SYNOPSIS

Once known as Queen of the Adriatic, Venice conquered the Eastern Mediterranean, but how did her fleet enable her to become a maritime empire?

Using the unique techniques developed in the series Drain the Oceans we show the wreck of a 14th century war galley that uncovers Venice’s naval secrets; the wreck of a huge merchant ship that reveals how Venice became an economic powerhouse; and how mass graves uncovered on a Venetian island show Venice faced an enemy which even she couldn’t conquer. See Venice like you have never seen before.

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 recognised as the leading British maritime film-maker of his generation.