One time I went to my friends cottage with him, right on the beach! So we dug a MASSIVE hole. We strated up on banks where there were small shubs and grass and no one would bother us. Made it down 8 feet and about 12 across with a ramp dug into one side. With help from my friends older brothers and their dad of course. The sand had alot of clay in it, and a mostly clay layer at the last 3 feet. We carved seats and let the clay layer fill with water and reinforced the sides with sticks and 2x4s. Around the hole was all our clay and sand, with it we made a 4 foot high wall around the hole, reinforced it with sticks, and found some plywood to put over it. It was still there 4 years later, just filled in a few feet and others had opened up the roof and made a fire pit with some makeshift chairs in the bottom. Was a fun place to go have a midnight smoke or beer with my friend when we visited after making it so long ago.
@wietzmarais29383 жыл бұрын
One VERY IMPORTANT item left out in this list is the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa. It's 4km deep and also the deepest point in the crust of the earth a human has ever been.
You have a great gift of talking very fast without sounding like it.
@brantwedel3 жыл бұрын
It's not just particularly Human, it's also particularly Canine!
@jeremiasrobinson3 жыл бұрын
I like Simon Whistler's videos and all but can someone tell the KZbin algorithm that I might ALSO be interested in some other stuff too?
@dyrcosis3 жыл бұрын
Good luck with that. According to the all knowing KZbin algorithm, once you view one type of video, that's all you want to see.
@marmac833 жыл бұрын
You could unsubscribe...
@IkaraPentiki3 жыл бұрын
Checked with the algorithm, you only like Simon Whistler.
@drewlovely26683 жыл бұрын
@@IkaraPentiki Simon only likes you ;)
@gamingidiots74953 жыл бұрын
That's his whole thing. Make so many content that it's all that it recommend.
@TSmith-yy3cc3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure that Simon makes certain videos just to threaten Danny... Simon tasked the writers to find a good spot to hide ETA's corpse.
@MrStejefferies3 жыл бұрын
I miss ETA
@adamblanchard87893 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed watching the whole hole video. You can tell that they dug deep on the research. Truly dismantled many of the sinking complications that could cause a project to be ground to a halt, overall a wholly entertaining video to help keep one grounded. I really dug it!
@IJustWantToUseMyName3 жыл бұрын
The video was a little boring, but also somewhat deep. A job well done.
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
You really drilled deep into dad jokes
@adamblanchard87893 жыл бұрын
Well, I do have 3 kids lol
@vaniapinto82143 жыл бұрын
You lost the chance to write “hole” in the ”whole video”.
@spiritofthetime3 жыл бұрын
4:28: Stalin died in 1953; Mir mine did indeed open in 1957. Therefore Stalin did not live to open the mine.
@zapfanzapfan3 жыл бұрын
"Weekend at Bernie's" then? :-)
@robinderoos11663 жыл бұрын
Zombie robot stalin did
@McChes3 жыл бұрын
Quite a lot of inaccuracies in this one. - Stalin was dead by 1957, so definitely did not open Mirny Mine. - Mirny Mine is not the largest open cast mine in the world, as there are a few copper mines that are larger (Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah for a start). - BP is not “or British Petroleum” - it has not been called “British Petroleum” since 1998, when the old British Petroleum Plc merged with Amoco Corporation (an American company, formerly known as Standard Oil Company (Indiana)) and became BP Amoco Plc; and it changed its name to BP Plc after acquiring ARCO (another American company) and Burmah Castrol (another British company) in 2001.
@lul2023 жыл бұрын
You still need to do a Megaprojects on the diamond mines in the Northern Cape and Free State, mostly because of the considerable labour ramifications but also because we need to hear mispronunciations of Bloemfontein and Simon saying "groot gat"
@marmac833 жыл бұрын
Stalin died in 1953... so the mine couldn't have been opened by Stalin in 1957.
