Bibliograph

Extreme engineering, Cooper River Bridge, produced by Powderhouse Productions for Discovery Channel

Type

Label

Extreme engineering, Cooper River Bridge, produced by Powderhouse Productions for Discovery Channel

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Extreme engineering

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

57613589

Responsibility statement

produced by Powderhouse Productions for Discovery Channel

Runtime

Sub title

Cooper River Bridge

Summary

"Builders in Charleston, South Carolina are hard at work on a record-breaker: a 500-foot, eight-lane link between the city of Charleston and the town of Mount Pleasant that, when complete, will become the longest cable-stay bridge in America. The trouble is, they're operating on shaky ground--smack in the middle of hurricane alley, on the most earthquake-prone piece of real estate on the East Coast and right in the path of the world's largest, heaviest container ships. With the full fury of storm season looming on the horizon, watch as workers scramble to finish the project before Mother Nature hits. Working from opposite banks, 200 feet over the Cooper River, they have just one week to hang 250 tons of steel and concrete in order to bring the disjointed strands of the bridge together. But with each completed segment, the builders find themselves farther from shore and that much closer to impending disaster."--Publisher's Web site

Technique

live action

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Cooper River BridgeExtreme engineering, under construction, Cooper River Bridge

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