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.
Creator: Sophie Elwin-Harris
Self - Narrator (voice)
No overview available.
19 episodes
Cutting edge technology will reveal the secrets of the sea floor and expose the shaky ground on which we all live.
Runtime: 47 minNew undersea surveys and 3-D imaging reveal secrets of World War II shipwrecks.
Runtime: 47 minWhat if we could pull the plug and drain the planet's water? Follow NGC on a virtual scientific expedition to the deep.
Runtime: 47 minSunken ships decisively influence WWI, and the impacts even changed the course of WWII.
Runtime: 47 minExplore a world never seen before - a world hidden under miles of water, the landscape of the ocean bed. Combining the latest scientific data with state of the art CGI computer hardware we reveal some of the world's sunken mysteries. The Titanic, a WWII sunken battleship and the mysterious Flight 19 lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Using already aired episodes of Drain the Ocean we will be able to highlight each of these sunken treasures and tell their stories.
Runtime: 47 minDrain Alcatraz uses cutting edge visual effects to 'drain' the waters around the notorious island of Alcatraz. With the waters drained away the secrets of Alcatraz are revealed, including exactly why the island's infamous prison was so inescapable.
Runtime: 47 minNo overview available.
10 episodes
The hidden secrets of the Nazis are revealed when the oceans covering them are drained using CGI animation.
Runtime: 47 minDraining the Gulf of Mexico brings deadly secrets back to the surface. Stories of piracy, war, slavery and a dinosaur-killing asteroid are revealed.
Runtime: 47 minThe secrets of lost ancient civilizations come to light when the Mediterranean is drained.
Runtime: 47 minTreasure hunting has captured our imaginations for centuries. Draining the oceans reveals the richest wrecks ever found.
Runtime: 47 minExciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost under the waves. But are these ancient cities the long sought-after Atlantis or accidents of geology?
Runtime: 47 minThe Ring of Fire is an area in the Pacific Ocean where volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis form; the ocean is drained to reveal the geological forces behind natural disasters and to uncover threats along the coast of Seattle, Tokyo and New Zealand.
Runtime: 47 minThe Nile was central to ancient Egypt. Draining its water reveals a lost wonder and the origins of the Egyptians’ obsession with the afterlife.
Runtime: 47 minThe China seas are the most fiercely contested and mysterious waters on the planet. We expose the remains of the biggest battleship ever put on the water.
Runtime: 47 minThe hidden secrets of WWI's powerful weapons are revealed by draining the North Sea.
Runtime: 47 minWhere is Malaysian Airlines flight MH370? CGI reconstruction reveals the challenges of locating an aircraft that goes missing in the deep ocean.
Runtime: 47 minNo overview available.
15 episodes
In the greatest amphibious invasion fleet ever assembled, 7,000 vessels and 250,000 men take the Nazis by surprise. By draining the ocean, we explain exactly how they did it.
Runtime: 47 minIn just 400 years New York has become a global powerhouse. By draining the ocean, revealing submerged shipwrecks and subterranean secrets, we explain how.
Runtime: 47 minDraining the oceans reveals the story of the U-Boats as they took on the Royal Navy, sinking 12 million tons of ships and nearly winning the war.
Runtime: 47 minWinners took all in the race to get rich in the California and Klondike gold rushes; unearthing the ships involved reveals the risks taken to go west.
Runtime: 47 minThroughout the American Civil War, technological advances fuelled an arms race on America’s seas and rivers. Science and graphics drain the oceans to reveal the ships that shaped America.
Runtime: 47 minWhen the world’s two greatest superpowers vie for supremacy, they spur extraordinary advances in military technology.
Runtime: 47 minSpain’s attempted conquest of England fails when its armada is defeated. Draining the ocean reveals how the English stole technology to build an empire.
Runtime: 47 minAn expedition searches for the iconic wrecks of the Battle of the Pacific, including the ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb, the USS Indianapolis.
