I guess there's no art Victor couldn't just dominate. He always does the land-based paintings, recently watched him do fancy filigree type stuff on a glass goblet, and here he paints ocean scenes just bursting with tumult and motion. What a talent! I usually don't care for that style of art, but Victor was just that good.

“I’ll tell you wot, he”s a hard character to keep up with, this Stuart..”. 🤣

The stars of this episode are Dr. Felipe, who was immensely enjoyable to watch and listen to, and Stewart, who made a sad, lonely trek to the top of a nearby hillside (albeit accompanied by a crew member who went under duress, LOL).

As others have mentioned the audio mix for Tony's voice-overs is bad. The music and ambient noise overpowers his voice.

I know they are mere speculation, but I really like what the drawings add to the feel of these shows.

Episode's from January 2002. Already 19 years ago. NINETEEN !!! Almost two whole decades. Man, time flies. Like it has a giant tank of ignited rocket fuel strapped to its rear end and with no clear trajectory ...or target for that matter.

The sounds is not good. The music is way too loud.

Dr Armesto's face after he makes his wager on the San Gabriel is pure gold XD

With a lack of timber finds I think the Canon, anchor and pottery were thrown overboard to lighten the load They grounded on the level and threw of the heavy to float and float away

Diving without gloves in those temperatures it's amazing he could even feel things let alone pick them up..

Thank God for Tony Robinson my time spent watching documentaries would not be the same without him

5:14 That harmonica: I can't hear that song without thinking of Quint in Jaws.

I'm sorry, but every time I see Tony Robinson, I still expect him to say "I have a cunning plan my lord!"

This has turned out to be one of my favourite episodes! Wasn’t sure how Time Team would go with an underwater oceanic archeology, but this is amazing! Thanks so much for taking the plunge in the North Sea 🌊 and thanks again Time Team!

I read in a comment on a different episode that the sound issues come from the audio being compressed when the footage is uploaded to KZfaq. I don’t know anything about audio, but the guy seemed to know what he was talking about. It’s especially bad on this one...

Hmmm, music is louder then his voice at times.

Time Team needs more than 3 days. You can't rush archeology.

So many of the documentaries i enjoy watching have such terrible sound balancing.

Episode 79 (Series 9, Episode 3), Diving for the Armada, Aired: January 20, 2002

Got to love how Tony, the narrator, is so excited to get in the water and help

Dr. Ernesto would make a fab Scarlet Pimpernel. I'd love to hear him say "Sink me."

Love these episodes. Wish they would of never stopped making them.

41:10 -- I am getting seasick just watching the video! I could not imagine being out in such rough seas in a small boat. 🤮

Gosh I love this show.

He said hthe surface supplied divers are fed a nitrogen rich mixture from surface tanks. He must have misunderstood, they would be fed an oxygen rich gas called enriched air nitrox. The depth is correct for nitrox, which will extend bottom time and reduce the chance of bends. I spent quite a number of years mixing and using it at similar depths.

"Eric the ROV." Great Python reference.

One of the best episodes.

Great show as always, thanks

6:36 - the poshness of this guy pulls his face down physically 😂

sound is poked

One of your best episodes...very informative...got love the Time Team! :)

Wonderful episode

I really love the posh 'English-accent' of Dr. Felipe Fernandez Armesto!

Another great video! Thank you for the education.

I get a nerdgasm watching others in the throws of a nerdgasm. Time Team delivers every time 😍🥰

I've always liked Time Team and the specials - Hi Tony & Phil. I've been to Malmesbury and Devizes and of course Swindon.

Great episode.

producer: "hey, trainee...this is your chance on mixing a TT documentary. are you in? don't screw it up!" trainee: 😬

Drake didn't defeat the Spanish armada, the weather did

This looks exactly like the shipwreck coast in Victoria Australia 🇦🇺 so many wrecks!

That Dr Filipe is quite the character

That one dude is really really passionate about the boats lol

Another bad sound editor!

