@@randomdude5261 It's a Poe. Almost all the flattards are Poes. There are very few actual real flat earthers. It's almost impossible to be that dumb, and to get through life, without anyone noticing, and making sure you're not left unsupervised
@@MrMiguelForster Do you know that the Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea? So by your definition Venice is in the ocean. Indeed by your definition a Sea doesnt exist, cause an inland sea is a fucking LAKE.
Coming from someone with a degree in naval architecture and marine engineering, this couldn't have been an enginnering issue. Everything from high corrosion in salt water to mussels growing and how to handle them is taught to you in your second and third year. So, i believe this must have been to launder money. I can't believe that multiple engineers could be this incompetent
Clearly they should have employed Dutch engineers who have proven experience to cope with these issues. I suspect that keeping the money in house drove the design.
@@lynncomstock1255 I honestly don't think special expertise is required. This must have been done so that the politicians and possibly the mafia can make money by skimming off the top of the contract by using cheap materials on purpose.
Coming from someone who never went to college, I knew it was an idiotic, useless idea the second I heard it! Money laundering / political graft, totally.
He does look familiar! I even went back to look at him again. I’m glad I’m not the only one who recognized a very familiar face! Maybe Einstein? Or Saddam Hussein?
Agree 100%. And the problem of silt & debris blocking the mechanism....is first mentioned half-way through the doc. Wonder how that obvious issue was never addressed in the real project... Where there some Venetian artists & sculptors assisting as eng. consultants?
Why didn't they make it out of stainless steel or aluminium... they zinc it all or run an electric current through it so sea life didn't build up on it? Seems like a massive oversight.
Not at all. Bought a gelato just recently. Plan on retiring there. The online ad prices for real estate is ludicrous. Just visit and contact a local real estate agent.
@@960Design Agreed. I travel across Europe a lot. If the online prices seem high and you have local contacts then go local. If not, then spend some time on your first trip to find some.
"What they didn't think about was tidal currents pushing sand and silt under the walls, and preventing them from coming down" I'm 18, live in middle america nowhere near the ocean, and that was the first thing i thought of.. who designed this project? Some of these engineers would have been manual laborers if they had to pay for their own schooling.
So are you saying you would have the knowledge you do now if you were there when they started building the city? Just so you know, this city was build long ago. They are only having severe problems now because of climate change. I guess you didn't take that into consideration.
@@Aki-hb1jy The only reason the city is in that location was due to invasions. It was a bad idea to start with, good for geographic barriers only. Mexico City had a similar design and purpose now it's sinking into the lake by so many inches a year. Just a "American" nowhere near a ocean chiming in.
@@Aki-hb1jy Pay attention. He never mentioned having knowledge about building the city, he mentioned THIS project. And just like him, as soon as I heard about this project, I knew it sounded absurd and impossible to function as intended. And as usual for ignorant people like you, you had to mention "climate change" which has absolutely nothing to do regarding the success or failure of this project.
€5 billion is enough money to give €100,000 to every homeless person in Italy, but instead they spent it on some crazy flood defence project that didn't even work.
Maybe the best thing to do is to close all openings to the sea, maintain the safe water level in the lagoon and build a Panama-like canal with locks to connect the lagoon to the sea and to prevent sea water from coming in. Also build pumping station to maintain water level, which also serve to remove flood waters coming from the mainland.
Just for perspective, it costed over 10 times more to build these failed flood defences than it did to build the Shard, which is the tallest skyscraper in the European Union.
The only way for them to succeed is by building dams that have locks that stay open during safe tide levels it already works everywhere else just my opinion tell me if I'm wrong
Concrete floor; fill the dips; swing open and close; silts only need to be moved from one side to next; via louver et al; to suck out as moved; via gate pump at bottom; silt only need to be moved distance gate need to move; inch or three; from one side of gate to other side; and spray it upward in angle would make less chore each time; just in case did not know how to build it;
obviously not well planned, but one thing though, the lady at the end said it would cost 80 million € every year to operate it and she said it in a tone to make it out like that would be excessive or too expensive. Venice has 260k inhabitants, is one of the richest cities in Italy, has 25-30 million tourists every year who spend alot of money there, which is half of the tourists of whole Italy btw, i doubt 80 million € every year would make a big difference to the finances of Venice. quick maths: Tourism income makes up 13% of Italy's GDP, Italy's GDP is 2 trillion € so 13% of that is 260bn €, Venice accounts for half of all tourists who come to Italy, so you'd think Venice makes about 130bn € from Tourism alone every year.
