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Icelandic Super Dam
A team of experts mobilises to demolish, excavate and recycle a 25,000 ton dam built of concrete and steel. The pressure is on: they have just half the time needed to complete the job. Worse yet, their biggest challenge stands behind the old dam – one million cubic yards of boulders, gravel and sand that the river has stacked against it for nearly a century. To remove this blockade, the team gambles on a radical, dangerous plan that's never been tried before: turning the energy of a perfect storm against the debris. If they are not successful, a generation of endangered salmon returning to spawn may be wiped out.
Aired: Jun 18, 2008 Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 1h Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: National Geographic
Episodes
01: Grand Canyon Skywalk02: Ultimate Skyscraper03: Shanghai Super Tower04: Beijing Water Cube05: Sinking an Aircraft Carrier06: Sinking an Aircraft Carrier08: Icelandic Super Dam09: Beijing Water Cube10: Shanghai Super Tower11: Bridge Breakdown12: Deep Earth Drillers13: Icelandic Super Dam14: World Trade Center Bahrain15: Atom Smasher21: South Pole Station22: The World's Biggest Cruiseliner23: Beijing Olympic Stadium (Building Green Beijing)24: Impossible Build25: World Trade Center Bahrain