Norway: Eiksund Tunnel - the world's deepest undersea tunnel

[@iamthepole723]

Norway is such a beautiful country, would love to visit

[@JJAcrosstheUSA]

Now THAT is a tunnel! Very cool, thanks for sharing that!!

[@zeus433]

What if your car breaks down in the middle though

[@stomper739]

Maybe handbrake?

[@PriyaCreationsFun]

Lol I was thinking same

[@vinnygeand6623]

Then your ducked

[@SovereignStatesman]

@SumOfIt You call a TOW TRUCK, derrp. I'm sure they have Wi-fi in the tunnel.

[@SwitchbackSylveon]

There's probably some emergency phones to call a tow truck

[@Magnet--bx8uz]

Thanks, it really reminds me the Westerscheldetunnel in the Nederlands exept for the two-way tunnel, two-way seems a lot cheaper than two tunnels. Westerschelde was a lot more expensive, till today it is a toll road. Also thanks for the music. Greetings.

[@robsuekin15]

Thank you for sharing Norwegian roads are fascinating

[@alexanderblohme5044]

They are shitty as hell and VERY insecure! It’s a deathwish driving on these roads, still the government wont build new highways

[@ВалентинаХрульова]

Трансляція хороша.пісня оптимістична і звучить класно.а природа просто чудесна.

[@DemonBird]

Absolutely fantastic scenery! And cool tunnel

[@pedrito77]

WOW! What an amazing video. What amazing views and what a crazy tunnel. Your videos just make me want to quit my job and go travel. Meanwhile, thanks a lot for posting them! Greetings from California!

[@EuropeanRoads]

You need a job to pay for traveling ;-)

[@pedrito77]

Lol! That's true!

[@Wesso1986]

There is no need to have a job to be able to travel, when you live in certain countries... ;-)

[@sindraygd7787]

Cock ;-)

[@adriyanriyan961]

Omlafjord Tunnels

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

A 8% grade in a tunnel really is quite something. It seems it would be pretty easy to get going pretty fast after such a long descent.

[@konradjozef9305]

There was a terrible accident some years ago. 8 % is actually too steep and difficult for Heavy trucks

[@runarandersen878]

I don't think 8 % would be allowed with to day, i Norway/EU. So it would either be longer or not at all.

[@CaptainBreny]

@@runarandersen878 5% grade is max on main land, but 7% max in underwater tunnels. Eiksundtunnelen is 9,6% at its steepest. its crimminal. Took me a long time to get to the top with my semi.

[@buddyclem7328]

Great tunnel, and great video! The tunnels are my favorite!

[@theroadexplorer6593]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@RajeshBanerjeester]

Nice video.. Thanks for sharing..👍😀

[@EASYTIGER10]

Dunno if anyone else feels like this, but tunnels with steep slopes feel more claustrophobic to me. You feel like you're descending into oblivion, never to return!

[@buddyclem7328]

I think it's cool, like a mine you can drive through. I would totally drive through a gold mine or a deep salt mine, given the chance, as long as rain wasn't in the forecast.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

Wish I knew of that tunnel before my vacation. But at least I drove through the North Cape Tunnel, which is one of the longest in Norway.

[@EuropeanRoads]

The North Cape Tunnel is 6.9 km long. However, Norway also has the Lærdal Tunnel which is no less than 24.5 kilometers long.

[@wohlhabendermanager]

Well, guess I will have to go back to Norway one day. :)

[@wohlhabendermanager]

It was pretty long, though. And so steep! It was quite something to climb it going 80km/h in 3rd gear, haha.

[@stuinNorway]

The tunnel loses it's claim as the worlds deepest undersea road tunnel next year when "Ryfast" opens from Stavanger under Gandsfjord (this will also be the worlds longest subsea road tunnel on opening, 14.3km longest tunnel section and 290m depth) but that will again be passed when "Rogfast" opens a few years later.

[@stomper739]

@@Weakypedia_ Because of all the huge mountains and fjords in Western Norway

[@TransCanadaPhil]

That little blue line inside the tunnel to show sea level is pretty neat. Is that some kind of neon light?

