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X-Machines

Season 1 2009

  • Discovery Channel (UK)
  • 45m
  • 45m (1 episode)
  • Sweden
  • Swedish
Features the most amazing machines on the planet taking on the most incredible engineering challenges.

8 episodes

A crane that can rise 90 metres from the sea to lift loads of 3,500 tonnes

A look at the world's highest-flying lift helicopter, massive mobile cranes and a 50 ton machine capable of reducing entire forests to pulp

A stricken passenger ferry is saved by the Canadian super-machine Iceking, which is capable of cutting through ice two metres thick

Examining one of the world's largest excavators, how mobile ice hammers are used to save a town from flooding, plus a look at the hazardous journey of an air transporter as its crews battle extreme conditions to deliver its cargo

A look at Thunder, the world's biggest helicopter, and million-dollar submarine Nemo, which can dive to a depth of 914 metres and help detect upcoming tsumamis

A multi-million-dollar helicopter is used to rescues marines trapped deep within enemy territory, and a six-legged barge is used to install an offshore wind farm

The crew of a large helicopter tries to save the residents of a small town in Switzerland, plus a submersible cargo ship that can lift an oil rig

2009-01-01T20:00:00Z

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