Suez Canal Expansion: The Unprecedented Project To Widen The Canal | Extreme Constructions 

At about 55 seconds into this - and I quote - "...from the Mediterranean 'OCEAN' to the Red Sea...". From the Mediterranean OCEAN ??? Well done Spark !

It's will be so grate to see a documentary of those who worked at the Suez canal the positive and negative of their life's

US Merchant Marine here, MSC Military Sealift Command. I(we) steered an 850 foot Ro-Ro type US Navy owned ship full of classified material through the Suez Canal. It was 2003. Destination: Somewhere in The Sandbox. Still a classified voyage, but take a pick and you would likely be correct. Every ship gets an unusually odious Egyptian pilot that yells at you if you get the ship more than 35 feet in either direction than dead center. It is so difficult to do and concentrate that we worked in 30 minute shifts only. Steering a laser straight course with a ship of that size in a VERY narrow body of water is extremely hard. Steering a ship up or down a (very) winding river like the Mississippi is MUCH easier! Only one harder steering chore. That is coming in or out of the port of New Orleans with extreme cross currents and cross winds. Not an easy task.

45:47 shot of an Evergreen ship while talking about involuntary changes of direction....ironic.

OMG !!!! .... I thought my dentist dealt with major construction projects; until I watched this Suez documentary

Fantastic documentary Spark, well done. 👏👏

I *love* the little miniature canal with the little ships! Awesome! I'd be tempted to play "bumper boats" and zoom around, bumping into all the other ships - I'd probably be kicked out pretty fast.... ;)

I worked on a road tunnel under the Suez canal back in the 1970s, constructed approx. midway between the town of Suez and the Bitter Lakes. The army used a floating bridge made up of pontoons, fitted with huge outboard motors. One end hinged off the West bank and the other end driven across the canal in an ark, to an abutment on the East bank. It took about 30 mins to complete the task and could be done between the ship convoy direction of travel. Of course it could not be used know.

I really enjoyed watching this video. Amazing work.

A well constructed documentary, informative in a compelling manner that politely demands watching to the end. And that, surely, must be the producer's objective. Top marks!

I first went through the canal on a 20,000 ton general cargo ship in 1976 or so. The banks were still lined with burned tanks and abandoned gun emplacements and in the Bitter Lakes there were still the mastheads of a couple of sunken ships to be seen. From our deck you could throw an empty beer bottle to the shore - we used to do things like that then. I remember Jimmy Brown's Son and The Gully Gully Man. The last time I went through it was 2002 in a 315,000 ton VLCC in ballast - very different times.

Suez is Zeus spelled backwards ....

I love this, I love the way they built, how they adjusted or made a way...it is far better than where I am here in Cordillera Phils.

It actually reminds me of riding a bicycle downtown, when every intersection and wind being funneled on one side you have to correct your steering....

We Egyptians obesessed by making wonders 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

That was pretty damn good, thanks.

It’s insane when humans and countries from all over the world work together to archive something truly exceptional.

Well done! Thanks for sharing!

Underrated channel

This video is all over the place and can't seem to stay on one item more than a few minutes. The idea of starting at the beginning and showing progression through time seems to be alien to the producers.

Evergreen, Ever given moment

And why would this be necessary after so many years ? we're looking at you, Evergreen !

Watching from South Africa - Cape Town

Very informative documentary; however, I don't quite understand what the archival film clips purport to be showing. This can't be the construction of the original canal in the 1860s--motion pictures hadn't yet been invented.

Our Suez Canal…our pride…our gift to the world… Tahya Masr 🇪🇬 🇪🇬🇪🇬

Amazing what man can do

The idea that some of the first canal was done by hand shovel, wow.

Incredible mechanics.

Amazing people amazing channel and also this channel for this kind of documentary thank you we are so well informed!!!!!!!congratulations

The video kept jumping back and forth between different periods of time separated by hundreds of years. Very confusing.