@alm59923 жыл бұрын
He left a huge will, and the credit must go to him, not Khrushchev. lol
@greenkoopa3 жыл бұрын
Have you ever heard of the Time Displacement Theory? That's not what happened here, he's overworked and flubs it from time to time
@davyaldy763 жыл бұрын
Spot on.
@jovanweismiller71143 жыл бұрын
I was just about to point that out.
@oldleatherhandsfriends40533 жыл бұрын
Or did he?
@tinamclaughlin7052 жыл бұрын
Man can be enlighten by digging, but curiosity can be a Pandora's box. Life is precious. Simon, thanks for the info.
@IanHobday3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Chikyū (地球) is Japanese for Earth.
@robertschnobert90903 жыл бұрын
Proud weeaboo! 💜
@IanHobday3 жыл бұрын
@@robertschnobert9090 I'm a bit too old to be a weeb. Been in Japan since before anime and manga became popular in western culture and never had much interest in either.
@jacobdaus38353 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: no one fucking cares
@FLAWATN3 жыл бұрын
Deny all you want you're a Weeb
@JKTCGMV133 жыл бұрын
@@IanHobday that just makes me more curious how you ended up in japan if you’re not a weeb
@markgunn64543 жыл бұрын
Stalin really must have been a mean bigger. Opening a mine 4 years after his death.
@masaharumorimoto47613 жыл бұрын
Word! Thanks team, love all the channels & videos!!!!!!
@daveaunkst62323 жыл бұрын
How about something on Super ships. They actually have ships to transport other ships.
@nicolainielsen77003 жыл бұрын
Ship shipping shipping ships?
@ollieb98753 жыл бұрын
How many ships could a shipping ship ship if the shipping ship shipped on a shipping ship shipping ships 🤔
@AaronSmith-kr5yf3 жыл бұрын
Yeah its pretty neat. Turns out its way more economical if a Russian oligarch has his yacht moved from the south of France to the Cayman Islands on a bigger boat with a bunch of other yachts. Don't have to pay a crew and you can divide the fuel bill 15 times with the other yachts being moved by the huge ship. Plus its a good opportunity to do dry dock maintenance.
@grantjacob73273 жыл бұрын
They tend to? Binge on holes!.
@fjooyou3 жыл бұрын
Once again a topic about holes, presented by our dear Simon, place itself in the top of views.
@anarchyantz15643 жыл бұрын
YES! Have been asking for more hole videos for months! Really want to see one on Megaprojects for the longest ice hole in Antarctica (really cool that one) and Kidd mine.
@stephansteenberg57903 жыл бұрын
Hi Simon. Happy New year. I love your youtube channels. I have actually a suggestion for a Sideprojects video, maybe even a Megaprojects video. It should be about how Simon Whistler manage to produce all these videos and in such a high quality. Honestly - How do you manage it??. Best regards Stephan
@georgewilliams84483 жыл бұрын
Thank you for another interesting and informative video. Semi on the topic; the U.S. in the 60's had a ship called FLIP which was used to drill at sea. It didn't set any records but I am surprised that you didn't mention it.
@RJLbwb3 жыл бұрын
Simon talking about deep holes, it maybe a new year but something never change.
@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin3 жыл бұрын
I love watching these normal videos to try and see little glimpses of The Boy with the Blaze trying to squeeze through the cracks of the facade that is Simon Whistler. No such luck in this one though..
@Cwn413 жыл бұрын
Yes Simon. We will show up and watch you talk about holes 😂
@Whitespliff3 жыл бұрын
We love Simon's holes... wait that came out wrong ;-)
@luuksp773 жыл бұрын
Those evil sovjets ! resurrecting their dictator 4 years after his death to open a diamond mine. :-)
@marmac833 жыл бұрын
Fact check in 3,2,1...
@chitlitlah3 жыл бұрын
You need to check your facts there, buddy! The Soviets were totally benevolent.
