Drain the Oceans - Season 6
Season 6
Episodes
Alaska
The hunt for a legendary ghost ship in Alaska reveals a corner of the United States once known as "Russian America." The Kad'yak was a Russian three-masted bark that sank in Icon Bay off Kodiak Island in 1860. It was bound for San Francisco, California, with a cargo of ice.
Draining Alaska's extreme north reveals the graveyard of a tragic fleet. The 1871 Whaling Disaster occurred when pack ice off Alaska's North Slope trapped 32 whaling ships.
Rise of the Mob
Hidden in the oceans, lakes and rivers of the US lie wrecks revealing secrets to the rise to power of the American Mob in the 1920s.
Secrets of the Dinosaurs
Paleontologists journey from Patagonia to Canada to overturn popular misconceptions about dinosaurs and uncover the real Jurassic Americas. Discovered are a new species of titanosaur in Patagonia, Argentina; a new nodosaur from an oil sands mine in Alberta, Canada; and a pack of tyrannosaurs at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.
The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship
Archaeologists uncover the truth behind the legend of a treasure ship, the "Beeswax Wreck" off Manzanita Beach, Oregon. The Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos was wrecked in 1693, hauling porcelain, pottery, and valuable beeswax.
Invasion USA
A US flagship wreck reveals the British burning of the White House in 1814.
$20 Million Time Bomb
A bomb, murder, and a foiled multi-million insurance scam on the high seas: the Lucona sank in the Indian Ocean on January 23, 1977, by a bomb planted by Austrian businessman Udo Proksch as part of a $20 million insurance fraud.
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