Deep Sea Detectives

Some of the most exciting tales of human determination and survival can be found in the chronicles of shipwrecks.

Lake Superior is home to the "Witch of November" and some of the worst storms a sailor will ever see. On the night of November 10, 1975, the 29-man crew of the iron-ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald faced the Witch head on.

On a bleak Thanksgiving weekend in 1898, a trio of tempests engulfed New England, sank hundreds of ships, and killed more than 400 people.

Marine experts finally found the Derbyshire scattered on the bottom of the sea.

The riverboat Montana was a "mountainboat" built to carry both passengers and freight into the Western Territories and compete with the new transportation threat--railroads.

Just off the coast of Northern California, our Deep Sea Detectives dive into a cove near Mendocino--a rocky inlet called "The Washing Machine" for its turbulent currents.

Mel Fisher located the mother lode--$400-million worth of gold and silver.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was a move of unprecedented aggression that shook the U.S. out of its peaceful slumber and into WWII.