Sixty years later, the Bismarck is again the object of pursuit. Australian businessman and expedition leader Mike McDowell has assembled a crew of experienced submarine professionals, adventure tourists, and Bismarck veterans in the hopes of locating the wreckage of the Bismarck on the ocean floor. On board the leading Russian research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, the crew sails out into the North Atlantic to find the famous wreck and, unlike Dr. Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreck in 1989 but was ill-equipped to get a close look, to become the first men to see the Bismarck’s watery grave. Much of the expedition’s success rests of the performance of the Keldysh’s MIR 1 and MIR 2, high-tech submersibles capable of diving 6000 meters, a necessity for a mission searching for a sunken battleship at a reported 4750 meters.

Alternating between the story of the present day mission for the Bismarck and the Bismarck’s own expedition sixty years previously, our documentary attempts to bridge the past and the present with a successful “Return to the Bismarck,” with breathtaking underwater footage in high definition of one of the most infamous battleships in modern memory.