6.9/1020 votesLoading...#1 - The Alamo
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/2022
Drowned shipwrecks and lost battlefields reveal secrets of America’s most famous siege and tell how Texas, against all odds, secured its independence.
Director: N/A
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7.0/101 votesLoading...#2 - America's Last Slave Ship
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 10/18/2020
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.
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#3 - Invasion USA
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 4/2/2023
The British burning of the White House in 1814.
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- 7.0/101 votesLoading...
#4 - $20 Million Time Bomb
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 4/9/2023
Thwarting a $20 million time bomb murder and insurance scam.
Director: N/A
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- 7.3/1017 votesLoading...
#5 - The Amber Room
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/2022
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.
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- 7.4/1010 votesLoading...
#6 - Alaska
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2023
Revealing the graveyard of a fleet.
Director: N/A
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7.5/1096 votesLoading...#7 - Legends of Atlantis
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/25/2018
Exciting evidence emerges of civilizations lost under the waves. But are these ancient cities the long sought-after Atlantis or accidents of geology?
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1026 votesLoading...#8 - The Wild West
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/2/2021
Uncovered clues from a famous Montana battleground, a 19th-century steamboat and a frontier ghost town reveal surprising truths about the Wild West.
Director: N/A
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7.5/1024 votesLoading...#9 - The First Americans
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 8/9/2021
Clues from a 13,000-year-old skeleton and a submerged coastline reveal surprising insights about the first humans to arrive in the Americas.
Director: N/A
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- 7.6/1056 votesLoading...
#10 - Lost Nukes of The Cold War
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 7/29/2019
When the world’s two greatest superpowers vie for supremacy, they spur extraordinary advances in military technology.
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7.6/1034 votesLoading...#11 - The Viking Seas
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/5/2020
A formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.
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7.6/1031 votesLoading...#12 - The Battle of Britain
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/19/2020
Uncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1032 votesLoading...#13 - The American Revolution
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/2/2020
Revealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1028 votesLoading...#14 - The Battle for the Black Swan
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/2021
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?
Director: N/A
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7.7/10119 votesLoading...#15 - Nazi Secrets
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2018
The hidden secrets of the Nazis are revealed when the oceans covering them are drained using CGI animation.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1091 votesLoading...#16 - Lost Worlds of the Mediterranean
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/11/2018
The secrets of lost ancient civilizations come to light when the Mediterranean is drained.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1087 votesLoading...#17 - Deadly Pacific
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/2/2018
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.
Director: N/A
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- 7.7/1050 votesLoading...
#18 - Secrets of The Spanish Armada
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 8/5/2019
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.
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7.7/1033 votesLoading...#19 - Chicago
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 6/23/2020
Chicago's past emerges from the waters of Lake Michigan.
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7.7/1020 votesLoading...#20 - Hurricane Apocalypse
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2021
Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1097 votesLoading...#21 - Gulf of Mexico
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/4/2018
Draining the Gulf of Mexico brings deadly secrets back to the surface. Stories of piracy, war, slavery and a dinosaur-killing asteroid are revealed.
Director: N/A
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7.8/1079 votesLoading...#22 - Sunken Treasures
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/18/2018
Treasure hunting has captured our imaginations for centuries. Draining the oceans reveals the richest wrecks ever found.
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- 7.8/1064 votesLoading...
#23 - Secrets of New York City
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2019
In just 400 years New York has become a global powerhouse. By draining the ocean, revealing submerged shipwrecks and subterranean secrets, we explain how.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/1061 votesLoading...
#24 - Secrets of Loch Ness
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 9/16/2019
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.
Director: N/A
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- 7.8/1048 votesLoading...
#25 - Rise of The Roman Empire
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 10/14/2019
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.
Director: N/A
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The Worst Episodes of Drain the Oceans
Every episode of Drain the Oceans ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of 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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:National Geographic
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Alamo" is the worst rated episode of "Drain the Oceans". It scored 6.9/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/5/2022. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "America's Last Slave Ship".