Disasters at Sea

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

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.

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.

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.