Now you have laser metal cleaning, river ice jam breakage, and overgrown yard clean-up to add to your list of things that satisfy for reasons we can't quite explain.
Spent many of my childhood days in that lagoon. We used to have a house up on the hill to the left, as you face the sea. Such wonderful memories of that place....
Are you sure they were really farmers? They look more like they're on the government payroll. A dozen blokes doing the work, 3 dozen standing around watching. 😊 Great video, thanks.
River in South Africa. Used heavily for agriculture which is probably why it periodically stops short of draining into the ocean. Depending on the year and seasonal rainfall the outlet into the ocean varies over time especially since it drains through a sandy beach.
Ive dug out a bunch of rivers around the world dozens of times. Heres a HUGE tip that will save a lot of effort. Dig from the river side toward the ocean! I have dug out channels by myself that were this far away from the ocean, as you go, the river water keeps the sand wet and softens it and makes it easy to just scoop out of the way, so that gravity can take over. You only need a little bit of water, and gravity does the rest. This video shows such a waste of effort digging from the ocean to the river.
@@sosweetbaby4 you do realise fish can swim and instinct directs them to theur best environment? Also other life forms have their own methods of staying put/regenerating cyclically.
@@mucsalto8377 I get it man. It's social media and everyone can say whatever unfortunately. But considering the vast majority are white you wanna try again?
100% of human intervention in nature prooved lomg-term distructive. This is a tiny trench dug in the sand. It would had happened naturally maybe in a few weeks, but still, the full implications were never thought upon by no one.
In that few weeks crops and homes could be lost to floods. Sandbars shift and grow. Digging a trench to help nature along is goid husbandry, along with dredging to prevent too much silting up at the river mouth. Flood plains provide good soil when correctly mabaged.
This was my thought exactly. It was on the verge of creating its own path, but I guess that's what you get when people with more money than brains build their home away from home, too close to the river edge, and they start getting ansy 🤷🏻♀️
@@s1e_dm The answer to your question is "Yes", hence my comment. If the Groot River was about to flood more water into the lock, it would have forced the break..... All on its own. So my question stands. Did you bother reading the description?
@@-Gadget- then you should know that these people's income and livelihood depends on their land, so then breaching the groot river early stops their land from flooding. Even if the groot river would flood and create it's own breach, by that time it would have flooded the farmers land.
@@s1e_dm So, then this was all due to the poor planing of the farmers that chose land below a known flood plain. Why didn't you just say that to begin with, as it would have save all this time and effort 🤷🏼♂️
Looks like most construction work. More than half are standing around watching the others do the work! (Yes, I know that’s not happening. It just fits into that narrative. I supervised underground construction and I would limit how many supervisors, assistant managers, managers, support crews, parts runners and any other people not immediately needed to be on a job site because the crew doing the work were one crewleader and two laborers. Only one laborer was actually digging and the other keeping the spoils away from the excavation. The crewleader was responsible for the two laborers. It definitely looks bad to the public and adding another couple for traffic control didn’t help the visuals, either.)
Its so sickening that the people need permission for something like this ! The people around here would not have even asked and would not have waited either . Government has become a cancer to all ! I wonder if the people will ever do anything about it ? I doubt it....
If you had read the description, the farmland was flooded. So they got permission to open a channel between the river and the ocean to allow the river to drain.
@@flashforensics looking at the history, the residents did this in 2015, but without permission, and the illegal bit is breaching the river mouth, not going on the beach. The local office of the Department of Environmental Affairs apparently filed a complaint with the police. This time (2018), they got permission.
too bad they couldnt put in a pernament structure with removable boards . when time comes , remove the boards . i feel though that would be too expensive .
Why so much work???? I tiny trench 1 tenth of that size would have done the very same thing without all that work. And I like how they were piling up the sand like they were going to throw it back in later on... There was a old man that did the same thing in Australia but just used his walking cane.....
if you can't afford digging equipment and your farming land is flooding up, but you have an arsenal of farm boys at your hand. Then I'd dig it by hand than instead of even not digging it at all.
@@mucsalto8377 thank you; I was trying to figure out from the guys standing around in cutoffs doing nothing AND the extra long introduction that doesn't show where TF this is going on, and was sure it was in some southern US state shithole.
Read the description, and here's some context. The onlookers are mostly the farmers themselves who organised the dig. The ones digging are the farm boys who work for the farmers. So it's isn't as if the onlookers are doing nothing, they are the ones paying the farmers with their own money to dig a trench.
