01x13 - Italy/Hawaii

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♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ We're going on a visit ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Come on,
let's go with him ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ What's that, you ask?
What is it? ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Well, no one
wants to miss it ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ We're going on a visit ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

♪ Have fun,
let's go with him ♪

♪ New places,
new faces ♪

♪ Inspector Gadget's
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♪ Inspector Gadget's
field trip ♪

Inspector Gadget
here in Hawaii.

The chief told me

this volcano crater
would be a good place

to start my latest
top-secret assignment:

to explore the mystery
and expl*sive history

of the islands of Hawaii.

Looks like we'd
better get a move on

before this volcano
makes us history.

Go, go, Gadget field trip.

Hawaii joined america
in 1959,

making it the 50th
of the 50 united states.

Made it by that much.

Hawaii is located
near the middle

of the north pacific ocean,

nearly 2,500 miles southwest
of the u.s. mainland.

It's a long way back,

especially if you're
swimming the backstroke.

Would you believe
that 35 million years ago,

Hawaii was just a bunch
of melted rock

the surface of the sea?

Over the years, the
islands formed one at a time

as layers of volcanic lava
cooled on top of each other

and rose above the sea.

Here at the Hawaii
volcanoes national park

on the big island
of Hawaii,

you can visit

that are still classified
as active:

Kilauea and mauna loa.

Mauna loa is
the world's largest volcano,

but Kilauea is
the world's most active.

Wowsers!

When it's active,
lava bursts 2 to 3 miles up

from under
the earth's surface,

reaching temperatures of
over 2,000 degrees fahrenheit.

You wouldn't want to swim
in this lava lake.

This 400-foot deep caldera
was created

when this volcano collapsed
onto itself several times.

A caldera is a name
for a volcano crater

that is more
than a mile across.

The Kilauea caldera spans
nearly 2 miles by 3 miles.

After a long day
hiking the volcanoes,

you may want to visit

one of these relaxing
outdoor saunas.

Actually, these are
called steam vents.

They're formed
when rainwater

sinks into the earth,

gets heated
by the hot rocks below,

and rises back up as steam.

Sounds interesting,

but where's the whirlpool?

Steam isn't the only thing

that seeps out
of the volcanoes.

These sulphur banks
were formed by sulphur gases

that escaped with the steam.

Some of the gases
at these banks

make beautiful
yellow crystal deposits.

One thing's for sure:

these gases
smell like rotten eggs.

Pe-uu!

This is one bank
where you don't want

to stand in line.

Wowsers!

Would you believe
that as recently as 1959

this was all a lush forest?

On november 14th
of that year,

a massive eruption
at Kilauea Iki

sent lava fountains sh**ting
up to 1,900 feet in the air.

The eruption
lasted several weeks,

and the lava
and hot cinders

turned trees into sticks
and grasses into ashes.

Wowsers!

I didn't know
the subway stopped here,

and just in time.

My Gadget legs
are k*lling me.

Wait!

This is no subway.

It's the thrilling
thurston lava tube

named after
the local conservationist

lorrin thurston.

Around 400 years ago,

the lava tube was formed
when a river of hot lava

cooled and crusted over
on the outside

while the flow kept moving
downwards on the inside.

And now an Inspector Gadget
field trip fact.

Did you know that Hawaii is
getting bigger as we speak?

With continuous eruptions
under the sea,

the loihi sea mount
off the big island of Hawaii

will one day
rise above sea level

to become the newest
Hawaiian island.

Welcome back
to our field trip

through Hawaii.

My bionic brain
and this guide book

tell me that the big island

isn't just home
to big volcanoes.

Hawaii is also home to
the world's biggest telescopes.

The keck telescope
and its twin keck ii

sit high atop
the dormant mauna kea volcano,

over 13,000 feet
above sea level.

The keck telescope
has a 400-inch mirror

made up of

that are joined together
in a honeycomb shape.

Each segment
is 3 inches thick

and weighs
nearly 1,000 pounds.

Wowsers!

That's nearly

than my Gadget telescope.

The mirror is so big

that it had to be put
together with a crane.

But the bigger the mirror,

the more light
the telescope can collect.

