How Venice Plans To Save Itself From Sinking

How Venice Plans To Save Itself From Sinking
The iconic city of Venice is sinking due to a couple of reasons, some man-made, some natural. But is it possible to save the city from its seemingly doomed fate? Maybe. And today, I'll be telling you how Venice plans to do it.
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[@Shinobi33]

I just remember during the Covid lockdowns how the water became clear with all kinds of fish and dolphins seen swimming in the canals for the first time in ages. Crazy

[@ratinyourspaghetti8499]

Are there any videos of it? I'd really love to see them just swimming around

[@Emma-fr1hq]

As beautiful as that would be national geographic claims that the reports are fake. Apparently the pictures of the dolphins are from the mediterranean sea which is hundreds of miles away.

[@Emma-fr1hq]

It's nice to hope that nature could recover that quickly though 👍

[@tiktokftw4017]

@@ratinyourspaghetti8499 no it was proving to be fake news sadly. However, there was a video of a jelly fish 😅

[@matthewboyd8689]

I remember during the lockdown help fresh the air was. And I just live in a tiny town in Kansas, no more than 4,000 people, yet when I looked it up there was only a 30% drop in driving. Now I can truly understand how clean the air would be if we all switched to electric vehicles or just e-bikes and electric public transit. It's depressing though knowing that, because it's a long way off if it does ever happen.

[@tifpo33]

The greatest reason infrastructure hasn't been build on time or within budget is not rising costs but terrible, egregious levels of corruption.

[@tengkualiff]

This happens everywhere lol

[@th3_ph4ntomreborn31]

Also you are underestimating Italian shit long bureocracy

[@chrisg5219]

Yea that's always a problem is eastern and southern Europe. 🙄

[@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3]

Repent to Jesus Christ “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭107:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬

[@tiffanyallmand7197]

Yes may corruption be exposed removed and punished/corrected across the entire world!!!

[@jamiehughes5573]

Can't wait for future historians to uncover the lost City of venice

[@thesould2931]

Uncover? This isnt Before christ. Besides what is there to uncover when everyone knows its underwater Everthing will be well documented

[@toeman4628]

@@thesould2931 that went way too far over your head my guy.💀💀

[@4kidstillman223]

@@toeman4628 HAHAHAHA

[@LouieP]

@@thesould2931 The dodo bird went extinct and not even 5 years later people where disputing if it even existed, when people had literal bones, pelts made from them, and was well documented.

[@lolmuskan1896]

​@@thesould2931 he didn't say discover bro

[@ianbromley7218]

Venice began to sink due to the Italian government of the day increasing the opening of the lagoon to the Adriatic in the 1950s. This and dredging the lagoon to allow tankers to enter and reach the industrial site to the west of the lagoon has caused this issue. This is a disaster caused by greed, with no thought of culture, history or the people who called Venice home The Italian Government should be taken to account

[@mrmeerkat6055]

Greed is the number one priority of most governments.

[@daharaudani1046]

so can't be a solution if they could close the opening however, once again?!

[@The-samuel]

Galveston Texas was an island that got hit by the largest hurricane ever recorded and they raised the entire city by many feet and built a giant seawall

[@NgaNguyen-kc6bv]

That’s true!!

[@matteohamri5260]

You didn't say how

[@wolfsit2382]

@@matteohamri5260 They lifted every building with jacks

[@jackthehacker05]

@@wolfsit2382 Can confirm, I am rather strong.

[@communistpotato3204]

@@jackthehacker05 A contingent of a thousand jacks of course

[@serenissimarespublicavenet3945]

Coming from Venice, I want to praise your video because it is quite good. Keep up with the good work! P.S. Are you South African? I find your accent fascianting.

[@Versedyoutube]

Thank you for the praise, it means a lot, especially from someone from there! And yes, I am South African :) Thank you

[@eveei]

a historical relic I hope can be saved, along with all the people there of course staying safe.

[@banjopaisley1021]

Waste of time, energy, and materials. Yuppy stuck up people who are to stubborn to realize what goes on around them. Eww

[@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3]

Repent to Jesus Christ “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭107:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬

[@banjopaisley1021]

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 people cling to a cross when they are tired and lost. And some just already know what is right and wrong. Mind your own business! No one important needs religion.

[@ianbromley7218]

There are no schools on Venice anymore due to rge dwindling population. Venice now is no more than a cultural Disney land for tourist to experience

[@eleeveeayees3425]

@@ianbromley7218 This is true, I feel the same way to cities like Rome or Pisa.

[@stevenalanjacobs]

Wow! Incredible production quality. Looking forward to seeing more from you!

