Bizarre Structure Sitting In The Atlantic Ocean Has An Even Stranger History
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2017
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Throughout history, mankind has labored to overcome the challenges presented by the natural world. People are forever trying to build houses on unstable land, or to make entire villages at the bases of active volcanos. It’s almost like the bigger the challenge, the more we want to make it work.
In 17th century France, protecting the country from the mighty English naval fleets was paramount. However, this was difficult to do when only the English Channel separated the two lands, which is a mere 20 miles wide at the shortest gap.
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FORT BOYARD !
Fort boyard wsn't teh original name and before the emmision :
ua-cam.com/video/JfFXmaJHYgw/v-deo.html Was a thing.
We saw it in a post WW II movie were they discover german war supplies such as grenades....
Vaunband?
nice click bait ... its off the fucking coast of france not even in open water ....
its pronounced boy-ard not boy-urd.
In the middle of the ocean? You mean off the coast? Within eyesight of land?
looks like to me that it was built on a reef so close to land. FAKE NEWS!
by technicalities, it is still in the middle of the ocean.... since it's surrounded by ocean water....
Middle - equal distance from land on all sides.
Just a bit pedantic there Richard. While that might be true, I clicked on this (most people probably did too) expecting something half between America and Europe. The only reason it doesn't get the clickbait thumbs down is because it was interesting.
Witness: The bicyclist was riding in the designated bike lane.
Drunk Driver: No officer, he was riding in the middle of the road.
Gross exaggeration to justify a bogus story.
Sorry, this fort is not in the "middle of the ocean". It is, in fact, about 1.5 miles from shore and is built on a rocky surface that is exposed at low tide. In the middle of a strait, yeah. But not the ocean.
atleast explain how it was built
Coffer dams, pile drivers and cheap deaths.
ishak170 right? I can't imagine what the foundation looks like or even how it was built
Coffer dam around, dig to a firm foundation, lay a raft of stone, build on that. Use Dutch engineers, this is an inside-out canal. Brunel used that technique on the Rotherhithe rail tunnel, just he did it underground too: he kept the water out with pumps and air pressure, rather than a coffer dam. And drowned some of his crew.
ishak170 LOL I was thinking the same thing. Covers everything but how it was engineered and built. Need a follow up video on this big time.
or how about how deep the water is there
Lol I knew it because now Fort Boyard is a TV show.
Are u swed boi then
CITV tv show as elite
Not all knew though 😉
That's the only reason i recognized it
Fort boyard was sickkk
Looks like a prison.
Some were, iirc Papillon has a scene in one. The UK also used spare Napoleonic warships, "the hulks", as its own version, the Martello Towers, were a tad small. Instead, at least one was the home of a Pirate Radio Station in the 1960s.
my home town has Martello towers all along the water front. it used to be the Capital of Canada, but that was changed after we burned Washington DC to the ground.
Mike Emmons That would never happen again...
Scrotus Maximus you are dumb
I thought it was one of the vessels on the Water World set.
You need to check your facts. Nowhere near England and the English Channel. Just looked it up on Google Earth and it is closer to Spain than England.
how far off shore?
At which point in the video did he say it was near England? Because I'm pretty sure you must just be seeing or hearing things, Don. Or perhaps you just can't comprehend English.
video starts off talking about defence against the british and the english channel. As people are more familiar with this than the area that the video goes on to mention, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's in or near the channel
DON RECKLER here
Arthur White now there
That castle/prision is used for a Swedish TV-program called "Fångarna på Fortet". I personally don't enjoy watching it too much, but the idea of it all is actually really cool and fun.
The show had a spinoff in Sweden, called Prisoners of the Fort (Fångarna på Fortet). It was pretty much the same as the French one and something so essential to the 90's in Sweden that anyone who lived during that time period will only need to hear the name Fort Boyard to hear the voice of former pro skiier Gunde Svan shouting at the "prisoners" to hurry up before they get locked in the cell.
The show is technically still on air, but nobody watches it anymore since more than 3/4 of the original cast is gone now, replaced by more celebrities or simply removed.
Used for game show Fort Boyard.
mrjaffar yup in the 90's, used to watch it.
Yes still do now
Melinda Messenger ex glamour model.
and tigers
oh my
Would make a great location in a James Bond film.
Was a good game show location, the opening theme was far more epic than it had any right to be.
