A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 hours 46 minutes
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episode 31: The Pike River Mine Disaster - Part 2
In part one of this three-part series on The Pike River Mine Disaster you heard what took place in the minutes, hours and days following the methane explosion at the mine. In this episode, we’ll step back and look at the history of the mine. You’ll hear how the factors that led to the explosion, instead of suddenly presenting themselves on November 19, 2010, had been building over the months and years earlier. Click here to view the Royal Commission into the disaster. See omnystudio...
episode 30: The Pike River Mine Disaster - Part 1
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains vivid descriptions of the moments that the disaster occurred. Listener discretion is advised. On the 19th of November 2010, New Zealand experienced one of its worst mining disasters when there was an explosion deep within the Pike River coal mine. Today’s episode is the first of a two-part series about the disaster...
episode 29: The 1976 Montreal Olympics Financial Debacle
It's 1970, and the mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, declares that the 1976 Montreal Games will be self-financing. In his view, these games can no more have a deficit "...than a man can have a baby". In fact, he thinks the real problem will be in determining how to spend the surplus. But over the coming years, all this optimism will evaporate, and the games will become a financial disaster. This project had everything: poor planning, fraudulent practice and corruption...
episode 28: The I-90 Tunnel Collapse
In this episode, we head to Boston. The 'Big Dig' was a road and tunnel construction project designed to solve Boston's congestion problems. With the final project cost exceeding $14 billion USD, this megaproject took 20 years to complete. It involved constructing 25 km of highway lanes, 8 km of tunnel, 16 interchanges and 200 bridges. But on the 10th of July 2006, at 11:01 pm, a section of the I-90 tunnel collapsed unexpectedly, with tragic results...
Episode 23 - Apollo 13 III: The Tiger Team
The most serious situation we've ever had in a manned spaceflight