Amazing how centuries ago the architects found a way to erect buildings on a lagoon, that currently remain. Hundreds of years later, the smartest minds can't figure how to build a gate? Ridiculous. The difference now is that everyone's main concern is money, more than function.
Why didn’t they just narrow the inlets so they had less gates to build? They could have dredged the material from around Venice as well to make the water deeper and increase the Bays capacity.
Brian W You been reading too much NYtimes. The actual data shows that most of the countries engaged in the belt and road initiative have a balanced debt structure from a variety of sources from multiple countries. The news make it sound like all of their debts are from China all of a sudden.
Years and years studying the problem and still they mess it up. All the modern technology and materials and they couldn't find something that didn't readily corrode and rust?!?! Someone or a lot of someones need to be fired and replaced. 😒
*Italy* : We spent €5 Billion, but we're not able to stop Venice from flooding
*Netherlands* : Let me tell you something...
Flooding
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Please get Elon Musk on this ASAP.
@@PGains wow you're stupid
Sadly Because of corruption its not complete
Only the dutch cam save them
@J d You clearly dont know the dutch. Look at the maaskering or deltawerken.
@J d, the winds and waves coming from the Atlantic North Sea cannot be compared with anything in the shallow Venetian lagoon in the Mediterranean.
True
Exactly what I was thinking about!
They're need tha walllll
As a Dutchie
I just cringe on how bad this was thought out...
They just should have left it out to the Dutch....
Hahahah same ze hadden het gewoon aan de Nederlanders moeten overlaten.
German engineers are better
Italians, if you visit the country you will be surprised how everything is still everything working there
There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.
Public works in Italy awarded by public tender always stink of kickbacks.
1:10 "Venice is on the ocean"... from a physicist. I guess you skipped geography classes then.
Would you rather him say "Venice is on the sea"?
adriatic ocean
@Hazard187 because that made it the most powerful city in the world.
@@mrhills8868 His English certainly doesn't sound American.
YOU IDIOTS HIS RIGHT, THE WATER VENICE IS LOCATED ON IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE OCEAN.
I despise documentaries where they have 3 different people regurgitating the same exact thing, I'd bet they're all actors anyway.
When you accidentally spot a flatearther
@Goggle products You need a tinfoil hat. Climate change is real dumbass.
@Goggle products better check your meds.
Plus this video has what porpoise? Those people should look at their places, I'm sure they are far from perfect!
@@randomdude5261 It's a Poe. Almost all the flattards are Poes. There are very few actual real flat earthers. It's almost impossible to be that dumb, and to get through life, without anyone noticing, and making sure you're not left unsupervised
For a second I thought Stan lee was going to be interviewed
Stan Lee is far from home
And dead
1:11 I died "Venice is on the ocean" dude! The freaking ocean is 900 km away from Venice
wrong. The Mediterranean Sea is not an Ocean .-.
GreenFox X3 that’s the point
He’s saying that the commentator is wrong
@@greenfox1991 duuude is it that difficult to comprehend some sentences before writing a comment?
the mediterranean is not an inland sea.. its basically the fckn ocean. stop being stupid
@@MrMiguelForster Do you know that the Adriatic Sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea? So by your definition Venice is in the ocean. Indeed by your definition a Sea doesnt exist, cause an inland sea is a fucking LAKE.
The incompetence in this project is astounding. I have no formal engineering training and found these problems to be incredibly obvious to consider.
1:11
Simon: “Venice is on the ocean...”
*wait... wha’?!*
Marko P. so is it a seaside town but cos its not on the side of the sea
@Makayla which ocean?
