Diving the Tacoma Narrows Bridge · The Medicine Chest

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Diving the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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Marine and Antarctic Research Centre for Innovation and Sustainability See all items with this value

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Description

"All that debris still remains under the bridge for the most part, and it has become a dive site. It is a very difficult dive site to get to because of the swiftly moving water and the very short period of slack time.

Nature in this area has just a tremendous ability to take over. You have a man-made structure like the Tacoma Narrow Bridge that collapsed into the water. Very quickly, the ocean took it over and made it part of the habitat".

Extract from the voiceover of trailer for 700 Feet Down (a documentary about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge told through witnesses of the bridge’s 1940 demise as well as intrepid divers exploring a reef of wreckage, ultimately reflecting on how history influences the present)

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The Memory of Water See all items with this value

url

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joj-16VyvDU

Creator

PaideiaArete See all items with this value

Vester Media See all items with this value

Date Created

20210727

20131216

Source

Youtube

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Youtube clip

Film

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The Memory of Water

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