Deutschland von Oben

River (Fluss) (1x3)

Data di messa in onda: Mag 05, 2010

German waters have always been more than just water the tree-castles Rhine, the Port of Hamburg and the Elbe, the ebb and flow of the Wadden Sea, the echo of the Königssee and the endless mirrors Gray of Lake Constance - there are rivers, seas and lakes, Connect with which many German something like home. From the air, they suddenly reveal a completely different face, if the meter seal and Karl-Heinz abbot Kai Hildebrandt from the windows of her small aviator look, you'd think they crossed over the South Pacific. But on the glistening turquoise blue of sandbars in the Wadden Sea, they are not looking for pirate treasure or coral, but for seals. Meanwhile, the stocks have recovered - just because it has been years in the National Park Wadden be protected and counted sea: from the air. The oil production in Germany's only offshore Mittelplate subject to strict conditions. That the seal-life, but even in this unique, now a UNESCO World Heritage landscape prone to failure is showing an animation of the satellite perspective: "Terra X" has the GPS data from five harbor seals and the radio signals of all ships in the North Sea animated tick. At a glance is clear: despite all the protection zones intersect the routes of the seals Frachtpötte huge, because in order to find food, a seal makes daily back up to 50 kilometers. The container port of Hamburg is now completely automated. Computer-controlled loading cranes 52, 84 transport vehicles and 12 tractors but thousands of containers. Nine large container ships up to 10,000 containers on board, set in Hamburg each week, plus numerous smaller ships. In an endless ballet of unparalleled efficiency, the goods from every country on trains and trucks distributed and managed in the supermarkets and factories. Day and night are continuously optimized inventory levels. But only from the air, the stunning beauty of the endless activities envelope is visible. The third and final episode of "Germany from above" deals with the subject of river and sea in the very real, but also in the figurative sense: with the archaeologists dive on Lake Constance to the Stone Age lake dwellings, with the water police, the vessel traffic on the same is monitored by helicopter, with the departure of the legendary "Queen Mary", which attracts tens of thousands of onlookers every time in Hamburg and in the monitoring of gas pipelines Ruhr.