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Heavy Metal Taskforce

Premieres: July 19 at 8:30 pm

DISCOVERY SCIENCE GOES HEAVY METAL!

What happens when an offshore wind turbine needs to be transported across thousands of miles or raging fires threaten to consume your town? Instead of dialing your emergency local emergency hotline, you might want to try calling on the HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE. This month, Discovery Science's brand new series HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE drills deep underground, slashes through ice, and soars above the clouds while exploring some of the worlds toughest and biggest machines.

Digging, mining, drilling and soaring - heavy and unique machinery have a field day on HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE! Don't miss the amazing machines and their elite crews as they take on some of the planet's most incredible and dangerous engineering challenges. Each episode feature highlights the massive size and power of the machines as they encounter crisis during its operation. Underscoring the need for speed and precision, the crisis highlights the team of operators and the resiliency of the machines themselves.

From rescuing a passenger ship in frozen Arctic waters to transporting a fully assembled Airbus A320 wings, each episode features three different missions for our mechanical superheros to tackle. When millions of dollars, hundreds of lives and even entire cities are on the line, you want the best of the best. You want the HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE.

HEAVY METAL TASK FORCE episode descriptions:

Episode 1
A heavy-lift helicopter saves a Colorado town, an elite team of engineers harness the world's biggest mobile cranes to move an offshore wind turbine, and loggers fight an epic battle to save the gulf coast of Louisiana. 

Episode 2
The world's largest mining machine digs for coal in Canada, mobile ice hammers save a town from flooding, and an enormous air transporter battles extreme conditions to deliver its cargo. 

Episode 3
A helicopter must dodge power lines as it transports an arctic oil tank, a megapede transporter moves a barge into the Gulf of Mexico, and a million dollar sub hunts for warning signs of an impending tsunami on Lake Tahoe. 

Episode 4
A ferocious mining machine goes deep underground to save Britain from a deep freeze, a nuclear powered icebreaker rescues a stranded ferry, and a water bomber prepares to fight raging fires in Southern California. 

Episode 5
A transport is dispatched to rescue a platoon of marines deep in enemy territory, a gigantic wheel excavator digs deep into German soil, and a six-legged barge takes on the treacherous North Sea to install an offshore wind farm.

Future episodes TBC