"Sunken Treasure... no words in the language hold more magic."

So begins Arthur C. Clarke: before 2001 - the documentary that Sci-Fi Channel called: "...eminently watchable and endearing, mainly because of the obvious nostalgic joy communicated by Clarke as narrator."

Before 2001: a space odyssey, there was Arthur C. Clarke and the Treasure of the Great Reef.

Arthur C. Clarke: before 2001 tells the true-life story of the discovery and salvage of the Great Basses Reef Treasure.

Joined by famed treasure hunter Captain Carl Fismer and adventure photo-journalist and producer Robert Lewis Knecht, Clarke recounts the exciting story of how the treasure (now known as the Taj Mahal Sunken Treasure), was discovered in 1961 by his dive partner Mike Wilson, and two American consulate boys, Mark Smith and Bob Kriegel, and then recovered in 1963 by Clarke, Wilson and their associates off the coast of his beloved Sri Lanka.