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On July 25, 2000 a Concorde supersonic jet operating as Air France Flight 4590 takes off from Charles de Gaulle Airport. A piece of metal from another aircraft left on the runway impales the Concorde's tyre, which explodes. Debris is flung into the wing, causing a fire and the Concorde's crash into a hotel in Gonesse, killing the 100 passengers and nine crew members on board, as well as four others in the hotel.
Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Seconds from Disaster in this episode Crash of the Concorde.

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This is a true story, Dramatizations are derived from eyewitness testimony and second-hand accounts.

At the Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, coal miners accidentally dug into the poorly documented Saxman Mine, causing 500 million tonnes of underground water to flood the Quecreek

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Coal Mine Disaster.

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This is a true story, Dramatizations are derived from eyewitness testimony and second-hand accounts.

Priz AS-28, a miniature submarine of the Russian Navy, becomes entangled in sunken fishing nets at a depth of 190 m in Berezovaya Bay off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The submarine was freed with the aid of a British remotely operated vehicle.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Running Out of Air.

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The Ring of Fire is an area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km (25,000 mi) horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements.It has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circum-Pacific seismic belt.
About 90% of the world's earthquakes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire. The next most seismic region (5--6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world's largest earthquakes) is the Alpide belt, which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.
The Ring of Fire is a direct result of plate tectonics and the movement and collisions of lithospheric plates. The eastern section of the ring is the result of the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate being subducted beneath the westward moving South American Plate. The Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, in Central America. A portion of the Pacific Plate along with the small Juan de Fuca Plate are being subducted beneath the North American Plate. Along the northern portion, the northwestward-moving Pacific plate is being subducted beneath the Aleutian Islands arc. Farther west, the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka Peninsula arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex, with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand; this portion excludes Australia, since it lies in the center of its tectonic plate. Indonesia lies between the Ring of Fire along the northeastern islands adjacent to and including New Guinea and the Alpide belt along the south and west from Sumatra, Java, Bali, Flores, and Timor. The famous and very active San Andreas Fault zone of California is a transform fault which offsets a portion of the East Pacific Rise under southwestern United States and Mexico. The motion of the fault generates numerous small earthquakes, at multiple times a day, most of which are too small to be felt. The active Queen Charlotte Fault on the west coast of the Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada, has generated three large earthquakes during the 20th century: a magnitude 7 event in 1929; a magnitude 8.1 in 1949 (Canada's largest recorded earthquake); and a magnitude 7.4 in 1970.
- en.wikipedia.org

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of How The Earth Was Made in this episode The Ring of Fire.

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This is a true story, Dramatizations are derived from eyewitness testimony and second-hand accounts.

Members of United States Navy SEALs are ambushed by Al-Qaeda forces. During the initial ambush and subsequent battle, three Chinook helicopters were lost before the SEALs and reinforcements consisting of units of the 75th Ranger Regiment brought the engagement to a conclusion.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Al-Qaeda Ambush.

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Seven climbers trying to scale the slopes of Mount Hood fall into a crevasse resulting in the deaths of three climbers. Then the rescue operation goes wrong, causing the crash of a rescue helicopter.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Situation Critical in this episode Nightmare on Mt. Hood.

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The last survivor of a fatal avalanche is helicoptered of k2 one other climbing world's most demanding mountains. Disaster-hit during the descent to the steep gully known as the bottleneck. Eleven people are dead others stranded on the second highest peak in the world. It's that deadliest day in this mountains history.

In June 2008 an international team of Mountaineers set off on a journey to summit K2 armed with video cameras recorded their attempt to conquer the unforgiving mountain. The journey to K2 stretches from Skardu airport in Pakistan onto the Karakoram highway the highest international paved road in the world. After many hours by jeep the road ends in the town of vesco
from there a long walk through deep alleys, narrow paths, and rocky hillsides.
After eight days have treacherous terrain at the far northern end of Pakistan close to the Chinese border surrounded by some of the highest peaks in the world, lies K2.

There are four main camps on the way to the k2 summit. Lower oxygen levels on the mountain mean every climber must stop on their way up to acclimatize to the different altitudes.
The final push to the summit usually starts from camp four weeding through a technically difficult a notorious passage known as a bottleneck. From there a roughly 1,000 foot climb leads to the summit.

