Disasters Of The Century | Season 4 | Episode 63 | Mt. Taal Eruption | Ian Michael Coulson 

I worked 12 hours and need to sleep....... HOLD ON BAD DAY HQ HAS UPLOADED! 😅😏I can stay awake for 30 more minuets!

Note to self - never buy real estate on "Volcano Island", "Skull Island", "Monster Island", "Dead Island" etc.

Thanks for having this. Taal is one of the volcanoes of my country that rarely got documented. Pinatubo and Mayon are always the ones in the limelight. And by the way, please correct the title.

I was living in the town of Lemery at the time and remember that night very well. I was six years old. I was awakened by what I thought was thunder and lightning, which was strange since there was no rain. My parents took us all up the hill to the town of Taal. Maybe because of the danger of a tsunami? We were a mere block away from the beach. The next day we went back to the house. Everything was strangely covered in ash. We evacuated to Manila. I remember seeing the smoke from the volcano there when we looked south. Towards the end of this video there's a brief glimpse of the Taal cathedral. I went to school at the grade school just next to it for first through third grades.

Lesson learned. Don't live on island named "Volcano island."

Taal volcano eruption right now level 4. January 12,2020

O_o Building apartments and condo's on the edge of a known damn volcano!? Especially after what happened in 1965!? I smell corruption and bribes...... This is why politics and geology do NOT mix! May the dead RIP. May the injured and orphaned find peace....

Years ago, I flew with my father to California on one of his business trips (vacation for me 😎). He had a couple of days off so we drove up to Vancouver, British Columbia. On the way, we stopped at Mount Saint Helen’s. That was really something. Walking around there and looking at the volcano made you really think about what is below your feet. Let’s not forget, Mount Saint Helens is still active. It was pretty amazing. We also talked to survivors of the 1980 eruption. To actually talk to survivors was pretty amazing. This episode is powerful and sad.

I think I'm likely the only one disgusted by the evidence of the British Empire's colonization influence on the people and the destruction of their culture. I hate the Eurocentric influences that's destroyed so many people's cultures and histories.

When I saw this film was about Taal volcano, I was pleased- Taal's 1965 eruption was seminal as it involved phreatomagmatic (steam-magma explosive) activity, and produced something called 'base surges', a phenomenon only ever seen at Bikini Atoll and the nuclear explosion testing there. Base surges are the watery equivalent of pyroclastic flows, and spread out in a ring around the vent. It was one of these base surges that likely flipped over the boat one of the twins boys was in. I was greatly disappointed to see this documentary omit all mention of this phenomenon, as this is Taal's major hazard. I'm tired of seeing documentaries about Vesuvius, Mt St Helens, Krakatoa and so on, since they are so well known and the hazards their eruptions produce are well documented. I'm also tired of the speculative documentaries we get about Yellowstone, as there's a very good chance the human race will be extinct before it erupts again. So whilst I was pleased to see a documentary about a less well known eruption in the 20th century, I'm really disappointed you didn't include the phenomenon that made this eruption so unique!

It’s a shame what happened. That look like a really good life. Hard work but the families worked together. They seem to be happy.May the victims rest in peace. God be with you all.

Just this moment, Taal Volcano erupted again.

'Taal' is a Hindi word and it means Lake in English.

If you still do these videos could you make one on mount agung in Indonesia? The 1963 eruption killed nearly 2000 people and affected the world climate however It barely gets mentioned due to other larger volcanic eruptions in Indonesias recent history. Understandably.

This volcano closed Clark Air Force base

Woo Hoo New episode!

You always have the most fascinating programs mostly about things I have never heard of before. I love your channel. Also, you have a nice calm, factual announcer that doesn't scream manically about danger or get all soupy-soapy when bad things happen. All-in-all one of my top 5 channels, but, but, but I'm addicted and I need MORE videos!

Just another example of how Mother Nature, so quiet and benign one minute, and ferocious and deadly the next, turning a once idyllic island into a burning, smoke filled death zone, I am so glad that the worst we get in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 is the odd small earthquake and the even less common Hurricane (officially a hurricane anyway). You have to admire the resilience and determination of the local population, re-starting their lives in the way they have. Thanks for sharing this interesting and informative film, very well done and narration clear and concise.

And it erupted again in January 2020

Too bad Pinatubo wasn't featured in this series

Good video -- thanks! (But can you fix the spelling in the title?)

