How Engineers Widened The Suez Canal For Bigger Ships [4K]

YouTube ^ | Premiered May 15, 2022 | Spark

[SunkenCiv]

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.

How Engineers Widened The Suez Canal For Bigger Ships [4K]
Extreme Constructions | Spark | Premiered May 15, 2022

[SunkenCiv]

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• Here We Go: Suez Canal Workers Go On Strike [02/08/2011]
• Muslim Brotherhood: Suez Canal Must be Closed, Egypt Should be Ready for War with Israel [02/01/2011]
• Muslim Brotherhood: 'Prepare Egyptians for war with Israel' [02/01/2011]
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• Tribes Threaten to Attack Suez Canal if Mubarak Does Not Step Down [01/29/2011]
• Tankers Gain As Egypt Unrest Sparks Concerns About Suez Canal [01/29/2011]
• Protesters in Suez storm main police station [01/28/2011]
• Mubarak orders army to back police against unrest (Tanks open fire @ Suez Canal?) [01/28/2011]
• Suez Canal Closure Concerns Go Viral [01/28/2011]
• Cargo ship blocks all traffic in the Suez Canal [02/08/2006]
• Suez Canal and Dardanelles closed due to Storms [01/23/2004]

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• Gnome Shortage; Lockdown and Suez Canal Blockage Blamed [04/15/2021]
• Dislodged Suez Canal cargo ship Ever Given held amid $916 million claim [04/15/2021]
• Egypt "seizes" Suez megaship, demands nearly $1 bln compensation [04/13/2021]
• Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal' [04/04/2021]
• Suez Canal ship freed: Everything you need to know about the Ever Given drama [03/29/2021]
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• Egypt's President loses patience and says the boat must be unloaded if this fails [03/28/2021]
• Suez Canal Live Updates: As Blocked Ships Back Up, Hopes Turn to Tide and Time [03/28/2021]
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• Salvage Efforts Continue in Suez [03/27/2021]
• Over 200 Ships Stuck In Maritime Traffic Jam As Cargo Ship Remains Wedged In Suez Canal [03/26/2021]
• U.S. Navy plans to send team to help with blocked Suez Canal: report [03/26/2021]
• Grounded Suez Canal mega-ship is blocking shipments worth $9.5BILLION per day with 'enormous' consequences for global economy as rescue chief warns it could be stuck for WEEKS [03/25/2021]
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• Oil Futures Reverse Higher on Disruption in Suez Canal [03/24/2021]
• Massive cargo ship that blocked Egypt's Suez Canal is reportedly on the move (what's in them containers???) [03/24/2021]
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• Suez Canal Set to Lose $10 Million from Ships Taking the Long Route [05/11/2020]

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• Russia Floats Arctic Shipping Route as 'Viable' Suez Canal Alternative [03/25/2021]
• Russia angered by Charlie Hebdo cartoons [11/07/2015]
• The Gigantic City Project Called NEOM: Saudi Arabia Might Recognize Israel Because of NEOM Project [10/29/2017]
• [I]srael, Jordan advance $800m. Red-Dead canal, water swapping project [12/02/2015]
• An Israeli rival to the Suez [11/10/2003]
• Egyptian FM ridicules reports about Israeli plan ???to build alternative to Suez Canal [11/05/2003]

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• Egypt launches controversial Peace Canal project canal [1997] [08/03/2013]
• Egypt planning $1 bln tunnel under Suez Canal [07/12/2010]

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[SunkenCiv]

Turned out that the Suez Canal keyword was a bit large, so I did a lot of editing.

[SunkenCiv]

Might be a couple more topics in this list:

https://www.youtube.com/c/SparkDocs/videos

[CarmichaelPatriot]

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Fascinating video. I had no idea such a huge engineering project was undertaken to expand the canal. Thanks for posting.

The video is quite good, but I sure wish people could make history videos without the very annoying dramatic background “music.” It’s done in the History Channel fashion. It would be nice if they could tone it down and use the Ken Burns approach.

[Bigg Red]

mark

[SunkenCiv]

Same here, if I'd ever heard about the widening, I'd forgotten it. Also I concur about the soundtracks, and the jittery music-video-style editing.

[OneVike]

Interesting. I was wondering how much of the dredged up sand went to China for them to build their off shore military bases now being used as Airfarce and Naval Bases for their anticipated attack on Taiwan?

[Paal Gulli]

The Suez literally is just a big ditch. There are no locks because it's a sea-level canal.

The French hired a guy named Ferdinand de Lesseps to build it. And and he did such a great job that they also hired him to dig the Panama canal. The problem was, Panama didn't have the geology to support a sea level canal, which was all de Lesseps knew how to do. But what it did have were mosquitoes. And malaria. And yellow fever. And de Lesseps was out of his depth.

22,000 workers died from mosquito-borne diseases and construction accidents. So the French gave up.

The US took over, hiring Walter Reed to fix the mosquito problem and a series of engineers with solid track records on large projects to do the digging.

The French wasted 18 years in the attempt and the US finished the job in half that.

[Western Phil]

Panama Canal - The US had just built the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. A lot of what they learned was directly applicable to building the Panama Canal.