The Deepest Holes Ever Dug

[@wietzmarais2938]

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.

[@mcoffroadinaz4075]

Mans' fascination with holes... imagine that.

[@pakde8002]

Easy sailor

[@kelceyc1509]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Free_Krazy]

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.

[@hydorah]

Holes: Can be quite a deep topic

[@WhatWhy42]

Get your head out of the gutter 😉

[@kineticdeath]

did you watch the hole thing?

[@ChungusTheHumongous]

Bada-boom-boom-tsssss 🤣

[@Jason.W.]

Holy

[@curseofthegreat]

Business Blaze worthy

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Kola superdeep borehole 3:35 - Chapter 2 - Mir mine 5:00 - Chapter 3 - Chikyu 6:45 - Chapter 4 - Deepwater horizon

[@jeremiasrobinson]

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?

[@dyrcosis]

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.

[@marmac83]

You could unsubscribe...

[@IkaraPentiki]

Checked with the algorithm, you only like Simon Whistler.

[@drewlovely2668]

@@IkaraPentiki Simon only likes you ;)

[@gamingidiots7495]

That's his whole thing. Make so many content that it's all that it recommend.

[@McChes]

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.

[@spiritofthetime]

4:28: Stalin died in 1953; Mir mine did indeed open in 1957. Therefore Stalin did not live to open the mine.

[@zapfanzapfan]

"Weekend at Bernie's" then? :-)

[@robinderoos1166]

Zombie robot stalin did

[@marmac83]

Stalin died in 1953... so the mine couldn't have been opened by Stalin in 1957.

[@alm5992]

He left a huge will, and the credit must go to him, not Khrushchev. lol

[@greenkoopa]

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

[@davyaldy76]

Spot on.

[@jovanweismiller7114]

I was just about to point that out.

[@oldleatherhandsfriends4053]

Or did he?

[@brantwedel]

It's not just particularly Human, it's also particularly Canine!

[@miro223]

at 4:24, Stalin died in 1953

[@kielbasa737]

I came here to find this comment

[@johndutchman]

good on yas

[@mannistef]

Yes, noticed that error too

[@mikeboxall7955]

Come on Simon, get your facts right!

[@phoenixdundee]

@@mikeboxall7955 Maybe he didn't and Simon knows better ... eh! ... eh!

[@tyroberts2261]

You have a great gift of talking very fast without sounding like it.

[@adamblanchard8789]

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!

[@IJustWantToUseMyName]

The video was a little boring, but also somewhat deep. A job well done.

[@pakde8002]

You really drilled deep into dad jokes

[@adamblanchard8789]

Well, I do have 3 kids lol

[@vaniapinto8214]

You lost the chance to write “hole” in the ”whole video”.

[@IanHobday]

Fun fact: Chikyū (地球) is Japanese for Earth.

[@robertschnobert9090]

Proud weeaboo! 💜

[@IanHobday]

@@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.

[@jacobdaus3835]

Fun Fact: no one fucking cares

[@FLAWATN]

Deny all you want you're a Weeb

[@JKTCGMV13]

@@IanHobday that just makes me more curious how you ended up in japan if you’re not a weeb

[@daveaunkst6232]

How about something on Super ships. They actually have ships to transport other ships.

[@nicolainielsen7700]

Ship shipping shipping ships?

[@ollieb9875]

How many ships could a shipping ship ship if the shipping ship shipped on a shipping ship shipping ships 🤔

[@AaronSmith-kr5yf]

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.

[@grantjacob7327]

They tend to? Binge on holes!.

[@mickaka]

That feeling of relief when #1 isn’t your mum.

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

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.

[@MrStejefferies]

I miss ETA

[@tinamclaughlin705]

Man can be enlighten by digging, but curiosity can be a Pandora's box. Life is precious. Simon, thanks for the info.

[@markgunn6454]

Stalin really must have been a mean bigger. Opening a mine 4 years after his death.

[@seanwalton6208]

What about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah? It's 1,210 m deep.

[@Isolder74]

And 2 km wide.

[@moose2577]

Yeah. Mir is the 2nd largest open pit mine.

[@clancyjames585]

Agreed, I was looking for this one. Mir is way smaller, and not even in the top 10, contrary to Chris' comment.

[@alexxxXXXrus]

Sorry, but that's not digged by 4-years after death Stalin.😂

[@emmavink]

😂😂😂 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 😳

[@lul202]

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"

[@viennapalace]

As Troy McClure said, "Holes define who we are & where we're going"...

[@nikolaaswright6028]

I heard that the Rideau Canal in Ottawa Canada was a super interestng megaproject! Vote Canada!

[@mattb2382]

Been trying to get that one done for a long time now.

