Check out the before and after photos of the condo towers
The pool does not appear damaged in any way in the after photo.
Excellent graphic. Thank you for posting.
Download and read the report. There were problems all over the building, not just the pool. Sounds like a lot of ignored maintenance.
There could have been another pool. A covered one. Lots of condos have both types of pools on site.
“A lack of proper drainage on the pool deck of Champlain Towers South condo, which sits above the building's parking garage, was the source of the “main issue,” wrote engineer Frank Morabito, according to the Miami Herald.”
I wired the bldg in below link while it was being built and always had a creepy feeling about this pools location. Roof top.WTF
https://www.highrises.com/fort-lauderdale/listing/f10280787-ocean-club-condo-4020-galt-ocean-dr-1406-fort-lauderdale/
I know some one in Hallandale that lives on the 20th floor of one of these places and water was always dripping into the underground garage from the massive patio/pool decking above,always creeped me out.
Looks like one of those situations where if even one major support fails it will cause the ones adjacent to fail, and there then will be a sort of chain reaction. Notice, the side affected was the one facing the ocean.
The way it has been described, I thought it was a rooftop pool. That looks like a ground level pool. Was there maybe a second indoor pool in the top of the building?
Within six hours the pool completely drained out. Early in the morning of the tragedy you could see the pool level dropping
Thanks for the link to the interactive picture. Clearest depiction of what happened. I do recall from one of the videos that the collapse happened in two stages.
Great pictures, thanks!
Thank you for that link.
If they are blaming the pool, they are hiding something.
Right after this happened a freeper (can’t recall who) posted about a friend. The friend was an engineer who owned a condo in the building. The engineer had sold his condo 1 month before the collapse because he felt the building was unsafe. The engineer claimed the columns that were surround by the pool deck planters were compromised by the planters and were not safe.
As I looked at the videos I saw the area being discussed. For those interested look at the columns surrounded by the planters. The columns are sheared cleanly off at the grade level of the planting beds. What is odd about this is there is no protruding rebar, literally none the columns are sheared clean. This leads me to the conclusion many here are correct. The salt environment acted upon the rebar in the columns and was allowed to do so because that concrete was compromised by the soil in the planters.