Episodes

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...

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.

Maritime folk musician and tall ship captain Tom Kastle talks about his career.

Captain Tom Kastle performs three of his maritime songs.

The Lusitania is tragically sunk by a German U-boat, triggering worldwide outrage.

The tragic sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 was a pivotal maritime disaster of World War I that claimed almost 1200 lives after a German U-boat torpedo struck the British ocean liner off the coast of Ireland. Part 1 of th...

The Exxon Valdez spilled over 10 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound in 1989.

A civil war era ship sunk by a Confederate raider is found off the waters of Long Island.

Deb Whitcraft of the New Jersey Maritime Museum shares personal stories about her experiences.

The luxury cruise liner Morro Castle burned off the coast of New Jersey in 1934.

Researchers from the University of Rhode Island have mapped numerous shipwrecks in Lake Ontario

The Mary Rose sank for unknown reasons in 1545 in Portsmouth Harbour.

The SS Central America was lost with millions of dollars of gold.

The French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot joined the search for Roald Amundsen.

An experimental deepwaTer toilet system resulted in the sinking of German U-1206