This changed my mind about aquariums.
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- Опубликовано: 4 апр 2021
- "Life support system" were the three key words that convinced me to do a video about an aquarium. Because yes: behind the scenes at The Deep, an aquarium in Hull, there's a life support system, and it deserves that name.
Thanks to all the team at The Deep! More about them: www.thedeep.co.uk/ or on their channel: / thedeephull
Filmed safely: www.tomscott.com/safe/
Edited by Michelle Martin: / mrsmmartin
Audio mix by Graham Haerther
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I guess technically it's more of a "space station for sharks", or "space station for all sorts of marine life", but that doesn't sound quite as catchy.
Haha nice one Tom
obligatory "how was this comment posted 2 days ago" comment
Hi tom
I agree
snakes on a plane 2
sharks in space
Nothing says social distancing as much as "my cameraman is in a tank full of sharks while I'm on the other side of the window"
This is an under-appreciated comment
lmao true
This is a "breath taking" comment
The tank containing sharks is an upside to most divers, such interesting animals.
My crush did the same thing to get away from me.
Tom: I'm not that interested in fish.
Stingray swims over.
Tom: 😍
Hahaha
None can resist the allure of the majestic sea flap-flap
@@kj9004 "sea flap-flap" is what I'll be calling stingrays from now on, thanks mate
@@alexandermaxx zefrank strikes again.
@@chaotixthefox beh-beh
"School for gifted axolotls" makes me so happy
Indeed. It's adorable.
1:48 for those who missed it XD
fr
Aquarium: Hello Tom Scott, would you like to see our Aquarium.
Tom Scott: It's just a fish collection, I don't really care.
Aquarium: Ah, but did you know we also keep those fish _alive?_
Tom Scott: Interesting, tell me more!
I'm 100% positive that's how the conversation went.
@Arnav Raote Nice
But it's strange to me, that Tom didn't think about that before. I'm fascinated by aquariums since I was little and the planting and animals always were as interesting as the tech behind that keeping it all running.
@@haifutter4166 when you put it that way, I’m convinced he did already love aquariums, but that saying this concept “changed his mind” about them to the positive was indeed actually a trick, meant to draw in people who didn’t have an interest in aquariums before now and allow them to relate in order to change *their* minds on the matter, instead
@@hamstermc7807 Or he just hated how they keep the fish captive, then realized it's not so different from the ocean because of science
Ok “A space station for sharks” *definitely* sounds like one of those AI generated video titles
OHHHH MY GOODNESS IT DOES
Well, What'd You Expect From Tom Scott?
He's A Robot Afterall.
“I’m here inside an active volcano as I’m one of the only sentient beings able to resist the heat due to me being a robot, rather than a human.”
That Covehithe Village one as well.
I was thinking the same thing
Honestly didn't realise how much science goes into running an aquarium
Hello Block Facts! Are you a furry? 🌈
if u see this im a huge fan! :)
@@graygravity3856 LGBTQ probably
Lmao didn't expect to see you here
@@robertschnobert9090 wtf??
Foam fractionator sounds like a device an evil scientist would use to take over the entire tri-state area
BEHOLD! MY FOAM FRACTION-INATOR!
Much better than a weather dominator.
it sounds like the nerf replica of an evil genius weapon
A device an evil scientist would use to tamper with the high-intelligence platypus exhibit?
My favourite thing about the foam fractionator is that the original machine has a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzelvanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semiboloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters
Tom: I was never interested in Aquariums until i learned they had INFRASTRUCTURE
Holy cricket, Grady collab vibes
Can we just appreciate how the tank with grown Axolotls is called "School for Gifted Axolotls"?
I appreciated it.
I Ioved that!
The question is what makes them gifted compared to my axolotl at home? I mean probably the life supporting system but that’s a gift for them. (Wait that is what giftet means right? Being very lucky is sometimes called being gifted so in that sense those axolotls having that life support system makes them very gifted)
@@Manie230 Well I grew up there and I know that it is a school for axolotls with superpowers.
