← Engineering Catastrophes

Season 7

10 episodes · 2023

  1. 1

    Pacific Coast Bridge Collapse

    Oct 18, 202341 min

    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

    Oct 25, 202341 min

    An iconic telescope in Puerto Rico suffers a spectacular collapse.

  3. 3

    Tower Crane Calamity

    Nov 1, 202341 min

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

  4. 4

    The Fern Hollow Fiasco

    Nov 8, 202342 min

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

  5. 5

    Nebraska Bomb Cyclone

    Nov 15, 202342 min

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

  6. 6

    Art School Inferno

    Nov 22, 202341 min

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

  7. 7

    Gas Leak Catastrophe

    Nov 29, 202342 min

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

  8. 8

    The Bronx Sinkhole

    Dec 6, 202342 min

    A sinkhole envelops a residential street in the Bronx.

  9. 9

    Shopping Center Tragedy

    Dec 13, 202342 min

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

  10. 10

    Chemical Plant Calamity

    Dec 20, 202342 min

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