How Did They Fix That?

Season 3

Embark on a global journey to witness the world's mightiest machines tackle challenging missions, and meet the mechanics, engineers and technicians who keep them running.

Where to Watch How Did They Fix That? • Season 3

8 Episodes

U.S. Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas
E1
U.S. Coast Guard: Safeguarding The SeasMike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep our oceans safe, replacing key parts of ship engines, removing a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixing a helicopter for a critical exercise.
Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves
E2
Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega MovesMike helps fix the machines that keep one of the U.S.'s biggest ports moving. He helps a team move a 3-million pound crane, and works at 250 feet in the air while the pressure and the pace of goods flowing through the port never stops.
Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes
E3
Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying FixesIn Las Vegas, Mike embeds with the talented teams that maintain the amazing machines behind Cirque Du Soleil's stage shows "KA" and "O," fixing hydraulics, the Wheel of Death and essential rigging on a Forest Grid.
Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial Firefighters
E4
Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial FirefightersMike works with Coulson Aviation as they fix and convert aircraft into aerial firefighting machines for the wildfire seasons ahead, including the transformation of a 1960's C130 plane from aged military aircraft.
Fixing For A Fight: US Army Mega Repair Base
E5
Fixing For A Fight: US Army Mega Repair BaseMike works with the U.S. Army in Germany inside the massive fix facility 'The MAK' - Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern as teams repair over one hundred Bradley fighting vehicles, then embeds with troops in a massive two week long battle exercise.
Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines
E6
Sealing Nevada's Abandoned MinesUsing barges, helicopters and bulldozers, Mike works in the deserts and hills of Nevada alongside the fix teams as they devise and execute unique strategies to secure and seal the state's more than 40 thousand dangerous, abandoned mine shafts.
US Navy Hovercraft Overhaul
E7
US Navy Hovercraft OverhaulMike embeds with the Assault Craft Unit 5 - the U.S. Navy's Pacific operating unit for Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCAC), or hovercrafts. Based at Camp Pendleton, California this team overhauls and fixes these 'flying boats; for ship-to-shore missions and proves that 'no beach is out of reach'.
Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs
E8
Extreme Heights: Rope Access RepairsMike pushes himself to the limit to work with an elite team of high ropes techs on fixes hundreds of feet in the air. Starting 45 stories up on the side of a skyscraper, then working and dangling over a thousand feet above America's deepest gorge, Mike goes over the edge on these high-flying fixes.