The North Sea Tsunami: Britain’s Deadliest Disaster

Thousands of years ago, way before anyone ever stepped onto a football pitch, Britain and the surrounding areas experienced a natural disaster so enormous that it literally changed what the European landmass looked like.
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Source/Further reading:
BBC: www.bbc.com/earth/story/201603...
Independent: www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...
Britannica, Storegga Slides: www.britannica.com/topic/Stor...
Older BBC article, but still some good details: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-1...
Wave’s effect on Doggerland: www.bradford.ac.uk/news/archi...
National Geographic, Doggerland: www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...
Current Archeology: www.archaeology.co.uk/article...
Doggerland overview: www.nationalgeographic.org/ma...
Maps of Doggerland: www.academia.edu/2480682/Mapp...
Another map of Doggerland’s potential extent: www.heritagedaily.com/2020/05...
Time Team Special - Britain’s Stone Age Tsunami: • Video
Bristol Channel Floods (1607): www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/br...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/en...

[@Ksweetpea]

"submarine landslide" I KNOW its an underwater landslide but boy my brain sure ran with the image of submarines rolling down a hill

[@mammuchan8923]

Same😂😂

[@otakuman706]

Oh geez, I can just see it now.

[@skyden24195]

I got that image too, but mine was more "bobsled-like" submarines being ridden/driven, nose first, by sailors.

[@zGJungle]

" Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

[@skyden24195]

@@zGJungle 😄

[@TATTIEPICKER]

Sitting in my room on the east coast of Scotland looking out at the sea thinking don't you dare.😬

[@MM-qg9fq]

Same lol i,m from fife

[@ghosttroop115]

Same but from England East Coastlol

[@jamiestewart9407]

@Camelot House You visited your partners friend?

[@roonilwazlib3089]

Same... port of blyth 👀

[@dylanirvine5763]

same from aberdeen

[@gregabidwalapgwilymgoch956]

There are Welsh folk tales about a drowned land between Wales and Ireland, called Cantref Gwaelod, or 'the bottom hundred' in English. When the tide goes out in Cardigan Bay the stumps of old trees can be seen on the waterline. The tale tells how the tide came in, but didn't go out. There's no mention of a giant wave though. There are similar stories around Swansea Bay- stumps of old trees can be seen when the tide goes out and Crymlyn bog is supposed to hide a drown town. The coast did see ferocious storms in the late middle ages which led to communities like Old Kenfig and Pennard Castle being abandoned, but to my knowledge there were no tsunamis recorded, except in 1607.

[@tim.jenkins75]

nice.... i had a feeling the Welsh books were all burnt as they supported narratives that were not helpful to our new powers....do you have source material out of interest ???

[@martinjones7246]

Yes there is also the lost land of Lyonesse that was swallowed up by the sea. It lay between lands end in Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly. There are many legends and myths about this fertile land occupied by a beautiful race of people there were many towns and settlements and a cathedral type castle. It is linked to the story of Tristan and Iseult amd other Arthurian tales. There was a catastrophic event that swallowed up Lyonesse overnight and it was gone forever. Legend says that on certain nights you can hear the many church bells ringing deep under the sea.

[@gjustg1540]

Go watch the videos of the Japan tsunami. It isn't one great wave, it's the tide that just keeps coming in...and in, and in

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

How would tree stumps survive centuries underwater?

[@tomnewsom9124]

​@@acorgiwithacrown467 salt water is a preservative. Think pickles!

[@mfollett3613]

Doggerland is now called Dogger Bank and is about 20 - 100 meters underwater and most of the rest of the prehistoric island lies beneath the North Sea. Trawlers have found animal and human bones also arrow heads and even tree trunks with roots. It is 60 miles from the coast of England and lies in the waters off UK Denmark Netherlands and Germany.

[@RolfHarrisOfficial]

Actually I think it's called Milton Keynes

[@martinkerr2721]

@@RolfHarrisOfficial lol he did really try to dodge ,the unknow area to him lol

[@Morgan-pv5py]

​@@RolfHarrisOfficial 😂😂😂😂

[@Ma55ey]

We've got a road near us called doggers Lane.. the only remains there are used condoms though..

[@cvmusic4430]

@@RolfHarrisOfficial hahahaha brilliant comment

[@TheDarkestSmurf]

"Doggerland" is what we affectionately call our local Waitrose car park.

[@AGMTB.]

damn it, you beat me to it! Hahahaha

[@neiltitmus9744]

It's not because it flooded is it?

[@TheDarkestSmurf]

@@neiltitmus9744 Well, fluids are definitely involved, but if those are enough to flood the car park depends on the enthusiasm and stamina of the attendants, I guess.

[@Eliteerin]

@Withnail nah Waitrose are everywhere

[@uptwisting]

My Waitrose is nicer than yours.

[@--enyo--]

'Doggerland' has a slightly less romantic ring to it than Atlantis.

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

Or Thule.

[@jacob76886]

I’d have to disagree I can pin point Atlantis to a different area buried under the sea pushing sand over it in the Sahara desert

[@Davefender100]

Thought that was something done in car parks at night lol

[@magumba1000]

You can still see it at low tide in certain areas of the north sea....miles from land and all of a sudden vast swathes of sand bars....called dogger bank now

[@Formula1st]

@@Davefender100 yeah, normally that one car park is doggerland, not the sea

[@gooner72]

You, Simon..."This Chinese trilogy about the man who was afraid to go outside due to his fear of the sun and its power". Me..... "he's just a ginger person mate"...

