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A death-defying rescue of two drowning scientists plunges Dirk Pitt into a whirlpool of corruption and betrayal. Sinister criminals have traced a long-lost treasure-worth almost a billion dollars-from the Andes Mountains to a chamber on the banks of a hidden river that flows beneath a desert. Driven by burning greed, the criminals are racing to seize a golden prize...and to terminate the one man who can stop them: Dirk Pitt.

Mrs. Johnson's fifth grade class goes to visit the O. Orkin Insect Zoo at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Host LeVar Burton sets off in his jeep to explore the mystery surrounding the life and death of the dinosaur.