I saw that explosion live on TV when I was a kid. Good job. I have heard stories about boats being sucked under by Ripple Rock whirlpools. BTW, the name is an understatement.
Note the forklift driver at 3:38. Moving pallets of explosives while smoking, on a loading dock piled with explosives. The 50's were a lot more relaxed on safety.
Thank you for sharing this video. I was born after the 1958 blast but I grew up in Campbell River and have fished for chinook in the Seymour Narrows many times in the 70's and early 80's before moving away nearly 40 years ago... Cheers.
Cool fax in this film: The sign says to wear safety belt while working on grizzly, but they don't seem to be. The guy is smoking on the forklift with 5 hundred pounds of HE, and they don't mention that 9 people died on the barge above the peaks when they attempted to drill from the top. Damn hard rock miners! I think the ladies and some men have no idea how these tough these men were to do the job at hand. Gotta hand it to these guys!
I agree wholeheartedly about the badass hard rock miners performing an incredibly tough job, and getting it done successfully. But I also noticed the lit cigarette between the forklift operator’s fingers! I actually laughed out loud! It’s the old story: when we know better we do better, but seriously? Nobody on the job site came to the conclusion that smoking while handling high explosives, on a dock literally piled high with this stuff could possibly be a potential hazardous situation? Really?
@@kirkmuter1790... Your statement is relevant but the explosives used where the most powerful & safest for handlers at the time. Cigarettes were not a ignition concern.
By look of it they just picked a island name as the starting point Maude Island is 136km or 83miles from Ripple Rock... in 1958 it was ok to make things up.
Yes, they did a study. Here are the results: DAMAGE TO MARINE BIOLOGICAL LIFE CAUSED BY HUMONGOUS BLAST: Nearby fish vaporized into oblivion: 28 Dead floaty fish eaten by alive fish: 12 Other blowed up critters deceased: 1* *NOTE: One salmon survived the carnage when blown out of the water by the huge blast. It was savagely killed, grilled, and eaten by some dude after landing. Locals vowed to never give up searching for the perp in order to deliver justice and punishment.