[@futurehistory2110]

I feel deep empathy for those who lived through this. I lived in a village in France that was struck by a flood but this... I can't even imagine. The fear I felt is nothing compared to what these people must've went through and the flood I saw was scary.

[@andystanley5950]

your a retard sheep they do this alltime for fun killing you go take ya jabs

[@DukeDanseMacambre]

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist9the dude was 6000 years too late to repent to! Poor bastards, had to find out God was a contractor the hard way, 7 days to make the earth and 6000 years to let people know how to not fall into the eternal pit of damnation he installed On a Whim… then again Jesus was a carpenter, all the signs were there. 😂

[@hendryde-lux4287]

Year 3020 - These small Atlantic islands of Ben Nevis and Snowdon conceal a hidden past, they used to be part of a much larger island called Brexitland

[@harrisonlupton3857]

This should definitely be top comment😂

[@baronvonjo1929]

Are those current mountain peaks in the UK? I dont get it... :(

[@ticallionz]

@@baronvonjo1929 Yes Ben Nevis is in Scotland and Snowdon is in Wales

[@Iamtheliquor]

CANZUK

[@golddragonette7795]

@@baronvonjo1929 tallest mountains in Scotland and Wales, Snowdonia is the tallest in the UK

[@XLAdvRider]

I appreciate how you always go to considerable lengths to humanize these tragedies rather than dryly describe the facts.

[@nicholasfeiock7873]

Like the way he described sweden?? A pair of lepers testicles.

[@micahgelfand8282]

@@nicholasfeiock7873 😅😂😂

[@jilldavis8982]

True. But “ancient first responders”? 11:40 - I found that slightly…… ummmm….. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️ ????? Lol. Not sure what that exactly even means? But ok I like Simon, I’ll go with it…..

[@punchkitten874]

​@@jilldavis8982 I didn't go with it. Too flippant. Downvoted 👎

[@puppy1584]

I’m interested but I find the injections of humour are misplaced. Which I find a shame.

[@stucktree]

I work as a Foundation Engineer driving piles, In certain low lying areas of East Anglia we often hit large obstructions of timber at about 6metres down and if we move to a position parallel to the shore we miss it.This has become a regular pattern in some areas and i often wondered why they are all lying the same way. Could they be the result of a Tsunami ? .

[@crazydragy4233]

How interesting!

[@barneymiller7894]

Could be, trees uprooted by the tsunami would all be laying in the same direction as the current would "point" them.

[@Stacie45]

Would be interesting to dig up a few and do radiocarbon dating on them. Find out roughly when they were living trees.

[@cdd4248]

Interesting!

[@mattwebb5276]

Cool but wouldn't the backwash atleast move some the other direction???? Would love to go and see down there for sure !!!???

[@cameront3468]

This was extremely interesting, it's crazy to me that I have never been taught such incredible events on school, thank you so much for putting the video together!

[@zigzagtoes]

It was taught in my schools, primary and secondary. I'm going to hazard a guess that these events are taught only in the areas they may have once affected. I'm in hull, so was taught as part of local history; fishing, doggerland, refusing entry to king charles at city gates, slavery & its abolishment, and likely much more that I'd have to dig into my brain for.

[@mooseman1071]

I love hearing about Doggerland. It was likely a HUGELY important part of Europe at that time.

[@franl155]

Time Team did a Special programme on Doggerland, it might be on YT. There are certainly other vids on it, all well worth watching - well, at least the ones I've seen so far have been well worth watching. A YT search for "Doggerland" will likely turn up quite a few results. PS Dutch fishermen regularly bring up artefacts from Doggerland, from fossilised bones to clearly human-carved tools.

[@grayk02]

Sounds like lightly wooded place where the inhabitants do dodgy stuff in their cars

[@franl155]

@@grayk02 - it took its name from the Dogger Bank, a set of sandbanks that are just about visible at low tide

[@quinnzyker6521]

Places to go if you had a time machine

[@quinnzyker6521]

@@franl155 JEEEEED I FOUND ANOTHER 8000 YEAR OLD NECKLACE

[@cerberus9832]

I live in Holland, and I would think that Doggerland would kinda look like how we look. Practically one big giant flat, but green, riverdelta with forests and marshes. Kinda like that idea.

[@peterpayne2219]

Is it possible to inundate the nation of Holland with a spilled pint of beer?

[@couplingrhino]

@@peterpayne2219 Happens several times every weekend.

[@Blaznchicken]

@@peterpayne2219 last time that happened was in the 50’s

[@rhaivaen]

The Netherlands, not Holland

[@Blaznchicken]

@@rhaivaen miss Noord of Zuid Holland

[@kronsteen9093]

Admirable respect and sensitivity shown to these ancient victims.

[@garycross2277]

Thoroughly interesting and informative Simon. Once again an outstanding job on your part as the presenter.

[@dukeon]

Fortunately Catterland was completely unaffected...

