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Construction Fails
S1, EP5 "Collapse and Control"The construction of the Hard Rock in the Big Easy suddenly crumples, turning construction into destruction; tunnels are engineering marvels; cutting through the landscape, they create direct routes from A to B, until they cave in; a bridge construction in Miami, hailed as the first of its kind, suddenly collapses, becoming the worst of its kind; electricity is a miracle of modern science, until the power fails, and when our infrastructure fails, things go off with a bang!
Construction Fails
S1, EP6 "Grounded at the Gate"When this UK power station reached the end of the road, it took all the power with it; the crawler crane: these giants lift heavy things, but sometimes operators make errors, mistakes that can bring the mightiest crawler down to earth; landslides: whether it's the weather or just bad timing, when soil gets wet, the ground is no longer solid and everything goes downhill from there; construction tires: on axles they support mighty loads, but when axles fail, tires go rogue, and stuff gets broken.
Witness to Disaster
S1, EP5 "Everest Avalanche"Nepal is hit by a 6.7 mega-earthquake that kills thousands; across the country, survivors are hit by terrifying avalanches that destroy everything in their path; presenting stories of survival, from the Kathmandu Valley to Mount Everest.
Witness to Disaster
S1, EP3 "California Mudslide"Montecito is hit by a natural disaster that leaves its residents fighting for their lives; overnight, the Californian beach town is swamped by a series of 30-feet high, boulder-filled debris flows that destroy homes and leave streets swimming in mud.
Witness to Disaster
S1, EP6 "Lost in the Bermuda Triangle"On Oct. 1, 2015, the cargo ship El Faro is on a regular run to Puerto Rico when it disappears in a Category 4 storm called Hurricane Joaquin; it is determined that the El Faro sank off the coast of the Bahamas with 33 crew members.
Witness to Disaster
S1, EP4 "Portugal's Hellfire"The story of the largest wildfire in Portugal's history and how it devastated a rural community; as firefighters tried to control the blaze, fierce winds combined with the fire to make it unstoppable; fleeing locals are caught in the inferno.
