The Suez Canal: The Desert Ditch Ferrying 1 Billion Tons of Goods Every Year (When It's Not Blocked)
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Do a mega project on Simon Whistlers youtube enterprise.
It should be a business blaze!
At this point, it could really be a Top Tenz, Biographics, Business Blaze, and (at the very least) a SideProjects video too...
.....allegedly.
He's already well on his way to global media domination 😆
@@estieglandwr its at least a small media Empire at this point
Simon is the only person I know that has 8 Channels and is active on all of them basically. that takes dedication
RIP Highlight History
The hardest working man on RUclips.
Count again. Simon has ten active channels when I am typing this in early June 2021.
@@stacyrussell460 wait 10 👀
He and his team do a great job writing content that's interesting and timely. Keep it up Simon and team!
"How are we going to finish this?"
"Just throw death and suffering at it until it's done!"
Turns out death and suffering is not profitable. Let's build some giant mechanical shovels and invest personal Capital into the canal. Wallah it's done!
America looks over, Welcome To The Future!
Damn egypt really loves throwing casualties at something until it works
@@maybenorthern Slavery: Gets shit done.
@@ascensionindustries9631 How many times have they used slaves on big projects?
Voila. It’s voila. It’s French , you absolute muppet.
Lmao
Am I the only one that expected him to say "AM I RIGHT PETER?!" after talking about a statue of a woman holding a torch
AM I RIGHT PETER? WOMAN HOLDING TORCHES?! HA!
Yes you are???
@@way2crazie620 Your vicinity is a Blaze free zone
@@way2crazie620 Check out his channel Business Blaze :) it's a lot more casual and "AM I RIGHT, PETER?!" is a running joke there in reference to some guy with hilariously/horribly sexist viewpoints some decades back. I believe the episode that originated in is one about old advertisements that aged badly
Pre-1900, if you don't need a mass grave, is it really a megaproject?
The past was indeed the worst...
I always wonder what the environmental impact was of suddenly letting Mediterranean species flow into the Indian Ocean and vice versa. Must have been a lot of invasive species, in an era when humans didn't have much concept of that or any good way to monitor it under the sea.
I hadn’t thought of that but now you have mentioned it thought I would look it up. There is a lot of scientific studies done on this, enough to have a Wikipedia page on the topic complete with multiple references for those wanting to know more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessepsian_migration.
@@jessicascoullar3737 Oh, thank you for this reply! I'm reading the article right now.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - Ancient history
3:05 - Chapter 2 - Planning & building
5:40 - Chapter 3 - Inauguration & early stages
7:55 - Chapter 4 - Global impact & financial problems
9:00 - Chapter 5 - Suez crisis
11:05 - Chapter 6 - An 8 year wait
12:30 - Chapter 7 - The new suez canal
14:15 - Chapter 8 - The future of the canal
Simon a nice Megaproject would be the German Nucleur plan when they planned to use heavy water to build atomic bombs in WW2.
What’s heavy water?
It's water that has become contaminated with radiation due to being used in a nuclear power plant.
@@p.l.g3190 err, no. The hydrogen in normal water has only a single proton in its core (and an electron in the shell). there are isotopes of hydrogen with an additional neutron (deuterium) or two neutrons (trtium), both are radioactive. This doesn't nessecarily have anything to do with nuclear power plants as such. The contaminated water there may contain any sort of radioactive trace elements. Heavy water ist used in the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Eh, the German nuclear program never really got very far and was severely underfunded and understaffed because they had so many other things they wanted to build and they were kind of losing the war at the same time. They had ideas but little to show for it. Doesn't really sound like a megaproject to me...
Or the many canals in Germany, including the Kiel Canal, which saves sailing around Denmark.
A weak little statue holding a torch?!
Am i right peter?!
Good ol' Bartholdi!
The lesson to take away from ancient construction projects is that you don't need that much technology to build incredible things. All you need is an infinite number of human workers and a total disregard for their lives.
Or maybe time? A lot of workers and time.
Remember going trough it several times on Navy ships while I was in the Marines, always a tense moment.
You can't stop there!!
Why did it cause tension on a naval vessel?
My son sails through the sewer 4+ times a year. He's an engineer on a cargo ship.
Ed Norton, eat your heart out.
(Think of the ‘50s TV show, The Honeymooners, not the actor)
So you're saying that ships just discharge their waste into the Canal? Can't they wait until they are out at sea?
@@thePronto depends on the ballast needed.
