Alaska's Ultimate Bush Pilots | Closing Time
An unexpected storm leaves Island Air struggling to pull their planes for mandatory maintenance.
An unexpected storm leaves Island Air struggling to pull their planes for mandatory maintenance.
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Lightning strikes, clouds roll, and rainbows fill the sky in this stormy Extreme Weather Countdown.
Floods give way to rainbows and tornadoes twist into hailstorms on today's intense Extreme Weather Countdown!
Record setting snowfall, tidal waves, rainfall, and flooding all make history in this noteworthy countdown.
Today's forecast: thunder, lightning, and high winds. Oh, and lots of tornadoes.
Tornadoes twist at sea, hail pounds the Earth, and trees topple over on today's Extreme Weather Countdown!
Pilot Peter Rosendahl combats gail force wind and choppy seas while taxiing a group of hunters to a floating lodge.
The bush pilots have to use all their skills - scuba diving, underwater rigging and expert flying - to try and salvage a de Havilland Beaver wing at the bottom of the 6 Mile Lake.
Pilot Josiah Freeman takes a professional snowboarder Mark Barajas to the top of the Chugach Mountains for some hellacious heli-skiing.
Island Air battles time and the elements, to rescue a group trapped in Deadman's Bay.
Tanalian Aviation pilots Joel Natwick and Josiah Freeman assist with a search and rescue for an experienced hiker deep in the winter wilderness.
An unexpected storm leaves Island Air struggling to pull their planes for mandatory maintenance.
Island Air drops off a group of desperate hunters in the heart of the bush as a deep freeze hits Kodiak.
On a rare day off, Josiah and his friends white water raft where few have gone before - on top of the massive Knik Glacier.
Miners in Chihauhau, Mexico, has just discovered an amazing sight. Deep in the earth, only 300 feet from a pocket of molten magma, is an amazing chamber filled with giant blue and pink crystals – some as big as 60 feet long! It is an extraordinary find – and one that is very difficult to witness, as temperatures run to 150 F, with 100% humidity. The Mexican authorities are only opening up the cavern to scientists and film crews – “Angry Planet” plans to be one of the first in!
We hope Season Two will give us the opportunity to make the quintessential Angry Planet show – a full episode exploring a major hurricane that makes landfall in Florida or the Carolinas.
One of the most exciting episodes of season one is “Wild Water” – our look at Great White Sharks, water-filled caves and high voltage marine action.
Dominica, the most volcanic and mountainous island in the Caribbean, is home to the Boiling Lake, a large waterfall-fed lake of furiously boiling water. Adventurer George Kourounis becomes the first person ever to traverse across the lake on a rope, risking his life to take water samples and shoot video from a place no human has ever been. He then dives to the ocean floor off the coast of the island to explore vents where the superheated water bubbles into the ocean.
Mount Washington, New Hampshire has the dubious title of being home to the world's worst weather. The highest wind ever recorded on the planet – 231 miles per hour – was recorded at its mountaintop observatory. To prepare for a mid-winter assault on the summit, Angry Planet host George Kourounis becomes a “human popsicle”, encased in ice in at the National Resarch Council's high speed wind tunnel. Then he and his sidekick Mark Robinson climb to the top of the mountain in mid-January and brave their way into a summit blizzard.
Canada's weather is complex and powerful! Mark and fellow storm hunters chase down avalanches in British Columbia's back country, twisters in Saskatchewan, and hurricane scale storms in Newfoundland. Enduring extreme weather is just an ordinary day for the True North Strong.
On his home turf in Canada, Mark and his team chase one of nature's deadliest forces, coming face to face with tornadoes' shear strength.
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