@Makayla No, it is in the adriatic sea which is a part of the Mediterranean sea. It's a sea, not an ocean.
Wow, they built it out of steel in salt water. Genius move right there.
Like those tanker ships and every cruiseliner in the world are made out of steel. Yes, silly them.
@@gc99289 You beat me to it lol
@@gc99289 Yes but those are regularly maintained and painted.
@@thelastcommander8765 How often do you think a 150k ton tanker is pulled out and painted below the waterline? Serious
There are different types of steel dude. You know stainless steel is a thing right?
Itali..
Great people..
Great culture..
Loving from india
they thought this was minecraft.
Venice: we spend 5 billion dollars to protect the city from flooding but it won't work.
Netherlands: Hold my beer🍺 please😎
Dude Shini is the hottest engineer I’ve ever seen
She sure knows a lot about that pole petrification.
Dacia Sandero guys 😂
bro???
Indian and Latina chicks are hot af
@@shouvikroy3178 Indian chicks are not at all hot, latinas are tho
Physicist:"Venice is on the ocean..." Ok I've heard enough, is called Mediterranean SEA
Called Sea in English, but not in other countries/languages.
Adriatic Sea, not Mediterranean Sea
Demetrios M adriatic sea is part of the Mediterranean sea🙄🙄
he thought they were talking about venice beach CA
@Ricardo S mer méditerranée in french too
2nd biggest flood of city. The 5 billion went into their pockets
Coming from someone with a degree in naval architecture and marine engineering, this couldn't have been an enginnering issue. Everything from high corrosion in salt water to mussels growing and how to handle them is taught to you in your second and third year. So, i believe this must have been to launder money. I can't believe that multiple engineers could be this incompetent
Typical corruption
Clearly they should have employed Dutch engineers who have proven experience to cope with these issues. I suspect that keeping the money in house drove the design.
@@lynncomstock1255 I honestly don't think special expertise is required. This must have been done so that the politicians and possibly the mafia can make money by skimming off the top of the contract by using cheap materials on purpose.
Coming from someone who never went to college, I knew it was an idiotic, useless idea the second I heard it! Money laundering / political graft, totally.
Venice is beautiful I was lucky enough to visit earlier this year.
glad italian stan lee is still with us 1:39
tommytatt ha
Did anyone else notice she had a huge fricking voice crack at 2:44?😂😂😂
1:40 is it just me or he looks like stan lee
Have you... ever seen Stan Lee?
He does look familiar! I even went back to look at him again. I’m glad I’m not the only one who recognized a very familiar face! Maybe Einstein? Or Saddam Hussein?
I love small documentaries where 4 people repeat the same thing in different ways one after another. No substance lazy documentary.
Agree 100%. And the problem of silt & debris blocking the mechanism....is first mentioned half-way through the doc. Wonder how that obvious issue was never addressed in the real project... Where there some Venetian artists & sculptors assisting as eng. consultants?
having just watched china's megaprojects, this is nuts, accountability needs to be brought in
Was there a 2 weeks ago, lovely city, and country.
Venezia is not on the ocean ... It's the Mediterranean Sea. I so want to go visit this beautiful place, I do hope they can guard it from destruction.
Call the Dutch people in to resolve this problem, like srsly, maybe like the swinging dam they've in Rotterdam might work?
who's here Nov 13 2019 great flood
November 16, 2019
Nov 16 2019
Nov 17 2019
Nov 17 2020
What?
As of November 2019, venice got flooded again upto even 6 feet of water.
Let it sink, it will be great for under water adventure scuba diving 😂🤣
@@papalaz very funny.........
Frengo69 it is yes
I shit myself when that Greg guy started speaking, proper shouting 😂😂
“Venice is on the ocean.” Lmfao...
Welcome to Italy, my friend 😊
Imagine being the plug over there and just taking a jetski to ur mans 😂
WorldGangWatch tf u going to do from Cali u sus
what a beautiful city. Really loved visiting there. Hope to visit again
Please get Elon Musk on this ASAP.
