Sea Monsters (Mega Marine Machines)
Overview
From deep-sea danger to mega holiday cruises, helping rivers flow and harvesting power, this program goes deep, unlocking the ultimate challenges of our water planet.
Seasons
Season 1 (2018)
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8 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Fireboats
2018-10-18The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach take the keys to two new state-of-the-art fireboats ready to battle any blaze and extinguish any threat.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 2: Turnaround Day
At the worlds largest cruise ports, professional teams race against the clock and the weather to re-supply the biggest cruise ships in the world.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 3: Salt miner
In Baltimore, engineers design and assemble a state-of-the-art, mega-bucket wheel dredge; they now must disassemble it and move it to Saudi Arabia where it will operate in one of the toughest dredge conditions in the world.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 4: Navy Fleet
Today's Navy fleets are the biggest and best equipped ever with destroyers, carriers, jets, helicopters and submarines that must be ready for anything from terrorism to natural disasters.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 5: Mississippi
The United States Corps of Engineers employs a flotilla of mega marine machines to protect the Mississippi River.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 6: How Harbors Work
In the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, mega marine machines are hauling, hoisting, dredging and digging to make way for towering container ships.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 7: Tidal Power
Battling the worlds highest tides, a global team of scientists and engineers take to the water to install an underwater turbine that can turn the power of the ocean into clean electrical energy.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 8: Container Port
The deceptively simple 20-foot shipping container has become the most revolutionary invention of the modern world, moving all of the worlds goods from ship to shore to truck to store.
Runtime: 53 minSeason 2 ()
Back to basics science and technology stories told through the voices and experiences of fantastic frontline characters about making the mega marine machines that take on the challenges of the world’s waters and win… most of the time. The Earth’s ocean really is the planet. It’s awesome. It holds the mysteries of the past, the key to all we have today, and the lifeline to our future. This fast-paced ocean adventure documentary series reveals how creative characters are using extraordinary tools to discover, explore, and work in our most extreme ocean environments.
13 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Iceberg Airforce
The International Ice Patrol’s C-130 Hercules helicopter is the backbone of a cold water arsenal against “Iceberg Alley”, the same deadly waterway that shredded the Titanic.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 2: Dutch Storm Shield
Dutch water warriors fight to defend their homeland from sinking beneath the sea by building a network of dykes, dams and superpumps.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 3: Marine Metropolis
As overcrowding threatens our planet, a brand-new breed of explorer is combining modern engineering with way outside-the-box thinking to create a real-life Waterworld.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 4: Marine ER
The world’s largest hospital ship, USNS Comfort, is a 70,000-ton humanitarian hulk that brings hope and healing to nations in need.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 5: Spirit of the Riverines
Modern naval warfare has moved from the open ocean to the shallows and the US Navy’s Riverines squad has a new fleet of agile, heavily-armed jet boats that can go where the big battleships can’t go.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 6: Ocean Electric
A fleet of tidal and wave power machines are facing the ultimate test on the shores of Scotland’s Orkney Islands and they might just save the world.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 7: Ultra Subs
A team of explorers from marine research company, OceanX is using the latest science and filmmaking tech to shine a spotlight on our deep sea’s darkest secrets; they are diving deeper than ever before on their state-of-the-art submarine.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 8: Coast Guard Cutters
Two brand-new, super-sized Coast Guard Cutters are primed to patrol America’s fiftieth state, on a mission to fight crime and protect this Pacific paradise.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 9: Harbour Traffic Control
In one of the busiest, coldest, stormiest ports on the eastern seaboard, getting monster ships safely docked is a titanic challenge.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 10: Offshore Power Boats
In Key West, Florida, a pair of rookie racers have brought their high-tech, million-dollar offshore catamaran to compete at the biggest gathering of offshore powerboats in the world.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 11: Superyachts
An elite team of Dutch shipbuilders transform a surplus oil industry vessel into a luxury explorer superyacht for a wealthy and secretive client.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 12: Super Engines
The brightest minds in the world of marine propulsion are in a race against time to transform the most powerful engines ever imagined into the hybrid and all electric engines of the future.
Runtime: 53 minEpisode 13: Superferry
The world’s fastest ferry, Francisco, is nicknamed the “Concorde of the Sea”, rocketing across South America’s treacherous Rio De La Plata twice a day on modified Boeing 747 jet engines.
Runtime: 53 min
