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Mighty Cruise Ships
S1, EP5 "Stella Australis"The only cruise ship designed specifically to navigate the treasures and dangers at the southern tip of South America.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S1, EP6 "Marco Polo"This 50-year-old ocean liner offers off-season Baltic tours, battling unpredictable weather to deliver one-of-a-kind experiences.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S2, EP4 "Europa 2"Take a cruise where the guests choose the ports to visit and the captain and crew work overtime to make it happen.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S2, EP3 "Viking Sea"The new Viking Sea cruise ship whisks guests away on a journey across the Arctic Circle and into the heart of Norway.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S2, EP1 "Carnival Vista"The Carnival Vista is the new flagship for one of the world's largest cruise lines, carrying more than 4,600 passengers and boasting 10 restaurants, nearly 2,000 staterooms and a crew of 1,400.
Mighty Cruise Ships
S2, EP2 "Royal Clipper"Royal Clipper is the largest sailing cruise ship in the world, celebrating tall ships of the 19th century while offering modern-day service for its guests.
Air Disasters
S17, EP4 "Double Trouble"Trans-Air Service Flight 671 suffers an in-flight separation of its two right engines while en route to Kano, Nigeria, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing at Istres-Le Tubé Air Base in France.
Air Disasters
S13, EP4 "Borderline Tactics"When a DC-8 cargo jet crashes on approach to a U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, investigators wonder if Cuba played a role.
How Did They Build That?
S4, EP8 "Facelifts & Scaffolds"A museum building bends 1,100-glass tubes to form a facade and tunnels below the water table; a vast 11-storey glass atrium HQ is built on the former Berlin Wall site to represent unity.
Disasters Engineered
S1, EP4 "Industrial Slides"A 1966 landslide in Wales killed 116 children and 28 adults; a 2019 dam collapse killed 115 people in Brazil.
Disasters Engineered
S1, EP5 "Ocean Catastrophes"Experts examine what caused the Zeebrugge ferry tragedy and the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster; what were the consequences, and how could they have been avoided?
Disasters Engineered
S1, EP7 "Design Failures"Experts examine how engineering failures allowed Hurricane Katrina to devastate New Orleans and cause the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
Air Disasters
S24, EP5 "Eleven Deadly Seconds"Solving the crash of China Airlines Flight 676 hinges on 11 baffling seconds when neither pilot controls the airplane.
Air Disasters
S24, EP6 "Fight For Survival"With flames emerging through the cockpit floor, the pilots of Pilgrim Airlines 458 manage a heroic landing on a frozen Rhode Island reservoir.
Air Disasters
S24, EP7 "Pitch Battle"After Colgan Air 9446 crashes off Cape Cod, investigators must determine what brought down a widely-used commuter aircraft in under three minutes.
Air Disasters
S16, EP10 "Deadly Delivery"UPS Airlines Flight 1354 clips the tops of trees and crashes into a hillside about one nautical mile short of the runway during final approach to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport in Alabama.