Tom Fell Through A Frozen Lake In Estonia
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- Опубликовано: 3 мар 2016
- On a bench in Tartu, Estonia, we welcome Paul (@cr3) along with art from Simon (@mushybees) to talk about our road trip, an abandoned submarine base, and, yes, the incident where Tom fell through ice into a frozen lake. Also, rainbow Comic Sans.
TOM: / tomscottgo -- MATT: / mattgrayyes -- PAUL: / cr3
And thanks to our artist, Simon Coxall, / mushybees ! 
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Laughed out loud at 11:11, he was standing in front of a building on ice smiling, blissfully unaware, that the writing in red behind him "varinguoht" translates as "risk of collapse" :D.
XD
Harri Pakosta wow they should have translated that
Sean Jackson You're right. Though, I'm not sure I would have since it looks like graffiti. If it had been a more official-looking sign, I would've definitely been trying to figure out what it says!
Nikk Faith You're right! I missed that. I assumed they were the same people who'd walked up the street earlier in the video and that they'd somehow looped around somewhere off camera.
@Nikk Faith Seems like a taxi, and they're followed momentarily by a group of equal number proceeding much more calmly. Maybe they were waiting for the second group? That taxi is in frame for ages.
It's true, Estonian for:
"Tea" is "tee"
"Road" is "tee"
"Do" is "tee"
So an "ice road" and an "ice tea" are both "jäätee"
Also, Estonia has freedom to roam, so it is legal to enter almost everywhere as long as it isn't barred off.
+eksiarvamus Not as bad as finnish tho: images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/a2qMEdZ_700b.jpg
+Heinrich Berndovsky hear hear
+Heinrich Berndovsky What are you 4?
Maarek Aabmets Maa has the same meaning in Estonian. I guess only soil is "muld".
+eksiarvamus
From a Finnish perspective, another funny word "see", you guys do way more with it than us.
I love that Tom is going to be the coolest uncle ever
"Did i tell you about the time I flew with the red arrows?"
"Where was I? Ah yes, so I has just fallen into a frozen lake in a submerged prison in Estonia"
The best thing, is that he doesn't even need to tell them. There are videos about it.
@@argenisjimenez8118 Truly, we are all Tom Scott's nephews on this blessed day.
I like that you’re not clickbaiting. Tom falls through a lake, you call the video “Tom falls through a lake” and not “Tom nearly died from hypothermia”. You get pulled over by military and you call the video “We got pulled over by military” and not “We almost got arrested by military”. Thank you for doing that.
People have also started to get insensitive to hyperbole.
@@JoshSweetvale it's called lying not hyperbole
@@gam3rmom3nt3 Hyperbole is lying the same way a platypus is a mammal. Falls under the category, but only mostly.
@@JoshSweetvale Lie - a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture: an inaccurate or false statement; a falsehood. Hyperbole - A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
n.
In rhetoric, an obvious exaggeration; an extravagant statement or assertion not intended to be understood literally. So no its not the same a lie is a lie and hyperbole is an exaggeration
@@LoRdDyY45 and I'm guessing based on this that you happen to agree that clickbait is lying
Don't try this at home. As if I have a frozen quarry lake, with a prison in it, at home
+Masre Super You don't? Man, I thought everyone had one.
+Masre Super Actually be surprised how many people have one down the road... I've lived near two haha. but i'm gonna guess that isn't normal
+Masre Super Some 10 km from where I live there's a hill. With a medieval castle ruin on it. With a small town around it. With some flooded granite quarries around it. They are great places to swim in the summer but deep as f. Luckily all the ice has melted by now.
+Masre Super I remember Blue Peter (UK Children's show) changed their "Do not try this at home" to "Do not try this anywhere, ever"
What, you don't? Poor people…
Tom: can fall into a frozen lake and is fine
Also Tom: walks through some cold water in a cave and is not fine
Well, you know, he was older when he went into the cave.
And i was wondering if he still got traumatised by this and because of it had trouble in the cave
@@franny5156 that's an interesting thought... another possible factor is that going through the ice probably produced a lot more adrenaline than just wading through cave water. Add in the difference between being out in the open compared to the strangeness of being underground, and there are a lot of reasons that his response was more extreme in the cave.
You all make very good points. Either way, Tom is still awesome! 😃
pure survival instinct vs fully conscious anxiety/stress im guessing - I know i'm way better at handling seriously bad situations then i am at basic everyday inconveniences (actual example: i got hit by a car at age 10 and was the calmest person at the scene vs breaking into a cold sweat + trembling a bit bc i bumped into someone walking the opposite direction going around a blind corner at age 20)
17:04 "Don't try this at home" because everyone has a frozen lake in their home.
with a half underwater prison in it
Well some of us do
Wait a second, you tell me you don't have one?
