Drain the Oceans

May 29, 2018

Cutting edge technology will reveal the secrets of the sea floor and expose the shaky ground on which we all live.

Dec 07, 2014

Apr 12, 2015

Sep 19, 2016

New undersea surveys and 3-D imaging reveal secrets of World War II shipwrecks.

Aug 09, 2009

What if we could pull the plug and drain the planet's water? Follow NGC on a virtual scientific expedition to the deep.

Jul 31, 2018

Jul 09, 2017

Oct 15, 2018

Oct 22, 2018

Oct 29, 2018

Sunken ships decisively influence WWI, and the impacts even changed the course of WWII.

Nov 05, 2018

Jan 22, 2019

Jan 22, 2019

Jan 29, 2019

Feb 05, 2019

Feb 12, 2019

Oct 21, 2019

Jan 01, 2019

Explore a world never seen before - a world hidden under miles of water, the landscape of the ocean bed. Combining the latest scientific data with state of the art CGI computer hardware we reveal some of the world's sunken mysteries. The Titanic, a WWII sunken battleship and the mysterious Flight 19 lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Using already aired episodes of Drain the Ocean we will be able to highlight each of these sunken treasures and tell their stories.

Dec 19, 2017

Drain Alcatraz uses cutting edge visual effects to 'drain' the waters around the notorious island of Alcatraz. With the waters drained away the secrets of Alcatraz are revealed, including exactly why the island's infamous prison was so inescapable.

May 28, 2018

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

Jun 04, 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.

Jun 11, 2018

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

Jun 18, 2018

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

Jun 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?

Jul 02, 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.

Jul 09, 2018

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

Jul 16, 2018

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.

Jul 23, 2018

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

Jul 30, 2018

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

Jun 03, 2019

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.

Jun 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.

Jun 17, 2019

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.

Jul 01, 2019

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.

Jul 22, 2019

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.

Jul 29, 2019

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

Aug 05, 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.

Aug 12, 2019

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

Sep 02, 2019

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.

Sep 09, 2019

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

Sep 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.

Sep 23, 2019

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.

Sep 30, 2019

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

Oct 07, 2019

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

Oct 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.

May 05, 2020

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

May 05, 2020

A formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.

May 12, 2020

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

May 19, 2020

Uncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.

May 26, 2020

Shipwrecks reveal the true story of piracy on the Caribbean.

Jun 02, 2020

Revealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.

Jun 09, 2020

Revealing the lost wrecks of the American Civil War.

Jun 16, 2020

New insights reveal how the Allies won World War II.

Jun 23, 2020

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

Oct 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.

Aug 02, 2021

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

Aug 02, 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?

Aug 09, 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.

Aug 09, 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.

Aug 09, 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.

Aug 17, 2021

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

Aug 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.

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

Nov 14, 2022

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

Nov 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.

Nov 28, 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.

Dec 05, 2022

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

Dec 11, 2022

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.

Dec 19, 2022

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.

Mar 05, 2023

Revealing the graveyard of a fleet.

Mar 12, 2023

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

Mar 19, 2023

Paleontologists uncover the Real Jurassic Americas.

Mar 26, 2023

The truth behind the legend of a pirate ship.

Apr 02, 2023

The British burning of the White House in 1814.

Apr 09, 2023

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