The Suez Canal transformed the world forever. Now, again, widening it is a major construction project, aimed at doubling the width 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.
As for the problem of crossing the ever evolving Suez Canal I can see the solution as being a large ferry suitable for vehicles with the outer docks for the ferry being recessed into the banks to avoid causing canal traffic obstuction. Any bridge built would become too short as the canal is widened and any tunnel underneath the Suez Canal would eventualy hinder the deepening of the canal.
When do you think Egypt will repay those who built the canal in the first place. With interest and adjusted for inflation plus an amount for damages i.e. loss of income due to Nasser Nationalising the canal? Just thought I’d mention it lol
Wait are you saying that 500 million cubic meters of sand and soil was brought to the Suez from all over the world? Or do you mean to say what was said in the video which is that dredges were brought in from all over the world to move the 500 million cubic meters of sand and soil from the new canal section?
@@prepperjonpnw6482 Egypt has purchased dredgers, the most modern in the world and the largest, from Holland and Belgium to deepen and dig a parallel canal
As an Egyptian im stunned by the amount of engineering genius put into this project throughout its history and after ive watched this exceptional documentary….i feel extremely proud of every free “unknown” Egyptian that participated and lost their lives for this world changing project to come to life those are the true unsung heroes that deserve honoring …
What about the original builders of the canal? I would say that everyone who was involved with the canal from the design engineers to the lowest peasant with a shovel to those who secured financing for it to be built to all of the families (wives and children) who went long periods without seeing their husband/father while they were away working on it. There were so many people involved it’s difficult to name them all I would even include the very first person to dream of this canal. But definitely a big thank you to all of the nameless labourers who toiled for long endless days doing back breaking work moving what must have seemed like never ending piles of earth. All throughout history on many many large projects there were always the lowly labourers doing 90% of the work usually for low wages if they were even paid, quite a few were slaves. Thank goodness for mechanical engineers who designed and built all of the fantastic machines we have now. Cheers
Obviously ? They bought shares or bonds which made / make huge profits. An ideal semi socialist idea ?. Ferdinand de Lesseps's replication in France for Panama (folie ?) bankrupted the entire country (Gvt, banks, investors alike)
@@eugenio1542 It's not socialist, it's capitalism done on a massive scale. The people are investing money in government bonds that will go towards building the canal, which will pay them back in the long term when everyone around the world uses that canal. Each ship 800,000$ like said in the documentary. It would be socialist if everyone got paid, but in this case it's only people that bought bonds getting paid. So I guess it's right of you to call it semi socialist. Definitely better than bankrupting the whole country that's for sure.
@@mixrable1212 YES ! I understand you if you me ? Fantastic model for what I call COMMUNALISM. I am a "white Zulu" caught between feudal and capitalist "tendencies" - a middle road ??? Both Ubuntu and personal/corporate benifit/profit ?? ngiJabule ubona (I am happy to "see"/know you.)
@@mixrable1212 YES ! I understand you if you me ? Fantastic model for what I call COMMUNALISM. I am a "white Zulu" caught between feudal and capitalist "tendencies" - a middle road ??? Both Ubuntu and personal/corporate benifit/profit ?? ngiJabule ubona (I am happy to "see"/know you.)
Happy 🆕 Year FD Crew. Thank you for always taking your time to educate, empower and entertain us through your various channels. Looking forward to a great 2022. Peace🕊️
it's a amazing Project of International Cooperation and praiseworthy for design technology tools and working . Modern marvel of development and Economics .
The French success with the Suez Canal was the cause of the French failure with the Panama Canal. The French thought they could make a sea-level Panama Canal. They were wrong.
Damm!! It was brutal how people were forced in Egypt to provide Hard Labour for the construction of the Canal in the 80s without Advanced Machinery but still they found a way !!
How about interviewing some working folks who actually are building. This is such a pet peeve . You always show the bosses who stand around and point then take glory for building things. 👷♂️ the workers are the ones who should receive the credit
@@tomgunn8004 okay and then who would build it ? Teamwork makes the dream work that's my point but they neglect to showcase the builders who are intrical to the completion of any project . I never said bosses weren't necessary. Where did you read that . I said they always focus on them and it would be nice for a change to hear from a workers perspective. Not a suit .
