How Engineers Widened The Suez Canal For Bigger Ships [4K] | Extreme Constructions | Spark
It’s a major construction project, aimed at doubling the width of the Suez Canal and deepening its main waterway. 500 million cubic meters of sand and soil have already been transported from all over the world. Using unprecedented 3D images, we reveal how the canal will be widened. We also look back to the original construction, back in 1859, to show how it first came to be built.
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The Suez Canal. The Paris Metro. Strasbourg Cathedral. These masterpieces of constructions redefined what was possible at the time, using the latest technologies and developments. In this five part series, we reveal how five great monuments were designed and constructed.
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At about 55 seconds into this - and I quote - "...from the Mediterranean 'OCEAN' to the Red Sea...". From the Mediterranean OCEAN ??? Well done Spark !
US Merchant Marine here, MSC Military Sealift Command. I(we) steered an 850 foot Ro-Ro type US Navy owned ship full of classified material through the Suez Canal. It was 2003. Destination: Somewhere in The Sandbox. Still a classified voyage, but take a pick and you would likely be correct. Every ship gets an unusually odious Egyptian pilot that yells at you if you get the ship more than 35 feet in either direction than dead center. It is so difficult to do and concentrate that we worked in 30 minute shifts only. Steering a laser straight course with a ship of that size in a VERY narrow body of water is extremely hard. Steering a ship up or down a (very) winding river like the Mississippi is MUCH easier! Only one harder steering chore. That is coming in or out of the port of New Orleans with extreme cross currents and cross winds. Not an easy task.
You have an odious pilot in sovereign territory in canal,port and Mississippi. To be expected. He protects his country.
It's will be so grate to see a documentary of those who worked at the Suez canal the positive and negative of their life's
It’s insane when humans and countries from all over the world work together to archive something truly exceptional.
I see you have the same snarky autocorrect as I do. I purchased an item from marketplace and I sent the lady a message afterward asking her to mark it sold so I could rape her. Why 😨 is rape even in my library to begin with???? I meant rate, of course --- archive being the default for achieve is much easier to recover from! Lol
Not really in the rosey way you see this. Most countries sent their dregs to go labor there. Got rid of troublemakers, and a atta-boy for helping. Thousands died building this, and that was known to be inevitable. You going to send your best construction companies and engineers there? Of course not.
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It's possible to take long distance bus from hurgada to Sharm ElSheik, Egypt the buses into tunnels under the Suez canal. It was an accidentally discovery for me during my 30 days journey in Egypt. I made short videos of my journey on my KZhead channel, feel free to check it out 🙂 it was a 15 hour bus journey. Military check points every hour. Right after the end of the tunnel all passengers must put all luggage on a long table for inspections. I learned about the resistance groups operating on Egypt Sinai peninsular
I worked on a road tunnel under the Suez canal back in the 1970s, constructed approx. midway between the town of Suez and the Bitter Lakes. The army used a floating bridge made up of pontoons, fitted with huge outboard motors. One end hinged off the West bank and the other end driven across the canal in an ark, to an abutment on the East bank. It took about 30 mins to complete the task and could be done between the ship convoy direction of travel. Of course it could not be used know.
Thanks for posting. I did a little checking and found this fascinating. Apparently there are now a total of six tunnels under the canal. Worth Googling if anyone is interested, and I stumbled onto the fact that the first underwater tunnel was in London, under the Thames River, completed in 1843. Thanks again.
True progress
I was lucky enough to experience the tunnel under the Suez canal in September 2021. I took the Egyptian local bus to reach Sharm ElSheik, as my 35 journey continued on to Dahab ,Neweiba Egypt and finally to Aqaba Jordan by ferry. Port salt was full of military check points. One of the stop after the tunnel, all passengers must opener all luggage on a long table for inspections. A few weeks ago, French news reported booming in that area 🥺 I was lucky, I was the only tourist who took the bus, because the 3 hour ferry between Hagada and Sharm ElSheik was canceled due to COVID.
