BlowDown: Impossible Demolitons | Complete Series | Free Documentary

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0:00:00 World Record Tower Demolition An engineering marvel gone horribly wrong deals CDI their strangest challenge yet: demolishing a brand new hurricane-proof tower. It’s a shot at a world record - the tallest concrete reinforced building ever to be imploded. 00:46:51 Unsinkable Ship Demolition An experienced demo team must use a novel explosives system to scuttle their first ship - the Hoyt S. Vandenberg. In this unprecedented demo job, Controlled Demolition Incorporated teams up with a marine salvage crew to turn a 17,000-ton former spy ship into the second-largest artificial reef in the world. 01:33:36 Super Stadium Demolition A skillful demolition team must take down a massive sports stadium in the heart of Indianapolis and keep its destruction from spreading. 02:20:21 World Cup Stadium Demolition This groundbreaking episode follows Controlled Demolition Inc. as they head south to Brazil to take on one of the largest sports facilities in the world - the Fonte Nova Stadium.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

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[@ahmaaaaad27]

nice

[@enjeliluches2707]

Lg😊😊 Aàß

[@donharris9720]

If to j

[@justiceBustamante]

How about some United States measurements here. We don't understand any metric measurements . The narrator is clearly American theyre an American company taking down an American building so what's with all the metric and the bizarre terms.for Bobcats( skid steer) too ridiculous for me I am not even finishing the show excetera

[@toddvc9642]

Thanks!

[@derekgoudie7503]

Yep

[@reallyfurious]

The footage of the Ocean Tower demolition was really, very impressive. Congratulations to Sean white the camera technician because I've never seen footage like that before, incredible.

[@RussellD11]

On 911 you did... watch the videos

[@NickMirro]

Truly!!!

[@davidmc62]

It takes real men, with real balls to undertake a project like this 👍 I salute you with all due respect!

[@dukx3986]

And real women with baskets.

[@JerryLujan]

But they have to KNOW THE MATERIALS they are dealing with @@dukx3986

[@macknumber9]

I have fake balls

[@susanwahl6322]

Women also have balls. Ours are just higher.

[@ludgatecircus15]

"A little bit of pee comes out every time I am the edge like this." THANK YOU for keeping it comment in the video. It really brings the job to life.

[@ebk304]

Man congrats to CDI and everyone involved in this. That was a tough job and they sunk it beautifully. Very impressive 👏🏻

[@steveskouson9620]

"They don't call me the Martha Stewart of demolition for nothing." Amazing, Stacey. steve

[@RobAbdul]

Working for CDI would be a "blast" 😉

[@Complexityofmatter]

👌

[@angelachouinard4581]

I've been watching CDI drop buildings for years. They are an amazing crew. I have to agree with reallyfurious this footage is impressive.

[@leticiawashington]

I Love these free Documentaries,l,learn a,lot from them 😊😊

[@FloozieOne]

Must be nice to be able to play with so many things that go BOOM.

[@ebk304]

Awesome docs on here

[@butchjohnson40]

Amazing work by all, CDI, you all are amazing, very interesting to watch.

[@rahulraman6004]

Awesome & helpfull video...

[@orchidorio]

The ship sinking story was the BEST !!! Congratulations to CDI and associates.

[@GeorgeRuffner-iy7bm]

🤯 It doesn't take much to blow my mind anymore. Amazing stuff! 👏 Thanks 👍

[@chicochicoshukor7184]

They are pro. Good job

[@brianbauer7560]

That one machine looked like a giant metal dinosaur eating the building. It's crazy the power of some of these machines mankind can create. It's amazing to me

[@monroesiloy2726]

Amazing excellent very good job

[@dannycreech4177]

1:34 I'm an Indiana boy born and raised, the dome was known as the Hoosier Dome before they renamed it the RCA Dome. It was a very cool place the roof was held up by air so when you go through the rotating doors it would suck you into the building or blow you out it was super cool i was just a young kid my grandpa used to take us boys to watch monster trucks , motocross, tractor pulls everything!!!! It was awesome! No bad seats in the stadium it was great.

