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Killer Shipwrecks II - The Arabia

2026-09-2245:00

The steamboat Arabia sank in the Missouri River in 1856 and was written off as a total loss. But in 1988 five enterprising treasure hunters dug deep under Kansas cornfields to make an unbelievable find -- the Arabia and its full freight of perfectly preserved food, clothing, and building supplies. Today this remarkable discovery remains the largest collection of pre-Civil War artifacts ever recovered. Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Se...

Killer Shipwrecks II - Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion

2026-08-3044:53

Nothing about his upbringing in the wilds of 17th century New England suggested William Phips would one day be knighted by the English king and then made governor of the Massachusetts colony. But a knack for finding and salvaging valuable shipwrecks made his ascent possible. His work on one shipwreck in particular -- Nuestra Señora de la Concepcion -- became a global sensation and cemented his legend as a treasure hunter without equal. Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Aw...

Killer Shipwrecks II - The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

2026-07-2038:43

On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in a matter of minutes. She was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. No mayday. No distress call. Just a captain's last words: "We are holding our own." The wreck inspired Gordon Lightfoot's famous song, but the real story is stranger than the lyrics. Fifty years later, nobody agrees on exactly what caused the ship to go down, and the lake has never given up a single body. Plus, a recent legal saga involving a police department, a relic ...

Killer Shipwrecks II - The Accidental Aquanaut

2026-06-2935:30

Harrison Okene, a crew member on the Jascon-4 tugboat, was using the bathroom in the middle of the night when the boat -- and his whole life -- turned upside down. A rogue wave flipped the Jascon-4 and sent it to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 20 miles off the coast of Nigeria. All crew members except the 29-year-old Okene died. How he managed to survive for the next three days is one of the most amazing maritime survival tales of all time. Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means ...

Killer Shipwrecks II - The Antikythera

2026-06-0641:27

In 1900, a Greek sponge diver surfaced in a panic, describing rotting bodies and horses on the seafloor. His captain thought he was hallucinating, so he went down himself. He came back up holding a 2,000-year-old bronze arm. The Antikythera wreck holds the world's oldest known computer, a weapon pulled straight from ancient mythology, and a statue engineered to move on its own. What this single ship was carrying remains one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in history. And the excava...

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