Hawaii
Don investigates Hawaii's bloody rituals, secret bunkers and dark underground worlds. He'll explore a hi-tech tunnel bored into a volcano and the rusting remains and twisting waterways that powered its first cash crop: sugar.
Original Airdate | Tuesday, October 25, 2011
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Walking Through a Sugar Tunnel
Don visits a Hawaiian plantation and learns about sugar tunnels.
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Ford Island
The bulk of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was anchored near the coast of Ford Island on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Don visits a hospital and bunker on Ford Island to see how the lives of dozens of men and women were saved in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Koloa Sugar Mill
Don crawls through the rusting remains of this sugar mill on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
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Coco Palms Resort
On the island of Kauai, Don is invited to take a look inside the currently closed tropical getaway that practically invented the Hawaiian tourist experience.
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Tetsuo Harano Tunnels
On the island of Oahu, Don uncovers how engineers were able to tunnel through the western face of a dormant volcano in order to construct a state-of-the-art highway tunnel system containing miles of service tunnels and a massive ventilation system.
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Spouting Horn
Located on the shore of Kauai, this large vertical splash and eerie hissing noise is produced when the pounding surf comes in contact with a lava tube. Ancient Hawaiians believed it was the angry roar of a lizard goddess held captive by a fisherman.
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Waita Reservoir
Don visits the largest reservoir in Kauai as he traces the history of sugar production and irrigation on this Hawaiian island.
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