The Sea Wall That Saved a Nation

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[@andrewb2281]

The Dutch sea walls have always been impressive and interested me, so this was a great video from the best engineering and construction channel on KZbin. Also, impressive how people were able to build the walls originally without modern technology, and cool to see the innovation in modern technology to make what was impossible possible!

[@mfaizsyahmi]

> without modern technology they have steam ships and barges

[@royqwerty8506]

Amazing ❤️

[@bwame]

Seriously one of the best KZbin channels of any! Always love their content

[@Ar-fy5nc]

And money from (VOC)

[@DoubleDeckerAnton]

Brunel built so much without a lot of technology!

[@connorcore7008]

I'm convinced at this point, that while the rest of the world drowns, the Dutch will somehow end up gaining more land

[@leonardlangner9949]

Have you heard of the plan put forth by German and Dutch engineers to build two dams? One from Norway to Scotland and one from Cornwall to Brittany.

[@deleteduser8949]

@Vanese It isn’t a joke, but highly unrealistic. The cost, cooperation between countries and the environment are big barriers.

[@leonardlangner9949]

apple's lover yeah that’s my source.

[@user-pv9ui7gv9m]

Wait, it's all Netherlands? Always has been.

[@appleslover]

@@KuroiGW2 English arrogance and Selfishness at its best Preferring for an entire nation to sink just not to feel threatened. Oh, what's that? You follow Nigel farage?! I see ..

[@WSmits-wj2ff]

"The Netherlands is not a fact, it's a choice of its people". This quote resembles brilliantly how such a big proportion of the country is created from what once was sea or wetlands.

[@voxpopjuli]

The BEST people.!!!

[@CaioAugustoVasconcelos]

Best phrase ever to define this wonderful country

[@Ron.S.]

Let’s go Dutch

[@thedutchman01]

God may have created the world, but the Dutch created the Netherlands.

[@anin7910]

@@CaioAugustoVasconcelos yeah very wonderful of you to colonized a country for 350 years

[@pandorawolf8239]

My grandfather was one of the operators on a dredge during the later years of construction! I love to see the old footage and im just as amazed as when i was a kid hearing the stories.

[@pimdeboerr]

Same

[@leondouven8738]

This is one of the things that make me proud to be dutch, when it has something to do with water or salvage this little country is big

[@PreshEhi]

This reminds me of the saying " when there's a will there's a way" Putting down political, religious, social beliefs to perform a goal is rewarding. I just wished my Nigerian leaders will see past their pockets and act on behalf of suffering Nigerians.

[@Simon-xj8hc]

Well said

[@michaelcraig9449]

It would be great if the whole world did that.

[@leeluv96]

That's backwards. The Nigerian communities have to band together to change their hardships.

[@davetv4705]

Exactly my Brother. If this was a Nigerian project, half of the money would have been looted and the project abandoned.😢😢😢

[@micahtshibangu7402]

Michael Craig The world would be a better place. Let us not be leftist or rightist or libertarian,proggresive,conservative. Let us be humanist

[@mats7492]

The Dutch: hippity hoppity, the sea is now our property

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Haha. I have to remember that one.

[@Ag3nt0fCha0s]

Portugal wants to know your location

[@MrFlatage]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 I would support and help China build a wall in the SCS just for giggles. USA: Law of the Sea and Freedom of Navigation!!! China: It's a lake ...

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

@@MrFlatage not that bad of an idea really 👍🤪

[@MrFlatage]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 I know my engineering but how that went down under UNCLOS considering the Zuiderzee was a inner sea. I'd be clueless. To the Dutch the more bad an idea is? The more they wanna do it. thebigduck.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/dp01_v2.jpg Why our mighty stealth duck rules the waves. Yea I know it's pretty easy to spot. But will you be the one informing your captain you spotted a ... large yellow rubber dick? Nah we can sail through a US CBG and they just ignore it. ;-) When our Ark is out at sea it's funny hearing on the coms how other ships call the mainland to see if it's still there and God didn't flood it again.

