Mighty Machines

Trading pine trees for palm fronds, we rendezvous with a Hawaii-based C-17 and her flight crew. We're there as they head out over the ocean to pick up Patriot missile batteries from a tiny mid-Pacific airstrip at Kwajalein Atoll, for delivery to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It's a gruelling, round-the-clock, real-world mission as the C-17 lives up to its name of "Globemaster," deliveri

The Hawk has to sink before she swims in order to transport one of the world's largest oil drilling rigs halfway around the world.

Algoma Equinox is built to haul more cargo faster, using less fuel than other Lakers. Tonight, her crew scrambles to transport grain from one end of the world's largest inland waterway to the other.