The Disappearing Island: The Problem of Coastal Erosion on the Isle of Man

An investigation of coastal erosion around the north of the Isle of Man, and the problems caused by these changes to our Manx coastline.
This video was made by Culture Vannin for educational purposes in 2003.
It was produced by Charles Guard and Alex Brindley.
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[@ladamyunto]

Excellent video could it be time to do a update again. As a dutchman I must say there are ways to mitigate the effects of coastal erosion by letting it work for you using a sand engine etc whenever the isle of man wants to get serious about keeping out the sea just call the Dutch. And we will hoock you up.

[@FERNweh101]

The Dutch made Holland!

[@UKOnation]

LOL - Yes there are possibilities to save the coast (everywhere). But: How useful is it to put sand on place, during sand-sucking vessels operate globally for earning building sand? Who will pay for it (worldwide) at the end? It´s another example for making damage to the planet by just a few privates and make all peolple pay for it via the taxes.

[@stannousflouride8372]

7 years on since the update & I'd love to see another one.

[@loopiewho]

WHAT A GREAT DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM THIS WAS FASCINATING AND THE UPDATE WAS THE CHERRY ON TOP

[@ianstaples9118]

My family lived at Ballateare in the 60s I' m amazed it's still there.!

[@jomama5186]

Wow. How cool!

[@bryanlavergne4235]

Wow, a captivating video!

[@llcooldadperspective7460]

What a fantastic documentary 👍

[@bestvideoforcats]

All the cultivated land which has replaced the normal vegetation and trees must also have a huge effect on the weakening of the island.

[@chryseass.5143]

Absolutely fascinating and more than a bit scary! Please, we are due another update in the next year or two! I am hoping that the coast around south of the Island is not under the same level of threat but I have seen the effects of erosion myself in the last two decades.

[@lucid1132]

Forget BBC's Coast, this is so much nearer the truth. Not just in the Isle of Man. So engaging.

[@itsjudystube]

lucid1 And none of that awful Coast music

[@shanatinnin339]

Still trying to wrap my mind around 250 million years ago.

[@ianthemonk]

Enjoyed it. Nicely presented again. Second one I’ve watched intensely

[@izzy9132]

Excellent doc. Thank you

[@charlesmaguire8836]

Incredible, fascinating, scary, informative- please update. Thank you for saving history and sharing.

[@shearn666]

I really enjoyed your video. Coastal Engineering was an area I tried to get into when younger, but it didn't work out. Thank you for making this video, it would have been no small task.

[@miabutterfly2442]

Good job narrating this story, I loved it!🙋

[@marshallemmet1366]

It cracks me up about how the places where you would want more land to form is where it is eroding, and the one place you would want it to stay back is where the land is expanding.

[@aubreybryan5332]

Rather intriguing and unbelievable at the same time

[@theilliad4298]

this guy is great ! more of him please!

[@lindyf381]

This is fascinating 👏

[@whiteeyedshadow8423]

*this video* : you cant control the sea *the neatherlands* : are you sure about that?

[@petergraphix6740]

You can control the sea if you're willing to spend an unlimited amount of time and money doing it. For NL it's worth spending billions to recover 100's of billions in land. In most places it is not.

[@junekatana78]

They may control it in a certain direction but that's all it is a diversion....

[@j.whiteoak6408]

Great documentary Charles Guard!

[@MrHolden17]

Great documentary again. Brings back my uni geography lectures 🤓

[@SarahMilton64]

At the cliffs in Lyme Regis there are notices warning that there is rubbish in the cliffs form an old land fill site. The cliffs are eroding and fossil hunters gather on the beach.

[@paulmcdermott4285]

Everything slowly returning to the sea.

[@jomama5186]

What a beautiful and well made video! Bravo! Liked and subscribed :)

[@roberthiorns7584]

Extremely interesting program. I do love the Island.

[@BeachLookingGuy]

this was great. never knew about this place

[@lindalee7322]

Very good geology video. Thank you so much. The Atlantic Ocean, not the Pacific, is between Africa and North America. I'm surprised they didn't voice over that error.

[@keep_it_real_1]

I think he was actually referring to 'the Pacific' as a reference to the area of size

[@davidtovey7748]

They fixed the problem in South Africa Durban beach front . Now it’s growing . I lived there that’s how I know.

[@FERNweh101]

Fascinating.(My mother, long dead,was Manx) i haven't visited the island for over 30 years,but,strangely,I was thinking about a possible visit only this Tuesday gone...3 days ago....hmmm.

[@paulfaulkner6299]

I enjoyed that - he should do another episode on the BBC

[@scottperry7311]

FYI, I looked on Google Earth on 5-5-2021for Carlan Mill and found its still there. The map image is from 2/25/2020. location 54 20 24.15 N 4 33 16.87 W. It still looks like it does in the picture though the shore has eroded back and the stone jetty is gone.

