All by design, powers that be don't want you to own houses that last generations, they want to sell you house made of cards, our ancestors had it much better than today's real estate bs run by real estate mafia
The people that built these lighthouses are true engineers wonder what kind of cement or material they used 🤔 and the people that stay there are true brave people
I can think of so many lighthouses that deserve to be on this list but because of my engineering background, Eddystone comes first to mind. The Eddystones have claimed far more lives than Bishop Rock ever has. The first lighthouse on the Eddystones was too short, rebuilt and then washed off the rocks during a storm. The second burned down. The third was designed by the father of modern Civil Engineering, John Smeaton, and lasted over a century until it was noticed that it was stronger than the rocks it was built on and the wind and waves hitting the lighthouse were causing the rocks to crack and erode. During the Victorian era, they replaced it. But Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse was the model for most modern lighthouses in extreme locations, including the one at Bishop Rock. (Smeaton modeled the shape after an Oak limb. It's how you can recognize a Smeaton-style lighthouse.) Any place with a "Smeaton-style" lighthouse could easily make this list.
I think the Thimble Shoals lighthouse in the Hampton roads area is pretty awesome. It sits in the middle of the river and can be seen from the I664 of the Virginia road system.
Love to spend a stormy night or two in one of these. As for the one that was moved, we wont be moving that again, well not the current civilization. Sorry but I'm a bit of a pessimist. Nice video thanks.
En España, los que quedan funcionando, están automatizados... los avances tecnológicos han eliminado una maravillosa profesión.❤ Hermana, hija, nieta, bisnieta de una saga de "fareros" muy conocida en España. Vivir en un faro te hace ser y sentir, diferente, afortunada.
Sad to see that Stannard Rock Lighthouse didn’t make the list. She’s 24 miles offshore in Lake Superior, and has quite the colorful history. It had earned the nickname “The Lonliest Place In the World” multiple times.
Great video about beautiful lighthouses but please know your French. The first in Bretagne is La Jument and the second one is La phare de Kéréon. Also missing Ar-Men and Tevennec in here. Not sure if Ar-men is dangerous but she's a rough beauty.
Strange to see that Bell Rock Lighthouse didn't make the list because of the engineering challenges experienced during the building. In January 1804 HMS York, a navy ship hit Bell Rock off Arbroath, Scotland and foundered. The ship then went down with all hands (491). Three years later a lighthouse was build and is widely considered to be one of the so-called "Seven wonders of the Industrial World". At low tide Bell Rock is a maximum of 4 metres above the waves. At high tide it is submerged 2 metres and since Roman times it must have taken numerous casualties......Special type interlocking blocks were used for the building. Because of the short period of low tide, only 4 hours, the building of this lighthouse took more than three years.
I really enjoyed the UK TV programme about the building of the lighthouse that was broadcast some years ago - it was fascinating. It was made by the BBC as the 3rd episode of the "Seven Wonders of the Industrial World" series and first Broadcast on BBC2 in Sept 2003, and 50 minutes long (no adverts!) Not available on iPlayer, unfortunately, but the whole series is available on DVD from A***on from £11.99 (used).
I love the Ocean I love Solitude I love the mystery of Lighthouses With the exception of Snake Island, I'd gladly accept the job as a Keeper! All I need are WiFi, Internet, Food & BEERS!!
I read a history of the many lighthouses on the Eddystone, just visible from Plymouth, England, beginning with Winstanley. However, you chose a similar structure further west, at Bishop Rock. Is it really a hotel?...I did not think that Trinity House would allow such a use, even for an automated unit.
In 1999 I moved back to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to help move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and came on after the excavation pit to cut the foundation. Later after losing my truck to the ocean during hurricane Dennis my girlfriend and myself swam across the then flooded pit where the lighthouse was moved to and climbed the stairs to the top to check for damage and what an experience that turned out to be as I would have never imagined the deafening roar and eerie howling from the wind much less the unsettling swaying of the lighthouse and shuddering when it swayed back into a strong gust. We probably broke a record for quickest decent and took shelter in the job site trailer which of course snapped the tie downs and blew into the trees directly behind it. The story about how the livery is wrong too is interesting but that's for fans of lighthouses to find out.
