Japan's $20 Billion Dollar Floating Airport Is Sinking
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Japan is filled with a plethora of expensive and innovative engineering marvels, but not all of the country’s major infrastructure projects have gone according to plan. The Kansai International Airport might be one of the biggest blunders in Japan’s engineering history. It’s built of reclaimed land in Osaka Bay, and it’s sinking into the water. Engineers always expected the island to sink a bit, but they seriously underestimate just how much the airport’s artificial islands would sink. By 2056, some experts believe that the airport will reach sea level, which will pose a significant risk to the airport terminals and runways. So far, engineers have come up with a few innovative solutions to slow down the sinking, but these are just stopgap measures. The airport might continue to sink for 100 years or more, but if the speed of sinking accelerates the airport will likely have to be abandoned. Construction of the Kansai International Airport began way back in 1987, and the project was originally supposed to cost about $8 billion. However, the total cost to build the airport has since skyrocketed to $20 billion because of all the costly repairs. Iron plates under the foundation and a stronger seawall are two of the ways engineers are improving the Kansai International Airport. These measures should slow down the rate at which the airport is sinking. Here’s a look at Japan’s $20-billion floating airport and what’s being done to stop it from sinking. Keep watching to find out more about the Kansai International Airport.
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Written by: Rob Cramer
Narrated by: Adam Newmark
Edited by: Danila Fel
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:42 Offshore Construction
04:37 Airport Expansion
05:18 Engineering Mistakes
06:18 Fixing the Problem - Розваги
Let it sink because then it would be the worlds first underwater airport.
Clever 😭😭
Actually the first one was in Atlantis🙄
Shakun Relhan they didn’t have airports or even planes back then
God hasn’t added the “Take to the Skies” DLC yet
10,000 years later
AlIeN BaSe FoUnD
Ya good idea he or she is right ✅ 😏
That’s 20B literally down the drain.
@Rowdy Jr Hail State! You think our football team can get the Natty this year?
Small amount compare to the US spent in afghanistan 2.3 trillion. Everything went down the drain after 20 years!! Sorry i was making comparison of cost.
Sorry to tell you that is not a drain that is the sea.
@@brandenalexander6038 dude, it’s a joke
LITTERALY 😂😂😂
Japan’s tech is pretty amazing. Maybe missed the mark on this one.
...they have time for JAL to convert to seaplanes!....
they were 20 years ago not now they are so behind
@@saddyana behind who
@@saddyana not behind Korea at least
it's amazing how they are going to get sued for trillions by countries fed up with radiation from Fukushima.
You didn’t answered your own question “why is the airport sinking” and “the engineers underestimated how fast the airport sinks” is not the answer, even when you repeat it a few times
Seabed silt compressed by weight of soil, said wiki.
It's classic for these kinds of videos. Infuriating really.
@@closure4791 yup
earthquakes probably aren't helping matters
Also didn't understand why he would say 13 feet and then show on the screen 13 feet again instead of the meter conversion. SO INFURIATING.
Engineers: Everything will be fine.
Tsunami: Hold my beer. 🍺
**hold me sea 🌊
thanks to globalwarming, tsunami will be able to attack every country which has sea shore in near future.
You too cannot be safe lol
@@dsedh23 well if we live thousands of miles away from oceans I think we will be safe
@@dsedh23 well we are not gonna live for long here either.. i mean you think we were put on to earth to live ? If the creator wanted to us live in the world with its beauty he would have let us have it not created any obstacles ( ii.e Death, Disasters etc) that doesn’t mean to say to vandalize things, be resourceful, live and die.. there’s nothing much to expect
@@dsedh23 well fuck Houston, Texas then
The fatal flaw was they didn't believe the ocean required compensation.
As Engineers we understand compensation. WTF!!
The fatal flaw is that the Japanese slaughter tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.
The Japanese actually hold slaughter-fest in which they rounded up the dolphins by the thousands and slaughter them, dyeing the whole sea red.
Obviously this doesn't bode well with the Sea God.
@@bjhemingway5496 Good thing it was you who built this wasn't it then? xD
@@clocktower1164 right……
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Landing at that airport would make me feel like a duck
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Corruption 🤷♀️
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It looks like that will be an lost airport with an extremely high sunk cost! :D
global warming - melting ice - rising water!! - submerged airport!! - - there’s a difference; Mexico is sinking literally not so much for this airport
Pun intended 😁
@@gwills9337 it should be a global warning at this point ⚠️ and we might just be doomed
It's sinking because Aquaman wants to access the airport as airways is much faster than seaways
global warming - melting ice - rising water!! - submerged airport!! - - there’s a difference; Mexico is sinking literally not so much for this airport
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Wow! I didn't realize the FBI was vested in Japanese airports.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 true
Great video as always. 😀
Great Video. I liked it. Thank you.
Soon it’ll be an underwater airport that has flights to the lost Atlantic city… prettyyy cool tho ngl
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I still love Japan and ALL Nippon Airways I got to work there for 3.5 years and live in Kobe Some of the best time of my Life !! Thank you ANA..
