The sinking of HMS Hood by Bismarck - Maritime Documentary

The 'mighty' Hood was the pride of the British Navy for more than 20 years, revered around the world as the largest and most powerful warship afloat. But when it was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck off the coast of Greenland on 24 May 1941, its end was shockingly swift. Hood's shattered hull sank in minutes and only three of its crew survived. In the largest loss of life ever suffered in a British warship, 1415 were killed. For decades, no one has been able to discover why the Hood sank so quickly and two official Boards of Inquiry investigated but failed to explain the tragedy. In 2001, the wreck was discovered for the first time, but the investigation was largely inconclusive. Now two of the world's leading shipwreck detectives have returned to crack the puzzle of the Hood's end. The programme follows deep water search and recovery expert David Mearns and marine archaeologist Innes McCartney as they search the wreck with a state-of-the-art remotely operated vehicle.