[@mohokdas7629]

Keep making such videos Your videos helps us to know about many things that are rarely discussed or shown in the media I really appreciate your work

[@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3]

Repent to Jesus Christ “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭107:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬ h

[@scottthompson8946]

I visited Venice in 1989. We were told then it would be underwater in 10 years. That was over 30 years ago, soooo.....

[@51tomtomtom]

shows words are faster than the reality ! But this does not means we can relax !!!!

[@tasnimtrisha2]

I live in Florence Italy. But I visited Venice in 2019 November. I was there just for 4/5 hours, only visited san marco area which is a famous tourist spot. When we were about to return it started to rain. The next morning I was in Florence. I saw the news that the place I visited the day before was in knee-deep water due to rain. The whole city was underwater. I was like thank God I got to visit the place without any problem.

[@Lemon-nd5su]

This is an amazing video as always. You deserve more subs 😊

[@charmaineclayton2018]

Thank you for this extremely wonderful video.. ❤️ I love the " Citt'a di Veniza " I go to my Italian lessons in the City and walk through this City every day... off the beaten track from the tourist and I get very emotional thinking that this City can sink.

[@GoingToAFuneral]

This channel is extremely underrated and you deserve 2 million subs

[@Levitationable]

HOLY CRAP! YOU'RE SUCH AN UNDERRATED GRAPHIC DESIGNER, THIS IS LITERALLY A VOX PUBLICATION! GREAT VIDEO!

[@Levitationable]

@John Doe I'm not saying his views are similiar to Vox, I'm saying the production quality is similiar to Vox.

[@kikilynn1167]

What a fantastic video. Thank you for your work. Very well done.

[@rodrigodelprat]

This is one of the best videos on Venice I've seen, really good info.

[@ayanjayasekara1546]

This video is underrated. You deserve millions of views for this quality.

[@svmuele]

I live near venice, this is a good explanation and yep, we need to do something now cause things here are slow . Btw, Venice also have lots of other problems

[@lucmacsorley4758]

Amazing video like always

[@richardparnell8402]

This video was better then I though it was going to be. Nice work

[@rudiboy2917]

Amazing channel!! thanks

[@liam6345]

I hate that Venice is considered somewhat the "romantic jewel in the crown" Anywhere else in the world a flooded city, that stinks of shit, would be regarded as a national disaster.

[@anthonycz7581]

The magic of PR and marketing

[@user-lb7rg3cx6w]

Ypu do remember that concentration camps was creating of British empire and they are the largest killers of people in terms of number of people directly or indirectly killed by British empire. But people think Nazi germany as the worst. That's power of PR

[@lullabysorrow5746]

I love this comment. Made me laugh, wasn’t even thinking of how much water stinks.

[@ron2112]

Venice is in Italy, the most beautiful country in the world

[@ron2112]

The best history, culture and art is all here

[@zerocontent6168]

Great video very informative

[@FireFox-er7qj]

Great video! 👍🏻

[@oscaradrianmartin8262]

What a great video mate!

[@Isaiahmightbecool]

A very well explained video

[@xsneakatokex8783]

Its inevitable, civilizations get built and eventually destroyed. By what we can never be to sure. Venice is no exception. It will be a great ancient city once its gone.

[@allhailrise]

Been there in 2010, and already flooded a little at the main square in winter. Kinda shocked me as it's supposed to be popular tourist spot, but then again it's a floating city, what did I expect? I didn't realise back then in 2010, how serious Venice's situation would be as of now, years later. Wish all the best for all the sinking cities (wait, we're ALL sinking 😂).

[@junkoenoshima6756]

That one fish in the history books: Reject sea, Evolve on land. Humans in 2056: Reject land, Return to sea.

[@Venetianmappingandanimations]

The "flood" of the "main square" as you call them, is actually called "acqua alta" and has happened for hundreds of years, especially in winter.

[@kensigregory361]

Those who live on deserts, or even mountain regions aren't going to sink anytime soon.

[@allhailrise]

@@Venetianmappingandanimations Wow I didn't know. Thx for the info

[@51tomtomtom]

The " main square "? You mean for tourists ? San Marco is the lowest part of the city and when a fish farts the place fills ......and every idiot-TV station sends their cameras .........BTW at the moment we've the lowest water-level of all times....

[@NgaNguyen-kc6bv]

Very interesting video!!!

[@GadreelAdvocat]

Might be an idea to pound in some pylons horizontally in some strategic areas under water. It would compact the soil and add more material as well.