[@Ali-ry2ed]

Yup it’s just a normal Neon light but there’s way more to Norway than this. Try glacier hiking etc also you’ve got cave tunnels where you will see roundabouts and shit loads of Neon lights 😅

[@schwenda3727]

I thought a somewhat local at-grade divided Highway with DEEP rock cuts in my neck of the woods (Route M in Jefferson County MO, USA) was as over the top as a county/secondary highway could possibly go until I saw this. Nicely done, Chris much less Norwegian road planners…

[@nachogonzalez5258]

Muy buen video

[@michaels612]

Beautiful views

[@कर्णवीरभुरसे]

Beautiful scene and music also Congratulation for you! From India

[@simooh7862]

Wow!! Wonderful, very amazing

[@FreewayAllan]

The tunnel is very nice and good road!

[@superkee7217]

good road? Didnt you see all the holes in the road at start? :o

[@fortytwocrayons3485]

When you emerge from the tunnel and fly over the bridge and water 🤌🏼💋

[@ferkelchen1986]

I'm so glad I discovered your videos! I can watch safely at home great roads, beautiful landscapes and tunnels like this one! Thanks a lot! :) I also like the song so much! Are you driving by car?

[@realDonXeon]

two way traffic...no meridian.....what a nightmare...what kind of block head designed this?

[@jinglemyberries866]

politicians of course... who else?

[@alexanderblohme5044]

Its now beaten by Ryfast which is 14km long

[@itishreedash2275]

Really norway is the living paradise in earth...

[@Ace_of_hearts1]

I Agree... Please become interested to reply me...😊

[@lokefterlok]

How come?

[@sindraygd7787]

@@lokefterlok because of cock

[@lokefterlok]

@@sindraygd7787 u are not from norway

[@joe.m8430]

The Creator bruh fuckoff no one will ever be

[@Glenni91N]

One thing I don't understand though, is why they didn't make this tunnel 3 lanes. Like the Bømlafjord tunnel, which is Norway's ( and the world's) second deepest, at 263 m. That one has one lane inbound, while two outbound, letting people overtake slow moving trucks, etc.

[@ExorFILMS]

This one has that too, the other direction.

[@Glenni91N]

Yeah, but only in one. Bømlafjord tunnel is pretty much 3 all the way.

[@stuinNorway]

It will depend on the expected traffic flow. If the flow is sufficiently low that overtaking using the oncoming lane is safe, then the 3rd lane simply adds cost with little extra benefit. I'll agree it's preferable, but adds a huge amount on cost if not needed.

[@Noi5ee]

Overtaking a truck in the oncoming lane on a 8% grade uphill with the typical norwegian car/engine combo (1,6 115hk diesel on a 1,6ton station wagon) is not safe regardless of traffic amount IMO. Its just typical penny pinching from Vegvesen and politicians , same reason why we still don't have a decent road connecting any cities, and tons of stupid compromises done in road constructions, like 2 lane roads with center divider but no overtaking lane for 10-15 or more km, motorway exits where the right most lane suddenly becomes the exit (incentivizeing left lane hogging), etc..

[@sindraygd7787]

Glenni Hey i am norwegian and i know why, belive me. IT'S BECAUSE NORWAY IS STUPID! AND I'M NOT BEING SARCASTIC!! ALMOST NO ROADS IN NORWAY HAVE 3 LANES!! I'M TELLING YOU! NORWAY IS STUPID! EVEN THOUGH I'M NORWEGIAN MYSELF!

[@TheCloakedTiger]

And here Norway wants to build a tunnel longer than that and FLOATING underwater at 16 miles off the coast!!! :O

[@adriyanriyan961]

Jika Anda pergi.