Very interesting. Now I have to go back and research this event as I thought Drake and his men got the best of the Spanish Armada. It’s been a while since high school. 😊

watching Phil find out that remote controls exist was cute.

Well done, all!

What might be a plus to this is that time team contacted Spanish museums or uni's and find some documents relating the departure and demise of their ships that probably might be recorded somewhere? I am just guessing of course! But what an amazing episode this was 😮😁🤩

This problem with voice over makes it very unpleasant to listen to. I've noticed a few recently as released on KZfaq. I don't remember this issue from years ago when the show was on telly. Such a shame because I love Time Team! I so appreciate being able to see them again

I was going to watch this while the rest of the household had gone to bed. Unfortunately it was impossible with headphones. Such a pity. I was really looking forward to watching (& listening to) this gem of an episode. What went wrong with the audio? Could it be fixed by (converting it differently?) uploading it again?

No problem with sound at all for me.

fix the sound ples

The problem with anything where the sound is competing with the voices, anyone who wears a hearing aide ends up having to turn them down due to the building in loudness of the music and then not being able to hear the voices AT ALL.... Sadly I now remember why I never watched it back then.. and I don't even wear a hearing aide but ended up turning down volume and then only just being able to hear the voices, who knows how bad it is if you do!! And then to have to voices the same height in volume talking over each other lol... barmy! Narrating and talking on the radio, result you end up hearing neither due to distraction!!

I’m so sad I can’t hear him talk.

Please do keep them coming. Again i'll ask: when will special nr 1 be uploaded? Followed by nr. 2.. naturally. Kind regards from Denmark

There's a bit of humor in the music starting at 5:14. It's "Farewell And Adieu Fair Spanish Ladies" played on harmonica. Capt Quints song in the movie Jaws. Gotta' love an editor with a sense of humor.

Neat!

The largest ships of the invincible armada were Portuguese ships. "São Martinho" was the flagship of the "Armada", 48 canons with 3 canon decks, (São Martinho had an overall length of about 180 feet (55 m) with a beam of about 40 feet (12 m). She carried the aforementioned 48 heavy guns on two enclosed gun decks, plus multiple smaller weapons). It was the capital ship of the Invincible Spanish Armada, led by the Spanish Medina Sedonia , commander of the fleet. Today is known as one of the biggest Spanish galleons on the Spanish history even being Portuguese. It was the second largest ship in the fleet along with over 16 Portuguese ships like: The Portuguese ship São João (de Portugal). (50 guns). Vice-flagship (Fleet Almiranta). Known in Spanish as San Juan de Portugal and in English as Saint John of Portugal. Captained by Recalde (captain of this ship later in the expedition). São Marcos (33 guns). São Filipe (40 guns). São Luis (38 guns). São Mateus (34 guns). Known in Spanish as San Mateo and in English as Saint Matthew. Santiago (24 guns). Florencia (52 guns). The Tuscan-built galleon San Francisco (São Francisco in Portuguese) was appropriated, renamed and integrated within the squadron of Portuguese galleons.[3] Older Portuguese galleons like the São Lucas and the São Rafael had already been withdrawn from service; one was still in the squadron at Lisbon, but was too small and too rotted to accompany the Squadron), and she was substituted by the Florencia. The Portuguese squad were the backbone Spanish Armada, the biggest galleons, the and main target for the enemy. The average for Spanish ships as 10 to 30 guns and some times more but in the most cases less, some times Spanish ships had only 1 gun. There are reports that is frequently to see several British ships attacking a single galleon, like the galleon São Filipe alone against 16 british ships and the São Mateus alone against 10 british ships. The rate of fire of the armada was very good. The São Mateus surrender after the end of the ammunitions. In the June 31, "San Juan" get hit 300 times and fire 140 shots. In the August 2, San Martin get hit 50 times and fire 120 shots. In fact the British are in superior number and they damage the main ships of the armada focusing the fire on the big ones and the little ones are unable to help. The Portuguese galleons make the Spanish armada be called by "The Invincible Armada" until today.

