In 1622, a Spanish galleon loaded with half a billion dollars in gold, silver, and Colombian emeralds sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys, taking 260 lives with it. Spain spent 60 years searching for the valuable wreck and never found it. More than three centuries later, a treasure hunter named Mel Fisher picked up the search. Every morning he told his crew: "Today's the day." It took him 16 years, a Supreme Court battle, and unthinkable personal loss to finally be right.

Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know. Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions, and Season 4 offers impossible to believe tales of true crime!

Few 18th century pirates had more success than Sam Bellamy. In one remarkable year, he seized or looted no fewer than 53 ships in the Atlantic Ocean. But then in 1717 Bellamy and his crew died in a nighttime shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod, spilling a massive haul of treasure into the ocean and beyond the reach of salvagers for more than 260 years. Only in 1984, thanks to the dogged efforts of Massachusetts native Barry Clifford, did Bellamy's treasure begin to see the light of day once more.

Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know. Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions, and Season 4 offers impossible to believe tales of true crime!

In 1120, a drunken midnight party aboard a brand-new luxury ship killed nearly 300 of England's young nobility, including the only legitimate male heir to the throne. What followed was two decades of brutal civil war, the rise of an entirely new dynasty, and a lesson in how one submerged rock can reshape the course of a nation for centuries.

Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know. Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions, and Season 4 offers impossible to believe tales of true crime!

It was one of the worst maritime disasters in US military history, and naval historians would spend decades studying what went wrong. But the sinking of the USS Indianapolis also led to acts of extraordinary courage and selflessness. In 2017 -- 62 years after it sank -- the crumpled remains of the warship were finally located 18,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean.

Listen to the first four seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know. Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions, and Season 4 offers impossible to believe tales of true crime!

In 1911, a handyman hid in a Louvre closet overnight, then simply walked out the next morning with the Mona Lisa under his apron—pulling off the most famous art theft in history. Before this audacious crime, Leonardo's masterpiece was just another Renaissance painting; it returned as the world's most iconic artwork.

Listen to the first three seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know, and Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions!

As horrifying as the crash of Air India flight 171 was, investigators soon shocked the world again. They said the plane was likely intentionally crashed by a suicidal pilot, killing 260 people. How could this be? How could a pilot entrusted with hundreds of lives have evaded mental health screening meant to prevent such tragedies? In Episode 11 we look at the troubling history of intentional crashes by suicidal airline pilots. Such crashes are more numerous than we -- or the airlines -- would like to admit.

Listen to the first three seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know, and Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions!

In the late 1860s, George Leslie walked among New York's elite as a respected architect, all while planning the most audacious bank robberies in American history. Using revolutionary techniques and meticulous planning, he became the criminal mastermind behind 80% of all bank heists nationwide—until jealousy, murder, and betrayal brought down the King of Bank Robbers.

Listen to the first three seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know, and Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions!

An avid surfer and fisherman, San Diego native Garret Rodriguez dreamed of building a home for himself on a small piece of land which his father had bought for him along the coast of Mexico. But first Garret needed to make money -- serious money. So the 27-year-old headed north to the Emerald Triangle, a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where up to 50% of all cannabis grown in the U.S. is cultivated. He made friends, he learned the business, he was doing well until one day ... he wasn't.

Listen to the first three seasons of Killer Means Awesome to hear incredible true stories. Season 1 features amazing tales about recently discovered shipwrecks, while Season 2 highlights biographies of people you really should know, and Season 3 tells incredible stories of real inventions!