Those gates are a testament to the world renowned quality Italian engineering.
Titanic: I'm sinking you dipshits!
People in charge: Keep the music playing Damn it!!
The Sea: Aye Aye Captain.
Why didn't they make it out of stainless steel or aluminium... they zinc it all or run an electric current through it so sea life didn't build up on it? Seems like a massive oversight.
Do you actually know which metal they used ?
@@roddaz nah but I know what they didn't use lol
@@roddaz obviously steel if its rusting already.
I heard you need to remortgage if you want to buy an ice cream in Venice
Not at all. Bought a gelato just recently. Plan on retiring there. The online ad prices for real estate is ludicrous. Just visit and contact a local real estate agent.
@@960Design Agreed. I travel across Europe a lot. If the online prices seem high and you have local contacts then go local. If not, then spend some time on your first trip to find some.
may i suggest panama canal lock gate?
"What they didn't think about was tidal currents pushing sand and silt under the walls, and preventing them from coming down" I'm 18, live in middle america nowhere near the ocean, and that was the first thing i thought of.. who designed this project? Some of these engineers would have been manual laborers if they had to pay for their own schooling.
So are you saying you would have the knowledge you do now if you were there when they started building the city? Just so you know, this city was build long ago.
They are only having severe problems now because of climate change. I guess you didn't take that into consideration.
@@Aki-hb1jy The only reason the city is in that location was due to invasions. It was a bad idea to start with, good for geographic barriers only. Mexico City had a similar design and purpose now it's sinking into the lake by so many inches a year. Just a "American" nowhere near a ocean chiming in.
@@Aki-hb1jy Pay attention. He never mentioned having knowledge about building the city, he mentioned THIS project. And just like him, as soon as I heard about this project, I knew it sounded absurd and impossible to function as intended. And as usual for ignorant people like you, you had to mention "climate change" which has absolutely nothing to do regarding the success or failure of this project.
Shini Somara the Mechanical Engineer is super gorgeous..
Oh big time...stunningly beautiful
I really appreciate her make up. look at that glow. contouring and shading. just extraordinary💯💃🏽🔥⭐️
who still makes these documentaries where the experts are clearly reading from a script? that is old, stop it. move on film-makers
Well congratulations for your success and we hope you more flooding
€5 billion is enough money to give €100,000 to every homeless person in Italy, but instead they spent it on some crazy flood defence project that didn't even work.
How about made permanent barier and use it like a cannal system. So the ship still able to pass through?
I was waiting for one of these “experts” to say “WE SHOULD TAKE THE ADRIATIC SEA, AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!” 😂😂😂
They should build something similar to the Panama Canal. You can control flooding and also let ships pass through.
Blame Mysterio
Is it finished ?
Why not dams with gates to control the level. Seems easier to do then have hinged objects on the seabed.
Maybe the best thing to do is to close all openings to the sea, maintain the safe water level in the lagoon and build a Panama-like canal with locks to connect the lagoon to the sea and to prevent sea water from coming in. Also build pumping station to maintain water level, which also serve to remove flood waters coming from the mainland.
I am Italian....absolutely embarrassed and not surprised at all. Italy is like this in most aspects!
Was it working?
Venice is the new atlantis
It wouldnt be so bad if the floodwaters were clean and clear
Does the water really that deep? I thought Venice as built on top of a swamp so perhaps they can build a sea wall through land reclamation.
Just for perspective, it costed over 10 times more to build these failed flood defences than it did to build the Shard, which is the tallest skyscraper in the European Union.
Stop hiring kids just out of college to design your solutions. This problem was solved in other places decades ago. Could have used a lock.
Looks like they’ve spent the money well and done a stellar job.
You know we have these things called locks that have been used for centuries and they work.
Is it possible to instead redirect the flow of the tides around or thru Venice?
I like how they acknowledged that Moses was a prophet
Xavier Mondragon even the devil recognizes who God is ... this means nothing breh
I almost bought a Ferrari. Now I'm getting a bus pass...lol
I would have tried to do a little - 5 euro experiment before spend the first billion
WHAT? Not a SINGLE SHOT of these underwater barriers!