[@MarielaQue]

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@Lord_Foxy13]

It's awesome

[@devonhorne4589]

Canada sucks

[@sandybarnes887]

. Take off, eh. Ya hoser. We are awesome. Go Canada 🇨🇦

[@eddiehardt]

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...

[@jjohnsengraciesmom]

Lol that's funny. But that's what they do , and they are good at it.

[@RIlianP]

Remember, when you stare at the hole, the hole also stares back at you.

[@robinderoos1166]

To another abyss!

[@pobg]

No mom jokes in the comments section, my how we have matured.

[@dahlmasen3084]

LOL!

[@pobg]

@Perceus Us not quite

[@DasVideoArchiv]

Yeah, because your mom is already joke enough. Had to bring the exeption, to prove the rule

[@pakde8002]

You must have been incredibly early.

[@ChungusTheHumongous]

We haven’t. We keep most of “yo momma” jokes for the Business Blaze:)

[@fjooyou]

Once again a topic about holes, presented by our dear Simon, place itself in the top of views.

[@TheNameOfJesus]

@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.

[@luuksp77]

Those evil sovjets ! resurrecting their dictator 4 years after his death to open a diamond mine. :-)

[@marmac83]

Fact check in 3,2,1...

[@chitlitlah]

You need to check your facts there, buddy! The Soviets were totally benevolent.

[@marmac83]

Down with Democratsee

[@junepaul7843]

LMFAO

[@robinderoos1166]

@@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

[@nathanj3114]

I heat my house with dinosaur farts and run my truck with dinosaur bodies.

[@RJLbwb]

Simon talking about deep holes, it maybe a new year but something never change.

[@johnbarber4549]

As you go through life, make this your goal, Watch the doughnut not the hole.

[@rizzzv]

Thank you for the wise words, kind Sir.

[@johnbarber4549]

@@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.

[@Paragon643]

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

[@randyhoneycutt8153]

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.

[@emmavink]

Because sometimes the information is incorrect. Here he ignored the deepest mines in the world...

[@Mr3000-Ghost]

Always a gem Simon! Love the channels 🥰

[@--enyo--]

You completely glossed over the very real threat posed by disturbing the mole people.

[@justinwilliam4644]

At first I'm like "this guy has another channel!?!?", now I'm like, "YES, ANOTHER CHANNEL FROM SIMON!!!!!"

[@theodorbean2604]

'Opened by Stalin in 1957' Impressive for a man that died in 1953

[@masaharumorimoto4761]

Word! Thanks team, love all the channels & videos!!!!!!

[@anarchyantz1564]

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.

[@TheGhostOfFredZeppelin]

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..

[@Isolder74]

You didn't mention the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine.

[@JeremyDWanhill]

I was expecting the mine in South Africa to be in here

[@SgtSpiedkop]

Me 2

[@TheNighthawk00]

Idea for new video: the most devastating floods in history

[@pakde8002]

Done it

[@myownirvana]

The deepest hole is the one in my soul.

[@marcbeebee6969]

You need some dose of business blaze my brother

[@johnbarber4549]

Hope you get better.

[@--enyo--]

Care emoji

[@ephemeralvapor8064]

So you're very holy ... Got it. ;)

[@matthewfalter6366]

This video is going about as good as his interview. Love ya bud.

[@georgewilliams8448]

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.

[@spookerd]

I was a hole digging kid and this video is what I've been waiting for!

[@jinxjenkins5143]

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.

[@emmavink]

... BP is most certainly the abbreviation for British Petroleum. It's just not the same company responsible for Deep Water Horizon.

[@jinxjenkins5143]

@@emmavink And.......? Who the f@ck was AMOCO?

[@emmavink]

@@jinxjenkins5143 ... AMOCO is the brand name of a group of petrol stations owned by BP...

[@vichickerson7200]

Drum roll Clash.. Love your vids bud.

[@1uxoweaver]

I like watch you. You cover so interesting subjects.

[@strikebeam2344]

You forgot one. Chapter five: Your mom. “Your mom has one of the deepest holes ever dug by mankind, and to this day remains a historic landmark and designated a UNESCO world heritage site in 2021.”

[@michaelthomas2804]

This is how you get Balrogs, people.

[@andrewturner8491]

We need more videos on holes please

[@shrazer6694]

The masculine urge to dig deeper

[@redheads604]

BP: I'm sorry. *lying naked on a rug* We're sorry

[@That0Homeless0Guy]

0:20 Why do you attack me so personally Simon?

[@Cwn41]

Yes Simon. We will show up and watch you talk about holes 😂

[@Whitespliff]

We love Simon's holes... wait that came out wrong ;-)

[@adilachahbar1301]

4:23 How Joseph Stalin opened that mine in 1957 While Stalin was dead in 1953

[@kimirikscreations]

Oh hey look, Simon on my KZbin homepage again. With a new channel? Shocking.