I’ve been to Kansai airport, it’s a very beautiful airport. I hope they fix this sinking issue eventually.
i love this airport,
use to watch plenty of documentaries about it contruction
The title should be: “Japan’s Island-Sized Floating Computer Chip”
damn its been ages since ive landed in japans kansai, brings back memories... the bridge outbound from the airport sounded amazing (if you left via train)
Nice 👌
Regardless of their failures, Japan seems to be properly invested in the public, imagine what the states could do if they took 50-100 billion from their overinflated defence budget.
Japan's annual defense budget is around $50bn. And it's about 1% of GDP.
Feed more single mothers? Fund more unnecessary social causes? Give me a stronger armed forces any day.
Hello I love your videos so so much
My professor gave a lecture on the same island 40 minutes ago but this is way better
Interesting, thanks
it may still be possible to operate the airport below sealevel, but the cost of multi-layer seawalls, canals and pumping infrastructure would be considerable. It would also have a greater impact on the surrounding ecosystem and shipping routes.
Meanwhile, natural disasters be like - this is the reason we choose Japan.
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@@buschm1 Shakespeare died reading this
They spent $8B on something they knew would sink interesting
Biden spent 6.1 trillion of our money on trying to fool us with smoke, mirrors, news media gas lighting and presentations from Kammi....and we're sinking.
I’m certainly no engineer, but I can tell you that water always leads to disaster. Who tf and why tf would make you think building on the water is a good idea!? Let alone an airport! 🤦🏻♂️
maybe they are friends before by China🤔...maybe they think they can conquer the Mother Nature🤔
They need the engineer's from "Tenochtitlan"
There’s loads of man made islands that support heavy structures, Singapore has a man made island called Sentosa, which his home to universal studios Singapore, and loads of other similar attractions.
Have you heard of the Burj Al Arab in Dubai? It's a hotel standing on a man made island.
@@arvindanbalaji5619 yeah and it’s also sinking
Fantastic !
This is an example of where being cheap in the short term costs more in the long run
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Get a life you Muppet
65ft above sea level? And how is it a floating airport when it’s fixed to the sea bed lol
Thank you so mac wandarful love geif you
i’m questioning why you need to add this flicker effect every ten seconds. i had to flip my phone to just listen. i feel like i should be able to see the stuff they’re working with.
i would wait and wait. and listen and not hear it flicker. i flipped my phone bam it flickered.
this made my day tysm happy to hear news like these about jp!hope the sea level rises way faster!
I read about 20 years ago that the main reason it is sinking is because the landfilling needed more time to settle.
Dude your videos are pretty cool but as an epileptic those flashy pictures I hate
thats wild
Damn! I was a Marine stationed in Japan until 2022. Some of my favorite memories were road-tripping from Hiroshima/Iwakuni to KSI/Osaka to pick up other service members. I was mind-blown the first time I drove on the airport and realized it was an island of its own. Beautiful drive. Side note; It was also very creepy during COVID as most shops looked abandoned inside. One of the creepiest/most depressing things I saw quite honestly...
3:03 Nice. 😅
But seriously, I've been through this airport and it is quite amazing.
What are you trying to refer to with your time stamp?
There should be also a law that must be signed by ALL countries, where it states, that shit that was built and is abandoned must be disassembled to clean up the space.
The only leftovers should be sand and wood. No bricks, asphalt, metals etc.
I have the feeling that we are in a age where we build a lot of buildings and companies just leave their shit there without cleaning up.
its cheaper.
Just how oil companies leave oil rigs to rot and collapse into the ocean.
cheaper to forget than to dismantle.
Lmao I’m doing construction right now but I’m on break, and yes we clean it up, or you get a call the next day telling you to lol
The same story about the sinking "Kankuu" (as Kansai airport is known locally) gets recycled over and over again. It sinks a little and the engineers come up with something. It was too politically insensitive to build it on land. Look up the building of Narita airport before the 1964 Olympics for a much more interesting if not heartbreaking Japanese airport story.
We all know that Jarvis Johnson actually sunk the airport
OMG its realy incredible to se one airport like this one
I was there in 1998 & 1999. Big airport!
Japan is beautiful 😻
It's a terrific airport and it is so easy to get to by train, bus or car. I had heard it was sinking but didn't realise just how rapidly. Too bad. As the narrator mentioned, it was built in the bay because there is really no space for it on land nearby. Japan is extremely mountainous and most people live in the plains which are very crowded.
Another big factor is that they wanted it to be able to have a 24 hour non stop operation which wasn't possible with an inland option. Also there had been a great deal of protests from the Narita airport works and the land take-overs that it required, something they didn't want to deal with.
When people go beyond the extreme but forget the repercussions. 😏
The counrty that whatever disaster happend it always stands tall
English please
I have flown in and out of it dozens of times and will be going back in 4 days.
This redefines the meaning of Sunk Cost.
I would say to build walls around the airport underwater and compacted with the same things that was used to make the lsland but have the walls support on the out side and steel clamps where they connect but those walls be as deep as can be
Wow, we just found a veritable reclaimed land airport engineer here. You must know more than the people actualy dealing with the problem.
