We walked the most dangerous path in Britain

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The Broomway is surrounded on both sides by quicksand and deep, sucking mud. It has no markers and no guideposts. And if you mistime your walk, you won't outrun the tide. Oh, and it's in the middle of a Ministry of Defence firing range. But most of the time, if you want to visit Foulness Island, it's the only way.
Thanks to Tom Bennett: www.tombennettoutdoors.co.uk/
Filmed safely: www.tomscott.com/safe/
Edited by Michelle Martin / mrsmmartin
Audio mix by Graham Haerther
REFERENCES:
Christy (1922): "A high road in the sea", The Windsor Magazine, volume 56, p556
MoD Shoeburyness Public Access Leaflet [PDF]: www.qinetiq.com/shoeburyness/...
🟥 MORE FROM TOM: www.tomscott.com/
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@TomScottGo 3 года назад

Meanwhile, in an alternate universe, an irresponsible version of me with a goatee is making a spectacular video that involves trying to outrace the tide on a motorbike, then getting arrested by military police.

@vishaals2522 3 года назад

Why does this say 1 month ago my god was it unlisted for that long

@brickwall2900 3 года назад

ok good fact

@nick-st7jx 3 года назад

why do you keep your videos unlisted for so long? you should make a video on it

@dat_fast_boi 3 года назад

One month? What? You're telling me that Tom Scott knows how to put a comment on his video before it goes up? Clear evidence that we live in the matrix.

@aaclovern9804 3 года назад

BRING THE AGONIZER!

@rasmusn.e.m1064 3 года назад

I am not saying a hovercraft line would solve this, but.....

@FloydBunsen 3 года назад

**adds a bar**

@metalwhere 3 года назад

... but is a hovercraft "road legal"?

@chrismcgarry2840 3 года назад

@@metalwhere presumably if the hovercraft is operating over the sea and tidal flats it is counted as a boat rather than a road vehicle?

@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers 3 года назад

some lad in a shed might be already working on that, maybe they've even done it before

@superslimanoniem4712 3 года назад

@@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers mr. Furze, we need you

@goplayer7 3 года назад

next time Tom: "I am just outside the international space station."

@ElectraFlarefire 3 года назад

"And if I move 20 meters to my left, I WILL be arrested by NASA security on my return.."

@kattkatt744 3 года назад

Honestly, if there is two peope that should space tourist to the ISS it is Tom Scott or Scott Manley.

@Skoran 3 года назад

@@kattkatt744 We should merge them into Tom Scott Manley =').

@Chris_Cross 3 года назад

Nice

@alansmithee419 3 года назад

"I am currently standing inside an armed nuclear missile on its way to North Korea."

@Triple259772 3 года назад

British military: “can’t use this bridge it’s ours” Also British military: “however we do have this firing range”

@shinjisan2015 3 года назад

and the red flag indicates it is in use at the time.

@nicke1903 3 года назад

May get lucky if they're using a L85A1

@termitreter6545 2 года назад

@@nicke1903 Not so lucky since the germans fixed it.

@sambrooks4413 2 года назад

@@nicke1903 We use the A2 now so not much chance of that.

@stevenbobbybills 2 года назад

@@sambrooks4413 or even the A3 by this point.

@joyphobic 3 года назад

It's not a Tom Scott video without his pinned comment being a month old already

@safe-keeper1042 3 года назад

It's not the pinned comment without 173 people going "commnet one month old y?"

@abhayh924 3 года назад

@@safe-keeper1042 lmao i said the same in another comment

@h0griph 3 года назад

How does that happen??

@Virtuous_Rogue 3 года назад

@@h0griph It was unlisted for a month, then became listed at its scheduled time.

@crystaldazz 3 года назад

Witchcraft!

@rebmcr 3 года назад

Can we all take a moment to appreciate Tom's sound equipment for bringing us something useful from the North Sea coast on a windy day?

@jeanc1622 3 года назад

Thats actualy true! So great. The only thing which could be heard was that flag banging on its pole and his voice

@Apostate_ofmind 3 года назад

rebmcr now that i think about it, its hella impressive

@krazed9918 3 года назад

VERY good point! I've had to take background noise out of a video and the thought didn't even register with me while watching this! Great job, Tom & Crew!

@rascalw.492 3 года назад

👍

@Apostate_ofmind 3 года назад

krazed truly it is that the most important things for immersion and video quality are those things that your concious mind doesnt even register!

@JBDazen 3 года назад

You know you're in Britain when a mountain leader is guiding you over the flattest path ever without even a small hill in sight.

@Nynke_K 3 года назад

some landscapes are underrepresented in that job title!

