Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/real-life-lo... Please Subscribe: / @reallifelore Animations courtesy of Ryan Stevens, check out his channel here: / @maybejustmaybe2671
The thing is, the US actually originally considered building it in Nicaragua because of the lake and the San Juan River which would cut down on the digging required. They even did surveys and plans were pretty much underway. So what made them change to Panama? Enter the French. The French already attempted to build a canal in Panama with the help of Ferdinand de Lesseps who also developed the Suez Canal. Attempt because they tried to build it the exact same way they did in Egypt, it didn't work, thousands of workers died and when he realized how the canal should be built, it was too late. Investments ran out, everyone gave up on it and left...except for one man, Philippe Bunau-Varilla. He wanted to earn big bucks on the canal, and did whatever it took. So he persuaded the US, saying that they'd have to worry about a volcano by distributing a Nicaragua stamp with an eruption to Congress, and it worked. But there was a problem, Panama was Colombian at the time, and while Colombia initially supported the French building the canal, the Colombian senate was now against it. This led to the US and Philippe working together, got Panamanians on their side, and began a revolution to break Panama away. To stop a Colombian response to retake it, the US sent its navy to secure the new country. And of course, the US was the first to recognize Panamanian independence
Fun fact: All the budget require for the canal construcción surprisingly disappeared, on the other side, Ometepe island is a paradise all of u should consider to visit
What's laughable is that nobody sees the REAL problem here. How about we STOP BUILDING BIGGER AND BIGGER SHIPS!! Maybe canals won't become obsolete in less than a hundred years if we stop oversizing our oceangoing vessels. Maybe humankind won't keep having to destroy, and endanger, millions of more miles of natural habitats to keep building new, and bigger canals! Does logic even OCCUR to these greedy corporate bastards?!!
@@shindari it doesnt work that way though, as more and more people get access to resources more and more stuff will have to be transported accross the world If we dont build bigger ships for that, we will have to build *a lot* smaller ships, and then the panema canal will look like an LA traffic jam, wich really isnt an option
8:00 just wanna point out that Yellow Fever hasn't made it to Nicaragua just yet. But yeah, the cannal was a terrible idea, and I, like most Nicaraguans, am happy that it wasn't built
4000? I could believe 1000....there's no slaves there. They came voluntarily because life and paychecks are better there than in Nepal, Ethiopia, etc. Same reason people leave Mississippi for Texas or Florida.
@@User31129 Your comment makes no sense. And you can never talk about a country youve never been before. People are earning and living better in nepal. At least theres no death due to health issues(medical costs too high) in Nepal.
@@User31129 There's a difference between coming voluntarily and coming voluntarily but also have your passports seized by your employer so you're trapped in the country with nothing other than the labour job you have.
Thank you for posting. Converting salt water to fresh using solar infrared (heat) for steam engines is viable for reservoirs and canals. It can generate electricity, provide large amounts of sea salt, create a fresh water infrastructure, and even canals.
Idiotic concept. Desalinating sea-water is hugely energy intensive, is rarely done by solar-power alone, will generate ZERO electricity, and is done for domestic water supply by humans in cities, never for something as large-scale as filling canals or filling fresh-water reservoirs.
What's even more insane about all this is that Nicaragua doesn't even have formal diplomatic ties with the PRC. They still recognise the ROC (Taiwan) as the only China.
I've been to lake Nicaragua and the island in the middle which is called Omotepe many consider the 8th Wonder of the world because it's the only Island on a lake with two volcanoes. There are other islands with two volcanoes like Bali for example but they're on the ocean or a sea. This is the only one on the lake and it was such a beautiful spiritual place to spend time it was one of my favorite places in the world and it would be such a tragedy if it turned into a shipping lane. Thank God the plan failed
China's reasoning for the Nicaragua canal: *Nicaragua has been a part of China since ancient times* "Depending on the size of your ship, this might not be an option for you" showing an Evergreen ship squeezing through the canal in April 2020 and now knowing what happened to an Evergeen ship in March 2021 on the Suez Canal...that clip aged like milk.
That’s because about 30% of Nicaragua’s energy is geothermal or air power and the geothermal comes from volcanoes the mombacho volcano to be exact because of this Nicaragua’s has some of the best renewable clean energy in Latin America & the canal will need more which I would say is out of capacity of the power plants but because of this Nicaragua also has some of the best clean night skys for star glazing.
