August 25, 2025 • 7 mins
To celebrate the release of Shipwreck Hunters Season 2 on Disney+, divers Andre Rerekura and Johnny Debnam return to the depths to explore WA’s vast maritime history, where over 1,600 shipwrecks lie scattered along the coast, yet only a quarter have been found. In the new season, the team battles harsh conditions, including a brutal storm that nearly derails their expedition. Did they run into any sharks? Tune in to find out.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We have a couple of special we do.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Season two of Shipwreck Hunters is out on Disney Plus tomorrow.
The big launch is tonight, the big premiere. Andre Andre
Rokura and Johnny Debenham are with us. Hello, congratulations on
the second season. Our Season two features six new episodes,
six new locations, and I believe to history making discoveries
(00:26):
that at least to tell us a little bit about
that one hundred year old shipwrecks that no one else.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Because there's so many, but there's.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So you don't expect to still be finding things that
no one else has found yet. Surely that's got to
get harder and harder.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, well, you know, in Western Australia alone, there's approximately
sixteen hundred wrecks and only a quarter of those have
been found, so there's still so much out there.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We got a bit of a saying in the team
and it's like finding that I have a needle in
a field of haystack, and it's exactly what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Season two is still the beginning. There's a lot of
seasons ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, So are we going north and south.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nor so much contrast in the series, we'll go to
a different location different shipwreck each episode. Yeah, so you know,
West Australians, you'll be able to recognize a lot of
the places we go esperants and all the beautiful you
know up north, all the beautiful place.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We're so blessed in w A. We have such a
beautiful you know background, and it's it's amazing to play in.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Do you do you time it when you do the
South coast? Do you make sure that that's over the
summer months?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's not about now try it's such an incredibly tight schedule.
We've got to book things in like sometimes a year
in advanced and wow, we actually got caught out pretty
pretty heavy down and down south. Yeah, it's probably like
this the storm of the year that obliterated us.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So you'll see that on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But it makes a good television.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's always an episode, yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, And they keep their secrets. You know a lot
of these wrecks sort of protect themselves that they're in
such remote, treacherous locations, and ship wrecks rarely sink in
a safe anchorage, you know, they're all in the wildest location.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, so that's really a lot of fun to watch
these out there on these big vessels we get and
smashed ourselves trying to find them.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, super remote locations. They guarded by huge, huge animals,
huge fish. Yes, and it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I watched a stupid movie on the weekend called The
Last Breath. I think it was about, you know, the
movie some people that found a shipwreck and then you know,
they're down on the shipwreck and there's a gigantic shark.
He's menacing them, stopping them from coming back up to
the top.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Has that happened to you, actually, yeah, yeah, watch watched
episode one exactly that.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It's definitely very, very very adrenaline pact. Oh gosh, but
we love it. It's it's exciting for us as well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Is that south because that's where most of the big
ones are.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Amazingly, one of the wrecks that we found has you know,
we discovered it in a great white hot spot.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It's one of the.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Last sort of places in the world where Great Whites
are living in the wild, untouched. A lot of people
don't know about this area. It's a mating area.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh my god, this hasn't been found.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Putting that on the bottom of my listen, is there
another one we can do before we do the one
in the mating area.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Did you have Is there a particular ship wreck?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Is there a favorite that one?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, me too, everything involved around the area.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, it's not like Andress, not only the the amazing
story behind that wreck, but the location itself. When you
know it's way off the coast of us Parents, and
when you rock up to this island where the Rex
close by, it's like transporting to a Jurassic time, you
know that. Wow, you hear the screeches of all the
(04:09):
sea lions, you know, fins coming out the water, of
white sharks. It's like nothing islands down there.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah, so many.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, and you don't you know, we didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
See other vessels for days. Are out there for.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
A week and you just don't see anyone. It's it's
like it's just been captured in time.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, so untouched there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And the underwater world is just an incredible like a big,
big help forests and yeah, big black sting rays full
of fish, and then you've got these massive great whites
in the background cruise and it's.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Incredible what's under the water, the forests of Kelp and everything.