[@JTA1961]

While Ma'scow calmly chewed her cud... 📉😂📈

[@john-paulsilke893]

And Mousekerville was geared up to seize Catterland with their legendary Mousekiteers.

[@svenmorgenstern9506]

To say nothing of Corgiland...

[@aceofspoons8382]

Catterland probably pushed the icesheet into the sea

[@spitfire_87uk18]

Mouserland dislikes this

[@kjorlaug1]

"...looking weirdly like some guy's leprosy afflicted genitals..." Quote of the year.

[@Sabrowsky]

Goddamn business blaze leaking into the rest of Simon's channels

[@clevername8832]

Someone's poor genitals though! 😔

[@Gamingboy69]

Try and google "Euro coin", you get the image of Sweden and Findland on the map without Norway. ;)

[@mammuchan8923]

They will henceforth be known as LAG

[@clevername8832]

@@mammuchan8923 🤣🤣🤣

[@lukewiseman9946]

Great stuff! Thank you so much. Is there any chance that you would make a video on the now largely forgotten Open Fields of lowland Britain? There is, as far as I know, now written record of how it was to work in them. Those that worked there couldn't write and those that could write were not working in them. Thank you and best wishes, Luke

[@sifrost6869]

Really enjoyed this, new about the flood surge or tsunami down south, but had no idea of this one. Thanks for covering it.

[@archstanton6102]

Doggerland part of England's East coast many years ago. Doggingland part of England's East coast currently known as Essex

[@christineshephard6168]

Arch Stanton I shouldn't find this funny, but 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

It was actually part of the Nethetlands 🤗

[@davidbooth46ify]

@@jacquelinevanderkooij4301 nope

[@jobian1279]

@@davidbooth46ify doggerland doesn't sound very english now does it

[@jamie3499]

Hmm, that title would actually go to Manchester!

[@painauchocolate2395]

Dude I learnt so much from this. Legit, congrats on a great video: simplicity, broad content and amazing presentation. Subbed

[@meteoritemann992]

Great informative video as usual 🔥🔥 I do feel meteoritic tsunamis are somewhat overlooked !

[@steveclapper5424]

Even if they had known, there was no escaping this.

[@baronvonjo1929]

I just realized. It was the release of frozen methane. So basically a giant fart from Norway caused all those people to die. :(

[@warbirdgaming8091]

@@baronvonjo1929 ancient Viking fart.

[@pheresy1367]

I know... If they "had known", a couple of days journey from the sea wouldn't have kept them safe. How would anyone ever know how far from the ocean you needed to be? I wonder if that could explain why Iceland was (virtually) considered uninhabited until the ninth century? I have no idea, it just occurred to me.

[@Jadefox32]

@@pheresy1367 More like up to that point there weren't enough cultures to attempt ventures out there, conversely Iceland also used to be heavily forested and then Vikings came.

[@olivethrush7450]

Yep. Very similar to 2016 when who would know escaping from Brussels would take so long!

[@AllDayBikes]

Only after I wake up and don't have new Simon content do I realize how much I actually watch of him and his channels lmao, Legend.

[@swapshots4427]

I'm new ,love the content.

[@springbok4015]

I can’t get enough of the dude.

[@dave74700]

Very much enjoy your channel. An excellent narrator and a extremely in depth story to each episode. A+ !

[@andrewmcneil2110]

Excellent post. I love your stuff Simon. Please keep on keeping on.

[@MisterEightyFour]

Doggerland lives on in a Lay-by just outside of Darlington...

[@badhippo]

And a quaint wooded carpark north of Countesswells, Aberdeenshire.

[@ResoundGuy5]

😂😂😂😂

[@1davidsmall]

I'm surprised I had to scroll this down...

[@lynhugell6563]

Blue bell wood just off the A59 Clitheroe to Accrington road.

[@keithsmith855]

👌🏼😁😄😄😄😄😄👋🏻been there ahhahahaha gawwwpfffer!! Booooine ol shaz 🍾

[@ashrevlution3456]

Were the people that lived there called "Doggers"? Asking for a friend.

[@robedmund9948]

Rumor has it they invented a certain 'style'......

[@louismccomack9524]

@@robedmund9948 genius. praise doggerland

[@d4nnny]

Is your friend a fish living in the north sea

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

They were called dogs.

[@johnduheaume6650]

As previously outlined they met in secluded carparks to procreate!

[@barryslemmings31]

One of your best. Coherent, informative and impassioned. Well done.

[@montecristo8174]

Great video! Learned something new today. Oh, you have a funny way of narrating. I enjoyed watching. Gave you a thumbs up and am now officially subscribed. Thanks!

[@vonpupees]

16:19 when you research your houses elevation at the start of this video, only to have Simon specifically mention the river your house is close too later on.

[@franl155]

One reason I'm glad I now live in Shropshire, one of the few English counties that does'nt have a coastline. But we still have a river...

[@otakuman706]

Yeah... I'm from Florida so I think I kinda understand. Though we often get moderate damage every couple of years or so, with how things are going I don't know how long portions are gonna last. Large areas just a few feet above, to maybe a dozen or so, along with like 'peaks' of a massive 30-40 feet (like 10-14m iirc) above. Though tsunamis aren't really thought of as a worry, especially on the west coast of Florida, but increasingly common and strong hurricanes, and sea level rise are both huge ones.

