Mighty Ships - Season 9 - Eps 3: USNS Comfort
Almost three football fields long, the USNS Comfort is second in size only to U.S. Navy aircraft carriers. She is the largest hospital ship on the planet, with up to 1,200 crew, 12 operating rooms, 1,000 beds, and an impressive array of medical equipment. MIGHTY SHIPS joins the USNS Comfort midway through “Operation Continuing Promise” – a six-month mission to provide humanitarian aid to 11 countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. Sailing to the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica, Comfort’s crew sets out to aid 10,000 patients in just nine days.
About Mighty Ships
Title: Mighty Ships
First Air Date: 2008-08-05
Last Air Date: 2018-01-14
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.5/10 (from 4 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 11
Total Episodes: 61
Network: Discovery
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Mighty Ships is a documentary television program produced by Exploration Production Inc. in Canada. It is aired on Discovery Channel Canada and also broadcast around the world. The series follows various types of vessels on a journey, showing viewers how the ship and its crew operates. This series was started after the success of a one off special on the Discovery Channel entitled Mighty Ships: Queen Mary 2.
