Moment roof-top swimming pool collapses through onto floor below

Metro.UK ^

[BenLurkin]

CCTV footage captured the moment the floor of the 75ft-long pool suddenly gave way, sending water flooding into the car park below, along with debris from the shattered base.

Luckily no injuries were reported following the terrifying incident in Vila Velha, in the southeastern state of Espirito Santo, on April 22. But 270 people had to leave their homes in the condominium and could not return for five days while a team of engineers carried out safety checks.

[jonascord]

But, engineering ability, and mathematical ability should be distant thirds to racial and gender diversity.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You couldn’t pay me enough to swim in that thing.

[Busywhiskers]

Probably got a decimal point in the wrong place.

[jocon307]

“Expect a lot more of that in the future.”

Amen, brother.

[ctdonath2]

It’s ok, xe was woke.

[napscoordinator]

Yieks. I’ve been on a roof top pool before in Dubai. So much fun. Usually a bar with drinking and music. Gladly this didn’t happen. Lol.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Dang. Not just a failure, but a total failure of the entire bottom of the pool.

[Starcitizen]

Indian engineers are working in Brazil too, I see...

[Nateman]

Imagine what happens in an Earthquake.

[Nateman]

'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years Romeo and Juliet. ACT I SCENE III line 27

[_Jim]

re: “Somewhere there’s a structural engineer who’s in a lot of trouble.”

Assuming one actually did the calcs, drawings, etc leading to specific construction details ...

[mass55th]

How convenient for China that India is having this virus wave.

[mass55th]

Oops wrong thread. Sorry.

[a fool in paradise]

Didn’t Keith Moon do that one time at a hotel?

[budj]

Article said it was 75 ft long. Guessing 12 ft wide by 5 ft deep, the water would weigh around 280,000 llb.

[Disambiguator]

That would make me very nervous.

[teeman8r]

And that’s why I will never swim in the glass pool overlooking the city below.

[_Jim]

... BIG ‘block of ice’ if the pool pump fails during a cold snap ...

[Larry Lucido]

Plus there’s sharks in the water!

[Hebrews 11:6]

"Architect" = "arch builder".

S.O.P. for a newly-completed arch was to require the architect to stand underneath it as the structural supports were taken away. If it failed, he never built another.