Episode
How Do They Do It?: Maintain The World's Largest Aquarium, Make Sapphire, Manufacture Bentleys
Overview
How do they look after sharks at the world's biggest aquarium? How do they grow precious stones? And what does it take to build a luxury Bentley?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 2009-10-22
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Maintain The World's Largest Aquarium, Make Sapphire, Manufacture Bentleys is Episode 16 in Season 6 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2009-10-22. The runtime is 22 min.
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