Episodes

Rich Napolitano talks about his podcast Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs with host Sam Catling of Deck Tales

Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne of Seas The Day became the first women to row across the Pacific non-stop and unsupported.

Over 300 were killed when the Northfleet was rammed by the steamer Murillo in 1873.

The RMS Niagara struck a German mine and sank on January 19th, 1940 with 590 gold bars on board.

The Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by a Soviet submarine on Jan 30, 1945, killing almost 10,000 people.

The wreck of SS Warwick in 1896 provided a night to remember for the residents of Grand Manan, New Brunswick.

The Empress of Ireland sank May 29, 1914, killing 1,014 people.

In 1994, the MV Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea after its bow visor detached and the car deck flooded.

Only 2 of 54 survive when the Loch Ard struck the rocks on the coast of Victoria.

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Author John U. Bacon joins Rich to discuss his new book and the true stories behind the Captain and crew of the famed ship.

Building and sailing a 17th century replica

20 men struggle to survive after their whaleship is destroyed by a whale in the south Pacific.

A Shipwreck, an Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial that Changed Legal History. Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. On May 19, 1884, the yacht Mignonette set sail from England on what should have been an uneventful voyage. When their vessel sank in the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Dudley and his crew found themselves adrift in a tiny lifeboat. As days turned to weeks, they faced an unthinkable choice:...

The Deadliest Passenger Ship Disaster off the Coast of the United States Since 1934

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975.

The Star of Bengal ran aground in Alaska on Sept 20, 1908 with the loss of 111 people.

The SS Andaste and its entire crew were lost in 1929 on Lake Michigan.

Retired marine captain and pirate Capt. Tonz shares stories from his career.

Sir Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish explorer best known for his daring Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.

Ernest Shackleton and crew struggle to survive after the Endurance sinks in the Weddell Sea.

Scott Baxter was part of the search and rescue mission for the Marine Electric.

The Marine Electric sank during a storm in 1983, killing 31 of 34 on board.

Swedish journalist Kim Wall was murdered in 2017 by Peter Madsen on board his private submarine.