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How Engineers Widened The Suez Canal For Bigger Ships [4K] | Extreme Constructions | Spark

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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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  4. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  12. 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?

  13. 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…. 😉

  15. 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.

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  24. 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…

  26. Flat as YOU get, and MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH older PERIOD! ENOUGH of LIES from the BRIT YIDDISH empire WHO CREATED a middle east from Africa, wake up ZZZZZZZZOMBIESZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

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  31. 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.

  36. Die Stein Zeit haben Wir schon gehabt …..! Wie ist Autos & Maschinen mit Geschwindigkeit auf der Tacho gebracht ….? Wie die Männer & Frauen auf der Kurves konkurrenzieren sehen wollen……? Mit Vernügen Lenen…..

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