What Went Wrong: Countdown To Catastrophe
September. 09,2019Seasons & Episode
The story of Europe's deadliest modern-day maritime disaster. When the MS Estonia sunk in rough weather on Wednesday, 28 September 1994, it took 852 people with it to the bottom of the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest peacetime sinking of a European ship, after the Titanic, in 1912.
One of the most serious accidents to happen in the Alps in decades, the Marmolada serac collapse tells the story of the fateful day 11 people were killed when a section of glacier collapsed onto a hiking trail. A cautionary global warming tale about the disappearance of Europe’s glaciers and the changing safety concerns for traversing them.
A two season series with 12 episodes that tell the in-depth story of high-profile catastrophic events while explaining the engineering failures that reveal what went wrong.