This means
the twin keck telescopes

can see farther into space,
bringing us more information

about nearby stars,
distant galaxies,

and the first billion years
of the universe.

Wowsers!
From up here,

I can focus on our next
field trip destination.

Go, go, Gadget copter!

Here on the island of maui

between the cities
of kahului and hana

is one of the world's
most famous drives.

Even though the road
to hana from kahului

is only 50 miles,

the drive can take
over 3 hours one way.

So grab a window seat

as we roll
through rain forests

and plow through
pineapple fields.

Go, go, Gadget mobile.

[horn honks]

well, here we are
in humble hana,

home to only
about 1,000 people.

It was near this area
in the late 1700s

that king kamehameha I

set out to unify
all the islands of Hawaii

under one government,

a task he finally
accomplished in 1810.

Wowsers! I wouldn't want
to be the pool man

at this swim club.

Here at hana's oheo gulch,

visitors come
from all over the world

to make a splash

in these charcoal-colored
volcanic swimming holes.

Although there are
nearly 30 pools in all,

the 7 largest ones
have been said to be part

of a sacred pilgrimage
to purify the soul.

A few rusted Gadgets
is a small price to pay

for a pure soul.

Some say each pool
has a special meaning,

and by cleansing
in pool 7,

you've reached perfection.

What are we waiting for?

Last one in the perfection
pool's a rotten egg.

If you're not
such a perfect swimmer

and the great indoors
is more your style,

then you may want to take
a little field trip

to the bishop museum.

Wowsers!

It's a whale
of a collection.

Besides this

hanging from the ceiling,

the museum includes
over 1,170,000 pacific

and Hawaiian artifacts,

and snail specimens,



and mammal specimens,

and over one million
historic images, documents,

and recordings.

Wowsers!

That's enough
to short circuit

even the biggest
bionic brain.

Well, it looks
like the sun is setting

on our latest field trip
to the islands of Hawaii.

I hope you enjoyed
voyaging through volcanoes,

staring at the stars,

riding the road to hana,

and spinning
with the spiders,

but don't go away
because we'll be right back

to uncover another
top-secret destination.

Go, go, Gadget field trip.

Inspector Gadget here
on my way

to one of the most exciting
places in italy.

I'm talking about Pompeii,

the town in the shadow
of mount Vesuvius.

I can just make it out
on the horizon ahead.

Go, go, Gadget mobile.

This is the ancient city
of Pompeii

in the shadow
of mount Vesuvius.

Almost 2,000 years ago,
that huge volcano erupted.

The eruption was so powerful

that the sea village
of Pompeii was buried

in volcanic ash.

Sounds like the last time

I asked the chief
for a raise.

Anyway, it rained down
at a rate of 6 inches an hour,

burying the city
under 20 feet of ash.

It happened so fast
that the city,

people and all,
were sealed in time.

But where is
the city of Pompeii,

besides under

Go, go, Gadget map.

Italy is the boot-shaped
country in southern europe.

Pompeii is in
the southwestern part of italy

near the city of naples,

right there
around the ankle.

Wowsers!

Pompeii is a slice
of italian life

the way it was

Welcome to main street,
Pompeii.

You can still see
the old toga shops

where they sold old togas.

Of course, they were new
at the time.

Here we have
the old Pompeii bakery.

Talk about making bread
from scratch.

First they used these stones

to grind the grain
into flour.

It was mixed in
these very mixing bowls

and baked in this very oven.

When Vesuvius turned up
the heat that fateful day,

these loaves of bread
got quite a baking.

When scientists
finally brushed away

all the ash

they found perfectly
preserved loaves of bread.

I've heard of day-old bread,
but this is ridiculous.

Archeologists
uncover buried treasures

left behind
by past civilizations

and try to piece together
how they lived.

That means
they look in old places

for older stuff.

Archeologists are sort of
like historical detectives.

Hmm. maybe
I could help them out.

Actually, a well digger
discovered Pompeii

when he was digging a well.

He told an archeologist,

and the rest
is scientific history.

When Vesuvius
blew its top in 79 a.d.,

some of the people
of Pompeii fled the city

trying to outrun
the volcano.