@marmac833 жыл бұрын
Down with Democratsee
@junepaul78433 жыл бұрын
LMFAO
@robinderoos11663 жыл бұрын
@@chitlitlah yes and communists never killed hundreds of millions through starvation, concentration camps and other mismanagements. They are also known as leaders in sustainability and green tech
@miro2233 жыл бұрын
at 4:24, Stalin died in 1953
@kielbasa7373 жыл бұрын
I came here to find this comment
@johndutchman3 жыл бұрын
good on yas
@mannistef3 жыл бұрын
Yes, noticed that error too
@mikeboxall79553 жыл бұрын
Come on Simon, get your facts right!
@phoenixdundee3 жыл бұрын
@@mikeboxall7955 Maybe he didn't and Simon knows better ... eh! ... eh!
@RIlianP3 жыл бұрын
Remember, when you stare at the hole, the hole also stares back at you.
@robinderoos11663 жыл бұрын
To another abyss!
@seanwalton62083 жыл бұрын
What about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah? It's 1,210 m deep.
@Isolder743 жыл бұрын
And 2 km wide.
@moose25773 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Mir is the 2nd largest open pit mine.
@clancyjames5853 жыл бұрын
Agreed, I was looking for this one. Mir is way smaller, and not even in the top 10, contrary to Chris' comment.
@alexxxXXXrus3 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but that's not digged by 4-years after death Stalin.😂
@emmavink2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 South Africa has over 10 mines that range between 3,000 - 4,000m deep. And many more between the 1,200-3000m deep range. Bingham is terrifying because it is so big open 😳
@randyhoneycutt81533 жыл бұрын
I am constantly surprised at the number of people who give these videos a “Thumbs Down”. What is there not to like about them? And if you don’t like the video or the subject, just turn it off and watch another one. Or do some work and quit spending your time on KZbin, you slackers! Maybe they are jealous they don’t have KZbin channels, or imagination to put one together. Great videos, Simon. They never cease to inform and entertain me.
@emmavink2 жыл бұрын
Because sometimes the information is incorrect. Here he ignored the deepest mines in the world...
@Paragon6433 жыл бұрын
have mentioned it in the comments of mega project video's before but please do a video about hyper sonic flight/planes! There is a lot of cool and fun stuff to find out about it
@TheNameOfJesus3 жыл бұрын
@4:30, depending on the latitude of the mine (which is over 62 degrees North) and the slope of the hole, the southern face of the hole may not see any sunlight at any time of the day or even at any time of the year. This means that it will take extra months before the winter snow accumulation melts. I remember a place in Manitoba (around 50 degrees north), devoid of most sunlight due to heavy vegetation, where the snow didn't melt until late June or early July. The North pole is 90 degrees north. And 90-62=28, so when you add the Tropic's latitude, 23 degrees, to 28, you get 51 degrees from the vertical. So if the slope of the mine is over 39 degrees from the horizontal, (90-51=39) then one slice of it will never see sunlight. It looks to be at least that steep from visual inspection in this video. The Google Earth elevation data doesn't say anything about the elevation of the slopes of this mine. If someone from Mirny reads this comment, please tell us what time of the year the snow melts along the south side of this pit.
@Mr3000-Ghost3 жыл бұрын
Always a gem Simon! Love the channels 🥰
@justinwilliam46443 жыл бұрын
At first I'm like "this guy has another channel!?!?", now I'm like, "YES, ANOTHER CHANNEL FROM SIMON!!!!!"
@matthewfalter63663 жыл бұрын
This video is going about as good as his interview. Love ya bud.
@nikolaaswright60283 жыл бұрын
I heard that the Rideau Canal in Ottawa Canada was a super interestng megaproject! Vote Canada!
@mattb23823 жыл бұрын
Been trying to get that one done for a long time now.
@MarielaQue3 жыл бұрын
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
@Lord_Foxy133 жыл бұрын
It's awesome
@devonhorne45893 жыл бұрын
Canada sucks
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
. Take off, eh. Ya hoser. We are awesome. Go Canada 🇨🇦
@spookerd3 жыл бұрын
I was a hole digging kid and this video is what I've been waiting for!
