Marine Machines

In the North Atlantic, high-tech aircraft and hardy sailors battle against an annual onslaught of icebergs, striving to ensure that the tragedy of the Titanic never happens again.

See how we 'see' under the sea and join the man versus machine debate raging in the depths.

For the last 30 years the most radical boat designs have worked to break the rules of speed, often resulting in high speed lethal crashes.

New military technology means ships are more and more vulnerable from great distances. By using radar absorbing materials and the latest integrated combat system weaponry these ships are both elusive and lethal.

The ocean depths are often more extreme than the outer space environment. Ocean innovators and scientists are leading the development in making undersea communities a reality.

SCUBA is one of the greatest inventions of all time. This show will look at the technology that has allowed people to enter the foreign and dangerous world beneath the sea.

Hollywood, ever the ground breaker at exploring new frontiers, have been capturing images beneath the surface and bringing us their vision of life beneath the sea.

Join us and a team of men and women who live life on the very edge, and bear witness as they dive into the danger zone! Follow survival training in its extreme, witness first hand real rescue attempts and tour the largest floating hospital ever built.

Harvesting energy from the oceans is an ancient concept, but to gain sufficient power to supply the modern world will take superior technologies never before possible.

Today's governments around the world have committed billions to rediscover the technology of past wars lost or abandoned on the ocean floor.