"On the edge of australias Great Barrier Reef divers are investigating the remains of an extraordinary ship" "HMS Pandora" "Over 200 years ago she was sent to the other side of the world to hunt down the infamous mutineers from the Bounty" "Having captured fourteen of them the Pandora was on her way back to england when disaster struck" "This is the story of her incredible voyage" "Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea" "Pandoras Secrets" "Pandoras Secrets 65 nautical miles off the coast of" "Northern australia maritime archaeologist Peter Gesner and his team are about to excavate the wreck of the Pandora" "She lies over 1 00 feet below them" "How she got there is one of the greatest untold stories of naval history" "Its part of a very big event that was happening at the time in" "Europe Europeans were becoming very interested in faraway places they were becoming very interested in foreign exotic cultures they were exploring and this is this is a ship that represents that that whole theme if you will of the inquiry of exploration" "The added bonus I suppose the cream on the cake is the fact that it was associated with Mutiny of the Bounty and that is probably the greatest and romanticised sea story of all time" "Peter hopes that buried in the sands below will be clues to the Pandoras iII-fated voyage" "She had sailed here from Portsmouth on the other side of the world" "She was only the fifteenth vessel to have done so since Captain Cooks Endeavour 1 2 years before" "Having crossed the uncharted and unpredictable South Pacific the Pandora was on her way home" "Her mission had been a success" "On board in chains were fourteen of the mutineers from the Bounty" "only the Great Barrier Reef stood between them and a triumphant return" "The fear of being in the water and sort of descending its almost like swimming through a trap door to the past and I have a tremendous affinity with the people that actually sort of walked the planks and walked the decks" "Peters team have just four weeks in which to uncover the secrets" "Pandoras crew left behind over 200 years ago" "detailed research has already revealed the essential facts it was the evening of the 29th August 1 792" "whilst searching for a safe passage through the reefs a violent storm blew up" "The Pandora was forced onto a reef where she smashed first her bow and then her stern" "As the swell subsided she drifted over it and out into deeper water where she eventually keeIed over and sank intact" "As she settled onto the bottom two processes began" "Over time the bottom 1 2 feet of the ship became buried whilst the masts the upper-deck and the focksaiI rotted away" "Where these two processes met is what the archaeologists see today" "Peter and the team have already uncovered some extraordinary finds" "beautifully preserved for over 200 years they form a vivid picture of naval life in the 1 8th Century" "This soup tureen once graced the captains table" "And this ornate pocket-watch once belonged to the ships surgeon" "Its hands frozen at ten-past eleven" "A few hours after the ship sank" "Today the Pandora is almost completely covered by sand" "Peters team will excavate down into the lieutenants and the captains storerooms and into the front of the ship where the ordinary sailors lived" "They are looking for personal items that will help them shed light on this iII-fated mission" "The Pandora left Portsmouth with a crew of 1 26 men on the morning of November 7th 1 790" "She was heading for the Bountys last known destination the island of Tahiti" "Her captain was Edward Edwards an unimaginative man who many thought would fall" "On board with him was a young midshipman called George ReynoIds with his eye on a Iong overdue promotion he was quick to leave his sweetheart behind" "For ships doctor George hamilton the voyage offered the chance to make his fortune" "Missions like this were rare and he planned to publish a book about his adventures" "His first observations were about the cramped conditions on board" "Like weeviIs we had to eat a hole in our bread before we had a place to lay down in Every cabin the captains not excepted being filled with provisions and stores" "The ship was carrying enough food and provisions to last over a year" "To add to the crush she was also carrying extra equipment in order to bring home HMS Bounty when and if they found her" "Even today lack of space is still the biggest problem at sea" "Weve got twenty-two people on board here who live actually living here" "And its amazing how on a ship not very much bigger than this there were 1 26 people" "Im six foot four and the deck-head height on the Pandora would have come up to about my chest especially where the seamen had their hammocks stowed and everything For the officers it wouId have been a bit more spacious" "But certainly below decks it wouId have been tight" "Apart from the conditions on board" "Captain Edwards biggest problem was navigation" "One of the things Peters looking for is the tools he used to get this far" "A huge coraI-Iike lump has been found near the captains store-room and it seems theres something buried within it" "It could be a spare compass binnacle similar to the one we found last year" "I mean it makes sense for it to be there if its the officers store you know they keep sextants anything to do with navigation keep it there But will it be easy to bring up" "well yes I mean we have