Here are some of the interview from this trip.
"The Sun was shining it was brilliant still on the summit but what happened on the way back I still can believe in"

"Leaving a battleground, you're losing a war"

"We were all withering away, we were our slowly dying"
"You couldn't ask for a better day in a million years and only and K2 is a perfect Sunday become a deadly day"

"When I saw K2 for the first time I don't think I've ever been so scared and happy at the same time looking at a mountain. It's just creepy feeling between wanting something and trying to run away from something"


Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of National Geographic in this episode Fatal Altitude Tragedy on K2.

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This perilous journey Marsh Mokhtari travelled to India's Himalayan mountains to take on the world's highest drivable roads Khardung La. Only Marsh Mokhtari and his SUV and is now a cliffside road. This path is only inches to spare as well as ice snow and avalanches and then he arrived in a war zone. Here this is fragile as the are is thin.

Indian is a home to more than billion people and one of the world and one of the world's fastest-growing economies. But in the Shorthernmost sate called Jammu and Kashmire. These towering mountains keep this region largely isolated from the rest of the country.

Here the mountain roads are treacherous climbing as many as 10 people each year. The twisted wreckage a van that carried five german tourists to their death in 1990 reminds him of the hazards of face.

Here with Watch Documentaries 360 in the series of Perilous Journeys in this episode Crossing The Himalaya .

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A tale of the pandora's box unleashed with the discovery of the largest emerald in the world. Emeralds, a glittering glamour accessories but there's an ugly facet to the lucrative gem trade. Prospectors dream about nothing but the ultimate emerald. But one special stone has exposed the worst facets of human nature. It's a cartoon-like caper of alleged crimes, corruption and incompetence.

This is the legend surrounding a giant gemstone that promise untold riches only to be a curst to many captivated by its ill-fated allure.

This is another interesting documentary by National Geographic. Let find out the mystery of the millions worth gemstone that was discovered at a Brazilian mine in Bahia, the eastern state of Brazil here with Watch Documentaries 360.

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Country: Switzerland
Project: Gotthard Base Tunnel

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In Switzerland, engineers have embarked on one of the boldest most extreme engineering project in history, a tunnel on the scale of so gigantic. No one has dare to attempt anything like it before. Over 35 miles long, the longest tunnel in the world will cut through the heart of the Swiss Alps. The risky plan to redirect the crush of Europe's traffic in cargo not over the Alps but under them.  To do this miners have to punch their way through some of the hardest rock on earth. It will take the largest drilling machines on this plan. Each more than 3 stories high and longer than 4 football fields, drilling 24 hours a day for 6 years to get the job done.

The project is incredibly dangerous and of breaches expensive. The price is 7 billion dollars. Can it be done? or unforeseen problem bankrupt the project before it's finished? Will engineers be able to avoid the horrible fate of so many other time, fire, disaster and death?

The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is a railway tunnel in the heart of the Swiss Alps expected to open in 2016. With a route length of 57 km (35.4 mi) and a total of 151.84 km (94.3 mi) of tunnels, shafts and passages, it is the world's longest rail tunnel, surpassing the Seikan Tunnel in Japan.
Its main purpose is to increase total transport capacity across the Alps, especially for freight, notably between Germany and Italy, and more particularly to shift freight volumes from road to rail to reduce environmental damage caused by ever-increasing numbers of heavy lorries. A secondary benefit will be to cut the journey time for passenger trains from Zürich to Milan by about an hour and from Zürich to Lugano to 1-hour 40 minutes.

The project consists of two single-track tunnels. It is part of the AlpTransit project, also known as the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA), which includes the Lötschberg Base Tunnel between the cantons of Bern and Valais and the under construction Ceneri Base Tunnel (scheduled to open late 2019) to the south. It bypasses the Gotthardbahn, a winding mountain route opened in 1882 across the Saint-Gotthard Massif, which is now operating at capacity, and establishes a direct route usable by high-speed rail and heavy freight trains.

The total cost of the project is 9.8 billion Swiss francs, or US$10.3 billion. When completed, the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be one of the longest tunnel construction projects in the world: 20 years of constant construction and preparation.

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Rio–Antirrio bridge has the longest span of any cable-stayed-bride in the world it faces challenges that would destroy than ordinary bride. The water is too deep, the seabed too soft and and earthquake fault line cuts through the middle. How to design a bride to overcome nature's worst? What does it take to build one of the world's mega-bridges?

