The Florida Harbor Cay Condominium Collapse Disaster 1981 | Plainly Difficult Documentary



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The Harbor Cay Condominium was a five-story flat plate residential development project in Cocoa Beach, Florida collapsed during construction on March 27, 1981.

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00:00 Intro
00:47 Background
02:05 The Building Plan
06:35 Disaster
08:44 Investigation

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https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38326/m2/1/high_res_d/metadc38326.pdf

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34 thoughts on “The Florida Harbor Cay Condominium Collapse Disaster 1981 | Plainly Difficult Documentary”

  1. MaMa Nature is speaking man you do not own our bodies growing fruit and life. You don't even care to know the spirit within us you create with Dads. The few who do are truly the minorities. While the rest use us and praise a mans spirit as the creator. What body of Wawa or seed brings self to life? None. It takes 2 to tango. Not a trinity of men. What sausage fest.

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  2. with all that going on during construction anyone who stayed around that building is stupid it was an accident waiting to happen these kinds of accidents remind me of the L'Ambiance Plaza collapse I hope these people don't have licenses in other states and are involved in construction that's scary

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  3. Vibrating concrete is so important. It's crazy how much the level drops with vigorous vibration. Yes, it makes the structure heaver, but also a lot more solid and strong.

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  4. Just a quick note that in concrete lingo "set" refers to when the liquid mix sets up solid (I know real complex huh) and then all of the changes it undergoes thereafter are part of the curing process. Also thumbs up for the new balls scale for no other reason than it brings a smile to my face. 🙂

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  5. I'm a bit disappointed the "Balls scale" didn't feature the word "balls" progressively gaining more exclamation points and capital letters (ex: 1 = "balls" 3 = "Balls!!" and 5 = "BALLS!!!!")

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  6. Not sure why the post-explosion SRB exhaust plume of Challenger launch STS-51-L was used for the video at 1:30. From the context any STS launch would have made equal sense, unless there is supposed to be a connection to that disaster because this channel describes disasters?

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  7. I remember one of the very few times a driver put a "hot" concrete mix into the concrete pumping truck… talk about someone losing their sh*t… ol boy drop kicked his hard hat and was making his way to the driver, I was ensuring the roof drains stayed level so i couldn't see the aftermath from my vantage point. Good times.

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  8. Dude I've lived in Brevard County for most of my life. In Cape Canaveral , Melbourne area and have never heard of this accident. I work in construction too. It's crazy how things get kept out of main stream minds.

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