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Distress Call From Skyway Bridge Disaster Draws Listeners on Anniversary
Turn up the volume and listen in to a caller who contacted the Coast Guard after a freighter struck the Sunshine Skyway Bridge on the morning of May 9, 1980.
Thursday makred the 33rd anniversary of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge disaster, and people have recalled – or remembered stories relayed to them – of a freighter's collision with the bridge during a morning storm.
The Summit Venture plowed into a support column, causing the catastrophe. Six cars, a truck and Greyhound bus plunged off the broken span into the water. The death toll: 35 people.
Listen in on this remarkable YouTube video that captures a distress call made to the U.S. Coast Guard and the response.
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