Coming to you live it’s the news team of Zakaria Rook, Michael Fourie, Michael Sutherland and myself Jayden Clayton bringing you the story of the Halifax explosion on the morning of December 6th, 1917. Our class topic was on the Halifax explosion, and we had to make a news report on it.

The Halifax Explosion was a maritime disaster in Halifax, nova scotia, Canada on the morning of 6 December 1917. A French cargo ship carrying high explosives collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax harbour to Bedford Basin. The SS lmo was leaving the harbour way over the speed limit to make up for its late delivery when the Mont Blanc was entering. The Mont Blanc ship blew their whistle for the right of way. The lmo then responded with two whistle blasts. Both ships kept blowing their whistles till it was too late. The collision caused a fire on board the French ship igniting the explosives, causing a large explosion that devastated the Richmond district of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by blast, debris, fires and collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. Nearly all structures within an 800 metre radius, including the entire community of Richmond, were obliterated.

Our group decided we would all finish our soldier research before we started our Halifax news report. So the second in class work day we started our script halfway through class and decided we would record our footage all class on the last day. But other groups got to use the green screen so we didn’t have a chance to use it, so we brought it to Zakarias and recorded it all on the weekend. It was quite a fun project to work on and a very interesting one. Here is our video.