In beautiful Sicily, a family of Italian salvagemasters sections and removes a tanker threatening a natural marine park near the UNESCO world heritage site of Syracuse.
In the frozen north, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, which sank in the year 2000 with 118 sailors aboard, is miraculously lifted from the bottom of the Barents Sea by a team of Dutch and Russian salvage masters and engineers.
With ever larger vessels passing through the North Sea's channels, the government of The Netherlands orders Dutch salvagemasters to clean out of the dozens of shipwrecks that obstruct these windy and treacherous sea routes.