@eddiehardt12603 жыл бұрын
I made a pretty deep hole in the sandbox when I was a kid. However, when my dog saw what I was doing, she decided to join in, but by digging another hole...right across from the one I was digging and filling mine in...
@jjohnsengraciesmom3 жыл бұрын
Lol that's funny. But that's what they do , and they are good at it.
@--enyo--3 жыл бұрын
You completely glossed over the very real threat posed by disturbing the mole people.
@viennapalace3 жыл бұрын
As Troy McClure said, "Holes define who we are & where we're going"...
@vichickerson72003 жыл бұрын
Drum roll Clash.. Love your vids bud.
@nathanj31143 жыл бұрын
I heat my house with dinosaur farts and run my truck with dinosaur bodies.
@midlifeduck70403 жыл бұрын
Suggestion for a video Lake Pleasant dam AKA Hank Raymond dam Peoria Arizona. Two separate dams built. I believe one in the 30's and one in the late 80's early 90's. Part of the Central Arizona Project AKA CAP ( also a good video suggestion ) there are some interesting surprises in this story for your writer to find. I look forward to seeing your crew do this story justice.
@TheNighthawk003 жыл бұрын
Idea for new video: the most devastating floods in history
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
Done it
@mattb23823 жыл бұрын
The Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada gets my vote. The city of Ottawa is a pretty good story too. From a logging town to Canada's capital. 🇨🇦
@nikolaaswright60283 жыл бұрын
Would be a good geographic's!
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
Go Canada. If he doesn't do it he can take off, eh. The hoser. Coo roo coo coo coo coo coo coo. 🇨🇦
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
I'd like him to do the St Lawrence Seaway as well.
@keithprice47113 жыл бұрын
Anything Canadian would be cool now, as a neighbor to the south, living in Boston, I'd be interested in hearing about the ships explosion during WW1 in Halifax
@sandybarnes8873 жыл бұрын
@@keithprice4711 he's done the Halifax explosion. Here ya go. And thank you, Boston, for the help. Enjoy the Christmas tree. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mojWapRvl6utpZY
@andrewturner84913 жыл бұрын
We need more videos on holes please
@mickaka3 жыл бұрын
That feeling of relief when #1 isn’t your mum.
@1uxoweaver3 жыл бұрын
I like watch you. You cover so interesting subjects.
@pobg3 жыл бұрын
No mom jokes in the comments section, my how we have matured.
@dahlmasen30843 жыл бұрын
LOL!
@pobg3 жыл бұрын
@Perceus Us not quite
@DasVideoArchiv3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, because your mom is already joke enough. Had to bring the exeption, to prove the rule
@pakde80023 жыл бұрын
You must have been incredibly early.
@sashakazmar61423 жыл бұрын
We haven’t. We keep most of “yo momma” jokes for the Business Blaze:)
@kimirikscreations3 жыл бұрын
Oh hey look, Simon on my KZbin homepage again. With a new channel? Shocking.
@jesusbeloved39533 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Thanks!
@twilightgryphon2 жыл бұрын
Me immediately upon finishing this video: Dammit. *Sighs and goes to boot up Minecraft to dig a big hole for the sake of digging a big hole*
@joethemariner3 жыл бұрын
Damn you Simon. Why do you make the content I already know the answer to AND STILL WATCH COMPLETELY? AARGGGGHHHHH!
@VodkaSelekta3 жыл бұрын
Next you should make a documentary on the duggest holes ever deeped
@nmcgunagle3 жыл бұрын
That was soooo clever
@travisg22243 жыл бұрын
Just an idea, I know you have roughly 437 channels that you run, and idk which of those this would fit into. It would be interesting to learn about companies, like how they started and things about their past, and impact. Like IBM with the Nazis, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Chase, BP, SpaceX, Hugo Boss, Coca Cola, Hershey's, Volkswagen,etc. Idk if it would have to involve a lot of "allegedly" but just an idea.
@ChadWilson3 жыл бұрын
YES! More videos on holes!
