Watch as a selection of history's most gruesome projectile weapons are tested for their accuracy and deadliness.
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(01:41)The Rolex Awards For Enterprise 2008
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(01:58)The Hubble space telescope has the most powerful window on soaring star factories but astronauts will travel back into space to...
(00:50)In the Irish Sea truck ferry the Riverdance is battered by bad weather and wrecked off the shore of Blackpool, England. A darin...
(01:23)Many of the world's best salvage teams have tried and failed to move the 'wreck that will not die' off the Oregon coast. Meet t...
(02:54)Genoa, Italy. In 1991 the oil tanker The Haven caught fire and 1 million barrels of oil burned for three days. View the amazing...
(02:43)Stricken Russian coal carrier the Jane lies beached off the Japanese coast. The elite salvage team undertake the dangerous job ...
(01:17)Cancun, Mexico, ferry the Arcangel, after a vicious storm is grounded on one of the most precious reefs in the world. Hundreds ...
(02:04)Salvage operations rely on brains as well as brawn. Off the Gibraltar coast a salvage team uses high-tech equipment to device a...
(02:20)Take a closer look at one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.
(00:29)Marine salvage is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. Find out more as we speak to a real-life marine salvage diver.
(03:15)The war on Saddam Hussein. A British attack helicopter is trapped in the gun-sights of an enemy tank. The hunter becomes the hu...
(00:58)A family demolition team is set to be the first to use explosives on an active nuclear site in the UK. But setting dynamite cha...
(00:36)Enter the world’s greenest pavilion, built with 1.5 million recycled plastic drink bottles. It’s green, but is it sustaina...
(02:41)Taiwan’s booming economy came at the price of pollution. Can architects turn trash into a tribute to green technology?
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