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The Sunshine Skyway Bridge, officially referred to as the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge, is a pair of long beam bridges with a central tall cable-stayed bridge. It spans Lower Tampa Bay to connect Pinellas County (St. Petersburg, Florida) to Manatee County (Terra Ceia, Florida). The current Sunshine Skyway opened in 1987 and is the second ...
The MV Summit Venture was a bulk carrier [1] which collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980, causing a partial collapse of the bridge which killed 35 people. [2] The ship was repaired and returned to service and later resold twice. It sank off the Vietnamese coast in 2010 under the name of Jian Mao 9. [2]
USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-391) was a 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tender (WLB) which sank in 1980 in a collision near the Tampa Bay Sunshine Skyway Bridge, resulting in 23 crew member fatalities. [1] [2] [3] An Iris-class vessel, she was built by Marine Ironworks and Shipbuilding Corporation in Duluth, Minnesota.
A man jumped to his death from the Bob Graham Sunshine Skyway bridge on Tuesday, the first suicide from the bridge in 19 months, according to state data. That is likely the longest period of time ...
Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The Florida Department of Transportation’s website, FL511.com, has live video streams of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and other area bridges to see Hurricane Helene.
The disaster is in some ways similar to the deadly collapse of Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which was was struck by a freighter in Tampa Bay in 1980. ...
1972 Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse; 2000 The Winston; 2023 Interstate 95 highway collapse; A. ... Summer Street Bridge disaster; Sunshine Skyway Bridge; T.
Trotter's attempted repeat of the stunt in 1997 at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge ended in disaster. [5] Trotter and four other people jumped, attached to the same cable. The plan had not been tested previously, and the cable snapped during the effort, causing Trotter and the others to plunge at least 70 feet (21 m) into the bay.