Discover relics of The War of 1812 (the flagship Scorpion of the Chesapeake Flotilla scuttled on Patuxet River in Maryland), The Alamo (shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico filled with weapons), and Pearl Harbor (the wreck of the USS Arizona).

Dreadnoughtus, discovered in Patagonia, Argentina, is one of the largest titanosaurs ever discovered. A tale of human sacrifice deep within an underwater cave (or cenote) in Yucatán, Mexico, offers new insight into the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization. Draining Alaska's extreme north reveals the graveyard of a tragic fleet of 32 whaling ships strapped in the Arctic ice off the state's north coast in the Whaling Disaster of 1871.

Unearthed dinosaur bones, shipwrecks, and other archeology reveal secrets of world history, like finding the Japanese midget submarine sunk by the USS Ward off Pearl Harbor during World War II; discovering the homes of Tejanos at the Alamo from before the Battle and the original defensive walls were adobe, not stone; and realizing tyrannosaurs may have been smart pack hunters based on an extensive fossil bed at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.

A revealing look at two lucrative smuggling routes of the criminal underworld: the tugboat William P. Maloney, a rumrunner carrying whiskey, sank in the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey during Prohibition; drug smuggling results in a mysterious plane wreck of a C-46 in the Caribbean at Norman's Cay, The Bahamas.

A bomb, murder, and a foiled multi-million insurance scam on the high seas: the Lucona sank in the Indian Ocean on January 23, 1977, by a bomb planted by Austrian businessman Udo Proksch as part of a $20 million insurance fraud.

A US flagship wreck reveals the British burning of the White House in 1814.

Archaeologists uncover the truth behind the legend of a treasure ship, the "Beeswax Wreck" off Manzanita Beach, Oregon. The Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos was wrecked in 1693, hauling porcelain, pottery, and valuable beeswax.

Paleontologists journey from Patagonia to Canada to overturn popular misconceptions about dinosaurs and uncover the real Jurassic Americas. Discovered are a new species of titanosaur in Patagonia, Argentina; a new nodosaur from an oil sands mine in Alberta, Canada; and a pack of tyrannosaurs at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah.

Hidden in the oceans, lakes and rivers of the US lie wrecks revealing secrets to the rise to power of the American Mob in the 1920s.

The hunt for a legendary ghost ship in Alaska reveals a corner of the United States once known as "Russian America." The Kad'yak was a Russian three-masted bark that sank in Icon Bay off Kodiak Island in 1860. It was bound for San Francisco, California, with a cargo of ice.

Draining Alaska's extreme north reveals the graveyard of a tragic fleet. The 1871 Whaling Disaster occurred when pack ice off Alaska's North Slope trapped 32 whaling ships.

Using cutting edge visual effects to 'drain' the waters around the notorious island of Alcatraz. With the waters drained away the secrets of Alcatraz are revealed, including exactly why the island's infamous prison was so inescapable. With no water in the way San Francisco Bay is revealed to be a fascinating and chaotic place. On the dry bay floor we see the scars left by epic earthquakes. These fault lines give scientists an idea as to when and where the next 'big one' will strike. With the whole area drained it's possible to see what could happen to San Francisco when the next giant quake hits, as well as what will be left of Alcatraz once the dust settles.
 

World War II left the greatest-ever number of ships and submarines hidden beneath the waves. Now, as the oceans drain, each vessel reveals its secrets through new data-based 3D reconstructions. From the Arizona in Pearl Harbor's shallows, whose destruction brought America into the war, to Nazi supership, the Bismarck, and its mysterious end three miles down; from the flaming merchant ships secretly torpedoed by U-boats off tourist beaches of the USA, to the covert inventions of the Allies' costly D-Day beachhead, and lastly to the troopship Leopoldville sunk with the needless deaths of 400 soldiers hushed up - Drain exposes the truth.