I thought someone might comment on a series of variations in a "D" category called "the land bridges" which already exist. Containers could be unloaded at several ports on the Atlantic, Gulf, or Pacifc coast and hauled across the U.S. for reload onto a container vessel. Several examples would be Los Angeles-L
CONTIUNED: Los Angeles-Long Beach to Houston TX or any number of Atlantic ports. These land bridges are presently utilized to avoid the queues encountered at the entrances to the Panama Canal which on occasion amount to 10 to 14 days. Dedicated land bridge double stack container trains make this transcontinental moment in less than 60 hours.
The ships are huge as it is, and if they make the ships any bigger, it would then be difficult for the ports to accommodate them. Even if they had the money I doubt it would go ahead
Ok sometimes I am looking for a specific video on RU-vid but then I see your title and I have to hold of on the other video because your video sounds so interesting. Good job and keep up the good work!
"Can you imagine 10 % of deaths being suitable for any modern construction company ? " Qatar 2022 WC stadiums construction companies : Well,actually ...
A modern operation like this wouldn’t lose 0.1% of that number Let alone an astronomical 10%. The entire US mining operations of 2019 had 24 deaths, from 147,500 metal and non metal mines.
@@matthewhernandez8342 The way FIFA works is disgusting, the biggest corruption scandal of the Brazilian history occured during the construction of 2014 WC stadiums, then Brazil went bankrupt and many members of CBF and FIFA were involved in it. There were corruption scandals in 2010 and 2018 WC too
@@danh8302 america, 1,000 deaths (coal mining alone) every year between 1900 and 1945. 3000 deaths coal mining alone 1907. keeping in mind this is only coal mining. safety generally comes after lots of deaths
No construction on the canal itself ever began, but they did evict some people. They also were doing a shit ton of infrastructure construction (upgrading roads in the proposed canal area, etc) in preparation for the start of canal construction , when I was there in 2014
$40B doesn’t seem that high in the context of Boston’s Big Dig costing $24.6B. And a canal adds direct and indirect economic value far beyond easing traffic in a large city. Then again, with a functioning canal in place, why do we economically need a second one?
For China, human rights are not an issue. The same applies to some Middle Eastern countries. Maybe Qatar is gonna change its attitude because its reputation is also important. But China is another story, the Big Red Communist Monster is using its strategic and economic power for political reasons. We had enough of the Russians for 40 years and Western people cannon even imagine how people were beaten up in jails by Communist henchmen on the wrong side of the former Iron Curtain. And China is trying to play the same game with the rest of the world as Moscow did.
China - 'Hey Nicaragua, how about we build a canal going through your country, we'll even give you some free money too.' Nicaragua - 'Hey that sounds really kind of you.' China - 'No problem dude, just sign your country over to us for the next 100 years.'
USA be like. We gonna canal Panama. Job done. Chyna be like. We gonna fuck the world in 2020 with our virus and then take all the good things. Job ongoing.
Im from Nicaragua and here, the population dont like the idea of the canal, because the project will destroy the hydrograpy of my country, here, people think that the canal its a joke to the soberany.
Si fueran capaces posiblemente terminarían cavando todo el país. No lo miran como un territorio habitado si no como un punto estratégico que les permita controlar todo
Chief well you see it would just be cheaper and easier to make a brand new canal that has slightly more width and is more than twice as long as the old canal I guess
Well, as we see at 7:05, the Panama Canal did undertake such an expansion on its own, But before they did, the big reason a Chinese company would attempt to build a new one Is because they wouldn't be able to make as much money on a canal that others primarily own. A bigger canal closer to the US, though riskier, would have the potential for insane financial income.
As someone who is 1/2 colombian and Nicaraguan born in nyc, I was literally about to have a heart attack, cause the insane idea on my father's country is unthinkable! But so glad I never came to pass. Even though that 250k jobs missed out on, the destruction of their own country isn't worth the cost.
*French plan. The french company that dug the Suez canal wanted to do a encore and started digging the Panama canal. Digging Panama turned out to be significantly more difficult and more expensive than Suez. The Suez company went bankrupt over it and the USA bought the land and finished the job for military purposes.
Jasper except now it’s an oppressive, anti-democratic, anti-freedom, regime: the Chinese Communist Party government. This is the regime responsible for allowing COVID-19 to escape into the world because of their negligence in allowing unregulated wet markets, and irresponsible actions in censoring doctors and journalists that were trying to warn everyone about COVID19.