In many countries, yes. For example in my home country (Finland) there are 188 000 lakes in an area of only 337,030 km2, and those lakes are frozen for 4 to 8 months every year, so pretty much everyone lives near a lake.
(But of course i can't expect your american brain to know this)
@@GlowingSpamraam *sub base
You guys need to wear body mounted GoPros for your next adventure.
Omg yessss
100% agree. It might be safer that way because fhey won't have to worry about getting footage.
If you want to give ice roads another try there are also government maintained ice roads in northern Sweden. The roads are inspected regularly and are only open if the ice can carry 2 tons. Some facts:
Speed limit: 30km/h. No overtaking. Minimum of 50m between each car. No stopping or parking. Bonus fact: Seat belt laws don't apply to ice roads. The reason is that wearing a seatbelt will make it harder to get out of the car should it start sinking.
JoelMatton you can drive 90kmh in the Estonian ones
@@ImreSaks Mis ajast sul Eestis jääteedel 90 km/h sõita võib ?
@@peeterl.2016 Funny how I am Finnish and i exactly understood this comment without knowing pretty much any estonian :D
Not only do you not have to wear seat belts on the ice roads, if I remember correctly its actually illegal to.
Tom's intense eyeroll at 12:46 - 12:49 still absolutely kills me with how dramatic it is
Now the real question is. Did the divers see this unfold, and more importantly did you say anything to them or just walk back the the car awkwardly.
Jack The divers have it on video. There’s a television show in Estonia called, “Stupid Tourists” and they give out prizes for the videos of tourists doing the dumbest things. Ha! Ha!
@@jorgejohnson451 links links linksss
@@jorgejohnson451 There is no such thing in Estonia.
@@alanowa123 yea thats not a thing
@@jorgejohnson451 Let's be honest. Estonia doesn't have enough tourists for such a show
I love how Tom's reaction keeps being: Damn, my phone!
I was glad to hear it survived.
19:45 For some reason I wasn't expecting the red T-shirt. That colour is truly a part of your personality now, Tom.
Seriously, good job on Matt for putting the camera away to be ready to help Tom. So many people would've kept filming just to be able to catch it on video, while Matt was actually worried about his friend falling into an ice lake.
That's what friend are for. We need more Matt's and Tom's in the world
yeah matt was so good in a crisis!! this was really nice to see
It's not trespass, Estonia has freedom to roam, you can walk anywhere as long as it's not fenced
Matt genuinely seems like the best person to have in this situation. Kind, knowledgable, and funny enough to keep you mentally well
I saw the thumbnail and read the title and thought that an entire town called "Tom" had fallen into a lake.
Clicking on it, I thought "Well what did they build the town on the lake for?!"
oh my god, i'm choking laughing
Comment of the year
But it's the Matt and Tom channel. You're funny.
I'm late, but reading that sentence with the voice of Stanley Shunpike from Harry Potter makes it infinitely more funny.
livefromhollywood194 well in this video there was a prison that fell into a lake so a town isn’t crazy
"and the phone lived. Oh and so did I." hahahah
As a student in Tartu who's been on a date on that very bench, I managed to stick it through and listen to your whole story. Glad you had an eventful stay.
Been on a date on a park bench? You know how to live it up there in Estonia!
did the date go well?
@@tye-exe It did not, I guess. I was too young, too, and was going out with girls just to go out.
11:05 picture, written on the building wall VARINGUOHT means in estonian collapsing danger :D:D Just pointing it out XD
+MrRaunoke Specifically, 'Danger of collapse.' The bottom of the lake has metal spikes and rebars, old machinery, concrete, and barbed wire.
Sign says: varinguoh
Tom: This sign can't stop me because I can't read
😂
Am I the only one who thinks that Paul looks like a smaller version of Tom ? :D
+Sven Sorg I was thinking.... brother...? But I guess not seeing as they didn't mention it.
+TheBigBigBlues I was thinking more Matt.
I wonder if during their travels they have made a Tom / Matt hybrid clone?
+Maxx B child, it's call child.
Please stop there or you'll give me nightmares --Matt
Sing "Tom fell through a lake in Estonia." to the tune of "We flew a kite in a public place."
Dry suits will keep you dry, they WILL NOT keep you warm. The diver gasping was likely genuine.
