Drain the Oceans

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

A formidable battleship reveals secrets, 450 years later.

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

Uncovered wrecks reveal how Britain defeated the Nazis.

Shipwrecks reveal the true story of piracy on the Caribbean.

Revealing forgotten stories from the American Revolution.

Revealing the lost wrecks of the American Civil War.

New insights reveal how the Allies won World War II.

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

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.