Mighty Ships - Episode Guide

The Emma Maersk is the world's largest ship, capable of carrying cargo in more than 12,000 containers.

The world's largest custom-built livestock carrier, the Becrux can carry nearly 20,000 head of cattle or 60,000 sheep.

The newest, and largest, vehicle carrier has 13 decks the size of 11 football fields.

Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Henry Larsen specializes in search and rescue missions.

The largest ship to sail the Great Lakes, the Paul R. Tregurtha is designed to carry as much cargo as possible.

The Tyco Resolute is needed for burying high-tech fiber optic cables across oceans, using an immense underwater plow.

The MV Resolution, a self-elevating support system ship, is designed to pound gigantic wind turbines into the bottom of the sea.

See how the world's biggest mining ship hunts for diamonds and then processes them amid tight security.

The Akamalik is the star of Royal Greenland's shrimp trawling fleet and and plays a critical role in the county's economy.

The world's largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Nimitz has a crew of more than 3,000 as well as an air wing with more than 2,000 personnel.

A new breed of warship, the HDMS Absalon patrols the Gulf of Aden and the world's most dangerous shipping routes.

The Jumbo Fairplayer represents the biggest and strongest mega ships built to transport super-sized equipment.

A profile of the Queen Mary II, the most expensive ocean liner to set sail.

Marine research vessel G.O. Sars searches for new life forms north of the Arctic Circle.

Africa Mercy, the largest non-governmental hospital ship, delivers medical care to regions with polluted water or no power.

The Cristobal Colon is to dredge sand from the sea floor for a super port in Cuxhaven, Germany.

The USS Kentucky, an Ohio-class ballistic nuclear-powered submarine, is virtually undetectable.

The maiden voyage of the Oasis of the Seas, the largest, most revolutionary cruise ship in the world.

Solitaire lays nearly 2,000 miles of oil and gas on the ocean floor per year.

The ships mission to lift, transfer and deliver two of the largest autoclaves ever built to a gold mine in the Dominican Republic.

The USNS Robert E. Peary is a T-AKE 5 supply ship deployed in the Gulf of Aden.

Saturation dive support ship DSV Skandi Arctic is the biggest and newest in the world, serving as a mother ship for aquanauts.

The Stena Britannica is a combination of car carrier, passenger ferry, cargo transport and cruise ship, operating between England and Holland.

Join the USCOG Bertholf on patrol off the coast of Colombia, looking for drugs, weapons and other illegal activities.

The crew of the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen, a research icebreaker battling the Arctic extremes, seeks to understand how global warming will change Arctic life.

The Norwegian Epic is a billion-dollar showboat with more than 20 bars and restaurants and pool decks that transform into nightclubs.

The North Star is a roll-on/roll-off ship that delivers goods from Seattle to Anchorage within 72 hours.

Le Boreal is built to take on the demanding waters of the Southern Ocean.

The FPSO Maersk Peregrino is the world's biggest oil production ship and is permanently hooked up at the Peregrino oil field.

Umiak I is the world's most powerful ice-breaking carrier, hauling mining equipment from Quebec City to Labrador and returning with nickel concentrate.

The U.S. Navy's newest ship, a guided missile destroyer, goes through testing with its crew in preparation for deployment.

The Stornes has been built specifically to deploy rocks through a "fallpipe" for structures installed under the ocean.

The recovery ship USNS Grasp has recovered downed aircraft, towed sunken vessels and cleared harbour debris.

Follow along as the world's top cruise ship, the Crystal Serenity visits Sydney harbour, the port of Melbourne, Bali, a large-scale furniture load in Semarang, Indonesia and the port of Singapore.

The USS New York is a floating tribute to those who died Sept. 11, 2001, with 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the wreckage of the Twin Towers forming her bow stem.

The Northern Eagle is capable of catching and packaging fish, bringing 1,500 tons of frozen, packaged product back to port.

The newly-built Neptune is designed to install wind turbines and Belgium's first offshore wind farm is her first assignment.

Follow the building of the Norwegian Breakaway at Germany's Meyer-Werft shipyard; it is the largest ship they've ever built and they have only 18 months to finish it.

The Norwegian Breakaway cruise ship sets sail on her first voyage, and her captain faces a tough decision when a North Atlantic tempest forms.

The Wind Surf, a sleek, five-masted luxury sailing yacht, is large enough to pamper and yet small enough to tuck into tiny harbours and hidden coves.

The Avataq carries everything from food and furniture to mining equipment and explosives to Quebec's inaccessible northern regions.

Ibn Battuta is capable of breaking up the hardest subsea soil as it deepens the Son Duong Port in Vietnam's poorest province.

Stemat Spirit is built to work on land, approaching shore during high tide, settling on the sand as the tide recedes and sailing out to sea, laying cable as she goes, when the tide returns.

A best-of edition looks back at memorable vessels from the series.

The world's most innovative cruise ship sails from New York to the Caribbean on her maiden voyage, facing off against technical glitches and challenging weather.

Semi-submersible vessel Hawk sinks under the waterline to lift and transport the world's largest oil drilling rig halfway around the world.

A brand-new heavy-lift vessel encounters engine breakdowns and heavy ice while transporting and assembling a crane-and-conveyor system from China to Eastern Canada.

The Algoma Equinox battles fierce ice, howling winds and challenging waters to transport grain and iron ore.

The Royal Danish Navy's new frigate must prove she can fight even when wounded.

The crew of the world's largest jack-up drilling rig is faces high stakes and tough decisions amid the North Sea's biggest storm.

One of the worlds largest subsea construction vessels set out to build a massive natural gas compression station, 300 metres underwater.

The worlds largest roll-on/roll-off vessel races against the clock to load and transport luxury cars, SUVs and construction equipment across the Atlantic Ocean.

This U.S. Navy hospital ship travels from Colombia through the Panama Canal on a mission of mercy to the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica.

Alaska's biggest long-line fishing ships battles high waves and hurricane-force winds to bring home a massive catch of cod.

One of the world's most advanced drill ships builds an oil well more than a mile below the Gulf of Mexico.

The world's most adventurous cruise ship battles ice-choked fjords of Greenland to visit spectacular wildlife and icebergs.

Norrona ferries passengers, vehicles and million-dollar cargo to Iceland and the Faeroe Islands on one of the longest, toughest ferry routes in the world.

One of the world's largest container ships races from port-to-port in China, Malaysia and Germany – transporting almost 20,000 crates of cargo. Put all those containers end-to-end, and the lineup would stretch for more than 100 kilometres!

MSC's biggest cruise ship navigates tight Mediterranean harbours, offering a brand new water park, classic excursions and Cirque du Soleil at Sea.

Powership Yasin Bey is built to sail anywhere and deliver badly-needed electricity. The ship's first-ever voyage starts with Yasin Bey limping back to the shipyard - tilting to the side so much that it feels as if the ship will keel over.

Off the coast of Malaysia, Sapura 3500 lays a pipeline and builds an offshore gas platform in just three weeks.

With specialized cranes and underwater robots, Edda Freya repairs and replaces critical pipelines running to an oil and gas platform.