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Ripple Rock

Ripple Rock

| 7 min

This film shows a complicated three-year engineering project leading to the destruction of Ripple Rock, a deathtrap in the shipping lane between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Also shown are tunnelling beneath the ocean floor of Seymour Narrows, the placing of the explosives and a close-up view of the successful explosion in 1958.

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Technology
Safety
Transportation
All subjects
Credits
  • producer
    Nicholas Balla
  • narrator
    B. Kehane

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