Watch episode 1: The search for Carpathia
She is most well known as the ship that rescued 706 survivors from Titanic in April 1912. The Carpathia was sunk by a German U-Boat while traveling in convoy from Liverpool to Boston in July 1918. Just off the beautiful Irish coast in 500 feet of cold, clear water, The Carpathia was found and identified in September 2000 by Clive Cussler’s NUMA crew after a lengthy and costly search.
Watch episode 2: The Princess Sophia tragedy
Near the centre of The Lynn Canal in Alaska a team of shipwreck hunters employ the latest sophisticated equipment to uncover the story of probably the most tragic shipwreck of the Pacific Northwest: the Princess Sophia. Join the Sea Hunters as they explore the final resting place of one of North America’s most controversial sinkings: the Princess Sophia. This is the tale of a captain who rolled the dice against a stormy Alaskan sea and lost, taking his ship, his entire crew and all of the more than 350 passengers to an early grave.
Watch episode 3: The Steamship Atlantic
At the base of the Great Lakes, near the centre of Lake Erie, the sinking of the steamer Atlantic attracted international attention. She tragically sank not far from a small town, Port Dover, in Ontario, Canada. In 1853, one of the world’s first submarines explored the site, but was lost and never recovered, thus creating one of the richest maritime heritage sites in North America. The grand paddle wheel steamer Atlantic remains one of the best-preserved side wheeled steamers, giving us a glimpse back in time to the age of the western frontier when she served as a vital link in the great migration west.
Watch episode 4: Bluenose: The last journey
The Bluenose was the crowning achievement of schooner development and her story has been the subject of Canadian song and legend. Launched in Nova Scotia in 1921, she was built for the punishing work of fishing the Maritime fishing banks. With her phenomenal racing career and ambassadorial duties Bluenose also captured the admiration of the world, including that of a German U-boat captain, off the coast of exotic Haiti.
Watch episode 5: The search for Young Phoenix
Somewhere beneath the unpredictable waters of Lake Erie lies a mysterious shipwreck sunk by a storm almost 200 years ago. Since 1818 she has lain silent, guarding a trove of archaeological treasures – the remnants of the Irish immigrants who had intended to sail her to a new life in a new land. Join the Sea Hunters as they search with sophisticated technology for the historic last remains of the tall ship Young Phoenix.
Watch episode 6: The Southwold, Malta's lifeline
Malta is an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea and is strategically located at the crossroads of the shipping lanes between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During World War II, the lifeline for the island nation of Malta were convoys protected by a small fleet of warships. Without this protection Malta could have been starved into surrender. As a tribute to their courage The Sea Hunters search for the remains of one of these hero ships lost in action, the heroic destroyer HMS Southwold.
Watch episode 7: Minesweeper Eddy, Heroes of the night
The devastation Malta endured during WWII from Axis mines is well documented. Pounded by artillery and bombs for over three years, the island nation of Malta withheld against the German might. The Sea Hunters explore the depths of the Mediterranean in search of one of her brave defenders, the minesweeper HMS Eddy, a lost hero of Malta. They also investigate the presence of WWII mines. Fishermen still snag their nets on German and Italian mines and others wash up on beaches. Some are still capable of exploding.
Watch episode 8: Mary Celeste
Just off the coast of the mysterious Caribbean island of Haiti, one of the poorest places on earth, the Sea Hunters explore a conch shell-covered reef that could contain the last remains of the world’s most famous ghost ship, The Mary Celeste. No story of the sea has fired the imagination like that of the brigantine Mary Celeste. She was found over a century ago under sail with not a soul on board. What happened to her afterwards?
Watch episode 9: Leopoldville
December 24, 1944, two U-boats in the Atlantic are still at work late on Christmas Eve. Off the coast of France one sinks the American troop ship Leopoldville, sending over 800 GI’s to their grave. The other, in an effort to close the convoy ports of North America, sinks the Clayoquot four miles off the shores of North America. We tell the story of what did and didn’t happen on Christmas Eve, 1944.
