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Freak Wave

2002Tv EpisodeS39 E14

The world's oceans claim on average one ship a week, often in mysterious circumstances. With little evidence to go on, investigators usually point at human error or poor maintenance but an alarming series of disappearances and near-sinkings, including world-class vessels with unblemished track records, has prompted the search for a more sinister cause and renewed belief in a maritime myth: the wall of water. Waves the height of an office block. Waves twice as large as any that ships are designed to ride over. These are not tsunamis or tidal waves, but huge breaking walls of water that come out of the blue. Suspicions these were fact not fiction were roused in 1978, by the cargo ship München. She was a state-of-the-art cargo ship. The December storms predicted when she set out to cross the Atlantic did not concern her German crew. The voyage was perfectly routine until at 3am on 12 December she sent out a garbled mayday message from the mid-Atlantic. Rescue attempts began immediately with over a hundred ships combing the ocean.

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Freak Wave

2002Tv EpisodeS39 E14

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First 50 subtitle cues from S39E01 2002 Freak Wave.sub.english.srt

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#100:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,600
There is something out at sea terrorising the world's shipping.
#200:00:09,880 --> 00:00:14,021
Out of the darkness came this great wall of water.
#300:00:15,884 --> 00:00:19,727
I have never seen a wave as big as this in my whole life.
#400:00:20,228 --> 00:00:24,600
It can strike out of the blue with devastating consequences.
#500:00:28,174 --> 00:00:31,941
You hit solid water and it is like running into a brick wall.
#600:00:33,126 --> 00:00:35,412
The entire bridge was wrecked.
#700:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,834
Horrific, monstrous.
#800:00:43,001 --> 00:00:46,715
You feel as if the end of the world has come.
#900:00:51,765 --> 00:00:56,278
This is the story of a wave that is sinking ships around the world,
#1000:00:56,619 --> 00:01:00,604
a killer that defies all scientific understanding
#1100:01:00,605 --> 00:01:04,812
and that no ship is designed to withstand.
#1200:01:17,534 --> 00:01:20,521
It is one of the best kept secrets of the sea,
#1300:01:20,705 --> 00:01:24,738
that once a week a ship sinks to the bottom of the ocean,
#1400:01:25,293 --> 00:01:29,671
often without Mayday or any clue as to what happened.
#1500:01:32,218 --> 00:01:37,662
One of the most mysterious of these disappearances is that of the Munchen.
#1600:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,118
The Munchen was a vast new type of cargo ship,
#1700:01:46,339 --> 00:01:48,687
the length of 2¨ö football pitches
#1800:01:48,869 --> 00:01:51,861
she was the pride of the German merchant navy.
#1900:01:54,377 --> 00:01:57,420
On 7 December 1978
#2000:01:57,452 --> 00:02:00,888
she set sail on a routine trip to America.
#2100:02:05,940 --> 00:02:10,957
On board were 27 crew, including Uwe Hinrichs.
#2200:02:13,788 --> 00:02:18,056
This was my son Uwe, 20 years old.
#2300:02:19,563 --> 00:02:21,509
He liked going to sea.
#2400:02:21,777 --> 00:02:24,778
He said it was the safest ship in the world.
#2500:02:26,549 --> 00:02:30,813
Everybody said it was unsinkable, the best ship in the world.
#2600:02:33,106 --> 00:02:38,332
That night in December there was a giant storm raging across the Atlantic.
#2700:02:39,482 --> 00:02:41,788
The waves were the size of houses,
#2800:02:44,633 --> 00:02:46,985
but that would not have troubled the Munchen.
#2900:02:49,550 --> 00:02:54,971
For a ship so powerful and well maintained such storms were just routine.
#3000:02:57,209 --> 00:03:00,935
It was assumed that all was well and going to schedule,
#3100:03:04,481 --> 00:03:08,323
until 3 AM on the night of 12 December.
#3200:03:13,177 --> 00:03:15,404
It was an SOS from the Munchen.
#3300:03:15,806 --> 00:03:18,439
She was in trouble and needed help,
#3400:03:19,418 --> 00:03:21,995
but at this stag no-one was too alarmed
#3500:03:21,996 --> 00:03:26,804
because even if damaged the powerful Munchen could float for days.
#3600:03:29,203 --> 00:03:31,340
At the beginning we were very calm.
#3700:03:31,344 --> 00:03:34,431
I told myself this couldn't happen to the Munchen.
#3800:03:34,504 --> 00:03:36,299
It's so safe.
#3900:03:36,908 --> 00:03:39,405
Everything had been taken care of.
#4000:03:39,459 --> 00:03:41,531
They'd thought about everything.
#4100:03:46,493 --> 00:03:49,984
Within hours search and rescue planes were sent to find her
#4200:03:50,084 --> 00:03:52,515
and all the ships in the busy shipping route
#4300:03:52,615 --> 00:03:54,877
came to join in the search.
#4400:03:59,367 --> 00:04:03,489
Like a police hunt, they were lined up three miles apart
#4500:04:03,491 --> 00:04:06,778
combing vast areas of the ocean for the Munchen.
#4600:04:11,470 --> 00:04:14,729
It was the biggest search in the history of shipping.
#4700:04:14,893 --> 00:04:17,991
In charge was Captain Pieter de Nijs.
#4800:04:18,486 --> 00:04:20,355
We hoped to find the ship,
#4900:04:20,455 --> 00:04:25,682
or at least people or a lifeboat, a life raft with people and we never found
#5000:04:25,702 --> 00:04:32,548
any living soul which every day became more disappointing.