[@denniscrane9753]

I saw the monster trucks at the dome too!

[@yashveersingh1795]

Too good! Absolutely loved it. Thanks for incredible content! Thanks x 1000000000 = ❤. infinity

[@ShadowWalker-sj9zu]

I love it. "The Martha Stewart of. Demolition"

[@harrylouis531]

Great episode , show the one about the twin towers and bldg #7

[@VDOAlleypro.24]

I like how the camera crew filmed their part of the job too 👍

[@pedenmk]

Ahh good old Indiana. Yeah I remember the football team getting a new stadium. COLTS = Count On Loosing This Sunday. I moved to Carolina. Great episode. Thanks for sharing.

[@EASYTIGER10]

Some good animation/simulation in this documentary

[@baymot7ui8]

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[@dougedwards8022]

I worked on building these types of structures,,,30 yrs concrete reinforcement and post tension, it's definitely some dangerous stuff to demo or build,when complete they are a super strong structure.

[@_perspicax_]

I’m surprised they didn’t include the twins towers that’s the most spectacular controlled demolition ever??? Weird

[@bradcondon6632]

Yea, go figure

[@NewLife-qj9mx]

Right!!

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

One situation has politics the other not.

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Don't be surprised. Be gay (= happy)

[@NoNORADon911]

I'm here for the WTC7 comments since no plane hit it.

[@HaroldFerguson-e4m]

I'm 83 and i remember my grandmother on my Dads side could cook up a meal of catfish and okra , cornbread, garden tomatoes blackeye peas,and cherry pie,,, those were the days in my memory i 'll nrver forget.......you my lady are a damn good cook!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@flymachine]

What little boy didn't take pleasure in smashing his lego creations and sand castles? That inate neandrathal instinct stays with us which is why this meticulous demolitian of intricate structures is so satisfying at least for us boys, I don't deny that its equally fascinating for girls though. Thjere's also something deep about seeing man's marvels being brought down through controlled chaos - loved every minute of this.

[@shallawnmarshall320]

RIP To All Surveillance Cameras! They Never Stood A Chance. Their Efforts Will Never Be Forgotten

[@raycrerar3227]

thanks

[@averteddisasterbarely2339]

The king dome was a very big challenge to bring down by the same company in these videos ( cdi) ! It would be awesome to see it here !

[@scottbarnes9910]

La is next !!!! Good job over there for cdi

[@zebeldog]

When I return in a different life I'll be a demo tech. Whoever sold all that rebar made some good money!

[@ak57890]

Government: The building is very badly built, and is a threat to the neighbors, it has to go! Wreckers: We've never seen a building built this good and strong 😂😂

[@richie9841]

These demolition and detentions of these buildings look and sounds very familiar 🤔.

[@brianswelding]

Unsinkable ship!!! Funny, seems like that's what they call every ship... right before it sinks.

[@daifoursheds]

Try high pressure water jetting, explosive covered in water bads, quitter and less sounds or dust, just a thought amongst others

[@tbeller80]

Watching the stadium get picked apart reminded me of an underground parking garage I worked next to get ripped apart to make room for a new garage and building across from my office. After a few weeks there was a nice clean hole in the ground with all the old rebar stacked up with the concrete somehow stripped off.

[@ThatFlyinRyan]

you can tell these guys dropping the building NOT FROM FLORIDA LOL when they keep asking why there is so much concrete and rebar

[@CalebRota-fe7gn]

man those anchors were a good watch

[@iliketowatch.]

Regarding the Ocean Tower on South Padre Island: it seems kind of strange that it was such a mystery how a building that was only 3 years old was constructed.

[@susanwahl6322]

Poor planning, poor management and poor construction.

