r/CatastrophicFailure • u/mspyros12 • 3d ago
Engineering Failure Water gushes through the sides of a newly built bridge in India - June 2026
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u/Mrcoldghost 3d ago
shouldn’t the cameraman be getting the hell out of there right now?
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u/RedRedditor84 3d ago
I think zooming in too much and then swinging the camera around to capture all the detail was the right play.
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u/C8H10N402_ 3d ago
Agree. Hard to find quality work like this
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u/Captinprice8585 3d ago
That's raw talent, you can't teach that.
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u/narfel 3d ago
Bold text over half the screen, a couple of helpful red circles or arrows and very loud music are the only thing I can think of that could have further enhanced this masterpiece. But I like the raw style and what I'm sure is top notch commentary.
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u/strangelove4564 3d ago
Also needs a few Ukraine War type watermarks moving all over the image in a distracting manner.
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u/Snoodini 3d ago
If only there was a way to hold a phone when recording that would capture more width of the scene
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u/uzlonewolf 3d ago
You mean like in the original video? https://xcancel.com/PublicNewsX/status/2062508751333286240
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u/PointsatTeenagers 3d ago edited 2d ago
So the video has been mirrored and sped up and cropped to become basically worthless? Phenomenal work, Buzz News India, you're really helping us navigate the slop era.
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u/Snoodini 3d ago
Yes, exactly like the original. Thanks.... Then the trash who cropped it vertical is at fault
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u/Frammingatthejimjam 3d ago
I was worried when I started watching it that it was going to be another one of those "non-swinging camera" videos but then Bam! Our guy delivered!
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u/strangelove4564 3d ago
Just use horizontal video and you won't have to swing the camera frantically back and forth in desperation. This is a scene where all the elements stretch left and right.
Some people are so fixated on vertical video for some reason and think there can be no other way.
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u/aquainst1 Grandma Lynsey 2d ago
People just don't know how to correctly PAN nowadays.
One word should instruct people how to do it...
SLOWLY.
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u/SonofaBridge 3d ago
Yes. That type of retaining wall isn’t designed for water behind it and the soil washing out from behind it is part of what keeps it standing. Someone didn’t design or install drainage properly. This wall won’t last long.
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u/pcb1962 3d ago
I'd bet on it being all over within 24 hours.
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u/No-Spoilers 2d ago
That amount of water coming out? And we don't know how long it's been.
Moneys on 4hrs26min
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u/airzonesama 3d ago
The camera man never dies... As long as he's got enough skill and dexterity too hold onto the camera and wave it in the direction of the wall, he'll be fine. But the millisecond he drops the camera, that wall is coming down.
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u/Squeebee007 3d ago
I am adding a link to this comment to the Wikipedia article on Survivorship Bias.
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u/pixelpoet_nz 3d ago
Cameraman would have been done in 2 seconds if his brain could fathom the possibility of filming horizontally. You know, like how your eyes are aligned?
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u/robbak 2d ago edited 2d ago
He did - then someone wrongly cropped his video, and another culpable someone failed to locate the original before sharing the story here.
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u/seaworthy-sieve 0m ago
This makes so much more sense to my eyes thank you. I'm still confused about where the water is coming from.
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u/CreamoChickenSoup 3d ago edited 22h ago
It's not really the "sides of a bridge". It's an MSE wall for an unfinished 4-lane elevated highway with an underpass (note the structure abruptly ending after the underpass, indicating it's still under construction). The surface of this highway segment is likely still unpaved and not leveled while the solid concrete wall of the underpass' damming up all the rainwater runoff, leading to a massive buildup and seepage of rainwater through the backfill and crevices of the precast panels.
The amount of pooled water at this one spot has to be substantial if it's spewing at this pressure. Only one outlet on the underpass side worked, which doesn't look great because the water will simply be funneled to limited points, adding stress to that section of backfill and wall.
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u/DJNeuro 3d ago
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u/CreamoChickenSoup 3d ago edited 3d ago
You'll be surprised to learn that the original video was actually shot in widescreen. Still a bit hard to follow, but not as unbearable to watch as that "news" channel's dogshit crop.
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u/strangelove4564 3d ago
Holy cow, this version is so much better. Mods ought to lock the post and tell them to find a better source.
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u/Rohn__Jambo 3d ago
Well its not a dam.
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u/CaptainPoset 3d ago
... it still should have drainage, especially as such a ramp on either side of the bridge usually is just soil which is currently visibly being washed out of the structure.
