Demolishing An Oil Tanker Wreck On A UNESCO Coastline

'The Salvagemasters', Season 1, Episode 3: Witness one of the Mediterranean's most dramatic rescues as an Italian oil tanker crashes into the cliffs of Sicily during a massive storm. Nineteen crew members are trapped, forcing Coast Guard helicopter pilots to perform a perilous, sea-to-air evacuation. Then, follow the Dutch and Italian salvage masters who spent four months using extreme engineering to cut up the 700-ton wreck and remove it from the historic coastline before it caused an environmental catastrophe.

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