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Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
The disaster was also featured in an episode of Deadly Engineering (Season 1, Episode 5) on the Science Channel. On 1 July 2014, The History Press released a book called Ninety Seconds at Zeebrugge: The Herald of Free Enterprise Story ( ISBN 9780752497839 ), telling the story of the disaster and its aftermath.
[4]: 139–140 The subsequent failure of the bow ramp allowed water into the vehicle deck, which was identified as the main cause of the capsizing and sinking: [4]: 139 RORO ferries with their wide vehicle decks are particularly vulnerable to capsizing if the vehicle deck is even slightly flooded because of free surface effect: the fluid's ...
The catastrophe, one of the worst Mediterranean boat disasters on record, raised searching questions about how the European Union is trying to stem flows of migrants. "I wake up to nightmares.
Following the sinking and due to its location in a busy point of a shipping lane (the location was on the edge of a turning-point within the TSS of the English Channel), the wreck was initially guarded by the French maritime police patrol boat P671 Glaive and HMS Anglesey (a 195 ft British Island-class patrol vessel), in addition to two salvage ...
Bigger ships can cause bigger disasters, such as the 1,300-foot (400 m) Taiwanese-flagged vessel Ever Given in the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction. [ 7 ] The Francis Scott Key Bridge was a steel arch-shaped continuous truss bridge , the second-longest in the United States and third-longest in the world . [ 8 ]
It is the worst maritime disaster in California since the sinking of the Brother Jonathan in 1865, and the deadliest in the United States overall since the USS Iowa turret explosion in 1989. [3] It is also the deadliest transportation-related disaster in the United States since the 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash near Buffalo, New York .
Sank in the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland in a windstorm (that also caused the North Sea flood of 1953); 135 dead. 26 September 1954: Hitaka Maru: Capsized by Typhoon Marie (1954) with loss of crew, but no passengers. [2] Also romanized as Hidaka. 26 September 1954: Kitami Maru