They do keep you warmer than a wet suit however
I find it quite interesting that I find out more about Estonia in your videos than I do on my own..... I live in Estonia.....
Me too.
Emily Ridal Yup. Me too.
Just an American passing through!
*whistles*
me too
Yeah i live in Finland and i didn’t even know there was any nuclear reactors here until Tom told about them on his video
That's right UK, you won't get to have your tree of the year anymore...
I can hear them crying from Calais.
Did we have tree of the year the year before then? Dammit, I must have missed the celebrations. And I like cake.
Yes, it's a long one this time, but we've got some stories to tell! -- Tom
+Matt and Tom I wonder if you did go there and do what was planned if you would have had as many stories :)
+Matt and Tom I still find it annoying that noone knows how a zip works. You're jaket can close. DO IT!
+Matt and Tom You damn tease Tom. When can we expect the next one?
+Matt and Tom I love these long videos, hope they get LONGER
+Matt and Tom So Tom, another trip to the clean room for cleaning your phone? :D
You keep talking about this scar you've got, Tom, and I've been looking for it ever since the amusement park incident. Haven't found it yet. Logic dictates that it must be too fine a scar to be noticed on video.
Elliot Grey extremely late reply: you can see it clearly in the videos he posted right after ai pioppi. The “complex borders in Europe” video about baarle-nassau and baarle-hertog shows it off quite well.
Here after the cave video
Same
Yep
me too!
yeah
Ive lived in Estonia for 2 years and every time I meet someone new in the city it's allways the same question. "Why are you in Estonia" 🤣🤣🤣
I understand what you mean, but in my imagination, every tourist who goes to your city hunts you down and asks you "Why are you in Estonia?" 🤔 😂
When they said Tom went through the ice, I was on the edge of my seat wondering if he was going to make it out alive. Finally they said he did. What a relief!!!!!
Ice in sheltered places is always weaker. I know that, because I grew up near a pond with a bridge, and now work across a canal with a bridge (in other words, typical Dutch landscape). Just getting near that building was, frankly, a stupid idea.
By the way, I believe the lack of snow there is a SYMPTOM of wet (too warm) ice* but not the CAUSE of it. Snow is bad for ice, because of its insulating properties. *) That's not to say thin ice can't have a big layer of snow though!
In short: ice sheltered or covered is potentially dangerous. Smooth ice in the open, where the wind can cool it, is usually the most reliable. Plus you can more easily tell if there are serious cracks.
Beautiful scene though!
But out in the open is where the snow piles up...
@@KyrstOak only when it's snowing, if it's not snowing it isn't a problem
@@ita2552 It's literally indoors. Snow can't exactly reach a place when there's a roof in the way.
Gee I wonder why Tom had such a reaction to the cold water when he went caving. Oh wait
Yep exactly what I thought
On the sign at 5:00 it says "PRIVATE PROPERTY entry at the owner's permission" and "your movements are being recorded".
+Skeith No it was just a traffic stop sign. There was no trespass on foot. The land was private but the owner didn't specify restriction to just people who go to forest on foot etc.
+Randel Aoveer Estonia has freedom to roam. It means the owner cannot bar entering on foot (and IIRC also bicycle, skies or horse) without putting a fence around it (which needs to be approved by the appropriate local authority) so this was just for cars.
Randel Well, they are...
well in finnish "erämaa" means wasteland
@@solared more like wilderness, but I guess it depends on context
I love the artist's impression
Me and my friend once sat and played guitar on that exact same bench. I sat on exactly the same spot where Tom was.
This is absolutely useless information but I will cherish this revelation
That artist impression of Tom's face is horrifying.
Wow i live just a few hundred meters away from that park bench. Can't believe you were so close to me.
Paul is a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is at. A good guy to have around in an emergency.
So glad you're safe, Tom!! As a mother of 2 adult children, I hope you called and told your mother this story ~before~ you uploaded it to the internet! 😉
Christine Crawford nah, it’s have been funnier to have uploaded it without telling her and then get a reaction, the best joke possible though would be Matt and Paul making a very short video on both this channel and Tom’s main channel telling people he fell in frozen lake and they were unable to help him out, they’d leave it ambiguous as to whether or not he’s dead and then they’d turn Tom’s phone on silent with vibration off so they won’t notice any calls or messages and then a couple of hours later (maybe even an entire day later) Tom texts his mum saying “I’m fine by the way, no need to worry” and then deleting the prank videos and uploading this one
This is bound to be such a classic Matt and Tom video: Tom being a test subject for doing the most interestingly head-scratching activities - and Matt encouraging him. 😭
4:55 Reminds me of that sign here in Britain telling you about the "Secret Nuclear Bunker."
