Suez Canal Expansion: The Unprecedented Project To Widen The Canal | Extreme Constructions

It’s a major construction project, aimed at doubling the width of the Suez Canal 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.
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The Suez Canal. The Paris Metro. Strasbourg Cathedral. These masterpieces of constructions redefined what was possible at the time, using the latest technologies and developments. In this five part series, we reveal how five great monuments were designed and constructed.
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[Bigsamsfurniture]

It's will be so grate to see a documentary of those who worked at the Suez canal the positive and negative of their life's

[bessa]

Our Suez Canal…our pride…our gift to the world… Tahya Masr 🇪🇬 🇪🇬🇪🇬

[tobi]

It’s insane when humans and countries from all over the world work together to archive something truly exceptional.

[deplorabledave]

US Merchant Marine here, MSC Military Sealift Command. I(we) steered an 850 foot Ro-Ro type US Navy owned ship full of classified material through the Suez Canal. It was 2003. Destination: Somewhere in The Sandbox. Still a classified voyage, but take a pick and you would likely be correct.

Every ship gets an unusually odious Egyptian pilot that yells at you if you get the ship more than 35 feet in either direction than dead center.
It is so difficult to do and concentrate that we worked in 30 minute shifts only. Steering a laser straight course with a ship of that size in a VERY narrow body of water is extremely hard. Steering a ship up or down a (very) winding river like the Mississippi is MUCH easier!

Only one harder steering chore. That is coming in or out of the port of New Orleans with extreme cross currents and cross winds. Not an easy task.

[carloantoniomartinelli]

At about 55 seconds into this - and I quote - "...from the Mediterranean 'OCEAN' to the Red Sea...".
From the Mediterranean OCEAN ??? Well done Spark !

[peteacher]

A well constructed documentary, informative in a compelling manner that politely demands watching to the end. And that, surely, must be the producer's objective. Top marks!

[bessa]

We Egyptians obesessed by making wonders 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

[thegiggler]

45:47 shot of an Evergreen ship while talking about involuntary changes of direction....ironic.

[jamesh]

Reg: time stamp 13:00, 400k poor men forced from family and farm to work in hell, the commentator articulates that the project would cost the lives of thousands. I offer a correction it cost the lives of hundreds of thousands approximately 120, 000 human beings died over to 10 year period that's 33 people a day. Poor people poor men removed from their families removed from their farms and then they're dead where are their bodies what compensation what arrangement was made to support the widow and her children who are suddenly fatherless, imagine the collective pain, trama and misery. Considering The staggering loss of life many questions are begged how would they treated how they kept or conditions as they work under $120, 000 people disappear from a country that's poor that has a significant multi-generational effect on the economics and the culture. So it can never be made right but I'm okay with them charging a half a million dollars per container ship to Transit the suits now that I know some of the rest of the story.

[TheByard]

I worked on a road tunnel under the Suez canal back in the 1970s, constructed approx. midway between the town of Suez and the Bitter Lakes. The army used a floating bridge made up of pontoons, fitted with huge outboard motors. One end hinged off the West bank and the other end driven across the canal in an ark, to an abutment on the East bank. It took about 30 mins to complete the task and could be done between the ship convoy direction of travel. Of course it could not be used know.

[crtinde]

And why would this be necessary after so many years ? we're looking at you, Evergreen !

[tdav]

Fantastic documentary Spark, well done. 👏👏

[nikowaqaisavou]

I really enjoyed watching this video. Amazing work.

[bunnywarren]

This video is all over the place and can't seem to stay on one item more than a few minutes. The idea of starting at the beginning and showing progression through time seems to be alien to the producers.

[Retroscoop]

37:20 The Mediterrannean "Ocean" (twice used).... Oops....
Sadly enough, de Lesseps' Panama plans were not succesful, and it would take almost 30 more years before the Atlantic and Pacific Seas... oops Oceans would be interconnected in Central America...

[GraemeSPa]

I first went through the canal on a 20, 000 ton general cargo ship in 1976 or so. The banks were still lined with burned tanks and abandoned gun emplacements and in the Bitter Lakes there were still the mastheads of a couple of sunken ships to be seen. From our deck you could throw an empty beer bottle to the shore - we used to do things like that then. I remember Jimmy Brown's Son and The Gully Gully Man. The last time I went through it was 2002 in a 315, 000 ton VLCC in ballast - very different times.

[zoserox]

At about 34:37, the speaker refers to the dredging ship, "I.B.N." Battuta. I believe the name is "Ibn" Battuta, most probably named for the famous 1300s Mahgreb Berber traveller, Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah.

[Ukraine-is-Corrupt]

OMG !!!! .... I thought my dentist dealt with major construction projects; until I watched this Suez documentary

[gaius_enceladus]

I *love* the little miniature canal with the little ships! Awesome!
I'd be tempted to play "bumper boats" and zoom around, bumping into all the other ships - I'd probably be kicked out pretty fast.... ;)

[siljoazunega]

I love this, I love the way they built, how they adjusted or made a way...it is far better than where I am here in Cordillera Phils.