[@YoJimBoHugabaJoe]

Wait,so a tiny church takes over a million stakes, yet the entire city sits on top of just over 10 million stakes.either they went overkill on stakes for the church or whoever calculated all the stakes used was heavily intoxicated.also vid says city sinks 0.4 inch a year and then later in vid says it sinks over a inch a century.again terrible maths,if the city sinking 0.4 inch a year,it certainly sinking more than a inch each century

[@akellagermanytraveldiaries]

now Venice canals runs dry.

[@manbearcannon1250]

Incredible. A civilization in which ingenuity and architecture rivaled that of our societies today. It feels as though we are living through the end point of Western Civilization & it’s origins of enlightenment.

[@jasminbesic7266]

When you say, Venice is drowning. Here is and example, Rialto bridge and the steps. You dont count in the tides? Even seasons here on Adriatic coast have plus meter to two meters difference between tides in August and January. That is not a clearcut evidence of drowning, just different times of tides while taking the picture. Every fall, tides get bigger, and rivers overflow, because the fall season, here on Medditerain is thre rainy season. I dive for living, so it is pretty obvious to us that this is not evidence of Venice getting into Adriatic sea.

[@she_sings_delightful_things]

This sh!t is fascinating. I'm planning a trip this year, but im concerned about mold/mildew because I'm highly allergic, but dang, is it a gorgeous city.

[@samueljaramillo4221]

We’ve been to this great and beautiful city many times. And we will be back in March.

[@jasonallen3678]

Has to be the nostalgia for people to actually want to live there..

[@pigperrtpigperrt]

as a venetian ( a person who live in venice) we know that our city is very fragile but we managed to create a sistem that would block or atleast mitigate the entrance of water during "acqua alta" in italian or floods. wer have our metods to know when the floods is coming: its based on the wind and it might be floods if it is "sirocco" we also have sirens and based on how many times it sing you get the level: 1 siren low 2 medium 3 average 4 above average but it not cause major issue and 5 is high like 1.60 and above. 3 years ago before covid the biggest flood since the 80' ( im not sure about the year but it know that this one was the 2nd bigger floods ever recorded) basically i had a friend that would go around on his boat on the pedestrian part " fondamenta". Most of the shops lost everything that was at the street level. btw venetian ahs personal protection against this for example you can put a slate of steel if the water is low like it arrives at your ankle or a bit above but it lets you get in and out whithout being bstacled by it. you can wear a simil boots pant which covered your lower body till your torso. i'm seeing a lot of comment saying that the "mose" has took too long to be built anda lot of people took avantage of it making a lot of money which is true but in the end it kinda works so... meh? in the end we are doomed to extinct becasue people are leaving the city for better jobs om the land and the venetian government doesn't really care about creating new jobs and opportunes for its citizen, i really love this city i've lived there since i was born but the lack of opportunites for the youth so if the young people leave the rest of the city si destinated to end bc there is no one coming next. and yes after the lockdown a lot of animals arrived but i heard that someone killed the ducks near the station with pesticide which is disgusting bc like wtf bro they are ducks ??? personally i had never seen dolphin but there ares some video about it maybe its in another "sestiere" the city is devided on setieri like as a venetian you evaluate yours and some local gangs decide to stab eachother to control nothing but yes we are very territorial and also extrimily racist towards non-venetian citizen like if you are a tourisrt you are welcome but if you come from the countryside you will get called "terrone" which mean someone who came from the fields its like callng someone black the n word so its better not say it. its really derogatory towards countyside homies.

[@brianfuller757]

Only about 50,000 people live permanently in Venice Centre( the Lagoon). Most of the residents live on the mainland due to very high cost of living and lack of jobs. The population in the centre is ageing and the city is subsiding/sinking.

[@toshimigita]

Venice is gonna be a real life Atlantis

[@owend4358]

"And if Venice is sinking I'm going under 'Cause beauty's religion And its Christened me with wonder" 🎵🇮🇹⛪️

[@Amen99129]

Begining of a successful youtube channel

[@Meitti]

Aztec city Tenōchtitlan was built much the same way, wooden log foundations beneath the city, city itself built in the middle of a swamp.

[@Alexander-xk2nb]

I'm listening, I'm learning, but the whole time I'm looking at the screen in awe like " what a beautiful city 😍" I think I'm in love.

[@MegaUltraSuperDuable]

The sinking city... Im getting HP lovecraft vibes 🔥

[@TheGameware]

Now I wanna go to rialto to walk along that submerged walkway and see where it goes

[@SKF358]

Venice isn't sinking. It's not going deeper into the sea. The sea is rising, ergo Venice is being inundated.

[@51tomtomtom]

I think it does both !

[@bubbleslovebird4974]

Well yeah. I knew that long before internet was a thing. Learned it a tv station called "PBS" when they cared about history and learning.