"The official can see that this is no fiesta." XD Sorry, but this made me snicker :P

Taal is like Lake toba its inside in a water or caldera just hope Taal volcano doesnt erupts rlly powerfull like what happened in 1991 when Mt Pinatubo erupted a few hours away from manila it also destroyed many houses bc its cost by lahars

It seems like life was good there before that terrible eruption. Hard work but a great life and then the volcano erupted. Tragic.

God bless

Who's here because of the last eruption.

Many of the events after 1960 or so, I remember seeing them on tv or reading about them. This one I don't recall at all. TY for posting, but darn it don't take so long between posts!!!

Living in the ring of fire must be tough.

I understand farmers living on/near volcanos but holiday homes??? Blocks of flats???

My dad was stationed at Subic Bay and he remembered this eruption.

I love the way the guy at the end said” I think it’s pretty foolish to build on,quite frankly, the most active volcano” or words to that effect, these people probably have nowhere else to go, or for the tourism industry on the island, the fact that no matter where you build a resort or holiday home Mother Nature could destroy it without warning. At least in this day in age technology can give us an edge when predicting such rare events, but Mother Nature will always win, no matter how well technology works, it is just so unpredictable that wherever we live it can never be save, just ask the residents of towns and city’s along known fault lines and expect the answer would be pretty much as I have said, you can’t control what you can’t see,so just get on with life, whatever will be, will be.

And just like that I would have crapped my pants

It’s still ironic that many of the people who died were those unwilling to leave their homes “everything I have is here!” It’s just things not memories and I’m sure your deceased parents or grandparents wouldn’t want you to throw your life away for a parcel of land.

Could you do an episode on the TWA flight 800 explosion?

long time, no see! nice to have you back!

Mt. Tall? It aint high... it's Mt. TAAL.

Such a small island, bit over 4 miles by 3 miles.

What the hell am I watching

Did the narrator say the island was in the Pacific Ocean? Must have floated a long way. Maybe i misheard.

Just a note to everyone this channel has nothing to do with the production of this 20 year old show. They just bought the rights to upload them so they can promote their own products. 😃😃😃

The series is not bad, but please stop using blurry unstable slomo video whenever a disaster occurs.

And they rebuild on an Active Volcano! There is no cure for Stupidity!

YAY! Thanks for the new video!?

have you done hurricane camille yet?

No, we don’t have alternate random smudges of grey and black makeup on our faces. These aren’t handprint black smudges on our otherwise pristine white T-Shirts. We survived a volcanic eruption- it was a miracle the ash got nowhere near our eyes! Why don’t you believe us?

what up papyrus, good to see your typeface again!

Please more episodes, please....

Can you do a DOTC on lake nyos in Cameroon

Spell check must have been on here xD seen as the mt is really called taal not tall heh, still. Love it! Even though it's not too lovely 😐

No actual footage, just shitty re-inactment with a shaky camera.

It's called Mt. Taal not Mt. Tall.

Thanks for another fascinating but sad video. I wonder why we viewers are fascinated by natural and not so natural disasters, we see the worst that Mother Nature and our own actions can do to people and their environment, destroying property and forever changing peoples lives forever. Morbid curiosity, fascination with our planet and how it works, or just plain old “there, but for the grace of god, go I”, any theories?

"Mt Tall"... Creativity is sparse in these parts, huh?

I noticed they were beating the rice plant with a stick, presumably to collect the rice into a sheet or bag, again I assume that is for the loose grains. After that is the rest harvested and processed like wheat? Or do they do it all by the stick approach. I expect that mechanical harvesting can’t be done due to the nature of the way rice is grown, anybody save me a visit to google please.

“The roof is ruined...I couldn’t plough the land cause it was hard from the ash?” WHAT !!! Yet lucky to be alive. Humour in tragedy. Funny how people think ??? Gorgeous children. 🌺 Good luck🌺

You cannot get warned about volcanoes. One minute 😴 next minute 🌋

I hope they have developed better and more thoroughly thought out escape plans since then.

Hook and crook, to the t nothing is for free guys.

Hurricane Michael seems to be a better option

When the Earth belches, things die.

Oooh new DOTC

Do you have the Hurricane Juan episode??

So, is it "Tall" or "Taal"??

Is it spelled "Tall" or "Taal"?

Can yo7 do more crime stories, specifically on the swamp murders and mad butcher of kingsbury run or the stoneman

Mt. Taal not tall

Another title that is wrong. It's Mt. Taal! Research your shit, it's not hard.

Just made my day! Glad to see you back.

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