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The I-35W Mississippi bridge was an eight lane, three span deck truss bridge which carried the interstate highway 35 across the Mississippi river. It was located in the biggest city of Minnesota, Minneapolis. It carried around 140,000 vehicles per day, making it the second busiest bridge in Minnesota. Construction repair and renew work was scheduled to be carried on the bridge again in 2020 or so. However, on August 1st, 2007, it collapsed all of a sudden, thereby killing 13 people and injuring…

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The Titanic “The ship took a sudden dip, and the sea came rolling up, carrying everyone with it. Many were drowned there and then (“Titanic Survivor’s Eyewitness Account”).” Have you ever wondered what really happened to the Titanic? There are numerous theses of the calamitous event, but no one knows what actually transpired. All we know is that the Titanic departed Southampton and had already visited Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before heading towards New York City, where it…

“I think we have a stray dog,” I explain while he refills the dog’s bowls. “Can you check under the deck?” “How would an entire dog get underneath our deck?” he asked condescendingly. “I’m not sure! Just believe me, something is under there,” I exclaim pointing at the deck. Despite investigating for a solid thirty minutes, my father returns with no news of seeing a stray dog. While the howling is too loud for me, he sleeps through the night without hearing anything. However, because neither…

For British seaman, the lower deck was called the gun deck regardless of where guns were actually stored. This caused confusion in enemy ships by giving the enemy a false pretense in believing the ship had more artillery than it actually had. Thus, revealing one of the first uses of the tenn "gun deck" to present a falsehood. (James, 1822) Another possible origin of the term may have its roots in early navigation…

rate can occupy. Under the current selection process the only chief with a hand in the process is the Precision Marksman Chief the six Chiefs on the hangar deck have no input on who gets selected for the program. Our current Personnel Allowance List (PAL) does not allow for an adequate number of experienced members not only on the hanger deck working on aircraft but also in the PM-A program. As stated above there is no limit to the number of AET’s and AMT’s that can be selected for the…

The deck of the ship heaved disconsolately to and fro like a lazy beast, not the storm wracked intensity of the high seas but the easy rolling of a coastal current. The easy motion had long since become second nature to Kyanna and she filled her lungs with the salt sprayed air. She was no sailor herself but after the initial seasickness had worn off and she'd found her legs she could see the appeal. She knew that drive that some men felt to return again and again to the sea, drawn to it like a…

very worked up, he said, 'Everyone, we need all medical, security, all personnel to deck 9 and deck 14'; and that scared me because I’m on deck 14. People were running through the hall with blood all over them and trying to get security.” Passengers were unaware there was a dead body in a room at that point, but they did see a man trying to escape from security: “They were on deck 7 and he tried to run up to deck 9 to jump off the ship, but security grabbed him before he could jump.” Kenneth…

Suddenly a big gust of wind tossed the ship and John Howland slid of the deck. As he fell towards his certain doom his life flashed before his eyes. Thinking quickly John snatched a rope that was hanging over the side of the deck. As the waves smashed him up against the side of the ship over and over again, and his hands slowly started to slip of the slimy rope John prayed to God. “ Oh lord, I know…

According to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the length of the bridge was 1907 feet and its maximum span length was 458 feet. It had 8 traffic lanes and a height of 64 feet above the water. On the evening of August 1st, 2007 this steel arch deck truss bridge collapsed during rush hour. This paper will investigate the cause of this failure and provide some potential solution(s) to prevent similar failures. What Happened As reported by the New Building Material & Construction World…