Old industrial chimney.....for those not swiming. Put inside stairs, a few floors for kitchen, bedroom, toilet and living room, a glassy dome with surrounding balcony and voilà.....without storms . And you don´t even have to be member of a gym 😊
The Flannan Isles lighthouse was never part of any official "murder mystery" and the rogue waves (likely) reached not the lighthouse but the landing stage over halfway down the rail track.
Absolutely correct. Also ,the talk of disruption in the lighthouse is rubbish, as is the report of log entries describing 'keepers praying'. This too was just journalistic rubbish.
I know that divers have sometimes literally chain mail armor to protect them from bites. So I wonder how practical making literal medieval Knight style plate leg armour would be to protect the maintenance engineers, for the one day a year, that they have to walk onto snake Island? I know the weight on land, as opposed to weight for divers in the water, is a very significant difference, but maybe an aluminium version, or a Kevlar version?
They probably use something similar to what me and my guys use removing venomous snakes. We use leather chaps basically but they're like overalls. They completely cover our feet. Fishing waders but leather I guess would be the best way to describe it.
To say Rubjerg Knude lighthouse 'used to be located on the coast' (2:08) isn't quite right - it has always been located on a headland on the coast. The main problem was the travelling sand dune that is slowly moving north up the coast of Denmark driven by prevailing winds and which gradually buried the keepers' quarters and power house. The shifting sand then eroded the headland and the lighthouse was in danger of collapsing into the sea. The TV series 'Mysteries of the Abandoned' aka 'Abandoned Engineering' featured the story in 2017 and this may have influenced the Danish authorities to move it away from the cliff edge.
Eddystone light doesn't even make the list? Lighthouse on site since 1699. World's first offshore lighthouse. Built on a red granite reef some twelve miles offshore. Innumerable wrecks. First light (Winstanley's) house washed away; Winstanley, (engineer) taken prisoner from the site by a French privateer, only released after the French king Louis ordered his release with these words; "We are at war with the British, not humanity..." or some such. Second lighthouse burned down. Third lighthouse removed and re assembled on Plymouth Hoe. Many more stories. Should've made the cut.
The Bishop Rock Light was never 'comfy' - my father served there in the 1970s. Additionally it is not now an hotel (15:30). Rather misleadingly 'Bishops Rock' is a holiday cottage alongside the Lizard Lighthouse 40 miles away on the mainland.
There is a lighthouse on Duck Island (another Snake Island) in Lake Ontario, Canada. There are actually more snakes there than Ilha da Queimada Grande. I don't think any of the snakes on this island are poisonous though. As far as I can tell no one lives on the island, because all I saw was abandoned buildings.
the Needles light house at the Isle of Wight is something to see, there are 3 or 4 columns of rock and chalk tailing away from the Island and the light house is built on the last one, in the winter the wind gusts between 80 to 100 miles per hour
Worked for Trinity house in the 70's, on outstation maintenance, Bishop rock was my last call had enough US Army emergency rations on station, get you on, but you waited to be gotten off. Incidentally look at Bish, the black stains from windows & door. No toilets, only pineapple tins, open window, check wind, empty can.. TRUTH.
The narrator of this video sounds so much like a very good local TV journalist at Ch. 2 (NBC affiliate), Buffalo, NY, by the name of Dave McKinley. From the first few words I thought to myself, who does this sound like? that's how close they sound.
Yes, everyone remembers where they were when all the world's automated lighthouses were switched on in 1991. Of course, very few people talk about it, as the following year, the resealable cheese slices container was introduced, overshadowing the breakthrough of the previous year!
4. No one has to take the risk?! You realise there is quite a few people living on the island of Stromboli itself right, far, far closer than the light house!