@Misses-Hippy 3 года назад

Only outdone by the mountain climbers of the Netherlands.

@mikethomas5510 2 года назад

There used to be a Goodwin sands potholing club. They used hovercraft

@Angel-bz5jm 2 года назад

Scottish highlands: am I a joke to you

@rowanmelton7643 2 года назад

@@Misses-Hippy And Bangladesh

@bread_3393 3 года назад

Tom Scott: the guy who does legal things that are seemingly illegal

@charleslambert3368 3 года назад

then flies his kite in a public place

@bgone444 3 года назад

The path my parents walked to school

@maythesciencebewithyou 3 года назад

must have been classmates of my parents

@BigShrimpin_ 3 года назад

@@ragnkja Drown, or get swept out to sea and lost presumably.

@olik136 3 года назад

It can't be since it doesn't even go uphill both ways

@maythesciencebewithyou 3 года назад

@@olik136 According to my parents they just made it more kid friendly for my spoiled generation after they finished school.

@qzbnyv 3 года назад

My parents walked uphill both to AND from school. So this definitely isn’t their path.

@pkingglazersout6665 3 года назад

In this video Tom is walking with Tom who guided Tom and Tom thanked Tom for giving information about the place to Tom

@altraaasvk8547 3 года назад

You are the new justin y. I literally see your comment on every video I see nowadays.

@Jake-rm4be 3 года назад

Tom

@moshahriz1346 3 года назад

@@altraaasvk8547 a lot of people are justin y now

@degenerals6127 3 года назад

@@altraaasvk8547 wow

@ad-skyobsidion4267 3 года назад

But where is the guy without a mustach

@WolfJustWolf 3 года назад

2:30 the irony of brooms being swept away

@steffenfrost995 3 года назад

Best comment

@RaptrRamblings 3 года назад

AYYYYE

@flap.d.jack247 3 года назад

Wow

@BenderdickCumbersnatch 3 года назад

Hi dad!

@scrablse2613 3 года назад

Lmfao yes

@kjamison5951 3 года назад

Irony: a dangerous path called the Broomway where the tide will sweep you away.

@johnnyheli 3 года назад

That's coincidence, not irony

@Chris_Cross 3 года назад

That's not irony.

@dropmelon 3 года назад

@@hairyairey Still not irony so they’re half-right.

@Dorsidwarf 3 года назад

@@johnnyheli Being coincidental doesn't rule out something being ironic!

@ObjectsInMotion 3 года назад

Being swept away on a path called Broomway, while funny and a rare event, is not a subversion of expectations so is not irony. Brooms used as markers being swept away is unexpected, brooms tend to sweep not be swept, so that would be irony.

@JW-vx9mz 3 года назад

Hovercraft ownership seems far more useful for the residents of this island than anywhere else.

@SymbioteMullet 3 года назад

And there is the market for the hoverpub!

@Kyrelel 3 года назад

Hovercraft are not road legal.

@dunebasher1971 3 года назад

If you're a resident you're allowed to use the road. The Broomway is just for tourists.

@nitehawk86 3 года назад

@@dunebasher1971 I think you misunderstand. We are trying to find an excuse to have a hovercraft.

@Eira_ 3 года назад

@@Kyrelel but they are water legal

@dle511 3 года назад

this means Tom could legally operate his hoverpub along this path

@morgansearle3912 3 года назад

And the local one closed, so there's an open niche

@anderpanders6210 3 года назад

And since hover craft have very limited seating it probably wouldn't be against any corona regulations

@Vousie 3 года назад

But is the hoverpub road legal?

@MajesticSkywhale 3 года назад

@@anderpanders6210 can't socially distance

@juango500 3 года назад

2007 Tom would do that

@connermckay4012 3 года назад

Fun fact, the reason "brooms" are called what they are is because originally they were made from "broom", a type of brush native to most of Europe iirc. This brush would be harvested and tied to the end of a stick before it dried, hence a "broom-stick". The name eventually got shorthanded to just "broom" and now the plant and the cleaning tool have ambiguous names.

@Drag0nvil Год назад

Thank you for this interesting fact!

@luapslev5826 3 года назад

2 hours later: "I am here, in M.O.D's holding cell."

@miscellaneous_man756 3 года назад

@Lionel Rich Tea the military dont have holding cells, i dont know if you know l but military prisons do exist

@xxbeatuupzz 3 года назад

Next video: "I'm here, in the middle of the North sea"

@ymgve 3 года назад

Has Tom ever visited the foundation of an oil rig?

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 3 года назад

Just another reason to need a hovercraft.