My superpower is being able to understand other peoples emotions completely.
Hilarious. Is that a reference to X-men?
Tom Scott: "They're just fish."
Also Tom Scott: *Stares in awe as a ray swims over him.*
4:00 loved it. 🥰
@@BarelyNoticeable thanks for the timestamp!
That's camera presentation.
He's missing out v_v
read this right when it happened
I think we should just appreciate how Tom's cameraman is filming him from inside of a tank full of sharks
I also appreciate that the cameraman's name is also Tom
Sharks are the least dangerous animals in there
@@orestisgeorgatos6725 yes because a human is in there and humans are the most dangerous beings on this planet
Good luck to his new cameraman.
The story went more like that guy presenting himself: I am a cameraman I can do stuff for you. But I already have a cameraman.
Try me, I can do everything.
OK then dive into the pool stand still with the camera while beast like sharks pass by you. Hopefully they are not that hungry.
Please do a video on:
The island of Nordstrandischmoor is connected to mainland Germany by a tiny narrow gauge railway, on which residents (at least those 15 years of age and older and holding a moped license) can drive private trains back and forth to and from Lüttmoorsiel. Each island house has its own wagon - some used to be wind-powered, using sails, but today they run on diesel.
I couldn't imagine a more perfect video from you
are you AI?
Someone has done already. It might’ve been Tom but I can’t remember!
Maybe some day, but as far as I know Tom can't travel out of the UK currently due to COVID restrictions.
I believe it was Tom who did this already
I’ve seen this on National Geographic’s ‘Europe from Above’ Germany episode too! Truly fascinating indeed!
That “school for gifted axolotls” signage though 😂
Where?
@@sgnosymfoemos 1:45
@@BangersAndMash98 Thank you!
That sounds like an AI-generated title. Come to think of it, so does "It's Like a Spaceship for Sharks."
@@hiimemily It's a reference to the X-MEN though "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters"
Can we just appreciate how knowledgable but easy to understand our guide was
No
@@snowkatyoutube1419 Yes
@@festival3051 no
@@snowkatyoutube1419 yes
@@festival3051 N0
I'm a former Aquarium Biologist and Lab Supervisor at a large public aquarium.
This is all the same stuff I used to look after, though I was never as photogenic and eloquent as this Curator.
As someone who grew up around consumer sized aquariums. I'm surprised to see that it's all the same stuff, just way bigger. Thankfully we never had to "make" sea water as the University of Hawaii provides free clean seawater to anyone who wants it here.
In that case, I have a question for you, if you’d be so kind! At 5:27 there appears to be a infrared heat lamp above the return pumps. Any ideas why? Surely the heat from all the pumps etc would be quite high anyhow? I can’t imagine it’s frost protection.
@@djrosco1982 That's to hatch any fish eggs that come through the pumps.
Photogenic indeed! He is quite handsome
Props to the curator. Very knowledgeable and a great communicator.
Tom learns to fly a jet pack.
Tom talks about a village being eroded into the sea.
Tom learns about explosives.
Tom sells alcohol without a license.
And now Tom is showing off a spaceship for sharks.
Tom Scott is becoming a supervillian.
or a childhood hero we all love
uh oh xD
You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain
I want more context about the "school for gifted axolotls"
Same,
Sounds like a marine biology/x-men mashup
Ancient philosophers taught their ancestors how to work the throttles.
Axotolts and proud
Sorry to disillusion You, but I think those axolotls were gifted to the Deep
Here's an interesting fact: you're not breathing real water. It's too expensive to pump this far out. We just take dihydrogen oxide out of a room, freshen it up a little, and pump it back in. So you'll be breathing the same tank full of water for the rest of your life. I thought that was interesting. -Aperture Science Aquariums
you want a cake or something
Tnx Cave
But how do they change it to water?
Or is oxide = monoxide? (I think so)
@@niceowl monoxide, to be precise
dude, aquarium guy needs his own channel. I'd watch him
I don't know what's more surprising in this video. The amount of work that goes into an aquarium, or the fact that Tom doesn't like aquariums.