From 23:54, you have a great example of the way biology anticipates technology. The device essentially is an artificial mouth and gullet, complete with teeth and saliva. From 25:09 and from 26:12, also from 26:55 you then can see how the digestive system of an animal is imitated also at its other end, after the sand has been stored in the stomach of a ship. So altogether you have a huge artificial animal eating its way through the ground.
A totally brilliant documentary. A story very well and comprehensively told. How disappointing that the adverts eat into its integrity with the sheer quantity and frequency of these ads. I suspect somebody is being greedy at the expense of the viewer.
REST IN PEACE our Egyptian martyrs : -for our martyrs who lost their lives while digging it by their "hands'' (more than120 thousand Egyptians) -for our martyrs who was killed by the conspiracy of britain, france and israel in Portsaid after the Nationalization of "Our canal" -for our martyrs who killed by israel in1973 war "the 6 hours war" and we won it. we remember your souls the Suez Canal means a lot for The Egyptian Nation
Digging a straight canal doesn't require a genius engineer! As a matter of fact thousands of years ago Egyptians dug a canal between the red Sea and the Nile so it wasn't something new
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
While I like this documentary, I must say that these marvels are responsible for the natural destructions we have been witnessing since the past few decades.
Wee 'massive' error in narration... The first Suez Canal was built about 4000 years ago. It was called: the Canal of the Pharaohs, also called the Ancient Suez Canal or Necho's Canal. The Suez built over 100 years ago was Not the first.
A greatly different route, the Egyptians diverted one of the mouths of the Nile to the Red sea over a much shorter distance. One had to go up the Nile to get to the cutoff. It was last used around 767 AD.
@@mohamedebrahim4795 I would have read your response if it had been written in a language a CIVILIZED country used, like English. The script of the Koran is forever tainted by the lies contained therein.
علي فكرة لم يكن الفرنسيين اول من فكر في حفر قناة السويس بل المصريين القدماء انفسهم وتم تنفيزها في عصر سنوسرت وسميت قناة سيزوستريت فلهاذا ليس من المستبعد وجود اطلال مدن كاملة في هذة المنطقة مثل باقي المناطق في مصر وكانت تربط البحر الاحمر بالمتوسط مرورا بأحد فروع النيل وكذلك فكر في حفر القناة العديد من الحكام المصريين قبل الاحتلال الغربي لمصر وحتي قبل حفر القناة كان يوجد طريق لعبور البضائع بين البحرين عن طريق الجمال وبعدها الطرق وبعدها القطار
Fascinating is the ascension of La République française over The Royal Empire (evil) in their historical "cold war" / rivalry. The advances in technology and prestige is/are astounding. Documentary please ????
You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus the anointed is Lord! Repent and be baptized and believe the Gospel.
😮😮If they constructed this Suez canal waterway Africa couldn't have suffer from Colonialism 😮😮For example those who settled in the Cape , South Africa 😮😮
Did you know the first canal for connecting to Mediterranean sea to the red sea was made by the Persian king's order Darius the Great some 2500 years ago? It didnt go all the way through to the red sea but some transport had to be done over the dry land.
هههههههه هذا غير صحيح القناة ايام الاحتلال الفارسي كانت مجرد محاولة لحفر قناة حفرها اساسا الملك المصري سنوسرت واسمها كان سيزوستريت وكانت تربط البحرين عن طريق العبور في احد فروع نهر النيل عند الدلتا والقناة الفارسية كانت محاولة فكرية لاعادة حفر هذة القناة ولم يحدث اي سئ علي ارض الواقع 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅
You ought to described that the canal was built largely of forced labor or slave without compensation from the French and English empire. Many of those labors have never return to their homeland country but die on the site for lack of foods and hard work.😂
The Suez Canal transformed the world forever. Now, again, widening it is a major construction project, aimed at doubling the width 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.
Will the melting of the Arctic affect this ?
As for the problem of crossing the ever evolving Suez Canal I can see the solution as being a large ferry suitable for vehicles with the outer docks for the ferry being recessed into the banks to avoid causing canal traffic obstuction. Any bridge built would become too short as the canal is widened and any tunnel underneath the Suez Canal would eventualy hinder the deepening of the canal.
When do you think Egypt will repay those who built the canal in the first place. With interest and adjusted for inflation plus an amount for damages i.e. loss of income due to Nasser Nationalising the canal?
Just thought I’d mention it lol
Wait are you saying that 500 million cubic meters of sand and soil was brought to the Suez from all over the world?
Or do you mean to say what was said in the video which is that dredges were brought in from all over the world to move the 500 million cubic meters of sand and soil from the new canal section?
@@prepperjonpnw6482 Egypt has purchased dredgers, the most modern in the world and the largest, from Holland and Belgium to deepen and dig a parallel canal
My grand grandpa died while digging the canal project, tbh a lot of Egyptian workers died to make it come true, God bless their soul.
As an Egyptian im stunned by the amount of engineering genius put into this project throughout its history and after ive watched this exceptional documentary….i feel extremely proud of every free “unknown” Egyptian that participated and lost their lives for this world changing project to come to life those are the true unsung heroes that deserve honoring …
They killing the earth don’t be proud of it
Also forced peasant labor is a real concern. Did these men get paid?
@@FionaKumariCampbell Who cares, it was many years ago and they are all dead.
@@FionaKumariCampbell yes they were paid by the original builders of the canal.
What about the original builders of the canal? I would say that everyone who was involved with the canal from the design engineers to the lowest peasant with a shovel to those who secured financing for it to be built to all of the families (wives and children) who went long periods without seeing their husband/father
while they were away working on it. There were so many people involved it’s difficult to name them all I would even include the very first person to dream of this canal. But definitely a big thank you to all of the nameless labourers who toiled for long endless days doing back breaking work moving what must have seemed like never ending piles of earth. All throughout history on many many large projects there were always the lowly labourers doing 90% of the work usually for low wages if they were even paid, quite a few were slaves. Thank goodness for mechanical engineers who designed and built all of the fantastic machines we have now.
Cheers
I was very impressed to learn that 80% of the project was financed by the generosity of the Egyptian population, a true act of patriotism!
Obviously ? They bought shares or bonds which made / make huge profits. An ideal semi socialist idea ?. Ferdinand de Lesseps's replication in France for Panama (folie ?) bankrupted the entire country (Gvt, banks, investors alike)
because Suez Canal means a lot for Egyptians
@@eugenio1542 It's not socialist, it's capitalism done on a massive scale. The people are investing money in government bonds that will go towards building the canal, which will pay them back in the long term when everyone around the world uses that canal. Each ship 800,000$ like said in the documentary.
It would be socialist if everyone got paid, but in this case it's only people that bought bonds getting paid. So I guess it's right of you to call it semi socialist. Definitely better than bankrupting the whole country that's for sure.
@@mixrable1212 YES ! I understand you if you me ? Fantastic model for what I call COMMUNALISM. I am a "white Zulu" caught between feudal and capitalist "tendencies" - a middle road ??? Both Ubuntu and personal/corporate benifit/profit ?? ngiJabule ubona (I am happy to "see"/know you.)
@@mixrable1212 YES ! I understand you if you me ? Fantastic model for what I call COMMUNALISM. I am a "white Zulu" caught between feudal and capitalist "tendencies" - a middle road ??? Both Ubuntu and personal/corporate benifit/profit ?? ngiJabule ubona (I am happy to "see"/know you.)
As a South African 🇿🇦 I’m happy to know that the project is funded mainly by Egypt 🇪🇬 . Proudly African 👌
We, Africans, are the origin of miracles. Miracles. Greetings to you and the brotherly people of South Africa from Egypt
Wow, living in the Americas we only think about the feats of the Panama Canal. For me this was a huge eye opener.