[@franl155]

@@otakuman706 - I think, if/when Las Palmas goes, we're going to be talking thousand-foot waves; after all, half a mountain is slowly breaking loose from the island. Of course, it depends on whether it falls off as one fragment at a time or if the entire flank goes all at once. Same problem with the Big Crack in Hawaii; will it go a bit at a time or all at once? Hopefully neither will happen for a few thousand years. It'd be a sight to see, though - from space.

[@qpSubZeroqp]

Time for a relocation? Stay safe!

[@qpSubZeroqp]

@@otakuman706 look at the newest hurricane (eta) that passed through and how much that affected drainage systems

[@Matkin222]

Simon: "Over in the Northern US..." Video: Cuts to image showing 90% of the lake in Canada

[@ilanamillion8942]

If I lived 8000 years ago, I would be at the bottom of Lake Agassiz in Manitoba. Btw, the 'z' at the end of Agassiz is silent.

[@lindajeanhouse6443]

There was no United States, Canada or Britain at that time. So all those who died were not Brits or any other nationality he claims.

[@drscopeify]

I think he meant north America.

[@swapshots4427]

It's ok, we're used to it.

[@davidklein1245]

@@ilanamillion8942 The bugged me too. Agassiz (silent Z) is not far from where I live.

[@charlesclager6808]

Excellent detailed video. I've once again been schooled. And I love learning of something about which I've never knew. Thanks so much.

[@QFL681]

I did enjoy the video, precisely because I found it interesting! Keep up the good work Simon and friends!

[@lostbutfreesoul]

I've always believed that places like Doggerland, there are a few others, are the reason we have 'flood myths.' Imagine being a survivor of that tsunami, going on to tell the story to your grandchildren... who tell it to theirs and so on....

[@Victor-mk5pp]

I think there might definitely be some truth to that. This is actually a popular hypothesis to explain the origins of the legend of Atlantis as well. Around 1 600 B.C. a massive volcanic eruption occurred on the isle of Thera (now known as Santorini). The explosion was so big that the volcano collapsed into the ocean leaving a massive ocean-filled crater in the middle of the island and effectively turning it into an island group rather than an island. The old Minoan settlement of Akrotiri, which was located there, was completely buried beneath a large heap of vulcanic ashes (like an ancient Greek Pompeii). As the eruption caused immense destruction on the isle of Crete as well, in form of a huge tsunami, it is believed that this Minoan story of a dissapearing city on an island that (partially) sank into the ocean was still told and remembered many generations later. Even Plato, the first literary source we have about the story, mentions it as a story that was passed down to the character that tells it by his grandfather, who got it from his father, who got it from the famous Greek poet Solon. So when we look at that, I don't think it's unlikely that similar events inspired the many flood myths we have. Tsunamis of such size might be rare, but they're impressionable enough that their story gets told from generation to generation, and at a certain point, those stories will just take on a life of their own.

[@Adammrtl27]

Oddly enough the timeline lines up to the century with the Hebrew Bible/calenders account of Noah's flood.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

You're partly right...

[@infoninja]

Ding dong! You hit the doorbell right on the button! Those tales were not myths. Those sea monsters were not fiction of the mind or metaphors. It was history.

[@yucol5661]

I mean, almost all cultures that lived along river valleys had flooding so it doesn’t take a genius story teller to spin that into an end of the world story.

[@tindalljames]

Never heard about this, despite living on the east coast for years. Fascinating history.

[@pokemandem5436]

East coast is the best

[@FrostedSeagull]

@@pokemandem5436 Yeah . . . here too 😉🇦🇺

[@mookiekashif]

It because it's 🧢

[@marksims3904]

@@pokemandem5436 East coast rules! I'm in Felixstowe, looking precariously at the sea now........

[@icost4671]

Never heard of this either I love history and KZbin turning out to be a gem

[@Firebrand55]

This guy is good. He has a way of telling you something that is not only informative but entertaining. In this vid he reassuringly tells us that we are not all going to die soon, but somebody might in 100's of years time.....I'll take that, already!

[@flyin4352]

The part about Lake Agassiz reminds me of a story from a massive book in my childhood about a pair of giant brothers where one would cook soup for the other but always put way too much salt in. The brother who got the soup would pour it out into a pit and over thousands of years it formed a massive lake. One day the Cook giant found the lake and cried because he thought his brother didn't appreciate his cooking and it made the lake burst, which flooded into the sea and made it salty. Complete bull of course but considering the changes Lake Agassiz made to the world it's strangely similar.

[@franl155]

Thanks for this! I've been fascinated by Doggerland ever since I first heard of it in a Time Team Special. And to add to the misery of the survivors, they'd have been suffering from "disaster shock", trying to come to terms with being suddenly hit by something totally outside their experience - hell, disaster shock happens these days, too, and we KNOW what causes the disasters. How much would it have affected these people who could never even have imagined that such a thing was even possible, let along that it could happen to them?

[@neppuc]

Are there any ancient folklore stories about this?

