Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | Pressure | 2
Against The Odds30 Apr 2024

Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | Pressure | 2

Crippled by a tsunami of unprecedented scale, one of the reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in danger of melting down. To save it, workers must do the unthinkable: Vent radioactive steam into the atmosphere, to avoid a larger catastrophe as explosive gasses build up inside the reactor core. And they must risk exposing themselves to dangerous levels of radiation to do it.

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USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Troubled Waters | 2

USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Troubled Waters | 2

The nine hundred men who survived the torpedo attack on the U.S.S. Indianapolis are either drifting in the sea, fighting strong currents and swells, or clinging to rafts. They’re at the mercy of the o...

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USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Abandon Ship | 1

USS Indianapolis: Disaster at Sea | Abandon Ship | 1

In the final weeks of World War II, the Navy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine in the middle of the Philippine Sea. The nine hundred survivors found themselves ...

18 Jan 202242min

Rock Climbers Abducted | Over the Edge with Climber and Author Greg Child | 5

Rock Climbers Abducted | Over the Edge with Climber and Author Greg Child | 5

After being taken hostage by members of the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the lives of four American climbers were never the same. And just one year later, the attack on the World Tr...

28 Des 202135min

Rock Climbers Abducted | Breaking Free | 4

Rock Climbers Abducted | Breaking Free | 4

When the Americans finally act out and decide to fight for their lives, they’re left alone in an inhospitable mountain rage full of rebel militants and a trigger happy army. Far more than just a rescu...

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Rock Climbers Abducted | Fight or Flight | 3

Rock Climbers Abducted | Fight or Flight | 3

Days without food or water start to weaken the young climbers as their captors push them further into the mountains and further from civilization. But their captors are starting to lose steam too. On ...

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Rock Climbers Abducted | Hostage Situation | 2

Rock Climbers Abducted | Hostage Situation | 2

After being kidnapped by rebel militants in a remote region of Kyrgyzstan, four American rock climbers are forced at gunpoint toward the Uzbekistan border. But their captors are being trailed by the K...

7 Des 202145min

Rock Climbers Abducted | Welcome to Paradise | 1

Rock Climbers Abducted | Welcome to Paradise | 1

In August of the year 2000, four American rock climbers set out to explore the majesty of the Pamir Alai Mountain range in Kyrgyzstan. But only a week into their expedition, they’re taken captive by r...

30 Nov 202144min

Chilean Mine Collapse | Into the Dark with Héctor Tobar | 5

Chilean Mine Collapse | Into the Dark with Héctor Tobar | 5

When the 33 miners emerged to surface after 69 days in the depths of the San José mine, they set the Guinness World Record for the longest time spent trapped underground. For his book Deep Down Dark, ...

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