1 Fireboats
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach take the keys to two new state-of-the-art fireboats ready to battle any blaze and extinguish any threat.
2 Turnaround Day
At the worlds largest cruise ports, professional teams race against the clock and the weather to re-supply the biggest cruise ships in the world.
3 Salt miner
In Baltimore, engineers design and assemble a state-of-the-art, mega-bucket wheel dredge; they now must disassemble it and move it to Saudi Arabia where it will operate in one of the toughest dredge conditions in the world.
4 Navy Fleet
Today's Navy fleets are the biggest and best equipped ever with destroyers, carriers, jets, helicopters and submarines that must be ready for anything from terrorism to natural disasters.
5 Mississippi
The United States Corps of Engineers employs a flotilla of mega marine machines to protect the Mississippi River.
6 How Harbors Work
In the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, mega marine machines are hauling, hoisting, dredging and digging to make way for towering container ships.
7 Tidal Power
Battling the worlds highest tides, a global team of scientists and engineers take to the water to install an underwater turbine that can turn the power of the ocean into clean electrical energy.
8 Container Port
The deceptively simple 20-foot shipping container has become the most revolutionary invention of the modern world, moving all of the worlds goods from ship to shore to truck to store.