[@franl155]

@@neppuc - none that I've ever heard of, but then, I've not really been looking. Eight thousand years, at least five of them with no written language, only oral tradition - Chinese Whispers can get quite distorted over such a length of time.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@@franl155 I remember seeing another documentary about prehistoric Britons that said a bunch of "water cults" sprang up, where they worshipped lakes and rivers, made sacrifices to them (the basis of the show was a finely-crafted and unused sword found in a river, perhaps placed on purpose) and thought they were the gateway to the afterlife. Don't know how the timelines match up, but perhaps they did start to see the sea as a god, which could feed OR punish them.

[@franl155]

@@worldcomicsreview354 - well done you!!! I've seen a few Time Teams that featured devotional objects ritually deposited in water, but I'd never connected that with the tsunami. It makes perfect sense - now that you mention it! They'd want to appease or placate the spirits that could inflict so much harm without warning, and gave it their most valued items - a sword in those days was like offering a Rolls-Royce, not a minor sacrifice. Offering swords to water wasn't just a British thing: in La Tène, in Switzerland, there's a lake that has literally hundreds of swords deposited into it. Of course the tsunami would have affected people on both sides of the Channel - it hit there as well, or the backwash did. But maybe the La Tène culture was wide-spread and the shock travelled further. I've never seen anyone connect the two; you should write something on it, so you can claim priority if more evidence turns up! ps I wish I could "like" your post more than once!

[@richardhewer335]

Yes Frank you can appreciate how populations believed in Gods back in those times when no other explanation was available.

[@oliviagreen7423]

"Made 2020 look like a year of candy floss and unicorns." It's mind-boggling to try and imagine being a survivor during that time, experiencing the devastation of this😟

[@skyden24195]

Ironically, "Food Network" is releasing a new show, this month, based on the "Candyland" board game..... so.... there's that. ;-)

[@shebbs1]

2020 is not a year full of disadter. Even COVID-19 is minor when compared with average annual death counts from polio or smallpox 70 years ago, and nowhere near as had as the so-called Spanish Flu. It only appears disastrous because of government mismanagement (many governments) , and media/internet hyperbole. Bad governmental actions have caused many of the problems.

[@oliviagreen7423]

@@shebbs1 Yes... That's why Simon used that analogy😐

[@123tommychen]

Pretty sure it would be the equivalent of the apocalypse

[@michaelb4538]

And yet all of our ancestors survived. Gangsters.

[@966396631]

Always thoughtful and well done. Thank you.

[@matthutchings1988]

Simon, your videos are such a source of happiness! Thank you for helping my happiness.

[@eeesh5600]

Britain now has a flood every now and then. And 5 hours of snow a year. Has to be the safest place to live on earth.

[@KermitFrazierdotcom]

If you don't count humidity equivalent to breathing water.

[@adatcat]

@@KermitFrazierdotcom ^

[@radiationking9875]

@@KermitFrazierdotcom Nah its pretty fine unless it's central central London I guess. Though London isnt really a living place

[@TehDawg]

No major crime other than London knife crime, no guns, no dangerous predators, no dangerous insects, no huge poisonous snakes or spiders, no extreme weather conditions, very weak and rare earthquakes, no hurricanes or tornadoes, no wild fires, I literally would say we are one of the most neutrally safe countries in the world, other than humans there isn’t anything to worry about

[@non-wokeletsgobrandon394]

@@TehDawg unless you are a poor white girl, and live around pa..

[@colemanstein9554]

Biographics and Geographics uploads one minute apart, and it’s not even my birthday.

[@oliviagreen7423]

We got a Top Tenz and Megaprojects as well👏👍

[@mammuchan8923]

Choices, choices, making it harder

[@anarchyantz1564]

@@oliviagreen7423 And Side Projects

[@I-am-stevo]

Business blaze, today I found out, keep it up Simon

[@buttonbasher8198]

Hi, I have been watching your videos every morning before work for the past 2 weeks, this one is definitely one of my favourites, informative without being preachy and witty very good combo, but I can't help but wonder if this is the trailer to the greatest calamity of our time that we know is coming why have we not at least recognised the existence of doggerland? I never heard of it before today and I found it very inspiring to try and educate people on it, more people need to see this video

[@mauricedavis2160]

Another excellent episode Simon, thank you Mate!!!🙏🦉❣️

[@JohnPaul-ii]

8000 years ago, no wonder I missed it.

[@misskate3815]

Mr. Whistler, I LIVE where most of Lake Agassiz was. It’s not the USA, it’s Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and partially Ontario. The USA portion is tiny. To this day, you can even feel where the lake must have been, from the tiny trace fossils to the way that Lake Winnipeg sometimes just awakens to its own power, shutting you out and ripping at the beaches and harbours. Lake Agassiz is still here, like the ghost of a huge, wild thing, reaching forward in time to remind us that we are only small, upright walking apes, whose tools can only protect us so far.

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

Pure poetry

[@djosearth3618]

Sorta similar with my area here in the middle between the great lakes. There's a smallish river that forks here but studying the topographical details you can see that it's just a trickling stream comparea to what useda be just massive for example I notice when I bike from my house to the river approx 7km away it's all downhill.. Makes sense great lakes had to fill in somehow..

[@scottyp1348]

Manitoba makes good pizza dough flour

[@Skysiah0503]

When I was younger I used to smash rocks and find fossils of many shelled creatures, also the richness of the soil in the region in and around Manitoba

[@reuireuiop0]

Can the former coastlines still be seen, like ancient beaches & the like ?

[@paulelverstone8677]

I first learnt about Doggerland while working as a Cartographer in London. It still astonishes me that the region of the North Sea where Doggeland existed, is still only about 20m in depth in places...

[@Julikiwi]

Heard about Doggerland on History Time channel, didn't notice you also madea terrific video about it. This is so fascinating.

[@Just_another_turtle]

Doggerland will always live in our hearts

[@murder13love]

You mean Essex? 🤔😂

[@brendan5065]

lol

[@iceetmarne3571]

What? That's a joke right?!

[@jokerfacebitch]

That's low...

[@anarchyantz1564]

@@murder13love No, that is Dogging land, not Doggerland. A mistake that is as and Essex girl to make.

[@solitarything1209]

I actually never heard about Doggerland, I thought we broke free from France because of continental drift, first time watching and this guy has already taught me something new. Tysm.

[@royfearn4345]

Continental drift doesn't come into it. Britain is on the European continental shelf. A fact possibly denied by brexiteers (sarcasm) but it is so. Therefore no relative movement.

[@acidmack1041]

​@Roy Fearn i know the Brexit part was a joke but people genuinely believe Brexiteers didn't want the UK to remain a part of actual Europe when it's just the European governmental union they wanted to leave 😂 the UK is still very much European

[@TheComputec]

So pleased to find this channel. Interesting, informative, bitesize episodes that shine a light on seldom told stories. As a Brit I pride myself in knowing a bit about our history, but clearly our education system has failed if i've got to the ripe old age of 53 and had no idea about this event as recently as 600bc... I wonder what our relationship and our history with the mainland Europeans would have been like if we hadn't become an Island nation on the outer limits of the continent?

[@Chicanery_Artifice]

Unless you specifically studied history then I'm not sure why you'd be surprised to not know about many events, considering just how much there is to learn.

[@TheComputec]

@@Chicanery_Artifice there is a difference between not knowing a lot of history from around the world and one specific story that shaped the landscape of your country and altered its entire relationship with surrounding nations… that kind of thing should be on the school syllabus… so yes, I am surprised to only find out about this now okay?

[@kevinflick61]

Thank you for the informative video. I'm wondering if you are familiar with a tsunami caused by a landslide on an island off of Africa. There is a video about it on KZbin I saw a couple years ago.

[@BriarLeaf00]

I find the concept and history of Doggerland so interesting that you could make a 5 part 5 hour series about it and I'd watch every single second of it twice. Its just so fascinating. Who needs Atlantis when we've got the real world equivalent to talk about and explore?

[@jftw1]

Maybe Doggerland IS Atlantis!

[@RoseNZieg]

i never thought of the geological history of great britain in relation to the mainland until i saw a map of the sea floor. it definitely was not plate tectonics.

[@IndigoJo]

There's actually a volcano in the Canary Islands with a side threatening to break off and fall into the sea, and when it does, it is likely to cause a tsunami that will affect the south-west of England as well as the west coasts of Africa and Europe and the east coasts of the Americas. Also, there was Dunwich -- once a major sea port, now a tiny village on the coast of Suffolk.

[@waxman68cards19]

If I remember correctly, it is estimated that the tsunami generated from that will be around 100 meters high and go inland up to 2 miles wiping off the map coastal communities all up and down the Eastern seaboard of the United States

[@spankthemonkey3437]

By the time it gets to America it won't be worse than hurricane storm surge

[@TrueBrit1]

If I remember correctly, it is predicted it would travel far further inland than 2 miles - something like 50-100 miles or so. Which would make sense I guess if the tsunami was 100m high. One thing's for sure - it would certainly wipe out most of the east coast, Florida would completely disappear (I believe the highest point anywhere in Florida is just 16m ASL) and likely millions, if not tens of millions would die. Spank Themonkey is wrong in a big way.

[@ScottsOnTheRottenCotton]

Gibraltar will tumble

[@IndigoJo]

@@ScottsOnTheRottenCotton Gibraltar is a huge rock. It's the low-lying coastal towns that will be destroyed.

[@BRIANJAMESGIBB]

Really well done . Best thing I've watched on ages :)

[@rarebird_82]

Wow! I live on the NE coast and had no idea Doggerland even existed, the only time I ever heard any reference was on BBC Radio 4s shipping forecast "Tyne-Dogger", and I just thought it was a port. Thanks ✌🏻

[@Andrea-sg7qp]

Even though I've always been obsessed with Prehistoric Britain and Doggerland and knew a little about the tsunami, you always present information in such a detailed and entertaining way and I love watching these videos whether I know anything about the subject matter not. Loved this one!

[@brendan5065]

Wow Simon is tempting fate talking about this during 2020 Quick! Everyone knock on wood!

[@nevyen149]

Look up Cumbre Vieja. It's a volcano on the Canary Island of La Palma. A huge hunk is hanging off right now, and if it goes in one shot, the east coast of the U.S. gets a tsunami. Bermuda is probably toast, with the waves starting out more than 300' high, and still topping at least 100' by the time they hit North America. It will have some effect even in Africa, Europe, and the UK. It's a Hollywood disaster flick in real life, and scientists have known about it for a while. I don't even live in the danger zone, and that one's been in the back of my mind since I saw a show on it. There won't be enough wood, or enough knuckles if that goes.