Check this great movie to see some action on this location : www.imdb.com/title/tt0061376/
It's not an oil rig, it's just a rig for crew and technical material during TV game shootings on spring time. The rest of the year, the rig is empty and place on its higher position for better resistance to the big tides and to the winter tempests. Sometimes the rig is moved to a local shipyard for repairs or upgrades, moments were the TV crew take new helicopter's shoots of the old fortress without this awful rig.
The Fort Boyard is classified as an historical monument in France, even if the building is a private property, TV production team can't do anything inside, they are rules to respect the integrity of the building, so they ask to build a rig for all their technical stuff (like electric power-plan) who can't be integrated in the building without destroying some walls to enter... The rig is on the Atlantic side of the fortress, so, most of the tourists can't this modern structure from the coast.
SteelRodent1456 How would the rig make filming difficult? Surely it would a welcome addition to any bond villains lair.
Eat my bushy flaps
the game show was awesome :D
MTG Capital even the pc game was cool :)
there was a pc game xD? :D
I remember that pc game, the cutscenes were of fairly low quality
MTG Capital it was the best
MTG Capital
I'M SHOOK. O__O
A nice place to send the corrupt politicians from Washington.
Would have been nice to know a little about how it was actually built
It's very very famous in France . There's a TV show happening inside it
That show still exists in its French version as far as I know, but several other countries (more than 30 iirc) used this fort for their own versions of the show.
Oroborus sweden is one of them is going on fridays
Yes, and it seems like the same midgets were present in every one of them.
Yep, one of them tried to start a singer career in France. /watch?v=jQbCESA0vs0
teppolundgren Lmao i forgot about the key midgets xD What about the fat stone age guy? Punching a bell as a fucking job lmao
This structure was actually used in a Swedish program called fångarna på fortet
Awesome. Thank you for sharing this.
Chef fort boyardee
hahahah
Kerry Brennan That fort sadly remains poorly known due to its short lifespan, being that it was constructed of cooked macaroni held together with meat sauce. Built off the coast of New York by its namesake chef, it was destroyed within a year by hungry school children in rowboats. Sad.
Oh Oh Spaghetti O's
+ancilodon sad.
Thomas Headley Cue the little jingle and picture of his pleasantly smiling face
This is used by the show "Fångarna på Fortet"
Fangene på Fortet. "Prisoners on the fort"
I was searching for this comment, I was like "no swedish people here?" =P
How can you make a video about Fort Boyard and NOT use the game's themesong?!
keniakittykat ... Because WE don't give a shit about some DUMBASS game show... Reality TV sucks balls ! True history is the interest here ! That's how & why 👍
Idek, wish they included it tho
Mr. Mr. At least he could have added *A* soundtrack
This isnt fort boyard place but very similar
that show was epic
"Ancient structure" "Construction began in the 16th century"
Apparently anything older than America is "Ancient"
Well atleast now I know where im going when the Zombie Apocalypse happens....
J. R. Can I join when the zombie apocalypse goes down?. 😎
gokusondbz what are you fucking gay
Filthy Dank are you just a Mindless troll?. Giving you have a picture of the joke of a president we have I would say yes. 😂
doesn't your insurance cover that (:
He was referencing filthy frank.
Fort Boyard is in the middle of the atlantic ocean? I didn´t know the atlantic ocean is that small. :D
Shut the fuck up. You're dead and can't talk.
I'm a Ghostbuster.
Edgar Allan Poe you're the best! Love your books. Of course, you are correct nowhere near the middle of the Atlantic. "NEVERMORE"
+teppolundgren If you talk to dead people, who's eating your toast?
madman2u I still eat my own toast. You don't have to worry about me missing any food. Lol
Thanks for reminding me about the show! :D
Now i know where to go in case of a zombie apocalypse.
In 1998, Fort Boyard was used as a setting for the British adventure game show of the same name. The hosts were Leslie Grantham ('Dirty Den' Watts from the BBC's soap 'Eastenders'), Melinda Messenger (former glamour girl) and Geoffrey Bayldon (from the 1960's children's series 'Catweazle').
Rapunzel Mane Crystal maze right
Because I watched it
Luna - The series was just called 'Fort Boyard'.
The Crystal Maze is another show hosted by Richard O'Brien (creator of the film and musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show), then by Edward Tudor-Pole ('80's Pop Star).
To this day I have no idea what Melinda Messenger looks like, I've seen hundreds of pictures but if you asked me to describe her facial features I draw a blank for some reason. Is she blonde? Redhead? No idea.
