Photo: China's Three Gorges Dam, by the Numbers

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The last temporary dam protecting the just completed main wall of Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River was blown up on June 6, 2006. The 12-second series of blasts sent the 30-yard-long (27-meter-long) top section of the cofferdam tumbling into the river in central China's Hubei Province.


Photograph from AP/Xinhua

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