from: Discovery Channel
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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883629241029
Format: NTSC
Label: Discovery Channel
Manufacturer: Discovery Channel
Publisher: Discovery Channel
Release Date: July 19, 2007
Sales Rank: 54470
Studio: Discovery Channel
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Extreme Engineering unveils some of the most ambitious architectural plans of our times. Some are theoretical; others are in the works. But all of these modern marvels pose challenges that stretch the definition of what's possible. Watch as jaw-dropping computer animation and first-hand accounts from builders, designers and engineers breathe life into the most extreme construction projects ever conceived. Season 2 - DVD Set (Part 2): Builders in Charleston, South Carolina are hard at work on a record-breaker: a 500-foot, eight-lane link between the city of Charleston and the town of Mount Pleasant that, when complete, will become the longest cable-stay bridge in America. Meanwhile, across the pond in France, follow a group of visionaries committed to relieving the Tarn bottleneck and opening up the region to the rest of Europe by building a massive bridge to leap across the 1.3-mile wide chasm. At the world's largest open pit iron mine in northern Minnesota, workers are in desperate need of a new excavator. Watch as workers put a new, $10 million, custom-built super shovel to the test. One-third of all oil used in America is pumped from wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico. But with hurricanes becoming more prevalent, engineers have been forced to redesign the traditional oil rig to withstand Mother Nature's fury. Watch as designers and engineers risk everything to put their rig in place - and get a major leg-up on the competition in the race for lucrative deep-sea oil.
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