[@PoeRacing]

In Soviet Russia, Simon Whistler channels recommend you!

[@VodkaSelekta]

Next you should make a documentary on the duggest holes ever deeped

[@nmcgunagle]

That was soooo clever

[@jameslmorehead]

I was waiting for an ex-girlfriend joke at the end, but all we got was Simon crapping on the oil and gas industry.

[@SymbioteMullet]

Simon does have at least a small amount of class. At least, when he's not doing a business blaze video.

[@emmavink]

Ew. Not cool.

[@ChadWilson]

YES! More videos on holes!

[@stephss]

If we all ran on geothermal energy, imagine how different things could be. Cleaner air and lack of pollution is just the start.

[@twincast2005]

1:05 Huh? Did De Beers get to you, Simon? Blink thrice if you're in danger. #DiamondsAreAScam

[@emmavink]

No. Diamonds as jewelry are a scam. Diamonds for INDUSTRIAL USE as he clearly specified, are extremely useful.

[@mattb2382]

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. 🇨🇦

[@nikolaaswright6028]

Would be a good geographic's!

[@sandybarnes887]

Go Canada. If he doesn't do it he can take off, eh. The hoser. Coo roo coo coo coo coo coo coo. 🇨🇦

[@sandybarnes887]

I'd like him to do the St Lawrence Seaway as well.

[@keithprice4711]

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

[@sandybarnes887]

@@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

[@jesusbeloved3953]

Very interesting! Thanks!

[@mattforbes7833]

He did a "whole long video" about the literally the world's longest hole.

[@twilightgryphon]

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*

[@u0aol1]

Was expecting a lot more 'your mum' jokes to be honest

[@SymbioteMullet]

Come on, this isn't business blaze!

[@joshuaperry8729]

I don't think Stallin opened the mir mine in 57 lol. Didn't he die in 53

[@mbryson2899]

Allegedly.

[@--enyo--]

You underestimate Stalin. For the last time.

[@francisboyle1739]

SG-3. "Hey Sergey , are you sure this is how you build stargate?"

[@wfb.subtraktor311]

it would be funny if one of these holes caused a tectonic fault at some point. Then we could call it the human fault 😂

[@prettypointlessvideo]

Lmao

[@jasonwilde197]

Holes. They both contain mystery, and unveil it.

[@nnm_kco]

suggestion for future video: drillings that went wrong

[@A._is_for]

I came for the yo mama joke but y'all are too wholesome.

[@jon3706]

Hey Vsauce, how many holes does a human have.

[@MrNeptunebob]

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.

[@stephansteenberg5790]

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

[@michaelpipkin9942]

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.....

[@carston101]

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

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@zapfanzapfan]

No Balrog yet so keep digging! :-)

[@jacobchand646]

You should do a video on the Kennecott copper mine in Utah.

[@midlifeduck7040]

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.

[@danw.1250]

Do one on Vanguard and Blackrock and how many of the world's total wealth piea these two firms have their fingers in.

[@NicoNaude]

Western Deep Levels gold mine, 6000m.

[@russellfitzpatrick503]

SA mines have a reputation as extremely deep. Pity the Kimberly 'Big Hole' wasn't on the list - the deepest hand dug hole on earth

[@LearnByDoingGarage]

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

[@mu6768]

4:25 "Opened by stalin in 1957" stalin died in 1953.

[@alklazaris3741]

Today I Learned BP is British. As an American I thought we polluted our own waters from our obsession with oil. It's so weird having someone else do it.

[@emmavink]

....it's literally called British Petroleum...

[@joethemariner]

Damn you Simon. Why do you make the content I already know the answer to AND STILL WATCH COMPLETELY? AARGGGGHHHHH!

[@DawnOfNihil]

KZbin isnt usually where I watch videos about holes

[@michagrill9432]

Holy cow this is a deep episode

[@mikegrazick1795]

You dug yourself into this one!

[@DjWesRolan]

We were heavily impacted by the oil from Deepwater Horizon. Still seeing oil wash up. They also dumped thousands of gallons of Corexit here 😢

[@jacksoncronin9540]

You had me at holes.

[@reed_reed]

I'm so hungover I just threw up in my mouth but I'm still watching this

[@robertschnobert9090]

Stop abusing drugs! Say NO! 💜

[@reed_reed]

If I was abusing drugs Simon could make a whole new channel about me

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

I love it how the 4th most viewed video on MegaProjects is about a hole

[@callumthompson4628]

An honourable mention should be Pringles tubes right?