Thank god you are alive. And you were acting really responsible: You all tried to distribute your weight. Matt put away the camera and made sure Tom was all right. I like that spirit. That's far better than watching someone die
I read this in a sarcastic tone and I cackeled, best comment I've seen today
Apart from the love child of Tom and matt one amsjfgsmsk
Now we need to hear the scar story as well!
+Timooo You can see it here! ruclips.net/video/iCQEc736GO4/видео.html
Hmmm, his phone fell out in that one, too.
+Timooo He already has a video on it, IIRC.
+Timooo The Human-Powered, Giant Theme Park Playground: Ai Pioppi
Thanks all! That looks really bad!
that we all could have a matt gray as a friend on standby to pull us out of potentially fatal mistakes
Apart from the fantastic story, I laughed out load at Matt pulling the mic to himself for a facial expression. Brilliant. 16:00
All of us (the fans) should go to the base.
He would have a Sub-Base.
David Waldron all your fan base are belong to us
David Waldron BASS
Matt Gray, the guy that will make a good partner to some lucky person and/or fantastic father.
I weigh very little so, I used to crawl on ice sheets every year. Once my friend did the same. He was more than twice my weight. I have not done that again.
Ah, Estonia... Truly the Canada of Europe...
hotscottrulz Ikr!!
hotscottrulz i think Finland is More
a random guy on the internet finland is the colder part of the us
No, Finland is.
No. Estonia is more like the Minnesota of Europe.
best thing I've ever seen and heard Matt do, repeating "Tree of the year" for the third time.
Road Trip! You guys have just added a location for my future Europe trip. Me and my friends will dive anything that's wet. And a submerged prison sounds like something we couldn't go past without having a look.
Please don't die while doing so
"...dive into anything that's wet."
That sounded REALLY wrong.
17:00 how do i get a prison in a frozen lake at home???
+A_2the_lex The real question is: How do you remove it once it's there?
+A_2the_lex Dig a hole, build a prison in it, flood it, cool it down! Voila!
+Super Nofa I think the former prison manager of Rummu prison did just that, after the prison was closed down. The Rummu prison and lake area are all private property.
the amount of times they walked past signs that said things like "danger of collapse"
and "private property"
😂
"Don't try this at home"
Me: *flys to Estonia during the winter*
Means you aren’t at home, so you can do it
Just turning a wet phone off isn't going to make a lot of difference as there will still be voltage in plenty of places - you should really disconnect the battery
Sorry, two month old comment, in an iPhone, disconnecting the battery would include having tools for the phone's outer screws which aren't standard phillips ones, removing the screen, unscrewing the battery's connector, and popping it out. By which point, if the phone was going to die, it probably already has.
mikeselectricstuff Nowadays, many phones don't allow for that in a reasonable amount of time, you would need to disassemble it.
Shutting it down would at least cut power to some circuits and limit the damages. Once I've had to examine a fried video output, It probably wouldn't have happened if the phone had been turned off quickly.
NO! PUT IT IN RICE! I’m not even kidding, my phone BROKE because my dad took out my phone’s battery.
I’ve saved multiple phones tossing them in rice
Rice never fixes corrosion. Rice never fixes water damaged phones. Sure it can soak water, but then it hasn’t been soaked enough.
I suddenly understand why Tom had so much difficulty on citation needed.
Matt sounds like he's making up the details as he goes trying to recall data.
I laughed my ass off when Tom said the bit about the ice tea
In an alternate universe, that was the death of that phone.
Oh, and Tom
So the cave thing was an anxiety attack all along.
... what cave thing
@@Nazuiko he went spelunking in some wet caves and had a strange reaction to the cold water but likely an anxiety attack. It's on this same channel. EDIT: it's on the Tom Scott Plus channel.
@@Christophe_L The cave video is on the Tom Scott Plus channel. Not this one.
@@alastairoxby8037 Thanks for the correction.
Sitting between them I can't get the idea out of my head that Paul looks like a cross between Tom and matt
I love how Tom got the pronunciation of Tartu pretty much spot on and then Matt cut in and just butchered it 😂
It's kind of exciting to have Paul on camera doing the talky thing, especially given his role in Tom's past adventures.
I wonder whether the three of you would've fit on the Wilde-Vilde bench. :D
It's a punny little statue of two contemporaries, the world-renowned wordsmith Oscar Wilde and ... atleast locally admired estonian writer Eduard Vilde, engaged in banter with some sitting space between them. People like to snap photos of joining the conversation, but it looks like there's only room for one person.