I would suggest using some grammar.
Dutch "bagger" ships made the island, like the did in dubai for the "world islands" & "palm islands" & The hotel... Bush El Ahra something
Will be a super reef for fish and marine life AND SCUBA!
Why they built reclamation island far from mainland (in this case near rinku town). They have to built long and expensive bridge, adding more cost. Why not close to Rinku town?
I want to visit Japan and Maldives they are my fav countrys
I went to Japan with very high expectations and they were exceeded, so much history, culture, architecture, natural beauty
I was there for 10 days exploring throughout the country and I loved every second of it, I will be going back once it’s possible to do so
Alternative title: Japan is shrinking.
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Ever heard of industrial type water pumps for typhons/hurricanes?
How deep is the water there? And what is the cost to build underwater pillars to hold it?
No ,the airport is floating it is supported by cylinders of concretes wich upsides down,,for example when you out an empty cup in water in upside down it does not sink first coz the air is trapped here
We can separate runway and make runway submersible when high wave days and float on top ocean when operate then each plane had a submersible hangar bay and escalator lift airplane up to runway or bring air plane down to hangar Bay..so less change of being atacked
They should of hired the Dutch to master fighting the sea and building more land.
If you suffer from epilepsy, or are sensitive to flashing lights, please don't watch this video.
That 80's style picture slide effect is dangerous.
I thought it was just me. The video gave me so much anxiety with those transitions.
I used to live in front of this airport, which is about seven minutes train ride from the terminal. Serious problem, indeed. ;-(
Well Chek Lap Coke airport (Hong Kong International) also is a floating airport it's one of the worlds busiest cargo and passenger airport it currently is building a second island for a new passenger terminal and a 3rd runway the airport was built after Kansai international yet it isn't sinking
Oh, I wanted to see those photos at the end but they got blurry with the end screen **sigh**
this video posed a question - why is the airport sinking? but the video did not address the question of why! but did continue to say how much and for how long it will continue to sink!!
The sea level is rising too.
Never get an Italian engineer to build you anything. Look at the tower of Pisa 😂
Are you mixing up feet with inches ?
Bro I wanna go in that when if it sinks that would be an amazing place to go around
Do you know what's even more hilarious? Back in 1997-2000, Japan had experiments and tests with a possible fully floating airport. They've built a 1000m Mega-Float floating airport model in Tokyo Bay. And in the end, they came up to the following conclusions:
-A number of programs were developed to design a large-scale Mega-Float airport taking into account of hydro-elastic response. Using these programs, test designs of an approximately 5000m long floating airport containing a 4000m-class runway were drafted.
-Programs were developed to estimate fluctuations in the radio wave of ILS and PAPI, which are caused by the minute motions due to hydro-elastic response in the Mega-Float airport. These were then analyzed using the 4000m-class test designs. In addition, through the inputting of the analyzed values into a Japan Airlines’ flight simulator, several active pilots made simulated landings at the Mega-Float airport for evaluation. The results of these evaluations indicated the hydro-elastic response have absolutely no affect on landing.
-Actual test take-offs and landings carried out on the 1000m Mega-Float in Tokyo Bay enabled various data to be collected and analyzed, but no noticeable difference to airports on land was recorded. Furthermore, the results proved to be even more successful when the pilots who participated in the take-off and landing verification tests also evaluated the Mega-Float runway as being no different to any other airport.
-The environmental impact of the undersea noise caused by the take-off and landing of aircraft was evaluated to be at a level that would not affect the habitat of marine life.
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Gee!
now how could that happen.
Team seas: yeah…….. no, **frantically goes to shore**
No matter can take protection around the airport by filling 100fit long pillar filling technology with laminating water protection.
Can safe total artificial airport..Even they can push layer level down soil level also.
Ah shit here we go again!
Turn it into the world's first underwater city and personal sub port.
Sounds like the could only see half of what could happen when they built it ...
Cool
You can only learn if you make mistakes. They will make it work!
I'm no genius but why don't they just build a wall surrounding the airport, stopping the water from flooding the airport? I know aircraft land so the wall wouldn't suit them the best but they could extend the edges and build a wall far enough for aircraft to still approach aswell as the airport not to be flooded?
facepalm
What happens when you leave a sand castle, and the sea comes over the beach?
Shocker
How about an island around an island that is 200 feet above sea level?
from airport to seaport
When you want to make land into the sea, always ask the Dutch.
The shot at 4:05 is Incheon Airport, South Korea 🤣
So they have two islands. 2056, life of project.
They will evacuate one island and put more rocks on it.
Japan has a lot of mountain
I have been to this airport. It was amazing but yeah.
hey man, if that thing sinks, it's gonna ruin all the carpet!
I’m going to have a ducking seizure if I have to watch anymore of those transitions
I can only imagine the sunk costs
Should have called the dutchman to help with this, we are the watermeisters
When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object....
Looks like SimCity on the snes was the inspiration