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New video of damaged Blessed Sacrament Cathedral

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

New aerial footage has revealed just how much damage was sustained by Christchurch’s Catholic cathedral in the February 2011 earthquake.

Christchurch man Pete Perrim used a drone to film the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch’s Blessed Sacrament Cathedral from the air.

The footage, taken using a DJI Phantom 2 drone, documented the extent of the damage the Barbadoes St building experienced in the quake and its subsequent aftershocks.

Perrim uploaded the footage to YouTube on January 4, the same day it was taken, saying that “one of the most majestic and beautiful buildings in our city was turned into a pile of rubble by an ‘act of God'”. Watch Video

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