Monday, July 22nd TV listings for Discovery Science Canada
Features turbochargers, enchiladas and watches.
Featured: dragster tires; icing; floating docks; spiral pipes.
Mighty Ships Northern Eagle
Northern Eagle can catch and package fish at the same time. Once out to sea, the Northern Eagle won't return to port until her hold is full of 1,500 tonnes of frozen, packaged product ready for market.
Mighty Cruise Ships Marco Polo
Ocean liner Marco Polo battles a brooding hurricane and navigational hazards on a late-autumn Baltic voyage to the grand old cities of northern Europe.
Mighty Planes Orbis
The ORBIS McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is the world's only flying eye hospital with an interior redesigned to house a state-of-the-art ophthalmic hospital complete with an operating room, a laser treatment facility and a high-tech classroom.
Mighty Trains The Canadian
The iconic Canadian travels between Vancouver and Toronto; passengers travel in vintage streamliner cars built in the 1950s.
NASA's Unexplained Files Life in Hell
A UFO crashes in Pennsylvania. Was it a secret Soviet satellite, or something far more dangerous? On Mercury, NASA finds the impossible: frozen water. A strange object causes a skyscraper-sized shadow on the surface of Mars' largest moon.
NASA's Unexplained Files Top Secret Terror
Was the Moon landing faked? Images of Mercury reveal massive spider-like formations on its surface. Is it an odd geological formation, or something much more ominous? A classified space shuttle mission ends in near-disaster. What was its secret mission?
Rise of the Machines Super Plane
Witness the construction of the world's most impressive machines.
Mighty Ships FPSO Maersk Peregrino
The conversion of a super tanker into the world’s most advanced oil production vessel becomes an increasingly complex, dangerous and expensive endeavor.
Secret Space Escapes Solar Panel Crisis
An astronaut performs an emergency procedure on an electrified panel to save a new ISS solar array. The pressures of the Space Race push Soviets to launch Soyuz 1 despite warnings. The first Korean astronaut gets the ride of her life during re-entry.
How the Universe Works Finding the New Earth
New discoveries have revealed thousands of exoplanets beyond our solar system, and some resemble earth enough that one could be a new home for humanity. But even with cutting-edge technology, finding the perfect one is the scientific challenge of the age.
Rise of the Machines Super Plane
Witness the construction of the world's most impressive machines.
Alaska Mega Machines Beasts of the Arctic
A rugged ship built to withstand tsunami size waves travels on a highway unlike any other in North America. A fleet of machines combats a massive flood in the Arctic Circle. And the biggest, most powerful wind turbines in Alaska.
Featured: patterned glass panels; road cases; stop-frame animation.
Featured: motion sensors; belt loaders; pheasant breeding; diving helmets.
NASA's Unexplained Files Red Storm Rising
Two astronauts trapped in the vacuum of space face an agonizing death; the first close up images of Pluto reveal an alien landscape, and residents of Houston struggle to explain videos of unidentified flying lights captured above their city at night.
Houdini's Last Secrets The Torture Escape
No one knows how Harry Houdini pulled off his death-defying escapes, but now, a team of experts investigate his water torture illusion to reveal the secrets of this mysterious feat. What they uncover suggests Houdini might have led a double life as a spy.
Secrets of the Underground Doomsday Volcano Mystery
A massive supervolcano beneath Naples, Italy may be on the verge of erupting again; Rob Nelson and Stefan Burns investigate this disturbing new evidence.
How Do They Do It? Whisky Galore; Disaster Prevention
Learn how water is made into whiskey and how New Orleans is preparing for another Katrina.
How Do They Do It? Sugar, Fish Farming, Speed Suits
Learn how they make sugar, farm fish, and craft speed suits.
Houdini's Last Secrets The Torture Escape
No one knows how Harry Houdini pulled off his death-defying escapes, but now, a team of experts investigate his water torture illusion to reveal the secrets of this mysterious feat. What they uncover suggests Houdini might have led a double life as a spy.
NASA's Unexplained Files Red Storm Rising
Two astronauts trapped in the vacuum of space face an agonizing death; the first close up images of Pluto reveal an alien landscape, and residents of Houston struggle to explain videos of unidentified flying lights captured above their city at night.
Featured: patterned glass panels; road cases; stop-frame animation.
Featured: motion sensors; belt loaders; pheasant breeding; diving helmets.
Secrets of the Underground Doomsday Volcano Mystery
A massive supervolcano beneath Naples, Italy may be on the verge of erupting again; Rob Nelson and Stefan Burns investigate this disturbing new evidence.
Alaska Mega Machines Beasts of the Arctic
A rugged ship built to withstand tsunami size waves travels on a highway unlike any other in North America. A fleet of machines combats a massive flood in the Arctic Circle. And the biggest, most powerful wind turbines in Alaska.
Mighty Ships Henry Larsen
Search and rescue is the specialty of the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Henry Larsen; Newfoundland is locked down by a major winter storm and it's a critical time for the isolated coastal communities; keeping ferry boats moving through the ice.