Kola Superdeep Borehole: The Deepest Hole Ever Made 

Russian wife: “How was work today?” Russian worker: “Boring.” I’ll see myself out.

"In their greed, the dwarves dug too deep and awakened an ancient evil"

That message at the end about not using a clickbait image: super classy, and thank you. Liked and subscribed.

The only urban legend I've heard about the borehole was that the reason the project had to be abandoned was because the drill stem became stuck, sheared off, and was irretrievable.

Imagine being the devil, minding your own business, and all of a sudden the Russians are drilling through the ceiling of your workplace...

"We have to keep drilling for at least a few weeks, or else people will think we stopped because we found hell." That is by far the most metal thing I've ever heard from a scientific expedition!

Imagine accidently stepping on that Well cover in a 1000 years.

Sputnik was def a mega project - the satellite was just a cherry on much bigger cake!

"let's just jump in" please don't

"I, as always, am your host Simon" that statement is becoming more and more literal as Simon takes over RU-vid.

"Let's just jump in." Simon, don't-

Just how Irish *is* that coffee, Simon? You're on the verge of speaking in cursive here! XD

They only made it 9" so the balrog couldn't get out.

I swear I could hear Simon fighting to not say "its your boi Simon!" in that intro.

Interviewer: So... what was it like; drilling this hole? Technician: A penetrating experience. Kinda boring though. But, we just dug right in.

back then:"yeah we need to drill for bit more so they dont start rumors" nowdays:"they started rumors? fk lets stop it for the meme's"

"The Union has discovered hell. Our glorious freedom fighters will arrive shortly to liberate our damned comrades from the imperialism of lucifer."

'Just 9 inches in diameter it's smaller than most standard pizzas but at a depth of 1,220,062 metres ... it is unparalleled.' Now that's a deep-crust pizza.

"Where'd the microphone go?" "Fell in the hole." "Where'd the camera go?" "Fell into the hole." "Why are there screams coming from the hole?" "Hole person." "Why is there a giant hole in your town?" "Why doesn't your town have one?" "What was the point of thi-" *"HOLES"*

"At 9 inches diameter, it's smaller than most standard pizzas" Loser Pizza's, they're called loser pizzas

Sputnik was definitely a MEGA project, would love to see a video about it on this channel. Keep up the great work!

"So when are the travel restrictions going to be lifted?"......(Quietly packs a crescent wrench, WD-40 and a bowling ball)

Hey, I've heard of Bertha Rogers! It's north of where my great-grandparents settled during the land runs. (The other side of my family got there on the Trail of Tears. Yes, I'm practically a stereotype.) It's pretty common to name oil wells after women. One of my childhood friends was named after a Texas well that her dad worked on, though I have no idea who the original bearer of the name was. Anyway, I'd love to see the Kola hole, but with my luck, it would come open and I'd lose my glasses. Without them, I'm so nearsighted, I can barely read.

My great grandfather invented those tri coned drill bits they were using. I never knew this growing up until I was cleaning out paperwork from his machine shop and ran across the patents. Was super cool to go through. As for the 180C temp that stopped them back then, we have electronic equipment (The company I work for has 175/200C LWD/MWD tools we sell) down hole that can operate at 200C and purely mechanical rated for well over 230C. I wonder how deep we could go now.

So Simon searched for "deep hole" on the internet, I wonder how many pages down he had to drill to bypass the porn.

The world's deepest hole High schoolers: "It's number 2 after your mom"

I love how u casually have a small glass of porter in the begining and sort of stumble through a couple words later on. A man after my own heart keep up the good work

Need a mega project on the “Hughes Glomar Explorer” when it raised the Russian submarine

Simon needs to narrate my day for me at least once. Kinda like in The Stanley Parable.

"Let's just jump in" was giggle worthy.

Possibly the only deep hole video on the internet that doesn't require you to frantically close the browser when someone walks in.

Genuinely this is one of my favorite videos Simon has done. That coffee has him so hyper and the topic is relatively low-stakes and silly. 10/10

Wow, so Simon was able to mention two movies he's seen! This must be a new record for him

I feel like I find a new channel from Simon every other day

I love the fact that you had so engrossed yourself in the telling of the story you forgot about your coffee. That's enthusiasm, and not in the slightest way boring....

"Its worth it because its entertaining" the favorite thing ive heard you said ever and an attitude that other youtubers/media forms should embrace

"standard pizza's" is my new favourite scale for diameter

They discovered RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

3:50 - Chapter 1 - The center of the earth 5:55 - Chapter 2 - Project mohole 7:40 - Chapter 3 - Drilling begins 8:50 - Chapter 4 - Scientific findings 11:10 - Chapter 5 - The urban myth 12:40 - Chapter 6 - The end of the road

The "hole to hell" legend spread to TV evangelists. I heard an enthusiastic preacher tell the story as true at a funeral.

"Journey to .02% of the Center of the Earth".

Simon, yes, the Sputnik is a great place to start when learning about space. in fact, the Soviets were constantly being first at something in space before the Americans did the same thing. First artificial satellite, first man in space, first woman in space, first pair of cosmonauts, etc., etc., etc. You get the picture. And, by the way, I am American, and I remember being outside with my Mother, (still alive at 96, thank you very much), and observing Sputnik fly overhead. At first she thought it was an airplane, but I said that it was way too fast. Later, watching the TV news, we learned about Sputnik. We didn't know what size it was, but wondered if it had atomic bombs on board. Literally, except for the lunar landing, the US was beaten in every category by the USSR getting there first. As a postscript, I watch and enjoy all of your shows that I find. Thank you.

As a roughneck, gotta say that 22 years on one hole sounds pretty damn good to me

Let's all be honest where else would this hole be than Russia

"A slow and la-bore-ious task"

Yo Simon! Any chance of you making a Megaprojects about the Large Hadron Collider? Or the upcoming Tokamak Fusion Reactor?

