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Journey through history's most stirring disasters.
Crash Lessons is a podcast that talks about everything that could had and did go wrong. From natural to man-made disasters. Join your host Robyn each week as she talks about all things disaster.
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Update frequency:
every 20 days
Average audio length:
28 minutes
English
United States
26 episodes
since April 16, 2025
episodic
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On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared beneath the freezing waters of Lake Superior with all 29 crew members aboard. The ship had been battling a powerful storm, taking on water, losing radar, and listing heavily—but just minutes before it vanished, the crew rep…
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Description: In May 1996, a group of climbers set out to reach the summit of Mount Everest. What followed was a series of delays, difficult decisions, deteriorating conditions and a devastating blizzard that would leave eight people dead.
In this episode, we follow the climbers thr…
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What was supposed to be a short fishing trip turned into an unimaginable fight for survival. After being stranded in the Pacific Ocean, José Salvador Alvarenga spent 438 days drifting at sea, facing hunger, storms, and complete isolation.
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From political violence and deadly bombings to suspicious packages, smoke-filled tunnels, and mass evacuations, Montreal's Metro has repeatedly found itself at the center of major emergencies. In this episode of Crash Lessons, we explore the FLQ bombing campaign, …
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In October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed high in the Andes Mountains, leaving 33 survivors stranded nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. What followed was a 72-day fight for survival against starvation, freezing temperatures, avalanches, and impossible choices.
In thi…
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A fire that was never meant to last more than a few hours… has now been burning for over sixty years. In 1962, a routine landfill burn in Centralia, Pennsylvania ignited something no one could control — an underground coal seam fire that would slowly consume the town from below. Wh…
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In the 1980s, a state-of-the-art radiation machine was supposed to save lives. But patients started coming back with burns that didn’t make sense… pain that shouldn’t have been possible… and symptoms doctors didn’t believe. The machine said everything was fine. It wasn’t. This is t…
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Mauled by a grizzly bear. Abandoned by his own men. Left with nothing in the wilderness.
Hugh Glass survived one of the most extreme ordeals in American frontier history — but surviving didn’t mean peace. In this episode, we explore how Glass kept going when everything failed, what…
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On July 6, 1944, what was meant to be a joyful afternoon at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus turned into one of the deadliest fires in American history. In this episode of Crash Lessons, we tell the story of the Hartford Circus Fire — how a perfect storm of unsa…
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Deep beneath the waters of Deer Island, one of the largest wastewater treatment plants in the United States was under construction—an ambitious project meant to clean up Boston Harbor and protect the environment. But behind the engineering feat lies a much darker story.
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