Horizon
Season 39 Episode 14 - Freak Wave
The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usually point at human error or poor maintenance but an alarming series of disappearances and near-sinkings, including world-class vessels with unblemished track records, has prompted the search for a more sinister cause and renewed belief in a maritime myth: the wall of water. Waves the height of an office block. Waves twice as large as any that ships are designed to ride over. These are not tsunamis or tidal waves, but huge breaking walls of water that come out of the blue. Suspicions these were fact not fiction were roused in 1978, by the cargo ship München. She was a state-of-the-art cargo ship. The December storms predicted when she set out to cross the Atlantic did not concern her German crew. The voyage was perfectly routine until at 3am on 12 December she sent out a garbled mayday message from the mid-Atlantic. Rescue attempts began immediately with over a hundred ships combing the ocean.
Episodes in Season 39
Helike - The Real Atlantis
60 min
Volcano Hell
60 min
Fatbusters
60 min
The Lost Pyramids of Caral
60 min
Death of the Iceman
60 min
Parallel Universes
60 min
The Dinosaur that Fooled the World
60 min
The Fall of the World Trade Center
50 min
Archimedes' Secret
60 min
The Mystery of the Jurassic
60 min
Killer Lakes
60 min
The A6 Murder
60 min
The England Patient
60 min
Freak Wave
60 min
Stone Age Columbus
60 min
Homeopathy: The Test
60 min
The Day the Earth Nearly Died
60 min
The Secret of El Dorado
60 min