Merry Christmas and especially happy new year 🎉 I wish to all of you a successful and safe 2022 folks 🥳
Thank you Paws 🐾 same to you! Stay safe!
And to you and yours😉🥳
Same to you
You likewise! Happy New Year!
Same to you, good luck with the new year 🥳
Extremely interesting documentary, but the sound cuts out unexpectedly.
Happy 🆕 Year FD Crew.
Thank you for always taking your time to educate, empower and entertain us through your various channels.
Looking forward to a great 2022.
Peace🕊️
Watching free documentary to see me through new years
it's a amazing Project of International Cooperation and praiseworthy for design technology tools and working . Modern marvel of development and Economics .
The Suez Canal is One Of The Greatest Achievement of Humankind!
Belize central america I'm from & when i think about the Suez Canal & Panama Canal i feel nostalgic!!✌🙏🌎❤💯
The French success with the Suez Canal was the cause of the French failure with the Panama Canal. The French thought they could make a sea-level Panama Canal. They were wrong.
Damm!! It was brutal how people were forced in Egypt to provide Hard Labour for the construction of the Canal in the 80s without Advanced Machinery but still they found a way !!
Oowwhh.. I am proud to connect our incredible country ❤ INDIA 🇮🇳.
आपका धर्म क्या है?
Egypt,my beautiful country ❤❤❤❤❤
Błogosławionego nowego roku 2022. Greetings from Poland.
How about interviewing some working folks who actually are building. This is such a pet peeve . You always show the bosses who stand around and point then take glory for building things. 👷♂️ the workers are the ones who should receive the credit
Without the ''bosses'' the workers wouldn't have a clue what to do.
@@tomgunn8004 okay and then who would build it ? Teamwork makes the dream work that's my point but they neglect to showcase the builders who are intrical to the completion of any project . I never said bosses weren't necessary. Where did you read that . I said they always focus on them and it would be nice for a change to hear from a workers perspective. Not a suit .
😄so true. Also the wicked side in control at that
- 1 John 5: 19
Confusing days finally over
New years a few hours to go
Thank you free docs for this
Learning every day
🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
I really ike this chennel😍. There is lot of things of learn
Power of humans !
Together we can achieve anything we want.
Another priceless documentary
Excellent job by the Engineers
Suez Canal, truly a mega engineering feat
From 23:54, you have a great example of the way biology anticipates technology. The device essentially is an artificial mouth and gullet, complete with teeth and saliva. From 25:09 and from 26:12, also from 26:55 you then can see how the digestive system of an animal is imitated also at its other end, after the sand has been stored in the stomach of a ship. So altogether you have a huge artificial animal eating its way through the ground.
A totally brilliant documentary. A story very well and comprehensively told. How disappointing that the adverts eat into its integrity with the sheer quantity and frequency of these ads. I suspect somebody is being greedy at the expense of the viewer.
Just get premium already, on every platform, adverts are the past
Go with the premium..you will have peace of mind.
First..very good video
this is the best thing ever
Good Documentry.. thankyou..
Panama took 30 yrs to build, Suez took 10 yrs to build, the harsh environment of the Panama made that one alot harder to make!~
Very Good documentary. I just like these
Happy new year ❤️🙏
REST IN PEACE our Egyptian martyrs :
-for our martyrs who lost their lives while digging it by their "hands'' (more than120 thousand Egyptians)
-for our martyrs who was killed by the conspiracy of britain, france and israel in Portsaid after the Nationalization of "Our canal"
-for our martyrs who killed by israel in1973 war "the 6 hours war" and we won it.
we remember your souls
the Suez Canal means a lot for The Egyptian Nation
🙏
yes as a Brit, it was totally wrong of the Brits to deny the Egyptians of their rights to charge for their own waterway.
These documentaries keep me learning and entertained while in school, especially in US history... God I hate that 😅
Great & Interesting , Proud For French Engineers For their Work & Pray For People who Lost their Life 🇫🇷🗼
Digging a straight canal doesn't require a genius engineer!
