The WORST episodes of Drain the Oceans
Every episode of Drain the Oceans ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Drain the Oceans!
Maritime mysteries -- old and new -- come to life in this 10-episode 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. Innovative technology allows viewers to see what lies on the floors of large bodies of water such as the Gulf of Mexico, the Nile, the Indian Ocean, the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean as if they had been drained. Then, in a quest to explain natural wonders and man-made catastrophes, stories tell of how vessels sank, what ancient geological formations reveal about life on Earth, where Nazi secrets now reside, and why so many continue to search for the legendary city of Atlantis.
#1 - The Secrets of Pompeii's Dead
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/15/2022
New discoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum reveal the identities and final moments of those trapped during Mount Vesuvius' eruption 2000 years ago.
#2 - Raiders of the Civil War
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/9/2020
Draining American rivers, seas and oceans reveals military tactics from the American Civil War that rewrote the rules of warfare forever.
#3 - The Last Wrecks of WWII
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/16/2020
Hitler’s latest weapons sink during a top-secret U-boat mission. An American aviation breakthrough brings victory to the Allies in the Pacific.
#4 - Chicago
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/23/2020
Underwater exploration reveals astonishing secrets: terrifying disasters, war-winning heroics and an engineering marvel that saves the city.
#5 - America's Last Slave Ship
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2020
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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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?
#8 - Arctic War
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/2/2021
From a long lost US base beneath the Arctic ice cap, to a sunken Soviet submarine, the Cold War's toxic legacy is both fascinating and terrifying.
#9 - Hollywood
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/9/2021
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.
#10 - The First Americans
Season 4 - Episode 5 - 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.
#11 - Venice's Lost Empire
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/9/2021
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.
#12 - Hurricane Apocalypse
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/16/2021
Remnants of colonization attempts, a revolutionary refugee ship and submerged subway cars reveal hurricanes' impacts on America's past and its future.
#13 - The Mississippi River
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/16/2021
From a steamboat in a cornfield to the true story behind Hurricane Katrina's floods, new discoveries reveal how the Mississippi river shaped America.
#14 - The Great Barrier Reef
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/23/2021
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.
#15 - Sea of Secrets
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/23/2021
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.
#16 - The American Revolution
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/2/2020
Forgotten wrecks from the American Revolution are discovered. Cutting-edge computer graphics shed new light on the struggle for independence.
#17 - The Amber Room
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/22/2022
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.
#18 - Pearl Harbor
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/29/2022
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.
#22 - Alaska
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/5/2023
Draining Alaskas extreme north reveals the graveyard of a tragic fleet.
#23 - Rise of the Mob
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/12/2023
Lost wrecks reveal how the Mob gained power and wealth in 1920s America.
#24 - Secrets of the Dinosaurs
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/2023
From Patagonia to Canada, paleontologists uncover the Real Jurassic Americas.
#25 - The Myth of the Pacific Pirate Ship
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/26/2023
Fragments of porcelain and blocks of beeswax lead to a 250-year-old shipwreck and a forgotten trade route of vast cargo ships in the Pacific.