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Lituya Bay: One Wave. 1,720 Feet. Survivors.

8 episodesabout 2 min eachEpisode 1 is free

Lituya Bay: One Wave. 1,720 Feet. Survivors.

A mountainside fell into an Alaskan inlet and the water climbed higher than a skyscraper.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 1: The Wave That Climbed 1,740 Feet Free1:50 An earthquake dislodges a mountainside into an Alaskan inlet, throwing water higher than most skyscrapers.
  2. Episode 2: The Bay That Swallowed Two Fishing Boats Locked2:04 The wave turns from a vertical splash into a high-speed attack on three boats trapped inside the bay.
  3. Episode 3: The Forest Erased 1,720 Feet Above the Bay Locked1:16 A geologist enters a debris-choked disaster zone where missing trees provide the only ruler large enough to measure the wave.
  4. Episode 4: The Bay with Four Giant-Wave Scars Locked1:35 The investigation discovers that 1958 was only the latest entry in a century-long pattern carved into the forest.
  5. Episode 5: The Three Waves That Kept Growing Locked1:46 The 1936 eyewitness accounts expose a recurring threat whose exact trigger investigators cannot prove.
  6. Episode 6: The Slide That Threw Water 500 Meters High Locked1:37 Researchers reconstruct the enormous 1958 collapse—and encounter a geographical paradox at the mouth of the bay.
  7. Episode 7: The Air Cavity Inside the Megatsunami Locked1:39 A laboratory bay reveals the hidden pocket of air that helped turn a local landslide into a record-setting splash.
  8. Episode 8: The Bay Where Giant Waves Come Back Locked1:44 The solved physics and century of scars converge on a warning that Lituya Bay's record wave was not its last.

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