[@martijn_sch]

Great video! Some other interesting constructions in the Netherlands: - Flevoland, biggest polder (land reclamation) in the world - Delta-works in (Old) Zealand and South-Holland, biggest flood defenses of the world - Bicycle storage in Utrecht, biggest of the world - Amsterdam's North-South metro line - De Hovenring, a floating bicycle roundabout in Eindhoven - Veluwemeer aqueduct - Cycle path at top of a school in Utrecht - Underwater bicycle parking to replace de Fietsflat at Amsterdam Central Station (Under construction) Greetings from The Netherlands

[@eppsislike]

How could you possibly forget the Maeslantkering in Rotterdam? It's so popular, President Putin wanted one built in St. Petersburg. It's smaller than the one in Rotterdam but equally as epic.

[@martijn_sch]

@@eppsislike the Maeslantkering is part of the Delta-works ;)

[@runertje550]

It’s hilarious how I’m Dutch and I don’t know almost any of these things you mentioned

[@TheMaxiM22]

En iets met Groningen en aardbevingen

[@runertje550]

Maximus Prime en nog verder iets met Friezen en palen

[@aabidn275]

First stroopwaffels now this! The Dutch are really doing something right

[@jinh357]

Aabid N27 stroopwaffels aren’t even that good

[@rutgerhoekstra1666]

Jin H yes they are good

[@MrFlatage]

@@jinh357 That is more then enough blasfeming to boil you alive in a pot of molten cheese ...

[@wowjack8944]

​@@jinh357 Blasphemy!

[@TheSuperhoden]

@@jinh357 shame on you

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

What I don't get is why there still isn't a railroad across it. To get from the south to the north of The Netherlands, or vice versa, you have to go all the way around the Ijsselmeer, a massive detour. It doesn't make any sense especially when you consider that there is still enough room to lay track and that construction would be incredibly cheap due to it all being government owned land and there being no structures or even terrain elevation issues.

[@prof1crl]

Maybe commercial railroads would add too much weight to it? As for passenger trains, couldn't that also be achieved with bus services?

[@orvvro]

Imo it would be an eyesore to have electricity cables along the entire thing. Besides, it's very windy there, maintenance costs would be way higher than average

[@Hiermoeteenusernamestaan]

Because there aren’t that many people who will travel from the north of Noord-Holland to Friesland. Most people stay and travel between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht and other every city in that triangle (known as Randstad) I live near Amsterdam, and drove on the afsluitdijk just once in my whole life.

[@Hedvaa]

That was the plan and they tried. But it didn't seem profitable. You can see a groove for the tracks at Amsteldiepdijk. They build foundations at the sluice for train bridges. Space saved for the railroad are now used for the highway A7 when they broaden the road.

[@prof1crl]

@@Ozymandias1 Ah nice, don't live there so he made it seem like you have to go around to get to the other side.

[@allyourcode]

I am from the USA, and I traveled Europe by bike in the summer of 2019. One of my dreams was to cross this inspiring structure. Sadly, the bike lane was closed due to renovation :( I shall return!!

[@casdenblanken8804]

Great excuse to come back!

[@doggie1874]

Je bent welkom .

[@johansilwouden3403]

"I shall return!" That sounds like your famous general Douglas Macarthur!

[@erzsebetnilsson580]

YES.

[@nikedoesthings]

it will be closed at least until they're done with the afsluitdijk. my aunt and uncle wanted to cycle it too but they had to take the bus across.

[@NeonLuminous]

Ok, can we all just appreciate how perfect and seamless the sponsor of the video is?

[@daos3300]

that's not something to appreciate, it should be mourned

[@Kkk-cc1iy]

Why? ​@@daos3300

[@donnibrasko1]

The Dutch are the Beavers of humanity!

[@batterysurf]

'We're gonna make a big wall to keep the seawater out and we're gonna make the fishies pay for it'.

[@davecullins1606]

Plenty fish died after the first wall was constructed, so in a way they've already paid for it.

[@honoratoacebedo725]

Mr Back

[@NYCjasoncalderon]

Lol

[@racyk8579]

@@guff9567 The world finds "killing people" horrible but I think going to the animals natural habitats to only kill it or capture it, is the worst of what humans do. While slowly killing the earth just to live an easy and comfortable life, they'll ignore it until we're literally on the brink of extinction. That's how stupid people are.

[@mhaz1862]

Peta hippies

[@amadine770]

To the engineers and handymen of the 1920s a big salute for their ingenuity against the odds - they laid a foundation on which the current team will enhance without much trouble.Surely civil engineering and similar fields has come a long way.

[@rogerwilco2]

We have an entire city named after one of the main engineers. Lelystad is a city of 80,000 people, named after engineer Cornelis Lely.

