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Drain The Ocean: Ghost Ships

Tuesday 09.00pm

National geographic

Drain The Ocean: Ghost Ships

Tuesday 09.00pm

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WHEN TO WATCH

Sunday 15 December 12.00am
Drain the Ocean: Deep Sea Mysteries (Season 1)
Monday 16 December 11.00am
The Amber Room (Season 5)
Tuesday 17 December 11.00am
The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship (Season 6)

Synopsis

Explore a world never seen before - a world hidden under miles of water, the landscape of the Atlantic sea bed. What do we really know about this more than 41 million square miles of open ocean, and why is it's floor covered with wrecks? Are there strange, supernatural forces or deadly forces of mother nature at work here? And can science help explain the reasons behind the large number of sunken ships and aircrafts? Join expeditions to dive long-lost vessels, and follow the scientists who are probing the darkest and deepest corners of this underwater world. We make use of the latest technology and sonar data to 'drain' the Bermuda Triangle, and long lost vessels scatted across the Atlantic sea floor. Computer generated, three-dimensional maps will offer the first glimpse of these mysteries.

Episodes

Season 6

Season 6
Season 5
Season 4
Season 3
Season 2
Season 1
Extra

The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship
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Fragments of porcelain and blocks of beeswax lead to a 250-year-old shipwreck and a forgotten trade route of vast cargo ships in the Pacific.
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Tuesday 17 December 11.00am
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Rise of the Mob
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Hidden in the oceans, lakes and rivers of the US lie wrecks revealing secrets to the rise to power of the American Mob in the 1920s.
Secrets of the Dinosaurs
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Palaeontologists journey from Patagonia to Canada to overturn popular misconceptions about dinosaurs and uncover the real Jurassic Americas.
Alaska
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The hunt for a legendary ghost ship in Alaska reveals a corner of the United States once known as “Russian America.”
Invasion USA
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A shipwreck is thought to be a lost flagship from the War of 1812, and an artist uncovers her ancestor’s link to the burning of the White House.
$20 Million time bomb
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The true story of one of the darkest crimes on the high seas; the sinking of the MV Lucona and its crew, all to claim a massive insurance pay out.

Pearl Harbor
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Draining Hawaiʻi reveals Japan's secret weapons, from mini-subs to fighter planes, with the wreck of USS Arizona a reminder of the forces unleashed.
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Tuesday 17 December 09.00pm
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Battle Secrets
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War is as inevitable as the tides, and for centuries, ocean battles have claimed countless souls. Now, can we reveal some of their last moments?
The Secrets of Pompeii's Dead
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New discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum reveal the identities and final moments of those trapped during the eruption of a volcano 2000 years ago.
The Amber Room
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A new wreck discovery in the Baltic Sea leads explorers on a hunt for the world’s greatest lost treasure, and reveals the story of Germany’s ‘Dunkirk’.
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Monday 16 December 11.00am
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Thursday 26 December 09.00pm
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The Alamo
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Drowned shipwrecks and lost battlefields reveal secrets of America’s most famous siege and tell how Texas, against all odds, secured its independence.
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Wednesday 18 December 11.00am
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Lost Graves
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Intrepid marine archaeologists shine a new light on graves long lost to the depths, coaxing secrets from their forgotten bones.
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Sunday 12 January 11.00pm
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Ancient Maya Resurrection
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New discoveries made at a lost city and a human sacrifice deep within an underwater cave reveal secrets about the rise and fall of the ancient Maya.
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Thursday 19 December 11.00am
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Narcos
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A mysterious plane wreck in the Caribbean and secret tunnels along America’s border with Mexico reveal the scale of the unrelenting war against drugs.
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Friday 20 December 11.00am
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Venice's Lost Empire
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A 14th-century galley entombed in mud, a 16th-century hoard of luxury cargo, and a gruesome discovery reveal the rise and fall of the Venetian Empire.
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Monday 30 December 09.00am
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Pirate Coasts
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New discoveries unearth the true story behind this infamous pirate coast and some of its villainous fortune seekers.
The Wild West
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Uncovered clues from a famous Montana battleground, a 19th-century steamboat and a frontier ghost town reveal surprising truths about the Wild West.
Ghost Ships
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Secrets of the Mary Rose, Quedagh Merchant, and Clotida are uncovered…revealing details about what brought them down and the fate of countless souls.
Vanished
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They disappeared without a trace or a soul to tell the tale. Shipwrecks so mysterious, their fate became the stuff of legends, until now.
Hollywood
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From a buried film set to a WW1 Navy ship and old fishing barge, we discover the role these ruins played in Hollywood movie-making history.
Lost Treasures of Egypt
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Using the latest technology and research, a missing ancient wonder and once fabled city of the early Egyptian world are discovered beneath the Nile.
The Great Barrier Reef
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The mysterious sinking of Australia’s “Titanic”, a warship on a dangerous mission, and a ROV expedition searching for clues at the bottom of the reef.
Sea of Secrets
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The Black Sea is a place of myth and legend and ships have sailed on its waters for millennia. Three wrecks unlock secrets of this mysterious sea.
Lost Flights
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WWII’s greatest aviation mysteries brought to the surface for the first time. Revealing the real story lies as much in the sea, as it does it the air.
Monsters, Curses Adn Treasure
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The Loch Ness Monster, the Bermuda Triangle, and the city of Atlantis - science is helping to uncover the truth behind these legendary sea mysteries.
Hurricane Apocalypse
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Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes’ impacts on America’s past and its future.
The Battle for the Black Swan
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Archaeologists and treasure hunters battle it out over half a billion dollars worth of gold and silver. Who will win the Battle for the Black Swan?
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Tuesday 24 December 10.00am
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Pacific's Deadly Triangle
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The Pacific Ocean is the scene of the largest maritime war in history. Ships lost in the Pacific during WWII, found for the first time.
America's Sunken History
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A 'freedom runner', an iconic Union ship, and notorious Confederate vessel reveal a nation divided on its economic foundation…slavery.
The First Americans
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Clues from a 13,000-year-old skeleton and a submerged coastline reveal surprising insights about the first humans to arrive in the Americas.

