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A maritime history podcast about shipwrecks, maritime disasters, and seafaring legends. Hear tragic stories of loss, as well as heroic tales of triumph.
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El Faro: The Clock is Ticking (Replay) (opens the original)
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In October 2015, the cargo ship El Faro sank in Hurricane Joaquin with 33 people aboard. Hear Captain Michael Davidson's emergency calls and the bridge transcripts from the ship's Voyage Data Recorder. This episode reconstructs the final hours of the voyage from primary sources. You'll hear the recorded emergency phone calls from Captain Michael Davidson as the ship took on water and lost propulsion. We also go through transcripts from the Voyage Data Recorder, the "black box" recovered from the
This Week in Shipwrecks #6 (opens the original)
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This Week in Shipwrecks: September 18–24, 2026 From a sabotage plot hidden in a 160-year-old cargo of Guinness to the long-overdue removal of the masts on Britain's most dangerous wreck, and a modern maritime disaster still unfolding in Indonesia, this week's episode spans two thousand years of shipping history and picks up right where last week left off. Stories in this episode: The Mindoro, English Channel — New evidence points to a sabotage plot behind the 1864 wreck that gave up bottles of v
SS Caribou: Newfoundland's Deadliest Night (opens the original)
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In the dark hours before dawn on October 14, 1942, the passenger ferry SS Caribou was making her regular crossing between North Sydney, Nova Scotia and Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, when a torpedo from the German U-boat U-69 struck her starboard side. She sank in under five minutes. Aboard were civilians, military personnel, and entire families, including the ship's own captain, Benjamin Tavernor, and his two sons serving as officers. Her naval escort, HMCS Grandmère, tried to hunt down the U-
This Week in Shipwrecks #5 (opens the original)
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This Week in Shipwrecks is the weekly maritime news series of Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs. This week's stories: Rescuers race against time after the Virgo Transport 8 ferry capsizes in the Java Sea. Cádiz port dredging turns up 27 cannons and a stash of silver. New horrors surface from the 1629 wreck of the Batavia Lake Michigan diver's body found Archaelogists glean information from historic Bronze Age shipwreck Sunken German U-Boat leaking TNT off the coast of Denmark Mystic Seaport Museum announc
Broken in Two: The SS Pendleton and SS Fort Mercer (opens the original)
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On February 18, 1952, a violent nor'easter raged through New England and two steel tankers were torn in half within hours of each other off the coast of Cape Cod. The SS Pendleton and the SS Fort Mercer, both battered by hurricane-force winds and towering seas, cracked apart in what would become one of the most remarkable maritime rescue operations in U.S. Coast Guard history. This episode traces the disaster from the first distress calls to the daring small-boat rescues that followed, including
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