The Deepest Holes Ever Dug 

Mans' fascination with holes... imagine that.

One VERY IMPORTANT item left out in this list is the Mponeng gold mine in South Africa. It's 4km deep and also the deepest point in the crust of the earth a human has ever been.

Holes: Can be quite a deep topic

One time I went to my friends cottage with him, right on the beach! So we dug a MASSIVE hole. We strated up on banks where there were small shubs and grass and no one would bother us. Made it down 8 feet and about 12 across with a ramp dug into one side. With help from my friends older brothers and their dad of course. The sand had alot of clay in it, and a mostly clay layer at the last 3 feet. We carved seats and let the clay layer fill with water and reinforced the sides with sticks and 2x4s. Around the hole was all our clay and sand, with it we made a 4 foot high wall around the hole, reinforced it with sticks, and found some plywood to put over it. It was still there 4 years later, just filled in a few feet and others had opened up the roof and made a fire pit with some makeshift chairs in the bottom. Was a fun place to go have a midnight smoke or beer with my friend when we visited after making it so long ago.

I like Simon Whistler's videos and all but can someone tell the RU-vid algorithm that I might ALSO be interested in some other stuff too?

1:40 - Chapter 1 - Kola superdeep borehole 3:35 - Chapter 2 - Mir mine 5:00 - Chapter 3 - Chikyu 6:45 - Chapter 4 - Deepwater horizon

It's not just particularly Human, it's also particularly Canine!

You have a great gift of talking very fast without sounding like it.

I'm sure that Simon makes certain videos just to threaten Danny... Simon tasked the writers to find a good spot to hide ETA's corpse.

I enjoyed watching the whole hole video. You can tell that they dug deep on the research. Truly dismantled many of the sinking complications that could cause a project to be ground to a halt, overall a wholly entertaining video to help keep one grounded. I really dug it!

How about something on Super ships. They actually have ships to transport other ships.

at 4:24, Stalin died in 1953

4:28: Stalin died in 1953; Mir mine did indeed open in 1957. Therefore Stalin did not live to open the mine.

Always a gem Simon! Love the channels 🥰

Stalin died in 1953... so the mine couldn't have been opened by Stalin in 1957.

Fun fact: Chikyū (地球) is Japanese for Earth.

I heard that the Rideau Canal in Ottawa Canada was a super interestng megaproject! Vote Canada!

YES! Have been asking for more hole videos for months! Really want to see one on Megaprojects for the longest ice hole in Antarctica (really cool that one) and Kidd mine.

Stalin really must have been a mean bigger. Opening a mine 4 years after his death.

You still need to do a Megaprojects on the diamond mines in the Northern Cape and Free State, mostly because of the considerable labour ramifications but also because we need to hear mispronunciations of Bloemfontein and Simon saying "groot gat"

Hi Simon. Happy New year. I love your youtube channels. I have actually a suggestion for a Sideprojects video, maybe even a Megaprojects video. It should be about how Simon Whistler manage to produce all these videos and in such a high quality. Honestly - How do you manage it??. Best regards Stephan

Thank you for another interesting and informative video. Semi on the topic; the U.S. in the 60's had a ship called FLIP which was used to drill at sea. It didn't set any records but I am surprised that you didn't mention it.

Quite a lot of inaccuracies in this one. - Stalin was dead by 1957, so definitely did not open Mirny Mine. - Mirny Mine is not the largest open cast mine in the world, as there are a few copper mines that are larger (Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah for a start). - BP is not “or British Petroleum” - it has not been called “British Petroleum” since 1998, when the old British Petroleum Plc merged with Amoco Corporation (an American company, formerly known as Standard Oil Company (Indiana)) and became BP Amoco Plc; and it changed its name to BP Plc after acquiring ARCO (another American company) and Burmah Castrol (another British company) in 2001.

I was a hole digging kid and this video is what I've been waiting for!

Yes Simon. We will show up and watch you talk about holes 😂

I made a pretty deep hole in the sandbox when I was a kid. However, when my dog saw what I was doing, she decided to join in, but by digging another hole...right across from the one I was digging and filling mine in...

Man can be enlighten by digging, but curiosity can be a Pandora's box. Life is precious. Simon, thanks for the info.