@Moshimulations 3 года назад

@@ymgve yes

@DragonMaster1804 3 года назад

At time of writing this comment, 'Doggerland' is trending on Twitter, so it may be more likely than you think that his next video comes from the middle of the North Sea! (No, Doggerland isn't what you think it is. It's the north's Atlantis, a big stretch of land between Britain and mainland Europe before a tsunami sank it and separated the two)

@godzillas6301 3 года назад

@@DragonMaster1804 Is that the car park in Cannock chase ? .... gets a bit latexy and spunky underfoot after a warm summers evening errrr so ive heard .

@inq101 3 года назад

You used to be able to go to Foulness by phoning the islands pub. The landlord would take your name, contact the gate guards who would then let you through. Unfortunately the George and Dragon pub closed in 2007.

@clockworkkirlia7475 3 года назад

The George and Dragon, of course. I'm sure it made a killing.

@Geeves8612 3 года назад

@@clockworkkirlia7475 that's Berney Arms but unfortunately that pub is closed too :(

@sentientarugula2884 3 года назад

@@Geeves8612 AWWWW

@davidjames579 3 года назад

And then just to be a right bastard, you don't visit the pub.

@fredhasopinions 3 года назад

this is my favourite bit of information yet

@peppermintmiso4341 3 года назад

This sounds like the beginning of a joke: Two Toms walk through the most dangerous path in Britain

@yayeetmeoffacliff4708 2 года назад

@@amishabharti4734 i- just- what??

@1.4142 2 года назад

"So where was this most remote bar in britain you were talking about?"

@wessexdruid7598 Год назад

'Toms' of course being the common slang for British soldiers...

@TheDarrellimpey 3 года назад

"Broom" being the name of certain, thorny, straight shrubs, which were harvested to make sweeping devices, which became called brooms.

@winoo1967 3 года назад

Tom will say to his children: "I walked through the most dangerous path in Britain to get to work"

@thesenamesaretaken 3 года назад

Youngsters these days. When I was your age I had to race rising tides, sinking sands and gunfire to get to work

@samuelelder9434 3 года назад

@@thesenamesaretaken top marks 😉 for the profile pic

@DisorderedArray 3 года назад

But if you work there you can just drive over the bridge ;)

@tomtom4405 3 года назад

@@DisorderedArray Yes true, I have driven over it myself some years ago but I had an appointment, still there was quite a process and had to wait a while for permission to enter. You can't just drive on. Not sure how it works for the residents, maybe they have a special permit to show or something?

@nicholasleclerc1583 3 года назад

Nay, “ *WHILE* I worked”

@MaxJDF 3 года назад

"tide that moves in faster than you can run" that's terrifying.

@srenkoch6127 3 года назад

It may sound terrifying, and rightfully so. It is also totally true in a lot of places, so do heed those warnings!

@popuptoaster 3 года назад

Its very flat and shallow around many parts of the Thames estuary so the tides are really fast in a lot of places, Southend pier is over a mile long so that large boats had somewhere deep enough that they could dock and drop passengers.

@cameron7374 3 года назад

Many tides in many places are faster than you can run and the ocean behind them potentially more turbulent than you can endure. Yes, that is terrifying and for a good reason.

@bernier42 3 года назад

I wondered if that meant “faster than you can run through mud”, but either way...

@epic-concept 3 года назад

"tide that moves in faster than you can run", huh? challenge accepted.

@GiraffeFlavoredCondoms 3 года назад

"Tide that moves faster than you can run" is one of the scariest sentences

@John01GM40 Год назад

go to Morecambe Bay then - tide that moves faster than you can think.

@sternis1 3 года назад

"It is technically allowed to drive any street-legal vehicle here". Anyone else hear Top Gear?

@chickenpommes19 3 года назад

*gets stuck in quicksand" "Does that mean he's not coming on then?"

@bill1682 3 года назад

How hard can it be

@JoshHeidenreich 3 года назад

Landcruiser? Hilux? They got to the north pole...

@ShadowDragon8685 3 года назад

Clarkson showing up in his Lambo (tractor) and yelling at Tom to get out of shot.

@almostcertainlynotapotato6528 2 года назад

I hear the Grand Tour

@ZeldaplusSmallville 3 года назад

Because “Danger” is Tom Scott’s middle name.

@kingblob6244 3 года назад

@Shivansh you don't call their kilts skirts

@andrewche4066 3 года назад

Imagine Tom saying "I AM the danger" in Heisenberg's voice

@emiharith 3 года назад

i think his real middle name is "Legal"

@raassh23 3 года назад

@@emiharith did you mean "Technically Legal"?