The only way for them to succeed is by building dams that have locks that stay open during safe tide levels it already works everywhere else just my opinion tell me if I'm wrong
2:338
My favorite place on this planet!
Wow it’s heavenly beautiful 😍😍😍
Sarcastic much?
How did nobody involved just look at the design of the gates before they were even built and point out that the design was a mess? Come on man lmao
But why would they want the gates to ever drop down?
because if the water along the shore never circulates you'd end up with stagnant water full of decaying organic material
Errr.. boats? I think they need water to navigate. :)
I want to visit still but this concerns me.
Haha Goodbye Venice, will remember you
New Orleans watches anxiously
Call the Dutch
Concrete floor; fill the dips; swing open and close; silts only need to be moved from one side to next; via louver et al; to suck out as moved; via gate pump at bottom; silt only need to be moved distance gate need to move; inch or three; from one side of gate to other side; and spray it upward in angle would make less chore each time; just in case did not know how to build it;
Just call trump he can keep everything out hahaha
Build the wall, build the wall!!!!!
Like many other projects in the world, they might not be good ideas but the money is good.
They shoulda called Amsterdam
obviously not well planned, but one thing though, the lady at the end said it would cost 80 million € every year to operate it and she said it in a tone to make it out like that would be excessive or too expensive.
Venice has 260k inhabitants, is one of the richest cities in Italy, has 25-30 million tourists every year who spend alot of money there, which is half of the tourists of whole Italy btw, i doubt 80 million € every year would make a big difference to the finances of Venice. quick maths: Tourism income makes up 13% of Italy's GDP, Italy's GDP is 2 trillion € so 13% of that is 260bn €, Venice accounts for half of all tourists who come to Italy, so you'd think Venice makes about 130bn € from Tourism alone every year.
most of taxes go to rome and never come back
People Who proposed this idea are not qualified engineers
Really awesome
Amazing how centuries ago the architects found a way to erect buildings on a lagoon, that currently remain. Hundreds of years later, the smartest minds can't figure how to build a gate? Ridiculous. The difference now is that everyone's main concern is money, more than function.
2:45 M-ooohhhh-ses😂😂
They should have use Dutch technology, they`re experienced on this matter
Why didn’t they just narrow the inlets so they had less gates to build? They could have dredged the material from around Venice as well to make the water deeper and increase the Bays capacity.
Hire a Chinese company. They will get it done in 1 year.
Brian W You been reading too much NYtimes. The actual data shows that most of the countries engaged in the belt and road initiative have a balanced debt structure from a variety of sources from multiple countries. The news make it sound like all of their debts are from China all of a sudden.
@Brian W Name one country China have taken over with 'interest on a loan' ?
@@roddaz They're doing it to many African nation's. It's like China's form of Imperial colonialism.
@@joelromero6074 China has not taken over one single African nation, stop talking shit.
@@roddaz financially not militarily you dumb shit.
What a clever useful video... 😏
One thing For sure the engineer knows her pole well.
@ 1:42 why this man look like Stan lee
recycle plastic, in the shapes and sizes of the barrier
Can water proof concrete work ?
I visited Venice while serving in the U.S.A.F. I can assure you the place smells like a toilet.
"Ah Venice. Look at the sights! Beautiful, romantic *sloshes around in knee high water with rain boots* iconic!"
Amazing process
Venezia è nell'Oceano? Quale Venezia? Quella americana? Venice beach😂
Build a huge dam around Venice. Then have gates that will allow boats through when it's safe.
Years and years studying the problem and still they mess it up. All the modern technology and materials and they couldn't find something that didn't readily corrode and rust?!?! Someone or a lot of someones need to be fired and replaced. 😒
those someones made tens of millions -- from their point of view, the project was successful
The swinging one in Rotterdam seems to work?
He says “tidal surges of 2.7 meters” like its high. It’s less than 9 feet
Imagine if your city was nine feet underwater...
Venice is flooding. The Netherlands hold my beer