Drain the Oceans

It would be great if you could work on Lake Champlain and Lake George they are both very big lakes and contain a lot of history under the surface

While sometimes captivating when it explores lost cities or missing airplanes, this show teeters more towards sunken ship exploration 99% of the time. I waited years to finally sit down and enjoy what seemed like a great concept - and I was all in for a show about geology and geography; exploring the deepest trenches and unseen landscapes we never see. Unfortunately, this show is not that. It hasn't taught me anything I haven't already learned from other historical documentaries. Too much time is spent giving a history lesson, and then the ocean is very briefly drained. I eventually found myself skipping episodes because there are only so many sunken nazi warships and u-boats I can take before the show becomes one-note. Even an episode about the Egyptian desert someone manages to focus on mysterious boats buried in middle of the desert. Enough with the boats already. There are a few interesting nuggets - such as the underwater geography of Alcatraz and how it played a part in derailing potential escapees; the search for Atlantis and the sunken Port Royal, showing all the potential for what this show should be - but episodes like that feel few and far between. I expected a more even distribution of shipwrecks, differing world coastlines, continental shelves, coral reefs, what islands really look like with water drained away, etc. Quite frankly, this show would be more accurately titled "Draining Sunken Ships" because that seems to be the focus.

The show was interesting and I looked forward to each ship story but dang, could you have gone at least 60 seconds without saying 'drain the lake' or 'drain the ocean' over and over again?

Just watched the episode The Battle of Britain. It is so inaccurate. At Dunkirk it shows a Destroyer H88, it says that the ship is HMS Wakeful, in fact this ship is HMS Havelock, which survived the the war.

It then says HMS Wakeful was bombed and sunk, again this is wrong as HMS Wakeful also survived the war. This so inaccurate, I was going to check about Narvik but lost interested in the programme. If you are going to make a documentary surely facts must be correct. The commentary is so slow and uninteresting it is so off putting. The music is too loud too, clearly not made for the UK audience.

It's amazing. But the narrator is often drowned out by the music. Maybe tone it down in future episodes . I don't think I can adjust my tv to separate the music from the story.