AMATEUR DIVERS CAPTURE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN FOOTAGE OF THE LOST USS EAGLE 56

THE HUNT FOR EAGLE 56 follows the Nomad Exploration dive team – a group of amateur divers who made the stunning discovery of the USS Eagle 56 shipwreck off the coast of Maine. Their missions, documented in Smithsonian Channel’s new three-part series, THE HUNT FOR EAGLE 56, uncovers exclusive images of the lost WWII warship lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, unseen anywhere else before.

The Eagle 56 has been missing for over 74 years, ever since a German U-boat torpedoed the ship in April 1945 just 5 miles off shore. Long-believed to be the result of a boiler explosion, the case of the Eagle 56’s sinking marks the first time that the U.S. Navy has changed a classification from accidental to combat loss due to enemy action.

THE HUNT FOR EAGLE 56 premieres on Sunday, September 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel