BIG HORN at Portland LOUD Diaphone fog warning
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2007
- The loudest noise we ever heard. The fog warning at the lighthouse at Portland Bill (where England falls into the sea). 100 decibels of plaintive eerie LOOOUD! It can be heard miles away.
Portland, Dorset, England. A tiny lump of rock sticking out in the English Channel, about as far south in the UK as you can get. And we live about as far north as you can go without falling into Scotland! We had a holiday in Dorset.
I was unaware of it before arriving there and certainly didn't know that the once per week it is blown was when we had just arrived - so imagine my shock when it went off! The tone and volume makes your insides rumble. Fascinating and strangely pleasant.
this sounds so haunting much better than the silly beeeeep they installed to replace it
Each lighthouse bloke is robust, fit, of honest mind and heart. In fight to stoke up so much grit, each one blessed kind yet smart
I absolutely love this place! This lighthouse is 👌
now thats what a fog horn should sound like .!
Sinister! Thats exactly the right word. Thats the overwhelming feeling they evoked in me too. Particularly as I was not aware they were about to happen, so just about jumped out of my skin. Thanks for the comment and the image of a child daring to be near them.
My mobile phone makes this noise when I receive a text message! lol
Ahhh the great British bank holiday...fog, rain, wind & crap food.
ps i'm from britain
It is charted as a Single Blast from a Diaphone every 30 seconds.
This scared the crap out of me when I first heard it. Think I jumped about 10 ft in the air :)
Heard it...at night too...eerie and spectacular.
I ived in Wyke Regis on the mainland for a while, and used to love hearing this horn. What a wonderful in-your-face no-mistaking-this-fella kind of set-up!
I tried very hard not to jump, but its obvious from the film that I did! Its SOOOO loud! We didn't know about the fog horn so when it first went off and I'd missed hearing the warning I just about jumped out of my skin!
@4093979240 Actually that is a perfectly fine sound for a Diaphone type horn. They usually have some kind of low frequency "Whumph" at the end. That is what makes them so distinguished in sound. They are tremendously loud. Unfortunately over the years many diaphones were replaced with electronic horns, which don't sound as full or rich. Yeah, they have a more 'perfect' sound, but lack character. Give me a good old diaphone any day.
Hi. Thanks for that extra info. Really interesting. We enjoyed our visit.
i live just down the road from this lighthouse. the noise is absolutely the loudest sound ive ever heared. the last HUMPH noise is the diaphone engine stopping and the last second of the horn just echos for ages you can hear the sound going out to sea. they sound the horn every sunday. every 30 seconds for three point five seconds between 1030 and 11 oclock well worth hearing. the sound can carry for upto 6 miles out to sea if uninterupted.
the main reason is that the small horns can be soler and are smaller dont need giant engines to drive them, or 3 phase service to run them, plus since they dont have all the moving parts or a diaphram or piston to freeze up like a diaphone or diaphram horn would in the salty air.
also modern navegation dont require something to warn as far out.
but I like the old horns better too and some places still have them as backup, like cape fear, or on the islands of lake michigan there are a few
Oh yes!
This puts the hairs up on my neck; as a kid i used to stay on Scilly for a month every year with my gran, and on a foggy night you could hear 2 lighthouses - Round island and Bishop's rock, and the Sevenstones lightship way out in the damp, inky stillness, and Sevendtones especially ( which sounded very like this one) just scared the living s**** out of me, and I'd lie there sweating - it just sounded so bloody sinister!!
I miss them all...
not at all, it is a horn that has a powered piston in it where the air blasts over a slotted disk and a secondary supply of air moves the piston as its being blown giving it that high vibreto sound, they are low but the low frequencys travel over the water better then high pitch sounds. The diaphone though was invented by an organ pipe maker and would have the two tone sound hence di a phone, it was invented by the guy that came up with the werletzer organ style.
Not all diaphone were twin tone as shown here
Chuck Norris after a night drinking Charrington's Bass ale. I had to say that..
This must be one of the last working fog horns left in these days of satellite navigation.
They used to have one of these diaphone horns on Flambrough Head. It is long gone now.
They rarely use Diaphone types for a fog horn now as they can be mis lead for something else. They now use a standard U.S naval fog horn which is heard upo to 45-60 miles.
@theironfreak - thanks for the correction. I should have Googled up "diaphone" before I posted. I had assumed it was like one of those monster 32' or 64' reed pipe organ pedal stops. The piston thing is fascinating and I'd like to see exactly how it works. It's amazingly LOUD.
They should put one of those out in Dungeness to annoy the FRENCH.
Dungeness is a very scary place I'll have you know - can't put my finger on it. I think it is linked to aliens or a major conspiracy theory that no one knows about yet.
I heard this back in the 80's whilst camping in Fleet, about 8 miles away.....yes its loud and I would not like to be near the damn thing when it lets go....
+Stephen Pennell Pardon... can't hear you!!!!
I have always wanted to hear this up close
No where as loud as it used to be with the old original bass horn!
its awesome that grunt!
when the horn stops sounding it makes a fart sound! XD
Good old porland bill :) been fishing there many a time :D
@bobareebop nope, I'm afraid that's incorrect. diaphones don't use reeds, but some kind of piston assembly thingy. But you are correct in saying that the UGH is due to the vibrating assembly coming to a stop. =)
Well it does give you a very brief warning at least, a "HMMMM" sound.
Yes it is England. There is more info in the 'About this video'.
@4093979240 Evidently the sound is produced by a reed being driven by high wind pressure. That UGH at the end is probably the sound of the vibrating reed coming to a stop.
Wonder what diaphones this has. I bet it is the regular Gamewell ones that are used as fire horns but with a different horn shape
This is a Type G/Type F diaphone. It’s been silenced
@@TheChachLINY oh ok. Ik it has been silenced tho as it got replaced by those stupidly quiet electronic horns
Haha, I see you got frightened when you were calmly filming the view.
I went there last week :D
0:39 made u jump
@4093979240 Yep! That's the result of the piston slowing down. It's almost like the wind-down on a siren, which means the rotor stops spinning.
Im just saying, they are not common like the U.S aircraft carrier fog horns used now. The diaphone horns are mostly used in other parts of the world.
It was a windy day - what can I say... ? Not very seasonal for May though.
This sound smells like household toilet bleach and tastes of pomegranates to me. It feels like touching very cold plastic.
Portland is Gota Be Best.. i Live There :D
Not Portland Oregon eh?
No, Portland Bill, Dorset, England.
Where is this?
Portland Bill, Dorset, England.
Sounds like a diaphone horn.
so why do we have this annoying high pitched squeek now i? I want the horns back
hypohair its probly because its modern and were in the 21st century lol
HMMMMMM BLAAAAAAHHHHHH WUMPH
...can't even tell it's loud.
@ami2evil its loud as fuck my friend from wales lives 8 miles away & she can often hear it
ami2evil its not really loud, im not an expert but these fog horns and the ones on ships all have a lower sound, so its not that loud but it travels really far. Train or car horns are higher pitch and very loud but cant go too far
I have been here many times when the horn is sounding & it is as already stated, Loud as F***. tr3nta
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Ranks as one of the most annoying sounds in the known universe.