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In Philadelphia, Mike Davidson is on streets, in tunnels, on tracks and in trolley restoration garages - working shoulder-to-shoulder with the team that keeps one of America's largest and oldest mass transit systems running smoothly.

Mike travels to San Diego to learn how U.S. Marines operate, maintain and repair the CH-53E Super Stallion, a heavy-lift helicopter that's been in use since the early 1980s.

Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama desert in Chile and to one of the most incredible and complex observatories on Earth - ALMA. He works alongside ALMA's expert team as they repair some of the world's biggest antennas.

Mike Davidson goes to the biggest automated package sorting facility in the world - UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky. Two million packages go through here every day.

The worldwide pandemic ceased operations on the world's only underwater habitat. Mike Davidson joins a crack repair crew as they dive in to bring it back to life and get NASA astronauts back inside for training.

Snowbird Ski battles to reduce the risk resulting from high snow levels and deadly avalanches.

A cross-country mission to cap the US’s estimated two million toxic, abandoned oil and gas wells.

The teams at the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) stations and bases along the Northeastern seaboard battle daily to fix and maintain their fleet of ships, aircraft and life-saving gear. Mike embeds with them in the shops, on the docks, in the air and on the sea to discover what fixes it takes to keep us protected, defended and safe.

Mike Davidson works with the teams at the enormous Port of Savannah to fix the machines that keep this place running. Boasting multiple massive cargo terminals, an impressive mega-railway system and some of the biggest ship-to-shore cranes on earth, the massive operation relies on its hard hat heroes to keep things running safely and smoothly. Major upgrades are taking the port’s container ship operations to a whole new level, and Mike’s on the team. He works with specialized crews to lift and move three, retired three-million-pound cranes to make room for even bigger ones, while digging in with crew on major repairs to other cranes, vehicles and machines that keep goods flowing. The shipments of essential goods flowing through the port never stops, and neither does the pressure to get these machines back up and running and this port functioning.

Nevada has over 40,000 abandoned mines posing dangers. Mike joins contractors for a week to secure five sites. Alongside biologists, they explore and document wildlife. Reaching these isolated mines requires barges, helicopters, and bulldozers.

At Cirque Du Soileil in Las Vegas, Mike embeds with the talented teams that maintain the amazing machines behind Cirque Du Soleil's stage shows.

With wildfire season ahead, Mike works with an aerial firefighting company as they fix and convert aircraft into firefighting machines, including the transformation of a 1960's C130 plane from aged military aircraft into a stateofthe art waterbomber.

Mike 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.

Mike joins the Assault Craft Unit 5, the U.S. Navy's team for Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs); LCACs carry heavy vehicles and troops onto beaches; Mike helps fly & fix an overhauled LCAC during a U.S. Marines beach assault training mission.