[@MphoGift-iv1zr]

CDI are legendary

[@robertpickett6741]

That’s a lot of metal that could make new war machines. ❗️

[@sharonposs6903]

Michelle I am moving to Ft Walton and Would love to meet you . I have lived in Georgia but I live in McMinnville, Tennessee. Destin seems like a nice place. I need help learning wow to be a you tuber. I have a daughter who is getting her Dr degree. I really love you and your husband's show. You are both too funny. Sharon Poss.

[@heruwahyudi6060]

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[@Lolarunge]

Holy pow !

[@tomperkins5657]

Probably the first building that cost more to tear down than build up.

[@the.based.perspective]

lol is that the same guy that narrates Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares?

[@kinginfamousz]

To quote Lord Beerus - Before Creation Comes Destruction. lol

[@davidsmith3rd]

_"A concrete reinforced structure this high has never been imploded"_ Oh yes........I can think of a few !!

[@robertpalmer3166]

If you are blabbering about The World Trade Center, you are wrong on all counts. They were not imploded, and they were not concrete reinforced. They were steel reinforced. Try again big boy.

[@NoKhaKha]

And Oswald shot JFK; right little man@@robertpalmer3166

[@roypatterson9910]

And my comment was supposed to have said what kind of job do you do, not done you do! I can't edit it for some reason.

[@Oregontrailblazin]

I think my Uncle , who was a Master Electrician was on this ship. I remember the dishes on the top .

[@litchar]

A little building like that shouldn't need more than a Cessna, a computer chair, a Brother photocopier and a old copy of Popular Mechanics to pull it in 3 or 4 seconds into the parking garage.

[@davidmc62]

That's the same thing they did on the North Tower, months before we got hit! I remember asking what they were doing when they tried to keep us out of certain areas. They said they had to remove some weak areas of reinforcement members, but they were😅 cutting them just like you are explaining.

[@RyanHeinzman1985]

You talking about the world trade center towers? There were definitely some modifications to the towers over the years from what I've read

[@ginmar8134]

Yeah, that's not what happened.

[@butchjohnson40]

I forgot all about the Monroe effect, which I learned about in 1980, CDI turns demolition into an art form. I couldn't stop watching, it was beautiful work by all . I'm sitting here watching to see if the bat cave survived, you all rock.

[@firefly5247]

0:56:46 I love how his high-tech solution to making sure the ship was perfectly level is a nut tied to a piece of string

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Don't worry. Be happy.

[@nunyabizness9216]

Anything and a string is a plum bob.

[@firefly5247]

@@nunyabizness9216 Sure, I just expected them to have a fancy tool for it

[@steveskouson9620]

@@firefly5247, If simple works, and works well, no need to complicate things. steve

[@two-face1041]

@@firefly5247 a lot of times the most simplest answer is the best answer

[@michaelhurley5093]

Man, that reminds me of something that hapened in 2001, maybe I'm just crazy.

[@RR98guy]

You are not at all crazy. You hit the nail right on the head.

[@two-face1041]

Yep, you’re crazy

[@ginmar8134]

​@@RR98guyYou're both crazy.

[@killfacet.baggins]

I'm pretty sure the Twin Towers were a little bit bigger than that

[@lukechildress1206]

They where not a demolishin

[@CSltz]

I bet that the people who designed and built this building. Were pretty darn proud of there work . When they watched this documentary.

[@thefinalgrind]

You'd imagine you could rebuild a foundation to save the building as for what's still available. But hey, I'm just a pea in this pod.

[@RR98guy]

You left out the demolition of the 3 High rise buildings in NYC back in 2001. THAT was the largest ever demolition of a set of objects ever known to man.

[@TJJackson77]

Yep. Was going to say how about the trade center buildings. There is a plethora of great video footage and eye witness accounts which can be found on many KZbin channels along with commentaries by building architects, demo experts, and building engineers who know how the buildings were constructed and what it would take to bring them down.