Drain The Atomic Ghost Fleet
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Atomic explosions on ships at sea. The USA's largest thermonuclear bomb. A new survey using extraordinary CGI explores the dawn of the Nuclear Age.
Top Seceret Wrecks
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Pearl Harbor, HMS Prince of Wales, and USS Lexington share one thing in common, they were all sunk by the Japanese Imperial Navy. They left behind a tragic trail of wreckage on the ocean floor.
Deep Lake Mysteries
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Discover underwater secrets of Ancient Egypt, Loch Ness, and the California Gold Rush. With scientific data and unique graphics, we reveal a world of Sunken ships, mysterious creatures, and historical wonders.
Drain Egypt's Sunken City
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A mythical Ancient Egyptian city, now lies buried beneath the waves of the Mediterranean. After 2000 years existing only in legend, we finally reveal its secrets.
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Tuesday 24 December 11.00am
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Wednesday 1 January 01.00pm
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Drain The Battle of Britain
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The summer of 1940 great britain stands alone against the nazis. Now we uncover the wrecks that reveal the real truth on how britain won the battle of britain and kept the allies in the second world war.
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Friday 27 December 06.00pm
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Drain The Superports
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The port cities of Rome, London, and New York hide secrets of their beginning under the waves. Protected and harbored by the sea, how they matured into the powerhouses of today is a surprising story of innovation, tragedy, power and intrigue.
Drain The Viking Seas
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Of all the wrecks lying at the bottom of the Baltic, perhaps the most spectacular is the battleship the Mars. Only recently discovered, she is finally ready to give up her secrets.
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Tuesday 24 December 09.00am
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Drain The Ancient Empires
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Deep beneath the worlds ocean lie the shattered remains of ancient wrecks. As the water drains away whats revealed is an age old story of epic battles between empires jockeying to rule the oceans.
Drain The Sunken War Machines
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Sea mines are one naval warfares most reliable sunken weapons. Poised and ready to take down anything that crosses their path. While many have been swept out of existence, some of these incendiary devices lie abandoned under our oceans.
Drain The American Revolution
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Forgotten wrecks from the American Revolution are discovered in the United States. Cutting-edge computer graphics drains away the water and sheds new light on the struggle for independence.
Drain America's Last Slave Ship
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Draining slave ships around the world reveals the rise of global phenomena: The transatlantic slave trade. Archaeologists investigate a wreck that could be the last ever slave ship to bring Africans to American soil.
Drain Raiders of The Civil War
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The American Civil War was unlike any that came before it. Draining American rivers, seas and oceans reveals military tactics that re-wrote the rules of warfare forever.
Drain Pirate Ships of The Caribbean
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Uncovering the long lost shipwrecks of legendary Captains reveals why - above all other seas - the Caribbean became famous for pirates.
Drain Chicago
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Underwater exploration reveals astonishing secrets: terrifying disasters, war winning heroics, and an engineering marvel that saves the city.
Drain The Last Wrecks of WWII
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Hitler's latest weapons sink during top secret U-boat mission. An American aviation breakthrough brings victory to the Allies in the Pacific.

