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Sighthill Tower Blast

The massive Sighthill towers in Glasgow are brought down with stunning accuracy, sending most of the debris into the only available cleared areas.

Discovery Channel Clips

  • Play The Detonators: Perfect Bridge Blast
    Perfect Bridge Blast

    The Detonators (02:39)

    Bridge blasters Cody and Scott Gustafson carry out a perfect demolition of the old Foxburg bridge that spans the Allegheny River.
  • Play The Detonators: Birmingham Blast Day
    Birmingham Blast Day

    The Detonators (02:45)

    All is in readiness to take down the old Calthorpe House in Birmingham, England with its massive concrete columns, but the blasters have to watch out for a major gas line.
  • Play The Detonators: Concrete Monster Bites the Dust
    Concrete Monster Bites the...

    The Detonators (02:43)

    A massive concrete bottling plant in Newcastle, England requires over three months of preparation and 2500 detonators.
  • Play The Detonators: Blast Cams
    Blast Cams

    The Detonators (02:20)

    Explosions are cool, and they're even cooler when you can watch them up close. Meet the guys who set up the sacrifice cameras.
  • Play The Detonators: Detonating Cord
    Detonating Cord

    The Detonators (01:55)

    Dr. Braden Lusk does a walk through with a Scottish team using this special blasting tool that cuts like a precision scalpel at 22,000 feet per second.
  • Play The Detonators: Concrete Under Tension
    Concrete Under Tension

    The Detonators (01:54)

    Dr. Braden Lusk demonstrates how blasters can take advantage of concrete's one great weakness.
  • Play The Detonators: Kicker Charge Perfection
    Kicker Charge Perfection

    The Detonators (02:57)

    The powerhouse of an old paper mill in the Scottish highlands proves to be a textbook example of how professionals can take down steel legs without creating dangerous flying fragments.
  • Play The Detonators: Felling Coal Silos
    Felling Coal Silos

    The Detonators (02:17)

    Chester Grace and his Dykon crew make a perfect call bringing down a row of old coal silos in West Virginia.
  • Play The Detonators: Fire in the Hole
    Fire in the Hole

    The Detonators (03:02)

    The two doctors of demolition set up a demonstration to show the best approach to bring down a challenging structure in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Play The Detonators: The Power of Air Blasts
    The Power of Air Blasts

    The Detonators (03:11)

    Detonators hosts Paul Worsey and Braden Lusk set up experiments to demonstrate the power and physics of explosive air blasts.
  • Play The Detonators: Bismarck Bridge
    Bismarck Bridge

    The Detonators (02:25)

    In Bismarck, North Dakota, blasters masterfully use shaped charges to cut through the steel beams of a 125-foot triple span bridge.
  • Play The Detonators: Sighthill Tower Blast
    Sighthill Tower Blast

    The Detonators (02:44)

    The massive Sighthill towers in Glasgow are brought down with stunning accuracy, sending most of the debris into the only available cleared areas.
 

Join explosive experts Dr. Braden Lush and Dr. Paul Worsey as they bring you big blasts like you've never seen them before! The explosive footage is captured using special synchronized cameras that capture all the action

 
 

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