,940 You think so ? Yeah, I think it's big ! 253 00:25:11,697 --> 00:25:13,782 Don't let it go ! I got it 254 00:25:14,355 --> 00:25:16,374 You got the head ? Slow down ! 255 00:25:17,904 --> 00:25:20,364 This thing is gonna come out fast. Yeah. 256 00:25:20,515 --> 00:25:22,346 Sombody better help me here, at the head. 257 00:25:24,337 --> 00:25:26,909 Can't belive we found this. 258 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,097 If the anaconda were left, it could be killed by local people. 259 00:25:31,398 --> 00:25:33,680 Possibly kill a human itself. 260 00:25:33,727 --> 00:25:36,309 Can you raise that head ? I wanna get a look at that. 261 00:25:58,741 --> 00:26:02,647 At the cayman nest, there's still no sign of mother. 262 00:26:02,948 --> 00:26:06,647 And the babies are getting very relaxed. 263 00:26:30,828 --> 00:26:33,062 They're becoming quite sociable. 264 00:26:39,081 --> 00:26:41,616 That is just unbelivable. 265 00:26:41,729 --> 00:26:45,954 These caymans have just come up right to the camera 266 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:49,305 I didn't have to go to them... for a change. 267 00:26:54,385 --> 00:26:57,240 The scientists from the boats have come to help. 268 00:27:00,929 --> 00:27:05,812 Once secured in the crate, the anaconda will be taken to a safe new home. 269 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:09,981 A nature reserve far away from human habitation. 270 00:27:12,808 --> 00:27:18,028 Over the past week, the team has broken new depth records for diving the Amazon. 271 00:27:18,235 --> 00:27:22,150 And has found a dozen species never filmed before in the wild. 272 00:27:23,812 --> 00:27:26,958 Now it is time for them to head up river 273 00:27:30,347 --> 00:27:33,277 but nothing goes to plan in the Amazon. 274 00:27:37,042 --> 00:27:40,789 They've struck bottom, the boat has jutted to a stop. 275 00:27:40,864 --> 00:27:45,014 It seems to me that either the shaft is bent, the struts flapping around 276 00:27:45,220 --> 00:27:47,868 Problem is, the struts are bolted into the hull. 277 00:27:47,953 --> 00:27:51,230 You knock the strut to the side, it pulls a piece of wood 278 00:27:51,286 --> 00:27:52,779 We got a hole in the hull. 279 00:27:53,041 --> 00:27:55,952 Mike Pitts voluntairs to inspect the damage. 280 00:27:56,638 --> 00:27:58,619 The thing is, we're taking up water. 281 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:10,054 The momentum of a ship of that size , 60 ton vessel, going over the top of the rock 282 00:28:10,383 --> 00:28:12,946 it would open up like a can of sardines. 283 00:28:19,462 --> 00:28:23,650 The boat is taking on water, and the propeller is bent. 284 00:28:25,369 --> 00:28:30,223 In the darkness, 2 divers grope their way onto the bottom of the hull, 285 00:28:30,345 --> 00:28:33,763 hoping to find the full extent of the damage. 286 00:28:40,673 --> 00:28:44,232 They're marooned on a sandbank in the middle of the Amazon. 287 00:28:46,376 --> 00:28:50,376 The expedition has judded to a halt.