to break it off into quite manageable chunks and try to keep the artefacts together or keep them so they keep their integrity I think the danger is of trying to bring it up as one piece that you could break parts of it" "you could break artefacts and at Ieast we can see what were doing down there and do it carefully" "Breaking up the huge lump is risky" "But its too big to be raised intact" "Whatevers inside has long been entombed within a hard coating called concretion" "It forms a protective layer preserving metal objects for centuries" "Using an X-ray to penetrate the coating they can see the lump is actually a sextant" "And after 200 years its still intact" "Once the concretion is removed the instrument is almost perfect" "Even the original markings survive" "Buried alongside the sextant is what appears to be a telescope perhaps used by midshipman George ReynoIds to keep sight of land" "Deep within the wreck the team has made an extraordinary discovery human bones a rare find which has amazed the archaeologists" "Peter has gone back to the records to see if he can find out who the bones belong to and why they were inside the wreck" "The question for Peter and his team is:who were they and what were they doing there" "The bones have been sent for analysis to Damon Steptoe and Doctor wally Wood at Brisbane University" "There were three distinct human individuals which we named Tom Dick and Harry" "Tom would have been a very solid individual looking at his Iower-jaw for example its very robust" "His whole skeleton is very robust" "If we look at Toms uIna here sitting here in his arm you can see that this muscular ridging here is relatively marked which indicates that his forearm muscles may have been fairly strong" "He wasnt very old because hes died at roughly the age of 1 7" "Looking at Toms right tibia we can see that theres an unnatural curvature there" "Its probably rickets because the youngsters didn't get enough exposure to sunlight particularly or eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables and things" "If they dont have enough vitamin D the bones become soft and they bend and so they can end up with sort of bow-Ieggedness" "In contrast Dick was a weaker man" "His bones are smaller than Toms" "But theres no sign of any illnesses or hard labour" "This is an important clue" "Its been suggested that because his general health was a Iot better than say Tom or even perhaps Harrys that he may have been slightly upper-cIass on board the ship for example an officer" "After hours of research Peter thinks he may have found evidence to explain why Tom and Dick were found within the ship" "Hed found a survivors account which explains how two men were killed shortly before the ship sank" "One was hit by a faIIing mast and the other was crushed by a cannon" "Now in the interests of keeping up morale obviously these two men wouldn't have just been left lying around on the deck they would have been taken down below" "to be disposed of in the correct later on once theyd saved the ship cos that was their first priority" "And that explains for instance why we found human remains deep inside inside the ship" "But it doesnt explain who the third skeleton belongs to" "Harry was found in the captains cabin surrounded by silver buttons and a buckle" "Most of his bones are missing but his skull is in perfect condition" "Peters hoping forensic anatomist Mayer Sutisno will flesh out the mystery" "Mayer is more used to putting a face to modern day skulls" "well its gonna be the first time that I'm actually going to reconstruct a 200 year old skull" "Its very Caucasian the nose" "Mayer has made a perfect copy of Harrys skull and added markers to represent the thickness of his flesh" "Now these tissue depth markers they represent the thickness of soft tissue for a Caucasian male" "You know when they say beauty is skin deep it isn't beauty reaches far down to the bone" "Because you can even tell for example see his nose lets focus on his nasal area its so obvious to me that when in life he had a nose thats more leaning to one side and like as if hes been in a fight or something" "Why Because the nasal bone the way it grows see its so smooth on this side but on this side its sort of like protruding out" "Its like its been pushed to one side" "Now that only indicates that the outward appearance of the nose would be that way too and how the nose is going to project" "First of all what I will do is start replacing the cranial facial muscles back onto the skull like all the muscles of the face and the head" "The blue represents the deeper stronger facial muscles whilst the green represents the muscles used for facial expression" "One man who could have helped" "Mayers identification was the Pandoras midshipman George ReynoIds" "But over 200 years later his descendants are revisiting the past in an effort to Iearn more about their ancestor" "Im named after the man" "He went through a very interesting experience which I didnt learn about - really learn about until quite late in life" "So the more I can find out now the better" "My uncle John in fact is the you know the great source of information within the family much of it I think is still in his head" "Its not - its not recorded" "And I think it wouId be very useful to have a formal you know a written record a history that can pass on from my generation to the next to the next and so on into the future" "A