I can kind of relate to that. Most zoos I know have an extra charge for their aquarium part, and I often tend to skip that, thinking that there's already so much to see without it and that reptiles and fish are somehow less interesting than birds and mammals (alright: and marsupials, too). However, every time I do end up getting that extra ticket and go into the aquarium, I'll be like "Holy crap, I should be doing this more often!"
About as shocking as learning that Ashens doesn't like tea.
@@berlinflight_tv I find mammals the most boring tbh. Compared to other branches of animal life they're quite monotonous.
"its just fish"
no, tom, its a freakin SHARK
I find both zoo and aquarium kinda boring. I'd rather see animals in nature than as a lame side attraction, no matter how exotic the animals in captivity may be.
That aquarium might look a bit like a space ship inside, but it legitimately looks like a scifi starfighter on the outside. That's one of the coolest buildings I've ever seen!
If you haven't seen it in person I recommend you do
4:00 That stingray's timing is impeccable.
An education in Tom Scott allows multiple points of reference, like how at 4:04 you remember why 'dark video is a terrible, blocky mess'
I was just thinking "woah, even Tom has a blocky mess from time to time" when looking at 3:35
I literally thought of that exact video
Oh hey Regit!
oh its that battle cat guy
On a related note, a ticket at the Deep is good for a year, so you can go back multiple times!
Have they changed it? They used to have two types of ticket on offer, only one of which allowed you to go mulitple times. Wouldn't want anyone turning up expecting to get back in for free.
@@sheridanwilde Not sure when they introduced it, but I've been going for over a decade and can't remember it not being the case, just got to do some set up on arrival in person:
"All tickets bought online or on the door include FREE return visits for you and your party for 12 months with the Day Plus Pass. Our reception team will set this up for you on arrival (you will need to give us your name, address and postcode and have a photograph taken for your record)"
@@sheridanwilde Yes, they changed it - I was not amused. Just because I work five minutes away does not mean that I want to go multiple times a year. But, if anyone does, it becomes good value.
@@alexechoz That's probably the reason, it sounds like good value, but most people don't actually go more than once a year.
The Deep: "Yes we could call it an aquarium, or we could call it a submariu..
Tom: "Space ship for sharks"
"Damn that's way better than what I was going to say."
Its the opposite of a submarine - it allows marine life to survive above water.... a supermarine :-)
@@tompw3141 they where going to say submarium because the deep calls itself the only submarium.
@@tompw3141 supermarine is a buoyant sea ship xD
the word you're looking for is terrestrial
@@tompw3141 domarine?
As an aquarist on a much smaller scale, I can appreciate that much of the life support process can be seen in a well-kept home aquarium. The nitrogen cycle is such a fascinating subject! I found the final step of nitrogen off-gassing very interesting, as typical home aquaria require regular water changes to remove accumulated nitrates. (I can’t imagine how many buckets you’d need to do a 50% water change on a system of that size!)
I noticed that too. They had all the same components as sump tanks can have, and then extra gas management too.
It's the same in sewage treatment, too. To reduce nitrate to nitrogen, you just need to maintain an anoxic zone, and another type of bacteria will do the rest. In sewage treatment, the system is simply designed to provide at least 4 hours residence time after the aeration stage, and the enormous quantity of bacteria resident in the "biosolids" produces anoxic conditions by depleting the dissolved oxygen while consuming the carbon food in the biosolids. The most practical way to do it in an aquarium is with a "deep sand bed". About 10 cm depth is sufficient, so you can do it in the display or a sump. In a marine aquarium, use arogonite sand and it will double as a pH buffer and source of calcium. In a freshwater aquarium, plants will also consume nitrates, which are removed from the system when you trim the plants.
Just one, but it would be very large.
"Goddamn it, the siphon lost suction again, it'll take forever to get it back"
That guy explaining everything did a really great job!
And he's got a great tattoo 😉
Sierra
Took me a bit to realise you weren't making a joke about Tom.
