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Disasters of the Century

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Disasters of the Century	comment	Disasters of the Century is a Canadian docuseries that documents a number of natural disasters and accidents that occurred during the course of the twentieth century.Disasters of the Century provides examples of the following tropes:
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Disasters of the Century / int_1c2b6ac8	type	Soft Water
Disasters of the Century / int_1c2b6ac8	comment	Soft Water: Averted in Swissair Flight 111's case due to the insane speeds reached thanks to the unusable flight speed indicators and nonfunctional overspeed alarm. As Stephen Kimber notes, hitting water from any angle at those speeds is like hitting concrete. The nose stopped suddenly the moment it struck the water, and the rest of the structure telescoped forward, causing Vaud to disintegrate. And of course, being on a plane subjected to forces like that most certainly wasn't survivable for the passengers and crew.
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Disasters of the Century / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Disasters of the Century / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: The Hartford Circus Fire turned Emmett Kelly into one of these. He was reportedly haunted by the fire for the rest of his life.
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Disasters of the Century / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Disasters of the Century / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Although the Princess Sophia sinking resulted in a beacon being installed on the Vanderbilt Reef, everyone on the Sophia except a dog died, and the tragedy was largely forgotten because World War I ended as the dead were starting to be brought back to shore.
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Disasters of the Century / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Disasters of the Century / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Everything about the final moments of the SS Princess Sophia. The hull was shredded, some part of the boiler blew, which killed some passengers and trapped others below deck, and passengers who did make it off ended up forced into the frigid water. It's speculated that one crew member made it to safety but banged his head on a rock, knocking him unconscious. As for what was on the water...
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Disasters of the Century / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
Disasters of the Century / int_ab17e948	comment	Special mention goes to Ocean Ranger, which was nicknamed Ocean Danger long before the sinking. Among other things, the safety culture on the vessel was lackadaisical and arrogant, with inept safety drills leaving the crew poorly prepared for an actual emergencynote a former crew member off-rig at the time, interviewed for a different documentary, described the safety culture on Ocean Ranger as basically amounting to Don't Touch It, You Idiot!, and another described fishermen laughing at the toolpusher for trying to dominate a safety meeting with claims that the rig was too big to sink; survival gear was inadequate at best, with no immersion suits and lackluster flotation devices; the lifeboats were difficult to launch in decent conditions, never mind in an Atlantic cyclone; the control room was, in one of the most inexplicable marine vessel design choices in history, on one of the columns rather than on deck and low enough to be vulnerable to rogue waves, with the only way to check the water level being to leave a flimsy porthole open; and, to compound an already baffling design choice, said porthole was right next to the ballast control system, just waiting to drench and short-circuit it the moment the portlight failed.
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Disasters of the Century / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Disasters of the Century / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: In many of the episodes, particularly those set earlier in the century. Special mention goes to Ocean Ranger, which was nicknamed Ocean Danger long before the sinking. Among other things, the safety culture on the vessel was lackadaisical and arrogant, with inept safety drills leaving the crew poorly prepared for an actual emergencynote a former crew member off-rig at the time, interviewed for a different documentary, described the safety culture on Ocean Ranger as basically amounting to Don't Touch It, You Idiot!, and another described fishermen laughing at the toolpusher for trying to dominate a safety meeting with claims that the rig was too big to sink; survival gear was inadequate at best, with no immersion suits and lackluster flotation devices; the lifeboats were difficult to launch in decent conditions, never mind in an Atlantic cyclone; the control room was, in one of the most inexplicable marine vessel design choices in history, on one of the columns rather than on deck and low enough to be vulnerable to rogue waves, with the only way to check the water level being to leave a flimsy porthole open; and, to compound an already baffling design choice, said porthole was right next to the ballast control system, just waiting to drench and short-circuit it the moment the portlight failed. The Vanderbilt Reef was a known hazard even before it sank the SS Princess Sophia, as it's barely above water at low tide and completely submerged at high tide, but World War I prevented a proper beacon from being built, meaning the only warning was an unlit buoy. Had there been a proper beacon, Sophia would have been able to adjust her course earlier.
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Disasters of the Century / int_c9a71d47	type	Innocence Lost
Disasters of the Century / int_c9a71d47	comment	Innocence Lost: This trope is name-dropped in the episode about the Hartford Circus Fire.
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Disasters of the Century / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Disasters of the Century / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: "Disasters of the Century" is a Canadian show and roughly half of the featured disasters took place in Canada.
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Disasters of the Century / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
Disasters of the Century / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Captain Leonard Locke's decision not to evacuate the SS Princess Sophia until weather conditions had improved, speculated to be a response to SS Clallam captain George Roberts' own mistake in evacuating the Clallam too hastily, ultimately proved to be this, as by the time weather conditions had improved enough, Sophia had sunk due to her hull being torn to shreds, resulting in the deaths of all passengers and crew.
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