@MrMadeinisrael 3 года назад

It's actually pronounced 'Donger', it's derived from a Dutch word meaning 'prudence in financial matters'

@CptMaximus 3 года назад

Tom is truly putting his life on the line to educate us

@kausthita11 3 года назад

That's what "Good" teachers do.... Maybe not life

@chaitanyarao5546 3 года назад

And I genuinely cherish and appreciate for him. Never missed an upload and always learnt something awesome from him.

@zappawench6048 3 года назад

Extreme Educator!

@iHaveTheDocuments 3 года назад

"Walking the most dangerous road in Britain" sounds like a title that will bring in the views and money if we look at this honestly.

@Blazer-bn9ev 3 года назад

Always has been

@OSW 3 года назад

Shoutout to Michelle and Graham video editing and audio mixing this vid! It hid the edits to Tom #2's talking so it flowed almost as seemless and natural as Tom #1! (Having hidden edits this way myself) it was textbook 😃

@onetwothreefourfive12345 3 года назад

I have no idea what you are talking about.

@prappsy3028 3 года назад

OSW Review commenting on a Tom Scott video... what a pittance! Great to see you here :)

@DespOIcito 3 года назад

The guide is also called Tom, hence Tom #1 and Tom #2

@slinkerdeer 3 года назад

This is the channel I go to when I want to watch 30 minutes of content in 5 minutes. Tom is just that efficient

@teacup6530 3 года назад

I was expecting the active firing range to be the dangerous part

@SymbioteMullet 3 года назад

Nope, it's just the spice to this danger pie!

@camokarzi8491 3 года назад

Well, it was a prominent part of the thumbnail

@holliswilliams8426 Год назад

@@camokarzi8491 clickbait

@ArpeggioPegasusMusic 3 года назад

Plot twist : the mountain leader is a Tom from another dimension

@109Rage 3 года назад

The Tom that decided to do tour guides to dangerous places in person, as opposed to our Tom which does tour guides to dangerous places digitially.

@SportyMabamba 3 года назад

Mirror Universe Tom

@smartyul2278 3 года назад

Hmmmmmmmmmmst

@SymbioteMullet 3 года назад

But he's not got a goatee or motorcycle...

@joelmcc88 3 года назад

take the broomway to the bush dimension mortyyyyy

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад

Warning sign: "Do not approach or touch any object or debris as it may explode of cause serious injury or kill" Tom: Gotta do it for RU-vid

@shanethrelfall416 3 года назад

What’s the worst that could happen?.....

@raygreen2134 3 года назад

OH IT IS YOU AGAIN

@tomepsilon 3 года назад

God damn it

@feliciabarker9210 3 года назад

'I am here, legally. And that's because I came in a hovercraft pub.'

@watcherofwatchers 3 года назад

Growing up I truly thought quicksand would be a more ever-present danger in my life. I guess I just live in the wrong place.

@odin_191 3 года назад

The quicksand you're used to hearing about is most likely the type with dry sand above an empty space that sinks as you apply pressure. The type in this video is just wet sand that sinks beneath you like mud. I once lost a welly in the latter. I was scared for my life in the moment I suppose

@Genius_at_Work 3 года назад

@@odin_191 It's more like Sand suspended in a lot of Water so it becomes a Non-Newtonian Fluid; like Corn Starch in Water. That's also why you only sink in when you don't move and have to move slowly to get out. Quicksand isn't angerous to Pedestrians if they know how what to do and don't panic but Quicksand Shoals will swallow any Ship that is grounded on them.

@thePronto 3 года назад

You watched too much Tarzan on TV. Like me.

@BodyMusicification 3 года назад

A famous comedian once said this-can't recall who exactly

@Elbowbanditest2003 2 года назад

@@BodyMusicification maybe sean lock, not sure though

@geofftech2 3 года назад

superb! have wanted to do/see this for so long. love it!

@5g242 3 года назад

I have wanted to do this since I found out about it about a week ago :) But now its solidly on my bucket list!

@tommygeddes6725 3 года назад

Legend has it the central line actually went a bit further than Ongar and had a terminus here, come check it out.

@paulhaynes8045 3 года назад

You would!

@reggiebuffat 3 года назад

Hello Geoff, good to see you here.

@stanley3647 3 года назад

Why? There is no railway line there ;)

@epiendless1128 3 года назад

Just reminded of a sign I saw on "That's Life". It said, "People passing this sign may be drowned." and beneath that it said, "By order of the Council."

@rossinimauro 3 года назад

Tom, you should go to Tornio in Finland, it a city and municipality in Lapland, Finland. The city forms a cross-border twin city together with Haparanda on the Swedish side. There is a shopping centre which straddles the border and is in TWO time zones, as Finland is 1 hour forward of Sweden. You can zigzag down the center aisle changing timezone as you go from one side to the other!

