The hidden secrets of the Nazis are revealed when the oceans covering them are drained using CGI animation.

Nazi Secrets

Draining the Gulf of Mexico brings deadly secrets back to the surface. Stories of piracy, war, slavery and a dinosaur-killing asteroid are revealed.

Gulf of Mexico

The secrets of lost ancient civilizations come to light when the Mediterranean is drained.

Lost Worlds of the Mediterranean

Treasure hunting has captured our imaginations for centuries. Draining the oceans reveals the richest wrecks ever found.

Sunken Treasures

Exciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost under the waves. But are these ancient cities the long sought-after Atlantis or accidents of geology?

Legends of Atlantis

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.

Deadly Pacific

The Nile was central to ancient Egypt. Draining its water reveals a lost wonder and the origins of the Egyptians’ obsession with the afterlife.

Egypt's Lost Wonders

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.

Mysteries of the China Seas

The hidden secrets of WWI's powerful weapons are revealed by draining the North Sea.

Ultimate Battleships

Where is Malaysian Airlines flight MH370? CGI reconstruction reveals the challenges of locating an aircraft that goes missing in the deep ocean.

Malaysia Airlines 370

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.

Secrets of D-Day

In just 400 years New York has become a global powerhouse. By draining the ocean, revealing submerged shipwrecks and subterranean secrets, we explain how.

Secrets of New York City

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.

Killer U-Boats

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.

Buried Secrets of the Gold Rush

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.

Secrets of the Civil War

When the world’s two greatest superpowers vie for supremacy, they spur extraordinary advances in military technology.

Lost Nukes of The Cold War

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.

Secrets of The Spanish Armada

An expedition searches for the iconic wrecks of the Battle of the Pacific, including the ship that delivered the Hiroshima bomb, the USS Indianapolis.

Pacific War Megawrecks

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.

Thai Cave Rescue

London is one of the most powerful cities on Earth. Drain the Oceans reveals the story of the city’s meteoric rise.

London's Secret History

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.

Secrets of Loch Ness

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.

Hitler's Killer Warships

Over the past century, advances in technology have fueled a race to build gigantic ships. When things go wrong, they become awe-inspiring wrecks.

Lost Giants

In 1942, Japan came to dominate the Pacific region. The secret as to how they did it lies waiting to be discovered.

Pacific Shockwave

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.

Rise of The Roman Empire

The dark secrets of U.S. nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll.

The Atomic Ghost Fleet

A formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.

The Viking Seas

A lost Egyptian city gives up its secrets after 2,000 years.

Egypt's Sunken City

Uncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.

The Battle of Britain

Shipwrecks reveal the true story of piracy on the Caribbean.

Pirate Ships of the Caribbean

Revealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.

The American Revolution

Revealing the lost wrecks of the American Civil War.

Raiders of the Civil War

New insights reveal how the Allies won World War II.

The Last Wrecks of WWII

Chicago's past emerges from the waters of Lake Michigan.

Chicago

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.

America's Last Slave Ship

Uncovered clues from a famous Montana battleground, a 19th-century steamboat and a frontier ghost town reveal surprising truths about the Wild West.

The Wild West

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?

The Battle for the Black Swan

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.

Hollywood

Clues from a 13,000-year-old skeleton and a submerged coastline reveal surprising insights about the first humans to arrive in the Americas.

The First Americans

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.

Venice's Lost Empire

Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.

Hurricane Apocalypse

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.

The Great Barrier Reef

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.

Sea of Secrets

Through digital re-creations, scientists uncover mysteries from the bottom of the ocean.

The Secrets of Pompeii's Dead

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.

The Amber Room

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.

Pearl Harbor

Drowned shipwrecks and lost battlefields reveal secrets of America’s most famous siege and tell how Texas, against all odds, secured its independence.

The Alamo

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.

Maya Collapse

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.

Narcos

Alaska

How the mob gained power and wealth in 1920s America.

Rise of the Mob

Paleontologists uncover the Real Jurassic Americas.

Secrets of the Dinosaurs

The truth behind the legend of a pirate ship.

The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship

The British burning of the White House in 1814.

Invasion USA

Thwarting a $20 million time bomb murder and insurance scam.

$20 Million Time Bomb

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.

All Episodes of Drain the Oceans

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Season 1

Nazi Secrets

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2018

Gulf of Mexico

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2018

Lost Worlds of the Mediterranean

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2018

Sunken Treasures

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2018

Legends of Atlantis

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/2018

Deadly Pacific

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/2018

Egypt's Lost Wonders

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/9/2018

Mysteries of the China Seas

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/16/2018

Ultimate Battleships

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/23/2018

Malaysia Airlines 370

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/30/2018