Those evil sovjets ! resurrecting their dictator 4 years after his death to open a diamond mine. :-)

What about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah? It's 1,210 m deep.

You completely glossed over the very real threat posed by disturbing the mole people.

Word! Thanks team, love all the channels & videos!!!!!!

YES! More videos on holes!

I love watching these normal videos to try and see little glimpses of The Boy with the Blaze trying to squeeze through the cracks of the facade that is Simon Whistler. No such luck in this one though..

The Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada gets my vote. The city of Ottawa is a pretty good story too. From a logging town to Canada's capital. 🇨🇦

Simon talking about deep holes, it maybe a new year but something never change.

Once again a topic about holes, presented by our dear Simon, place itself in the top of views.

At first I'm like "this guy has another channel!?!?", now I'm like, "YES, ANOTHER CHANNEL FROM SIMON!!!!!"

Remember, when you stare at the hole, the hole also stares back at you.

Next you should make a documentary on the duggest holes ever deeped

No mom jokes in the comments section, my how we have matured.

Simon heard someone say "Any hole's a goal" and took a different meaning from it

This video is going about as good as his interview. Love ya bud.

Very interesting! Thanks!

I like watch you. You cover so interesting subjects.

@4:30, depending on the latitude of the mine (which is over 62 degrees North) and the slope of the hole, the southern face of the hole may not see any sunlight at any time of the day or even at any time of the year. This means that it will take extra months before the winter snow accumulation melts. I remember a place in Manitoba (around 50 degrees north), devoid of most sunlight due to heavy vegetation, where the snow didn't melt until late June or early July. The North pole is 90 degrees north. And 90-62=28, so when you add the Tropic's latitude, 23 degrees, to 28, you get 51 degrees from the vertical. So if the slope of the mine is over 39 degrees from the horizontal, (90-51=39) then one slice of it will never see sunlight. It looks to be at least that steep from visual inspection in this video. The Google Earth elevation data doesn't say anything about the elevation of the slopes of this mine. If someone from Mirny reads this comment, please tell us what time of the year the snow melts along the south side of this pit.

Drum roll Clash.. Love your vids bud.

have mentioned it in the comments of mega project video's before but please do a video about hyper sonic flight/planes! There is a lot of cool and fun stuff to find out about it

Suggestion for a video Lake Pleasant dam AKA Hank Raymond dam Peoria Arizona. Two separate dams built. I believe one in the 30's and one in the late 80's early 90's. Part of the Central Arizona Project AKA CAP ( also a good video suggestion ) there are some interesting surprises in this story for your writer to find. I look forward to seeing your crew do this story justice.

I am constantly surprised at the number of people who give these videos a “Thumbs Down”. What is there not to like about them? And if you don’t like the video or the subject, just turn it off and watch another one. Or do some work and quit spending your time on RU-vid, you slackers! Maybe they are jealous they don’t have RU-vid channels, or imagination to put one together. Great videos, Simon. They never cease to inform and entertain me.

Damn you Simon. Why do you make the content I already know the answer to AND STILL WATCH COMPLETELY? AARGGGGHHHHH!

Idea for new video: the most devastating floods in history

You had me at holes.

You should do a video on the Kennecott copper mine in Utah.

As Troy McClure said, "Holes define who we are & where we're going"...

Oh hey look, Simon on my RU-vid homepage again. With a new channel? Shocking.

We need more videos on holes please

Do some car factories, most advanced ones of their time or something like that

The deepest hole is the one in my soul.

I thought u did a video on the super boring bore hole already 🤣 I suggest that hole that doesn't begin on ground level... That hole I'm digging to the Moon! 👷

We got in so much trouble. Behind my garage we decided to dig a hole until my parents told us to stop. It took 4 months for them to find out what we had done. We got in a lot of trouble.....

I was waiting for an ex-girlfriend joke at the end, but all we got was Simon crapping on the oil and gas industry.

I heat my house with dinosaur farts and run my truck with dinosaur bodies.

That feeling of relief when #1 isn’t your mum.