[@alistairhazell9877]

​@@TJJackson77yep. .but the patriotic sheep's rather drink all the lies their political God's shove down their throat

[@se7endnb]

So you really mean to say after watching these demolitions and all the work that goes into it. Extensive planning. That the twin towers and wt7 was a controlled demolition 🙈 I mean you really think that a demolition team went in there and did all that then just kept quiet when the job was done! Like someone has to push that button that sets off all them detonations and the we’re ok with just killing all those people. Never mind that’s when all the explosions detonate no camera saw the explosions that would have had to go off simultaneously over the whole buildings blowing out all the windows. Let alone the sound it would have made!! Even the architecture who designed it is on a documentary explaining why they collapsed and that they wasn’t designed for a plane so big with so much fuel

[@Average-Joe]

@@se7endnb Have you checked the temperature that jet fuel burn and what it takes to melt steel that has fireproofing on it? And it jet fuel would melt steel as the less informed answer with a knee jerk, why doesn't it melt the exhaust stage or outlet of a jet engine which burn far hotter than that? Hmmmm? Here's some actual facts for you... The melting point of iron alloys and the melting point of steel, occur at higher temperatures, around 2,200-2,500 Fahrenheit (°F) / 1,205-1,370 Celsius (°C). Pure aluminum melts at about 1,218 °F / 659 °C, but alloying with other elements can raise this. The open-air burn temperature for Jet A and Jet A-1 fuel types is 1,030 °C (1,890 °F). 1.030degrees is far from 2000-2500 degrees needed to melt steel! This also explains why it doesn't melt aluminum!

[@iamthebroker]

@@Average-Joeso answer simonpearchs other questions. I note you are silent on the rest of it. I’m no expert but it wasn’t purely jet fuel burning. Jet fuel just started the fire and acted as initial accelerant. Your “facts” are assuming there are no other contributors to the fire.

[@practicalman45]

The world record still has to be the World Trade Center Towers 1,2, and 7. back in September, 2001.

[@jackbeane9708]

I got a question . Didn't they have the plans to the building ? All plans are filed with county ,state and the builder has copies of the plans .

[@itsroseactually]

​@@kananimiranda3376No idea what you're talking about but I'm pretty sure they said they building he's talking about was the first one that was built recently?

[@itsroseactually]

The plans being in hand do not guarantee they've ever been followed, but even if they had, the amount of rebar in those cores was ridiculous and their orientation almost random? Plus I'm pretty sure they don't have counties in Mexico, but I could be wrong.

[@jackbeane9708]

​@@itsroseactuallyah. That condo is in Florida . Not Mexico. Seen it many a time . Not much left after hurricane on that beach . Idiots build on , pay the price.

[@69Emoji]

Is there a video of the ship sinking that isnt edited to look like a fever dream

[@kevinshillenn7552]

This company is from Maryland and have blown up buildings,stadiums, pretty much everything. If anyone can do it ,they can!

[@mbmadden77]

You misspelled the title, again, genius.

[@DiCarloJr]

I woke up late off my schedule on the day of the Greatest Controlled Demolition Implosion Ever. Being that my destination was to be exactly onsite on September 11/2001, I consider myself, a very lucky guy. Maybe I woke up on time?

[@dewyox]

Kool

[@maheshthapa4765]

I am from land locked country and i didnot understand why we sink the ship instead doing scraping . We can reuse the material and ocean will be clean as well as environment .

[@seadog915]

A little pee comes out every time I do this ! LOL He's probably telling the honest truth too.

[@mystery824]

I want ‘em.. But no white- black-grey.. only solar or lunar army green, Desert …voodo blue ..:or Calvary ..on the hunt rn😅😂🎉

[@gouravmisra2317]

BEAUTIFULL ALL EVERYTHING 🎉🎉 AMEEN

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

🙏

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

Amen.

[@cashtalks6253]

How much longer till there’s a documentary on millennium tower?

[@user-wp4zh6po3k]

Ahemmm .... proofread your caption .... 😂😮😅😊❤

[@noname2490]

In the 90s the US government dropped Abraham tanks into the ocean to make reefs. Instead of saving money and doing upgrades we just built more

[@AnnaSquires]

Tuck, I know you made this video 4 months ago, but are you growing a fall garden? I live in northern California in the mountains. My growing season goes into December. Do you have a fall garden? Do you have a green house? I would appreciate any of your tips. I'm a first time watcher. Thank you!

