Disasters at Sea

When a massive bulk carrier is swallowed up by a typhoon, the crew's grieving families form their own investigation.

Deadly flooding sinks the Alaska Ranger in March 2008, forcing the crew to abandon ship into the frigid waters off the coast of Alaska; their retrieval marks the largest cold water rescue in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.

The crew of a bulk carrier finds itself in mortal danger after assisting a ship in distress in the stormy Atlantic.

Investigators struggle to determine why the world's largest rock discharge carrier capsized in a Norwegian shipping channel.

A February 2007 adventure cruise ends in disaster when MV Explorer sinks in Antarctica, stranding 144 passengers and crew in inflatable rafts to face the sub-arctic temperatures of the South Pole.

When a violent crack tears the MSC Napoli apart in January 2017, the crew is left stranded in the English Channel; rescuers must retrieve the crew and move the ship away from busy shipping lanes; investigators discover an alarming design flaw.