midshipman was you know it was a very very lowly rank" " I mean" "like being an officer cadet" "A tough life And rotten rations rotten food" "Its not very appealing in many ways" "And to go out to australia or the South Pacific islands I mean fantastic" "I mean in those days it must have been a huge adventure" "england in the 1 700s was a highly strict and deeply religious society" "The young George ReynoIds would have been completely unprepared for a life free of the strictures of original sin that he was to find when he arrived in Tahiti" "After the hell of Iife on board" "Pandoras crew were presented with a vision of paradise" "They had no idea what kind of reception they would receive" "They did know that nearly two years earlier" "FIetcher Christian had returned here in the Bounty after inciting a mutiny and casting Captain BIigh and eighteen others adrift" "On the Iook-out the Pandora cruised the coastline before weighing anchor in Matavai Bay on the north side of the island" "almost immediately she was met by a canoe" "A local told Captain Edwards that FIetcher Christian had long since sailed away in the Bounty but that fourteen mutineers were still on the island" "When ashore Captain Edwards was met by several of the Bountys crew desperate to plead their innocence With no space left on BIighs boat they had been forced to stay with the mutineers" "Captain BIigh noted their reluctance at the time and two years later those that remained thought the Pandora had come to rescue them" "But Captain Edwards had them all put in irons anyway" "Six mutineers anxious to stay in paradise fled into the mountains" "Edwards dispatched his best soldiers to hunt them down" "It took eighteen days to round them all up" "AII fourteen of the prisoners guilty and innocent alike were then caged in a specially built eleven foot wooden cell on the top deck known as Pandoras Box" "It was like a sauna with two tiny iron gratings supplying the only air-fIow" "For the next twenty-nine days the crew set about resuppIying the ship" "The island was a paradise and the sailors quickly succumbed to the charms of South Sea life" "They soon discovered that the price of a night with Venus was just one iron nail" "The ships Doctor hamilton also sampled the local pleasures and made notes of what he saw" "Two ladies fancifuIIy dressed were introduced after a little ceremony" "Something resembling a turkey cocks feather and stuck on their rumps in a kind of fan fashion had a very good effect on us whilst the ladies kept their faces to us" "But when in a bending attitude they presented their rumps the effect is better conceived than desired" "AII good things have to come to an end and so on the 9th May the Pandora left Tahiti to continue the hunt for FIetcher Christian and the others" "whilst their captain relentlessly pursued his mission" "life for the ordinary sailors was looking up" "Their journey took them to many beautiful islands where they were able to trade trinkets for local treasures" "Back home these treasures such as war clubs and ornate fishing-hooks were seen as highly exotic and would fetch a high price" "The proceeds from just one of these huge conch shells would be enough for a man to retire" "And theyd take them back to Europe back to england and they could get quite a bit of money for these particular items" "And the purser Bentham was known historically known to be had been connected to Joseph Banks who had toured the South Pacific earlier with Cook" "So you know this one could have been his it could have been another one of the sailors We have no idea" "But going probably destined for Europe for a collection somewhere a private collection" "Everybody from what weve found up in the bow the ordinary people were also collecting the same sorts of things as the officers were collecting" "So you know if anybody would have thought that its only because of a certain status that you had access to them that that doesnt that doesn't follow" "Down on the sea floor work continues" "Every object even this tiny piece of a once giant war club will tell them something about what life was like in the Pacific over 200 years ago" "As well as the sailors souvenirs" "Peter and his team are interested in the objects they took with them from england" "Every tiny piece found has to be examined" "Objects can be confused with pieces of coral" "These musket-baIIs are a chilling reminder that the Pandora was a warship prepared to use force to achieve her aims" "The team dives in relay" "Their work time strictly limited because of the dangers of working so deep" "The biggest danger the divers face is the painful and often life threatening condition known as the bends" "At depths divers absorb high levels of nitrogen they must flush it out of their system before returning to the surface" "They do this here on a platform 30 feet under the boat" "But somethings gone wrong" "They were decompressing on air instead of on oxygen because apparently the oxygen ran out while they were on the deco-seat" "Its every divers nightmare" "If they arent treated quickly they'II get the bends" "You've got to get them in there and you know you've got a certain time window to get them in there you've got to get them back down to a depth within seven minutes" "So you know you cant just loll about go and have a cup of tea" "The divers are hurried into the decompression chamber" "Ships doctor Stuart Lavender stands