Seconds from Disaster — Season 1, Episode 11: Flood at Stava Dam

Episode synopsis

On July 1985, Italy's Stava Dam collapses and demolishes 70 structures killing 268 people in the process. Was there a fault in the design of the dam? Is this something that could happen to any dam around the world? Find out how a structural failure leads to a massive catastrophe with Flood at Stava Dam

About Seconds from Disaster

Seconds from Disaster is a US/UK-produced documentary television programme that investigates historically relevant man-made and natural disasters of the 20th century. Each episode aims to explain a single incidental by analyzing the causes and circumstances that ultimately effected the disaster. The program uses re-enactments, interviews, testimonies, and CGI to analyze the sequence of events second-by-second for the audience. Narrators for the show are Ashton Smith, Richard Vaughan and Peter Guinness.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Crash of the Concorde (Concorde)
• E2Tunnel Inferno
• E3The Bomb in Oklahoma City
• E4Fire On the Star (Fire Onboard the Star)
• E5Derailment at Eschede (High Speed Train Wreck)
• E6Wreck of the Sunset Limited
• E7Meltdown in Chernobyl
• E8Inferno at Guadalajara
• E9Fire on the Ski Slope
• E10Explosion in the North Sea
• E12Collision on the Runway
• E13Pentagon 9/11