3:21 Rogue wave? If that were the case, all the items inside would have been wet or showed signs of water damage from sea water and not just in disorder.
you forgot "Ar Men" - wich translate as "the rock" - (even if you showed it in the beginning)... it was more hellish than the other two french you mentioned... it took nearly 30 years to built in one of the worst sea and earned the lovely nickname "l'Enfer des Enfers", in english "the Hell of Hells"... enjoy your journey on it :)
It is amazing that these things have survived salt air, huge waves slamming them, winds, rain, freezing temps, ect for so long!
You got to respect the ppl who built these places while brand new houses fall to pieces after a few years
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All depends on the budget
Right?
Light houses are not being built much anymore. Why not tell us which ones your talking about, ganga man.
All by design, powers that be don't want you to own houses that last generations, they want to sell you house made of cards, our ancestors had it much better than today's real estate bs run by real estate mafia
I LOVE lighthouses!! Thank you!!!
Look up Royal Sovereign Lighthouse.
@@krashd that lighthouse is beautiful and unique! Too bad it will be decommissioned one day soon!! So different! Thank you!
The people that built these lighthouses are true engineers wonder what kind of cement or material they used 🤔 and the people that stay there are true brave people
They don't use cement they use specially designed interlocking blocks.
Stannard Rock in Lake Superior is second to none for danger, isolation and stormy conditions.
BS
I can think of so many lighthouses that deserve to be on this list but because of my engineering background, Eddystone comes first to mind.
The Eddystones have claimed far more lives than Bishop Rock ever has. The first lighthouse on the Eddystones was too short, rebuilt and then washed off the rocks during a storm. The second burned down. The third was designed by the father of modern Civil Engineering, John Smeaton, and lasted over a century until it was noticed that it was stronger than the rocks it was built on and the wind and waves hitting the lighthouse were causing the rocks to crack and erode. During the Victorian era, they replaced it. But Smeaton's Eddystone lighthouse was the model for most modern lighthouses in extreme locations, including the one at Bishop Rock. (Smeaton modeled the shape after an Oak limb. It's how you can recognize a Smeaton-style lighthouse.) Any place with a "Smeaton-style" lighthouse could easily make this list.
Thanks for this info. I found it interesting.
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Considering how many lives were guided and saved by the lighthouses it seems we could return the favor.
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Is there any chance that people worldwide can apply for this job?
These are engineering marvels, with each one having its own story to go with it. Quite fascinating.
Loving every minute of the lighthouse family
Love these interesting and fact filled vids, nice job
Flannan Isle is the epitome of gothic horror meets nature's fury. Also, yay! Glad to see Andros in the list, totally out of a fantasy landscape.
This is so awesome! 😍 I love lighthouses! Except for the one in Snake Island!
Snake are excellent to make shoes, belt, wallet and soup 😊
I've seen both Bishop Rock lighthouse and Longships lighthouse at the same time on a clear day at Lands End, England
I was so surprised to see St. joseph! It is dangerous all year, though. People jump off the pier in the summer and get pulled under by the current.
I was expecting to see Bell Rock lighthouse on here for sure. Still, this was interesting!
so was i , have you seen seven wonders of the industrial world? as it features the building of Bell rock, AKA, inchcape rock
@@jeanglendinning1860 I did see that, it was great! I learned a lot about those places, including Bell Rock.
I think the Thimble Shoals lighthouse in the Hampton roads area is pretty awesome. It sits in the middle of the river and can be seen from the I664 of the Virginia road system.
Terrible Tilly - my favorite
Internet, xbox, and food….just leave me be!
These places have an indescribable magic. I find it fascinating to know that people live there!😮
Tilly lighthouse comes to mind.
The third light house video series by Top Fives. Its times like this I'm glad I use an adblocker on UA-cam
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ALL lighthouses are in dangerous locations.
Thats why there is a lighthouse there.
DUH!
