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{\an8}As the city grew, the hulls were swallowed up

Engineering Catastrophes

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Engineering Catastrophes • S06E06 • 2018

{\an8}As the city grew, the hulls
were swallowed up {\an8}As the city grew, the hulls
were swallowed up in the landfill and used
to create the new shoreline. [narrator] A three-mile
seawall was built to buffer the new land
against the bay. It's behind this seawall
that the looming towers of San Francisco's
financial district now stand. It wasn't until
three decades ago
that a shocking event revealed how unstable
this manmade ground
had become

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{\an8}As the city grew, the hulls were swallowed up

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{\an8}As the city grew, the hulls were swallowed up

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in the landfill and used to create the new shoreline.

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[narrator] A three-mile seawall was built

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to buffer the new land against the bay.

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It's behind this seawall that the looming towers

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of San Francisco's financial district now stand.

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It wasn't until three decades ago that a shocking event revealed

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how unstable this manmade ground had become.

Duration

28 seconds

Views

17

Timestamp in Movie

00:26:35

Uploaded

Oct 28, 2025

Season

6

Episode

6

Genres

Production

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Movie Summary

With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.