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S1, EP2 "Heavy Cargo Express"A ride through Eastern Europe aboard heavy-hauling trains shows the logistical and mechanical challenges of making a multimillion-dollar cargo delivery.
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S1, EP5 "Deep Sea Fish Farm"Host Mike Davidson helps make high-stakes repairs for one of the world's largest open-ocean fish farm operations in Panama.
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S1, EP4 "Panama Canal Railway"A ride on the Panama Canal Railway reveals the track repairs, engine overhauls and dangerous searches involved in keeping vital freight runs rolling.
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S1, EP6 "Toronto Tunnel"Host Mike Davidson assists on a multi-million-dollar tunnel-boring project underground in Toronto.
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"US Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas"Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise.
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"Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves"Mike helps fix the machines that keep one of the United States' biggest ports moving; he assists a team in moving a 3-million pound crane.
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S3, EP4 "Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial Firefighters"With wildfire season ahead, Mike works with an aerial firefighting company as they fix and convert aircraft into firefighting machines, including the transformation of a 1960's C130 plane from aged military aircraft into a stateofthe art waterbomber.
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S1, EP5 "Floating Fortresses"A team of engineers attempts to build and then haul seven brand new floating homes 70 miles across the Netherlands' busiest waterways.
Air Disasters
S21, EP1 "Scratching the Surface"After taking off from Taiwan, a China Airlines 747 suddenly disappears from radar and crashes, killing 225 people.
Air Disasters
S18, EP7 "Unlocking Disaster"A 747's cargo door opens at 23,000 feet, causing an explosive decompression that ejects nine passengers from the plane.
Air Disasters
S17, EP1 "Holding Pattern"Flydubai Flight 981 enters a rapid descent and crashes nose-first at Rostov-on-Don Airport in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, after aborting its second landing attempt in poor weather conditions.
Air Disasters
S20, EP18 "Courage in the Cockpit"Devastating failures in the air put pilots to the test and shine a light on three feats of flying.
Air Disasters
S2, EP8 "System Breakdown"Five aviation disasters and the changes they have forced air-traffic controllers to make.
Air Disasters
S4, EP13 "Vanished"On 1 June 2009, Air France Flight 447 stalls and crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while flying through a thunderstorm, killing all 228 people on board.
Air Disasters
S5, EP5 "Queens Catastrophe"On 12 November 2001, just two months after the September 11 attacks, American Airlines Flight 587 spirals out of control shortly after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport and crashes into Queens.
Air Disasters
S9, EP6 "Carnage in Sao Paolo"TAM flight 402 slammed into a residential neighborhood and burst into flames, just seconds after lifting off from Congonhas airport in São Paulo, Brazil, killing all 95 people on board and three people on the ground.
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