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Ripple Rock
19597 min 3 secFilm: Documentary
Production: Nicholas Balla
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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Subject categories
- Technology > EngineeringMarine Technology
- Safety > Explosives and FirearmsWater Safety
- Transportation > Water Safety and Emergency Measures
Credits
- producer
- Nicholas Balla
- narrator
- B. Kehane