Deep Sea Detectives

In Summer 1942, with the U.S. at war in Europe and the Pacific, few Americans knew that the war raged in their own backyard. Dozens of Hitler's U-boats had penetrated the Gulf of Mexico.

By 2001, nearly every major U.S. WWII shipwreck had been found except for the USS Mississinewa, a refueling ship sunk off the Ulithi Atoll in the war's final stage. Where did the wreckage go?

Dive off the American Island of Guam, where the eerie wrecks of two different ships from two different wars--30 years apart--went down within inches of each other and today are literally touching!

Examine the recovery of the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru, which sank in 2001 off the coast of Hawaii after it collided with USS Greenville, an American nuclear submarine.

In 1943, the USS Murphy left New York Harbor and was suddenly struck and sliced in half. The bow sank and took down 35 men, but incredibly, the stern stayed afloat. Watch as divers examine the wreck.

John Chatterton travels to Normandy and joins French diver Bertrand Sciboz to search for the sunken remains of the D-Day invasion's failed secret weapon: the Duplex Drive (DD) tanks.

In 1926, a luxury cruise ship sank off the coast of Miami after a violent explosion. But the surviving crew members' accounts conflict with the wreckage... Could the truth finally be revealed?

Within the Mexican isle of Cozumel winds Cueva Quebrada, an underwater cave system in which a significant cache of Mayan artifacts lies, mysteriously, almost a mile from any of its entrances. But how?

A month after D-Day, when the Allies believed all was safe off the beaches of Normandy, the Minesweeper YMS-304 was detonated. John Chatterton dives the remains of this tragic wreck.

In 2002, after many mysterious oil spills, California beaches were threatened with the carcasses of oiled animals. The leaks were traced to a 50-year-old sunken tanker, 200 feet below sea level.

Explore two locomotives found upright and intact on the ocean floor, off the coast of New Jersey. Investigators attempt to find out how the trains ended up 90-feet below the surface of the Atlantic.

On December 26, 1996, an unlicensed ferry smuggling illegal immigrants disappears off Sicily's coast. Our detectives return to the scene of the crime to investigate: Was it an accident or murder?

John Chatterton and Melanie Paul join marine archaeologists to decide whether negligence, bad luck, or foul play sent the North Carolina to the ocean floor in 1879.

The wrecks of a German submarine and an English steamship were discovered over 30 miles from where they were thought to have sunk in World War I. Host John Chatterton pieces together what happened.

Declassified Soviet documents shed new light on the sinking of a World War I warship. Explore the wreckage of the USS San Diego, which sank off the coast of Fire Island, N.Y. in 1918.

A cargo carrier formerly used by Admiral Richard Byrd to travel to Antarctica sinks suddenly in calm seas.