Ship Hits The Fan
What’s worse than death? How about meeting your end on the high seas, marooned, while sharks swim hungrily by? Or being trapped in a toppled ship in the middle of a bustling city? Set sail with Charlotte and Patrick as these landlubbers delve into the depths of history to find the weirdest, scariest and just plain stupidest marine disasters in history.
Show art provided by Stevie Jude.
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The Real Story of the USS Indianapolis Part 2 -...
A mission so secret, no distress call could be sent.
37 min
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The Real Story of the USS Indianapolis Part 1 -...
The USS Indianapolis is sunk in shark infested waters.
32 min
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The SS Yongala Is Lost for Forty-Seven Years - ...
"We should all stay away from the oceans, horses, and guys..."
37 min
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Battle of May, Kublai Khan's Blunder, and Ships...
The last place you'd expect to find a ship.
41 min
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The Hōkūleʻa Fails to Shred the Gnar - Ship Hit...
Free admission to the museum of your mind.
48 min
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Best Of: A Game of Maritime Chicken Blows the H...
In this week's episode Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the needless tragedy of the SS Mont-Blanc, whose collision with the SS Imo resulted in the largest ever man made explosion until the invention of the atomic bomb.
51 min
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Best Of: Marital Infidelity Sinks the Costa Con...
Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the tragedy of The Costa Concordia.
48 min
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Best Of: A Shipwreck Graveyard Claims the Edmun...
"Tell your friends, tell your mom, tell her book club." This week Charlotte, Patrick, and Brian discuss the final voyage of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, just one in a long line of ships swallowed by the capricious, freezing waters of the Great Lakes.
55 min
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Too Many Christmas Trees Sink The Rouse Simmons...
Happy Holidays from the bottom of Lake Michigan.
43 min
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The SS Central America Sinks Itself and the U.S...
A treasure hunt with a very dark beginning.
45 min
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An Unsinkable Russian Nuclear Sub Sinks Itself ...
Trapped in the belly of a sunken nuclear sub.
38 min
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Even Fertilizer Explosions Are Bigger in Texas ...
If the smoke is grey, watching’s okay. Purple & yellow? Get down, fellow.
45 min
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The Pride of the Swedish Empire Sinks Immediate...
A lesson in what not to do.
42 min
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A 17th Century Shipwreck Turns Men into Monster...
Mutiny, backstabbing, and murder.
29 min
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The Tragic True Story That Inspired Moby Dick -...
.Whales - 13, Whalers - 0.
45 min
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Spooky Abandoned Vessels and Ghost Ships - Ship...
The oceans are graveyards of abandoned ships.
34 min
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Sin City of the Gulf Claims the SS Selma - Ship...
Waiting for repairs in Galveston for over a century.
34 min
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Japanese Fishermen Catch an Alien or Maybe Some...
Invasion of the Otaku Aliens
25 min
44
Soviets Drive Fleeing Nazis Into and Under the ...
Thousands pile onto an ocean liner in hopes of escaping. Few would survive.
45 min
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An Impromptu Boat Race Leads to Decades of War ...
Sorry, Bezos. Hope you like Rotterdam Harbor.
45 min
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The Ingenuity of Narco Subs - Ship Hits the Fan...
From speed boat driver to the king of narco subs.
45 min
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The Sinking of the Mary Rose Breaks Henry VIII'...
Henry VIII loved ships almost as much as wives.
44 min
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The Real Story Behind Captain Phillips and the ...
Was Capt. Phillips really the hero Tom Hanks portrayed him to be?
45 min
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The SS Atlantic Finds Canada's Waters Less Than...
"Are you a collector of food poisonings?"
48 min
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The Final Voyage of the World's Unluckiest Stea...
Warning: Potentially disturbing or upsetting content.
38 min