I was 8 years old and we were driving from Vancouver to the Yukon, my Dad was a heavy equipment operator, he commented on the crane being too far out on an unsupported span as we drove past it, when we got home and turned on the news Dad was not in the slightest surprised, the whole thing was the result of stupidity on the part of the supervisor who put the crane there in the first place, The take home lesson he gave us children was "Never trust a supervisor to know what he's doing!! "
3:14 - _"Back then there were no safety nets or ropes and workers carried heavy tools walking on steel beams a foot wide 200 feet in the air"_ 3:15 - _"Workers were thrown into the....some of them dragged to the depths still attached to the steel beams..."_ Can't have it both ways. Either they were wearing safety equipment that tethered them to the bridge or they weren't. Choose one @TheMapleChronicles
Apparently my mother and father were dating at the time and were out on a small boat below the bridge when the collapse happened. They weren't directly below and weren't hit by anything but there was a huge whirlpool that they almost got sucked into. They managed to escape (making it possible for me to exist) but it was harrowing.
My dad and uncle were working on that bridge when it collapsed .they ran for their lives and managed to escape. My mom freaked . We had been in Canada for one year
There were several mistakes made in this story. At the time I was dating a young man who worked on this bridge. We had made a date to go to a special dinner so he asked his friend who also worked on the bridge if he would take his shift and his friend agreed. Unfortunately, when the bridge collapsed his friend died (body caught up the the steel below the water and wiring everywhere. The young man found out that the steel girders were not the right thickness and, at the end of of part of the section of the bridge had a large heavy crane at the tip of it which they felt was partically due to some of the collapse. Not only that but, many of the bolts used were not quality and on the weak side, yet they proceeded. It was sad that my male friend had to live with the fact that his friend who took his place had died and yet my male friend was alive. He carried this with him for many years. When I still lived in Vancouver during that time if one went over the completion of that bridge even years later those men were not forgotten.
Correction at 4:40 "...the river claimed another victim.." should be " BURRARD INLET" ( an arm of the Pacific Ocean ) which is not a RIVER.
You are an idiot
Think about such things everytime I go by the Memorial while on my way over.
Now called The Iron Workers Memorial Bridge 🙏🏻💙🙏🏻
Officially, but nobody really calls it that (other than politicians and news reporters who have been coached to by their editorial department).
I was 8 years old and we were driving from Vancouver to the Yukon, my Dad was a heavy equipment operator, he commented on the crane being too far out on an unsupported span as we drove past it, when we got home and turned on the news Dad was not in the slightest surprised, the whole thing was the result of stupidity on the part of the supervisor who put the crane there in the first place, The take home lesson he gave us children was "Never trust a supervisor to know what he's doing!! "
3:14 - _"Back then there were no safety nets or ropes and workers carried heavy tools walking on steel beams a foot wide 200 feet in the air"_
3:15 - _"Workers were thrown into the....some of them dragged to the depths still attached to the steel beams..."_
Can't have it both ways. Either they were wearing safety equipment that tethered them to the bridge or they weren't. Choose one @TheMapleChronicles
Stompin Tom wrote a song about this
My Dad was also working on that bridge that day, he watched his friends fall to their deaths.
Useless fact: This happened the day I was born
Apparently my mother and father were dating at the time and were out on a small boat below the bridge when the collapse happened. They weren't directly below and weren't hit by anything but there was a huge whirlpool that they almost got sucked into. They managed to escape (making it possible for me to exist) but it was harrowing.
My dad and uncle were working on that bridge when it collapsed .they ran for their lives and managed to escape. My mom freaked . We had been in Canada for one year
Creator be with all
Every time I drive over the second narrows bridge I get the chills from remembering it
I earned my bachelor's in Civil Engineering in 1986, but never learned about this disaster.
There were several mistakes made in this story. At the time I was dating a young man who worked on this bridge. We had made a date to go to a special dinner so he asked his friend who also worked on the bridge if he would take his shift and his friend agreed. Unfortunately, when the bridge collapsed his friend died (body caught up the the steel below the water and wiring everywhere. The young man found out that the steel girders were not the right thickness and, at the end of of part of the section of the bridge had a large heavy crane at the tip of it which they felt was partically due to some of the collapse. Not only that but, many of the bolts used were not quality and on the weak side, yet they proceeded. It was sad that my male friend had to live with the fact that his friend who took his place had died and yet my male friend was alive. He carried this with him for many years. When I still lived in
Vancouver during that time if one went over the completion of that bridge even years later those men were not forgotten.
This bridge was built before the Port Man bridge so it could not have been the last link in the Trans Canada Highway.
I think back then the TCH crossed the Fraser River via the Pattullo Bridge.