[@zJoriz]

Yup... if a tsunami that high hits, Holland doesn't stand a chance at all. Maybe even going the way Doggerland did.

[@adamperry9755]

@@nevyen149 Better add that to the 2020 version of Apocalypse Bingo

[@nevyen149]

@@adamperry9755 It's been in my "Apocalypse Bingo" since the first time I saw the documentary/travel show which talked about it. Also on the list is the good old Yellowstone supervolcano, for the very same reason. Not 'keep you up at night' worry, mind you...just 'that will be some shit to see' kind of interest.

[@robd9413]

@@nevyen149 If (when?) the Cumbre Vieja goes down, a disappearing sea won't be a sign to run. Any witnesses won't be able to get far enough away fast enough. Anyone who sees that will effectively be already dead.

[@olejohannesbakke6316]

This was pure gold. Thank you. Subscribed, all the day.

[@GPL90]

A very interesting topic indeed and your presentation in this video was excellent.

[@TimeturnerJ]

Doing underwater archaeology in the channel where Doggerland used to be must be wild. It goes pretty deep out there, after all.

[@DAPage-qq8xh]

You think 18-63m is deep?

[@NickDaGamer1998]

​@@DAPage-qq8xh It is when you're trying to look for any sign of civilization.

[@DAPage-qq8xh]

@@NickDaGamer1998 nonsense.

[@NickDaGamer1998]

@@DAPage-qq8xh Please, enlighten me.

[@DAPage-qq8xh]

@@NickDaGamer1998 the vast majority of Doggerland is actually licensed areas of the present day North Sea benthos - which falls under the jurisdiction of the license holders as awarded by e.g. the Crown Estate for the UK. Depth is not the issue here whatsoever - there have been a multitude of examples of artifacts returned by e.g. offshore wind operators and trawlermen in the NSR and these have formed the basis for the vast majority of Vincent Gaffney's recent work. You will do well to remind yourself that underwater excavations can ostensibly be carried out using ROVs, too - particularly in areas where the benthic sediment is finely grained, thus removing the need for teams of divers and the associated risks.

[@gomerthefirst]

Awesome content as always Simon. Could you do a video on the Great Lakes Storm of 1913? It's a disaster I only learned about a few years ago.

[@sarahdon3165]

Wow I absolutely love history and the geography and geographical history but this I had never heard of before so thank you

[@jonkayl9416]

FANTASTIC Work Simon. Love this channel. Very Interesting.

[@tacklecentralfishing1051]

Hey Simon, you should cover the *The Great Storm of 1703*

[@sophiecat2161]

Imagine the artifacts that are hidden under the North Sea! Thank you for posting interesting items.

[@lesleyhawes6895]

Forget Atlantis, all you'll find of Doggerland is a few bones and stone tools, it is a true story, not a Greek myth.

[@alegomanYTPs]

they still get washed up on our coasts

[@noahpage7459]

Things like this truly make you wonder just how many things about our past have been lost

[@vickiebunch3072]

Good one, Simon. I didn't know about this and I loved learning something new@

[@SunnyNight]

You mentioned the integration of tsunami in Japanese culture for centuries, I’d love to hear more about that in a video! It’s really interesting, the adaptations to natural disasters in ancient times when the actual causes and mechanisms behind it were unknown

[@worldcomicsreview354]

They used to beleive a giant catfish lived beneath the island and shook to create earthquakes. They also beleived it would respond to bad government and corruption. In the waning days of the Tokogawa Shogunate (1855, though in Japan they were effectively in medieval times), during unpopular and failing economic reforms, two big earthquakes hit. A number of paintings and prints from the time survive, showing angry citizens attacking the giant catfish. It's now known those earthquakes were caused by the Nankai Trough, which ruptured again in 1944 and 1946, and is about 80% likely to do it again in the next 30 years. It's also one of the most monitored potential earthquake regions on earth, though the science of effectively predicting earthquakes is still new and very haphazard. There may only be seconds of warning.

[@barneymiller7894]

One of the most widely known pieces of traditional Japanese art is The Great Wave of Kanagawa, a woodblock print by Hokusai made in the late Edo period. 👍

[@--legion]

Tsunami is the fashionable catch-all for a tidal wave. But a Hollywood monster tsunami that devastates half the planet is more exiting than a humble tidal wave.

[@thegeordie4life550]

18:23 "waves taller than 10 metres could come CRASHING into Edinburgh" Me: "Aye but nee chance it's hitting Newca-" "and Newcastle, causing destruction on a massive scale." ...sound.

[@emmahealy4863]

I've always wished I could go back in time and see South Shields at different points through history, the cliffs and quarries and beaches and River Tyne have changed SO much. Someone just hurry up and invent time travel already

[@thegeordie4life550]

@@emmahealy4863 I've seen photo's from even just the 60's of Tynemouth and it's literally just fields and a few roads, it's mental how much has changed.