The gulf of Corinth in Greece is deep, wide and long with great attributes for marine traffic, but a nightmare for those traveling by land. The Gulf of Corinth virtually chops Greece in two. The only land route between Southern Greece and the West Europe is 240 kilometers east. Bridging the gulf has been a goal for more than a century but has never been possible until now. This is the bridge that is the first ever to cross the Gulf of Corinth.

It clears the water by more than 50 meters leaving plenty of room for even the biggest ships. The design of the bridges looks deceptively simple, 368 sleep cables, 4 conical towers and a yellow ribbon of roadway that glow at night. But the truly amazing thing about this bridge is how it came to be build here in the first place. Challenges of building bridge here was so mind blogging but they stumble engineers for decades. The biggest challenge was earthquake. Bridges has been built across the earthquake zone before but this bridge has to be built cross and active fault line. On top of that the water is extremely deep, 60 meters deep. No other bridge has been build with foundation to that dept before. It would take a daring plan to overcome this hurdle.

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Mustafa317/report-5634525

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The Ocean. It covers 70% of the Earth's surface and holds the very key to a life within its silent shadowy depths. Prepare to dive the depths of ocean to experience its awesome beauty and extraordinary power.

It was one home to all life on earth. The ocean still hold around 4 in 5 of all living things. Much of it's vast biomass lived and deaths that have been beyond the reach of human. Until now, deep sea technology has revealed a world of wonder. A world where exotic creatures thrive in extreme conditions where life should not exists. The pioneering exploration of this new frontier has also revealed a fragile vulnerable world.

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10,000 years ago, we shared the planet with mammoths.

Now scientist think they have the power to bring one back to life.
With unprecedented access to remote mammoth graveyards in Siberia.
All they need is one frozen, microscopic cell.

The quest to clone living breathing mammoth is one of the most expensive ambitious and ostentatious scientific undertaking ever. It starts in the heart of Siberia. Mammoths used to roam here in their hundreds of thousands making that a guide to crater one of the biggest Mammoths graveyard on the planet.

Let's watch this documentary to see how they did to bring back the Mammoth from the dead in this documentary - Mammoth Back From the Dead.

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Ant is a tiny insect that have lived on earth more than millions years. They can be found everywhere from tropical countries through the countries in the polar zone. Currently, there are millions and millions of ants and also more than 10,000 species of them. Each species has special characteristic and behaviour of their own. But the common thing all species have is that they are social animal.

Ants can live in a very big nest and they are very discipline and responsible. In one nest millions of ants could be found together and they have never quarrel. This amazing thing interested scientist a lot and they began to study life and behaviour of all these ants to find out how they can live peacefully in a very large kingdom and how they can organise such the structure in their colony. This is very amazing and very interesting, let find out what National geographic has with the ants documentary Wild City Of Ants. 

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony

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The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of the capabilities of GIS to model the results of an extremely unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning? ArcGIS was used to perform complex raster analysis and volumetric computations and generate maps that visualize these results.

Have you ever questioned yourself what would happen if the earth stops spinning? This document has the answer for your wether you have or your have not.

If the the earth really stop spinning we will face a totally brand new world. A world that the earth doesn't spin. Where every night is 6 months long and everyday is 6 months too and the planet is scorched by relentlessness. It's a word where cities have been swallowed by the sea and others have been all but deserted. The air's too thin to breath. It's a word where we face a desperate future, struggling to survive in a alien landscape. This is the story of what could happen if the planets suddenly stopped spinning and how on earth changing one thing, changes everything.

More information:
- http://www.cnet.com/news/what-would-happen-to-you-if-the-earth-stopped-spinning/

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The Taj Mahal, symbol of India architecture of jewels a monuments to a grand passion. the Taj Mahal was built in the 17th century by Shah Jahan king of the world ruler of india's. This great warrior king gave the world architectural masterpiece of a kind that has never seen before. This is how it came to be made. It is also the legend of this queen the beautiful Mumtaz Mahal. And then their love is to perfect to survive. The chosen of of the palace will have her final resting place in the world's most beautiful buildings.

With the magnificent chambers at the Taj Mahal hides secret and Shah Jahan will pay a terrible price to complete his life's work as a turning point in Indian's history.

Today, the Taj Mahal is one of the world's greatest tourist attractions. Every year more than 3 million people come to see humanities loveliest building with their own eyes. But for the Indian Nation, the Taj Mahal is much more than an architectural masterpiece.
Getting interested, then let jump into the video and enjoy the show with us and National Geographic on Document 360 degrees The Secrets Of The Taj Mahal

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