Secrets of D-Day
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Using the latest sonar technology, a unique expedition to map sunken Allied vessels off the Normandy Coast reveals stunning images from beneath the waves.
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Saturday 4 January 06.00pm
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Sunken Weapons of War
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Superpowers clash in an ever-escalating arms race. Secret weapons and killing machines have changed the rules of engagement, forever.
Secrets of The Spanish Armada
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Spain's attempted conquest of England fails when the Armada is defeated. By draining the ocean we reveal how the English then stole ship technology to build their own empire.
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Monday 30 December 10.00am
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America's Lost Treasures
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Ravages of war? visions of a future and the quest for gold helped create the modern United States. Extraordinary decades transformed America and the story of her humble beginnings hides below her harbors, shorelines and ever her streets.
Killer U-Boats
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Draining the Oceans reveals the story of the world's first stealth weapon, the U-Boat, takes on the might of the Royal Navy. Sinking 12m tons of shipping, they almost win the war.
Disasters At Sea
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The sea is a dangerous place but the dangers don't seem to outweigh the reason for remaining ashore. Passenger ships, war machines and pleasure cruises all lost beneath the waves of the World's Ocean. What led to these shocking maritime disasters?
Secrets of The Civil War
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The land battles of the American Civil War are well known, but it's the war on the seas that shaped the outcome of the war. Maritime archaeologists and historians go in search of Civil War secrets.
Buried Secrets of The Gold Rush
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The Hidden Ships of the Gold Rush drains the streets of San Francisco, the Sacramento River and the icy wastes of the Klondike, northern Canada, to tell the true story of nineteenth-century gold mania.
Lost Nukes of The Cold War
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With access to daring expeditions, precision data and classified information, we drain the ocean and reveal the secrets of the nuclear-armed Cold War.
Secrets of New York City
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Examining hidden giants can explain New York City's meteoric rise to bustling world metropolis. A city that can't be kept down, forever pushing forward, with true grit and determination.
Thai Cave Rescue
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Drain the Oceans conducts the first accurate 3D survey of the Thai Cave. It reveals new insights into the life and death mission to save 12 boys from the flooded cave.
Pacific War Megawrecks
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An expedition searches for the iconic wrecks of the Battle of the Pacific, including the ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb, USS Indianapolis.
Hitler's Killer Warships
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The story of Hitler's vision to conquer the world using his high-tech battleships. Drain the Oceans reveals the rise and fall of the Third Reich's deadly fleet.
Secrets of Loch Ness
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Combining over a hundred year of data with military-grade scanning equipment, Drain the Oceans pulls the plug on the world's most famous lake to reveal the monster within.
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Saturday 28 December 05.00pm
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London's Secret History
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London is one of the most powerful cities on earth. Draining the Oceans reveals the story of the city's meteoric rise.
Lost Giants
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Over the last century, a new breed of ocean giant has emerged. Maritime archaeologists and historians go in search of the biggest wrecks ever sunk beneath the seas.
Pacific Shockwave
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In 1942 one country, Japan, came to dominate the Pacific region and inflict huge blows on the Allies. The secret as to how they did it lies waiting to be discovered.
Rise of The Roman Empire
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Drain the Oceans unlocks the secrets of how the Roman Empire controlled the seas of the Ancient world revealing one of the oldest shipwrecks in the world and unearthing a port lost for centuries under Italian soil.