[@gadgalleto5906]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGXQZp5mn5yZl5Y

[@KeepCalmandLoveClassics]

Civil Engineers and Architects of Holland are simply awesome 🙏🏻 Hats off from India 🇮🇳

[@Ilikepie18855]

Annual flooding Dutch: oh yeah? I'm gonna solve this problem once and for all! USA: na, we will just rebuild our paper house and buy a new car every year after flooding.

[@mattg0469]

New Orleans took the Netherlands as a model though.

[@TheNobleFive]

...That's not what's happening

[@Jps007cat]

Wut? Lol

[@prikkel_]

@Landen Ford you must be real fun at a party.

[@kousvetkousvet4158]

@@prikkel_ sorry but i think people don't talk much about dams and hurricanes at partys.

[@kxaifer]

Britain:We Rule The Seas The Netherlands:Yeah but we tame the ocean Britain:Nervously shaking

[@Ozymandias1]

The Dutch also ruled the seas at one time, in the mid 17th century the Dutch had a larger commercial and military fleet than England.

[@amengo6190]

@@Ozymandias1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6impGh5e5p7e8k 😮

[@dasigkatama029]

Ancient Filipino rules the sea :-)

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Britain has the world’s second largest movable flood defence- The Thames Barrier.

[@kyleterry5190]

@@dasigkatama029 nah it's just the SCS/WPS, yellow sea, and the pacific and probably the western coast of north and south america The portuguese,dutch, and british still won

[@harryw798]

It's incredible that humans have been able to make this happen... this is such a huge project and it doesn't seem real. I love it.

[@Ozymandias1]

Even more when you realize it was constructed between 1927 and 1932. Cornelis Lely was a genius. Not mentioning him is the only letdown of this video.

[@alchemist6819]

It's weird isn't it, sometimes we human can make any seemingly impossible project possible while on the other hand many normal are delayed too much.

[@mightisright]

Not an easy job but possible as long as intelligent, productive people exist.

[@zulawoo]

You should look into the Delta Works as well then. Even more impressive than this and recognized as 1 of the modern engineering wonders of the world.

[@mightisright]

​@@guff9567 The land is a boat. Just shoot a torpedo at it and it sinks to the core of the earth.

[@nabeelhasan6593]

This should be among the 7 wonders of the modern engineering

[@Hans.Dewitt]

the delta works IS one of the 7 wonders, and it is pretty crazy

[@timverberne2561]

It is, it is part of the Delta Works

[@jessemensink6432]

It is my friend

[@Hans.Dewitt]

@@guff9567 yeah wasting money by protecting the dutch hinterland from sea flooding and rising sea levels

[@JeffreyBue_imtxsmoke]

The Dutch have always amazed with their ingenuity.

[@LudicrousTorpedo]

China : I got the world's largest dam Dutch : *Hold my wall*

[@drmustjab]

Pakistan: See Mangla Dam(largest earth-filled dam in the world)

[@C152SharjilJafri-hd5tq]

@Umos *in your dreams.

[@winnie-thexi11-pinping9]

Three Gorges dam (world's largest dam) is gonna collapse because of massive floooood.

[@winnie-thexi11-pinping9]

@@drmustjab in your dreams.🤣

[@C152SharjilJafri-hd5tq]

@@winnie-thexi11-pinping9 keep on dreaming.

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

Let me guess - the Netherlands.

[@appleslover]

Who would it be other than them

[@suzyschwarz7023]

Cities & Skyscrapers The bright intelligent and peaceful great Dutch (Holland) peoples.

[@bvdemier1]

2 things you need to remember about the Dutch and their relationship with the sea: 1) They have been gaining land on the sea since the 12th century. 2) The flooding of 1953. Even now, a lot of the software we use for foundations is made in Delft.

[@guynxtdork]

In dutch the call it Nederland which is even more ironic.

[@andersoncooper9577]

@@appleslover Plenty of countries build similar projects, northern Europeans are just glorified.

[@joyfuflower]

This is one of the best sponsor integrations I have ever seen, it actually added to the content. I'd love to see what other projects were managed like this in this format

[@mofi3641]

it was done very good, indeed. but i would not use their solution, again. it was such a waste of time and money. you can achieve similar results without relying on one distributor or one software solution.

[@dewiz9596]

As a dutch born Canadian, this kind of video makes me proud.