I'm thoroughly interested and would love to watch but the music and sound is so loud that Tony has become someone talking in the background. I'll spare myself the inevitable resultant headache from straining to hear him and watch something else. Sorry.

That's a hell of a lee shore to be stove upon...

Some sailor told his captain "I just figured out how deep we are" after it hit the reef.

Sound is bad, can you fix?

I wonder if Tony was trying to imitate the sound of speaking through an underwater mask microphone. I'm afraid that he succeeded all too well.

The impervious horror of the Lea shore….Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. I know, I know wrong era, bit never the less appropriate.

SALUDOS DE BLAS DE LEZO DESDE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS

The audio on so many of this channels videos is messed up. The fault is in recording from tv or encoding before for youtube. Either stereo channels are missing a channel or 5.1 source is being saved incorrectly as stereo which removes some channels. Please just encode source as mono. That fixes all issues. All channels will flatten to one balanced sound. Sad because this is one of KZfaq's best channels.

For the people complaining about the sound.....I'm not sure it's as bad and unwatchable as you say.

Is this where the term Black Irish came from? I don’t know but that’s what I’ve heard and have never really looked in to it.

That’s a really small ROV!

I can’t hear ‘ Farewell and adieu fair Spanish ladies’ without picturing Jaws. It’s creepy!

58°26'24"N 5°04'16"W looks a lot like building walls and a ditch 🤔

Harvesting kelp before dragging out the magnetometer seemed a bit like good natured hazing to me, but if you've not had it trust me its worth it , kelp is quite tasty and nutritious.

Eric the half-a-bee?

The audio mixing appears to have been put through the same currents that sunk the armada

2:56 is the first time we can hear what is being said. =)

I like this program but the loud music and the number of adds puts me off.

Amazing episode. Love that they get off dry land once in a while. Tony’s voice-over I find is sometimes drowned out by music, other people talking, boat engines etc etc. A bit annoying.

Utterly ignorant question: could the ship dump the pottery and cannons hoping for some advantage against the storm?

Does anyone else think that some of the specialist they bring on for an episode are auditioning?

Do I hear Procul Harum playing Conquistador in the background?

31:56 the guy speaking here, what brand jacket is that?

27:25 "there might have been a thousand Spanish souls on a single ship". No, the largest ship of the Spanish Armada had about 500 crew and soldiers on board.

It takes an awfully large, long interval sea to move the bottom substancially 25 meters down.

The music in beginning kinda makes it hard to hear Tony. Grand episode non the less.

Longitude was not proved at the time of the Spanish Armada I believe.

Another one with noise drowning narration.

The music pushes out the talking..., couldn't understand everything :(

Voice audio is terrible on this one, overwhelmed by the music and background noise.

Had to google this wreck. Shame it hasn't been identified after this aired.

I wonder if the GEO PHYS can fixing the audio dubbing

Does no one listen to the audio before these are uploaded????? Music is way over top of the narration, it's nearly unlistenable.

This is unwatchable with the sound as it is now. And this is the official channel!?

Interesting the RAF provided a dive team, not the RN.

Music was very intrusive in this episode.

But ask yourself, WHY would royalty sail on supply ship that probably is lightly armed with only a few canons?

Fantastic episode, but the background sound is too loud

Rubbing the hardened resin with your finger in that piece of broken 3 legged pottery probably isn't the thing to do, cross-contamination and all, lol.

There is another TT and Armada, that is way over the top complete with 1990s costumes and hair. They are looking in Devon, rather than in Scotland. Must better sound and Tony has a full head!

S09E03 Diving for the Armada (Kinlochbervie, Sutherland).

My bottom-time is about half an hour at any depth!

Background music is too loud - occupational hazard of online editors