This is a new version of the story with great CGI images and is factually accurate. It explores and dismisses the common theories well, and settles on the alcohol explosion, demonstrated using a model of the ship by two chemists at the University of Manchester.
Highly recommended - you can stream it from their website If your IP is in the United Kingdom -or- visits via a VPN.
For more than 150 years, the mystery of the 'ghost ship' Mary
Celeste has baffled the world. Why was a perfectly sound ship
apparently abandoned mid-voyage? What happened to its crew?
Conspiracy theories have pointed to pirates, mutiny and sea
monsters, but now, science can provide a definitive answer.
At the heart of this film is a large-scale lab experiment revealing how a
powerful but non-destructive explosion, caused by leaking alcohol
cargo, could have terrified the crew into abandoning ship.