I did it once on Lanzarote island,Gran Canaria.I survived. It looks like nothing but there where the sweet water gets into the salt water there is such a strange" Trouble" its takes you away upside down and i m a good swimmer ,I really thougt I would die.
fresh water is so scares - Why would breach the river and empty it in the sea ? lower the river level and lessen the habitat for millions of small and big animals and fishes along the river ? i don't get it ......
Unfortunately some of us from other parts of the world have no idea where the Gamtoos is. It would have been nice if the title or that wallpaper-length description gave a clue to where the fk this is Now I'm off to GoogleBox it myself
Beaver dam busting , Drain clearing, Flash floods, and now river breaching , I think I need some Professional help
No idea why the fuck I want to keep seeing these as well.
Now you have laser metal cleaning, river ice jam breakage, and overgrown yard clean-up to add to your list of things that satisfy for reasons we can't quite explain.
look up post10
I think you at this point could call yourself a professional that can help.... In specific scenarios 🤣😂😅
@@prunedfingers I imagine being a fan of post10 is what led me here...
Spent many of my childhood days in that lagoon. We used to have a house up on the hill to the left, as you face the sea. Such wonderful memories of that place....
Any colords in your hood?
@@jonnywatts2970 🤣
my home! I live at the Gamtoos River mouth and am so impressed by the work our community has done!
I did this once by myself with no tools. I just thought it would be fun to see the river run into the ocean. It's not that hard to do.
Excellent cinematography...👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Are you sure they were really farmers? They look more like they're on the government payroll. A dozen blokes doing the work, 3 dozen standing around watching. 😊 Great video, thanks.
🤣🤣
There's so much beauty in ordinary things.
I agree!
If you have an IG account, you may follow @ordinaryphotographer_.
looks like someone got a drone for christmas and cant stop playing with it
Yeah, lol
My 5YO daughter does a 1/10 scale version of that every weekend at the beach.
A future hydrologist?
Fantastic video and good luck to those farmers who sure need it.
@@redimixofmd Rather be a fool than a tool!!😂 C.U.Next Tuesday.
I went from a tsunami video to this. Well that was a let down.
Bruh Chinese cyanide explosion to seniors day at the beach
Dude was it the one where you thought the glacier was the tsunami.lol
waterFALLS. seaLEvEL .
Still Waters always LEvEL,
Dr.🌏ip
👀☔
exAMEN 🌈 FirmAmenT
Lmaooo me too! I was watching tsunami videos and ended up here lol
Don't let this breach video fool you. Most of them get raging. This was the least exciting coastal river breach I've ever seen.
This was very important for the farmers.
"We moved thirty yards of dirt by manual labor only to discover that it wouldn't flow".
Coz people are dumb.
It will flow and end up with waves big enough to surf. The problem is that this is illegal in many places, for a reason.
Your being so extra careful. So I can't sense Who You Are.
River in South Africa. Used heavily for agriculture which is probably why it periodically stops short of draining into the ocean. Depending on the year and seasonal rainfall the outlet into the ocean varies over time especially since it drains through a sandy beach.
makes sense.
Anyone see there was a much closer bit to dig at up the beach?
Ive dug out a bunch of rivers around the world dozens of times. Heres a HUGE tip that will save a lot of effort. Dig from the river side toward the ocean! I have dug out channels by myself that were this far away from the ocean, as you go, the river water keeps the sand wet and softens it and makes it easy to just scoop out of the way, so that gravity can take over. You only need a little bit of water, and gravity does the rest. This video shows such a waste of effort digging from the ocean to the river.
This is so needed for the marine life - thank you to everyone that helped with this - good job!
Marine life🤔
So the life that was in the river got dumped to ocean salt water tooooo die 🤔👌✌
@@sosweetbaby4 you do realise fish can swim and instinct directs them to theur best environment? Also other life forms have their own methods of staying put/regenerating cyclically.
Well that's three minutes I can't get back to life
then just go outside
4 by the time you've made your comment...
why does this seem so amazing
The teamwork part of it makes me happy especially with the way the world is these days
It’s not
please upload a part 2 🙏🏼
Great job
if only there were machines to do that...
@@mucsalto8377 race card.
By the time you find the equipment and the trailer and get it there they have been done for 2 hours......imagine that.
LogicSword3675 they are called bulldozers
Then those people wouldn’t have to get any pesky exercise
Are you the guy that drinks all the alcohol at the party by 8:00 pm, and they just stuff you in the corner with a 5 gallon bucket?
