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Season 39 · Episode 18
Landed Wed, 18 Apr 2012 · 21:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 39, Episode 18 of NOVA aired Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 9pm ET on PBS.
- S39E18Why Ships SinkFind out if modern cruise ships are really safe - or if we're on the brink of a 21st-century Titanic. Twenty million passengers embark on cruises each year, vacationing in deluxe "floating cities" that offer everything from swimming pools to shopping malls to ice skating rinks. And the ships just keep getting bigger: The average cruise ship has doubled in size in just the last ten years. Some engineers fear that these towering behemoths are dangerously unstable, and the recent tragedy of the Costa Concordia has raised new questions about their safety. Now, NOVA brings together marine engineering and safety experts to reconstruct the events that led up to famous cruise disasters, including the ill-fated Concordia, the Sea Diamond, and the Oceanos.
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