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How Did They Fix That?

Mike is in Iceland, where teams harness the power of volcanos to keep the geothermal energy flowing; they battle harsh weather to maintain and upgrade giant power systems, fixing miles of steam pipes. and bringing a dead well back to life.

VCHIP-TV-PG, DocumentarySeries
Next airing Wed, Jul 29 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Smithsonian Channel HD
Most recent Wed, Jul 22 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Smithsonian HD Network
Episodes indexed 57 434 airings

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Episodes

57 indexed

Philadelphia Transit

1 June 2026
2 airings 1 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

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

Volcano Power

1 June 2026
2 airings 1 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike is in Iceland, where teams harness the power of volcanos to keep the geothermal energy flowing; they battle harsh weather to maintain and upgrade giant power systems, fixing miles of steam pipes. and bringing a dead well back to life.

Water Work

1 June 2026
2 airings 1 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

In Florida, Mike tackles one of the dangerous jobs on the planet, commercial diving; he helps a specialized team keep waterways safe; fixing construction site leaks and removing dangerous structures, all while hurricane season is in full swing.

For-Everglades

20 July 2025
70 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike works with the Army Corps of Engineers on a massive project to restore essential flow of fresh water to the Florida Everglades. He also joins scientists, python hunters and the Miccosuke Tribe to eliminate invasive species.

Scream Machines

13 July 2025
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike works with repair and construction teams at Dreamworld, Australia's largest theme park, after a cyclone caused $4M in damage; they fix scream machines and finish a $50M expansion featuring the world's first triple switch rollercoaster.

Tunnel Vision

6 July 2025
16 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike joins crews as they build the world's longest railway tunnel in the Alps, fixing gridlock through the infamous Brenner Pass by drilling, blasting and digging their way through the mountains.

Reef Rescue

29 June 2025
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike in north eastern Australia, going on and under the water, into labs and onto construction projects working with specialized teams as they tackle the daunting challenge of saving dying coral on the incredible Great Barrier R.

Sky Rides

22 June 2025
22 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

In the Alps of Switzerland, Mike helps an elite team install a new cable (rope) system on an iconic mountain gondola line, helps fix the world's steepest cogwheel railway track and explores mountaintop family farms only accessib.

Water Work

15 June 2025
8 airings 2 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

In Florida, Mike tackles one of the dangerous jobs on the planet, commercial diving; he helps a specialized team keep waterways safe; fixing construction site leaks and removing dangerous structures, all while hurricane season is in full swing.

Volcano Power

8 June 2025
5 airings 2 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike is in Iceland, where teams harness the power of volcanos to keep the geothermal energy flowing; they battle harsh weather to maintain and upgrade giant power systems, fixing miles of steam pipes. and bringing a dead well back to life.

Extreme Heights: Rope Access Repairs

11 August 2024
8 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Mike 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 on the edge.

US Navy Hovercraft Overhaul

4 August 2024
13 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

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.

Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines

28 July 2024
7 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

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.

Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base

21 July 2024
39 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

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.

Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial Firefighters

14 July 2024
19 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

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.

Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes

7 July 2024
30 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

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.

Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves

30 June 2024
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike helps fix the machines that keep one of the United States' biggest ports moving; he assists a team in moving a 3-million pound crane.

US Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas

23 June 2024
10 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise.

Philadelphia Transit

17 September 2023
7 airings 2 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

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

UPS Worldport

10 September 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

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.

Snowbird Ski Resort

3 September 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike Davidson embarks with the team to one of the most extreme, avalanche-prone ski mountains in the world: Snowbird; they battle to keep the steep and deep slopes safe with shovels, snowcats and even a WWII Howitzer.

Super Stallion Helicopter

20 August 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Mike joins the U.S. Marines' Heavy Haulers helicopter squadron and gets inside their battle to keep a fleet of souped-up Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion choppers flying as they prepare for intense war games in the desert and mountains.

Aquarius Reef Base

13 August 2023
12 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Diving into retrofits on the world's only underwater habitat, where NASA astronauts train for space missions; Mike joins a crack repair team who breathe new life into this oceanic environment after a global pandemic shut it down.

Abandoned Oil Wells

7 August 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Mike Davidson goes on a cross-country road trip to help the Well Done Foundation; they work to find and cap some of the estimated 2 million leaking, toxic abandoned oil and gas wells scattered throughout the U.S.

Deep Space Telescope

6 August 2023
27 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama desert in Chile; at observatory ALMA he works alongside the expert team as they repair some of the world's biggest antennas.

Powerships

30 July 2023
71 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Mike Davidson heads to Brazil, where an offshore crew is racing the clock to set up giant power ships to deliver electricity to a country in desperate need.

Deep Sea Fish Farm

29 July 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Host Mike Davidson helps make high-stakes repairs for one of the world's largest open-ocean fish farm operations in Panama.

Euro Hauler

29 July 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Following a million-dollar freight run across four European countries and meeting the drivers, engineers and maintenance teams who keep the train running.