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Thank u for featuring my house. On your channel. What an honor. It's a great place to live. Rent free. Only problem.is I only get internet when a cruise ship rolls by. But I do have electric and heat. I been living in this since 2001
It's one of Umbrella Corporation bases to experiment with human beings.
lol I thought it was Impel Down from One Piece.
James Hollan Impel down is way bigger.
Liberatus Blair oh, I know. I'm a huge fan of One Piece. I was just joking lol
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how deep does it go underneath? so many labs gotta be down there somewhere lol
when I was a child in the 80s, I visited my uncle and aunt in western switzerland near the lac leman. I was very keen on watching this "Fort Boyard" TV Show. It was so special for the 1980s.
According to the French Wikipedia, The Swiss Fort Boyard aired in 1995 on TSR.
Cees Timmerman in western switzerland they also had french tv :)
but it really was in the early 90s not 1980s.
First episode date: July 7, 1990
Cees Timmerman yes u r right, I watched it in 1992 at a2.
Title is misleading. Makes it sound as if it's way out in the Atlantic coast off Ireland or something. But it's only off the coast of France. Also, very weird the way American's use the word 'Ancient'. It's hardly 'ancient'. It's only a few hundred years old. That's a baby in Europe.
If you are looking for ancient then take a look at Por-Bajin - ua-cam.com/video/xr7HsvPZL6U/v-deo.html
there's also an island right next to it. I'm sure you can swim from the island to the fort in a calm sea.
my great grandparents cottage in Ireland is older than that
Yeah if you want a city thats actually semi ancient thats built just off the coast/on a lagoon look at Nan Mandol. Muricans tho bless em, if your history isent that long its less likely you'll think in longer terms.
Yeah its only couple hundred years old. It's not that old 🙄
It's interesting how a fort, that took so long to build through many generations with a specific intention, ended up being used only for a stage for a game show.
Wow all the pictures of the inside look amazing
Blah blah blah... HOW THE ^%$ did they actually build it? Round and round about dates etc. But no info on how they actually built it! Thumbs down!!
They put some stones down and then put other stones on those.
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@Planetdue best comment i've read in quite some time :'D haha
They used a Cofferdam
it isn't hard, one of the biggest man made islands (if not the biggest) was made in 1500 something. it doesn't require new technology
Wonder if you could get permission to visit this?
cmonster6 I wouldn't go near that thing for a million dollars ! Too spooky !
cmonster6 ~ I'd go with you without hesitation. If I wasn't critically ill ✌️
Chris Cullen Would be a great place to film a music video if you had a drone as well
cmonster6 yes you can. There are several cruises that go round it and the islands, but there are guided tours...another seafort in the chain is fort louvoir just off Bourcefranc les Chapus...that one can be reached via a causeway in low tied 1/2km and by boat other times..also worth a visit. I live here so i see these places every day, nice part of the world but no where near the english channel.
You can just need to register for the game show fort board ultimate challenge
Except this isn't located in the Channel.
Right: Fort Boyard is on the Atlantic coast. Quite a few spy movies were shot there in the past decades.
Man you find some cool documentary and cool history vids on UA-cam Love the video keep them coming
Does anyone else watch fort boyad ultimate challenge
Or what ever it's called
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"ancient structure from the 17th century"
Go back to school. Words mean what they mean, not what you want them to mean.
He's American, so anything before 1776 is ancient.
Poor Josh Was Proved Wrong, I Died Of Laughter🤧
I used to watch that show... loved it so much!!!
Fångarna på fortet!!
This was used MANY times for a tv show called "Prisoners in the fort"
It was a team based test of skill/strength etc. Many tv stars and athletes used to compete over many years, its one of the most watched shows in sweden ^^
I once had a disturbing dream of a modern mansion that was built in the ocean a few miles off shore. The feeling it gave me was simply "ogrish" as I gazed at it from the shore watching a enormous wave disintegrate it in a few seconds.
The story of this fort gives me that same feeling. Bizaar, nearly impossible and impossibly expensive and ultimately completely useless except as a surviving remnant to remind of an almost scary misjudgement and misuse of high resources.
I know the TV show "Fort Board" from my childhood in the 90s :)
We saw it on TV5. Good old times...
this place is crazy. ive seen a documentary where people are being held captive here and are forced to complete tasks to gain freedom. populated by various eccentrics, a midget dressed as a pirate, and a cage full of tigers.
Awesome!!!
Wait I watch a Swedish show called "fångarna på fortet" in swedish and "prisoners in the fort"in English it's the same show as they talked about but Swedish,and if you have not figured it out yet I'm from Sweden.
