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National Geographic: Inside (2006)

Season 4 • Episode 5 • Delta Divers: Diver Down

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National Geographic: Inside Season 4, Episode 5: Delta Divers: Diver Down

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The Gulf of Mexico is home to thousands of gas and oil platforms, in addition to some of the planet's most severe storms. So who do you call when a well or platform stops producing, or is toppled by a massive storm? Meet the Delta Divers, a team of highly skilled underwater adventurers who descend where few dare to go to - 300 feet below the water's surface. We'll join them on the dive barge "Southern Hercules" as they head out to repair an aging subsea oil well. Watch National Geographic: Inside Season 4, Episode 5 Delta Divers: Diver Down in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of National Geographic: Inside Season 4, Episode 5 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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15 episodes
1

Inside Cocaine Submarines

Colombian drug traffickers are using a new secret weapon to smuggle cocaine north: drug submarines. Up to 100 feet long and nearly impossible to detect , they are capable of distributing several tons of coke in just one shipment. Dozens of subs are thought to be in operation between the coasts of Colombia and Mexico, and law enforcement estimates that another 70 will be built in the next year alone.

60 min
2

Biker Chicks: Leather and Lace

Like any bride-to-be Jennifer Chaffin worries about the flowers, the dress, the cake. But Chaffin also has fears that other brides do not share: whether the Feds will bust the wedding or the guests will start a knife fight. Chaffin is a hardcore biker and head of the Leather and Lace Motorcycle Club; and window of a murdered Warlock. Now she's marrying another outlaw biker, a member of the notorious Mongols. For the first time cameras enter an outlaw world where wives and girlfriends describe themselves as male 'property'; where men openly display their disregard and disrespect for them; and where weddings are blessed by an 80-strong motorcycle guard of honor.

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3

Inside Polygamy: Life in Bountiful

It's a real-life "Big Love." Winston Blackmore is the family patriarch and leader of a fundamentalist Mormon polygamist community in Bountiful, British Columbia, that includes his 20-some wives and more than 100 children. Winston, like all who practice "the principle," believes that plural marriage and siring dozens of children will help guarantee his entrance into the highest of Heavens.

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4

Detroit Gang Squad

Street gangs armed with automatic weapons threaten the lives of teens in Detroit. NGC joins the elite police unit of 70 men and women tasked with turning the tide in the war against gangs. See the gang squad launch one of their largest investigations to date as they work to bring the shooters to justice. Getting the intel takes unconventional methods and a special kind of cop. With kids caught in the crossfire that blasts away in broad daylight, the stakes couldn't be higher.

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5

Delta Divers: Diver Down

The Gulf of Mexico is home to thousands of gas and oil platforms, in addition to some of the planet's most severe storms. So who do you call when a well or platform stops producing, or is toppled by a massive storm? Meet the Delta Divers, a team of highly skilled underwater adventurers who descend where few dare to go to - 300 feet below the water's surface. We'll join them on the dive barge "Southern Hercules" as they head out to repair an aging subsea oil well.

60 min
6

Delta Divers: Racing the Storm

The divers aboard the "Southern Hercules" barge are 120 miles out to sea to disassemble and plug an aging subsea oil well. After detonating an explosive charge to cut the well pipes below the seafloor, they find that mysterious and potentially extremely dangerous bubbles are flowing from the well. Aboard the "Arapaho" heavy lift barge, the dive team faces a tight schedule and the constant threat of heavy weather as they take apart a massive platform by burning through steel underwater.

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7

Interrogating Saddam

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8

Outlaw Bikers: Angels Go Global

Since Sonny Barger took over the unofficial leadership of The Hells Angels, expansion has been the number one priority. Barger wants to unite all outlaw motorcycle gangs around the world under one banner: The Hells Angels. They are to be a global crime machine. In the 1990s Bargers global ambition leads to the Great Nordic Biker War: a vicious battle between The Hells Angels and the Bandidos for control of the Scandinavian drug trade. For several years these two gangs are locked in a fight to the death. Anti-tank missiles, grenades and rocket-launchers are some of the weapons that are used to rip up the streets of Copenhagen, Oslo and Helsinki. In their desperate search for a solution local authorities turn to Biker Expert JP Levesque of Quebec. But, will it be enough to stop the Bikers before they become all-powerful?

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9

Bloods and Crips: L.A. Gangs

NGC takes viewers to the streets of South Central Los Angeles as it charts the rise of two of the most notorious gangs in America: the Bloods and the Crips. Follow along as an emerging cocaine trade fuels staggering levels of bloodshed and the streets of Los Angeles begin to resemble a war zone. Exclusive interviews include Bloods founder T Rodgers; original Crip Angelo "Barefoot Pookie" White; former LAPD chief Darryl Gates; and LAPD gang unit veteran Tony Moreno.

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The Second Coming

Meet three men who believe the Second Coming has already occurred and that they walk the Earth as the Messiah. Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ in the Philippines, claims to have built a worldwide following of six million. Sergei Torop, a former Russian traffic policeman, is believed by thousands to be the literal reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth. Then, David Shayler, a former British MI5 agent and whistle-blower, claims to be the Jesus soul incarnated as man.

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11

Lethal Action

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12

Super Truck Rally

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Afghan Marine Base

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Ice Vegas

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