In this video you learn that the Russians bore deep holes, and that the Brits make tiny pizzas.

Your other videos teased this hole so much that I just had to look. Well played.

I can't believe he got through that without spilling the coffee.

It's praiseworthy that you don't clickbait by putting irrelevant cover photos like many other RU-vidrs. It's this sincerity (as well as excellent narrative skills) that make me love this channel. Keep them coming!!

Thank you, Dude. I appreciate the information and your sense of humor. I love your clips.

That's very interesting. I enjoyed watching. Thanks for covering that unusual subject. Keep up the good work.

Missed an opportunity to say "a race to the bottom"

I love when humans do stuff like this. "Hey, what if we drilled a hole all the way down to the mantle?" "dude, that's crazy." "I know, but what if we did it?" That's how ever awesome thing humanity has ever done has likely started.

This different camera angle is making me rethink my whole life

The problem with the urban legend about digging so deep you can hear Hell, is that they were digging in the wrong place. In fact, you don't even need to dig at all. We already marked it on the map as "Brazil".

"Let's just jump in" Let's not, Simon.

Simon rents a wine cellar. Turns it into a RU-vid Megachannel Overlord’s den.

Russian Wife: How was work today? Husband: “It was hell”

"The situation in the mantle is now normalized, but it is crawling with counterrevolutionaries. Ivan, build secret railroad down hole"

I liked the anti-clickbait note at the end. Good work!

Earth: I'm screwed!

I have just started watching these, I've watched your first 6 videos on this Megaprojects & liked them very much (Thumbs up). I have Subscribed & Rung that bell. I plan to watch the rest of them as time permits. Thank you so much for making these 👍👍

Literally anything done in space qualifies as a mega project and of course you should cover anything space station related

"How did fossils get so far down?" Subduction of plates maybe?

5:02 The Simon Whistler Effect: The Core dropped 17pts on Rotten Tomatoes.

Simon one of the best of your presentations and you seem to have enjoyed it yourself.

An alternative much easier thing to go see are the "Tablelands" in Gros Morne NP, Newfoundland, Canada, where a few square miles of land are mantle rock rather than crust, right at the surface. The Tablelands are strikingly odd looking, because the soil mineral content makes them hostile to almost all plant life, in a location which has the climate to grow stuff quite well. In our summer visit, they seemed like a sunny wet warm desert.

Has the coffe been sipped?

Getting the Sputnik up seems like it would be a mega project.

Really enjoyed that, fascinating. Cheers

Another super video! Keep them coming Simon!!!

You forgot to mention the 1st hole getting screwy and breaking off the drill string and restarting at 7000m and the 2nd hole went "straighter" and is the one that went the deepest.

I pay for premium thinking I'd download so much music. Where I live is poor service so I instead download videos from a few of your channels to make sure I have stuff to watch when the service goes down :) great content and glad to see you grow! You and your team are doing incredible

I love the breaking the 4th wall at the end and elsewhere in this specific video.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for not using that stupid thumbnail with the mining quarry next to the town for this video. SOOOOO many people have done that for those click bait list videos and I appreciate you not doing so :)

"Let's jump in!" - I see what you did there. :-)

I love how you go on small tangents, it’s endearing and authentic

I enjoy and appreciate your seemingly, pragmatic, approach.

I love the discovery of hell rumors - and your attempt not to burst out laughing -lol

I remember me and two of my friends sitting in a chipotle for about an hour back in like 2009-2010 and reading every bit of information we could find on the Kola Superdeep Borehole. So fascinating

I feel a strange compulsion to go to Kola, open it and fiddle around with my phone?!?

15:04 “I’ve been Simon” 😂❤️

Such interesting content 👌- keep it coming

"We're going to see how far down into the Earth we can dig. Let's go up into the mountains to do it."

Simon- "that just doesn't feel right." Me- what really doesn't feel right is all the missed sex jokes my high school years trained me to make.

No steam off of that "coffee", looks similar to a Guinness....mmmm. Lovely and interesting informative work Simon. The sarcasm is good and very subtle.

lol 9:08 "Well Done." ha ha ha good piece, by the way, thank you.

Was surprised you didn't mention that at some point during the drilling, the enormously long drill shaft snapped. They had to re drill into the wall of the hole to avoid the previous bit as they couldn't pull it out again.

I made a really deep hole on the beach when I was a kid and an old man shouted at me and told me what I was doing was dangerous. They still haven't found him.

“I, as always, am your host, Simon”. Yeah, it’s really turning into that😁! Didn’t wait for instructions, just smashed that like, subscribe button. And I thought something called “Megaprojects” would bore me to tears, because it usually does. 🦗🦗🦗. But as always, really interesting. 👍

Thanks Simon, always fun

That coffee has a very similar head to a stout dark beer or fine ale.

I see Simon, I click, watch and like

Love how he was talking and moving his cup lol, he was really diggin the subject

Fabulous jacket/sport coat, Simon! Looking very sharp, Mr. Whistler.

I’ve just discovered this channel and am currently binge watching everything, it’s excellent! Thank you for all your hard work and research ☺️ would you consider an episode on the ISS?

Simon: "It's hard to get excited about a hole in the ground" Archaeologists: "Hold my beer"

Do you think you could do a video on the Nevada-Class Battleships as both ships had interesting careers. One of which USS Nevada tried to escape Pearl Harbor, fought at D-Day , Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and survived 2 atomic bombs. I would say that's a mega ship. Love the videos

Total Recall Simon with "The Drop" even though that wasn't in the first one. What is the one thing that the scientists don't want to hear from one of their colleagues whilst digging the Kola Hole? "Hey, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel" ;~)