Great video! Good job.
why do they breach it?
i have seen several videos of doing the same act but what's the ultimate goal of doing this???
Ask your mother to read you the description of the clip.
@@dunruden9720 👍🤪🤣😆😝
Thank you
So how long did it take to lower the level of the river?
That took alot of hard work. It looked beautiful while it was flowing. ♥️🌊🌍♥️
A beautiful community doing a beautiful thing. 🇺🇸❤️👍🏻
finally a lovely comment :)
Baie mooi. 'n bomel ("drone") is beslis op my wenslysie!!!
Pls keep updating on the gamtoos rivier mouth🙏
Reconnecting mother nature. I love it🎉
WOW!!! A lot of time and energy.
I bet 80% of these people have a child at home glued to a smartphone.
Nice flying!
I remember digging for fun.
I'm guessing machinery wasn't an option?
@@mucsalto8377 I get it man. It's social media and everyone can say whatever unfortunately. But considering the vast majority are white you wanna try again?
How come all these rivers in South Africa cannot find their way naturally to the ocean. What is man doing? I'm confused.
If water is on a larger surface then a bigger amount will evaporate and there will be more clouds. More clouds means more rain for a green planet.
It is amazing what we can do together.
Bruce Sees all there’s like ONE dude doing it all wtf are you talking about. Half the people in the video were standing around.
Can we see an updated video from the same spot?
Great jobs, comunity, excelent !
100% of human intervention in nature prooved lomg-term distructive.
This is a tiny trench dug in the sand. It would had happened naturally maybe in a few weeks, but still, the full implications were never thought upon by no one.
In that few weeks crops and homes could be lost to floods. Sandbars shift and grow. Digging a trench to help nature along is goid husbandry, along with dredging to prevent too much silting up at the river mouth. Flood plains provide good soil when correctly mabaged.
Nature: *doing its thing*
People: HURRY UP
This is confusing? What was the purpose? If the river was about to be flooded it would have made a breach anyway.
This was my thought exactly. It was on the verge of creating its own path, but I guess that's what you get when people with more money than brains build their home away from home, too close to the river edge, and they start getting ansy 🤷🏻♀️
@@-Gadget- did you read the description?
@@s1e_dm The answer to your question is "Yes", hence my comment. If the Groot River was about to flood more water into the lock, it would have forced the break..... All on its own. So my question stands.
Did you bother reading the description?
@@-Gadget- then you should know that these people's income and livelihood depends on their land, so then breaching the groot river early stops their land from flooding. Even if the groot river would flood and create it's own breach, by that time it would have flooded the farmers land.
@@s1e_dm So, then this was all due to the poor planing of the farmers that chose land below a known flood plain.
Why didn't you just say that to begin with, as it would have save all this time and effort 🤷🏼♂️
What was the accomplishment ahead?
Besides the fact that, given enough time, mother nature would have made her own path.... Without their help 🤷🏻♀️
@@-Gadget- read the description you waste of braincells
Just two questions.
1. What for?
2. There is excavator?
Don’t know what mod u have on water only flows 8 blocks so I know u guys are cheating on sum way 😣
How about learning English grammar and punctuation before making a fool of yourself in public with your complete lack of literacy?
@@richardclay Woosh
And saying he made a fool of himself. Christ if you don't get a joke don't react dumbass.
Richard Clay Get off your high horse Dick Clay
how come South Africa has so many rivers like this?
1:24 wowwww what a beautiful scene of nature
By hand. Determination. Kudos.
Oh. A couple quick shots of after two days.
Looks like most construction work. More than half are standing around watching the others do the work!
(Yes, I know that’s not happening. It just fits into that narrative. I supervised underground construction and I would limit how many supervisors, assistant managers, managers, support crews, parts runners and any other people not immediately needed to be on a job site because the crew doing the work were one crewleader and two laborers. Only one laborer was actually digging and the other keeping the spoils away from the excavation. The crewleader was responsible for the two laborers. It definitely looks bad to the public and adding another couple for traffic control didn’t help the visuals, either.)
Its so sickening that the people need permission for something like this ! The people around here would not have even asked and would not have waited either . Government has become a cancer to all ! I wonder if the people will ever do anything about it ? I doubt it....
What was the point of this?
If you had read the description, the farmland was flooded. So they got permission to open a channel between the river and the ocean to allow the river to drain.
Point was nunya
His reply 😂😂😂
@@motherofone1 you need permission to play on the beach now?
