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The series begins with a circular tour of the Irish Sea to visit every country of the British Isles. The hub for this wheel around the heart of the British Isles is the Isle of Man, where Neil Oliv...er explores why this small island is home to some big inventions such as the Great Laxey Water Wheel, the world's largest, as well as being the birth place of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. On the edge of the Irish Sea at Morecambe Bay, Alice Roberts gets trapped in quicksand to discover what makes it so sticky and so deadly. Alice learns survival tips and sees how the emergency services use specialised gear to rescue strugglers stuck in the sand. In Liverpool Mark Horton unearths the 150-year-old remains of the ship that broke Brunel's heart. The ill-fated Great Eastern was the famous engineer's final masterpiece and the largest passenger liner ever built, until Titanic took her record. In Northern Ireland, Miranda Krestovnikoff sees how seals cope with the struggle to find food as they bring up their pups in the beautiful inland sea of Strangford Lough. Ulsterman Dick Strawbridge uncovers the story of inventor Harry Ferguson, the first man to fly in Ireland, who went on to revolutionise farming worldwide with his ground-breaking tractor, the Little Fergie. Nick Crane is sea cliff climbing on the remarkable rocks of Anglesey, where he explores why this corner of North Wales is the site of some of Britain's biggest earthquakes
The series begins with a circular tour of the Irish Sea to visit every country of the British Isles. The hub for this wheel around the heart of the British Isles is the Isle of Man, where Neil Oliv...er explores why this small island is home to some big inventions such as the Great Laxey Water Wheel, the world's largest, as well as being the birth place of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. On the edge of the Irish Sea at Morecambe Bay, Alice Roberts gets trapped in quicksand to discover what makes it so sticky and so deadly. Alice learns survival tips and sees how the emergency services use specialised gear to rescue strugglers stuck in the sand. In Liverpool Mark Horton unearths the 150-year-old remains of the ship that broke Brunel's heart. The ill-fated Great Eastern was the famous engineer's final masterpiece and the largest passenger liner ever built, until Titanic took her record. In Northern Ireland, Miranda Krestovnikoff sees how seals cope with the struggle to find food as they bring up their pups in the beautiful inland sea of Strangford Lough. Ulsterman Dick Strawbridge uncovers the story of inventor Harry Ferguson, the first man to fly in Ireland, who went on to revolutionise farming worldwide with his ground-breaking tractor, the Little Fergie. Nick Crane is sea cliff climbing on the remarkable rocks of Anglesey, where he explores why this corner of North Wales is the site of some of Britain's biggest earthquakes
| Series: | Coast; Series 5 |
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| Episode | 1 |
| First transmission date: | 25-07-2010 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC2 |
| Published: | 2010 |
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| Duration: | 00:59:09 |
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| Producer: | Steve Evanson |
| Contributors: | Nicholas Crane; Mark Horton; Miranda Krestovnikoff; Neil Oliver; Alice Roberts; Dick Strawbridge |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/coast/ |
| Keyword(s): | Common seal.; Great Laxey water wheel.; Half-net fishing.; RNLI. |
| Subject terms: | Coast changes; Coastal ecology; Coasts--British Isles; Great Eastern (Steamship); Harbour seal; Lady Isabella (Isle of Man); Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (Great Britain); Seashore ecology; Snaefell Mountain Railway; Ferguson, Harry 1884-1960; Anglesey (Wales); --Irish Sea; --Isle of Man; --Morecambe Bay (England); --Strangford Lough (Northern Ireland) |
| Production number: | FKAC427A |
| Videofinder number: | 81654 |
| Available to public: | no |