SUPERB..

Amazing documentary

grandioso

America is like hold my beer

Very well done. Almost apolitical, almost.

bit annoying that its more of a history lesson when there is alresdy a spark video on how the canal was built. all i want to know about is how the made it wider as in the title

Military vessels have 'captains'; merchant vessels have 'masters' . . .

At about 34:37, the speaker refers to the dredging ship, "I.B.N." Battuta. I believe the name is "Ibn" Battuta, most probably named for the famous 1300s Mahgreb Berber traveller, Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah.

Engineering at its best....!

Great story, but I'm 10 minutes in and seen the same clips 3 times already, either get more footage or keep the stills on screen for longer .

37:20 The Mediterrannean "Ocean" (twice used).... Oops.... Sadly enough, de Lesseps' Panama plans were not succesful, and it would take almost 30 more years before the Atlantic and Pacific Seas... oops Oceans would be interconnected in Central America...

I would love to know how & where they ship those gold bars.

A great documentary, ruined by annoying ads every 5 minutes.

The waterways in the USA are regular ly dredged to maintain the flow of water here and the shorelines are cleared of excess sand after our many hurricanes that we have this is the method used to move the sand back onto our beaches frequently and doesn’t require specially built equipment. It isn’t cheap but it can get the job done in a reasonable tint frame. Many deltas need sand removed to open the shining lanes. It’s sad that Egypt niglected their waterwAys to this extent

Correct me if Im wrong but I believe the Pharoes had a partial canal which was made into a fully operational canal under Roman rule. This then fell into disrepair post collapse of the Roman Empire ??

Is that sountrack from XCOM 2 at 00:30? :D

7:21 would be interested in the Egyptian Army Engineer's 'scrappers'. Surely that's more of a Parachute Regiment thing..?

i watched this exact same video just the other day on another channel

14:21 Interesting.`the buckets "descend down"` ....as opposed to descend Up?

Good luck what ever happens !!!!!

I bet they wished they made it just one wide canal instead of one canal each way. By that way, a ship that gets stuck on one shore can be more easily pulled off, and so repeat Ever Given type blockages would be reduced in time...

I've never seen the same video clips used over and over again so many times

Moving sand is not engineering. It's labor on a huge scale.

I thought this might be a video on how the canal was modified to prevent any more Evergreen disasters.

Scrapers, perhaps, not scrappers . . . ?

lost me at "Mediterranean Ocean".

34:58 it looks like both the model and the animation have the buckets in backwards. And are moving the wrong way. There is no way for the buckets to dump that way. If the buckets are reversed and moving counter clockwise on the animation they would dig and dump. Just like every other bucket dredge does

I wonder if all that excavated sand is good for concrete work and restoring beaches or if that canal sand is actually useless desert sand? There is a shortage of usable sand for concrete and restoring beaches and desert sand will not work.

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?

First film ever made was at 1888. How they film it at the 1864?

The Mediterranean is a SEA not an OCEAN

THEY MAY HAVE SCOOPED A LITTLE DIRT OUT OF THE BOTTOM OF IT THEY DID NOT DIG IT

🚢🎸I like big boats and I cannot lie 🎸🚢

Imagine being an engineer with an unlimited budget... The things I'd try and build......

Getting stuck. You cannot make it sailor proof!

Imagine getting stuck

Mediterranean Sea, not 'ocean' . . .

I bet they actually widened the canal for longer ships, just in case another tries "drifting"...

Over there the workers are cleverly called “laborers” while the rest of the world calls them Slaves!

imagine being a fish living in Suez Chanal....

They could have saved time and money by contacting a beach dredging company from the USA. We have all of this this tech already available currently in this country. They need a better engineer on this project.

Have every country that uses the canal must provide workers and equipment and money to deepen and widen the canal to expand the canal !