Watch episode 10: The search for the CSS Alabama
During America's great Civil War, President Lincoln ordered the blockade of all southern ports in an effort to starve the Confederacy into submission. The Confederacy countered by building two new types of steam ship. One was the blockade-runner, designed to outrun the Union navy. The other was the raider to strike at the Union commerce on the open sea. These new tactics would mark a place in the evolution of naval warfare. Scattered on the ocean's bottom, thousands of kilometres apart, lie the remains of three vessels, each a testament to this desperate naval war. Two smuggled goods to the rebel armies, the third was the war’s most famous open sea raider, the CSS Alabama.
Watch episode 11: The Hunley – The First Kill
Two historic shipwrecks, separated by five decades and resting hundreds of kilometres apart, tell the tale of man's newfound ability to strike at his enemies from beneath the sea. The Sea Hunters search for the remains of two vessels that introduced submarine warfare to the world; Germany’s U-21 which drew first blood in the early days of the First World War; and the innovative underwater fighting ship lost by the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War – the H.L. Hunley. They were the first two submarines in history to sink an enemy warship.
Watch episode 12: Mystery Submarine - The Search for Swiss Air Flight 111
On a warm summer night in 1998, Swiss Air Flight 111 fell from the sky into the North Atlantic, just off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. This tragic event triggered one of the largest and most extensive search and salvage efforts ever undertaken in the world’s oceans. During this incredible search, a long cylindrical object was discovered on the seabed. Initially thought to be a section of the fuselage, it turned out to be unrelated to the aircraft ….
Watch episode 13: The Search for Andrea Gail
The Nor’easter now known as the Perfect Storm was the culmination of meteorological events so rare that it occurs maybe once in a century.
As portrayed in the movie “The Perfect Storm” the Andrea Gail disappeared in off Sable Island in the North Atlantic, one of the most inhospitable working environments on earth. Her wreck has never been found, which may provide clues to the real ending of the story of the Perfect Storm.
Watch episode 14: Catherine the Great's Treasure Ship
Catherine the Great of Russia lost her famous treasure ship in the Finnish archipelagos. Many have searched for the ship, but the Finnish Marine Museum now believes they have located it. We travel with them to help identify the ship and begin the process of documenting and preserving its vast treasure.
Watch episode 15: The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
25 miles off the coast of Poland lie three of the top five worst shipwrecks of all time, all within a few miles of each other. Their stories have never been fully told, but early in 1945 over 15,000 mostly young people lost their lives on these ships while trying to escape from the advancing Russian army. We locate the Goya and dive the Wilhelm Gustloff.
Watch episode 16: The Malahat - Queen of the Rum Runners
Watch The Sea Hunters: The Malahat: Queen of the Rum Runners, where a man-made breakwater of derelict ships on Canada's west coast may contain a possible relic from a fascinating era in American history - the rip-roaring time known as prohibition. Join the Sea Hunters as they seek the last resting place of the most famous smuggling ship on the west coast, the fabled, Queen of the Rum Runners, Malahat.
Watch episode 17: From Wrecks to Riches - the History of Salvage
Watch The Sea Hunters: From Wrecks to Riches: the History of Salvage, where they explore two shipwrecks that lie blasted and torn under the icy grey waters of the North Atlantic. The ships are casualties of war, but it was not enemy action which ripped the wrecks apart. This was the work of an entrepreneur who harvested the riches scattered on the ocean floor by two world wars and became history's most successful salvager of sunken wrecks - Britain's Risdon Beazley Ltd. Join the Sea Hunters as they dive two shipwrecks, the Russian transport ship Kolkosnik and the Swedish ship Kapaaren.
Watch episode 18: Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet
See in The Sea Hunters: Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet, how one of the world's greatest archaeological discoveries has surfaced from the grey-green waters of Takashima, a tiny island off Japan's southwest coast. Japanese archaeologists are racing to recover the remains of a 721-year old shipwreck from a massive invasion fleet sent in 1281 by Kublai Khan to conquer Japan. Ravaged by storms, the fleet sank in one of the world's greatest naval disasters, when a sudden storm caught it at anchor, ruining the Khan's plans for conquest.
