China built an 11km railway bridge on the Asian Bermuda Triangle.

Chinese workers are building a two-story railway bridge in the rough waters dubbed the "Asian Bermuda Triangle".

The Binh Dam strait railway bridge worth 1.7 billion USD across one of the strongest seas in southeast China, Express yesterday reported. The area once recorded many mysterious disappearances of helicopters and boats and was dubbed "Asia".

Binh Dam sea crossing bridge is under construction.(Video: CGTN).

Chinese engineers started implementing the project in 2013 and are confident they can complete this massive traffic project next year. They also plan to run high-speed trains in the sea known for the waves.

The giant Binh Dam Strait Railway Bridge connects Binh Dam Island and small islands nearby to the mainland of Fujian Province. The two-story building has a length of 11km, 45 times longer than the Tower Bridge in London, England and 6 times the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, USA.

To build the entire bridge, workers need to use 300,000 tons of steel and 2.60 million tons of cement. This material is enough to build 8 in Dubai, the tallest skyscraper in the world today. It is expected to include an 8-lane highway on the upper deck and a high-speed rail downstairs, which will be the first railway bridge in China to be built at sea and designed to support bullet trains running at speed degree up to 200 km / h.

However, the construction conditions are extremely challenging. The Binh Dam Strait, part of the Taiwan Strait, often experiences strong winds. For more than 300 days each year, strong winds blow at a speed of 48 km / h, dragging waves high across 10-storey buildings. Underwater drilling machines will be subject to tremendous pressure of up to 87 tons generated by ocean currents.

Principal engineer Fan Lilong shared the Binh Dam Bridge as the most difficult project he has ever done in 20 years of work. According to him, drilling down to sea rocks is the hardest thing to do."I tried to think of a solution even when I was dreaming. It seemed impossible, like nailing a stone," Fan said.

Binh Dam Island (red dot) is located in the area dubbed the "Asian Bermuda Triangle".(Photo: Long Room).

Not far from the bridge is Taiwan's Penghu archipelago, where many commercial and military airplanes have been unexplained, raising concerns in 2008. After 85 cargo ships and missing passengers in a narrow strip near China in 2016, many believe that the hypothesis of southern China, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines could be a new Bermuda Triangle.

In order to conquer impossible conditions at sea, Chinese engineers designed a series of bridge-built monster machines to help workers build Binh Dam bridge. Some outstanding designs include "Sea Power 801" , a powerful power drill that can drill deep into the solid seabed with high accuracy, a crane that can lift up to 3,600 tons, equivalent to 7 elephants, and tower cranes can withstand tornadoes.

Binh Dam Bridge is located in the Phu Binh railway worth $ 3.6 million, belonging to China's rapidly expanding railway network, covering 88km. In the past 20 years, the length of Chinese railways has nearly doubled from 66,000 km to 127,000 km. China is also the country that owns the most railroad bridges in the world. Workers have built more than 60,000 railway bridges.