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    Panama Canal
    Family Fleet
    Sink Or Swim
  • Panama Canal

    At the Panama Canal, crews repair dam and lock gates, dredge the Culebra Cut, maintain electric mules and restore the watershed while battling drought, erosion and rising salinity.
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  • Family Fleet

    At a Norfolk shipyard, crews repair tugboats, troubleshoot a massive travel lift and dry-dock a 270-foot Coast Guard cutter while working against tight deadlines, heavy machinery and rising winds.
    Upcoming
  • Sink Or Swim

    Mike is in Indonesia, where sinking Jakarta battles floods with seawalls, pumps and reservoirs, while the new capital Nusantara is being built as a sponge city designed to absorb, store and reuse water instead of fighting it.
    Upcoming

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  • In the Mojave Desert, crews prepare Roc, the world's largest airplane, for a tandem flight with a 747 by repairing its wing, inspecting landing gear and engines and training chase pilots for the mission.

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27 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Stratolaunch
    Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes
    Heavy Cargo Express
    UPS Worldport
    Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves
    Deep Sea Fish Farm
    Euro Hauler
    Scream Machines
    Toronto Tunnel
    Abandoned Oil Wells
  • Stratolaunch

    In the Mojave Desert, crews prepare Roc, the world's largest airplane, for a tandem flight with a 747 by repairing its wing, inspecting landing gear and engines and training chase pilots for the mission.
    Upcoming
  • Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes

    At Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, Mike embeds with the talented teams that maintain the amazing machines behind Cirque du Soleil's stage shows.
    Upcoming
  • Heavy Cargo Express

    A ride through Eastern Europe aboard heavy-hauling trains shows the logistical and mechanical challenges of making a multimillion-dollar cargo delivery.
    Upcoming
  • UPS Worldport

    Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world, UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky; two million packages go through here every day.
    Upcoming
  • Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves

    Mike helps fix the machines that keep one of the United States' biggest ports moving; he assists a team in moving a 3-million pound crane.
    Upcoming
  • Deep Sea Fish Farm

    Host Mike Davidson helps make high-stakes repairs for one of the world's largest open-ocean fish farm operations in Panama.
    Upcoming
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