Drain the Oceans
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.
Seasons
1. Nazi Secrets
Air Date: 2018-05-28
The hidden secrets of the Nazis are revealed when the oceans covering them are drained using CGI animation.
2. Gulf of Mexico
Air Date: 2018-06-04
Draining the Gulf of Mexico brings deadly secrets back to the surface. Stories of piracy, war, slavery and a dinosaur-killing asteroid are revealed.
3. Lost Worlds of the Mediterranean
Air Date: 2018-06-11
The secrets of lost ancient civilizations come to light when the Mediterranean is drained.
4. Sunken Treasures
Air Date: 2018-06-18
Treasure hunting has captured our imaginations for centuries. Draining the oceans reveals the richest wrecks ever found.
5. Legends of Atlantis
Air Date: 2018-06-25
Exciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost under the waves. But are these ancient cities the long sought-after Atlantis or accidents of geology?
6. Deadly Pacific
Air Date: 2018-07-02
The 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.
7. Egypt's Lost Wonders
Air Date: 2018-07-09
The Nile was central to ancient Egypt. Draining its water reveals a lost wonder and the origins of the Egyptians’ obsession with the afterlife.
8. Mysteries of the China Seas
Air Date: 2018-07-16
The 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.
9. Ultimate Battleships
Air Date: 2018-07-23
The hidden secrets of WWI's powerful weapons are revealed by draining the North Sea.
10. Malaysia Airlines 370
Air Date: 2018-07-30
Where is Malaysian Airlines flight MH370? CGI reconstruction reveals the challenges of locating an aircraft that goes missing in the deep ocean.
1. Secrets of D-Day
Air Date: 2019-06-03
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.
2. Secrets of New York City
Air Date: 2019-06-10
In just 400 years New York has become a global powerhouse. By draining the ocean, revealing submerged shipwrecks and subterranean secrets, we explain how.
3. Killer U-Boats
Air Date: 2019-06-17
Draining 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.
4. Buried Secrets of the Gold Rush
Air Date: 2019-07-01
Winners 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.
5. Secrets of the Civil War
Air Date: 2019-07-22
Throughout 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.
6. Lost Nukes of The Cold War
Air Date: 2019-07-29
When the world’s two greatest superpowers vie for supremacy, they spur extraordinary advances in military technology.
7. Secrets of The Spanish Armada
Air Date: 2019-08-05
Spain’s attempted conquest of England fails when its armada is defeated. Draining the ocean reveals how the English stole technology to build an empire.
8. Pacific War Megawrecks
Air Date: 2019-08-12
An expedition searches for the iconic wrecks of the Battle of the Pacific, including the ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb, the USS Indianapolis.
9. Thai Cave Rescue
Air Date: 2019-09-02
Drain 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.
10. London's Secret History
Air Date: 2019-09-09
London is one of the most powerful cities on Earth. Drain the Oceans reveals the story of the city’s meteoric rise.
11. Secrets of Loch Ness
Air Date: 2019-09-16
Combining 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.
12. Hitler's Killer Warships
Air Date: 2019-09-23
The 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.
13. Lost Giants
Air Date: 2019-09-30
Over the past century, advances in technology have fueled a race to build gigantic ships. When things go wrong, they become awe-inspiring wrecks.
14. Pacific Shockwave
Air Date: 2019-10-07
In 1942, Japan came to dominate the Pacific region. The secret as to how they did it lies waiting to be discovered.
15. Rise of The Roman Empire
Air Date: 2019-10-14
The secrets of the survival of the Roman empire are unearthed from beneath the waves of the Mediterranean and the soil of the Italian peninsula.
1. The Atomic Ghost Fleet
Air Date: 2020-05-05
The dark secrets of U.S. nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
2. The Viking Seas
Air Date: 2020-05-05
A formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.
3. Egypt's Sunken City
Air Date: 2020-05-12
A lost Egyptian city gives up its secrets after 2,000 years.
4. The Battle of Britain
Air Date: 2020-05-19
Uncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.
5. Pirate Ships of the Caribbean
Air Date: 2020-05-26
Shipwrecks reveal the true story of piracy on the Caribbean.
6. The American Revolution
Air Date: 2020-06-02
Revealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.
7. Raiders of the Civil War
Air Date: 2020-06-09
Revealing the lost wrecks of the American Civil War.
8. The Last Wrecks of WWII
Air Date: 2020-06-16
New insights reveal how the Allies won World War II.
9. Chicago
Air Date: 2020-06-23
Chicago's past emerges from the waters of Lake Michigan.
10. America's Last Slave Ship
Air Date: 2020-10-18
Maritime 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.
1. The Wild West
Air Date: 2021-08-02
Uncovered clues from a famous Montana battleground, a 19th-century steamboat and a frontier ghost town reveal surprising truths about the Wild West.
2. The Battle for the Black Swan
Air Date: 2021-08-02
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. Hollywood
Air Date: 2021-08-09
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. The First Americans
Air Date: 2021-08-09
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. Venice's Lost Empire
Air Date: 2021-08-09
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. Hurricane Apocalypse
Air Date: 2021-08-17
Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.
7. The Great Barrier Reef
Air Date: 2021-08-23
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. Sea of Secrets
Air Date: 2021-08-23
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.
1. The Secrets of Pompeii's Dead
Air Date: 2022-11-14
Through digital re-creations, scientists uncover mysteries from the bottom of the ocean.
2. The Amber Room
Air Date: 2022-11-21
The 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.
3. Pearl Harbor
Air Date: 2022-11-28
Draining 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.
4. The Alamo
Air Date: 2022-12-05
Drowned shipwrecks and lost battlefields reveal secrets of America’s most famous siege and tell how Texas, against all odds, secured its independence.
5. Maya Collapse
Air Date: 2022-12-11
New 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.
6. Narcos
Air Date: 2022-12-19
With 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.
1. Alaska
Air Date: 2023-03-05
Revealing the graveyard of a fleet.
2. Rise of the Mob
Air Date: 2023-03-12
How the mob gained power and wealth in 1920s America.
3. Secrets of the Dinosaurs
Air Date: 2023-03-19
Paleontologists uncover the Real Jurassic Americas.
4. The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship
Air Date: 2023-03-26
The truth behind the legend of a pirate ship.
5. Invasion USA
Air Date: 2023-04-02
The British burning of the White House in 1814.
6. $20 Million Time Bomb
Air Date: 2023-04-09
Thwarting a $20 million time bomb murder and insurance scam.
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Rating
7.4/10
Release Date
2018-05-28
Episodes
55 (6 seasons)
Status
Returning Series
Cast
Videos
Production Companies
Mallinson Sadler Productions
Electric Pictures