shipwrecks

Following the disappearance of their mother, the Sykes siblings realize their home is being visited by a water spectre. Realizing their mother may not be who she said she was, they embark on an adventure that takes them to the bottom of the ocean and places them in the middle of an ancient conflict between good and evil.

Discusses the design and building of the monster ship the Titanic, its maiden voyage, and what went wrong on the fateful night when it struck an iceberg and sank.

Recounts the quest to find the sunken Titanic, describing the expeditions that found and explored her.

Explores the lasting legacy of the "Titanic" tragedy, discussing how the sinking of the ship led to new regulations and the formation of an ice patrol that later became the U.S. Coast Guard, earned the "New York Times" a lasting reputation for news, caused a Senate inquiry, destroyed the lives of several survivors, and fascinated people around the world for a century.

Uses high-tech underwater images, historical black-and-white photos, and period illustrations to show different perspectives of the Titanic's wreck and the surrounding debris. Includes images of the Titanic's engines, boilers, lifeboat davits, telemotor on her bridge, champagne bottles, a leather suitcase, and shoes.

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years, wreaking havoc on land and creating a wind-whipped peril of the freezing Atlantic. In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Fort Mercer and the Pendleton, broke in two. The Coast Guard raced its cutters to the Fort Mercer to rescue the men huddled in the halves, and when the Pendleton proved to be in danger of capsizing, sent out into the storm two 36-foot wooden lifeboats, each manned by four crewmen, in what every crewman realized could be a suicide mission in the enormous seventy-foot seas.

Presents portraits of some of the Titanic's most notable passengers, interweaving their personal narratives with an account of the disaster as it unfolds.

Underwater images help answer questions about the sinking of British passenger liner, Lusitania, in 1915, which killed 1,195 civilians.

After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck on the coast of England in 1838, Grace Darling finds her quiet life crumbling around her as she is unwillingly fashioned into a national hero.