[@HG_Budde]

Well, that's a way to power wash your boat too, I guess. 🤔

[@jinhenzen3194]

First :)

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

But who does care about this imbecility or bleekeness?

[@ReginaldLewis-i1p]

Timothy McVeigh got a hold of a cellphone😅😅

[@melissajohnson2935]

A moment of silence for all the cameras they sacrificed 🫗🫗

[@morvaina]

For main interstates odd numbers tend to run north and south for instance I 75 and I 85. Even numbers and those ending in zero tend to be east to west

[@exibuchay1695]

I wonder why they don't just start using jet fuel at the top of the building with one small crate of TNT. Worked wonders in New York City a few decades ago. Maybe it's like the moon mission. Where NASA said we just don't have the technology anymore to go to the Moon. I've gotten used to Bizarro world. It's my home now. And it's yours too

[@littlered7820]

Brilliant comment !!!!

[@jeffer0987]

Well that’s what they did, many small tnt in multiple sequences, interesting insight on New York City, the building management change 6 months before that

[@1800imawake]

Yeah, they should have just called Construction Implosion Architects. They hold the current world record for building demolition.

[@RX-8GT]

They had a better chance just buying a 707 at least

[@cashtalks6253]

Where’s the documentary on the old Georgia dome? It didn’t fall on drop day.😢😂

[@Sion_Revan]

The Vandeberg was used in the movie Virus from 1998 as the fictional Russian vessel called the Vladislav Volkov

[@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536]

🇺🇸🌎👍❤

[@jaeweld19]

LOL. Why is the most replayed part of this whole show is them loading explosives and a computer simulation of what's going to happen?

[@michaeltarasenkoop2389]

In case the ship doesn’t sit level on the ocean floor ! Bring in a few heavy lift cranes and lift the side that is low ! Lift it to a level position when they built the in nyack N Yourk bridge the Crain could lift large sections of bridge sections up ! Hope it isn’t needed !

[@simbangomasango7763]

I will put him 95% coz he is was speaking the truth. U can see in Somalia people are fighting everyday but u hear them talking about war in Russia an Israel. But they never spoke about to help Somalia or DRC.

[@mariano7699]

The "background" music is actually the front sound foundal.

[@donkeziah2564]

When drilling the elevator wells I'm surprised they have never used core drilling!!!???

[@WIFIJUNKY]

Good memories at the rca.dome ..and MSA Good times.

[@iliketowatch.]

There's a 14 year old 58 story building called the Millennium Tower in San Francisco that's sinking and tilting. It was built on landfill. The difference with the building on South Padre Island is that the Millennium Tower is occupied. They're trying to fix the problem; meanwhile, these million dollar condos have cracks developing in the walls. Oops.

[@nagoogle8542]

I knew it looked familiar, the Vandenberg was the ship from virus 1999

[@jackielheureux3229]

I never saw rebar that big around

[@abcdef-qk6jf]

Mythbusters were right. When in doubt - use C4. Explosives are an amazing tool. How you direct a blast, the materials having an effect on the explosives. Cutting metal using cupper to make a very effective torch... It's all very impressive. A good demolition could be taking a very long time planning. Success must be just as satisfying as it were for the builders to the completion of the building. You "just" don't blow a building down. It could be thousands of manhours of hard work and planning - a few seconds will determine success. You can't change or undo it. The stressfactors are bound to be high. Literally one shot at it. Those men and women have my respect. Having a bad day is a luxury they can't afford. It doesn't have to be picture perfect. Just perfect.... every time...

[@Complexityofmatter]

BB-118

[@11304800]

I hate it when these programs use unnecessary drama.

[@martinevans5587]

That portaloo was lucky @ 3:02:38 😂

[@RobertLake-mf2qt]

Man, that ship looked like it was sunk before it was sunk.

[@honor9lite1337]

Hmm😮😮😮