I think if you look this has been one of the long term Chinese funded infrastructure projects pushed by PRC to influence Third World nations desperately in need of infusions of cash to their economies. The Thailand canal was another and a Trans African railroad project is also proposed but is less likely to happen given regional conflicts
The Evergreen incident was a act of sabotage by the "QUAD" -US, Japan , India, Australia and UK ( the UK queen is the head of Australia) They are planning a global war against China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, Indonesia and Africa ( including Egypt)
@@SShadyJess Since nobody here seems to have any numbers I'd rather trust the people making the decision to use bigger ships, if only because their incentive is clearly profit, and it profits them to have higher fuel efficiency. Unless you're suggesting there's some kind of weird conspiracy to not use the canal?
What about the Monroe Doctrine? “The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy that opposed European colonialism in the Americas. It argued that any intervention in the politics of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the United States.”
You say that like its a good thing? The Monroe doctrine was pure colonialism. All we do is mess with south America for our own gains. And Not that I want China in there but its not a European country. Everyone just needs to leave the countries alone.
@@writerconsidered My question is, how much fun would you expect the communist Chinese to bring to the neighborhood? The Monroe doctrine speaks of any foreign power! So it does speak of China.
haha seeing the EVERGREEN name -now- on a ship going through a canal is very funny now edit: i know the ship's name is evergiven, but the names of evergreen's ships are written in smaller letters, near the bow and the stern the most notable aspect is the huge EVERGREEN on the side of the hull, and the colour and oh look the ever given and this specific ship share these two features thanks for reading skr
This was the original plan for the canal before Panama. They stopped the plan because of a nearby volcano that may erupt sometime in the future blocking the canal so they moved it to Panama
It wasn’t just the volcanos the US had bought the rights from the French in Panama by then. Even tho they already had control of Nicaragua and it’s government by then all the way to 1933. A lot of ppl thought Nicaragua was better option cause it was cheaper and nature basically had already carved out a natural river system they could use
You let out a few facts.'Panama" was province of Colombia.The Colombians refused to sell it to the U.S . So the US organised a rebellion in the region and set up a puppet state which sold the future canal zone to the US ,thereby cutting their new "country" in two. Ù
Cornelius Vanderbilt transported much of the heavy equipment and passengers from New York to San Francisco through Nicaragua during the California Gold Rush. Vanderbilt build a railroad through Nicaragua to accomplish this. He eventually sold his ships and invested in railroads prior to the Civil War. With the use of standard shipping containers, automated loading and unloading, and nuclear powered trains, transporting cargo over land between ships could be just as cost efficient as a waiting in line for passage through busy canal systems.
Mexico is upgrading its ports, building gas and oil pipes, highways and upgrading the railroad route to move merchandise by unloading on one side and loading at the other side on another boat to compete with the panama canal. China wanted in but the mexican goverment refused and the president said it will be financed by mexican investors only but its likely that Blackrock and others will be involved since Mexico is much more inclined to deal with western investors than Chinese.
@Robb Skipper Every single project around the world has some form of corruption. This looks like a good project with little corruption so I think this will benefit Mexico a whole lot.
I don't think it is to compete with the panama canal I think the panama canal is just not big enough to take that many ships also this will not only support international shipping but the national one as well. This is going to be very strategic for the growth of Mexico.
@Robb Skipper I may be wrong but I don't think China is involved in this. This is something that will benefit Mexico for many decades they just need to be careful and don't privatize it like they done with many other things so the profits can actually go to the Mexican people and not to some foreign corporation.
@Robb Skipper I don't think Mexico needs to only worry about China. Most greedy corporations are not only from China they are from Canada, US, and Europe. And it's not only in Mexico but all of latin america but Mexico has the most natural resources so they concentrate on Mexico. Corruption in Mexico is good for Canada, US, and European businesses because they can easily buy out the politicians but once China started to try to get in on the party then it's " Mexico, you can't be that corrupt!" Mexico needs to nationalize their oil, lithium, silver, gold. They are so rich in natural resources there is no excuse not to be a first world country. But again, most of those businesses that bribe mexican politicians are from countries like US, Canada, and Europe. All those countries love Mexico being corrupt, they just don't want Mexico to allow China in on the party.
@@miguelbarrero5572 , politics - Columbia wanted no part of it so the American goobermint/CIA started a revolt in the province of Panama and won their independence so the US could build it's canal .
40 billions is just a rough estimate. The actual costs will always be higher due to difficult situations. As a result they will run out of funds and the project will dragged on for years or they may ended up abandoned the project all together
There are plans for a dry canal in Costa Rica. Cargo can get across the country in 3 hours after it gets unloaded. Still waiting for government to approve the project.
