Storm Hunters
Mark & Jaclyn chase extreme winter weather as Nor'easters with hurricane force wind gusts and record snowfalls hammer Atlantic Canada.
Mark & Jaclyn chase extreme winter weather as Nor'easters with hurricane force wind gusts and record snowfalls hammer Atlantic Canada.
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Mark & Jaclyn chase extreme winter weather as Nor'easters with hurricane force wind gusts and record snowfalls hammer Atlantic Canada.
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Some of the fiercest weather on the planet can be experienced at the southern tip of Argentina and Chile the area the South Americans call the Fin del Mundo the end of the world. Host George Kourounis travels to Ushuaia, Argentina, sails south on the expedition sailboat Northanger to round infamous Cape Horn, then climbs the spectacular but rapidly melting glaciers along the Beagle Channel.
Avalanche danger is very high in the Rogers Pass area of the Trans Canada Highway in British Columbia. Host of Angry Planet George Kourounis travels with a variety of experts to bring down huge avalanches in the Rocky Mountains. Ski Patrollers throw hand charges to clear the slopes, the British Columbia Department of Highways uses helicopter bombing and mountaintop mortars to keep the roads safe, and the Canadian Armed Forces fire 105mm howitzers at the mountains to bring down the dangerous snow. Still, there are accidents and fatalities in the mountains. We meet Francois Desroisers, an avalanche burial victim who tells a terrible and tragic tale of a mountain disaster.
Host George Kourounis has braved many terrifying phenomena but none as frightening as the one he takes on in this episode: marriage! To make sure his new bride is on the same adventurous page with him, he proposes to get married on the lip of an exploding volcano, on the South Pacific island of Tanna, in Vanuatu. Before the native preacher, dressed in grass skirt and kustom garb, gets to perform the smoky vows, George descends into the erupting volcano to bring out red hot samples of the lava it is producing.
The autumn of 2006 brings hurricanes to the North Atlantic and hot dry winds fan forest fires across Northern Ontario. Host/adventurer George Kourounis has traveled to some awesome hurricanes, including Rita and Katrina, with his pal Mark Robinson. This year they stormchase in Newfoundland, site of the hurricane that pulled Mark out of a life-threatening depression.
The Angry Planet team heads to Africa to climb the steep and very active Nyiragongo Volcano in the Congo that erupted in 2002, sending 125,000 people fleeing for their lives. Host/adventurer George Kourounis explores the bubbling lake of molten lava and investigates the risk the dangerous volcano poses to both the people of city of Goma and the Mountain Gorillas who live on the nearby jungle slopes.
Ground Zero for host/adventurer George Kourounis stormchasing is Oklahoma City, capital of North Americas Tornado Alley. George tracks a building storm that threatens that tough mid-western city, chases a hail storm, fights to get in the middle of a vicious dust-devil and the funky roadside Americana of the American Midwest.
The Angry Planet team will be tracking storms through the 2009 Hurricane season, and plan to film george as he heads into a big one.
Its dark, its cold, there is no air to breath and everything is under extreme pressure. George begins his exploration of the deep with a well-preserved shipwreck in the st.lawrence River, then heads west to dive with undersea explorers Chris Harvey-Clark and Phil Nuyyton, and investigate the newly discovered Black Smoker deepsea vents. The show climaxes in Curacao, where we dive to 1000 feet aboard Nuyytons newest submersible.
A mysterious fever overwhelms Mark as he struggles to fulfill a childhood dream. He must use every ounce of inner strength to journey to the mouth of hell, and make it out alive.
Mark & Jaclyn chase extreme winter weather as Nor'easters with hurricane force wind gusts and record snowfalls hammer Atlantic Canada.
Meteorologists Jaclyn Whittal and Mark Robinson are on a hunt in Tornado Alley to track down some of the world's ferocious weather. Their goal – to learn more about the hidden forces that lurk in the skies.
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of the Winter
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El Niño is a temperature anomaly in the Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns around the globe. In this episode we show some of the costly and deadly weather that can result when a Super El Niño occurs.
A catastrophic earthquake, a mesmerizing avalanche, a destructive tornado, and an unintentional smashup derby on icy highways our experts weigh in on these viral videos as people get caught off guard by the sudden and powerful forces of nature.
After a successful hunt., Adrian Knopps' hunting partner disappears taking their bear out to the boat. Now Adrian finds himself stranded on a tidal flat surround by bears and wolf packs and with massive storm bearing down on him. How will he survive?
While hiking alone deep in Glacier National Park, Ted Porter plummets into an icy glacial crevasse. With a broken back and miles from anyone, he must fight to survive.
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