During that search, the company stumbled on an ancient shipwreck nearly two miles down, apparently Greek.
Ms. Dennison, who gave an emphatic yes each time she was asked to dive under Arctic ice, through black Amazonian waters loaded with piranhas and down to shipwrecks surrounded by sharks, gave Mr. Taylor a kiss, but not an answer.
The head of Seuthes III was found only eight years ago; the spectacular Roman Crosby Garrett parade helmet was unearthed in Cumbria in 2010; and only weeks ago, 40 years to the day after the Riace bronzes were discovered, further statues have been found at a shipwreck site 50 kilometres down the coast.
He had enough sense to take down the coordinates of the shipwreck, but when Chupeta and one of El Chapo's Sinaloa cartel partners did a flyover of the site they found "nothing other than sea — just the sea".
It seems even more impossible that there is life down in the shipwreck, but life there is.
Around every curve the weather changed from sun to rain and back again; we spotted several rainbows and passed red and gold sand beaches, rusting shipwrecks and dozens more waterfalls that tumbled down to the dramatic coastline.
The navy launched the Mare Nostrum operation in October 2013 after 366 people died in a shipwreck off Lampedusa, but it has since been shut down and replaced by an EU-wide mission called Operation Triton.
I'd always assumed that if I ever returned to that place, that island where I'd been shipwrecked, I would never escape; I'd be dragged down and destroyed.
It could allow researchers to pin down the contents of amphorae found on a specific shipwreck, for instance, and then calculate the value of the ship's cargo-offering deeper insight into ancient economies.
Back in May, during the film's Cannes premiere in the Critics' Week section (the same month hundreds of African migrants were shipwrecked and killed in the waters between Libya and Italy), I sat down with Carpignano.
