SILVER SPRING, MD; February 20, 2008 —Acorn Media announces the April 15, 2008 DVD debut of Clive Cussler’s The Sea Hunters, Set 2, featuring six more episodes of the underwater documentary series delivering dramatic action and fascinating history.

What really happened to the Andrea Gail, the little fishing boat made famous in The Perfect Storm? Can a treasure-trove of artistic masterpieces survive after 200-plus years underwater? How did the ship that rescued Titanic survivors meet its fate? Led by bestselling action-adventure author Clive Cussler (Dirk Pitt) and distinguished marine archaeologist James Delgado, a team of expert divers attempt to answer those questions and more—not for profit, but to complete the historical record.

Careful never to remove relics from their final resting places, the Sea Hunters record their finds with superb underwater videography. Each episode includes historical background on the targeted shipwrecks and details the team’s elaborate planning, high-tech methods, and spectacular underwater filming. These six action-packed episodes make the viewer a participant in daring expeditions and a true witness to history. The Sea Hunters series aired on the National Geographic Channel.

• Episode 1: The Search for the Carpathia - On April 15, 1912, the passenger liner RMS Carpathia bravely raced through ice-choked waters to save the survivors of the Titanic and was sunk by a German U-boat six years later.
  
  
• Episode 2: The Search for Andrea Gail - Immortalized by the bestseller and hit movie The Perfect Storm, the swordfishing boat Andrea Gail sank somewhere in the North Atlantic in the monstrous meteorological confluence of 1991.
  
  
• Episode 3: Catherine the Great’s Treasure Ship - Laden with artistic masterpieces bound for the Russian empress’s collection, the Vrouw Maria sank in 1771 and now lies almost perfectly preserved on the Baltic seabed.
  
  
• Episode 4: Russalka: The Czar’s Lost Ironclad - The flagship of Czar Nicholas II’s navy, the Russalka mysteriously vanished in 1893. Apparently defying gravity and physics, it seems to have sunk vertically and now stands upright in the ice-cold waters off Estonia.
  
  
• Episode 5: Lost at Sea: The Great U.S. Navy Airships Akron and Macon - Search for the remains of the Akron and Macon—two dirigibles that fell into the sea a continent apart in the 1930s. They represented the Navy’s last experiments in deploying flying aircraft carriers.
  
  
• Episode 6: The Search for the SS Alabama - During the American Civil War, the Confederacy commissioned ships specifically designed to beat the Union blockade of Southern ports including their deadliest raider, the Alabama.

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