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❤I loved ur share I loved that light house😊
Very cool, thanks for the great video🔥
I wonder how did they built it in those hard conditions.
Thanks for sharing, very interesting
Love to spend a stormy night or two in one of these. As for the one that was moved, we wont be moving that again, well not the current civilization. Sorry but I'm a bit of a pessimist. Nice video thanks.
love these lighthouse videos
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I think living in a lighthouse would be kinda comfy
If you're an introvert it would be a dream.
That bright light would be a no for me
@@heathenwolf4997 Just unplug it!
Big fan of old lighthouses, they are usually in dramatically beautiful locations 💯😊
how did they prevent ship wrecks? ships saw them and just knew that its dangerous around where light house is or what?
Only need internet, books, booz, fishing gear, a speed boat and enough food. I will gladly do the job. No one can disturb me, What a peace.
I love lighthouses. I would love to be a lightkeeper in maine or the shoreline of michigan. Very cool video
It would drive me round the bend.
En España, los que quedan funcionando, están automatizados... los avances tecnológicos han eliminado una maravillosa profesión.❤
Hermana, hija, nieta, bisnieta de una saga de "fareros" muy conocida en España. Vivir en un faro te hace ser y sentir, diferente, afortunada.
0:57 Jstu : Today we went to the most dangerous lighthouse and were spending an overnight in it
Why is the chicken rock lighthouse of the Isle of Man not mentioned in this video
I love light house
I’d love this job
Th one for $1.2 million for a year off the coast of France
Sad to see that Stannard Rock Lighthouse didn’t make the list. She’s 24 miles offshore in Lake Superior, and has quite the colorful history. It had earned the nickname “The Lonliest Place In the World” multiple times.
Absolutely agree
Great video about beautiful lighthouses but please know your French. The first in Bretagne is La Jument and the second one is La phare de Kéréon. Also missing Ar-Men and Tevennec in here. Not sure if Ar-men is dangerous but she's a rough beauty.
The sight of these lighthouses reminds me of human innovation and stretching of his capabilities. A risk!
"Bishop Rock now serves as a Hotel " !!! Where the hell did you get that gem from ? :-) :-)
I love lighthouses and have collected many !!
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Strange to see that Bell Rock Lighthouse didn't make the list because of the engineering challenges experienced during the building. In January 1804 HMS York, a navy ship hit Bell Rock off Arbroath, Scotland and foundered. The ship then went down with all hands (491).
Three years later a lighthouse was build and is widely considered to be one of the so-called
"Seven wonders of the Industrial World". At low tide Bell Rock is a maximum of 4 metres above the waves. At high tide it is submerged 2 metres and since Roman times it must have taken numerous casualties......Special type interlocking blocks were used for the building. Because of the short period of low tide, only 4 hours, the building of this lighthouse took more than three years.
I really enjoyed the UK TV programme about the building of the lighthouse that was broadcast some years ago - it was fascinating. It was made by the BBC as the 3rd episode of the "Seven Wonders of the Industrial World" series and first Broadcast on BBC2 in Sept 2003, and 50 minutes long (no adverts!) Not available on iPlayer, unfortunately, but the whole series is available on DVD from A***on from £11.99 (used).
@@edeledeledel5490 The TV programme about the Seven Wonders of the Industrial World was also broadcast on Dutch TV several years ago.
@@henkdegroot5872 I hope you enjoyed it? Are you Dutch? If so, your English is very good, but then most Dutch people seem to speak English very well.
I never knew they had lighthouse that HIGH in VERY high places 😮😮😮😳😳😳😲❤
This list should include the Stannard Rock Lighthouse in Lake Superior...
These are all truly engineering marvels that have stood the test of time and sea.
I love the Ocean
I love Solitude
I love the mystery of Lighthouses
With the exception of Snake Island, I'd gladly accept the job as a Keeper!
All I need are WiFi, Internet, Food & BEERS!!
No le gustan los faros si ansía tener en ellos, los "adelantos" del s.XXI
How in in the heck did folks back then build these ?
