Really though, it just takes imagination sometimes, and the will to see it through. This is where French archeologist Franck Goddio comes in. A legend in his own right, he left a career in finance in the early ’80’s to focus on underwater archeology, which was his first passion. After founding the Institut European d’archeologie Sous-Marine (IEASM) in Paris, he set out to methodically find lost shipwrecks and sunken cities.

To date he’s found Spanish Galleons, the lost fleet of Napoleon, ships from the British East India Company, and in 2000, he discovered Thonis-Heracleion.

He’s also gained some notoriety for finding a cup inscribed with a Greek reference to “Christ”, dating from the second century C.E. So he’s even possibly found the Holy Grail. He’s Indiana Jones and Nathan Drake, all in one.