I bet the land speed
record was held

by fleeing Pompeiians
for a couple of centuries.

Others stayed behind,
hiding in their homes,

hoping it would blow over.

The people who ran
were overcome by noxious gas

and buried
in huge piles of ash.

The poor citizens were caught in
whatever position they were in.

About
a century and a half later,

archeologists
found shells of ash

that had once
surrounded the bodies.

They filled the shells
with plaster.

When the plaster hardened
and the ash was removed,

what remained
were perfect statues

of the citizens of Pompeii

doing exactly
what they were doing

when the volcano erupted,

but they never thought they'd
have to do it for so long.

Here I am at the foot
of mount Vesuvius.

I couldn't find its hand.

This is
the only active volcano

in all
of continental europe,

which is ok with the rest
of the continental europeans.

It's really a hot spot.

What is a volcano?

This calls for a top-secret
Gadget investigation...

Without getting too close.

A volcano is just like
the exhaust pipe on a car,

except a volcano
is an exhaust pipe

for the planet earth.

The center of the earth
is very hot.

You probably need to wear
sunblock spf 9 million.

Every so often the old earth
has to blow off a little steam

And rocks and gases.

What comes out is hot rock
from the earth's core.

How hot is it?

It's so hot
it's actually melted.

Lava is a fancy name
for melted rocks,

because by the time
you say, "look out

for those falling melting
rocks from the earth's core,"

it's too late.

An inactive volcano
is just a mountain

that is plugged up
and can't erupt anymore.

It's no longer a threat because
there's no more pressure there.

This volcano hasn't erupted
for over 50 years.

That makes
scientists nervous.

Mount Vesuvius just might
be overdue for another blow,

just like I'm overdue
for another vacation.

An Inspector Gadget
field trip fact:

when mount Vesuvius
erupted in 79 a.d.,

scientists estimate that
it shot a huge black comet

of gas, ash, and rock

at over 50 miles an hour,

which cut way back
on the tourist trade

for a couple
of thousand years.

Inspector Gadget here
in Pompeii,

a city where
time stood still.

Around the time
mount Vesuvius erupted,

Pompeii was a thriving
roman sea town,

though the romans
weren't big on surfing.

These are the stabian baths

for all
the bathing stabians.

This was probably

one of the social centers
of Pompeii.

People gathered to bathe
in the lush pools,

exercise outside
in the bath's courtyard,

or relax inside
one of the ancient saunas.

That was
before the eruption.

Afterwards,
things got a little quieter.

These ornate dressing rooms
are very well-preserved,

probably because they were
protected under piles of ash.

They could use
a good dusting, though.

Must be
the maid's millennium off.

Just a meatball's toss
from Pompeii

is the modern italian city
of...

And inside this city is
something you don't see

every day, unless, of
course, you live here.

It's an ancient city hidden
underneath the modern city.

Herculaneum was
a small fishing village

also used by the people
of nearby naples

as a resort town

until mount Vesuvius
did its thing.

After that, it wasn't
much of a resort anymore.

In fact,
this village was destroyed

than Pompeii

because it was closer
to Vesuvius.

But this city
wasn't buried in ash.

It was buried
in hot lava.

A volcano
sealed this town's fate

with a 60-foot crust
of modern lava

that hardened
into solid rock,

but it made great insulation
in the winter.

Later the city of ercolano
was built over.

Thus you have the secret

to the mystery
of a city within a city.

This is where
the people of herculaneum

docked their boats.

That was before
the eruption.

The ocean ran right up
to the buildings,

but when
the volcano erupted,

the lava hardened,

pushing the city limits
outward

and filling in a lot
of the old harbor.

Now the ocean is
all the way over this hill.

Wowsers! A volcano can
even shove oceans around.

Now, that's pushy.

How do you know when a volcano
is going to blow?

It usually starts
with an earthquake.

Not the safest early warning
system in the world.

Let's make like Vesuvius
and blow.

We've been trodding the
treacherous paths of Pompeii,

unearthing the secret city
of herculaneum,

suspecting seismic activity,

facing the terror of
europe's last active volcano

and...loving it.

Until next time,

remember, you can't fish
in a river of lava.

Go, go, Gadget field trip.