Just weeks before the war ends, USS Indianapolis is violently sunk; hundreds of men are lost at sea as they fight off exposure and shark attacks; it is the worst disaster at sea in U.S. Naval history.

Undersea explorers aboard the research vessel Petrel detect a wreck off the coast of the Philippines that fits the profile of an American destroyer.

Hours after emerging victorious in the first carrier-to-carrier battle of World War II, the USS Lexington erupts in flames due to enemy fire; after 80 years, Petrel hopes to spot the wreck and the planes that went down with the ship.

The Petrel team searches for the American aircraft carrier USS Hornet; the ship's life is cut short when the Hornet sails into a hornet's nest of Japanese ships.

What happened aboard the USS Juneau; five brothers are lost, but not all perish when the ship goes down; at least one brother is among scores of men stranded at sea for eight days.

In one night, over 1000 Allied sailors perish when four cruisers go down in flames; Petrel searches for the cruisers in a graveyard littered with ships.