anxiously by" "With the chamber in use the doctor shuts all other diving down" "The expedition costs $1 8000 a day so this is a problem they could all do without" "To make matters worse the ships oxygen cylinders are leaking and although there is over a weeks supply left they have no idea if they can get more" "We have done everything that we can to ensure that this problem doesnt arise And" "Peters frantically negotiating delivery of replacement gas" "But the companys refusing to deliver it free as agreed but thats what I was told thats whats been noted in all our on all our day books and we made a decision on that basis" "If we pull the plug and we turn back to TownsaII were going to have to tell the people in TownsaII why weve done that and the only reason that weve done it is because we do not have sufficient O2" "Its that simple" "Weve lost him" "Its the Iast thing Peter needs" "Doctor Lavender is having better luck" "To the teams relief after two and a half hours in the chamber the divers show no symptoms of the bends and can be released" "200 years ago the ships doctor on the Pandora George hamilton had to rely on little more than his wits and a few trusted instruments" "So how did he manage" "In terms of equipment he was carrying he would have had devices to allow him to bIood-Iet" "He had tourniquets" "This would be for use for amputations" "We've seen a pestle which is a pestle and mortar and he presumably would have would have used that for making up and grinding up various herbs and bits and pieces to make up potions and lotions" "I have to say all mine come already made up in boxes and bottles" "And I dont make up too much on board" "At one time in their lives over 40% of the Pandoras crew would have had some kind of venereal disease" "The remedies that were employed included things such as instilling mercury into the bladder through the penis" "fairly ineffectual I might add" "The saying was that you had one night with Venus and six with Mercury" "hamilton wrote about the various cures he used in his book" "Some like tea and sugar are still in use today" "This being the first time it has been employed in His Majestys service" "When sickness takes a loathing of all animal foods follows" "And tea becomes their only existence" "historical research into HamiItons account can only reveal so much" "Mayers work is able to bring us closer" "She has completed the foundation for Harrys face and is now working on his principle features" "They say Caucasians nostrils they're about five millimetres to each side of the nasal opening" "Everything she had done so far is confirming her original predictions" "His battered face is beginning to take shape" "Back at the excavation there are more surprises" "several other bones have been uncovered" "For the moment the team is baffled" "The ships doctor has been brought in to help them identify exactly what they have found" "This looks like a metatarsal or a metacarpal in which case far from being small its enormous" "I don't think you know look at my hand or my foot" "This is again I think I'd say almost certainly its a bone from cattle I would imagine" "One I need to identify the bone if you could if possible but two just bring out just point out to you those little even striations on there that look to me sort of like a knife mark or a butchering mark" "I think you need a vet not a doctor" "Were looking at the Iast meal of the Spare ribs of the sailors on the Pandora" "As well as finding evidence of the Iast meal they're finding the tableware they would have used" "Weve got everything from bread and butter plates to soup tureens to large platters smaller dishes things like that and its just" "a lovely little aside to life in the 1 8th Century especially in the Navy" "And we were dredging along this way and found just a couple of bricks ballast bricks in this area and weve got a good metal tray like metal" "Yeah Looks metal rectangular tray With sort of a wide rim two handles maybe about that deep" "Its hard to tell whether its one single tray or whether it might be two because of that double rim and there might be something inside of it" "But theres certainly other objects and things attached" "closer examination shows there are two trays of the kind that would have been used to cook meat or carry food to the table" "Hundreds of beautiful pieces of tableware have been found protected by the sand and silt at the bottom of the ocean their state of preservation is extraordinary even after 200 years" "But the archaeologists have been lucky:" "due to the rough weather and rolling of the ship the china would have been tightly packed and stored securely down on the lower decks" "It would have been the only way to ensure they survived the rough journey" "One thing that hasnt changed since the Pandora sailed these waters is the unpredictable tropical storms on the Great Barrier Reef" "The weather genie has popped out of its jar and it doesnt like us" "And were right sort of there" "Sort of at the edge the edge of an intensifying low" "Thats actually the cyclone thats down South at the moment thats down in Cairns and that only looks a small distance but it actually is 400 miles" "On the 29th August 1 791 a storm was brewing as the Pandora approached this part of the reef" "Captain Edwards and the crew were in high spirits their missionhad been a success and they were heading for home" "But their luck was about to run