[@TEMUJINARTS]

Wow alot of attached identification there. “Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth."

[@MassyBiagio]

I made this street on 1989, it was night, with 4 friends in a Volkswagen made on 60s, with a great storm weather and very high, cause comes from Amsterdam coffeeshop. I remember it as a nightmare that never ended

[@Samuel_J1]

I'm intrigued how simply strengthening the wall is better than raising it, at least in terms of rising sea levels / greater intensity storms. I didn't know I needed to know about this project but it is pretty cool and such a huge scale!

[@SpaghettiKillah]

Because against the sea, a 7 mt tall reinforced wall is better than a 12 mt weak one...have you heard of corrosion? It doesn't matter how tall the wall is, if it's not strong enough to withstand the pounding of the water, its base will get eroded and then collapse.

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Probably will happen in a few decades. But at the moment its erosion they have to deal with. So maby around 2050s or so, a new retrofit this time increasing the height.

[@G_unz]

I believe the logic is as follows: When you have a levee and water comes over the top during heavy weather, the levee starts to erode at the inside. Erosion at the inside combined with high water pressure on the outside breaches the levee and then floods the land behind it. If you reinforce the levee in such a way that you can take a lot of water coming over the top during a storm, nothing much happens. It is relatively a very small amount of water which doesn't hurt anyone as long as it doesn't erode the levee. This is a very efficient solution, you technically let the levee fail (water comes over the top), but as long as the structure can withstand it and the amount of water coming over is limited, nobody gets hurt. During extreme weather the afsluitdijk becomes a half-assed weir with harmless discharge.

[@empyrean196]

*Shoutout to ALL the civil engineers, and construction workers!*

[@eddylwanga6332]

This is one of the most wonderful Engineering Projects todate

[@salmanahjum-mathee9055]

I've always learned something new since I began watching the B1M and this video was no different. Your content is great and I appreciate it. Thank you B1M!

[@mikehydropneumatic2583]

00:24 Been there having a coffee in the restaurant and taking pictures from the tower!

[@rikeep]

I remember driving the length of the sea wall during a road trip around Europe. It was an impressive structure and it's interesting to see the improvements being made.

[@adityakishore4260]

I'm a simple man I saw notification of B1M, open the video clicked like and than commented. And now continuing watching...

[@mr._baum153]

The b1m is the most informative channel for construction

[@TheB1M]

Thank you so much!!! ✊

[@dimrrider9133]

But they forgot to tell that the fish can swim from salt water to fresh water because they create a special construction for it

[@replar]

@@dimrrider9133 3:38 ?

[@dimrrider9133]

@@replar oeps 😬 missed that part. B1M did a good Job, my fault haha

[@replar]

​@@dimrrider9133 They absolutly did and got a new subscriber now :D

[@AnymMusic]

In a few hours, the Dutch will have *flooded* the comments 👀. Gekoloniseerd

[@pimdeboerr]

Yeah every time lol

[@michaelcraig9449]

FLOODED.. Oh no.. never say that word to a Nederlander!

[@J3scribe]

This channel is so adept at creating succinct and yet highly informative overviews of many of the world's most complex engineering and construction projects it's beyond impressive. I worked in the construction industry for most of my adult life, and yet this channel is more informative than any other single source (barring in depth historical texts, long form documentaries or courses in engineering) I've ever encountered over the past 40 years. And you do it with great style. I've shared numerous links to your videos with many people and almost to a person they have become fans of The B1M. Thank you for all folks do.

[@NLTops]

And as a finishing touch, God created the Dutch. God: creates the Universe. The Dutch: Sir, you missed a spot here. God: That's what you are for. Do it yourself. The Dutch: creates the Netherlands.

[@masterbeethoven8209]

All I can think about is what a good fishing spot that would be!

[@VuurwerkNederland]

As a Dutch person this is so much fun to watch, for me the Afsluitdijk is an amazing structure, but it also feels like "normal". In the Netherlands we have been building "dijken" for a long time, so the Afsluitdijk is just an advanced example. When we are talking about length, there is not yet a bigger sea wall in the Netherlands, however there are some more advanced sea walls in Zeeland.

[@hadikhan5861]

As a Dutch person this is so much fun to for me beautiful.

