Episode Detail: Search for the Submarine I-52 - National Geographic
Chronicling an American treasure hunter's attempts to recover two tons of gold from a Japanese sub sunk by Allied planes in 1944, 1500 miles off the coast of West Africa. Included: his research, beginning in Washington, D.C., in 1944; a 1998 excursion from the Canary Islands and several dives trying to find the gold. Narrated by Peter Coyote.