Off Limits: Hawaii

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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Buried Past of Coco Palms

Don learns about the brutal history buried at the Coco Palms ...

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Walking Through a Sugar Tunnel

Don visits a Hawaiian plantation and learns about sugar tunnels.

01:57

Hawaii's Sugar Industry

Don explores a former sugar plantation in Hawaii.

02:31

Exploring the Coconut Grove

Don explores the abandoned remains of Coco Palms Resort....

01:44

Volcano Highway

Don visits a highway tunnel that goes through a volcano.

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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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