Ripple Rock

Ripple Rock

       Hi, this is Klara again and today I am going to tell you about Ripple Rock. Ripple Rock was an underwater mountain , and at low tide it was only 9 feet under the water. At least 20  large boats and 100 small ones hit the underwater rock and sunk. About 110 people died. Something had to be done. So they decided to blow it up. 75 men worked hard to put explosives in shafts that were drilled into the mountain. At 9:30:02 on April 5, 1958, it happened. 635,000 metric tons of rock and water exploded up to 300 meters into the air. You could feel the ground shake from miles away. It was one of the biggest non-nuclear  explosions ever. I think this is a really important part of history in BC.