Episode
How Do They Do It?: Nori, Beer Bottles, Shark Deterrents
Overview
A look at how sea weed for sushi is farmed, how a beer bottle is made that lasts for fifteen years and how they keep swimmers and surfers off a sharks menu.
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 11
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 2014-05-29
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Nori, Beer Bottles, Shark Deterrents is Episode 3 in Season 11 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2014-05-29. The runtime is 22 min.
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