Fireworks Fun Facts #4

May 10, 2022

The SuperFireworks Co., Ltd. team keeps sharing fantastic facts from the world of fireworks and pyrotechnics within our FFF series!

…The fireworks display held on 21 August 2009 at Dorset Festival, UK, was set up as a world record attempt but ended quickly and unexpectedly. With a total of 110,000 fireworks mounted on a barge between two piers in the English Channel, the display was planned as a carefully choreographed bonanza. Instead, the initial rocket launches set fire to the entire barge full of fireworks, which exploded and burned brightly for just six seconds. The record was set, but received the prefix "anti", and the 175,000 spectators who gathered to watch the spectacle were, to put it mildly, disappointed...

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