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Drain the Oceans

  • TV-Y7
  • 2018–
  • 6 seasons
  • Documentary
  • 7.1

Maritime mysteries—old and new—come to life in this series, combining scientific data and digital re-creations to reveal shipwrecks, treasures, and sunken cities on the bottom of lakes, seas and oceans around the world.

Episodes

8 episodes
  1. 1The Wild West

    47 minAug 2, 2021

    Uncovered clues from a famous Montana battleground, a 19th-century steamboat and a frontier ghost town reveal surprising truths about the Wild West.

  2. 2The Battle for the Black Swan

    47 minAug 2, 2021

    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?

  3. 3Hollywood

    47 minAug 9, 2021

    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.

  4. 4The First Americans

    47 minAug 9, 2021

    Clues from a 13,000-year-old skeleton and a submerged coastline reveal surprising insights about the first humans to arrive in the Americas.

  5. 5Venice's Lost Empire

    47 minAug 9, 2021

    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.

  6. 6Hurricane Apocalypse

    47 minAug 17, 2021

    Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.

  7. 7The Great Barrier Reef

    47 minAug 23, 2021

    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.

  8. 8Sea of Secrets

    47 minAug 23, 2021

    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.Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.

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Series cast

Craig SechlerSelf - Narrator (voice)55 episodes
James P. DelgadoExpedition leader, Archaeologist3 episodes
Eric GroveSelf - Naval Historian2 episodes
Runar LiaSelf - Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum1 episode
Fredrik SoreideSelf - Norwegian University of Science and Technology1 episode
Jann WittSelf - Historian, German Naval Association1 episode
David MearnsSelf - Shipwreck Hunter - Blue Water Recoveries1 episode
Andrzej SlabySelf - Hydrographer, LOTUS Petrobaltic S.A.1 episode
Stephen BurkeSelf - Co-Author 'Freedom of the Seas'1 episode
Adam OlejnikSelf - Polish Naval Academy, Co-Author 'Freedom of the Seas'1 episode
Innes McCartneySelf - Maritime Archaeologist, Bournemouth University1 episode
Winston ChurchillSelf (archive footage)1 episode
Adolf HitlerSelf (archive footage)1 episode
Kenneth LacovaraSelf - Director, Edelman Fossil Park1 episode
Mario Rebolledo-VieyraSelf - Geophysicist1 episode
Sean GulickSelf - University of Texas1 episode
Dave HuberSelf - Co-founder, Deep Gulf Energy1 episode
Frederick HanselmannSelf - University of Miami1 episode

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