Inside Mighty Machines

S1, EP4 "Deep Sea Oil Rig"

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Chad Zdenek joins a team that is dismantling the North Sea's biggest oil rig; as the 400-foot-high monster is towed ashore, he reveals the story of how deep-water oil engineers raced to build an enormous machine to drill through the sea bed.

Original Air Date: May 19, 2019Smithsonian Channel51m

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