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After budget cuts and personal demons forced him off the streets of San Pedro, Detective Nick Terry's beat became the classroom, where he patrols the minds of the people in his beloved hometown.

Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the exclusive playground for the rich and powerful among Rome’s elite. What made Baiae such a special place? What really went on there? And why did it disappear?

Looking for a forgotten city: off the coast of Egypt, just a few metres under the surface, but blanketed by sand and mud, slumbers the ancient port of Heracleion.

Piet, Berend and Stien are ready to sail out of the harbour with their ship the Scheve Schuit. But suddenly they hear a siren song. Stien recognizes the voice immediately; it's the voice of a mermaid! According to an old book that Stien received from Steven, mermaids live in Atlantis. So, if they can hear that voice, Atlantis must be very close! Berend and Stien want to look for that mermaid and the treasure of Atlantis. The pirates dive into the water and experience an exciting adventure, together with the enchanted mermaid Arivle. Will you dive with them?

The children have decided to discover the sunken city. The children are helped in their search by the gardener Ermile, who has a number of things and paintings in his house that confirm the existence of the sunken city, removed from the bottom of the sea.

The ancient city of Baiae was the Las Vegas of the Roman Empire. Over the centuries, it slowly sunk beneath the sea. Amanda Ruggeri meets the archaeologists and engineers developing some surprising new technologies to protect the underwater site for future generations.

Explore the ruins of Port Royal, once a flourishing pirate city, known for extravagance, women and liquor. The city which went by the sobriquet "wickedest city on earth", lies in shambles deep below the waters of Jamaica's Kingston Harbor after a devastating tsunami struck it on June 7, 1692

Post-Katrina New Orleans oscillates between recovery and rebuilding, a fascinating process that our documentary captures over the course of two years (2006-2008).

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.

Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation. An international team of experts is using cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets and stone buildings that lie less than five metres below the surface of the ocean. State-of-the-art CGI helps to raise the city from the seabed, revealing for the first time in 3,500 years how Pavlopetri would once have looked and operated.

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A 17th-century Caribbean port rumored to have frequented by pirates rises from the ocean floor, where it came to rest after an earthquake many years before. A scientist wants to study it, some thugs want the treasure alleged to be stored there, a bunch of mutated giant crabs living there attack them all.

Devastating hurricanes, torrential rains, the inexorably rising waters: coastal megacities are now up against the wall. The filmmakers have chosen three emblematic cities: New York, Singapore and Rotterdam. Cities that each face unique problems and must revisit their relationship with water in order to survive on the long run. In 50 years, all surge barriers in the world will be out of order. What solutions will then remain for coastal cities?