Engineering disasters 10

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Examines the natural gas explosions in Hutchinson, Kansas, in January, 2001; the explosion aboard the tanker Puerto Rican outside San Francisco Bay in October, 1984; the collapse of part of a parki...

Examines the natural gas explosions in Hutchinson, Kansas, in January, 2001; the explosion aboard the tanker Puerto Rican outside San Francisco Bay in October, 1984; the collapse of part of a parking structure during construction in Atlantic City, New Jersey, October, 2003; the construction of the unusable 140 mile long White Sea Canal by 100,000 prison workers, 25,000 of which are thought to have been killed, in NW Russia, 1932; and the leak of a toxic cloud from a chemical manufacturing plant at Bhopal, India in December, 1984.

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