Impossible Repairs

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Powerships
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In Brazil, lowered reservoirs plus an increase in population have stretched the nation's power supply thin. The solution: a floating electrical plant on the Atlantic Ocean made up of .. show full overview
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Deep Space Telescope
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Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama desert in Chile and to one of the most incredible and complex observatories on Earth - ALMA. He works alongside ALMA's expert team as they repair some of the world's biggest antennas.
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Aquarius Reef Base
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The worldwide pandemic ceased operations on the world's only underwater habitat. Mike Davidson joins a crack repair crew as they dive in to bring it back to life and get NASA astronauts back inside for training.
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Super Stallion Helicopter
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Mike travels to San Diego to learn how U.S. Marines operate, maintain and repair the CH-53E Super Stallion, a heavy-lift helicopter that's been in use since the early 1980s.
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Abandoned Oil Wells
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A cross-country mission to cap the US’s estimated two million toxic, abandoned oil and gas wells.
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Snowbird Ski Resort
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Snowbird Ski battles to reduce the risk resulting from high snow levels and deadly avalanches.
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UPS Worldport
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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.
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Philadelphia Transit
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In Philadelphia, Mike Davidson is on streets, in tunnels, on tracks and in trolley restoration garages - working shoulder-to-shoulder with the team that keeps one of America's largest and oldest mass transit systems running smoothly.