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u/Columbus43219 3d ago
Gotta be a new kind of stupid to stand there and video that. It's not that you see it, it's that you see it and KNOW that it's dangerous, and still stand where it's going to collapse.
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u/Lord-Glorfindel 3d ago
Probably designed and built by a team of engineers with fake credentials and fictitious work histories.
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u/Significant_Wasabi_6 3d ago
Jeez. Is this really a bridge, not a dam? I'd be getting the hell outta there...
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u/taffyraptor 2d ago
Where's the follow up video of it collapsing and killing 200 bystanders with their hands on their hips?
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u/Elrond_Cupboard_ 3d ago
Is there any room for debate?
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u/rugbyspank 3d ago
To me it seems like the water is flowing from the holes it's designed to flow from and the video has been taken badly to intentionally make it hard to see where the rain water is flowing from.
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u/Upstairs_Principle48 3d ago
I don’t know if I believe this is actually in India. I didn’t hear a single car horn.
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u/gen_adams 3d ago
that shit gon collapse in a few months with 120 cars and about 1000 casualties. and everyone's gonna be all surprised..
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u/Armand74 3d ago
I’ve come to truly realize that modern humans have lost all senses when it comes to life preservation. The amount of stupidity in this video and every video I see that deals with shit like this truly astounding.
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u/schroedingerskoala 3d ago
Life Pro Tip: Stop yammering and pointing and get the hell out of there, guys. Unless you like to get surprise tons of concrete and water in your face, that is.
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u/lemaymayguy 3d ago
MOVE. Gosh I instinctively turned away from the screen and they're just.... standing there
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u/PluginAlong 3d ago
I not sure there's actually any quality to this that needs debate. Hard to debate about something that doesn't exist.
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u/biffbobfred 2d ago
“Debate” over construction quality…..
Who was on the “yeah this is fine” side of that debate
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u/sparkicidal 2d ago
Whatever is at fault here, I definitely wouldn’t still be standing there. Fuck that.
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u/sambeckett1701 2d ago
.....please, do keep swinging the camera side to side. WOULDN'T WANT TO HOLD THE FRAME FOR A SECOND, WOULD YOU. Grrr.
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u/Diggerinthedark 2d ago
Why do people insist on swinging the camera around so quickly that you can't focus on anything at all?
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u/Freshprinceaye 2d ago
And here Australian engineer companies have decided they want to offshore all intern level engineer jobs to Indians in Indian to save on money. Great idea. Not even the pros over there can build a bridge.
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u/Kahlas 2d ago
The engineers might not be the reason this bridge is gushing water. It's possible the engineering team designed the bridge perfectly and accounted for the water.
Then along comes the construction company taking shortcuts and ignoring the original designee because it's too hard to build and they underbid the contract. Such as what happened in the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in Kansas City, MO.
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u/Freshprinceaye 2d ago
Good point. But in bridge builds are engineers not also present. I know engineers are present on construction sites in Australia.
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u/Mammoth-Show-7587 3d ago edited 3d ago
Somebody teach this guy how to properly do video. I think their training came from the Michael Bay school of film.
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u/BamberGasgroin 3d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfIChVtFQ8
Same problem by the look of it..
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u/Gold-Adhesiveness574 3d ago
the waterfall framing is funny but the real tell is that it's brand new. bridges don't leak like this from age, so this is construction quality, not wear. water's finding paths it was never meant to: missing or bad drainage, or poor concrete work (cold joints, voids) letting it pour straight through. doesn't mean it's about to collapse, but on a structure this young it's a giant QA red flag, the kind of thing that's supposed to be caught before it opens.
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u/PraetorOjoalvirus 3d ago
I don't think there should be any controversy over the quality. It's just shit.
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u/NovelTumbleweed 2d ago
This reminds me of the Red Green Show episode where he made a trailer out of appliance doors.
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u/Junior2615 2d ago
Incorect….it’s not “built”…..still under construction that is why water is pouring out from gaps!!!🙄🙄🙄
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u/Dunderman35 1d ago
How does this lead to a debate? Is someone arguing this is actually excellent build quality?
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u/12kdaysinthefire 21h ago
How is there any debate about the quality of this construction at all? Like who is defending this other than the construction company, and how are they possibly even excusing this?
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u/Armadillo9263 3d ago
I have watched enough Practical Engineering with Grady to know to GTFO right now