I don't think you realized that to do this he would have to liquidate all of his assets, including Amazon, causing a huge economic shock that could send the world into a economic depression
The environmental disaster would come way before an oil tanker ever spilled, the salt would kill all of the fresh water marine life and will result in a chain of events leading in a complete ecological disaster way before any oil even touches it.
Allen Jenkins They honoured the agreement because HK and Macau were not defendable. If China was weak, divided and in chaos, the Western powers would not have given them back, instead, they would probably annex HK and Macau, plus they would have annexed more land on top of that.
A plan, mind you, that would have not only been pointless, but destroyed the country further than already is considering with the natives and geography. At least with Panama it makes sense.
Luis M just a question. Why does progress have to come at the expense of anyone? Why does everything have to be a certain way? We don’t need to risk everything to get what we need. Plus there’s no guarantee that this plan would even work the way it was intended. Not to mention how much money would be spent on trying to reallocate people being moved and quelling any revolts in the region. This just sounds like another plan where a foreign power is trying to passively subjugate another country by using them to their advantage without any regard to the native population or environmental resources in the name of profit.
In my younger freer days I took many trips to Costa Rica and surrounding areas, including an incredibly magical trip to Lake Nicaragua and Ometepe. When I read about this insane plan I was also so dismayed at this crazy idea and for losing such a treasure to the future.
@@TheMrPeteChannel why would costa rica become wealthier because of a canal built in Nicaragua? if anything both countries would become poorer because Costa Rica would have to deal with even more Nicaraguan refugees than it does now and Nicaragua would get no monetary benefit from the canal for 100 years and would also have a lot of displaced, unemployed people to take care of.
*RealLifeLore:* "Around 40,000 workers died during the construction of the Panama Canal... Can you imagine even 10% of those deaths being acceptable to a modern construction company?" *Qatar World Cup 2022:* "Hold my beer."
It was badly expressed below, but the great majority of the deaths were on an earlier French attempt. The US construction began by eliminating mosquitoes which reduced disease and constructing a railway to remove dirt and to stop it from burying workers.
@@alipalace6 Yes and when the US decided to finish the Panama Canal they went in there and drained all of the swamps, put in sanitation systems, quarantined anyone that was sick, put screens on all windows and doors and in a short time the mosquito and disease problems were mostly solved. Any later deaths were mostly of a construction accident type.
My aunt and uncle told me that the Chinese government did not want Nicaraguan workers. So Nicaraguan people did revolt and cause lots of damage to all the equipment and Chinese imports.
@@normaeunicechavarria4101 I don't know about Nicaragua, but from VLogs I see Chinese construction companies in Africa usually hire local workers because the pays could be much lower than for Chinese (since Chinese workers go by Chinese domestic standards). I'm sure in the end they would have to hire Nicaraguan workers to justify the costs.
This sounds really interesting and all, but Panama widened their canal. The newly widened Panama Canal opened up on 26 June 2016 and has been meeting the needs of larger ships ever since!
@@mara1978able Story goes like this: The US and France were both planning to make a canal, Americans considered building two across Nicaragua which would've been way cheaper, faster and easier. However, France had already started the one in Panama before abandoning it for being too costly so the US brought their big ol' stick of freedom to the abandoned site and resumed work
Brazil does it all pretty good on their own. Just look at satellite pictures over just past 3 years not to mention 10. Look at what US does in different ways. Look at what France did to polynesia. BOOM
The fact that expanding the already existing Panama Canal wasn't the first proposed idea is baffling, unless of course it was proposed; and you conveniently just didn't mention it.
I am Scottish. I learned about the Darien Project in school - beginning of the 18th century. If you don't know the details of this disaster, I urge you to Google or Wikipedia it.
Remember before the Panama Canal they proposed it through Nicaragua until they had a volcano erupt in Nicaragua 1898 that persuaded them to build the canal in Panama.
Instead of building new longer canals, why couldn’t a more modern one be built adjacent to the Panama Canal? Would be half the size of the other options
Try these on.... Niche: the ecological concept....pronounced “Nitch” or “Neesh”? We will know from where you received your biological education in how you pronounce this ecological concept. Or how about this one. The scientific name:Eucalyptus pronounced “U Caly P Tus” meaning without calyx. Why is it pronounced “U Ka lip tus”? North American large Bovine of the plains. Buffalo or Bison? How do you know? What’s the difference? Buffalo horns come out of center of head and are large. Think Cape buffalo or water buffalo. The bovine of the North American plains is a Bison. Horns are small and come out of side of head. Now you know.
