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- Immortalized by the bestseller and hit movie The Perfect Storm, the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail sank somewhere in the North Atlantic in the monstrous meteorological confluence of 1991. The Sea Hunters try to provide closure for the crew's friends and family by probing a fabled ships' graveyard for the boat's remains.
- 25 miles off the coast of Poland lie three of the top five worst shipwrecks of all time, all within a few miles of each other. Their stories have never been fully told, but early in 1945 over 15,000 mostly young people lost their lives on these ships while trying to escape from the advancing Russian army. We locate the Goya and dive the Wilhelm Gustloff.
- Just off the coast of the mysterious Caribbean island of Haiti, one of the poorest places on earth, Sea Hunters explores a conch shell-covered reef that could contain the last remains of the world's most famous ghost ship, the Mary Celeste. No story of the sea has fired the imagination like that of the brigantine Mary Celeste.
- Near the center of The Lynn Canal in Alaska - a team of shipwreck hunters employ the latest sophisticated equipment to uncover the story of probably the most tragic shipwreck of the Pacific Northwest: the Princess Sophia. Join the Sea Hunters as they explore the final resting place of one of North America's most controversial sinkings: the Princess Sophia.
- Somewhere beneath the unpredictable waters of Lake Erie lies a mysterious shipwreck sunk by a storm almost 200 years ago. Since 1818, she has lain silent - guarding a trove of archaeological treasures - the remnants of the Irish immigrants who had intended to sail her to a new life in a new land.
- 2002–200648mTV EpisodeOn a warm summer night in 1998, Swiss Air Flight 111 fell from the sky into the North Atlantic, just off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. This tragic event triggered one of the largest and most extensive search and salvage efforts ever undertaken in the world's oceans.
- The Bluenose was the crowning achievement of schooner development and her story has been the subject of Canadian song and legend. Launched in Nova Scotia in 1921, she was built for the punishing work of fishing the Maritime fishing banks.
- Laden with artistic masterpieces bound for the Russian empress's collection, the Vrouw Maria sank in 1771 and now lies almost perfectly preserved on the Baltic seabed. Working with the Maritime Museum of Finland, the Sea Hunters attempt to answer key questions: Did the paintings survive? And are they salvageable?
- 2002–200648mTV EpisodeWithin a man-made breakwater of derelict ships on Canada's west coast, lies a possible relic from a fascinating era in American history - the rip-roaring time known as prohibition. Join the Sea Hunters as they seek the last resting place of the most famous smuggling ship on the west coast, the fabled, Queen of the Rum Runners, Malahat.
- Join The Sea Hunters as they search for the remains of two vessels that introduced submarine warfare to the world; Germany's U-21 and the underwater fighting ship lost by the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War - the H.L. Hunley.
- 2002–200648mTV EpisodeIn 1944, the Leopoldville set out from England with 2,200 troops to shore up Allied forces after the Battle of the Bulge. The Clayoquot sailed from Nova Scotia, protecting a convoy with a similar mission. An ocean apart, both ships fell victim to torpedoes on Christmas Eve. The Sea Hunters explore their remains.
- In an attempt to seal off strategically important Malta, Axis forces repeatedly seeded its harbor with mines. Every night, however, minesweepers defied darkness and submerged danger to clear the sea lanes. Paying homage to such bravery, the Sea Hunters dive the wreck of the minesweeper Eddy.
- Malta is an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea and is strategically located at the cross roads of the shipping lanes between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. During World War II, the lifeline for the island nation of Malta were convoys protected by a small fleet of warships. Without this protection Malta could have been starved into surrender.
- 2002–200648mTV EpisodeAt the base of the Great Lakes, near the center of Lake Erie, the sinking of the steamer Atlantic attracted international attention. She tragically sank not far from a small town, Port Dover, in Ontario, Canada. In 1853, one of the world's first submarines explored the site, but was lost and never recovered, thus creating one of the richest maritime heritage sites in North America.
- During the American Civil War, the Confederacy commissioned ships specifically designed to beat the Union blockade of Southern ports. The Sea Hunters look for examples of this evolution in naval warfare: the Nola and Mary Celestia, blockade runners built for speed, and the Alabama, the Confederacy's deadliest raider.
- On April 15, 1912, the passenger liner RMS Carpathia bravely raced through ice-choked waters to save the survivors of the Titanic. Sunk by a German U-boat six years later, it might still lie somewhere off the Irish coast. The Sea Hunters aim to find its final resting place.
- Long shrouded in Soviet secrecy, the remains of the German refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff mark the largest maritime disaster in the history of the world, one that claimed more than 9,000 lives. Diving cold Baltic waters, the Sea Hunters become the first to explore the wreck and reveal their findings to the world.
- Deep beneath a mountain in central Germany, the Sea Hunters probe the dark, murky depths of flooded underground tunnels carved from former gypsum mines by slave labor. There, safe from Allied bombing, the Nazis assembled Hitler's ultimate weapon of vengeance: the deadly V-2 rockets that screamed toward London.
- 2002–200649mTV EpisodeFacing the technical challenge of finding light aluminum structures after almost 70 years under water, the Sea Hunters search for the remains of the Akron and Macon--two dirigibles that fell into the sea a continent apart in the 1930s. They represented the Navy's last experiments in deploying flying aircraft carriers.
- 2002–200649mTV EpisodeThe Sea Hunters undertake the first-ever survey of the depths off Juno Beach, site of Canadian forces' assault on Hitler's "Fortress Europe" on June 6, 1944. Facing strong tidal surges off the French coast, they explore the sunken remnants of the largest invading armada ever assembled.