[@j.whiteoak6408]

Look at the erosion at the area known as Pacifica, California (Flying Cameras Channel on KZbin). Nothing has worked...now the erosion HAS caught up to the buildings which are being demolished or allowed to just drop off the sand cliffs and into the Pacific. And the more authorities tried to stop the erosion, the more their efforts caused erosion and other problems elsewhere. Coastal erosion is nature. One might as well try to hold back the tide!

[@KitWoodrow]

46:20 The company I worked for surveyed the tip every 6 months. It started off being a huge hole, reminiscent of standing in something like Wembley Stadium. The pit is near full when this video was made. I have videos of the surveys which I must upload, if I can transfer off H8.

[@culturevannin8486]

Those survey videos sound fascinating! - Please DO get them online - we'd love to see them!

[@ZebaKnight]

This was excellent! I appreciate the careful look at both the island's geological history and its actual geology, as well as good descriptions of the natural processes that are at work today. It's unfortunate, to say the least, that the government's "Department of the Environment" (!) agreed to allow a land fill that the sea will obviously destroy eventually. I agree with Jonne van de Beek (below). Call the Dutch! Before it is too late. Whether or not one believes that climate change is happening, climate change is happening. I live on the northeast coast of the USA. I have just seen my favorite Cape Cod Beach obliterated, and the ~10 meter high clay ridge behind it eroded by about 4 meters in a single storm in January, 2022. The sea acts gradually and constantly, but it can also act incredibly fast. I'm just sayin'...

[@lindasaule1628]

Omg what’s the music in the beginning please 🙌🏼

[@colintraveller]

When you have cliffs that are Porus .. it's a no brainer what will happen ..

[@edwardpatrickdetrafford-mo8347]

⚔️ I live in JamesBay Victoria, bc.beside a busy shipping Strait, where shockwaves create a pounding, shaking & thumping that rumble, thru the air & ground, hitting our homes at times with more powerful concussions. The Shockwaves ricochet, off of inside walls, being more intense in smaller rooms, hallways & stairwells. When they become more intense, I am knocked about, well trying to navigate my way thru the force field. This combined with high sea tides during rainy seasons, our cliff erode. Shipping disturbances, are a global issue, when they are anchored, moored or passing, with their powerful generators & engines: Combining the 2 becomes complex, for our land loses & physical & psychological well being. The houses lost, where ppl could maintain their coastal locations, as land disappears, by moving all others, further off shore, while each family is moved into the next occupied house & other houses are built, to accommodate those furthest away from the coast, thereby, relocating the now bummed family’s. In this process, everyone would have to sacrifice their houses, by moving into their neighbours & so on. The annual King tides are the ones to prepare for🛡

[@lolalaz]

So if one were to build on the island with a view of the ocean, where would be the safest?

[@cleusamaria551]

OS HOMENS,COM TODA SUA SABEDORIA NAO PODERAO CONTER AS FORÇAS DO MAR.

[@bluefinster6209]

The man who lost land speaks the kings measures. Feet and yards. Never heard a European speak in anything but metrics. Amazing.

[@chloehennessey6813]

Need the concrete JAX for the sea wall. They break up the waves and the blocks take the water away from the soil. See the builders in Dubai. They’ve been experts at using concrete to avoid erosion. Them and the Dutch, should be reached out too. I’ve been going to the TT all my life, this next go will be the first time I race myself and I’m not just a spectator.

[@coffeeandcakeable]

I would have loved to watch this, but it doesn't have subtitles for the hearing disabled. Given subtitles, I can connect. Without subtitles, I am excluded.

[@shannonhunt7966]

Life is a beach

[@markbrown1536]

Wow

[@coisalinda2424]

What is such a handsome man and you seem to be a good guy to

[@mirtaperez7023]

Por favor pueden escribir en ESPAÑOL. !!!!!!

[@mlfmlf8755]

Why? The documentary is in English 🙄

[@susancain9193]

I was born in the Isle of Man I didn't know any of this history ( shame on me 😣)

[@RBond-vv5rf]

Nothing on Earth lasts forever

[@quintenandjoannklonowski134]

well in the trenches new earth is rising right now...etc

[@janheard3826]

Not sure I believe that America “broke off from Europe” millions of years ago. That creates the impression that countries are floating when any country exists due to it being above water level. Also there were a few ‘probablys” when he was showing pictures of the outline of the island years ago.

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

Tectonic plates move idiot

[@edisroon1631]

So True My Friend.

[@actualfacts1055]

Is it a problem or is it nature at work.

[@B61Mod12]

Plaaaaaaaaaant Treeeeeeeeeeeeees ?

[@georgestyer2153]

Great documentary spoiled by to many self appearences...less face more over dub

[@russell7489]

You're an island Armor up or your great history culture society will end Mankind can't abandon all sensitive areas Maintaining lands will simply become a societal cost It's what govt is for Planting cliffs UTTERLY USELESS not one plant will survive battering by wave Solutions & all need periodic maint 1. Pump in mile wide sand beach sculpt dunes plant 2. Armoring w rock to YARDS above highest wave& dozens of yards out to sea inc breakwaters 3 offshore breakwaters so high waves never got beach GOOD LUCK !