@@goodboi650 Same, I was like "uh, that's Tom - he's been doing this a while now!"
"The water around here is very hard" is certainly an understatement. After seeing the buildup in my kettle after a month, I don't even want to imagine the havoc it'd wreak on anything even remotely as sensitive as a life support system.
When I lived there we always used a distiller, and I can certainly tell you, that water is hard af
And we drink that!
Never got why Europeans don't use whole home water softeners.
@@ELTarTree Drinking it shouldn't be much of a problem.
@@ELTarTree it’s safe to drink. Calcium and magnesium are beneficial to humans...... just not kettles
I studied biology at Hull University and would often wander down to The Deep on a weekday morning to have a good think. I was also lucky enough to get a tour of their life support systems as well as their educational spaces for visiting schools (of kids, not fish, just clarifying there).
It's an amazing place and definitely worth the visit. If you're local, a ticket there lasts a whole year of unlimited visits!
As a citizen of Hull, i appreciate you showing one of our great landmarks to your audience, great video tom!
Wow this was really cool to see! It's also a bit frightening to see how many components make up the life support system. I can imagine it could break in A LOT of ways.
That was my thought too, I wonder what they do when something fails and needs to be replaced
@@nope110 They build in redundancy: every component (for which that is reasonably feasible) is put in at least twice. So if one needs to be serviced or replaced, the other one is running. And I imagine that there would a bit of buffer capacity in the whole system, so that a short time without operation doesn't do too much damage.
I used to run a small outdoor pool and had to deal with all the plumbing and hardness and everything. The basement there was giving me flashbacks
Yes, but it's not a big problem because of how much inertia is in such a huge system.
In some spaceships it can be crucial to fix whatever broke relatively quickly because you have several humans packed in a space barely larger than them, so the atmosphere can get unbreathable relatively quickly. Even in that case, they have hours before it gets bad.
A large system like this could be off-line for a few days and the fish wouldn't even notice, so they have plenty of time to perform any repairs or maintenance and bring it back online.
Unlike putting seawater in a sealed jar for years. Cool stuff.
As someone who has gotten into aquascaping/fishkeeping over the last few years I have to say, this is the stuff that got me hooked (no pun intended). I had previously thought it was just, put fish in water, change water now and then, but after learning about this cycle, which is the same for amateur fish keepers, it made me realize we're trying to recreate nature in a box, and just how challenging and rewarding that is when you learn how to get it right
A) It's not a pun; it would be if we were talking about Angling.
B) If you _write_ "no pun intended" then you spotted it and deliberately left it there; which means it was, indeed, intended.
It's always amazing to see these huge aquariums using the same kinds of systems that you'd use at home, albeit on a massive scale.
Tom should come do a tour of the Georgia aquarium - largest tank in the world!
@@Kyrelel You're annoying
@@Kyrelel
A) They were talking about marine life, making a pun related to fishing activities is acceptable.
B) In literature, saying "no pun intended" after making a pun implies that the writer had no intention of making a pun at the time of writing. They obviously realised after the fact hence the presence of the phrase but, that's the point. Alternatively, the writer may have actually intended to make the pun at the time of writing and then inserted "no pun intended" after writing to highlight the pun. This is also rather common and perfectly acceptable.
@@Kyrelel eh, it was still funny.
This *has* to be the title that the AI gave you back in the day
Nah it was that village that was going to crumble into the sea
The best part of the video for me was while Tom was trying to talk and the manta swam right above his head, and you could see the struggle for him to stay on script. :D
Those rays are just so distracting!
i loved that! that was my favorite part of the video!
It was just a ray not a manta.
Not a manta ray! I used to work there and that is one of the honeycomb sting rays that swims over his head. Manta rays are even bigger!
@@MrAgentEcho sorry I missed your correction earlier. Thank you.
Tom: "Its just some fish" The Aquarium: "and I took that personally"
I just started water engineering design as a module in civil engineering. It's fascinating to see some applications for what I've literally just learnt.
Municipal wastewater treatment is very similar.
