Watch The Sea Hunters online: Episode 3 The Search for the Andrea Gail

As portrayed in the movie "The Perfect Storm" the Andrea Gail was lost in one of the most inhospitable working environments on earth, off Sable Island, while fishing in the North Atlantic in October. Though the wreck occurred ten years ago this Halloween, she has never been found. It may provide clues to the real ending of the story of the Perfect Storm. The Nor'easter now known as the Halloween storm of '91 or the "Perfect Storm" was the result of a culmination of meterological events so rare that it occurs maybe once in a century. Waves ten stories high and winds of over 190 kilometers an hour whipped the North Atlantic. The Andrea Gail went down in that storm. Her crew, like so many Gloucestermen before her, would not return to Gloucester's historic docks. Indeed, Gloucester is an integral part of the history of the North Atlantic fishing fleet. First settled in 1623, Gloucester would eventually build the first schooner, would become arguably one of the largest fishing ports in the world, and would produce the first fisherman to sail across the Atlantic alone. But this proud tradition of skill and indomitability has come with a price - the loss of hundreds of her valiant sons to the ocean. And it was off one of the most treacherous areas of the North Atlantic ocean, Sable Island, that the Andrea Gail would meet her tragic fate. In fact Sable Island is surrounded by hundreds of shipwrecks. About 90 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, Sable Island is a most unusual ecosystem, unique in the world. This giant sandbar has beguiling beauty: one of the world's only herds of truly wild horses, a vast array of marine mammals and fish, rare sea birds and many uniquely suited plants. The Sea Hunters will tell the story of this Island by summarizing its legacy of shipwrecks and comparing it to other dangerous places. We will examine the reasons that make this place so deadly for man while at the same time being such a haven for beauty. Join us again as we search the oceans of the world for lost and famous shipwrecks, another true adventure with... The Sea Hunters.

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