Feb 16, 2020 - A jogger near the southern coast of Ireland makes a strange discovery: a rusty 2,400-ton ship appeared to be stranded on some rocks. Authorities later arrive on the scene and try to contact anyone on board. But nobody responds. The ship is abandoned, and has been for a long time, in one of the strangest maritime events in recent memory.

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May 31, 1920 - An oil tanker named the SS Selma hits a jetty off the coast of Tampico, Mexico. The impact rips a hole in the ship’s hull and the ship is taken to Galveston for repairs. When those don’t work, the ship becomes a permanent landmark on the Gulf coast of Texas.

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February 22, 1803 - A group of Japanese fishermen spot a very unusual boat floating near the shore. What happens next will become a legend that endures over the next 200 years. 

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January 30, 1945 - The curtain is falling on Nazi Germany, and the Eastern Front is collapsing as the Soviet Army advances. Thousands of panicked German evacuees and soldiers pile onto an ocean liner in the hopes of escaping via the Baltic Sea. Most would never make it. What happened next would be the deadliest disaster in maritime history. 

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November 24, 1120 - A ship full of English nobles, including the heir to the throne, hits a rock off the coast of Normandy. What happens next will set off a crisis in England that will reverberate for centuries to come. 

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January 2022. Óscar Moreno Ricardo is arrested by authorities in Colombia. Authorities say the former speedboat driver has devoted the last 20 years to building some of the most ingenious vehicles in the world: narco subs. We’re going to learn all about them in this weeks’ episode. 

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July 19, 1545. The English warship, the Mary Rose, sinks during a battle against the invading French army. The fate of the Mary Rose was a mystery that has lasted hundreds of years -- but in recent decades the ship was pulled from the bottom of the sea, and has become a priceless historic artifact.

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April 8, 2009. The Maersk Alabama is traveling to Kenya with a load of food aid when it’s attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean. It’s the first time in two centuries that a US flagged ship has been seized by pirates. 

What happened next became an international sensation, and the subject of a blockbuster movie, starring Tom Hanks.

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March 31, 1873. The SS Atlantic is making its 19th trip across the Atlantic Ocean, carrying nearly 1,000 passengers from Liverpool, England to New York City. But there was a problem. It was running out of fuel. Its captain decided on a change of course. And that decision would lead to one of the worst disasters in maritime history.

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June 15, 1904 - A group of churchgoers from Manhattan are headed to a summer picnic in Long Island. It’s a trip that the group have made for several years, and today’s voyage shouldn’t be any different. But instead the joyous outing turned into a disaster. It would virtually wipe an entire community off the map of Manhattan and it would be New York's worst loss of life until Sept. 11, 2001.

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