It's the show combined specialist diving and high end tech,
you know, underwater tech. It's quite quite the juggling act
because you're also dealing with currents and all sorts of
things down there. So there's a lot to juggle.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I guess it can be a lot can go wrong.
Extreme workload as well.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know, when we're dealing with rebreathers, which is a
special diving opparatus that recycles your breath you breathe out
and then goes through all these sensors and programs and
then adds more oxygen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
To get the right partial pressure for that certain depth.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And we're handling big cameras, we've got scooters and using magnetometers,
side scan equipment that we're not full text on, like
we've just been.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Learning on the way. We love it and we're.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So lucky to have that type of resources. But it's
like it's there's a lot. When we're loading up a boat,
most of the most of the owners are like what
is going on?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And in amongst all this, you're looking out for each
other and yeah, so there's a lot to consider. Have
you ever found treasure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well you know that these that's subjective. Two res in particular,
you know, that they've been sitting at the bottom of
the ocean for over one hundred years. You know, no
one else has ever seen these rex before, and they
you know, they go down fast ship wrecks generally. So yeah,
you know, as an example, you know, there's beautiful plates
just sitting there and you can still see the hand
(06:06):
paintings on, you know, and dumb paintings on the plates, portholes,
beautiful old bottles, the corks in. Yeah, all that. You know,
everything's just been sealed up by time and you know
you've got all that, you know, that amazing human story
down there, and then there's all corals growing on top.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Of that, like these beautiful, colorful corals. It's just.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
There's so many different forms of treasures, and the biggest
one that I love is just the wildlife because these
things are in the middle of nowhere and the abundance
of wildlife and that's that lives on it. That's that's
my favorite treasure. And then obviously the stories, you know
that the survival stories are absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, this is going to be incredible. The whole season
is out tomorrow, which is good because I have very
little patience. It's on Disney plus, thank you so much
for coming in. I can't wait to see what you
find this time.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Thank you, and we look forward to well plowing through
the great thing it all being out at once we
can binge seasons and now you guys get better get
to work on season three.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, thanks for having for it tomorrow, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Plus
We have a couple of special we do.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Season two of Shipwreck Hunters is out on Disney Plus tomorrow.
The big launch is tonight, the big premiere. Andre Andre
Rokura and Johnny Debenham are with us. Hello, congratulations on
the second season. Our Season two features six new episodes,
six new locations, and I believe to history making discoveries
(00:26):
that at least to tell us a little bit about
that one hundred year old shipwrecks that no one else.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Because there's so many, but there's.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
So you don't expect to still be finding things that
no one else has found yet. Surely that's got to
get harder and harder.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, well, you know, in Western Australia alone, there's approximately
sixteen hundred wrecks and only a quarter of those have
been found, so there's still so much out there.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
We got a bit of a saying in the team
and it's like finding that I have a needle in
a field of haystack, and it's exactly what it is.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Season two is still the beginning. There's a lot of
seasons ahead.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, So are we going north and south.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Nor so much contrast in the series, we'll go to
a different location different shipwreck each episode. Yeah, so you know,
West Australians, you'll be able to recognize a lot of
the places we go esperants and all the beautiful you
know up north, all the beautiful place.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We're so blessed in w A. We have such a
beautiful you know background, and it's it's amazing to play in.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Do you do you time it when you do the
South coast? Do you make sure that that's over the
summer months?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
It's not about now try it's such an incredibly tight schedule.
We've got to book things in like sometimes a year
in advanced and wow, we actually got caught out pretty
pretty heavy down and down south. Yeah, it's probably like
this the storm of the year that obliterated us.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
So you'll see that on the show.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
But it makes a good television.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
It's always an episode, yeah, it does.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, And they keep their secrets. You know a lot
of these wrecks sort of protect themselves that they're in
such remote, treacherous locations, and ship wrecks rarely sink in
a safe anchorage, you know, they're all in the wildest location.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, so that's really a lot of fun to watch
these out there on these big vessels we get and
smashed ourselves trying to find them.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, super remote locations. They guarded by huge, huge animals,
huge fish. Yes, and it's exciting.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I watched a stupid movie on the weekend called The
Last Breath. I think it was about, you know, the
movie some people that found a shipwreck and then you know,
they're down on the shipwreck and there's a gigantic shark.
