Drain the Oceans

Drain the Oceans

TV-Y7 2018 · 6 seasons · 55 eps · ★ 7.1 · Documentary

Returning Series

Maritime mysteries—old and new—come to life in this series, combining scientific data and digital re-creations to reveal shipwrecks, treasures, and sunken cities on the bottom of lakes, seas and oceans around the world.

Directed by Sam Miller

Network: National Geographic

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Cast

Craig Sechler Self - Narrator (voice)
James P. Delgado Self - Marine Archaeologist
Eric Grove Self - Naval Historian
Runar Lia Self - Norwegian Industrial Workers Museum
Fredrik Soreide Self - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jann Witt Self - Historian, German Naval Association
David Mearns Self - Shipwreck Hunter - Blue Water Recoveries
Andrzej Slaby Self - Hydrographer, LOTUS Petrobaltic S.A.
Stephen Burke Self - Co-Author 'Freedom of the Seas'
Adam Olejnik Self - Polish Naval Academy, Co-Author 'Freedom of the Seas'
Innes McCartney Self - Maritime Archaeologist, Bournemouth University
Winston Churchill Self (archive footage)

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