Disasters at Sea

See how small fatigue cracks on a massive cargo ship were ticking time bombs that finally went off in 1998, killing 21.

Witness an explosion at sea, a heroic rescue, and an urgent investigation as we examine the 2004 Bow Mariner disaster.

Find out the chemical combination that caused the container vessel Flaminia to explode in the middle of the Atlantic.

Was it bad weather or bad decisions that doomed the Alaskan fishing boat Destination? An expert team races to find out.

It took just a half hour for the cutting-edge ferry Herald of Free Enterprise to flip over, killing 193. What happened?

Discover the role a dense fog and an emergency release system played in the disappearance of a tugboat in Scotland.