@TheEvilCommenter3 жыл бұрын
Good video 👍
@mikebar423 жыл бұрын
I thought u did a video on the super boring bore hole already 🤣 I suggest that hole that doesn't begin on ground level... That hole I'm digging to the Moon! 👷
@jacksoncronin95403 жыл бұрын
You had me at holes.
@jinxjenkins51433 жыл бұрын
BP is not an abbreviation for British Petroleum. It is the name that was chosen for the emalgumation of said British Petroleum and AMOCO (American Oil Company) in 1998. After another couple of aquisitions it became BP inc in 2001. All operations in the US (and indeed in many other countries) continued to operate in their own ways with same BP logo. Harmonisation of management, methodology, safety and risk assessment etc. had not been considered, let alone implemented. I say this as an independent consultant oil and gas exploration engineer, who was called out to Houston in 2010. The cause of it all was a bad call by the "company man" on the rig, who chose to try and save money by using the technigue of long well completion. All signs of impending disaster were ignored or overridden. A huge oil and gas service company named Schlumberger immediately chartered a chopper for their employees to evacuate after the guys on the rig called in with their concerns. No persons of British nationality were involved in any of this. Obumma used the name wrongfully in an attempt to shift the blame.
@emmavink2 жыл бұрын
... BP is most certainly the abbreviation for British Petroleum. It's just not the same company responsible for Deep Water Horizon.
@jinxjenkins51432 жыл бұрын
@@emmavink And.......? Who the f@ck was AMOCO?
@emmavink2 жыл бұрын
@@jinxjenkins5143 ... AMOCO is the brand name of a group of petrol stations owned by BP...
@redheads6043 жыл бұрын
BP: I'm sorry. *lying naked on a rug* We're sorry
@JoeWuhPuh3 жыл бұрын
Simon heard someone say "Any hole's a goal" and took a different meaning from it
@danielcollins17243 жыл бұрын
Ha
@bullie863 жыл бұрын
@sideprojects why is the black border around my phone screen flashing? It’s only on your videos and only at the parts where Simon is talking in the camera. Also it’s gotta be really dark to see it...
@carston1013 жыл бұрын
5:00 "but digging holes doesn't have to start at ground level, or even on the ground level at all" You sure about that Simon? /s
@michaelpipkin99423 жыл бұрын
We got in so much trouble. Behind my garage we decided to dig a hole until my parents told us to stop. It took 4 months for them to find out what we had done. We got in a lot of trouble.....
@francisboyle17393 жыл бұрын
SG-3. "Hey Sergey , are you sure this is how you build stargate?"
@That0Homeless0Guy3 жыл бұрын
0:20 Why do you attack me so personally Simon?
@nnm_kco3 жыл бұрын
suggestion for future video: drillings that went wrong
@mikegrazick17953 жыл бұрын
You dug yourself into this one!
@russellhenderson8003 жыл бұрын
What about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. It's one of the largest open pit mines in the world. You could also do a mega projects video on the Caterpillar 797F dump truck.
@qkitselectronics54153 жыл бұрын
8:30 please do a video on Japan's pictures of the moon landing sites, who makes better camera lenses then them? Thoose will be some good pictures, looking forward to watching that video! Also, do one on Indias moon landing pictures from their spacecraft, that will also be a good one. Can't wait.
@u0aol13 жыл бұрын
Was expecting a lot more 'your mum' jokes to be honest
@SymbioteMullet3 жыл бұрын
Come on, this isn't business blaze!
@twincast20053 жыл бұрын
1:05 Huh? Did De Beers get to you, Simon? Blink thrice if you're in danger. #DiamondsAreAScam
@emmavink2 жыл бұрын
No. Diamonds as jewelry are a scam. Diamonds for INDUSTRIAL USE as he clearly specified, are extremely useful.
@johnbarber45493 жыл бұрын
As you go through life, make this your goal, Watch the doughnut not the hole.
@rizzzv3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the wise words, kind Sir.
