About this season
An expert team of underwater archaeologists, divers, and technicians locate, identify, and explore some of the world's great, and often forgotten, shipwrecks.
Episodes (7)
1. Kublai Khan's Lost Fleet
Aired 2 January 2004 • 48 min
Kublai Khan, the grandson of the great Genghis Khan, proclaimed himself ruler of the Mongols in 1260.
2. Diving the German V-2 Rocket Caves
Aired 9 January 2004 • 48 min
Join the Sea Hunters as they explore underground tunnels flooded since just after World War II, where thousands of men died constructing the Vengeance Weapons of Adolph Hitler.
3. The Lost Fleet of Santiago de Cuba
Aired 16 January 2004 • 48 min
In February 1898, Cuba’s three-year struggle for independence from Spain and fears for American lives and property in Cuba convinced President William McKinley to send the battleship USS Maine to "show the flag".
4. Human Torpedos: The Wreck of USS Mississinewa
Aired 23 January 2004 • 48 min
On the Ulithi Atoll, South of Guam lays the wreckage of the USS Mississinewa, a fuel carrying cargo vessel.
5. Sunk at Robinson Crusoe Island: SMS Dresden
Aired 30 January 2004 • 48 min
In May of 1914, the German Light Cruiser "Dresden" was trapped and sunk by British destroyers. She had been at anchor at Robinson Crusoe Island, 400 miles off the coast of Santiago Chile.
6. Lost at Sea: The Great U.S. Navy Airships Akron & Macon
Aired 6 February 2004 • 48 min
In April of 1933, the United States Navy Rigid Airship “Akron” crashed off the coast of New Jersey. Seventy-three Navy airmen were lost in this horrifying disaster.
7. The Wreck of the Fox: The Arctic Legacy of Franklin
Aired 13 February 2004 • 48 min
What secrets may be hidden within those wrecked or stranded ships, we know not – what may be buried in the graves of our unhappy countrymen or in caches not yet discovered, we have yet to learn.