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From deep-sea danger to mega holiday cruises, helping rivers flow and harvesting power, this program goes deep, unlocking the ultimate challenges of our water planet.
2018
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach take the keys to two new state-of-the-art fireboats ready to battle any blaze and extinguish any threat.
At the worlds largest cruise ports, professional teams race against the clock and the weather to re-supply the biggest cruise ships in the world.
In Baltimore, engineers design and assemble a state-of-the-art, mega-bucket wheel dredge; they now must disassemble it and move it to Saudi Arabia where it will operate in one of the toughest dredge conditions in the world.
Today's Navy fleets are the biggest and best equipped ever with destroyers, carriers, jets, helicopters and submarines that must be ready for anything from terrorism to natural disasters.
The United States Corps of Engineers employs a flotilla of mega marine machines to protect the Mississippi River.
In the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, mega marine machines are hauling, hoisting, dredging and digging to make way for towering container ships.
Battling the worlds highest tides, a global team of scientists and engineers take to the water to install an underwater turbine that can turn the power of the ocean into clean electrical energy.
The deceptively simple 20-foot shipping container has become the most revolutionary invention of the modern world, moving all of the worlds goods from ship to shore to truck to store.
2026
At a Lake Erie recycling yard, a fire-damaged Great Lakes freighter arrives for its final job. A family-run crew races to make the ship safe, strip it for steel, and turn risk into profit, as shifting scrap prices, tight margins, and environmental dangers threaten every decision.
Across southern France, two radically different wind-powered machines chase the same obsession: speed. SailGP F50 catamarans duel at close quarters in Saint-Tropez, while the SP80 speed craft trains in Leucate to break records. Both push foils, data and human control to the edge of physics.
At the Soo Locks, the most critical link in America’s industrial chain, winter closes fast. Crews battle ice, time and brutal conditions to guide the final iron ore freighters through the system, while tugs, divers and air-bubbler systems work nonstop to keep the channel open. The last ship must pass before shutdown.
At Sanmar Shipyards in Altinova, Turkiye, engineers are redefining the tugboat for a new era of global trade. As container ships grow ever larger, the team tests whether electric power can match diesel strength when guiding massive vessels through tight, busy harbors.
In places where building on land is impossible, engineers build on water. Floating bridges connect communities where traditional structures cannot, but keeping them safe is a challenge. As traffic, weather and shifting water push these bridges to their limits, crews must act fast to prevent small problems from becoming major failures.
Driven by one man’s vision, Sigurd Aase sets out to rebuild the largest Viking ship ever attempted and sail it across the Atlantic using ancient design alone. Battling storms, fatigue and unforgiving seas, the crew must prove that the vessel can survive open-ocean conditions and reach North America without engines or modern technology.
2020
The International Ice Patrol’s C-130 Hercules helicopter is the backbone of a cold water arsenal against “Iceberg Alley”, the same deadly waterway that shredded the Titanic.
Dutch water warriors fight to defend their homeland from sinking beneath the sea by building a network of dykes, dams and superpumps.
As overcrowding threatens our planet, a brand-new breed of explorer is combining modern engineering with way outside-the-box thinking to create a real-life Waterworld.
The world’s largest hospital ship, USNS Comfort, is a 70,000-ton humanitarian hulk that brings hope and healing to nations in need.
Modern naval warfare has moved from the open ocean to the shallows and the US Navy’s Riverines squad has a new fleet of agile, heavily-armed jet boats that can go where the big battleships can’t go.
A fleet of tidal and wave power machines are facing the ultimate test on the shores of Scotland’s Orkney Islands and they might just save the world.
A team of explorers from marine research company, OceanX is using the latest science and filmmaking tech to shine a spotlight on our deep sea’s darkest secrets; they are diving deeper than ever before on their state-of-the-art submarine.
Two brand-new, super-sized Coast Guard Cutters are primed to patrol America’s fiftieth state, on a mission to fight crime and protect this Pacific paradise.
In one of the busiest, coldest, stormiest ports on the eastern seaboard, getting monster ships safely docked is a titanic challenge.
In Key West, Florida, a pair of rookie racers have brought their high-tech, million-dollar offshore catamaran to compete at the biggest gathering of offshore powerboats in the world.
An elite team of Dutch shipbuilders transform a surplus oil industry vessel into a luxury explorer superyacht for a wealthy and secretive client.
The brightest minds in the world of marine propulsion are in a race against time to transform the most powerful engines ever imagined into the hybrid and all electric engines of the future.
The world’s fastest ferry, Francisco, is nicknamed the “Concorde of the Sea”, rocketing across South America’s treacherous Rio De La Plata twice a day on modified Boeing 747 jet engines.
Battle of the Atlantic
2020
Cruising with Jane McDonald
2017
The Sinking of the Costa Concordia
2021
Christmas Cruising with Susan Calman
2021
Mit dem Postschiff durch die Südsee
2021
Cruising to the Ends of the Earth
2026
Ships That Changed The World
2008
The Liners
1997
La grande traversée
2017
Cruise Ship Killers
2020