OMG! "School for Gifted Axolotls"! It showed for a split second and made my whole day :P
4:00
I love how Tom still gets distracted by the stingray
Never forget.
@UwU Echo if so, it was some really dang lucky timing.
Absolutely love that shot when the stingray swims above Tom
its almost like you can see the child looking up at it!
Free replay button: 0:18
And 4:00
You mean Tom Scott, or Tom, the diver and cameraman?
@@MR.GreenBird that's the one i was looking for!
I'm so jealous of the guy getting to dive into the "shark" tank. Tom's getting to see more of world than virtually anyone else has, or ever will, and his crew are a very close second. Kudos to you for sharing this with the world, while being so humble about it.
Honestly, I'd like to buy Ben the Curator a pint or two and listen to him break down the entire life support system to me over the course of the evening. Such an informative chap. Thanks Tom for taking the time to put this out there too 🙌
Ending this title with a period was an incredible move, and I think Tom knew it.
Indeed.
Perfect
Why I don’t get it
Eh? Period of what?
@@marble296 A full stop
You could have named this video "I went to the aquarium" and we'd still watch
I'm severly dissapointed that the content of your channel doesn't match your username and profile picture.
Or ' Me on a trip to Hull'!
@@johanrosenberg6342 That was over 10 years ago. Thank copyright infringement
@@YTPEXPERT that sucks. What kind of RUclips Poops did you make? The story-driven or the complete mess? Did you make anything famous I might be familiar with?
“me at the aquarium”, even
3:50 I've just noticed the guy in the scuba gear filming tom scott from inside the aquarium lmao
I never realized so much went into filtering the water in aquariums, I imagine there must be many other things to consider, like heating and lighting in the water. Also thanks Tom, aquariums will forever be known in my heart as "a space ship for sharks".
3:56 - Tom really does like aquariums after all :)
It's fitting how this "spaceship" is located in "Hull".
Hull Integrity compromised
@@Dormanil Eject, Eject
@Crossiant Studios Bro I live in hull and can confirm you’re right
@realashgaming28 can safely say for the time I live Yorkshire that all Yorkshire are Allen's
@Ashton Dowling I'm not an alien, I promise!
'The Deep' is worth it just for the truly vast diversity of aquatic life they have to witness and learn about. Not surprised that it requires such a massive life support system, there's a lot of life to support. A unique aquarium experience.
I love the Jacqueline Bisset exhibit. That is the wettest wet t-shirt ever...
I love,living 30 minutes away from it. I had a ticket that aloud me to enter for free for a year and I will get a new one once it is open. Would highly recommend
What I would love to see is the life support system for the tank for the whale shark at the Atlanta Aquarium. It must be a massive system.
Been there more times than I can count. The only bad thing about 'the Deep' , is that it's in Hull (the rectum of England).
Weeping because Tom was in my city and had no idea 😭
I always knew this day would come
I remember seeing a documentary mention "reverse osmosis" exactly once and never hearing of it again. It stuck with me. Glad to see it mentioned again.
As a fishkeeper this video makes me happy. I'm so glad to see anything that raises awareness of the amount of work that needs to go into making fish comfortable and healthy in an aquarium. So many people think you can buy a fish and stick it in some water and it'll be fine but that couldn't be any farther from the truth.
The water is the actual pet, the fish are just there for decoration!
This is why I don't get fish even though I've thought about it several times. Mammals are easy because they have most of the same living conditions we do. Fish require a precise environment that differs between species and I can't stand the thought of waking up to find I killed them.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j it feels euphoric to just sit and enjoy your aquarium
I learnt it the hard way with my goldfish in the past
Learnt it the hard way with various fish species. And turtles sadly
The way Ben looks so passionate of what he's explaining makes this video ten times better
Tom: "It's just some fish, right?"
Fish: 🙁🙁🙁🙁
When I saw the title, I knew it would be The Deep. Truly the coolest part of Hull
Fr!
