How To Build A Volcano
IN an ambitious TV first on Channel 5 a group of top vulcanologists joins forces with a Hollywood crew to construct a genuine lava-spewing volcano the size of a house.
A major eruption is the largest, most violent natural phenomenon on Earth yet despite hi-tech equipment experts still can’t predict exactly when an eruption will happen or how long it will last.
The team designs and builds a scaled 100ft-wide volcano several storeys high in a breathtaking experiment.
With high-pressure gases and special effects explosives they create a series of eruptions to see if their cutting-edge theories will hold up when tested on a huge scale.