A good idea for a mega project would be the Arctic Convoy’s during WW2.. they were pretty horrifying, especially PQ17.
All this talk of digging makes me want to play Minecraft.
I haven’t played in years, but I say go for it
Diggy diggy hole
1.17 just released (as of 8th June 2021). Go for it.
@@randomotter6346 I'm not sure if the new ores are coming in the first half of 1.17
In valheim one of my mates built a canal, and our global trade was also benefited.
No way could people build that with hand tools. Must have been aliens :P
The canal itself was doable by humans, but alien help was needed to clear away the pyramid that appeared in the middle of it.
Time went so fast that we just forgot that a damn container ship blocked it
$465,000 per transit! Bloody hell! I never had any notion it was THAT expensive to use it.
I'm alright thanks I'll go around!
I suppise if you are moving large amounts of cargo, it is still more economical than going around Africa. Safer too.
The toll is by weight. Just for the heck of it, I calculated the smallest amount that would be reasonable and it came out to $84 for a first time transit for a 10 ton vessel with a 2 meter draft. Basically a medium sailboat.
the business blaze smirk came out for a second, but Simon contained himself.
Good video. Btw, the base of the statue that was planned for Port Said still exists. The citizens of Port Said are still waiting for the statue lol
You forgot the part of the Suez where you have to throw stupid amounts of cartons of cigarettes and sometimes liquor at the pilots and agents before they'll bring you through the canal. Otherwise you'll just sit at one of the entrances, waiting.
Exploitation is lubrication when no one's looking....or everyone is involved.
Sounds like quid pro quo...what’s wrong with that?
In some form or another....that how the world operates. Nobody quids without a beneficial pro quo in return. That would just make you a terrible businessman.
I'd heard of the canal back when I was a kid in school but never really thought much about it other than its place on the globe.
Then I went to see Lawrence of Arabia and that scene towards the end of the flick when all seemed lost, the blast of a ship's horn goes off and there... the mast of a ship cruising through the canal!
Good video, can you do something about Italy turning from right hand drive to left hand drive vehicles please
I wonder how many archaeological sites they came across digging it and just ignored them.
At least one I would think
hey me again, video on the Appalachian Trail, probably a better fit for Geographics
I thought there was one ...
England: "Forced labour is good for business."
Egypt: "I'm going to do a forced labour."
England: "Don't you dare, -that'll undercut my profits- that's inhumane!"
Same sort of blind hypocrisy (mostly in the states) that claims that the US was an anomaly in slavery.
@@embracethesuck1041 The US certainly was not an anomaly in having slavery, though held onto slaves for longer than Europe, even if many colonies were not granted such emancipation, especially those of France, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands (well aware that both Belgium and the Netherlands had rather fluid governance for a long time). The story of slabery is incomplete though, as it continues today, was always aided by fellow Africans when it came to African slavery, and the Islamic world is given a free pass, it seems, as is modern India.
@@embracethesuck1041 In 1860, slavery was a fact in every nation in the world. A few countries in Europe had banned it in the home country but it continued in their colonies, sometimes into the early 20th century in fact if not in name. To the best of my knowledge, every culture in history practiced slavery in one form or another at various times. It's easy for us to say "they should have known it was wrong" but the practice had existed all over the world for as long as there were records. Even the Bible didn't condemn the practice of slavery, only the mistreatment of slaves. It's a good thing that slavery is legally gone and I certainly hope we all now understand it as a gross violation of human rights, but the people who think it was some sort of American aberration are woefully ignorant of history. The U.S. is seen as "dealing with a legacy of slavery" more than -- for example -- Britain because for the most part, British slaves were in the colonies and when they were freed they were left there to fend for themselves sparing the home country the difficulty of dealing with them. Just look at what's going on in former British colonies where people were enslaved; if anything, most of them are worse off than we are.
From house slaves to worker slaves, the countries may change but the suffering is rarely any different.
Which was kind of funny if you think about it. The machines were much more efficient, so not only was forced labor entirely unnecessary, but also the British inadvertently helped Egypt to hurt the railroad faster.
Here after the Suez Canal Spring Break '21 Edition xD
Hey Simon and crew- the B-29 Superfortress cost an estimated $3 Billion (to the Manhattan Project’s $2 Billion) as the most expensive project of all WWII. It’s service lifetime was short but the general systems and platform lasted for over a decade and sort of rolled into what would become the B-52 program, a platform which will likely fly for nearly 100 years.
