Episode 95: The Sunshine Skyway bridge collapse

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The Sunshine Skyway bridge was a well-known piece of Florida architecture, carrying vehicles back and forth across Tampa Bay and allowing ships to pass underneath in the bay's busy shipping channel. But on May 9, 1980, a sudden and ferocious storm brought all three - the ships, the bridge, and the cars - to a tragic shared end.

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1:55.2	Episode 95, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge Collapse,
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