He's menacing them, stopping them from coming back up to
the top.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Has that happened to you, actually, yeah, yeah, watch watched
episode one exactly that.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
It's definitely very, very very adrenaline pact. Oh gosh, but
we love it. It's it's exciting for us as well.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Is that south because that's where most of the big
ones are.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Amazingly, one of the wrecks that we found has you know,
we discovered it in a great white hot spot.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
It's one of the.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Last sort of places in the world where Great Whites
are living in the wild, untouched. A lot of people
don't know about this area. It's a mating area.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh my god, this hasn't been found.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Putting that on the bottom of my listen, is there
another one we can do before we do the one
in the mating area.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Did you have Is there a particular ship wreck?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Is there a favorite that one?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah, me too, everything involved around the area.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, it's not like Andress, not only the the amazing
story behind that wreck, but the location itself. When you
know it's way off the coast of us Parents, and
when you rock up to this island where the Rex
close by, it's like transporting to a Jurassic time, you
know that. Wow, you hear the screeches of all the
(04:09):
sea lions, you know, fins coming out the water, of
white sharks. It's like nothing islands down there.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Yeah, so many.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, and you don't you know, we didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
See other vessels for days. Are out there for.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
A week and you just don't see anyone. It's it's
like it's just been captured in time.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, so untouched there. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
And the underwater world is just an incredible like a big,
big help forests and yeah, big black sting rays full
of fish, and then you've got these massive great whites
in the background cruise and it's.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Incredible what's under the water, the forests of Kelp and everything.
It's the show combined specialist diving and high end tech,
you know, underwater tech. It's quite quite the juggling act
because you're also dealing with currents and all sorts of
things down there. So there's a lot to juggle.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I guess it can be a lot can go wrong.
Extreme workload as well.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
You know, when we're dealing with rebreathers, which is a
special diving opparatus that recycles your breath you breathe out
and then goes through all these sensors and programs and
then adds more oxygen.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
To get the right partial pressure for that certain depth.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
And we're handling big cameras, we've got scooters and using magnetometers,
side scan equipment that we're not full text on, like
we've just been.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Learning on the way. We love it and we're.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
So lucky to have that type of resources. But it's
like it's there's a lot. When we're loading up a boat,
most of the most of the owners are like what
is going on?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:36):
And in amongst all this, you're looking out for each
other and yeah, so there's a lot to consider. Have
you ever found treasure? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Well you know that these that's subjective. Two res in particular,
you know, that they've been sitting at the bottom of
the ocean for over one hundred years. You know, no
one else has ever seen these rex before, and they
you know, they go down fast ship wrecks generally. So yeah,
you know, as an example, you know, there's beautiful plates
just sitting there and you can still see the hand
(06:06):
paintings on, you know, and dumb paintings on the plates, portholes,
beautiful old bottles, the corks in. Yeah, all that. You know,
everything's just been sealed up by time and you know
you've got all that, you know, that amazing human story
down there, and then there's all corals growing on top.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Of that, like these beautiful, colorful corals. It's just.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
There's so many different forms of treasures, and the biggest
one that I love is just the wildlife because these
things are in the middle of nowhere and the abundance
of wildlife and that's that lives on it. That's that's
my favorite treasure. And then obviously the stories, you know
that the survival stories are absolutely insane.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well, this is going to be incredible. The whole season
is out tomorrow, which is good because I have very
little patience. It's on Disney plus, thank you so much
for coming in. I can't wait to see what you
find this time.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Thank you, and we look forward to well plowing through
the great thing it all being out at once we
can binge seasons and now you guys get better get
to work on season three.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, thanks for having for it tomorrow, Thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
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