Episode 1
Nazi Secrets
The hidden secrets of the Nazis are revealed when the oceans covering them are drained using CGI animation.
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TV series
Drain the Oceans
2018TV-PG6 seasons7.0 / 10
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.
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Synopsis
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.
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 2
Gulf of Mexico
Draining the Gulf of Mexico brings deadly secrets back to the surface. Stories of piracy, war, slavery and a dinosaur-killing asteroid are revealed.
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Episode 3
Lost Worlds of the Mediterranean
The secrets of lost ancient civilizations come to light when the Mediterranean is drained.
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Episode 4
Sunken Treasures
Treasure hunting has captured our imaginations for centuries. Draining the oceans reveals the richest wrecks ever found.
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Episode 5
Legends of Atlantis
Exciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost under the waves. But are these ancient cities the long sought-after Atlantis or accidents of geology?
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Episode 6
Deadly Pacific
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.
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Episode 7
Egypt's Lost Wonders
The Nile was central to ancient Egypt. Draining its water reveals a lost wonder and the origins of the Egyptians’ obsession with the afterlife.
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Episode 8
Mysteries of the China Seas
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.
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Episode 9
Ultimate Battleships
The hidden secrets of WWI's powerful weapons are revealed by draining the North Sea.
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Episode 10
Malaysia Airlines 370
Where is Malaysian Airlines flight MH370? CGI reconstruction reveals the challenges of locating an aircraft that goes missing in the deep ocean.
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More about Drain the Oceans
Cast
Craig SechlerSelf - Narrator (voice)Runar LiaSelf - Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum
Fredrik SoreideSelf - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jann WittSelf - Historian, German Naval Association
David MearnsSelf - Shipwreck Hunter - Blue Water Recoveries
Andrzej SlabySelf - Hydrographer, LOTUS Petrobaltic S.A.
Stephen BurkeSelf - Co-Author 'Freedom of the Seas'
Adam OlejnikSelf - Polish Naval Academy, Co-Author 'Freedom of the Seas'
Production details
- Status
- Returning Series
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 55
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
National GeographicUnited States
Mallinson Sadler ProductionsUnited Kingdom
Electric PicturesAustralia
Themes
explorationmarine
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