MegaBuilders

Glen Aitken and his team from Cambridge, Ontario will use a 288-wheel extreme machine, called the Transporter to lift a massive bridge span off the ocean barge that carried it to New York from Alabama where it was built.

The challenges of the new San Francisco Bay Bridge are huge: How to build a strong foundation when there's no bedrock - only a sea of mud that quivers like jello in an earthquake. How to construct a bridge that will bend but won't break. And how to get it all finished before the next quake hits.

This documentary follows a pair of marine engineers as they stage manage a fleet of monster dredger ships and a 24-hour convoy of mega-trucks moving 14 million tons of rocks for the world's longest breakwater to protect the emerging island from the ravages of the sea.

No one knows what The World's Largest Machine will discover, but scientists around the world hope it might answer the big question: How was the universe created?