Episode 1
The Atomic Ghost Fleet
47m4.0 / 10
The dark secrets of U.S. nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.
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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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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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.
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Episode 2
The Viking Seas
47m6.0 / 10
A formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.
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Episode 3
Egypt's Sunken City
47m5.5 / 10
A lost Egyptian city gives up its secrets after 2,000 years.
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Episode 4
The Battle of Britain
47m5.0 / 10
Uncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.
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Episode 5
Pirate Ships of the Caribbean
47m5.0 / 10
Shipwrecks reveal the true story of piracy on the Caribbean.
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Episode 6
The American Revolution
47m4.0 / 10
Revealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.
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Episode 7
Raiders of the Civil War
47m5.0 / 10
Revealing the lost wrecks of the American Civil War.
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Episode 8
The Last Wrecks of WWII
47m6.0 / 10
New insights reveal how the Allies won World War II.
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Episode 9
Chicago
47m5.5 / 10
Chicago's past emerges from the waters of Lake Michigan.
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Episode 10
America's Last Slave Ship
47m6.0 / 10finale
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.
Where to watch Drain the OceansEpisode information updated Jul 24, 2026
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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