[@tristan-lp7uw]

funny story most of thos are build with dutch engineers same for the dam in in the usa

[@cardest5066]

This is not something I say often, but the product placement in this video was done really well, I love how it actually meant something to the project and how it was used

[@ubumer]

I have never watched so informative and subtle Ad in my life.

[@mark6889]

B1M Posts Video Me: MMMOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRREEEEEE

[@charlesdesouza9313]

this in Portuguese literally means die

[@mark6889]

@@charlesdesouza9313 The joys of translating between different languages! Reminder to self, when in Portugal don't yell out 'MORE'.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Ever since quarantine, I felt there’s no week, time doesn’t feel like time anymore, and then B1M came with a video to save a day.

[@MrFlatage]

Yea we don't just do walls well? All video's from the Netherlands currently? Yup no quarantine ...

[@JuJuBeans101]

I grew up in Den Helder, just around the corner from the Afsluitdijk. I travelled over this dijk numerous times and heard many of these stories in my native tongue when I was still a kid but it's funny how you only appreciate these kind of achievements when you're older and actually understand what it took to make this.

[@alexopweg]

This wall and all of those things who made the Nederland the most beautiful and impressive country in the world are possible because the Dutch people are very intelligents and serious. Every country should take their example. I am proud and happy to live in such beautiful country ❤️ NEDERLAND .

[@oyvey764]

Thank you B1M! Always finding interesting subjects and making concise, informative videos. I had never heard of this amazing feat of engineering.... now I feel a wee bit more informed about the world and impressed at humans' capacity of cleverly addressing issues. Thank you again for posting.

[@bobyoung1698]

I've long been impressed by the work of the Dutch on their many projects to prevent the incursion of the sea. Engineers from around the world, challenged in similar scenarios, would do well to study their amazing work.

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Many peoples especially in Asia have done so.

[@pieterveenders9793]

The Dutch have mastered sea defence and most other sea related fields, and as such they're the first one people all over the world call when there is a sea related issue. From New Orleans to Jakarta, and from Dubai to Bangladesh, the Dutch were the ones they hired to solve their problems with the sea.

[@Hutch5321]

What a colossal project! Had no idea that it was started pre-WWII. Thank you for the new video! Bravo, Fred! Bravo, B1M! The Best of the 'Net!

[@Dave-hn5tl]

Other countries: Noo my houses are flooding The Netherlands: haha sea wall go sploosh

[@koffiewolf]

stronk dijk

[@justten3243]

That other country is the Philippines

[@iJerrrrrry]

I chuckled

[@vijeshkumar692]

Stonks

[@ivanmolina5203]

[Looking at the Earth from the moon] It’s all the Netherlands? “Always has been” (Bang)

[@ennosbaxla5350]

I want him to read story to my son every night!!

[@armyofone5219]

AI voice overs are getting better and better these days on other videos , I bet someday you can pick a type of voice you want....someday everybody will have a nanny like the Jetsons had....

[@leeluv96]

@@armyofone5219 Rosie was awesome!

[@jzk3919]

I wrote a comment but I may not post it..../and I am not Trump!/

[@SYDTrainsFilms]

BTW that is a real person just watch their big ben makeover video and you will see Fred Mills the narrator.

[@henrik5761]

Yes, but your son only wants you

[@biosmatchnederland8070]

Thanks for uploading. Proud of my country!

[@osamahaldoaiss]

I have been there last year. Very impressive structure and a master piece!

[@jba540]

The Dutch are the best engineers ever since.

[@nakibsayyed4999]

Yes B1M making our day great also that's one genius construction compared to it's era.

[@ScorpionNani]

Your videos are so informative and easy to understand. I'm amazed of the great quality you bring to KZbin every time. I swear sometimes feels like I'm watching a program in discovery Channel.

[@erzsebetnilsson580]

Saved a GREAT nation with the GREAT PEOPLE... My love to the people in Netherlands WORK HARD and the way they put there HEART for to MAKE JUSTICE.

[@toamastar]

Damn that is some serious engineering!! Thanks for all you do in these videos :)

[@bedux009]

Mother Nature: You dare challenge me mortal!? Dutch: *YES*

[@argo1879]

Thanks to the best construction and engineering channel on all of KZbin for another great video. Really interesting to learn about these sea walls I never knew they were necessary in the Netherlands

[@Dirk80241]

I don’t understand why youtube suggests this video to me 3 years later, but the sea wall remains impressive and I appreciate the accuracy of your video.