Sunken Cities
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Lost civilizations, mysterious sunken cities and the legendary sites have all vanished beneath the waves. Can draining the seas help unlock their secrets?
Drain The Ocean: Deep Sea Mysteries
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Using state of the art technology, experts investigate the world's biggest sunken mysteries, including an intriguing WWII battleship and Flight 19, which vanished in the Bermuda Triangle.
Deadly Pacific
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In the Pacific, 500 million people live in ever-present danger along its edges. we drain the Pacific Ocean to reveal the deadly geological forces behind Earth's most destructive natural disasters.
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Monday 6 January 03.00pm
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Drain the Ocean: Deep Sea Mysteries
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Explore a world never seen before - a world hidden under miles of water, the landscape of the ocean bed.
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Sunday 15 December 12.00am
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Monday 30 December 02.00pm
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Treasures of The Deep
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For centuries treasure ships sailed the oceans of the world...packed with silver, gold and precious stones. Around the world, countless treasures and wrecks remain unexplored.
Nazi Secrets
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Hidden deep underwater is the untold story of how the Nazis waged a secret war across the world’s oceans.
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Thursday 26 December 01.00pm
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Tuesday 7 January 03.00pm
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Sunken War Ships
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Under the seas lives a lost graveyard of sunken war ships. Countless vessels from WWI and WWII pepper the seafloor. Among those, some of the most powerful weapons ever built.
Gulf of Mexico
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Draining the Gulf of Mexico brings deadly secrets back to the surface about the story of North America - trade, slavery, war, the oil industry and even the death of the dinosaurs.
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Wednesday 8 January 03.00pm
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Stormy Seas
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Extreme weather patterns have threatened ships and mariners for centuries. The perfect storm, towering walls of water, powerful winds and churning seas can overwhelm any ship.
Lost Worlds of The Mediterranean
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In ancient times, the Mediterranean was home to some of the greatest civilisations the world has ever seen - unlocking the mysteries of the Minoans, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans.
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Monday 30 December 11.00am
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Thursday 9 January 03.00pm
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Sabotage On The High Seas
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The act of sabotage is one of the most effective weapons in any arsenal. Direct attacks, advanced weaponry and the element of surprise have sent many ships to their final resting place on the seafloor.
Legends of Atlantis
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From mysterious underwater pyramids off the coast of Japan to the fabled city of Atlantis itself. But are these truly ancient sites or simply accidents of geology?
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Friday 10 January 03.00pm
On National Geographic
America's Sunken Shores
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War, weather and human error have led to some of the worst maritime disasters in US history. But imagine if we could empty the oceans, letting the water drain away to reveal these secrets.
Sunken Treasures
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For centuries treasure ships plied the oceans of the world, packed with silver, gold and precious stones. Many of them lie undiscovered on the sea floor.
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Monday 13 January 03.00pm
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Deep Water Disasters
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Deep below the ocean lies a tectonic monster. The seafloor is the worlds biggest tsunami machine and its dangers have remained hidden from view, until now!
Mysteries of the China Seas
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Featuring the China Seas - the site of the largest naval battles in history, a 700-year-old mystery and technological wonders, both ancient and modern.
Undersea Empires
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Beneath the waters of the world, lies undersea empires and relics of their bloody wars. Through the use of cutting edge technology we will uncover lost empires for the first time.
Egypt's Lost Wonders
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The Nile was once home to the Ancient Egyptians, one the of the greatest civilisations on Earth. Scientific data, combined with computer graphics, can drain the waters and sand of Egypt.
Ultimate Battleships
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The Battle of Jutland of 1916 was the most violent sea battle in history. Maritime archaeologists and historians go in search of Jutland's secrets,investigating the mega battleships of World War One.
Malaysia Airlines 370
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With today’s technology, how can we lose a jetliner with 239 people on board? MH370: inside the longest, most costly search in aviation history.

Drain The Oceans: Villains of The Underworld
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Pirates… Gangsters… Villains… and the worst of humanity. Swallowed up by the sea. Cutting edge technology will reveal the secrets of the sea floor and expose the shaky ground on which we all live.
Ghost Ships of the Atlantic
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Explore a world never seen before - a world hidden under miles of water, the landscape of the Atlantic sea bed.
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Saturday 28 December 11.00pm
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Friday 10 January 09.00pm
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Drain The Oceans: Secret Missions
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Some of the world's most deadly killing machines and lethal nuclear weapons lie abandoned under our oceans. Hidden for decades, these top-secret wrecks will unlock the truth about the dawn of the modern nuclear age.