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.

In 1975, the 29-man crew of the iron-ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald faced one of the worst storms head on. Fighting 30-foot waves and 95-mile per hour winds, she disappeared only 17 miles from safety.

In 1898, a trio of tempests engulfed New England, sinking hundreds of ships. Only now can the dramatic story of the nearly 200 people trapped aboard the lost passenger steamer SS Portland be told.

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.

Divers explore the wreck of The Montana, a 'mountainboat' built to carry passengers and freight West that sank on the Missouri River in 1884.

Just off the coast of Northern California sits the wreckage of a clipper that smuggled opium into China during the 1840s. Who built and owned it? And how is there no historical record of the sinking?

Search for a Spanish galleon, the Atocha, which sank off the Florida Keys. Head back to the famous treasure ship with Mel Fisher, who has recovered roughly $400 million of riches from the sea floor.

Hours before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, American marines claimed to have torpedoed a Japanese sub outside the harbor. Without evidence, the story was dismissed. But in 2002, the wreck was found.