Still waiting for a video on getting up in the morning, which most times IS a mega project, at least until the nectar of gods, the manna from heaven, that life elixir we all know as coffee (or tea) kicks in! 😉
The explanation of future use in regards to cargo (oil) is appreciated.
The next project Egypt needs to work on is a giant Suez Canal plunger to keep it unclogged.
That cheerful music playing in the background to the B.E.F. is priceless
This was a pretty simple project actually.
The Erie Canal, 362 miles, was completed in 1825. And, it had locks...
Thanks
The idea of ships sailing from East Asia to Northern Europe via Russia's Arctic coast is quite remarkable.
I'm imagining my children telling their children 'when my Pop was your age, the Arctic Ocean had a year-round ice cap.'
Didn't Simon already do an episode on this? Or am I crazy?
Edit: The geographics episode was what I was thinking of
So, yes.
“A country getting a conscience in the 19th Century about forced labor doesn’t sound right .” Britain spent gigantic amounts of money ending the slave trade and the United States fought a war to end slavery!
and yet mistreated their workers at home, and aboard . in conditions that were inhumane
The British only finished paying off the money the borrowed ending the slave trade in 2015. Both in borrowing for the Navy and paying off traders. It took us 200 years.
@David Lium I was going to write that. 19th century was the same century Britain began stopping the slave trade
Yeah two things can be true at the same time.. people look at history through the lens of today. Slavery and shitty working conditions were close to standard it alot of the world.
Since we talk about a megaproject in Egypt, and I'm Egyptian. Here is some megaproject suggestions concerning Egypt: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Egypt seems to excel with megaprojects, for the past 5000 years or so. You folks invented them.
@@billolsen4360 the last mega project he mentioned isn't really an "Egyptian" project far from it its against the regional supremacy of egypt
@@AMR_k400 Actually the last 2 was made to undermine Egypt.
When I was a kid I thought it was "the Sewers Canal" and was full of poop so smelled really bad.
If you haven't done it already, a video on the Space Needle would be interesting.
As long as you leave the drug needles in the Seattle center out of it.
As we’re in Egypt- do a Megaproject video on the new Egypt capital city.
….in 10-15 years time
Omg, I can't believe it's been over three years since the canal was blocked. Time flies.
A good idea for a Megaprojects would be the Danube-Black Sea Canal, a project with a dark history of its own.
Simon you constantly blow my mine with the exhaustive detail of your subjects and the great way you present it. I don't know how you crank out so many great topics week after week. Keep it up dude!
Another timely megaproject could be Israel's Iron Dome defense system.
Not only did it change transport and travel, but The Canal changed many people's fortunes and, many country's economies.
i never realised Lady Liberty was originally meant for Egypt
The only two ships to be seaworthy from the Yellow Fleet were two West German ships, go figure.
The British Empire was fighting navel battles against the trans-Atlantic slave trade back as far as 1829. For sure these had some economic motivations but also played to moral objections among British subjects and ultimately lead to the end of millennia of global slavery outside the most tyrannical and backward parts of the globe.
Here I was thinking that the qualifier "when it's not blocked" in the video's title was just a tongue-in-cheek reference to then-current events - and then, Simon goes on to list multiple other blockages of the Suez Canal, some of which lasted for longer (about four years longer, in one case) than EVERSTUCK 1 (EVERSTUCK 2 was, of course, the one that blocked the Chesapeake Bay).
Simon Whistler: Narrator of the Internet
I liked the shade you're throwing at them for it being blocked.
Released 1 hour ago? Didn't Simon cover this last year? Oh, wait, that was on Geographic's. Lets hope he mentions the Yellow Fleet and that the Great Bitter Lake is shallower than it used to be because of beer bottles.
What.
@@BlueRidgeBubble If you don't get the beer bottles reference or would like to learn more about the Yellow Fleet, I'd recommend another video brought to you by Facts Boi. Feel free to smash that dislike button.
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@@Dan19870Hey thanks
And that was a surprisingly pleasant answer
Extra thank you
Another CHANNEL?!?! Simon is a Mad man, I tell ya. A MAD MAN!
I want to hear more about the"intercontinental" railroad completed in the US 6 months earlier and referred to at 8:03.
I believe he meant the transcontinental railroad. Funny, in googling to confirm that I learned that apparently Obama once misspoke exactly the same thing, calling it intercontinental by accident lol
The more you know
Great show. The context is some of your best (I never thought about the alternate routes)
Oil is at record lows? Why in the hell am I paying $3.29 a gallon for gas in northern Indiana with the 6th largest refinery in the world 90 minutes away? Lol
Because democrats?
