The First Submarine. An international team, led by Professor Chris Wise and Dr Caroline Baillie , is challenged to replicate a 17th-century submarine that rowed under water. But, in the first of a four-part re-run, that task is harder than they imagined, particularly since the inventor of the craft, Cornelius Drebbel , left no account of his work. Producer Danielle Peck ; Series producer Jane Aldous