Why Dubai's $12 Billion Dollar Islands are Sinking

Dubai is a City known for constructing incredible buildings and boasting the worlds biggest man-made islands. 20 years after these Islands were constructed, they are beginning to sink back into the Ocean, This is a serious problem, and something needs to be done to avoid the islands sinking back into the Ocean. Throughout the video, I explain the why the islands are sinking, the 2 Islands Dubai dredged with sand but left abandoned, and what Nakheel Properties is doing to save the islands from sinking.

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[Infinitynous-ggvs]

The wise man built his house on the rock
The foolish man built his house on the sand

[missaneido]

This is exactly what happens when the wallet is larger than the intellect.

[larrydibiase]

" Castles made of sand, melt, into the sea, eventually " Jimi Hendrix

[DPeter]

The reason why those islands are sinking is because they don't have a sea barrier, so they need maintenance by keep op pumping new sand on the beaches every few years.
I'm from holland and to keep the ocean out we built barriers made from large blocks of concrete and that's how we keep it dry here.

[CanadianPrepper]

This has to be the dumbest waste of money in history. Thousands of square miles of empty desert to build on and they choose the ocean, now lets build a 'line city' in the most inhospitable place on earth.

[Roses-lilac]

I was in Dubai when they started building the Palm. I remember scratching my head and thinking, “are they daft or what?” What did they expect? Oh yea, they sold them. Money, money, money….

[TheCambodianTenorOfficial]

Everything on the planet is impermanent, only impermanent is permanent 🙏

[thenewyardguy]

Bro I remember being a kid and watching them build that stuff on History Channel Modern Marvels and thinking there's no way that's going to last forever

[onair]

Very educational video, thanks for sharing

[valentinolsantiago]

Greed is what's destroying the world all that luxury and there people are living in slum's shame..

[carlcat]

Dubai is having a contest with the Miami coast as to who will sink the fastest. Coastal views and cool breezes are nice but at what price. Lots of buyers and builders are in denial buying and building as if everything is just fine.

[ArkiveYT]

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I apologize for the mispronounced words, I will improve my pronunciation.

[tab]

This was done in the 80's reclamation in Manila Bay for a Financial Center using boulders and pumped sands from deep of the sea and use vibro stabilization to stabilized the soil.The buildings foundation concrete piles of up to 150 feet ( 45m) in length were driven to achieve the soil bearing . I think it work as I have not heard that buildings were sinking after 42 years since the Philippine National Bank Headquarter was constructed.

[irajabaly]

Dubai's property owners are sorcerer's apprentices driven by short-term greed and have no respect for anything. By building these very expensive artificial islands, thanks to an Asian workforce treated as modern slaves, they have shown no mercy towards the workforce, the ecosystem or the fauna. This return of the stick of considerable loss will be used as lessons to these contractors who dared to violate the laws of nature and lost all humanity. Let us hope that this catastrophe will be used as a lesson and will make them less arrogant .

[WarpFactor]

Seems I remember something about certain airports sinking as well. The problem is, you can put landfill in the ocean to build an island, but the very weight of the island will deform the ocean bottom causing subsidence. Some of it is also due to rising ocean levels (about 1" per year globally). In general, building oceanic islands is a very bad long term idea.

[annahkurtin]

Whatever belongs to the sea, the sea will reclaim.

[StephenDorocke]

“You can’t fix stupid” I heard someone say....

[rupe]

Somewhere there's a story, similar to "the three little pigs" building their homes of various materials that don't hold up, except it talks more about building on rock versus a foundation of sand. Basically, you can put all the rock you want in that location, but if the rock sits on sand instead of bedrock (or piles down to bedrock) what will happen is the surrounding sand will be pushed out by the weight of everything above... and slowly washed out to sea. IOW, kinda like when you step in shit, and it oozes out around the sides of your foot. Bottom line is this project will continue to sink at the same rate for decades. He said it sunk 3 inches but didn't say how long that took. My best guess is it will be taking on water at surface level within 50 years.

[Firebrand]

You only build sand castles on sand...QED.

[northernking]

Theyre sinking in every sense of the word...