out" "Back on deck the bad weather is threatening the dive" "As the Pandora got closer to the reef the storm was getting worse" "They knew there was a way through but it was dangerous" "To play it safe" "Captain Edwards stopped her just a few miles from where the expedition boat is anchored today and sent out Lieutenant Corner in a launch to find a way through" "The launch returned and it was late in the afternoon and Edwards was actually being very careful because hed already lost two boats with some crew and he didnt want to lose a third one" "So he actually came in to the passage or he was pushed into the passage so that he could pick up the boat before nightfall and not lose it" "As the crew struggled to get Lieutenant Corner back on board the Pandora began to drift" "With a ghastly ripping and splintering of wood she hit an isolated outcrop of reef" "The carpenter reported that within five minutes she had 1 8 inches of water in the hold" "Fifteen minutes later this had risen to 9 feet" "Just before daybreak the officers finally decided the Pandora was lost" "The fourteen terrified prisoners begged to be released" "only as the waters rushed over the deck did Edwards give the order" "Thirty-five lives were lost that night" "Tom Dick and Harry went down with the ship" "Their crewmates floated off into the wild Pacific storm" "The survivors including Edwards the captain hamilton and reynolds managed to clamber into the tenders and struggled to the nearest piece of land" "We know from the accounts and the eye-witness accounts the survivor accounts that after the Pandora was wrecked they went to a sand cay about four miles away from the wreck" "We know that they built some shelters on here with the sails although the mutineers the people who had actually been in the box they were shunted off to one side of the island and all they could do to get shelter was to bury themselves in the sand" "It must have been horrendous just baking in the sun without any shelter whatsoever because theres not a skerrick of vegetation around" "Midshipman ReynoIds objected strongly to the way Edwards treated the mutineers" "His descendant echoes his views" "He had spare sail sheeting that he could have covered them with kept them manacIed fair enough but he could have covered them so they werent sunburnt" "Instead of which they were left naked and they had to bury themselves in the sand to stop themselves from being burned to death" "I mean that is not a kind man" "I think Edwards is very much maligned and everyone says hes such a bastard and hes such a cruel man but he was just following his orders and he was doing what any prudent captain would do and he just was unlucky" "Most of the crews personal possessions went down with the ship" "But George ReynoIds managed to%save a treasured item" "It would later inspire him to verse" "Its as you see a glove which belonged to one of George ReynoIdss girlfriends" "Its certainly not his wifes because she wasnt around at the time of the sinking of Pandora" "This appears to refer to the wreck" "I dont know whether you can read it" "AII round the world the gallant ship on rock was cast a pledge of faithful womans love remembered trifIes of the past" "After two days in the baking sand cay the survivors cIambered into four open boats and Edwards successfully navigated them across open seas for a thousand miles" "On board their supplies consisted of just two ounces of biscuit and two wine glasses of water per man per day" "They made it to Timor in Indonesia" "But on arrival the Dutch Governor had a surprise in store for them" "He said oh you people are British you're shipwreck sailors" "I've got another group of people here who claim that they're shipwreck sailors too" "And Edwards would have sat up and thought oh maybe they're part of the Bounty crew" "So it turned out they were escaped convicts from New South wales" "The Dutch people said to them look these people are British" "Your problem You take them" "For Edwards things were going from bad to worse" "His mission had nearly failed" "Hed lost his ship and thirty-five men" "Now he had extra prisoners to deal with" "He set off back to england knowing full well he would be court-martiaIIed for the loss of his ship" "Back at the excavation are looking up the Iong-awaited oxygen has arrived" "This barge that you see in the distance has come in from Thursday island with forty G-cyIinders to replenish our supply" "It means we can keep working" "And just in time because the divers have discovered something intriguing" "Its a Iarge italian earthenware storage jar found towards Pandoras bows" "But why is it here where the ordinary sailors stored their belongings" "Desperate to take a look inside they're going to bring it up" "The jar weighs well over 1 00Ibs so moving it is a risky business" "The divers carefully add air to the bag which will lift the jar" "Too little and it wont rise too much and it will shoot out of control" "But just below the surface something goes wrong" "No one knows what's happened" "As the jar is unwrapped its clear its broken" "An air bubble has expanded and shattered the jar" "But whats inside proves to have been worth the risk" "Oh you can smell the did you smell the aroma of a sort of rotting hide rotting leather things like that So it gives us a bit of an idea" "It looks like a tooI-box of some sort" "From its contents they can tell that it wouldn't have been a