@@worldcitizeng6507 A while after working on the Suez tunnel I secured a post of Senior Inspector of Works on the US/UK aid sponsored Cairo Wastewater Scheme, where my family and I spent 4 years. We traveled down to Sharm El-Sheikh several times and watched it grow from just a Government hostel, tented village to a one hotel resort. Previous to both the tunneling jobs I spent 6 months on a 007 Bond Film as a transport manager and headed a convoy from London to Luxor, now that was an adventure. In total I've spent 7 years in Egypt. Finishing on the Cairo metro. I hope you enjoyed your time there, I did.
Had the strangest sign on the road along the canal -in Arabic French and English it says "Dip your headlights to oncoming ships "!!!
Our Suez Canal…our pride…our gift to the world… Tahya Masr 🇪🇬 🇪🇬🇪🇬
Your what!!!!! EDUCATE YOURSELFERS.
@@nexusdrexus9361 You're the one who needs education. Yes, the canal is Egyptian property.
I *love* the little miniature canal with the little ships! Awesome! I'd be tempted to play "bumper boats" and zoom around, bumping into all the other ships - I'd probably be kicked out pretty fast.... ;)
Why that dude is not selling tickets is beyond me...he'd make a fortune.
@@thegiggler2 how much do you think companies pay to send their captains and pilots there? They have onsite accommodation, lecture halls and the lake (all built to scale). I doubt they need income from the public, not to forget the nuisance factor of those wishing to play bumper boats.
45:47 shot of an Evergreen ship while talking about involuntary changes of direction....ironic.
I really enjoyed watching this video. Amazing work.
This video is all over the place and can't seem to stay on one item more than a few minutes. The idea of starting at the beginning and showing progression through time seems to be alien to the producers.
A well constructed documentary, informative in a compelling manner that politely demands watching to the end. And that, surely, must be the producer's objective. Top marks!
. "Must ........ watch ...... until ........ ...the end..... ...pheeuuww... Damn that was good !!! " 😊😊😊
I diffently agree, I was going to comment similar thoughts.
I first went through the canal on a 20,000 ton general cargo ship in 1976 or so. The banks were still lined with burned tanks and abandoned gun emplacements and in the Bitter Lakes there were still the mastheads of a couple of sunken ships to be seen. From our deck you could throw an empty beer bottle to the shore - we used to do things like that then. I remember Jimmy Brown's Son and The Gully Gully Man. The last time I went through it was 2002 in a 315,000 ton VLCC in ballast - very different times.
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@@bryannonya9769 and? - people dont think there was life before internet, PCs and colour TVs.
Our people have done a great jab before the invention of Dredging, construction machinery they have constructed big Dams Nagarjuna sagar ,Sri Ram sagsr Sri ssilam dam,Jerald Project we have a great salute them
@@GraemeSPa oh we know there was life, we see the the trash those pigs left there
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Fantastic documentary Spark, well done. 👏👏
Maybe NOT THAT well... He cannot tell the difference between "ocean" and "sea".
I love this, I love the way they built, how they adjusted or made a way...it is far better than where I am here in Cordillera Phils.
This story was sugarcoated especially for gullible people like you
We Egyptians obesessed by making wonders 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬
And why would this be necessary after so many years ? we're looking at you, Evergreen !
ships keep getting bigger and bigger.
Why "Evergreen"? In particular? Many other containership companies pass through the canal with similar and larger vessels..... (And this work was done before the "Ever Given" incident anyway.....in another area of the canal.)
@@patagualianmostly7437 they just seem to be the most error prone in recent history. The "Ever Forward" ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay a couple months ago, in addition to the Suez incident
OMG !!!! .... I thought my dentist dealt with major construction projects; until I watched this Suez documentary
A great documentary, ruined by annoying ads every 5 minutes.
Evergreen, Ever given moment
The idea that some of the first canal was done by hand shovel, wow.
That was pretty damn good, thanks.
Well done! Thanks for sharing!
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Amazing documentary
Incredible mechanics.
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Very informative documentary; however, I don't quite understand what the archival film clips purport to be showing. This can't be the construction of the original canal in the 1860s--motion pictures hadn't yet been invented.
The video kept jumping back and forth between different periods of time separated by hundreds of years. Very confusing.
if filmed in black and white its in the past lol
Watching from South Africa - Cape Town
You must have extraordinary vision to see that far.
