Photo: #CARRIER is a series filmed aboard the USS Nimitz about the experience working and living on a nuclear aircraft carrier.
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CARRIER is a series filmed aboard the USS Nimitz about the experience working and living on a nuclear aircraft carrier. (Courtesy of CARRIER)

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Life inside a floating fortress

Broadcast: Midmorning, 05/30/2008, 9:06 a.m.

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An aircraft carrier is a world of its own and a microcosm, with people from many different backgrounds and opinions living and working together. A creator and a producer of PBS' CARRIER talk about the six months they spent filming officers and crew aboard the USS Nimitz.

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  • Maro Chermayeff: Director, co-creator with Mitchell Block and one of the executive producers of the PBS documentary "CARRIER."
  • Rick Dupre: Co-producer with Deborah Dickson of "CARRIER."

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