[@ianrivaldosmith]

@@thegeordie4life550 I’ve got areal images from the 1920’s from the area. Tynemouthshire moor, as it was known.

[@thegeordie4life550]

@@ianrivaldosmith never knew it was called that! good to know

[@sahhull]

A wave hitting and wiping out Newcastle.... There's £15 worth of damage and untold improvements to the area.

[@craigsheffield6546]

I have always found tsunamis fascinating, having lived on the northern most point of the main Japan island in my youth (Misawa). In the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, a tremendous 7.2 cubic miles of water was displaced when the thrust fault let go. Simply try to imagine that amount. Think of 7.2 miles East of you, then West of you, and then think upward a bit higher than a commercial airliner would fly. Now, fill all of that space in with water.

[@hildeschmid8400]

I never noticed what Scandinavia could look to some people until I heard your description. Now I can't get it out of my mind!

[@ianhawkins4979]

That was chilling. I've known about this since my first semester at uni, but your portrayal of these ancient gave the victims a voice. Great job.

[@hollybyrd6186]

I work nights and you have become my morning ritual. I have to listen to one of your many channels while drinking my tea.

[@CaptainValian]

Excellent content. I really enjoyed learning about this. Thank you.

[@tobyclark9200]

How you sound different from your other videos but I like your videos are pretty good information to know!

[@JediSpectre117]

Fun fact, my town is on a natural feature created by this event, it was also apparently where the first evidence of the Tsunami was discovered. Learned that earlier this year thanks to the channel History Time which did a vid on this

[@Flint-Dibble-the-Don]

So you have been cheating on Simon. With that floozy History Time.

[@callumstevenson8083]

Where do you live out of interest?

[@florisk.ios.6416]

Im now curious to where you live?

[@peterpayne2219]

“Like Holland, a place a spilled pint of beer could probably inundate.”

[@closethedoornow7538]

It’s an overstatement.

[@aquatekt1402]

Ghoi

[@JuniorJuni070]

@@aquatekt1402 its hoi..

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

The great Dutch Pub disaster of 2021...

[@stefanhernold345]

...`cept that the bald-headed, bearded fellow up there sounds rather American than British...or doesn`t he ?

[@emmamorgan5578]

That was SO interesting. Thank you x

[@lordshell]

Knew about Doggerland, but never heard of this. Have you done a video about mega tsunamis?

[@sharonkeith601]

I admire this man’s ability to just continue talking about one topic forever! How wonderful!

[@nocensorship8092]

he just reads from a script and doesn't listen to what he is actually saying

[@andrewgoodall2183]

Having watched Brain Blaze somewhat I can attest to this. The bloke's a bit of a moron, surprisingly.

[@andyv911999]

Brilliant hearing about a piece of history I didn't know about the Shetland Islands 👍

[@RFGfotografie]

This guy can really make everything interesting. Why isn't he a narrator for NGC?

[@antonioperalesdelhierro5188]

Yeah I just hope a wannabe Hitler doesn't get hold of him.

[@chatteyj]

As if a tsunami in the North sea destroying half of Britain and a forgotten land wasn't interesting lol.

[@joze838]

I feel exectly the opposite way. He often has great topics but he presents them extremly exhausting. I could not watch the video all at ones. I needed a break of his trained way to talk.

[@nickkomen6210]

Man I'd love to sit and have a beer with you as you talked about history and whatever else

[@audreysouthern5255]

Sending this to my family in Scotland ,so interesting, yet could be scary if it happens again! Thank you for this information!

[@bhoy67lisbon]

When it happens ...

[@carminegalante4925]

Way to begin your families paranoia induced boat building company 😂😂

[@JTA1961]

Yeah as many more could be kilt.📉😂📈

[@Logan-fd7nh]

When he said submarine slide, I couldn’t help but picture submarines dancing in 1950s style Disney animation.

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Excellent! Piece. - Thank you. A similar event happened in Mediterranean from the collapse of Mt. Aetna around the same time. Related???

[@kbf9644]

Fascinating. Thank you!

[@carlstanland5333]

Simon needs a channel to cover his channels. He’s his own Megaproject.

[@Richard-zc1cj]

Maybe Simon is a robot that has been duplicated many times. That is the only way he can have so many channels

[@Bob-ni8rg]

There was also a tsunami up the bristol channel around 500 years ago. A church not far from me still has a stain showing where the water came up to

[@andybeans5790]

It mentions this event too

[@craigkelly1547]

Awesome vid informative and extremely witty your an amazing presenter

[@michaelphilips7602]

Love your videos mate very informative thank you! Cheers from a scouse in Canada

[@philprice3870]

One of the most interesting films I’ve seen on KZbin thank you

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:15 - Chapter 1 - The sunken world 4:30 - Chapter 2 - Before the wave 8:20 - Chapter 3 - The flood 12:20 - Chapter 4 - Aftermath 15:40 - Chapter 5 - Wave of the future

[@nickwatkins5321]

Very interesting presentation. It’s amazing what you can learn from a load of old silt

[@Richiedei50]

I remember hearing “Dogger Bank” mentioned on the radio when I was a child when my father listened to the Weather Report which included information about conditions at sea.

[@021snowdrop021]

Extremely interesting and so very well presented - Thank you.