[@cheeseTakoJP]

Hidden gem of youtube

[@correctpolitically4784]

They should just build an extra floor ontop of everything . Keep the same building style , building methods , and architectural style , but build higher allowing for any settling or flooding. Leveling the city out is easy . Lower the high side by removing water from that side. Injecting cement along with sea water sounds pretty good.

[@Maebbie]

if we are able to keep it from sinking for about 200 more years we can just move it over to Mars, after Mars has gotten its large ocean.

[@JHues]

What a coincidence, I just dreamed of an island sinking and experiencing a heavy flood and storm.

[@LewisKlint]

Big thanks for only giving Imperial measurements in this video, which only about 5% of the world population uses (only 3 countries). So nice having to pause and google everytime

[@SicilianStealth]

Venice has been thinking for as long as I can remember I just read unless it's not true that the canals are drying up because they have low tides and lack of rain?

[@zachyy-rn9253]

Remember me when this channel pops off.

[@dropperbanda7608]

You should also do shorts..It will be helpful

[@TheJupiter00]

The yellow walls looks like hippos!

[@skyluna520]

Whoa it's similar with the settings of the manga i read before (there are anime of it). "Aria".

[@s.o.s.exploration2412]

You also see inflatable tubes that look like natural gas tanks from a distance that assists holding buildings up. In a movie we got a chance 2 see them as a bullet comes out of a gun causing them to release the air and the place sinks. If I'm not mistaken it was in a bond film. Action movie I'm sure of tho. Been a while since I seen it.

[@Emma-ve3lz]

Casino Royale...

[@51tomtomtom]

don't expect real thing when watching stupid films

[@s.o.s.exploration2412]

@Thomas Ludwig Kelley exactly. Don't believe everything you see and only half of what you read, they say...

[@51tomtomtom]

@@s.o.s.exploration2412 even less ! And don't let you taking away by wishful dreaming ..........The truth is not what we want to believe .....

[@s.o.s.exploration2412]

@Thomas Ludwig Kelley not sure if you are replying to another's comment however watching up on behind the scenes they where able to use a place that fell in disrepair. Those inflatable tubes helped keep the place level. It's a fact I'm afraid look it up.

[@user8785]

Me and my dad were discussing Venice yesterday strange 🤔🤔🤔

[@jmad627]

They were saying this when I was in high school in the mid seventies. I see nothing has changed.

[@VaeringWoT]

Seems like it saved itself!

[@paulcandiago9339]

Suggest: fill the city with sand. no alternative believe it or not.

[@kursatkadircanli9734]

Various solutions that come to mind to save Venice: 1) Construction of concrete, waterproof pontoons using underwater mining techniques under buildings sitting on petrified wood foundations in Venice. This is a radical solution. The higher the sea levels rise due to global warming, the higher Venice will rise with this measure. However, in this option, the buildings will be disconnected from the foundation and their originality will be partially damaged in this way. 2) Gradually raising the ground by injecting concrete under buildings and under petrified trees in Venice. For this process, it is possible to inject not only concrete but also deeper water. In this way, there will be an opportunity to temporarily save time. And since the buildings are not disconnected from the foundation, there will be no problem of originality. 3) The rise in sea level will be monitored, and the flooded ground floors will be abandoned to the sea, and Venice will be used for accommodation until the 1st and, in time, the 2nd floors are also flooded. Perhaps, 30-40 years later, all of Venice will be under water and Venice will now be an underwater historical asset, limited to diving tourism, to watching from the surface with boats suitable for sub-pancakes. While Venice gradually disappears under water over time, an imitation Venice built on concrete pontoons can be built in the lagoon, similar to the first option suitable for the Venice concept. And in this way, the Venetian spirit is somehow kept alive. In the final analysis, I am absolutely certain of that. Venice will be largely submerged before the end of the century. Historical buildings and everything in them will be destroyed due to the damage of salt water. If no recovery work is done. I am in favor of the first solution that is difficult, expensive and requires technological innovations. I want Venice to be a floating city that will exist for centuries to come, and most importantly, a living city.

[@Aces77777]

I always wondered how this city was build in the first place

[@bigalmou2261]

Oh no! Venice is sinking! Byzaboos: *Yes, very sad. Anyway...*

[@eternalriver7866]

This aged well lol. Canals empty & gondolas stuck in mud

[@elkhalilmadani5889]

Came here after the drought wave in venice.... Do i need to say more?

[@ritajingoku50]

They fought climate change to hard

[@drewg82]

I was just there. The water level was considerably lower than usual.

