World's Toughest Fixes - Season 1

World's Toughest Fixes - Season 1

Season 1

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DatesSep 5, 2008 - May 25, 2009
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Episodes

Nuclear Turbine
Season 1Episode 160 min

Nuclear Turbine

Sean Riley puts on his radiation suit and heads into the radiation zone for his next tough fix, replacing a steam turbine in a nuclear power plant to boost its energy-producing capacity.
Sep 29, 2008
Boeing 767
Season 1Episode 260 min

Boeing 767

Sean Riley joins a team of engineers and mechanics as they attempt to fix a damaged Boeing 767 jet. This is a crucial fix—taking a jet apart and putting it back together is a complex, three-week operation, and the smallest mistake could have huge consequences. As the new guy on the project, Riley is given an unpleasant task to prove his mettle—disconnecting a lavatory tube
Sep 28, 2008
High-Voltage Power Lines
Season 1Episode 360 min

High-Voltage Power Lines

Sean Riley joins an elite corps of engineers who dangle from a helicopter and work with live power lines carrying a shocking 500,000 volts of electricity.
Sep 5, 2008
Thirty-Eight Ton Engine
Season 1Episode 460 min

Thirty-Eight Ton Engine

Sean Riley helps swap out a 38-ton engine on one of the largest ships in the Gulf of Mexico. The fix must be done in the middle of the gulf—and with swells, wind and rain, things can get complicated.
Oct 8, 2008
Giant Telescope
Season 1Episode 560 min

Giant Telescope

For this tough job, Sean Riley joins a team of engineers to move and clean a 27-foot, 23-ton, $15 million telescope mirror. Here, three telescopes are used together to form the largest combined telescope in the world.
Oct 15, 2008
2,000 Foot Tower
Season 1Episode 660 min

2,000 Foot Tower

Sean Riley works to fix a faulty TV antenna nearly half a mile in the air. This extreme fix takes strength, teamwork and guts.
Nov 26, 2008
Cruise Ship Engine
Season 1Episode 760 min

Cruise Ship Engine

Go on a cruise. They said: In the Bahamas. It'll be a lot of fun, they promised. Mid ocean in the Caribbean, its a race against time. This may be Paradise, but Riley's not on vacation. He's on his way to a titanic fix. An enormous 90,000 ton cruise ship is steaming towards one of the worlds largest dry docks. They need to install a new power plant an enormous diesel generator, but first they have to land this ship. That's when the fun starts Then things get a whole lot tougher Its all hands on deck as a huge crew opens the hull pulls out the piping, makes room for a two story addition and struggles to cram a massive new 320 ton generator inside the ship then puts it all back together And in record time! In just twenty days this liner is taking on its next bunch of customers and if the ship is not ship shape there's likely to be a lot of harsh words spoken on board.
Dec 3, 2008
50-Ton Rudder
Season 1Episode 860 min

50-Ton Rudder

Riley joins a team of industrial divers on the Caribbean island of Curacao to salvage and repair the 50-ton rudder of a ship carrying $3 million worth of iron ore.
May 25, 2009

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