LORAN Station Port Clarence Demolition - 6 cameras

Connections Film & Video captured in HD the LORAN Station Port Clarence Tower Demolition on April 28, 2010. Connections teamed with the Coast Guard's Civil Engineering Unit from Juneau, Jacobs Field Services of North America and Controlled Demolition, Inc. to document the demolition of Alaska's tallest structure (1,350').

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• LORAN
• Port Clarence
• Alaska
• USCG
• Tower Demolition
• GoPro
• CDI
• Controlled Demolition Inc

[Npeo]

2:05 3-d would have been cool. lol

[TheUndert0ker]

@PlanetaryTV oct97-aug98. you might have been my replacement! i was a fireman in main prop

[PlanetaryTV]

@TheUndert0ker What dates were you there? I was there between August 98 and Sept 99

[TheUndert0ker]

@PlanetaryTV WOW you must have been there at or nearly the same time I was. I got sent there right out of boot camp as well. It was a really cool station hell we probably served with the same people!

[Npeo]

That was kinda really awesome

[MrRadio915]

Best angle, I think begins ~2:00. That piece coming toward the camera gave me the willies.

[PlanetaryTV]

It is too bad. I served at this station for a year, 98-99 straight out of boot camp.

[riblet2000]

Problem is, it wasn't a "good tower". It had structural issues that were prohibitively expensive to fix (you can see one buckling about half-way up) so instead of having it fall on its own they brought it down in a controlled fashion.

[ajaceman]

The fate of this beautiful 1350' Dresser Ideco was sealed even as the signature ink was drying on the documents ending CONUS Loran C transmission. The spectre of the controversial and mysterious collapse of a similar structure in Cape Race, Newfoundland in 1992 and the tragic failure in Iwo Jima in 1964 have likely haunted Kodiak and other CEUs ever since. It only took the tower a dozen seconds to die. Long live the memory of a proud tradition of navigation services to mariners everywhere. RIP.