I too watch fångarna på fortet, it's really funny 😂
TheInsaneBuck yeah I like the ketchup challenge
andi cart I watch it too, fångarna på fortet... I like when those 2 midgets is running, they have a funny way of running😁😁. And no one gets bitten by tigers so the show is kinda boring now.
andi cart Swedish looks like a difficult language to learn to write...all those fiddly bits over the letters ! How do you remember what goes where ?
Chris Cullen they learn it from an early age when they go to school, just like any language.
Shout out to all the Swedes who have already seen this place over a thousand times on TV.
I can't help but recall seeing something similar in Maryland when going over a bridge(I think called the "Bay bridge" or a bridge close to it.) by the water, it was smaller but it looked like a small island close to the shore with concrete walls (not as tall as this).
A funny thing about this fort is that a Swedish tv show named ''the prisoners of/on/in the fort'' (fångarna på fortet) are recorded here.
Yer buildings like this exist all over the coast of England and France. In Portsmouth alone there's 4 of these off shore forts. They were comisioned because on shore guns couldn't reach the middle of the harbour channel so a ship could sail up the middle and not be under any threat. Irony is when the forts where completed guns has been invented which could reach the middle of the harbour channel. Now the the solent forts in Portsmouth have been converted to luxury hotels and musuems.
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Portmouth's forts are smaller, closer to the coast and were built after
They should set up shops and make it a Historical Tourist Destination :-3
And now its used as an location for a swedish tv show Fångarna på fortet which translates to prisoners on the fort, where there are hosts who gather famous swedish people and make them do challenges in teams.
AWESOME!!
Lol, this thing is in the second Mega Man Legends game (for PS and N64). One of the small island bases (where you get attacked by the robot ducks and Glyde) is this exact structure.
2:56 on the right central arch looks like a face on the wall, as if it's a ghost. Spooky
Remember, it wasn't just France who implemented the idea of Sea Forts. In the U.K a series of forts known as Palmerston Forts, were built in response to the 1859 Royal Commission dealing with the perceived threat of a French invasion. A group of these forts where based off the cost of Portsmouth, to protect the docks. They are commonly known as "Palmerston's Follies".
These four forts are called St Helens Fort (Privately owned), Horse Sand Fort (Owned by AmaZing Venues), No Mans Land Fort (Owned by AmaZing Venues), and Spitnak Fort (Owned by AmaZing Venues) and all stand to this day, and testament to the engineering of the time. Fun fact, during early 2000 a group of friends held 2 large legal raves on Spitbank Fort. Incredible events which I was a photograph at, and supplied my sound system too. Great days.
During the 2nd World War the forts were once again used to defend Portsmouth docks from the enemy. Painted with a form of dazzle camouflage, the forts were complemented with extensive concrete submarine defences 5.9 feet below sea level. Some of which still remain to this day.
Awesome structure and a true marvel.
right now this building is a swedish tv show caled fångarna på fortet (prissoners on the fort).
There was this game show filmed here ages ago called fort boyard
Dan Smith Still exist in France
That was already mentioned in the vid captain obvious.
There's also a swedish show called Fångarna På Fortet being recorded there. It's basically the same as the french one.
We Swedes know of this building well.
A Swedish adventure program called _Captives at the Fort_ ( _Fångarna på Fortet_ ) went there every Friday during the 90's.
Fangerne på fortet :D :D
Fångarna på fortet
Japp hahhaha
Wow! great job (Y) awesome !!!
That fort is used in a Swedish TV show called "Fångarna På Fortet"
I had a dream it had this exact place but it was a prision.
JB Gaming Azkaban?
Det E fan fångarna på fortet
ja
Första tanken jag fick
Super interesting!
Fun fact: There is this swedish program called fångarna på fortet prisoners on The fort in english and it's filmed there
Another show was "Fort Boyard". I know it is weirdly named...
Fort Boyard is the name of the building itself, they just use its name for the show which still exists and has aired for more than 25 years!
Toujours plus loin, toujours plus haut, TOUJOURS PLUS FORT!!!!!!
Rough translation:Always the farest,Always the topmost,Always the Very Most!!! Please,mon cher ami,just how correct am I with my Translation?I really,really would like To know,please,mon cher.Meilleurs voeux,mon cher ami;and God bless you.From Mr.Derlin Gerard Clair of New Orleans,Louisiana,USA.
Derlin Claire You have done well, it's a pretty good translation. I would say: Always further, always higher, always stronger !
It's always been very vague, so translations will never be accurate.