[@goliathyeti1669]

Well most of Europe did have a massive heat wave this summer

[@user-lb7rg3cx6w]

@@goliathyeti1669 if they have it continously for 2 decades it'll fix this

[@parrotfalkon2545]

Way too good for 8k

[@Necromonger69]

Genius, someone actually said, "let's hammer some wooden spikes into the water and place land on top of it".

[@michaellalanae7228]

What if the termites get themselves scuba tanks ?

[@DanieleLazzarini]

The 4miles MOSE project that stop High water it's tested and It work's well. It's not finish but It Will be finish for the next 100years there aren't High water problems in Venice Island.

[@ayako2850]

Guys the canals run dry for just less than 6hours and it happens every year. I promise you that already the day after the lowest tide registered it was back again as normal as always. And yes it’s still sinking even if it’s dry(for less and 6hrs) I live here

[@tmoore007]

Hmmmmm I don't think it's sinking. But I would say water or sea levels are higher or risen significantly due to climate change 🤔. This sounds more accurate.

[@lucasjames7524]

It seems like it would be better to close the three openings to the lagoon permanently, and to transform it into a freshwater lake which would be pumped out into the Adriatic, almost like a water polder. Or just move the population of the city and abandon Venice, frankly.

[@AlexJones-vq5dm]

I all ways wonderd how it was made.

[@davideghirelli5856]

Venice is here to stay, we the poeple of Veneto won't let it sink

[@edgarog1050]

Well what did they think that they weren't ever going to go under water 😮‍💨

[@toyotagaz]

Nice accent 🇿🇦

[@biggibbs4678]

We shouldn't try to control the environment so much. Coastlines change and people have to move to adapt, it's been that way for all of history.

[@JoRdi-ul4xg]

Nah

[@TheVibes101]

You're right, we should just move out all of the 600,000 people and put them somewhere else, that couldn't take more than a day or two right?

[@benmcreynolds8581]

It's too bad that there isn't a megaproject Venice could do to allow Venice to be raised like how they raised Chicago and reversed the flow of the river/lake, as well as adding large drainage systems underground.

[@thomaspowless3082]

The canals are dry. What do you mean 6 months on.

[@IndianTraditions07]

Santa Maria Della Salute is my favorite place to hangout, especially Punta di Dogano. Sad to see how tourists and the corrupted officials have spoiled Venice.

[@jonathanstultz5345]

They were saying this my all the year of my life. 65 years now.

[@ireneg4515]

well... it's been happening for all these 65 years and the situation is definetly worse now compared to the 60s. Just beacause we're not going around swimming everywhere here doesn't mean the city isn't slowly sinking

[@uhadme]

Meanwhile in Venice canals are bone dry (15MAR23)

[@ayako2850]

It happened every year it’s just tides

[@TheGlooSniffer]

It’s crazy to think one of the most famous cities in the world could become a ghost town.

[@Tttttttttttggghggffhh]

Venice was not fisherman only.. since from the start it was populated by the ancient remain of roman empire that will commerce and manufacturing

[@jec_ecart]

Injecting cement looks like most practical.

[@jozefbols4386]

I always thought that wood and water where not good together. So was it not dumb to bild on wooden stakes??? Maybe I'm dumb? haha. I find it very sorry for a lot of countries who will sink under water in time 😢.Hope people will find solutions before it's to late. XXXX Pinkie

[@Tabby3456]

How about people start callling it by its real pronunciation Venezia JUST SAY IT THAT WAY, ITS NOT THAT HARD!

[@robertobarajas4720]

At least we know where all the water is going

[@mikewa2]

The whole Mediterranean Sea is rising! There will be a need in near future to create a dam at the entrance to Mediterranean Sea at Gibraltar straits. Ice caps will speed up in defrosting causing huge damage to low lying land. Venice is just one of many important cities under threat

[@jj-nl3co]

I love how 2012 It was supposed to sink already… yet here we are

[@justinfrost1797]

Round up a massive fleet of water tanker trucks to pump a ton of water and transport it to dryer climates

[@Loganody]

The wood doesn't break down because it isn't incontact with oxygen? What is h2o again?

[@koolkatfelix9500]

Bin hearing about this for more than 8 decades! Sad!

[@jeremy9416]

"Why don't we take example from Netherlands? They are pretty good at dealing with water" "Do you say corruption and Mose ?"

[@barok7428]

Plant millions of mangroves and high yielding root trees suitable for salt water.. 🤔

[@thekraken1173]

Why though? What will it do to protect it from sinking?

[@allanallstar342]

​@@thekraken1173 mangroves mave barriers from waves and can make lagoons and they drink tons of water