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  1. dragon6172

    Tourist submersible visting the Titanic is missing

    Mothership flagged/registered in Canada. I believe Maritime Law gives first jurisdiction to the country a ship is flagged in.
  2. dragon6172

    Tourist submersible visting the Titanic is missing

    The CEO is onboard the missing sub. Just like the Captain of the Titanic, it seems he will have gone down with his ship.
  3. dragon6172

    Apartment Building Collapse

    That engineering firm has an office in Bettendorf, IA, which is right next to Davenport. The engineer whose name appears on the documents appears to be at the Bettendorf office.
  4. dragon6172

    Apartment Building Collapse

    I think the question is do you think the building collapsed on it's own from deterioration, or was the collapse accelerated because of the piss poor shoring. Would the collapse have happened if the engineers drawings had been followed? And if those drawings were followed does the risk of...
  5. dragon6172

    Apartment Building Collapse

    Was probably good steel when it was built in 1906. I grew up in Davenport. Spent many hours in the main library that is directly across Main St from this building.
  6. dragon6172

    Bridge collapse during concrete pour

    Amazing that Google Street View image was from this month.
  7. dragon6172

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 08

    MarkBob2, In photo 2 of your Powerpoint you mark two cars and ask "Is one of these cars parked in a driving lane? Something is not right here." These two cars can be seen in this picture... they are in the guest parking in marked spots.
  8. dragon6172

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 07

    I believe the assumption is that the footage is from a motion sensitive camera. Meaning there are no prior frames recorded to examine.
  9. dragon6172

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 06

    Folks who "see" an AC unit in the garage TikTok haven't looked at a picture of where these units were at on the roof.
  10. dragon6172

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse, Part 03

    Looks as though most of the perimeter anchors were supposed to be mounted on the cantilevered portion....per the structural drawing.
  11. dragon6172

    Miami Beach, Champlain Towers South apartment building collapse

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/video-shows-concrete-raining-down-083231363.html Someone has security video from inside their apartment just before collapse.

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