Runtime: 47 minDrain the Oceans conducts the first accurate 3D survey of the Thai cave, revealing insight into the risky mission to save 12 boys from the flooded cave.
Runtime: 47 minLondon is one of the most powerful cities on Earth. Drain the Oceans reveals the story of the city’s meteoric rise.
Runtime: 47 minCombining over 100 years 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.
Runtime: 47 minThe story of Hitler’s vision to conquer the world using his high-tech battleships, revealing the rise and fall of the Third Reich’s deadly fleet.
Runtime: 47 minOver the past century, advances in technology have fueled a race to build gigantic ships. When things go wrong, they become awe-inspiring wrecks.
Runtime: 47 minIn 1942, Japan came to dominate the Pacific region. The secret as to how they did it lies waiting to be discovered.
Runtime: 47 minThe secrets of the survival of the Roman empire are unearthed from beneath the waves of the Mediterranean and the soil of the Italian peninsula.
Runtime: 47 minNo overview available.
10 episodes
The dark secrets of U.S. nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
Runtime: 47 minA formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.
Runtime: 47 minA lost Egyptian city gives up its secrets after 2,000 years.
Runtime: 47 minUncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.
Runtime: 47 minShipwrecks reveal the true story of piracy on the Caribbean.
Runtime: 47 minRevealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.
Runtime: 47 minRevealing the lost wrecks of the American Civil War.
Runtime: 47 minNew insights reveal how the Allies won World War II.
Runtime: 47 minChicago's past emerges from the waters of Lake Michigan.
Runtime: 47 minMaritime archaeologists and historians go in search of the crucial component in the Atlantic Slave Trade: the slave ship. An armoured, floating fortress operating for over four centuries, capturing and transporting over 12 million Africans, who were sold and forced to work in brutal conditions in the New World. By draining we reveal the cruel technology on-board, gain an insight into the horrific conditions and ID a wreck in Alabama that could be the last ever slave ship to bring Africans to American soil.
Runtime: 47 minNo overview available.
8 episodes
Uncovered clues from a famous Montana battleground, a 19th-century steamboat and a frontier ghost town reveal surprising truths about the Wild West.
Runtime: 47 minArchaeologists 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?
Runtime: 47 minFrom 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.
Runtime: 47 minClues from a 13,000-year-old skeleton and a submerged coastline reveal surprising insights about the first humans to arrive in the Americas.
Runtime: 47 minA 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.
Runtime: 47 minRemnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.
Runtime: 47 minThe 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.
Runtime: 47 minThe 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.
Runtime: 47 minNo overview available.
6 episodes
Through digital re-creations, scientists uncover mysteries from the bottom of the ocean.
Runtime: 45 minThe discovery of a wreck in the Baltic Sea leads to a treasure hunt, but what they find is even more precious: the story of Germany’s Dunkirk.
Runtime: 45 minDraining Hawaii reveals Japan’s secret weapons, from mini subs to fighter planes, with the wreck of USS Arizona serving as a reminder of the forces unleashed.
Runtime: 45 minDrowned shipwrecks and lost battlefields reveal secrets of America’s most famous siege and tell how Texas, against all odds, secured its independence.
Runtime: 45 minNew discoveries made at a lost city and a tale of human sacrifice offer a new insight into the rise and fall of the ancient Maya.
Runtime: 45 minWith real-time access to a US border security team, discover the extraordinary story of how Mexican cartels have smuggled cockiness into the US over the last 40 years.
Runtime: 45 minNo overview available.
6 episodes
Revealing the graveyard of a fleet.
Runtime: 44 minHow the mob gained power and wealth in 1920s America.
Runtime: 44 minPaleontologists uncover the Real Jurassic Americas.
Runtime: 44 minThe truth behind the legend of a pirate ship.
Runtime: 44 minThe British burning of the White House in 1814.
Runtime: 44 minThwarting a $20 million time bomb murder and insurance scam.
Runtime: 44 minDrain The Oceans - Trailer | National Geographic