😅😅😅well information good show 😅😅
Someone had to build these things in these ridiculous places.
I read a history of the many lighthouses on the Eddystone, just visible from Plymouth, England, beginning with Winstanley. However, you chose a similar structure further west, at Bishop Rock. Is it really a hotel?...I did not think that Trinity House would allow such a use, even for an automated unit.
In 1999 I moved back to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to help move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse and came on after the excavation pit to cut the foundation. Later after losing my truck to the ocean during hurricane Dennis my girlfriend and myself swam across the then flooded pit where the lighthouse was moved to and climbed the stairs to the top to check for damage and what an experience that turned out to be as I would have never imagined the deafening roar and eerie howling from the wind much less the unsettling swaying of the lighthouse and shuddering when it swayed back into a strong gust. We probably broke a record for quickest decent and took shelter in the job site trailer which of course snapped the tie downs and blew into the trees directly behind it. The story about how the livery is wrong too is interesting but that's for fans of lighthouses to find out.
Great story
I'm from New England.
Your saving a piece of history.
Thank you
That sounds incredible and scary. Wouldn't you have been safer though at the top of the lighthouse, despite the noise and the swaying?
@@jayrox1726 _You're_ not _your_
how to apply light house keeper
If the seas are that fierce, how did they build them in the first place
Surprised not to see Royal Sovereign Lighthouse on here, it's the weirdest looking lighthouse on the planet.
1991 was a good year for lighthouses and their keepers with a fair few becoming automated that year.
Old industrial chimney.....for those not swiming. Put inside stairs, a few floors for kitchen, bedroom, toilet and living room, a glassy dome with surrounding balcony and voilà.....without storms . And you don´t even have to be member of a gym 😊
Would love to work here
#9 looks like it belongs in an aquarium 😃
Lighthouses are in every dangerous palces
My granddaughters are doing a project onthis!
The Flannan Isles lighthouse was never part of any official "murder mystery" and the rogue waves (likely) reached not the lighthouse but the landing stage over halfway down the rail track.
Absolutely correct. Also ,the talk of disruption in the lighthouse is rubbish, as is the report of log entries describing 'keepers praying'. This too was just journalistic rubbish.
Quite so, Liam.
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I know that divers have sometimes literally chain mail armor to protect them from bites.
So I wonder how practical making literal medieval Knight style plate leg armour would be to protect the maintenance engineers, for the one day a year, that they have to walk onto snake Island?
I know the weight on land, as opposed to weight for divers in the water, is a very significant difference, but maybe an aluminium version, or a Kevlar version?
They probably use something similar to what me and my guys use removing venomous snakes. We use leather chaps basically but they're like overalls. They completely cover our feet. Fishing waders but leather I guess would be the best way to describe it.
@@MidTennPews Can leather withstand a snake bite?
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Just “W.O.W!”
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I don’t think its correct to say Bishop Rock lighthouse is now used as a hotel?!
To say Rubjerg Knude lighthouse 'used to be located on the coast' (2:08) isn't quite right - it has always been located on a headland on the coast. The main problem was the travelling sand dune that is slowly moving north up the coast of Denmark driven by prevailing winds and which gradually buried the keepers' quarters and power house. The shifting sand then eroded the headland and the lighthouse was in danger of collapsing into the sea. The TV series 'Mysteries of the Abandoned' aka 'Abandoned Engineering' featured the story in 2017 and this may have influenced the Danish authorities to move it away from the cliff edge.
Imagine taking 10 yrs to build one of these, then technology and more advanced materials arise
"It's The Calm Before The Storm, Winslow."
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Eddystone light doesn't even make the list? Lighthouse on site since 1699. World's first offshore lighthouse. Built on a red granite reef some twelve miles offshore. Innumerable wrecks. First light (Winstanley's) house washed away; Winstanley, (engineer) taken prisoner from the site by a French privateer, only released after the French king Louis ordered his release with these words; "We are at war with the British, not humanity..." or some such. Second lighthouse burned down. Third lighthouse removed and re assembled on Plymouth Hoe. Many more stories. Should've made the cut.