Heavy Cargo Express

29 July 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

A ride through Eastern Europe aboard heavy-hauling trains shows the logistical and mechanical challenges of making a multimillion-dollar cargo delivery.

Heli-Logger

29 July 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

A crew and its massive air crane helicopter haul millions of pounds of timber while battling the elements and handling emergency repairs.

Panama Canal Railway

29 July 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

A ride on the Panama Canal Railway reveals the track repairs, engine overhauls and dangerous searches involved in keeping vital freight runs rolling.

Toronto Tunnel

29 July 2023
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Host Mike Davidson assists on a multi-million-dollar tunnel-boring project underground in Toronto.

Sky Rides

13 October 2018
1 airing 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

In the Alps of Switzerland, Mike helps an elite team install a new cable (rope) system on an iconic mountain gondola line, helps fix the world's steepest cogwheel railway track and explores mountaintop family farms only accessib.

Tunnel Vision

19 May 2018
1 airing 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

Mike joins crews as they build the world's longest railway tunnel in the Alps, fixing gridlock through the infamous Brenner Pass by drilling, blasting and digging their way through the mountains.

Water Bombers: Fixing Aerial Firefighters

30 April 2016
1 airing 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-PG,

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.

Powerships

24 January 2015
2 airings 0 upcoming VCHIP-TV-G,

Mike Davidson heads to Brazil, where an offshore crew is racing the clock to set up giant power ships to deliver electricity to a country in desperate need.

Deep Space Telescope

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Host Mike Davidson goes to the remote Atacama Desert in Chile; at observatory ALMA he works alongside the expert team as they repair some of the world's biggest antennas.

Cirque Du Soleil: High-Flying Fixes

2 airings 0 upcoming TVPG

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

Fixing For A Fight: U.S. Army Mega Repair Base

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

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.

For-Everglades

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

Mike works with the Army Corps of Engineers on a massive project to restore essential flow of fresh water to the Florida Everglades. He also joins scientists, python hunters and the Miccosukee Tribe to eliminate invasive species.

Aquarius Reef Base

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Diving into retrofits on the world's only underwater habitat, where NASA astronauts train for space missions; Mike joins a crack repair team who breathe new life into this oceanic environment after a global pandemic shut it down.

US Coast Guard: Safeguarding The Seas

2 airings 0 upcoming TVPG

Mike helps fix the vessels that the U.S. Coast Guard use to keep the oceans safe; he replaces key parts of ship engines, removes a large crane from a buoy tender, and fixes a helicopter for a critical exercise.

US Navy Hovercraft Overhaul

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

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.

Sealing Nevada's Abandoned Mines

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

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.

Super Stallion Helicopter

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Mike joins the U.S. Marines' Heavy Haulers helicopter squadron and gets inside their battle to keep a fleet of souped-up Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion choppers flying as they prepare for intense war games in the desert and mountains.

UPS Worldport

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

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.

Heli-Logger

1 airing 0 upcoming NR (Not Rated)

A crew and its massive air crane helicopter haul millions of pounds of timber while battling the elements and handling emergency repairs.

Panama Canal Railway

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

A ride on the Panama Canal Railway reveals the track repairs, engine overhauls and dangerous searches involved in keeping vital freight runs rolling.

Euro Hauler

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Following a million-dollar freight run across four European countries and meeting the drivers, engineers and maintenance teams who keep the train running.

Heavy Cargo Express

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

A ride through Eastern Europe aboard heavy-hauling trains shows the logistical and mechanical challenges of making a multimillion-dollar cargo delivery.

Abandoned Oil Wells

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Mike Davidson goes on a cross-country road trip to help the Well Done Foundation; they work to find and cap some of the estimated 2 million leaking, toxic abandoned oil and gas wells scattered throughout the U.S.

Savannah: Mega Cranes & Mega Moves

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

Mike helps fix the machines that keep one of the United States' biggest ports moving; he assists a team in moving a 3-million pound crane.

Scream Machines

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

Mike works with repair and construction teams at Dreamworld, Australia's largest theme park, after a cyclone caused $4M in damage; they fix scream machines and finish a $50M expansion featuring the world's first triple switch rollercoaster.

Toronto Tunnel

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Host Mike Davidson assists on a multi-million-dollar tunnel-boring project underground in Toronto.

Deep Sea Fish Farm

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Host Mike Davidson helps make high-stakes repairs for one of the world's largest open-ocean fish farm operations in Panama.

Reef Rescue

1 airing 0 upcoming TVPG

Mike in northeastern Australia, goes on and under the water, into labs and onto construction projects working with specialized teams; they tackle the challenge of saving dying coral on the Great Barrier Reef.

Snowbird Ski Resort

1 airing 0 upcoming TVG

Mike Davidson embarks with the team to one of the most extreme, avalanche-prone ski mountains in the world: Snowbird; they battle to keep the steep and deep slopes safe with shovels, snowcats and even a WWII Howitzer.

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