Great story, but I'm 10 minutes in and seen the same clips 3 times already, either get more footage or keep the stills on screen for longer .
Military vessels have 'captains'; merchant vessels have 'masters' . . .
...and the Mediterranean is a SEA...
@@carloantoniomartinelli5418 Spark says it's an ocean. So it's an ocean. Case closed. LOL
@Irving Shekelstein Or even seamen . . . !
Amazing what man can do
The Egyptian build the pyramids and temples still standing today. I'm not surprised. The Sinai peninsular is full of military check points every hour. I accidentally took the long distance local bus from hurgada to Sharm ElSheik in September 2021,because the 3 hours ferry was canceled since the pandemic. The bus went under 1 of the tunnel under the Suez canal. The check point after the tunnel, everyone must put luggage on a long table for inspections. Check points between beach resorts. The Red Sea is so pristine, Saudi is visible across from the Red Sea at Neweiba Egypt
bit annoying that its more of a history lesson when there is alresdy a spark video on how the canal was built. all i want to know about is how the made it wider as in the title
Correct me if Im wrong but I believe the Pharoes had a partial canal which was made into a fully operational canal under Roman rule. This then fell into disrepair post collapse of the Roman Empire ??
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It connected the Red Sea to the Nile River.
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SUPERB..
Engineering at its best....!
At about 34:37, the speaker refers to the dredging ship, "I.B.N." Battuta. I believe the name is "Ibn" Battuta, most probably named for the famous 1300s Mahgreb Berber traveller, Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah.
37:20 The Mediterrannean "Ocean" (twice used).... Oops.... Sadly enough, de Lesseps' Panama plans were not succesful, and it would take almost 30 more years before the Atlantic and Pacific Seas... oops Oceans would be interconnected in Central America...
The waterways in the USA are regular ly dredged to maintain the flow of water here and the shorelines are cleared of excess sand after our many hurricanes that we have this is the method used to move the sand back onto our beaches frequently and doesn’t require specially built equipment. It isn’t cheap but it can get the job done in a reasonable tint frame. Many deltas need sand removed to open the shining lanes. It’s sad that Egypt niglected their waterwAys to this extent
THE MINI SHIPS USED IN THE LAKE ARE AN EXCELENT WAY FOR PILOTS AND MASTERS TO FULLY APPRECIATE THE HYDRODYNAMICS EFFECTING THE SHIPS , ESPECIALLY IN CLOSE QUARTERS TO ONE ANOTHER SUCH AS IN PASSING , THESE MINI SHIPS BEING PRECISION SCALED DOWN VERSIONS OF THE SUEZMAX CLASS SHIPS ... A GREAT EDUCATIONAL TOOL !
Very well done. Almost apolitical, almost.
...almost literate, almost... - Mediterranean OCEAN... { ??? )
grandioso
I would love to know how & where they ship those gold bars.
I think it has something to do with Willy Wonka. I'd start my investigation there, if I were you. What I really want to know is how this canal got its name, since I can see no connection at all with the works of Dr. Suez, not to cast shade on his literary achievements, however; but I fail to see how ships in the desert can relate to Green Eggs and Ham, or The Grinch. Go figure.
Also, squeaking of ships of the desert, I also have no idea why a camel would ever want to piss through the eye of a needle. Perhaps it is some kind of sport, but it apparently has been going on for millennia, considering it is mentioned specifically in The Bible. And squeaking of millennia, I also don't understand why she ever married Donald Trump. But again, I digress.
Du at Dubai
I bet they wished they made it just one wide canal instead of one canal each way. By that way, a ship that gets stuck on one shore can be more easily pulled off, and so repeat Ever Given type blockages would be reduced in time...
Ironically this video talks about learning how to steer ships... so what happened to the Ever Green ? Its thought the the steering difficulties were due to proximity to the bank .... they should have been going slower if they thought the wind might be strong enough to push them off course...
@@isilder Shit happens.
Try Googling "Canal Effect". For two ships to SAFELY pass each other going in opposite directions would require tripling or maybe quadrupling the current width.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
lost me at "Mediterranean Ocean".
