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Engineering Catastrophes

Season 7

2023 · 10 episodes

  1. 1. Pacific Coast Bridge Collapse

    2023-10-18 · 41m

    Residents along the Pacific Coast Highway are cut off from the outside world after a storm causes a bridge to buckle. Experts reveal how the construction method of the old concrete bridge left it vulnerable to erosion on the steep coastline

  2. 2. Island Observatory Failure

    2023-10-25 · 41m

    An iconic telescope in Puerto Rico suffers a spectacular collapse.

  3. 3. Tower Crane Calamity

    2023-11-01 · 41m

    A crane collapse leaves seven dead on a holiday weekend in Manhattan.

  4. 4. The Fern Hollow Fiasco

    2023-11-08 · 42m

    A morning commute becomes dangerous when a bridge collapses in Pittsburgh.

  5. 5. Nebraska Bomb Cyclone

    2023-11-15 · 42m

    An aging dam in Nebraska fails after the area is pummeled by a superstorm.

  6. 6. Art School Inferno

    2023-11-22 · 41m

    A distinguished library is ravaged by not one but two disastrous fires.

  7. 7. Gas Leak Catastrophe

    2023-11-29 · 42m

    Twenty people are killed after a hotel explodes in America's heartland.

  8. 8. The Bronx Sinkhole

    2023-12-06 · 42m

    A sinkhole envelops a residential street in the Bronx.

  9. 9. Shopping Center Tragedy

    2023-12-13 · 42m

    Tragedy strikes in San Juan when an explosion rocks a busy shopping center.

  10. 10. Chemical Plant Calamity

    2023-12-20 · 42m

    An explosion at a chemical plant in New Jersey kills five workers.

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