sailors more likely a saiI-maker whose job relied on having spare tacks and fabric to repair the Pandoras twenty massive sails" "It could be a home rivet kit" "I think theyre rivets" "Theyre rivets Look at you can see to one side its got an incision" "Looks as if its made to snap off" "I think theyre home-made rivets for riveting system" "Tacks and rivets" "With this new evidence they may be able to pinpoint the original owner" "There were few saiI-makers aboard and this is a Iarge tooI-box so it could have belonged to a senior saiI-maker like alexander Arbutnot one of the thirty-five men who died on the Pandora" "could Harry have been this saiI-maker" "In order to find out" "Peters travelled to Sydney to see if dentist" "Professor Chris Griffiths can help identify how old Harry was when he died" "This knowledge will help narrow the field to perhaps a handful of people" "Hes had a fairly rugged life especially around his head some major injuries to his face in an early time where hes had this section around the eye here pushed in and its different from the other side" "Hes got this great overgrowth of bone around the nose here where hes had this fracturing of the nose" "And its really affected his top jaw or his topis very very narrow compared to a normal adult say here Theres the width of the palate there so its about twice twice the width" "And in fact normally your teeth upper teeth bite outside your lower teeth but in this case his upper teeth there bite inside his lower teeth" "So in fact we shouldn't call him Harry at all we should call him Fred the ferret" "This bloke would have had a very nasty toothache at some stage" "He's got a great big hole in one of these teeth here in this molar here on the Ieft side" "And in fact the abscess you could see on the inside of the the lower jaw actually blew a hole right through the pus had blown a hole through the inside of the jaw and drained that way" "So he had bad breath" "Hes what late twenties or" "Can take an X-ray there" "But his wisdom teeth have closed so he's definitely over 21" "Looking at the wear on the teeth the amount of periodontal disease he's got or pyorrhea the calculus or tartar deposits" "I'd say hes probably in his thirties" "Oh a great result a really good result" "Im very pleased with it" "Now that we really know that hes an older person 28 29 30 31 that can eliminate a Iot of names" "I'd say that obviously the teenagers and the early twenties will be eliminated" "And I think we can probably reduce it down to about five or six people" "It's the moment Peter has been waiting for" "Mayer has finished the reconstruction of Harry and they're about to come face to face" "I don't think he has any idea what the face is going to look like There he is" "I've finally finished" "Yeah" "Are you ready to see him" "Im very curious" "Okay Very curious indeed" "well Peter Gesner now meet Harry" "Meet Harry" "My word he looks almost like Boris KarIof" "Gee Look at that" "Harry My gosh" "I didn't expect him to have such a such a funny nose" "A funny nose" "Yeah" "finally Peter is able to stare into the face of a man who sailed on the Pandora" "The question is who was he" "He was found in the captains store room and you know I have a theory that he might have just been a very confused person and he knew he was going to die and he just went down in the captains store-room" "to get roaring drunk because he was going to die anyway" "There was a guy called Arbutnot for instance Wow" "Or a guy called Robert bowler" "So he might be one of them" "There are just Were they all the sailors there or" "Yeah They were older people more experienced and they would have had certain specialisations and he's probably one of those" "Yeah" "And if he is Robert bowler he would have had a legitimate reason for being down there" "So its quite possible that he's then Robert bowler" "I mean and that fits with the age" "Because bowler was probably an older man" "So its almost I'II probably dream about him you know tonight He's probably his eyes will open and he'II say" "I'm not Robert bowler or something like that" "If he is Robert bowler then he was the pursers steward the man who paid the Pandoras crew their wages" "Back in england after an epic journey of nearly 30000 miles" "Captain Edwards was court-martiaIIed for the loss of his ship and eventually cleared of any blame" "Doctor George hamilton published his book 200 years later its still in print" "George ReynoIds eventually got his promotion" "He married and raised four children" "The surviving mutineers weren't so lucky" "They were tried at Portsmouth" "Six were found guilty and three were publicly hung" "The remainder were acquitted or pardoned and one even finished his career as a respected captain" "The fate of FIetcher Christian and the other mutineers wasn't discovered for another sixteen years" "They had settled on Pitcairn island just two days sail from the Pandoras route" "With the expedition at an end it is now time to fit the pieces of Pandoras enormous puzzle together" "What they have discovered so far forms the basis of one of the most detailed studies of a shipwreck ever undertaken" "Having been lost for over 200 years the Pandora will never be lost again" "along with the memories of Edwards ReynoIds hamilton and the pursers steward Robert bowler the Pandora still holds many secrets that wait silently beneath the shifting sands of the Great Barrier Reef"