[@carlesmoreu5018]

A speed camera at the tunnel catch you

[@superkee7217]

it does on everycar so past the camera :p

[@LeeAnne1990]

Why did they choose this music

[@moskito5864]

Norway is sooooo beautiful, just a bit too cold in wintertime and wintertime is from August to Mai i heard :D :D :D ♥ SCANDINAVIA ♥ ...greetings from Asia

[@stomper739]

Yeah its May right now and in the mountains its still winter and meters with snow here i Norway

[@moskito5864]

@@stomper739 wanna change? i am living in Phuket and would be happy to see some snow again...airline cancelled my flight back to Europe..shit Corona ;)

[@stomper739]

@@moskito5864 In my city We only have snow one week in january. If you want to live with snow you need to live in the inner parts of Western Norway

[@BarrieBusesandTrains]

Wonder what song you used for the intro? Sounds alot like Modern Talking to me. :)

[@EuropeanRoads]

Yes it is. It's the intro of "Geronimo's Cadillac".

[@pokedmondude]

Is it true that they build this kind of tunnels so the bridges wont screw the beautiful landscape.

[@EuropeanRoads]

The fjords are very deep so bridges are often not an option, or very expensive. In this case the minimum span needed would be longer than the world's longest suspension bridge. As you can see the 1 billion NOK / $ 120 million figure is quite low for this tunnel and the other tunnels and bridge on this link.

[@Glenni91N]

We're trying to plan for crossings such as the Sognefjord crossing, which will be well over, 3 km wide, if we can build a bridge, we'll build a bridge, if we can build a tunnel, we can build a tunnel, but it'll have to be floating and anchored. the sognefjord is well over 900m deep. We don't even know how deep some of the other fjords are. That's the kind of mysteries we need to deal with in Norway.

[@konradjozef9305]

Sognefjord is 1000 meters deep and 4 km wide. A suspension bridge would need 500 meters tall towers (or more), more than twice that of the Golden Gate.

[@trr9230]

Or...we should just say fuck it and keep the ferries.

[@stomper739]

@@trr9230 yeah

[@SuperAna1954]

Amazing

[@thunderstormvideosblx7683]

Indrukwekkende tunnel! Noorwegen, het land van de tunnels. Dat is iets wat we wel kunnen stellen denk ik!

[@moskito5864]

are you sure it was 110 Million Euros ONLY? i consider this pretty cheap for the prices they are having usually in Norway

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

€12000 per meter is the average for Norwegian tunnels. This one was slightly tougher at €13750, still 1.5% below budget. Reason why we can be sure is because the whole project went though an evaluation after the fact using OECD standard of measurement. The conclusion was a very successful project where business between the regions connected by the tunnel increased by 20%. It has paid itself many times already. They hope to achieve the same making E39 ferry free from Kristiansand to Trondheim. A project with a budget of €40bn. Take a look at this if you haven't already: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnS3Xnmrp6uJgrM

[@gokcegokce6406]

Harika doğaya saygı,kendine saygı, yaşama saygı, keşke tüm dünya insanları saygılı olsa.

[@zoaybk]

You just relax and drink lots of sea water

[@aterr]

my ears would be hurting so bad lmao

[@jeffreynelson2660]

Are there any videos showing how this was built?

[@mikeymike4402]

That's what I was thinking too. It boggles my mind how you can build something like this.

[@sindraygd7787]

@@mikeymike4402 cock

[@superkee7217]

no there arent any vidoe of that

[@pietroseven8228]

In my country we are not able to finish tunnel after 27 years only 7km long, the costs are now higher than anything else ;)

[@jinglemyberries866]

you should hire some norwegians or swiss or austrians hehe

[@williamlovelock-dodos5772]

most cars don't go 80 in 2nd gear lad

[@andrelot]

IS it my impression of even the excavated rest areas in the tunnel don't have a fire/smoke safe room?

[@Glenni91N]

They do usually contain small fire safe rooms, with an emergency telephone, bu they're not very big, and they usually don't lead to any escape routes.

[@stuinNorway]

Escape routes under a fjord might be a challenge . . open the hatch and flood the tunnel . . well it would put out any fire I guess.

[@Noi5ee]

AFAIK if this where build today they would make it a dual tube with escape tunnels connecting them every so many meters. Norwegian road administration did a lot of weird(sometimes dangerous) compromises when designing new roads until very recently, they have gotten much better in recent years i feel.

