The BEST episodes of Seconds From Disaster season 5
Every episode of Seconds From Disaster season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Seconds From Disaster season 5!
Accounts of famous technological disasters and their subsequent investigations.
#1 - Deepwater Horizon
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/15/2012
A look at the series of decisions and mistakes that led to the world's largest oil spill disaster, and that 11 workers on the rig died.
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#2 - Waco Cult
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2012
After a 51-day siege at the ranch of an armed religious cult, the FBI tries to force people out with tear gas, but a fire breaks out and almost 80 people die.
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#3 - Massacre in Mumbai
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/22/2012
On 26 November 2008, terrorists attacked two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel), a Jewish educational center, a café and a train station in Mumbai, killing 166 people.
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#4 - Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/11/2012
On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami off Japan’s coast caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.
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#5 - Mountain Tsunami
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/25/2012
In 1963 a landslide from Monte Toc into the reservoir of the Europe's highest dam caused a giant flood wave that destroyed the village of Longarone and other villages, claiming over 2,000 lives.
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#6 - Bismarck
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2012
Maritime Historian Andrew Lambert looks at the Royal Navy's battle with the German battleship Bismarck.
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