[@AuXTechUK]

This is the best ad i've seen, watched the whole thing xD

[@Dave-gw6wh]

Love my country!!

[@appleslover]

Lucky bastard!

[@huisbaasbob9844]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@Dave-gw6wh]

@@huisbaasbob9844 kokosnoten zijn geen specerijen makker

[@jackcurry1678]

Wow, just learned that the Autodesk uses my old college building (Francis Hall, Texas A&M) as a preview model in BIM. That’s so freakin cool!

[@sudiptkashyap7299]

Little wonder that the people from the Netherlands are among the greatest innovators in the world. This initiative is truly a Dutch technological marvel that is worthy of emulation in the low-lying areas across the world.

[@qualitydepartmentcapitolho6990]

This kind of engineering marvel is required for "Mumbai" to reduce the flood water during rainy season.

[@Shivam-kz2dg]

Funds ?

[@punitarathi4127]

Dutch Engineers made Mumbai

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Yes, Mumbai is rich enough now. There are many smart people in India. Study how similar problems have been solved in other countries, gradually learn, make a plan and make your city a better place to live. It's not so difficult.

[@qualitydepartmentcapitolho6990]

@@Shivam-kz2dg funds bhare hue hai... only thing is there are underutilized

[@engineer3230]

@@Shivam-kz2dg enough h

[@Vivaswaan.]

This was such a audacious and wonderful project. The brains and strength that went into it is commendable. Such projects leaves us in awe.

[@HonestMan112]

This is one of my favourite channels.

[@brianndrelan135]

Wow!! Engineers all working together. The use of technology to monitor and make improvements to the seawave breaker.

[@ChristopherHodgkissDesign]

Great video. Been subbed for a while now and look forward to a new video every Wednesday. B1M, I would love to see a video on how the construction of HS2 is helping Birmingham shake off its image of '60's concrete jungle' with large scale regeneration projects it has planned.

[@rankingresearchdata]

I'm lazy to read books & newspaper so Channel like B1M are source of my knowledge. Keep making video

[@Coucouoeuf]

Yes there is an ad but that's cleverly blended in the video. If only we had more productions like this! Keep up the good work.

[@dariuszgierczak9387]

This is very impressive construction, even more impressive this started 100 years ago. In Poland we struggle with sewage treatment plant in our capital city and this has been build 20 years ago only 2 pipes under the river and we can’t find solution. Well done you ✌️

[@mr._baum153]

Why is this channel soo good

[@radioaktivejay]

Hardwork, drive to stand out.

[@freddiehansen7324]

Louisiana and New Orleans should be paying attention here..... They could definitely learn a thing or two.

[@the11382]

Those have flood problems?

[@33lex55]

US motto to kill all progress: "Not invented here".

[@RoundsOfWanting]

I rode a bicycle over this twice. One of the best rides in the Netherlands.

[@RoundsOfWanting]

KarynaChannel there was a observation deck right in the middle with a memorial to the workers. It is water as far as you can see. I think it took 2-3 hours to ride depending on the wind.

[@IvelLeCog]

I find it quite interesting that the success of large-scale civil engineering projects like this are not only reliant upon the prowess of heavy diesel machinery and their operators, but also the innovation of abstract layers of organisation through synced design platforms, communication technologies, etc. There is probably so much more untapped effective output to be reclaimed from the enormous amounts of resources and time spent on large scale projects and it looks like the next few decades are going to see further refinement in the management and coordination of projects that require so many moving parts working within relative timeframes.

[@stormysamreen7062]

Never clicked so fast on a B1M video.

[@laureane5454]

The power of a wardrobe voice. Supporters will know LOL.

[@TheB1M]

Hahaha - we see you 😉

[@Happymali10]

1:52 Tiny side-note, but I think it's interesting that they used a small "field railway" to aid construction of the dam, so in a way it was a railroad dam before it became a road dam.

[@iamcherreymaiya]

I love how some countries find proactive solutions against future catastrophes.

[@jantjediscobal1421]

We did had catastrophes and thus were forced to come up with a way to protect the nation for the water

[@DavidBrown-jd2st]

Great informative video as always... cheers B1M

[@SnackAttack6]

Amazing! We need this between N.Ireland & Scotland it would be 12 miles long 👌

[@roodborstkalf9664]

Very doable. Will cost you about 20 billion pounds, that is if you hire Danes, Norwegians, Japanese or Koreans to do it. Similar bridge/tunnel complex was recently build between Denmark and Sweden. Problem is politics. England and Ireland will not allow it. It is not in their interest.

