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Maritime Monsters

Instructional & Educational

TV-PG

45

May 9, 2013

Man's desire for natural resources is insatiable, whether it is to power our homes, fuel our cars or build our skyscrapers. But with reserves on land running dry, we are now looking to the oceans to satisfy the needs of 21st-century living.

Season 1, 4 episodes

season 1 (4 episodes)

Titans of Tunnelling,

In this first episode, in London, a tunnel boring machine faces immense challenges as it takes on Britain's deepest-ever tunnel. Meanwhile in Mexico, a giant mechanical worm makes the Earth move just meters beneath the city's soaring skyscrapers.

Monsters Of Mining,

The bucket wheel excavators' mission is to peel back the surface of the Earth with each turn of their colossal parts. These building-sized behemoths cut, scrape, blast, and dig through dirt and rock to get to the most precious minerals on the planet.

Maritime Monsters,

Man's desire for natural resources is insatiable, whether it is to power our homes, fuel our cars or build our skyscrapers. But with reserves on land running dry, we are now looking to the oceans to satisfy the needs of 21st-century living.

Hard Rock Heroes,

In Canada, almost two miles underground in the world's deepest copper and zinc mine, a mighty drill chews through rock, digging deep holes which are then filled with explosives and detonated, leaving behind debris packed with valuable minerals.

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Dirty Great Machines

Instructional & Educational

TV-PG

1

45

This fascinating series takes viewers on an incredible journey around the globe as we celebrate some of the biggest, most awe-inspiring and technologically advanced drilling, excavation and tunnelling machines known to man.

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