Moving sand is not engineering. It's labor on a huge scale.
It's engineering.
Good luck what ever happens !!!!!
Is that sountrack from XCOM 2 at 00:30? :D
The classic XCOM2?
I've never seen the same video clips used over and over again so many times
Not something I noticed...
So many videos do just that; most annoying, is it not.
I bet they actually widened the canal for longer ships, just in case another tries "drifting"...
Nothing can protect against poor Canal pilots.
Instead of showing a particular video of the entire project, the videographer is changing the film so fast. This is not good my dear.
7:21 would be interested in the Egyptian Army Engineer's 'scrappers'. Surely that's more of a Parachute Regiment thing..?
i watched this exact same video just the other day on another channel
I thought this might be a video on how the canal was modified to prevent any more Evergreen disasters.
The work shown here was completed long before the Evergreen (The Ship was the "Ever Given" Evergreen was the chartering company) incident. It's aim was to reduce the north-south & south-north convoy system and thus reduce transit times which in turn reduces freight charges per container/per tonne of cargo. To prevent a ship blocking the canal in the future? Fine, reduce the size of ships. Are you willing to pay the extra freight charges in your supermarket? No. Thought not.
I wonder if all that excavated sand is good for concrete work and restoring beaches or if that canal sand is actually useless desert sand? There is a shortage of usable sand for concrete and restoring beaches and desert sand will not work.
@Phillip Mulligan.. What are the desirable properties missing from desert sand, and could said particulates be introduced to the mix, to make it desirable??
Probably could be screened for particle size but not sure on material type
partical size and texture. desert sand be too smooth for building. sharp sand is called that cus its actually has sharp points all over the partials when you look at it with a microscope?
America is like hold my beer
They could have saved time and money by contacting a beach dredging company from the USA. We have all of this this tech already available currently in this country. They need a better engineer on this project.
They are all Dutch IHC dredgers.
14:21 Interesting.`the buckets "descend down"` ....as opposed to descend Up?
"Down" is redundant. People do this all the time, like, "He was real dead!"
I think it’s lazy and cheap not to have total voice overs during this otherwise fantastic documentary 💯 people don’t want to watch films we’re they have to read subtitles and miss the scenery in the background smdh.
34:58 it looks like both the model and the animation have the buckets in backwards. And are moving the wrong way. There is no way for the buckets to dump that way. If the buckets are reversed and moving counter clockwise on the animation they would dig and dump. Just like every other bucket dredge does
As the buckets reach the top of the chain the material falls out when they tip forwards. There's a catcher for this material between the chains that directs it out the other side of the machine.
First film ever made was at 1888. How they film it at the 1864?
Al sisi is the best eygptian leader ever ❤️ 💜 💙 🙏
Getting stuck. You cannot make it sailor proof!
Suez is Zeus spelled backwards ....
The Mediterranean is a SEA not an OCEAN
Imagine being an engineer with an unlimited budget... The things I'd try and build......
Have you read Larry Niven's novel "Ringworld"???? It caught the attention of physicists and engineers world wide, and Niven keeps receiving mail correcting minor problems. Which he uses!
Unlimited budget. Then will build another dubai. Haha
@@sayyadzubaid4678 or HS 2!!!
Scrapers, perhaps, not scrappers . . . ?
THEY MAY HAVE SCOOPED A LITTLE DIRT OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF IT THEY DID NOT DIG IT
🚢🎸I like big boats and I cannot lie 🎸🚢
Their anaconda don't want none?
I bet you were ship-faced when you posted that comment.
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Am I getting this wrong At the beginning he says 18000 ships pass through each year Containing 700m tonnes of cargo That would be way way less than half a tonne each ship, that definitely can't be right
700 million tonnes not metric tonnes😂
700,000,000÷18,000=38,888.88
It's real name is DARIUS CANAL, not SUEZ. It was the KING-OF-KINGS Darius the great which dug the canal and it's real name is DARIUS Canal.
Have every country that uses the canal must provide workers and equipment and money to deepen and widen the canal to expand the canal !