@@flashforensics looking at the history, the residents did this in 2015, but without permission, and the illegal bit is breaching the river mouth, not going on the beach. The local office of the Department of Environmental Affairs apparently filed a complaint with the police. This time (2018), they got permission.
why is it done actually? is there a reason? or just fun?
Video too short. Didn't show how wide the pathway went
too bad they couldnt put in a pernament structure with removable boards . when time comes , remove the boards . i feel though that would be too expensive .
Why so much work???? I tiny trench 1 tenth of that size would have done the very same thing without all that work. And I like how they were piling up the sand like they were going to throw it back in later on...
There was a old man that did the same thing in Australia but just used his walking cane.....
Why did these people even waste their time. This breach sucked
Read the introduction
@Blind BobThat's friggin funny.
Blind Bob hahahaaha
Why didn't they bring in a digger?
They had 100 of them
Was the point of this excersize to pollute the ocean?
READ the description provided.
What's the reason?
My kingdom for a backhoe!
Just curious. What's the purpose of doing this?
I'm guessing not Det cord available....
Well that was a waste of three minutes,Thanks.
Why??
To show you how humans are stupid!! Always to destroy the beauty of our wonderful planet!
what for?
How is it there was no one surfing that
What is the point?? It will fill itself back in probably in one day. They don’t have excavation equipment there? Who digs a trench by hand these days?
if you can't afford digging equipment and your farming land is flooding up, but you have an arsenal of farm boys at your hand. Then I'd dig it by hand than instead of even not digging it at all.
When tree and bunny huggers come up with a plan.
WAAAH WAAW
только я не понял зачем соединять солёную воду и пресную. там же живность в реке помрёт.
So how long it will take down level of the river!thats it..
Anybody know why this was done? What was the reason?
Flood downstream. Expl in intro
@@kenmurray8476 thanks, I didnt hear an intro, only music.
VERY good selection of music for this
But why? Maybe the water didn’t want to go that way.
It will fill back in with sand within a week or two.
Within a day.
Glad to sayit is stillopen acter the breach and bigger and deeper than e er
Evil, evil sand would not let rivrr meet its friend ocean. People helped and now river is so happy.
Why? Dont u need water?
Read the description.
All this work then doesn’t show us it in full flow :(
Excellent!
I can dig this idea.
Yooo an actually funny comment :D
0:17 WW1 flashbacks
The fuck
@@vishalSharma-ol9fl Filling sandbags.
Do they not have backhoes in South Africa?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that horrible for the environment?
50 people an no one has access to a backhoe?
@@mucsalto8377 thank you; I was trying to figure out from the guys standing around in cutoffs doing nothing AND the extra long introduction that doesn't show where TF this is going on, and was sure it was in some southern US state shithole.
To bad you didn't get footage of the following day.
Why cant it be done at St Lucia
Wow overkill on the trench! They could have just scrapped a small path with one shovel. Half hour job, one man.
Exactly!
When a drone captures loootsa onlookers observing the few doing the hard work
Must be a state job
Read the description, and here's some context. The onlookers are mostly the farmers themselves who organised the dig. The ones digging are the farm boys who work for the farmers. So it's isn't as if the onlookers are doing nothing, they are the ones paying the farmers with their own money to dig a trench.
@@s1e_dm so
I wonder if someone should tell them they just need a small downward gash, they water will do the rest.
Is that rainfed river or backwater?
У меня только один вопрос...
Can freshwater fish survive in salt water?
No, And that isn't fresh water
Is there a reason no one is playing in the breach? Looks fun to me
I did it once on Lanzarote island,Gran Canaria.I survived. It looks like nothing but there where the sweet water gets into the salt water there is such a strange" Trouble" its takes you away upside down and i m a good swimmer ,I really thougt I would die.
OK, but why?
Maybe they should've let nature do it's thing. Would've been more beautiful to see that in action.
fresh water is so scares - Why would breach the river and empty it in the sea ? lower the river level and lessen the habitat for millions of small and big animals and fishes along the river ? i don't get it ......
that isn't fresh water
And what was the point of that
READ the description provided.
What was the point of that ..... ?
Unfortunately some of us from other parts of the world have no idea where the Gamtoos is.
It would have been nice if the title or that wallpaper-length description gave a clue to where the fk this is
Now I'm off to GoogleBox it myself
Yes. Depend on Google, you peasant.
@@mucsalto8377 Cheeeeers bru!
READ the description provided.
Wooow beautiful scant , like
Why do they do this what is the purpose for it
So natural thanks humans
why would do this? made me feel like it was wrong to do
Read the introduction