[@samuelborgeson3897]

I love this channel! It is so cool and fascinating!! I wish the news would report about stuff like this this is real news!

[@rtothes936]

Simply beautiful, extremely effective, absolutely the best.

[@VuurwerkNederland]

"Afsluitdijk" sounds so fun when an English speaker pronounces it!

[@Chris-bn1vt]

I'm just wondering where he got the "o" from. Lol.

[@Zoza15]

Yeah and they misled by the word Dyke instead of Dijk.

[@timmontanus4311]

Lmao the ofschloedoik

[@guynxtdork]

He isn't.

[@benjaminpadilla1464]

Jokes on you bich, I speak English, Spanish, and German. I find It strange that man Elitists in Europe look down on English speakers, yet you guys can't properly pronounce many basic words. 🙄 (Especially in Spanish.)

[@NiekKuijpers]

This is so cool. The afsluitdijk is less than 30 minutes from where i live and the B1M made a video about it haha

[@underwaterlaser1687]

Check out The Tim Traveller too.

[@Jps007cat]

It literally looks like you just smacked your keyboard for a sec.

[@bartpaauw9132]

Ey ik woon er 5 min vandaan

[@_Insulana]

Thank you very much for your great work. I really appreciate your precise and dedicated videos! If by any chance you could some day make a video about the Brenner Base Tunnel between Austria and Italy I'd be very glad. It's currently under construction and would be the longest railway tunnel in the world when completed. Cheers and keep it up!

[@thedutchman01]

There's this beautifull quote put on a plaque at the Deltaworks in Zeeland. (Neeltje Jans to be exact.) Which is where the famous dam is constructed. ‘Hier gaan over het tij, de wind, de maan en wij’. Or roughly translated to English: "Here regarding the tides, the wind, the moon and we decide". Just try and top that quote people. :P And mind you that in dutch it rhymes.

[@MetDaan2912]

Nice, I love your videos, keep 'em coming! Also nice to see a video about De Afsluitdijk, as a Dutchman I am proud of this.

[@fors89]

those poor fish kids that went to play on the other side of the wall and never were able to come back home

[@roodborstkalf9664]

That was sad.

[@hayden5154]

So impressive. Imagine the original builders seeing it in it's full glory in just a few years.

[@skyrockhou6325]

Love this channel. Wish the videos were longer

[@Z0mbify]

The Dutch always knows how to exploit the waters.

[@flyingdutchman3165]

The B1M is definitely one of the best channels on KZbin 🔥🔥

[@noelgenoway9360]

The Dutch know the sea very very very well!!! Authorities of Vancouver, BC needs to see this video! Lots of flooding in Fall 2021!! The Dyke system needs upgrades in Vancouver, BC.!! Thanks for sharing!!

[@andrealasta4642]

Amazing video, as always!

[@samuelsayer3846]

Keep up the great videos

[@TheB1M]

Thank you - we will!!

[@mr._baum153]

I knew this video would be about the netherlands

[@raymondo162]

excellent. well played, you

[@luthermcgee432]

Literally fantastic, fascinating. Not to mention streamline. And spanning dozens of kilometers.

[@pvlgs]

The Nobelprize winner 1902, Hendrik Lorentz worked also on this project: Lorentz was also asked by the Dutch government to chair a committee to calculate some of the effects of the proposed Afsluitdijk (Enclosure Dam) flood control dam on water levels in the Waddenzee. Hydraulic engineering was mainly an empirical science at that time, but the disturbance of the tidal flow caused by the Afsluitdijk was so unprecedented that the empirical rules could not be trusted. Originally Lorentz was only supposed to have a coordinating role in the committee, but it quickly became apparent that Lorentz was the only physicist to have any fundamental traction on the problem. In the period 1918 till 1926, Lorentz invested a large portion of his time in the problem.[26] Lorentz proposed to start from the basic hydrodynamic equations of motion and solve the problem numerically. This was feasible for a "human computer", because of the quasi-one-dimensional nature of the water flow in the Waddenzee. The Afsluitdijk was completed in 1932, and the predictions of Lorentz and his committee turned out to be remarkably accurate.[B 11][B 2] One of the two sets of locks in the Afsluitdijk was named after him.