On a trip to Hawaii, Blue World meets the critically endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal, then travels to Bonaire to dive with a group of wounded veterans learning to dive. Finally, we participate in a fish census in Massachusetts.
Blue World travels to Mexico for an up-close encounter with Bull sharks and then visits NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston where astronauts train underwater for space walking.
Blue World travels to the Maldives to witness a huge Manta ray feeding frenzy and then visits Indonesia to explore an island surrounded by venomous sea snakes!
On the 3 March 1992, Bosnia Herzegovina gained its independence from Yugoslavia. Immediately, the Serb-led military units took over large slabs of land and suppressed the other ethnic groups.
On the 3 October 1993, an elite battle unit of the US army began a fairly straight-forward mission in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Within minutes of reaching their destination, the situation descended into chaos and the mission turned into a battle.
In March 2019 news reports appeared in the British press of UK's troops being killed in Yemen, no one knew why they are there in the first place. Britain was not fighting a war in Yemen. This episode investigates the truth behind the casualties.
The Crimea Annexation in February 2014 was the biggest and most blatant land grab in Europe since WWII and shook the very foundations upon which peace in the region had been based ever since. How did Russia execute the annexation?
The steam train reached its zenith in the Old World, and in the New World trains like the Burlington Zephyr were part pf the race for modernity.
Bruce spends a staggering $40,000 on a single WW2 army uniform, as he hunts paratrooper gear dear to his heart, and Hus almost throws up doing loops in a Mustang.
Bruce's mate Kevin spends 5 milion pounds on the last remainig German torpedo boat, and Bruce buys and sells his way from Plymouth to Illinois using various German hardware.
Bruce blows up a van with WW2 rifle grenades and the twins ride the Redball Express. Bruce also tracks down an iconic 'Deuce-and-a-half' American army truck.
Bruce embarks on a huge project: to restore and rebuild a German Panther tank. But ro pay for it, he has to do up and part with a couple of his beloved WW2 'halftracks'.
Resources are tight in space. Everything that goes up there has mass and therefore a cost.,
When we start thinking about traveling at speeds close to the speed of light, our perception of time's passing starts to get pretty mind-bending.,
For an instrument first developed as recently as the 17th century, the telescope has travelled a long way. The latest version of the once-humble telescope will be going a lot farther – carrying us ever closer to the first light.
The question often rises is the cost of space exploration really worth it? Could the money be better spent elsewhere. If so one space program would have to remain. The planetary defence program, to locate identify and deflect a wayward asteroid.
Our solar system is vast, from our own star the Sun to Earth is nearly 150 million kilometers or 1 Astronomical Unit. Jupiter is 5.2 AU distant and Pluto up to 48AU, the solar system extends far beyond this into interstellar space.
The International Space Station is undoubtedly the jewel in the crown of low Earth orbit observation post, research lab and class room. Equally however there are many other assets orbiting Earth that are even more important to our everyday lives.
Launching payloads into space is a very difficult task, historically rocket launches are the proverbial 'swords into ploughshares' Missiles designed to carry atomic warheads now send satellites and probes into the solar system.
PROJECT GEMINI COMMENCES - Did Gemini give the US a lead in the space race? VENUS EXPRESS - The last days of ESA's Venus probe. EMU NASA's - Extravehicular Mobility Unit. DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS - ESA's worldwide network of giant dishes.,