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BlowDown: Impossible Demolitons - EndtheMadnessNow - 10-04-2023
I was fascinated with this well produced 3 hr on locations documenting 4 controlled demolitions.
Sinking a former Navy USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a cold war missile range instrumentation ship (with a long intriguing history) was my favorite.
World Record Tower Demolition
An engineering marvel gone horribly wrong deals CDI their strangest challenge yet: demolishing a brand new hurricane-proof tower. It’s a shot at a world record – the tallest concrete reinforced building ever to be imploded. Thirty-one stories high, Ocean Tower’s three massively reinforced cores boast 30 inches of concrete and rebar.
00:46:51 Unsinkable Ship Demolition
An experienced demo team must use a novel explosives system to scuttle their first ship – the Hoyt S. Vandenberg. In this unprecedented demo job, Controlled Demolition Incorporated teams up with a marine salvage crew to turn a 17,000-ton former spy ship into the second-largest artificial reef in the world.
01:33:36 Super Stadium Demolition
A skillful demolition team must take down a massive sports stadium in the heart of Indianapolis and keep its destruction from spreading. The 60,000-seat RCA Dome sits just a few meters away from a multimillion-dollar convention center and the city's main rail line. Twelve stories of office tower windows and an out-of-date underground sewer are also threatened. CDI will have to tackle 52,000 tons of solid concrete and keep all their plays inbounds.
02:20:21 World Cup Stadium Demolition
This groundbreaking episode follows Controlled Demolition Inc. as they head south to Brazil to take on one of the largest sports facilities in the world – the Fonte Nova Stadium.
In 1998, some scenes of the horror/sci-fi film "Virus" were filmed aboard the ex-General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. The ship substituted for a fictional Russian vessel called the Akademik Vladislav Volkov, and some of the Cyrillic lettering applied for the film is still visible on the hull...which is shown in the vid.
RE: BlowDown: Impossible Demolitons - Snarl - 10-04-2023
Pretty amazing. Sad the things we've built in the modern era don't last.