Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tallest Sand Castle: Caterpillar breaks Guinness World Records' record (VIDEO)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- Caterpillar dispatched a crew of its top demonstration operators to the beach in Rio de Janeiro to work with a team of talented sculptors to build a giant sand castle; over the course of 15 days, trucks delivered 49 loads of sand to the site, where seven machine operators and seven sculptors carefully shifted and shaped it into a 41 ft. 3.67 in. (12.59 m.)-tall sand castle, which sets the new world record for the Tallest Sand Castle,
according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/.
Photo: Construction of the World's Tallest Sand Castle, which was made exclusively of quarry sand and water, began in the Caminho Niemeyer square in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Over the course of 15 days, trucks delivered 49 loads of sand to the site, where seven machine operators and seven sculptors carefully shifted and shaped it into a towering work of art. At 41 ft. 3.67 in. (12.59 m.), the Caterpillar sandcastle was the new world record holder, topping the previous Guinness World Records' record of 37 ft., 10 in. (11.53 meters).
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The previous Guinness World Records' record for the Tallest Sand Castle was 37 ft., 10 in. (11.53 meters).
Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the most people buried in sand simultaneously: 517, at the Clogherhead Prawn Festival in Clogherhead, Co. Louth, Ireland.
Caterpillar dispatched a crew of its top demonstration operators to the beach in Rio de Janeiro to work with a team of talented sculptors to attempt a World-Record sandcastle.
"Sand Castle" is the latest in Caterpillar's Built For It Trials, a series of short films. The video (see below) captures the action as two Cat hydraulic excavators, a wheel loader and two mini excavators transform 960 cu. yd. (734 cu. m.) of sand into the world's tallest sandcastle.
Construction of the castle, which was made exclusively of quarry sand and water, began on October 28 in the Caminho Niemeyer square in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Over the course of 15 days, trucks delivered 49 loads of sand to the site, where seven machine operators and seven sculptors carefully shifted and shaped it into a towering work of art.
A representative from Guinness World Records was at the site to take final measurements and confirmed that at 41 ft. 3.67 in. (12.59 m.), the Caterpillar sandcastle was the new world record holder, topping the previous record of 37 ft., 10 in. (11.53 meters).
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