Being from Hull, as soon as I saw the water walkway, I said “is that the deep?” Really is a staple of my childhood. They’re struggling in Covid at the moment
Hopefully this will be good for them. I'm definitely going back when they open up again
Really weird seeing that tunnel in the dark, though. It's normally lit up when you walk through it.
Honestly, me too.
Is that so bad?
@@evolvedmonke9939 yes
I honestly expected this to be about a transport system for moving sharks from one large aquarium to another.
That'd be a cool video. Our local zoo once had a text display talking about how they transported a walrus several hundred miles from another zoo for breeding. It'd be great to see a more in-depth explanation and have b-roll with it.
@@BonaparteBardithion Imagine that you're just going about your business, and suddenly a team of incomprehensibly advanced super-beings begins investing a lot of time and money into making sure you get laid. That walrus is living the life.
@@blarg2429 isn’t that just the story of Adam and Eve
@@DDub04 Huh. You know, you're not wrong.
I lived in Hull until I was 18 and I never knew about the complicated mechanics that go into maintaining it. Thanks Tom!
as an aquarium hobbyist, this is a DREAM
Citation Needed has ruined me in very specific ways where certain words/names will make me think of the various end gags from the show. So when I see "School For Gifted Axolotls," all I can think of is "Aristotle Axolotl Throttle."
One of the earlier episodes makes a casual mention to The Deep (and I believe there's at least one other episode that makes a reference to Hull as well).
I saw a company called “pleats” that is a delivery dry cleaning service. I thought there could be a goat milk farm that also does dry cleaning... Teats, Bleats, and Pleats.
I love the Technical Difficulties :)
There is actually a line, I believe from CN S2, the coffin ray episode, where Gary in fact says the exact words "The Deep Hull"
"Citation Needed has ruined me in very specific ways where certain words/names will make me think of the various end gags from the show. "
Bees!
Tom at 0:22 - It's just some fish, right?
Tom at 4:00 - OO LOOK AT DA FEESH!
"It's just some fish, right?"
"DUCKS"
I used to look after a mini aquarium, it was just one room, and I'm envious of this machinery.
"They're just fish, right?"
And suddenly Tom has made ennemies of every aquarium hobbyist
Cladistically....me, you, Einstein, Tom and Anne Hathaway are fish too.
I don't think Tom would make enemies out of them. If anything, they'd instill him with passion!
@@DaVince21 i'm saying fish keepers are offended by this idea that "they're just fish". our pets are pets for a reason 😤
As a fishkeeper
Yes.
@@graphite2786 In fact... the whole universe would be our fish keeper :p
I never though about how much effort it takes to do this on such a huge scale
@@weeklyinternationalnews5919 advertising on other people’s videos is not how you grow your channel.
@@Jack16114 I am just trying to figure it out and try different stuff. But ty anyway ^^
I guess you are right. I apologize Tom Scott!
Well the same is true for a tiny 5 gallon! If you ever want to keep fish you need a less expensive and complex system but you still need it! That’s why we use filters and let our tanks sit for at least a month before we introduce fish! It’s all to grow beneficial bacteria!
Too right, Imagine how big the sump of the fish waste would need to be!
as soon as i saw that bridge i knew it was the deep. i love this aquarium
Did not expect to see The Deep on your channel... Hull finally made it eh!
I’m convinced Tom can teleport around the world.
It’s the only possible answer
"I am here, in the Big Chungus episode."
same
it’s been proven, see So You’ve Learned to Teleport
well obviously
As someone who enjoys aquariums, this gave me a lot more respect for what it takes to run them.
Same! Though il be sticking with my freshwater tank thanks
4:53 - It wouldn't be British engineering without a cup of tea sitting on a staff trolley in the background! 😂
Hey Tom, great to see you sampling the delights our little city has to offer! Hope you enjoyed your time here ☺️ regards, a local fan (or Hullensian!)
'where does the water in aquariums come from' is one of those questions that I never thought about before but was very happy to get the answer to.