Watch episode 19: Diving the German V-2 Rocket Caves
Watch The Sea Hunters: Diving the German V-2 Rocket Caves, and learn how in August of 1943 the heads of the German V-2 rocket programme decided to transfer their mass production center to a newly constructed tunnel system in the Thuringian Mountains of central Germany. Here Werner von Braun and his scientists built the 6,500 V-2 rockets that terrorized London and other cities during WWII. Join the Sea Hunter Dive Team as they complete a video survey of the now flooded tunnels of Dora. The main test frame, where the V-2s where prepared for launch now lies under 9 meters of water.
Watch episode 20: The Lost Fleet of Santiago de Cuba
Explore with The Sea Hunters in The Sea Hunters: The Lost Fleet of Santiago de CubaIn and discover how in February 1898, Cuba's three year struggle for Independence from Spain and fears for American lives and property in Cuba convinced USA’s president William McKinley to send the battleship USS Maine to "show the flag." The mysterious explosion of Maine in the Havana harbour led to war between Spain and the USA and the "Battle of Santiago", the first major naval battle of the war which saw the Spanish fleet destroyed. The Sea Hunters explore the coast for sunken Spanish torpedo destroyers, cruisers and battleships and take a detailed look at the scenes of the war.
Watch episode 21: Human Torpedoes - The Wreck of USS Mississinewa
Watch The Sea Hunters: Human Torpedoes "The Wreck of USS Mississinewa", where they take us to the Island Atoll of Ulithi, South of Guam, where the wreckage of the USS Mississinewa currently lies. She was sunk on November 20, 1944 and caries the distinction of being the only vessel confirmed to have been sunk by a Japanese Kamikaze torpedo. Next to the wreckage of the Mississinewa lies a cylindrical object which could be the only suicide torpedo ever located in the field of battle.
Watch episode 22: Sunk at Robinson Crusoe Island, SMS Dresden
The Sea Hunters: Sunk at Robinson Crusoe Island, SMS Dresden and join The Sea Hunters as they search for the German Light Cruiser Dresden. In May of 1914 the SMS Dresden was trapped and sunk by British destroyers. She had been at anchor at Robison Crusoe Island, 400 miles of the coast of Chile. After a chase that lead them half-way across the globe, the destroyers at last got their revenge. But did it end the way it looks?
Watch episode 23: Lost at Sea: The Great US Navy Airships Akron and Macon
Watch The Sea Hunters: Lost at Sea: The Great US Navy Airships Akron and Macon and explore with the The Sea Hunters as they explore the wreck of the greatest airship disaster in US Naval history. In September of 1933, the United States Navy Rigid Airship Akron crashed off Beach Haven, New Jersey. 73 Navy airmen were lost. The Akron was built with the capability of docking and hangaring 9 aircraft while in flight and was a one-of-a-kind-war-machine. A flying aircraft carrier and a fiery and tragic dead end in the evolution of airborne warfare. Join the Sea Hunter team as they search for the remains of this unique vessel of war.
Watch episode 24: The Wreck of the Fox: The Arctic Legacy of Franklin
The Sea Hunters: The Wreck of the Fox: The Arctic Legacy of Franklin and see them investigate The Franklin Expedition, the Canadian Arctic's greatest tragedy. The search for Franklin survivors was both the largest and longest in naval history. Lady Jane Franklin dispatched the yacht Fox under the command of Captain Francis Leopold McClintock to search the Arctic for signs of her husband. He arrived in the Arctic in 1858 and began an extensive search which greatly enlarged the available information on the fate of Franklin and his men, lost in the Arctic, South West of Greenland.
Watch episode 25: Search for Avro Arrow Flight Models
Watch The Sea Hunters: Search for Avro Arrow Flight Models and join The Sea Hunters as they search for the Avro Arrow. Lost beneath the waves of a cold war weapons range test lies a tantalising clue that sheds new light on the mystery of the Avro Arrow, Canada’s most famous supersonic jet aircraft. Explore with the Sea Hunters as they dive into an adventure that reveals a previously unknown connection between this controversial plane, Soviet Spies, murder and Saddam Hussein.