As a matter of fact thousands of years ago Egyptians dug a canal between the red Sea and the Nile so it wasn't something new
the people who dug the canal were slave laborers. tens of thousands died. you're proud of that? 🤦
@@maxd3028 كلامك صحيح القناة كان اسمها سيزوستريت والملك اسمة سنوسرت الثاني وكانت القناة توصل البحرين مرورا باحد افرع النيل عند الدلتا
Beautiful documentary. I LOVE ENGINEERING! Thank you, Free Documentary. As always.
Nice. I watched another documentary concentrating mainly on the initial construction. This was a great cover from begging to current
HAHA LOL! Those mini shipping containers used for canal testing are hilarious with the guys in them!
Great job Suez canal🏗️🏫🏫🏫🏫🏫
Ferdinand de Lesseps is here the "driver". His attempts to replicate on the "folie" in Panama is worthy of multiple Free Documentaries PLEASE ???
Thank you! A fascinating documentary!
Talk about the Tuas mega project!It would be an interesting ep on ports and how they function !
Watching from Kenya, happy New year free documentary team
Wow good discovery over years of inventions and technological impacts in Egypt
And then they still had that single bottleneck that stopped the entire canal...
No one cares
Try to dig out 100,000,000 cubic
feet of sand and see how far you get and how long it lasts!
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 Panama canal? You're talking as if this is done by individuals and not giant machinery.
International shipping around the earth is very concerned about the SUEZ canal.
$$$$$Billions
Great share. Interesting to watch. Keep up the good work 👍
Love from Nepal 🥰❤️❤️
Hello from Oregon USA 🥰😉😉
Amazing construction wonder 👌
Compliments of the new season FD family!
Happy New Year from Ohio on the shore of beautiful Lake Erie , 😎 , i hope everyone has a great year !!!!! 👍😷😎
these documentarys are great...
NICE VIDEO. 👍
Bravo la France 🇨🇵
E V E R G R E E N
When you’re bilingual and able to follow both the narrator and the french interviewee 😎🇲🇺
If this was made in 2021 after the ever given ran aground they'd be stressing even more about the canal and how important it is.
Happy new year everyone!🎊
And to you be safe😊😘
Selamat Tahun Baru 2022
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
While I like this documentary, I must say that these marvels are responsible for the natural destructions we have been witnessing since the past few decades.
Great one 👍
Adorei essa reportagem
Excellent documents 💖💖🇧🇩🇧🇩
*Happy New Year all, 5am here in New Zealand*
Wee 'massive' error in narration...
The first Suez Canal was built about 4000 years ago.
It was called: the Canal of the Pharaohs, also called the Ancient Suez Canal or Necho's Canal.
The Suez built over 100 years ago was Not the first.
A greatly different route, the Egyptians diverted one of the mouths of the Nile to the Red sea over a much shorter distance. One had to go up the Nile to get to the cutoff. It was last used around 767 AD.
كلامك صحيح القناة كان اسمها سيزوستريت والملك اسمة سنوسرت الثاني وكانت القناة توصل البحرين مرورا باحد افرع النيل عند الدلتا
@@mohamedebrahim4795 I would have read your response if it had been written in a language a CIVILIZED country used, like English. The script of the Koran is forever tainted by the lies contained therein.
@@donaldcarey114 bruh its just arabic lmao
@@felobatirmoheb4884 I KNOW what it is and I KNOW the disrespect that is implied by its use on an English using thread.
WHY HAVE AN GOOD DAY ALL KNIGHTS AND AN GREAT HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS FROM CHICLAYO PERU 🇵🇪 CITY 🌆 🌎 🎉 🎉 🎄
Same to you from Canada. HAPPY NEW YEARS!
GOD HELP US, GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸, GOD BLESS FREE PEOPLE'S OF THE WORLD.
@@MNTNMAN-SUCA OK FOR YOU ALSO GUY CANADIAN HAVE AN HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR QUEBEC CANADÁ 🇨🇦
@@MNTNMAN-SUCA 🇵🇪 💪 🇨🇦
Błogosławionego nowego roku 2022. Greetings from Poland.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥰
Happy New year 2022
Merry Chrysler!
If you're reading this God loves you and has your best interest at hand
And in the other hand he passes the collection plate to steal from the poor.
@@RubbishFPS wow bro I said God not man made religion this world is built to pull u away n its working
Błogosławionego nowego roku 2022. Greetings from Poland.
Nice for such a nice wonderful journey.
ល្អណាស់បង
Happy new year
What an amazing documentary. Wonder if they found any archeological remnants during the digs?
They may have been so but they didn't say anything 😏🙄😶
Probably Biblical but as usual the Antichrist hides such finds.
they were probably ordered not to report anything found to keep construction moving!
@@shanincoffer6455 ولماذا سيفعوا هذا
علي فكرة لم يكن الفرنسيين اول من فكر في حفر قناة السويس بل المصريين القدماء انفسهم وتم تنفيزها في عصر سنوسرت وسميت قناة سيزوستريت فلهاذا ليس من المستبعد وجود اطلال مدن كاملة في هذة المنطقة مثل باقي المناطق في مصر وكانت تربط البحر الاحمر بالمتوسط مرورا بأحد فروع النيل وكذلك فكر في حفر القناة العديد من الحكام المصريين قبل الاحتلال الغربي لمصر وحتي قبل حفر القناة كان يوجد طريق لعبور البضائع بين البحرين عن طريق الجمال وبعدها الطرق وبعدها القطار
Magnificent
Fascinating is the ascension of La République française over The Royal Empire (evil) in their historical "cold war" / rivalry. The advances in technology and prestige is/are astounding. Documentary please ????
We should build a ship as big as the planet so we wouldn't have to build a bigger canal.
You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. You must love your neighbor as yourself. Jesus the anointed is Lord! Repent and be baptized and believe the Gospel.
Fascinating
Waiting for y’all to do Cartel series
Happy New year 🇮🇳👍
The Suez and Panama canals are the 2 biggest manmade "shortcuts" when it comes to naval travle.
😮😮If they constructed this Suez canal waterway Africa couldn't have suffer from Colonialism 😮😮For example those who settled in the Cape , South Africa 😮😮
The main question remains: how many Olympic swimming pools can fit in a football field.
English football field
or one in USA
or how big is a golf course.
imperial or metric
Happy new year everyone.
Women should cover themselves let them cover themselves God willing
We will learn to be united prosperity we'll achieve
evergreen life
oiiiiiiiiiiiii parabéns meu like
تحية لكل عربي شاهد الفيديو
Can you make intro a bit longer next time? i dont think 4 minutes can cover all the highlights. How about 22+ minutes?
The section with the mini-ships reminded me extremely of The Naked Gun (I think it was 2 1/2).
Did you know the first canal for connecting to Mediterranean sea to the red sea was made by the Persian king's order Darius the Great some 2500 years ago? It didnt go all the way through to the red sea but some transport had to be done over the dry land.
هههههههه هذا غير صحيح القناة ايام الاحتلال الفارسي كانت مجرد محاولة لحفر قناة حفرها اساسا الملك المصري سنوسرت واسمها كان سيزوستريت وكانت تربط البحرين عن طريق العبور في احد فروع نهر النيل عند الدلتا والقناة الفارسية كانت محاولة فكرية لاعادة حفر هذة القناة ولم يحدث اي سئ علي ارض الواقع
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅🤣😅
@@mohamedebrahim4795 I dont speak Arabic.
Hello again
I heard that the difference in elevation of the Lake within if encountered will give way a Flooding Compartment of the Suez Canal...
I imagine the working conditions of workers and the forced labour
34K 8hrs all the best 👍 👌 😍
You ought to described that the canal was built largely of forced labor or slave without compensation from the French and English empire. Many of those labors have never return to their homeland country but die on the site for lack of foods and hard work.😂
Interesting civilization
LOL
Why is your narration in the present tense?