Over there the workers are cleverly called “laborers” while the rest of the world calls them Slaves!
Reg: time stamp 13:00, 400k poor men forced from family and farm to work in hell, the commentator articulates that the project would cost the lives of thousands. I offer a correction it cost the lives of hundreds of thousands approximately 120,000 human beings died over to 10 year period that's 33 people a day. Poor people poor men removed from their families removed from their farms and then they're dead where are their bodies what compensation what arrangement was made to support the widow and her children who are suddenly fatherless, imagine the collective pain, trama and misery. Considering The staggering loss of life many questions are begged how would they treated how they kept or conditions as they work under $120,000 people disappear from a country that's poor that has a significant multi-generational effect on the economics and the culture. So it can never be made right but I'm okay with them charging a half a million dollars per container ship to Transit the suits now that I know some of the rest of the story.
102 miles And no Lock Gates. Red Sea to the Mediterranean, Where's the 6,000 + feet of missing Curvature ???
Water naturally follows the curvature of the Earth.
Internation shipping is out of control. The ships are so large that they cannot be controlled in unusual situations. The ship that blocked the Suez Canal is the example. Now the canal will be wider for more commerce? Or to prevent another blockage.
Some idiots will find a way.
Mediterranean Sea, not 'ocean' . . .
Imagine getting stuck
I traveled through the Suez in the mid 1980's. The smell was unholy. The Red sea on the other side looked like it was on fire. I got attacked by Mosquitos in Djiboti. Good times.
This really interests me. Can you please tell me why it smells? Fuel? And why did the Red sea look like it was on fire? Thank you 😊
imagine being a fish living in Suez Chanal....
No. And you can't make me. You're not the boss of me.
How they widened it by doubling it? Isn’t that like saying how the hit it by hammering it. How they wet it by watering it. How they grew it by growing it. How I said it by saying it… DUH
I have always been in favor of rooting out and removing redundancy, in order to eliminate it.
Interesting story, but seems to have more adds than other KZhead videos. Gave up watching halfway through.
Ok great,so why’s it fucked up all the time causing delays and increased costs?
No need to use American measurement units, i.e. football field and swimming pool.
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Or British. Nose 👃 and feet
In the USA, a _"meter"_ is somebody who eats a lot of hamburgers and barbecue. _(Ever since Donald Trump learned that vegetarians eat vegetables, he won't go near a humanitarian.)_
Of course there is a need! What? They don't have swimming pools in Europe??? And everybody knows that American football fields (100 yards) are reasonably close to Europe Soccer fields(110-120 yards). So, I suppose next you will be saying we should not be walking around with 9mm and .45's strapped to our hips or truck guns (short AR-15's) under our seats???? Eat it, chump. Fuck yeah! 'Merica!
Bananas will do.
Yeah inches and feet I live in America
because of the french language it is almost impossible to follow. sorry rather have English language as support or explanation ... this is impossible to follow
Do you not know about captions?
the poor fossels of the evolution record.
The random use of verb tenses and visuals made this documentary very disorienting.
Not in 4K
The canal authority makes around $800k from every cargo ship passing though, and they asked the Egyptian population to finance the construction? Where is all the money going?
Into the pockets of the ruling junta. A ruling junta lovingly supported by America. As it was under brutal dictator, and Clinton "friend of the family" Hosni Mubarak. That in return for them leaving Israel, the world's most important country, alone.
Regardless of increasing the size of any canal, the canal will quickly become too small. ( A physical law, associated with increasing boat traffic ) -- Directly in width; -- Secondary in structures over the canal; -- Primarily in time to traverse ! Ship sizes should be regulated, so it is impossible to diagonaly block the canal.
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Ok
We all know what happened to the evergreen 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wondered how and why so many people paid up to get it widened, till i learnt about how they will just make you a slave the first time round, im sure people remembered that...
dude its just a big ditch ... opperated by a bunch of .............
Big ditch says the guy who never built anything.
99% Dutch IHC dredgers.
The video is ruined by the narration, which has a superlative in every sentence. It also suffers from a poor introduction that does not clearly define the work that is needed. The goal of the video was to impress rather than inform. I had to quit after 10 min.
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