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DESPERATE HOURS

19. 8.19:00 → 19:30

EP. 09. This episode of Desperate Hours is all about disasters at sea. The long saga of death and misadventure at sea is as much a record of human folly as it is of nature’s fury. When you start charting a course through the choppy seas of maritime disasters, the effect can be quite sobering. From the loss of the Titanic, a supposedly unsinkable luxury liner; to a routine ferry trip in South Korea that ended with the heart-breaking loss of so many young lives. Or how about the Exxon Valdez oil spoil, which pumped millions of gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, one of the la...