Vajont Dam : The Deadliest Dam Tragedy in Human History

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  @SabinCivil · 1 year ago · pinned

  I hope you enjoyed the Vajont dam video. If you like my work, please don&apos;t forget to support us on Patreon - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/sabins">https://www.patreon.com/sabins</a> Regards Sabin Mathew

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  @mindstorm88 · 1 year ago

  A 50 years old survivor of this disaster, who lost his whole family (his parents, his wife and 3 sons under-15) wrote on their gravestone (now disappeared after the 2004 riqualification of the disaster gravesite) the following, rightful sentence (here translated from italian): <br> <br>&lt;&lt;Barbarically and vilely slaughtered because of human negligence and greed, they&apos;re in vain waiting justice for the infamous guilt. Premeditated massacre.&gt;&gt;

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  @milton8903 · 1 year ago

  There is always someone who warns, and always some powerful people that ignore in name of profit.<br>In Brazil, in the city of Brumadinho, the Vale mining company had an auditor, this auditor said that there was a risk of a mud dam collapse, they fired him and hired another auditing company that said it was safe. 4 months later, the dam collapsed, killing 270 people, putting an entire city under mud, polluting an entire river, and since the responsible people are rich, no one was punished.

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  @stefanovitali2925 · 1 year ago

  Italy in a nutshell: engineers &amp; workforce doing their best job, politicians &amp; managers being terrible and/or corrupted

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  @Alex-uj7ei · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;m from Italy. My father lost his brother in Vajont disaster. I was a child when he took me there, a few years after the tragedy. I was only 8 or 9 years old, but I still remember the shock when I saw, on top of the dam, iron bars as big as an arm, completely bent from the water wave, and, far away, the so called &quot;M&quot; on Toc Mountain, where the landslide began...<br>My uncle was never found &nbsp;😢

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  @Lenelindgren · 1 year ago

  Vajont tragedy was the worst we had in Italy and by now no one remember it, just people that live in Longarone, Erto, Casso and nearby. Visiting the dam was devastating for me, I cried and prayed for years for people that died in the catastrophe. I had a teaxher that was born near it, in Belluno, he was 20 when the wave hit, at the time he teached in a primary school near Longarone: the day after the tragedy, he showed up for his class and only half the children were there, all the rest have died. He lost at least 10 friends and a lot of relatives, he was so broken he comsidered suicide, but never did. Instesd, he kept teaching in different cities, including mine, 500 km away. We clicked in three years and then, when I was 22, we met again and stayed in touch: he&apos;s 81 now, lives in Belluno and I sometimes travel there to visit him with my husband and daughter. He&apos;s amazing but that tragedy hit him so hard he&apos;s cynical and sometimes fail to open up properly.. He asks a lot about me and my life, but seems to avoid my worries about him and how he feels, always trying to be gentle but never too close. To me he&apos;s so important and I&apos;d like to help, but I know I can&apos;t. But if you want to know that tragedy, maybe you can: we have a TV show from 1995/96 called &quot; Vajont by Marco Paolini&quot;. Try to find it subbed in english, maybe someone did it. Watch it, for never forgetting what happened here in Italy october 9, 1963. You will laugh and cry, I promise.

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  @TheMule71 · 1 year ago

  @<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k06c8LduVog&amp;t=695">11:35</a> Well, geotechnical engineers were also on the dam that night to watch the landslide that was safe according to their computations. They were the first to die.

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  @benmcreynolds8581 · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s actually insane how many clear signs they had. They even had all this time to go and build all of these different installments to observe &amp; measure this &amp; yet they ignored it &amp; decided against keeping the water level low..

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  @drskkusuma · 1 year ago

  &quot;the landslide is getting slower when we reduce the water, lets increase the water level until its full!&quot;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -vajont dam managment team and workers

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  @sonocoleichesono2888 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m Italian and for us (in few who still annually remember the fact, 10/09/&apos;63) is still the fruit of anger and shame. The damned culprits who have built with fraud, falsified geological test data, and killed almost 2000 people, have served little or nothing of the sentence they were due!

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  @giglomesh123 · 1 year ago

  Can&apos;t imagine the sight of a &nbsp;170 m high tsunami when you live in the mountain must have felt like Armageddon. They were literally so meticulous and yet they played with peoples lives

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  @johnh1932 · 11 months ago

  &quot;Management ignored the warnings,&quot; always precedes an unthinkable catastrophe.

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