The Skyway Bridge Disaster Documentary follows the events after John Lerro struck the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on May 9th, 1980.
Mianus Bridge Disaster 1983 7. Sunshine Skyway Bridge Florida, 1980Deaths: 35 On the morning of May 9, 1980, a sudden squall engulfed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, spanning the mouth of Tampa Bay south of St. Petersburg, Florida. With its radar down, the nearly 20-ton freighter MV Summit ...
Three minutes later, at 1:27 a.m., the vessel struck a pylon of the bridge, and nearly the entire structure of the span crumbled into the water within seconds. The disaster may be the worst U.S. bridge collapse since 2007, when a design error caused the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis ...
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The same situation hadn’t boded well in Boston, and I could only hope this didn’t portend a repeat of that near-disaster. Turns out I was right to worry. I drank plenty of water, then polished off a quiet breakfast of peanut butter toast, coconut yogurt and granola in a dining ...
In the end, it’s a story about rebuilding after a disaster, getting the job done despite delays and wrong turns, and ultimately the very human process of using steel and concrete to make a dream a reality. “The Bridge So Far — A Suspense Story” was sponsored by the Professional Engi...
Attitudes to emotion, crisis support and distress: 30 months after the capsize of a passenger ferry disaster The hypothesis that negative attitudes to emotional expression would be associated with higher levels of symptomatology and lower levels of received social... RM Williams,P Hodgkinson,S Joseph...
The same situation hadn’t boded well in Boston, and I could only hope this didn’t portend a repeat of that near-disaster. Turns out I was right to worry. I drank plenty of water, then polished off a quiet breakfast of peanut butter toast, coconut yogurt and granola in a dining ...
Estimating the resilience of civil infrastructures is crucial for disaster prevention (i.e. earthquakes), encompassing both above- and underground constructions. However, while below-ground infrastructures are generally acknowledged as less vulnerable than their over-ground counterparts, this aspect has not...
Retrofitting structures built to prior codes is an ongoing process, and one that this disaster moves to the forefront. The U.S. has a lot of infrastructure that was designed to old codes, and we have larger trucks crossing our bridges, and larger ships passing beneath them. ...