THE MINI SHIPS USED IN THE LAKE ARE AN EXCELENT WAY FOR PILOTS AND MASTERS TO FULLY APPRECIATE THE HYDRODYNAMICS EFFECTING THE SHIPS , ESPECIALLY IN CLOSE QUARTERS TO ONE ANOTHER SUCH AS IN PASSING , THESE MINI SHIPS BEING PRECISION SCALED DOWN VERSIONS OF THE SUEZMAX CLASS SHIPS ... A GREAT EDUCATIONAL TOOL !

We all know what happened to the evergreen 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think it’s lazy and cheap not to have total voice overs during this otherwise fantastic documentary 💯 people don’t want to watch films we’re they have to read subtitles and miss the scenery in the background smdh.

Instead of showing a particular video of the entire project, the videographer is changing the film so fast. This is not good my dear.

Al sisi is the best eygptian leader ever ❤️ 💜 💙 🙏

the poor fossels of the evolution record.

102 miles And no Lock Gates. Red Sea to the Mediterranean, Where's the 6,000 + feet of missing Curvature ???

Am I getting this wrong At the beginning he says 18000 ships pass through each year Containing 700m tonnes of cargo That would be way way less than half a tonne each ship, that definitely can't be right

Yeah inches and feet I live in America

It's real name is DARIUS CANAL, not SUEZ. It was the KING-OF-KINGS Darius the great which dug the canal and it's real name is DARIUS Canal.

Reg: time stamp 13:00, 400k poor men forced from family and farm to work in hell, the commentator articulates that the project would cost the lives of thousands. I offer a correction it cost the lives of hundreds of thousands approximately 120,000 human beings died over to 10 year period that's 33 people a day. Poor people poor men removed from their families removed from their farms and then they're dead where are their bodies what compensation what arrangement was made to support the widow and her children who are suddenly fatherless, imagine the collective pain, trama and misery. Considering The staggering loss of life many questions are begged how would they treated how they kept or conditions as they work under $120,000 people disappear from a country that's poor that has a significant multi-generational effect on the economics and the culture. So it can never be made right but I'm okay with them charging a half a million dollars per container ship to Transit the suits now that I know some of the rest of the story.

I traveled through the Suez in the mid 1980's. The smell was unholy. The Red sea on the other side looked like it was on fire. I got attacked by Mosquitos in Djiboti. Good times.

Not in 4K

Internation shipping is out of control. The ships are so large that they cannot be controlled in unusual situations. The ship that blocked the Suez Canal is the example. Now the canal will be wider for more commerce? Or to prevent another blockage.

The random use of verb tenses and visuals made this documentary very disorienting.

99% Dutch IHC dredgers.

Interesting story, but seems to have more adds than other RU-vid videos. Gave up watching halfway through.

Is it safe to assume that similar technologies are used in “land reclamation” projects such as in Tokyo, and those ridiculous world map sand islands in Dubai?

dude its just a big ditch ... opperated by a bunch of .............

Ok great,so why’s it fucked up all the time causing delays and increased costs?

How they widened it by doubling it? Isn’t that like saying how the hit it by hammering it. How they wet it by watering it. How they grew it by growing it. How I said it by saying it… DUH

I wondered how and why so many people paid up to get it widened, till i learnt about how they will just make you a slave the first time round, im sure people remembered that...

The canal authority makes around $800k from every cargo ship passing though, and they asked the Egyptian population to finance the construction? Where is all the money going?

Digital nanotech park.

Regardless of increasing the size of any canal, the canal will quickly become too small. ( A physical law, associated with increasing boat traffic ) -- Directly in width; -- Secondary in structures over the canal; -- Primarily in time to traverse ! Ship sizes should be regulated, so it is impossible to diagonaly block the canal.

Buy ZIM on Wednesday!!! China is opening up and there are not enough ships to move all the containers. Semper Fi

because of the french language it is almost impossible to follow. sorry rather have English language as support or explanation ... this is impossible to follow