Taxes
You snear at the idea that Britian ojected to the use of slaves, but they were probably the first and most active of anti slavery countries in Europe around that time with the Royal Navy blocking slave traders and freeing their slaves, many of which ended up joining the Royal Navy.
Great overview of canal history. I loved Simon's sarcasm about the more controversial aspects.
i look back at all humanity has accomplished and i well up with pride to even be a member of the species.. and then i look at things like tiktok, instagram, and onlyfans and i am crushed with shame.
Reflecting on the animals we have hunted to extinction might add to that shame. 😳
its blocked? enema time!
I hope Simon just keeps growing his beard out, it pretty fun to guess the timeline of a video release based on how long it is
MegaProject: Panama? SideProject: Suez Crisis? Great article.
I'm knew to your channel and I have been watching for about 2 weeks now and I have to say that I absolutely love your effin channel!! I have been watching the "Real Engineering" channel for a long time but you bring something to your channel the other one doesnt. Your awesome personality. Every episode at some point I'm laughing my ass off and in my opinion there's nothing better then learning and laughing at the same time! Now I'm not knocking Real Engineering at all I love that channel too, but he explains stuff in a much more engineering/nerdy way and I also very much enjoy that but this is now my new favorite channel. Military,Space and Submarine engineering are my absolute favorite and there is plenty of that on this channel. Thank you Simon for doing this and being such a hilarious and kick a$$ dude! p.s.. arw you going to do a video on the space shuttles?
I love all of your videos. I'm a history nerd like you.
In South Africa, we get to suffer an energy crisis while watching ships laden with coal being ordered to anchor outside of South African waters so that the crisis can push pricing up further
1 - they should make it deeper so large ships can get through
2 - they should make a 2nd cannel so having two way traffic 24/7
so reducing time of waiting
they make enough money to do this and we would not have the problems we have just suffered if the canal was fit for purpose
Jolly good, Mr. Whistler!
Great job as the general in Sweet Tooth on Netflix. Can’t wait to see what role you play next.
Oil prices at an all time low. I wish fuel prices would reflect that.
I love your honesty about British history. I can't believe it costed only 0.1% of our modern annual global military expenditure!
Surely that ship that blocked the canal, is a megaprojet in itself.
Since the suez was likely paid in silver, quick math says that $100 million US silver in 1869 would have a melt value today (range from 2.1 to 2.5) of $2.25 billion
So, did that canal affect the ecology of where it was constructed due to the sudden influx of water??
The semi slave hand dug first small proto Suez canal was a big assist to the following machinery phase next brought in to quickly enlarge it to practical big revenue generating proportions.
The Trans Siberian Railway's initial construction phase in Russia also used much serf "free labour" to initially quickly punch a pair of rails through to the Pacific. This "build it all the way to the terminus cheap" then improve the whole infrastructure over time using newly generated profits from initial freight and passengers was the norm everywhere.
I just saw an ad for Blaze Pizza and thought for a second Simon started a new business, lol
Port SY EEED … but you still need to let Danny out of the Basement !!
Container ships going via the Artic in any numbers is most unlikely due to the cold soak cargo gets. Grain in containers is likely to get wet from condensation. Potentially, containers will be crushed by the extra tension on stays holding them in place, or due to stays deforming due to cold shrinkage taking then past their tension point. We care mainly looking at bulk cargos like oil, gas, minerals. Bulk grains are unlikely due to condensation spoiling cargo.
Another excellent video! Thank you
Oh, that's a nice touch 12:37
They dug convenient little cross-canals for ship captains who suddenly realise they've left the oven on at home.
Very interesting and informative thank you.
How the hell can it cost $400,000+ to cross a bloody canal? That's absolutely mental!
Whenever I come back to these channels he's spawned yet another one XD Thanks for all the great content!
Simon, that’s crazy talk - the US intelligence services don’t manipulate Hollywood! At least “not wittingly”. 😉
Maverick hold my beer. Goose? A goose is gone. Ice man? Oyeah everybody knows a guy like that.
Watch Simon's video in that
Na mate we millennials had so many war games most of us could operate a AK-47 at the first touch. Games that came in 2000 and before like Delta force showed the mechanism.
Now go back and think how long it took for car games to give us a accepted interior. Even GTA 5 has shit interior. Na man Talk to programes at the time they will tell you about representatives of the military coming to check if games where good enough. And the money did not fall from the sky lol....
Marc beebee I *think* I understand what you are saying, but that was far from coherent. Care for giving that one another go?