If you ever want to check it out a bit closer to home, there's an exact copy located in Galway, Ireland. :)
That whole attitude, of "this looks safe, can I beat him?" is a significant part of why so many men die young. It's the human equivalent of smashing your heads against each other, you're trying to prove yourself the Most Successful. It's a stupid impulse, but a deep-rooted one. ;-)
This video just made me realize that, whenever I had a bad day I tend to watch your videos (especially anectotal ones like this one) as a bedtime story. And they do make me calm down and think of nicer days ahead. Thanks guys!
I immediately paused this video and googled "how to survive falling through an ice hole," so... thanks for that, Tom!
Hey, at least it wasn't a river. Never attempt to cross a frozen river, especially a very wide one
Tom describing something as ‘the weather thing’ seems unthinkable
It’s honestly good he didn’t panick cause if he did it would have been potentially worse
"Somebody could crawl through it... So I called through it!"
"Don't do this at home"
Yeah I'll keep that in mind while I'm crawling around the submerged frozen prisons in my house :P
Matt: "It was about 45 minutes bottom left of Tallin?"
Tom: [exasperated] "South-west..."
That abandoned prison is the set for the musikvideo for the song "Knebel" by Lindemann. That was unexpected to find out in one of your videos!
8:06 you can swim above multiple underwater towns in Spain, you can even go kayaking
Also, while you were definitely in real danger of going under the ice and dying... the fact that there WERE a group of divers at the lake probably would've raised the chances of survival a bit. The brain's not dead until it's warm and dead and all that.
Tom released a video like two days ago that uses the 'warm and dead' quote!
Welcome to Estonia
The filmed part of the video for Alan Waller's song Faded here! I was watching the video and instantly recognised it as that place Tom fell into the ice :P
Matt is a good friend, putting Tom's welfare ahead of making photo's. :)
This reminds me of skiing across a frozen river and feeling the ice give way. If you ever need to do this, learn from my mistake and let your companion take the lead! The ice creaked, my companion retreated, my skiis sank beneath the surface ...
and came to rest two inches down. I can feel it yet.
Hi Tom! I´m from Estonia and it is soo nice you visited Estonia! :D Best to you and your friends! :)
Reminds me of the time when I fell through the ice in a pond near my home one winter... very similar situation.
4:32 those guys look like professional hit-men / kidnappers in the distance until they are nearby
Tom literally did the comedy cliche of "there's no way I'm doing . You can't get me to do . Under no circumstances will I be forced to-" cut to Tom doing which is, in this case, crawling out of an ice hole after all but jumping in
Matt is a really good friend
paul looks like a combination of matt and tom
10:58 what’s happening in the top right corner
wait...... thats not Shenley....
Or Shhhhhhhhhhheeeerness.
@@adityasrinivasulu or s l o u g h
Never follow tracks in snow assuming it's safe. This is how people fall through ice on lakes and off cliffs while skiing/snowboarding
Paul, the canary of road trips...
I think this calls for a *Facepalm*... or several! Glad you got out of it alive though, Tom.
Tartu is a Wonderful city, and in Estonia anyone can go in to any land even private land, and you may collect some berries and set up a tent etc. but you may not set up camp fires or cut down trees etc.
Love you're videos guys! Thanks for stepping by Estonia. By the way, love the picture where Tom's in front of the ruins in Rummu and grafiti at the top right says "varinguoht" which is a warning that the building may collapse, Tom's face just goes so well with it :D. At least the trip was memorable, escpecially for Tom :D
Ice is always thinner near objects poking out of it. Also it doesn't look like a super cold day. The road is wet and the snow looks fluffy. On a really really cold day, the road would be dry and the snow would look less fluffy. From, a Canadian.
That's not a park bench. It's a dark bench.
So Matt says that Tom wasn't as good at "spreading his load" and none of you make a joke out of it? C'mon!
+Vincent Killion They were probably still too relieved that Tom got out of the freezing water, and that they managed to get him dry and warm.
Not everyone is as immature as you.
Apollys Relax.
Alright sure, but what about the team xxxtreme "couple". THAT WASN'T A COUPLE.
That teaser at the end though! I'm so excited for the next video!
Sounds like a limestone quarry. They tend to have crystal clear water when they fill up.
"just a couple [...] it's not that extreme" - well, you don't know what that couple did there...
I think Tom needs to do a video of ice diving in Estonia