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How Did They Fix That?
S2, EP6 "Snowbird Ski Resort"Mike Davidson embarks with the team to one of the most extreme, avalanche-prone ski mountains in the world: Snowbird; they battle to keep the steep and deep slopes safe with shovels, snowcats and even a WWII Howitzer.
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S2, EP3 "Aquarius Reef Base"Diving into retrofits on the world's only underwater habitat, where NASA astronauts train for space missions; Mike joins a crack repair team who breathe new life into this oceanic environment after a global pandemic shut it down.
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S3, EP3 "Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes"At Cirque Du Soileil in Las Vegas, Mike embeds with the talented teams that maintain the amazing machines behind Cirque Du Soleil's stage shows.
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S2, EP7 "UPS Worldport"Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world - UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Two million packages go through here every day.
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S3, EP5 "Heights & Balance"A 1.2 million square foot office building balances precariously on a 39 foot wide base in Chicago. A building named Pterodactyl lands on top of a Los Angeles parking garage. And the world's longest suspension footbridge.
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S3, EP3 "303"Witness amazing buildings, bridges, lifts, and other structures that pushed structural concrete engineering to the edge.
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S3, EP4 "Parking & Sparkling"A dazzling new 1400 foot tapering skyscraper is built right next to New York's Grand Central. A curving wine museum requires ingenious engineering in Bordeaux, France. And possibly the world's most glamorous parking garage.
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S3, EP10 "Boxes & Birds"The American Museum of Natural History in NYC gets a cave-like extension; an arts center inspired by migrating birds is built on a lake in China; Boston University gains a fossil-free, Jenga-like tower.
Mighty Trains
S4, EP3 "Seven Stars of Kyushu"A trip aboard one of the world's most expensive and sought-after train rides details the journey for both passengers and crew.
Mighty Ships
S8, EP1 "Quantum of the Seas"Filled with big toys, guests fly the trapeze, surf and skydive without ever leaving the world's most innovative cruise ship.
Mighty Ships
S7, EP2 "Norwegian Breakaway: The Build"Follow the building of the Norwegian Breakaway at Germany's Meyer-Werft shipyard; it is the largest ship they've ever built and they have only 18 months to finish it.
Mighty Ships
S3, EP1 "Oasis of the Seas"The maiden voyage of the Oasis of the Seas, the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S4, EP8 "Sky Princess"The Sky Princess carries passengers from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to three Central American stops.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S4, EP2 "AIDAnova"We hop aboard a seven-day cruise to the Canary Islands and Madeira aboard the first large liner to run purely on cleaner-burning liquefied natural gas.
Mighty Planes
S2, EP1 "Trump 757"Travel with Donald Trump aboard his luxurious Boeing 757 on a transatlantic flight to the U.K.
Mighty Trains
S3, EP4 "Indian Pacific"The Indian Pacific is a four-day, 4,352-kilometre transcontinental journey across Australia, a trip which features the world's longest straight stretch of railway and steepest incline.
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