The Bishop Rock Light was never 'comfy' - my father served there in the 1970s. Additionally it is not now an hotel (15:30). Rather misleadingly 'Bishops Rock' is a holiday cottage alongside the Lizard Lighthouse 40 miles away on the mainland.
There is a lighthouse on Duck Island (another Snake Island) in Lake Ontario, Canada. There are actually more snakes there than Ilha da Queimada Grande. I don't think any of the snakes on this island are poisonous though. As far as I can tell no one lives on the island, because all I saw was abandoned buildings.
the Needles light house at the Isle of Wight is something to see, there are 3 or 4 columns of rock and chalk tailing away from the Island and the light house is built on the last one, in the winter the wind gusts between 80 to 100 miles per hour
Worked for Trinity house in the 70's, on outstation maintenance, Bishop rock was my last call had enough US Army emergency rations on station, get you on, but you waited to be gotten off. Incidentally look at Bish, the black stains from windows & door. No toilets, only pineapple tins, open window, check wind, empty can.. TRUTH.
Bishop Rock lighthouse doesn't serve as a hotel. Who told you that?
What about Boone Island Light house off the coast of Maine ??????.
The narrator of this video sounds so much like a very good local TV journalist at Ch. 2 (NBC affiliate), Buffalo, NY, by the name of Dave McKinley. From the first few words I thought to myself, who does this sound like? that's how close they sound.
Number 13 Rubjerg Knude lighthouse is in Denmark, the North Sea coast.
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Trully beautiful lighthouses - but every single one soo scarey to atually live in.
Ahh yes I remember 1991 the year of the automated light houses
Yes, everyone remembers where they were when all the world's automated lighthouses were switched on in 1991. Of course, very few people talk about it, as the following year, the resealable cheese slices container was introduced, overshadowing the breakthrough of the previous year!
And 2004
LMAO 🤣😂😆
I'd like to see how they build them and how the location is picked. I've been going to hatters for a long time and saw them move the lighthouse.
I saw the scaffolding on # nine, that alone would be crazy to set up.
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4. No one has to take the risk?!
You realise there is quite a few people living on the island of Stromboli itself right, far, far closer than the light house!
Missed Wolf Rock lighthouse between Cornwall and Scillies
even more secluded than Bishop Rock
Kipsira is eerie
He keeps saying thankfully no one has to work here, I'm like I'd take that job sounds awesome with amazing veiws at some locations
Süper 💯💯💯💯💯💯
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What about the light house on devils Island in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Booo! No Skerryvore? Boooooo! Just kidding but skerry’s cool 😎 as heck
Good
3:21 Rogue wave? If that were the case, all the items inside would have been wet or showed signs of water damage from sea water and not just in disorder.
And, had to be a massive wave....too high...
Or they went insane before killing each other.
The Stevenson family built most of UK lighthouses
Give me enough food and scotch and I’ll do a month on any one of them
2:25 This wouldn't happen in New Zealand. The lighthouse would be deemed a symbol of oppression and destroyed.
Light house Scotlan 12-15-1900
Where is the lighthouse listed at #13, the one threatened by sand, located? Maybe the narrator mentioned this, but I didn't catch it. Thanks.
It's called rubjerg knude..it's in Denmark
@@korigorovenko4791 Thank you!
Lighthouses in the Florida Keys are screwed in the reefs.
you forgot "Ar Men" - wich translate as "the rock" - (even if you showed it in the beginning)... it was more hellish than the other two french you mentioned... it took nearly 30 years to built in one of the worst sea and earned the lovely nickname "l'Enfer des Enfers", in english "the Hell of Hells"... enjoy your journey on it :)
it's located near an island (Sein) about what we say "qui voit Sein voit sa fin" in english "whom see Sein see his end"...
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My need a job . I like light house.