BP is not an abbreviation for British Petroleum. It is the name that was chosen for the emalgumation of said British Petroleum and AMOCO (American Oil Company) in 1998. After another couple of aquisitions it became BP inc in 2001. All operations in the US (and indeed in many other countries) continued to operate in their own ways with same BP logo. Harmonisation of management, methodology, safety and risk assessment etc. had not been considered, let alone implemented. I say this as an independent consultant oil and gas exploration engineer, who was called out to Houston in 2010. The cause of it all was a bad call by the "company man" on the rig, who chose to try and save money by using the technigue of long well completion. All signs of impending disaster were ignored or overridden. A huge oil and gas service company named Schlumberger immediately chartered a chopper for their employees to evacuate after the guys on the rig called in with their concerns. No persons of British nationality were involved in any of this. Obumma used the name wrongfully in an attempt to shift the blame.

Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. It was one of the largest copper mines in the world until it closed, now the mine is filled with water

you should do one about the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest Romania, it s the second largest building as surface after pentagon

I was going to suggest as a side project the tunnels along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, first bored in 1940 and later one twinned and bypassed and how they were dug and how they are managed. Now there is a plan to bypass another tunnel and doing so will damage the environment when another tunnel could simply be bored and other countries have successful long tunnels.

Holes are surprisingly interesting.

I love it how the 4th most viewed video on MegaProjects is about a hole

5:00 "but digging holes doesn't have to start at ground level, or even on the ground level at all" You sure about that Simon? /s

Just an idea, I know you have roughly 437 channels that you run, and idk which of those this would fit into. It would be interesting to learn about companies, like how they started and things about their past, and impact. Like IBM with the Nazis, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Chase, BP, SpaceX, Hugo Boss, Coca Cola, Hershey's, Volkswagen,etc. Idk if it would have to involve a lot of "allegedly" but just an idea.

I don't think Stallin opened the mir mine in 57 lol. Didn't he die in 53

What about the Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah. It's one of the largest open pit mines in the world. You could also do a mega projects video on the Caterpillar 797F dump truck.

Good video 👍

We were heavily impacted by the oil from Deepwater Horizon. Still seeing oil wash up. They also dumped thousands of gallons of Corexit here 😢

Simon my man, can you please also use freedom units along with the metric units???

Me immediately upon finishing this video: Dammit. *Sighs and goes to boot up Minecraft to dig a big hole for the sake of digging a big hole*

Some of my favorite things are holes!

You dug yourself into this one!

Do one on Vanguard and Blackrock and how many of the world's total wealth piea these two firms have their fingers in.

I'd also dig holes like that Simon. But no lifeguards ever had an effect. I did almost drown once when I dug below the water level and then the large hole collapsed on/around me.

Holy cow this is a deep episode

8:30 please do a video on Japan's pictures of the moon landing sites, who makes better camera lenses then them? Thoose will be some good pictures, looking forward to watching that video! Also, do one on Indias moon landing pictures from their spacecraft, that will also be a good one. Can't wait.

0:20 Why do you attack me so personally Simon?

'Opened by Stalin in 1957' Impressive for a man that died in 1953

The masculine urge to dig deeper

SG-3. "Hey Sergey , are you sure this is how you build stargate?"

Simon, what about the Kennecott mine here in Utah. That's a bigass hole, too

suggestion for future video: drillings that went wrong

The lifeguard thing, yep me too.

I'm so hungover I just threw up in my mouth but I'm still watching this

I don't know uf it would be.a side project topic but have you thought about the project to escivate Alexandria or the investigation into the Golden Spirals of Romania

This is how you get Balrogs, people.

I came for the yo mama joke but y'all are too wholesome.

In my opinion, the Mir Mine (Russia) does not deserve to be on this list/video. There are many other mines that are much larger/deeper, such as: - Bingham Canyon Copper Mine (USA) - Mponeng Gold Mine (South Africa) (just to name a few) Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the video... keep it up!

As you go through life, make this your goal, Watch the doughnut not the hole.

I was expecting the mine in South Africa to be in here

Can we get the Strahov Stadium in Prague? Capacity (not only seating) 250.000 supposedly

1:05 Huh? Did De Beers get to you, Simon? Blink thrice if you're in danger. #DiamondsAreAScam

You didn't mention the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine.