New on
Discovery this June, 2009:
Heart Of The MachinePremiere date: Tuesday, 2 June 2009 at 21h00
A series that explores revolutionary machines and their innermost workings. Each episode deconstructs the technology involved in each machine and lays its critical components bare, to demystify the most impressive and most advanced machines around.
The show introduces the people who engineer incredible machines and follow thems in action as they perform to their maximum.
For instance, one machine under the radar is the Abrams M1 tank - popularly considered the most dangerous tank on the battlefield. The show looks at the engineers who've created it and the soldiers who depend on it.
Against The Elements Premiere date: Thursday, 4 June 2009 at 21h00
Against the Elements reveals the science behind heart-stopping natural disasters caught on camera.
Forensic investigations reveal what caused these catastrophes and what has been learnt from past disasters to protect us in the future. Meet the people who survived against overwhelming odds.
Their stories of heroism are revealed offering scientific explanations of the factors that caused these extraordinary disasters.
The programme talks to the scientists and experts who have dedicated their lives to understanding these amazing natural phenomena. The forces of earth, water, wind and fire impact us all every day sometimes benignly, sometimes deadly.
Overall the series asks: when exactly is the moment that ordinary weather turns extraordinary?
Extreme ExplosionsPremiere date: Tuesday, 16 June 2009 at 22h00
A series that follows explosives experts Dr Braden Lusk and Dr Paul Worsey as they get a backstage pass to the world’s biggest and toughest demolition blasts.
From urban skyscrapers to massive steel bridges to giant stadiums, they’ll meet the highly-skilled blasters who can bring any structure down to the ground. Using special sacrifice cameras and high-speed technology they give a behind-the-scenes look at how demolition specialists blast down engineering giants with a push of a button.
Black GoldPremiere date: Monday, 29 June 2009 at 21h00
A series that delves deep into the high-stakes world of oil prospecting in west Texas. Chronicling 50 days on three different oil rigs, the show provides a front row seat to the lethal physical dangers and financial hazards faced by all involved in this fascinating and perilous industry.
The series introduces the everyday heroes toiling to bring this precious reserve to the surface; ranging from the prospectors or 'Wildcatters' risking millions in the hope of a big reward, racing against the clock in scorching heat and adverse weather conditions to drill two miles into the earth, with slim hopes of striking it rich.
SPECIALS
Ultimate Survival: Bear's Essentials On: Monday, 22 June 2009 at 21h00
In this best of ‘Ultimate Survival’ special, ‘Bear’s Essentials’, adventurer Bear Grylls recaps the essential list of survival techniques that he uses wherever he goes - whether he’s in the desert, a swamp or an ice-capped mountain.
Carrying only a knife, flint and water bottle, Bear manages to find his way back to civilisation using ingenuity and survival knowledge.
Along the way, he encounters dangerous terrain, fights off deadly predators, builds a shelter and finds food and water in situations that are nothing short of horrific. Followed by a cameraman, Grylls uses his military training and daring spirit to demonstrate survival skills in these extreme terrains and extreme weather conditions.
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