- From France, near Paris.
In sweden we use it for a tv program
Every one has to go through a puzzle in 5 min. The puzzle are not harmful but scary closterfobic or ect. You need to be brave yadi yadi yadi. And celeberites are in this tv program its called "fångarna på fortet"
Hey.. This is the fort from the game show "Fangene på fortet" (Captives on the Fort)
I remember as a kid I was always fascinated by this structure in the middle of the ocean. Now I do know the backstory of it
fort boyard
Fångarna på fortet?
Oh yuhhhh N O T I F I C A T I O N. SQUADDDD
I loved that show. The UK version was just called Fort Boyard and it was brilliant.
0:39 that fort has a tv show at sweden. Btw i live in sweden.
Fångarna på fortet anyone?
Well, fix it up a bit, put some solar panels and wind turbines on it, and you've got a great place to ride out an apocalypse
MiSt 526 A bowl of fruit and a few throw pillows...it would be just like home !
Chris Cullen that's all you have at home booboo?
MiSt 526 They cant people are using it for movies, game shows etc.
It would depend on the apocalypse, if an asteroid smashed in to western Europe you would quickly wish you were in a tree house in rural Kentucky.
We on Morocco have a show with 3 seasons all filmed in this 'structure' never thought it was so special
I enjoyed this video. The Venting Vigilante
did you know that fort boyard is on a show😜
Uhh yeah he said in the video.
@Did You Know? Nice video, I "liked" it. Awesome fort. Tho to say "In the Atlantic ocean" and "In the middle of the ocean" isn't true. It's in shallow water in a harbor 8 or so miles wide. The middle of the Atlantic is 1,200 miles west and 10,000 feet deep.....so after hundreds of years...they have some more work to do...yes?
Thats where sweden has a television show where famous people try to gather as much gold as possible before time runs out and before that they have to get the keys to get into the "vault" and its an amazing show its called "Fångarna på fortet"
First of all Fort Boyaaaaard is not located in the English Channel it’s in the south Normandy coast and the Game show that started in mid 90 as Prisoners of the Fort (translated from Swedish) is still on. I saw the fort myself in 95.
Looks like a prison
John Kohlman It has been a prison during some time.
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Did You Know ? The thumbnail is from a CBBC show 😂
Did You Know ? This is the building from a tv show called fort boyard ultimate challenge, like if you heard of it
Pogo Modz I used to watch it on tv!
Did You Know ? The reason I clicked on this is because I reconized it from that show
it's a swedish show called "Fångarna på Fortet"
There was also a TV show based on this called "Fort Boyard", I used to watch it when I was younger.
The thumbnail instantly reminded me of the show
stevob211 yeah i remember that
childhood memories, childhood chills
sweden
Alexander Kwiatkowski pp
Ppp
It's called fort boyard
do you need to know my name It's not called Fort Boyard, is it ? Are you absolutely sure ?
Chris Cullen it is fort voyaged cause here in the uk theirs a show called fort voyaged ultimate challenge
Fort Boy-George.
Names are not called something. You are given a name by which other people call you.
teppolundgren i have named my self
I am king biggest balls, admril of the 8th sea(pussy n beer sea), warden of chronic kingdom of the north, and fondler of my mine own balls.
All hail lord tickledpink!
it's incredible how human could think of these things so long ago.
THE BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN IS FROM THAT SHOW LIKE TEAMS VS TEAMS I LOVED WATCHING THAT
how about saying Britain instead of England for a change
Or the UK, we mustn't leave out the Irish of the North, those tinkers.
those jolly Irish chappies who love a drink or two lol I must get back to my roots lol
They film a Swedish TV show in that building called fångarna på fortet. It's a trash show.
David Nystrand lol Ik kid
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Fort Boyard! Loved the programs from that place :D
There was a reality show from my country (Argentina) back in the late 90's which took place in this fort. The goal was to complete tasks, mostly athletic, in order to find keys to open a gate and gather coins before the gate would close.
The show is originally french, but I didn't knew it was dubbed in other languages
I'm proud to be French. pika pika :)
Irvin Argon Hello person from France.
Hi I'm guessing you're German? :)
Irvin Argon I'm actually from the USA, but I can speak German
That's used for fort boyard ultimate challenge game show
Holy Shit! You didn't watch the whole video did you? He talks at length about the TV program in the video.
They even have a Swedish TV show on it XD!
Today Fort Boyard Is Used As The Set For The Swedish TV-Show Fångarna På Fortet