Friday, January 23rd TV listings for Story TV (KLML8) Grand Junction, CO
Modern Marvels Titanic Tech
Watertight compartments and a steel-plated hull convince all that HMS Titanic would be unsinkable, but a collision with an iceberg proves the belief wrong.
Modern Marvels Super Ships
The largest, strongest and most unique ships; an oceanography research vessel that can flip a full 90 degrees; one of the world's largest cruise ships; the U.S. Navy's newest and most advanced transport ship; green tugboat; fastest car ferry.
Modern Marvels Ocean Liners
With technological advances, our ancient struggle against the sea has turned into a luxurious holiday; a peek at the elegant life on these floating resorts.
Modern Marvels Shipyards
Shipyards are waterside construction sites where some of the largest tools ever built help create the biggest machines on earth; from ancient days to the 18th-century Industrial Revolution to the epic effort performed at Pearl Harbor.
Modern Marvels Sub Disasters
When the men and women aboard a modern submarine hear the command to dive, they can take a measure of comfort in the fact that no US sub has been lost in nearly 40 years, though it's been said that the sea is a more hostile environment than space.
Modern Marvels Deep Sea Salvage
The U.S. Navy's diving and salvage programs; the USS Salvor's underwater remote-operated robots; bomb-locating minisub Alvin.
Modern Marvels Levees
Explore levees history from collapsing New Orleans floodwalls to European storm surge barriers; examine Sacramento's crumbling erosion evidence, Netherlands' ingenious dikes, Thames barriers, Venice construction, and Army Corps protection efforts.