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Catalogue Number: NFB524211
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Nicholas Balla
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Documentary, Engineering, Safety, Tech/Voc
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1959
Running Time: 7:03
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Ripple Rock - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB524211
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Nicholas Balla
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Documentary, Engineering, Safety, Tech/Voc
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1959
Running Time: 7:03
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This film shows a complicated three-year engineering project leading to the destruction of Ripple Rock, a deathtrap in the shipping lane between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Also shown are tunnelling beneath the ocean floor of Seymour Narrows, the placing of the explosives and a close-up view of the successful explosion in 1958.