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From the bridge deck to the main suspension cable itself began to snap. >> and then the unimaginable happens. the massive steel structure bends, whips and contorts so violently that it collapses into the rushing water below. both make it off the bridge alive, but not tubby. he's still in the backseat when the structure gives way. the bridge failure makes news all across the world. >> the tacoma narrows bridge dedicated in 1940 was the pride of the northwest. four months after it was opened those winds sent the bridge into a rhythmic dance of death. it literally shook it self to pieces. >> very...

Poles began to dance not only back and forth but to snap off the suspender cables that went from the bridge deck to the main suspension cable itself began to snap. >> and then the unimaginable happens. the massive steel structure bends, whips and contorts so violently that it collapses into the rushing water below. both make it off the bridge alive, but not tubby. he's still in the backseat when the structure gives way. the bridge failure makes news all across the world. >> the tacoma narrows bridge dedicated in 1940 was the pride of the northwest. four months after it was opened those winds s...

Suspension cable itself began to snap. >> and then the unimaginable happens. the massive steel structure bends, whips and contorts so violently that it collapses into the rushing water below. both men make it off the bridge alive. but not tubby. he's still in the backseat when the structure gives way. the bridge failure makes news all across the world. >> the tacoma narrows bridge dedicated in 1940 was the pride of the northwest. four months after it was opened those winds sent it into a rhythmic dance of death. it literally shook itself to pieces. >> very early in the process, in fact before ...

Is professor bert farqeston. he was an authority on bridge structures. so when eldridge and lacey murrow game concerned about how much this bridge might move, they hired bert to conduct some studies. >> as part of his study, f he sets up film cameras a few weeks after the bridge opens to kpture its movements. several weeks later the same cameras capture the drama of the movements as they unfold. >> the phenomenal thing is we're watching steel and concrete twisting 20 times a minute. as the twisting increased, light polls began to dance back and forth but to snap off the suspender cables that w...