SYNOPSIS:

We think of the Great Barrier Reef, the largest natural structure in the world, as an iconic tropical paradise, but it has a dark side. Archaeologists attempt to solve the mysterious sinking of Australia’s “Titanic”. The demise of an 18th Century British warship links the Reef to the infamous Mutiny on the Bounty. An ROV dives to the bottom of the reef revealing its violent birth and evolution. And we hear from indigenous peoples as they give their account on the reefs origins.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Crispin Sadler has been running his own production company since 2002. A trained zoologist and deep-sea technical diver with over forty years experience in television, he launched the hit-series ‘Drain the Oceans’ in 2010 for NGC / Disney+ with 5 series and over 70 films, 6 golds at the New York Film Festival, and Bafta and RTS nominations. Crispin also has written, directed and exec’ed many other maritime archaeology and naval history docs including Deep Wreck Mysteries for Nat Geo, the landmark ‘Battle of Jutland’ for Channel 4, ‘War Wrecks of the Coral Seas’ at BBC’s world-famous Natural History Unit and the new 10-part shipwreck series Ocean Wreck Investigation for Nat Geo International. In 2024, Crispin was recognized as the leading British maritime film-maker of his generation when he received the Special Recognition Award by the Maritime Foundation.