[@enkrypt3d]

looks like the UK's potash mines are deeper under the sea.... 1100 meters.

[@jinglemyberries866]

this isnt a mine

[@utahdan231]

Wow! Scary tunnel, not for me. The cost was 110 millions euros only ? For that kind of money union companies built only 5 miles of regular road in Illinois.

[@bertiewooster4043]

This tunnel is built by Norwegian union workers. US unions are not like labor unions elsewhere. In Norway, the unions are anchored to the labor party and are organized in a national union of unions. The unions are a big force in Norwegian politics and have none of the bullshit seen with US unions.

[@Andrew-qb3oq]

ya same here... we just got a very plain replacement bridge. and was $250 million

[@sindraygd7787]

utahdan231 Norway doesn't use euros... Norway uses kroners...

[@jeanluccouture9088]

We, the people, hate videos with no narration

[@johnrafael322]

oh sh*t that tunnel is very fuck*ng curious

[@justw4lkbesideme]

Nice

[@hugocastro7218]

Nossa,que lugar lindo

[@NicklynChristensen]

beautiful video, Ive also produce a video of me and my husband driving a motorbike through the second bridge of Penang, It was amazing and the longest bridge we've been on.

[@AnkitKumar-vl8lp]

Green nature 😍😍😍😍😍👈

[@richyehv8260]

Eiksund van al dat geld zouden wij in Brabant zeggen

[@wantosuciptonugrohopurwoke5618]

Wow Sisi Terang 😱

[@nolantherailfan5048]

Its also the deepest road tunnel in the world

[@adriyanriyan961]

Balasan Terowongan Omlafjord!

[@ridley407]

Is it free or do you have to pay for it ?

[@EuropeanRoads]

It was a toll road until 2014. It became toll-free once the debt was paid off, which was 9 years ahead of schedule.

[@superkee7217]

We had to pay when it did open, but ppl was using more then they did belived, so they paid down the tunnel in 8 years. So its free now for driving through

[@DavidColex]

In Croatia we still pay for tunnels that were built in 1979.

[@pauls.1510]

Tunnels without Emergency exits...

[@veritasman]

LOOKS LIKE SWITZERLAND THOU ... BEAUTIFUL COUNTRIES

[@scilvaskhumbongmayum3797]

Song please

[@khadijagwen]

Impossible geology. :)

[@superkee7217]

a crazy one, is to deep

[@iPhone-wn3wb]

Wow cool! But that bad music was annoying lmao

[@Deadpooltx]

Who sings that song?

[@buddyclem7328]

Raymond S 4:09 Red 7

[@sindraygd7787]

Er det noen norske folk her? 😁

[@martinejallat5206]

Bonjour que c'est magnifique Martine Gérardmer Vosges France🌲🏞💞

[@Ace_of_hearts1]

Same is built in India Near Kolkata 🇮🇳

[@victortschernow4541]

Да это парадис

[@victortschernow4541]

Ездил на дафе 6 лет все дороги

[@mnmufid]

I don't like the music

[@Po-hd8yn]

RLL

[@itachiuchiha9890]

aVrUpA bİzİ kIsKaNıYoR

[@spbalance]

2:07 racist af

[@scaniarig5149]

Sorry, this video does not run in Germany. But I know this tunnel

[@EuropeanRoads]

Dang, that's too bad. I thought the KZbin issue in Germany was resolved a while back?

[@oldsqldma]

Actually it plays well in Germany. I'm not so sure why Scaniarig couldn't do so.

[@scaniarig5149]

oldsqldma + European Roads Sorry, but it does not run. "Dieses Video ist nicht verfügbar"

[@jarlsbergosten]

Scaniarig same issue for me (Norway)

[@EuropeanRoads]

It may not be viewable on certain mobile devices. KZbin is very un-transparent about that, it varies by country. I can watch it on a mobile phone and tablet in the Netherlands.

[@IntellectualKetchup]

★ 2:04 SEA LEVEL not see curvature (notice the blue lights). The earth is flat and tunnel builders do not need to account for curvature. Happy awakenings!! PEACE. :)