Marc beebee this is what I was referring to, in case it wasn’t obvious: ruclips.net/video/IXGZJigHTnk/видео.html
US intelligence is an oxymoron, and yes I’m an American
Ty Roberts I am too, and I’m probably inclined to agree with you. However, your statement isn’t particularly helpful. I was making a reference to the head of the NSA lying under oath. Do you have a productive point that I’m missing, because it just seems petty and nihilistic.
I like the clause in the title -- "when It's not blocked". :))
The megaproject we've all been waiting for! Excellent work Simon. Can you do a video on the Hong Kong Airport next?
Since canal videos always seem to be popular, look up the “Illinois Michigan canal”
I think that you should have mentioned that In 1956 Israel invaded the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, with one of its objectives being the reopening of the Straits of Tiran that Egypt had blocked to Israeli shipping since 1950. Israel was eventually forced to withdraw but was guaranteed that the Straits of Tiran would remain open. A United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) was deployed along the border. Then the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced in May 1967 that the Straits of Tiran would again be closed to Israeli vessels, and then mobilised Egyptian forces along the border with Israel, ejecting the UNEF.
Honestly the Yom Kippur War or 6 day war would be a great geographic video if kind of controversial.
Its possibly a sideprojects video, but how about the Mallard / Flying Scotsman as pushing steam powered engines to the limits for the time just before WWII? With all the Railfans / Steamers on youtube it'll surely get you a decent amount of views Simon my bro!
I love that you were too late for the first blockage, but just in time for the most recent one.
Really loving your videos. Great in the background while I work...though somewhat difficult, having to look up every 20 seconds for an extra nugget of brilliant info.
Here's a suggestion....You've done plenty of stuff on skyscrapers, but what about current [lesser known projects[] and future ones in the pipeline?
The very first person who died building Hoover dam J.G.Tierney (Dec 20,1922) and the very last person who died was J.G.'s son Patrick Tierney (Dec 20 1935) were by coincidence related and died on the same day.,
Did either of them ever go through the Suez Canal? If not, then....? And it's not much of a coincidence that a father and son were related.
Have the Apollo missions / space race had a video? If not a good idea.
Excellent video
The Panama Canal and Suez Canal still control most of the trade in the world 🌎 🌍
Great Video as always , but small correction the new canal or expansion costs 30 billion Egyptian pounds about 4.2 billion dollars not 30 billion dollars .
You should do a megaproject on Simon's youtube channels.
That may need to be 2 parts. 😂😂😂
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@@sandybarnes887 .... I mean the megaproject may need to be 2 parts because he has so many.
@@jackgibsxxx0750 yeah, 10 channels would take a few part series to cover.
Please make a video just saying works like - empire, superpower and hour” I love how you say it 😂
Oooooh do the Corinth Canal next!
"Fighting stopped after just 9 days, while growing international pressure..." 'growing international pressure' was Uncle Sam spanking England and France for not asking permission from Uncle Sam first.
Nah it was both the US *and* USSR that put the pressure on. It was the combined pressure that did it.
So...stopping the fighting is....bad? Hmmm...
@@igrowgrass ????? Where did I even remotely suggest that???? My point was that it wasn't because they didn't ask Almighty Great Leader Always-The-Good-Guy USA first, it was the threat of it spiralling into a global conflict.
Easy there Turbo....it's called sarcasm. On a global stage there are no "Good Guy/Bad Guy" players. Only those mutually invested, others that are invested and feel left out and how good their media propaganda game is. Good media propaganda = Good Guy. Poor media propaganda = Bitter Antagonist.
Sad part is, We (The US) are damned if we do and Damned if we don't. We are the global police, so to speak. Since the UN is completely useless. But, we move to stop fighting. And everyone yells for us to keep our nose out of it. We don't do anything, we allowed it to happen. Which is basically condoning it. And there are times we F Up. It's a global no-win situation. I tend to get sarcastic at the hypocrisy of the situation. Not the individual views of others.
I think one of the take aways from the Suez Crisis was that France and England hadn't quite grasped the Cold War order and where they fit in it. The U.S. was already trying to stamp out a fire in Vietnam that France started and bungled, and here they were, going off script again. It wasn't just a matter of Egypt being driven into the Soviet camp, a good many newly independent former colonies in Africa and elsewhere were looking at England and France's actions and wondering if they might need Soviet backing to stave off their rapaciousness. And the U.S., for good reason, was having none of that shit.
So adjusting for inflation it cost as much to build as a single modernized B2 bomber