@johnbarber45493 жыл бұрын
@@rizzzv it's an old Burl Ives song I had on a record when I was a child. I can't remember the rest of the words.
@DjWesRolan2 жыл бұрын
We were heavily impacted by the oil from Deepwater Horizon. Still seeing oil wash up. They also dumped thousands of gallons of Corexit here 😢
@myownirvana3 жыл бұрын
The deepest hole is the one in my soul.
@marcbeebee69693 жыл бұрын
You need some dose of business blaze my brother
@johnbarber45493 жыл бұрын
Hope you get better.
@--enyo--3 жыл бұрын
Care emoji
@ephemeralvapor80643 жыл бұрын
So you're very holy ... Got it. ;)
@johnnamorton67443 жыл бұрын
I don't know uf it would be.a side project topic but have you thought about the project to escivate Alexandria or the investigation into the Golden Spirals of Romania
@reed_reed3 жыл бұрын
I'm so hungover I just threw up in my mouth but I'm still watching this
@robertschnobert90903 жыл бұрын
Stop abusing drugs! Say NO! 💜
@reed_reed3 жыл бұрын
If I was abusing drugs Simon could make a whole new channel about me
@JeremyDWanhill3 жыл бұрын
I was expecting the mine in South Africa to be in here
@SgtSpiedkop3 жыл бұрын
Me 2
@michagrill94323 жыл бұрын
Holy cow this is a deep episode
@shrazer66942 жыл бұрын
The masculine urge to dig deeper
@MikeCera13 жыл бұрын
Simon my man, can you please also use freedom units along with the metric units???
@joejacobsen68222 жыл бұрын
Dude... Learn, like the rest of the world did.
@Kadeo-ms6qw3 жыл бұрын
I love it how the 4th most viewed video on MegaProjects is about a hole
@MrNeptunebob3 жыл бұрын
I was going to suggest as a side project the tunnels along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, first bored in 1940 and later one twinned and bypassed and how they were dug and how they are managed. Now there is a plan to bypass another tunnel and doing so will damage the environment when another tunnel could simply be bored and other countries have successful long tunnels.
@michaelthomas28043 жыл бұрын
This is how you get Balrogs, people.
@A._is_for3 жыл бұрын
I came for the yo mama joke but y'all are too wholesome.
@stephss3 жыл бұрын
If we all ran on geothermal energy, imagine how different things could be. Cleaner air and lack of pollution is just the start.
@katelynnblatt96143 жыл бұрын
yes another video about holes, but not the ones that matter Simon, LOL
@AlohaMilton3 жыл бұрын
The lifeguard thing, yep me too.
@jameslmorehead3 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for an ex-girlfriend joke at the end, but all we got was Simon crapping on the oil and gas industry.
@SymbioteMullet3 жыл бұрын
Simon does have at least a small amount of class. At least, when he's not doing a business blaze video.
@emmavink2 жыл бұрын
Ew. Not cool.
@LearnByDoingGarage3 жыл бұрын
Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest copper mines in the world until it closed, now the mine is filled with water
@PoeRacing3 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia, Simon Whistler channels recommend you!
@Isolder743 жыл бұрын
You didn't mention the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine.
@KrouseJacques3 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, the Mir Mine (Russia) does not deserve to be on this list/video. There are many other mines that are much larger/deeper, such as: - Bingham Canyon Copper Mine (USA) - Mponeng Gold Mine (South Africa) (just to name a few) Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the video... keep it up!
@danw.12503 жыл бұрын
Do one on Vanguard and Blackrock and how many of the world's total wealth piea these two firms have their fingers in.
@jacobchand6463 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the Kennecott copper mine in Utah.
@beefwellington4803 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail is a lil suggestive, what hole is that hand encouraging?
@jasonwilde1973 жыл бұрын
Holes. They both contain mystery, and unveil it.
@theodorbean26043 жыл бұрын
'Opened by Stalin in 1957' Impressive for a man that died in 1953