World’s Toughest Fixes is one of those shows you know that there are going to succeed in whatever the task is at hands, but you can’t help but going “there is no what that is going to happen.” Like when the host, Sean Riley, says he is going to move a fully formed five lane highway bridge over a mile you cannot help but think to yourself, “no way.” The show, if anything, lives up to its acronym.
The new season premieres this Thursday at 9:00 on the National Geographic Channel with Sean trying to launch a $250 million communications satellite from the French Guiana jungle. Without a new satellite many of us could be without cell phone or internet service. Scary, I know. And as Sean puts it on the chances of success, “Either this rocket is going to launch … or it’s going to be one hell of a show.” Check out the bottom of the post for a clip of the episode.Also this season Sean will be looking to fix an Alaskan Pipe Line that could cause a oil spill (6/11), a Giant Wind Turbine that will produce years of clean energy (6/18), a 50-Ton Rudder to move a 100,000-pound beast under 60 feet of water (6/25), move a 300-ton Mississippi River Barge that crashed a levee (7/2). And at a later date look for episodes where Sean tries to position a fully functioning commercial solar energy field; fix a broken dam holding back nearly 2 million pounds of water near Portland, Ore.; replace one of the most powerful magnets ever built in the “atomic racetrack,” a 17-mile-long nuclear research tunnel in Geneva, Switzerland; and the previously mentioned episode with the five lane bridge.
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