They make it or get it from the ocean. Ones close to the beach can pump it in and out. Others have to use RO/DI to purify things then make saltwater with synthetic salts.
can we talk about the diver with a camera just standing there while Tom delivers his monologue
Hi, I used to work here and the divers did a lot of stuff like that! There are dive shows where the divers will go into the tank and feed whilst a tour guide will explain what they're up to and information about the animals. We used to communicate with the divers using special diver sign language to entertain the guests too
*floating
I love the Deep. the amount of birthday parties i went to there as a child is insane
Nice of Ben Affleck to teach us about the life support system
One day, humanity thought it would be safe from the shark menace by heading to the stars.
Sharks:
A
@@waterPsychiatrist you didn’t get the reference, did you?
@@waterPsychiatrist a shark VTuber once said “A” during her debut stream. It’s become a common joke among the community.
I reckon you could do something cool with an alien race that evolved from sea creatures - the ships would have massive inertia because of being filled with some sort of breathable fluid, they'd maybe have a different concept of seasons, if they evolved from squid, would they count in a base 8 number system?...
@@ishoottheyscore8970 If science has taught us anything, it's that everything evolves into crabs. So expect delicious aliens to be on your dinner plate in the distant future.
One thing that wasn't emphasised is the sheer mass of all that water. It's a serious bit of engineering just holding all that water safely in one place!
Nah, they just use transparent aluminum
@@ragnkja Jokes, how do they work.
@@terranovarubacha5473 with some skyhooks to hold it up without support from beneath
I've been to the deep several times as a child and this is the nerdy science that makes it that much cooler!
The Deep thanks you for your efforts and now reports back for duty at The Seven
Tom has been doing a lot more videos in Hull and East Yorkshire recently. We Love to see it.
Cheers to Ben, he's really good at explaining things and this was quite fascinating to learn about. Also, for what it's worth, I didn't find the shots from the gopro on a pole to be unpleasant at all. Thanks for the look into this, Tom!
No problem
Reminds me of "look what they need to mimic just a fraction of our power"! Nature is amazing!
The scale of it is amazing. Thanks for teaching us!
As somebody from Hull, its great to see some coverage of The Deep, it was always a fantastic trip as a kid!
your pfp/username is amazing
@@melizabeth555 Thanks xD
Space sharks!
Tom Scott videos are the pinnacle of youtube no doubt about it. IMO
Tom is just getting other people to do his videos at this point.
It's great.
I would like to know more about the School for Gifted Axolotls.
The sharks must be having a fantastic time in their own space station.
This is my favourite aquarium in the world!! Thank you so much for this fascinating video about it!!
2:15 Feels like watching one of Rick and Morty episodes "I'm not paying 70 smidgets for a broken defraculator".
Such dedication to the cause! Tom literally went to Hull and back just for us 😂
I loved the "school for gifted axolotls" sign!
It's only like 4hrs drive from london to Hull 😂 and Tom went to uni in York.
I appreciated the sign also.
Not gonna lie, ended up watching this video by dropping my phone. Was not dissapointed
Welcome to starting binging Tom Scott, a truly worthwhile thing to enjoy! :)
@@Inorisso I've been bining on and off for months now
With it being this hard to get submarine animals living "on land", just imagine how much harder it would be to get them into actual spaceships. Theoretical water-dwelling aliens have a tough road shared of them before they can go exploring the universe.
That's a good point actually, it's probably exceedingly hard to get from the ocean into outer space
I once got to take a tour behind the scenes at the aquarium at the Omaha Zoo. It's just like this video. When you go through the aquarium as a tourist, you're only seeing at most half of the aquarium. There's so much behind the scenes.
3:44 lmao that diver just casually filming
A fascinating subject - the professional work of the committed crew maintaining this ecosystem cannot be understated. And it was nice to meet you outside Tom!
As always, Tom, you make me think about things I've never thought about. Thank you!
As chemical engineering student I'm just "YAY I know how this works" and just going nuts over this.
Having spent a lot of time on submarines, I can appreciate how the aquarists have to keep the atmosphere safe for the fish, but I've actually never thought about it. Thank you, Tom for enlightening us.
Submarines are just reverse aquariums