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The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officially referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge. It spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County (Terra Ceia, Florida). The current Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987 and is the second ...
The collapsed bridge and MS Star Clipper: Sunshine Skyway Bridge: near St. Petersburg, Florida: United States 9 May 1980: Steel cantilever bridge The freighter Summit Venture struck the bridge during a storm, causing the center section of the southbound span to collapse into Tampa Bay 35 killed, 1 injured
The MV Summit Venture was a bulk carrier [1] which collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980, causing a partial collapse of the bridge which killed 35 people. [2] The ship was repaired and returned to service and later resold twice. It sank off the Vietnamese coast in 2010 under the name of Jian Mao 9. [2]
A man jumped to his death from the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway bridge on Tuesday, the first suicide from the bridge in 19 months, according to state data. That is likely the longest period of time ...
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John Pistorino, a structural engineer in Florida, said dolphins are in use to protect the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa, Florida, which was reopened in 1987, seven years after it was hit by a ...
Skyway Fishing Pier State Park is a Florida State Park located on the north and south sides of the mouth of Tampa Bay.When the original cantilevered Sunshine Skyway Bridge, carrying I-275 (), partially collapsed in 1980, due to the collision of a freighter on one of its pilings, it was replaced by the current bridges.
[84] [85] As winds in the area approached the 50–60 mph (80–97 km/h) range, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was also forced to close. [86] On October 2, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis visited North Port, and described the flooding as the worst he had seen across Florida. [ 87 ]