@bfcmik Год назад

Watching your watch or phone change time would be a blast whilst weaving up and down that aisle.

@erfaniom9576 3 года назад

"The tide that moves faster than you can run" is such a menacing statement

@SymbioteMullet 3 года назад

Several places in britain are like that... there was a big thing in the news several years ago about shellfish harvesters drowning due to swift tides. Happens unfortunately regularly.

@Hoch134 3 года назад

The flatter the land is, the flatter tide will come in.

@matthewAlan13 3 года назад

kinda like the cens0rship big tech social media companies are doing right now

@tomasxfranco 3 года назад

Sounds like a challenge. Cheetah vs tide who wins? How about Toby? RIP Toby.

@tubewatcher97 3 года назад

@@SymbioteMullet Thats was on my doorstep, and the RNLI do have the much discussed hovercraft here , never seen it though

@pirateadam3686 3 года назад

"Or we could just walk back" >Looks at walk. Begins to climb a fence

@jackm6593 3 года назад

*films next video inside of a military base*

@sinbadddx 3 года назад

I love how straightforward and to the point Tom is, making any boring topic, interesting. Definitely one of the top ten RU-vidrs

@daved2352 3 года назад

Next time "I'm here in the Mariana trench about to fist fight a giant squid"

@davidvenegas6401 3 года назад

Dangerous place: exists Tom Scott: it's free content

@mablaba3629 3 года назад

*its free real estate*

@Random3716 3 года назад

Toms walk this lonely road, Beside the tide it's just two Toms alone.

@maclikescartoons 3 года назад

They do know where it goes, and it's home to them and tToms walk alone

@57thorns 3 года назад

Never rely on a TomTom when navigating paths like this. They are not accurate enough.

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

Two Toms and the Tide. That sounds like a name of an indie band with a very limited drum set.

@kekow176 3 года назад

@@vaclav_fejt A kid's drum set bought off ebay

@em__1 3 года назад

@@vaclav_fejt They only have two drums and a Cymbal

@lteht6919 3 года назад

Thanks for making these videos Tom, they are fantastic and they bring me immeasurable joy

@davidrodgers1952 3 года назад

I spent 7 years working on Foulness, it was a rare day that the wind wasn't blowing like that.

@danky9167 3 года назад

Tom Scott is one of the highest quality youtubers ever and you cannot deny that

@TheKitKatProject 3 года назад

ngl I actually love “unfortunate” names like “Foulness”. You’d never name a place “Foulness” today, so it will always be unique 😄

@ishoottheyscore8970 3 года назад

There is an Upper Piddle and a Lower Piddle in Worcestershire. Not to mention a place starting with F in Austria that kept getting the sign nicked...

@kosinusify 3 года назад

@@AnnaJulia-vx2rm Yes, it will be called Fugging from now on...

@ishoottheyscore8970 3 года назад

@@AnnaJulia-vx2rm I hadn't heard that! I guess they decided against trying to lean in to it as a tourist spot... Can't blame them, but feel a bit sorry for them for feeling like they had to change it

@Michael75579 3 года назад

@@AnnaJulia-vx2rm They've voted to change the name, effective 1 January 2021. If I were a resident I'd have voted against the change, just for the fun of telling people where I lived. Reminds me of Shitterton in Dorset, where they got tired of people stealing the village name sign and replaced it with the name carved into a 1.5 ton block of stone set in concrete.

@57thorns 3 года назад

There are three towns in Sweden, just south of Sweden: Handen, Trosa and Fittja. Handen means hand. Trosa means female underwear. And Fittja is close enough to a vulgar name for female genitalia. The real life placement of the towns, unfortunately, does not place Handen in the middle of any sensible pathing between the other two.

@lennaerthondelink9135 3 года назад

"Shouldn't we close this path or make it safe?" "Nah let's just put up some warning signs"

@rowanmelton7643 2 года назад

Made funnier by the fact Britain is so obsessed with health and safety, yet will let stuff like this slide

@johanness3850 2 года назад

@@rowanmelton7643 better yet, lets also _use it as a firing range_

@jossland1628 2 года назад

@@rowanmelton7643 It's a right of way. Which means it's an old path that people used to use hundreds of years ago- these are legally protected, and almost impossible to bar people from using, being part of national heritage. Good luck trying to get something like that closed.

@kategolding5083 3 года назад

I was stationed at Foulness in the early 70s. I had a fabulous time there firing guns. We used to plot the trajectory from shot to burst by various different means and then collate the information later. My favourite part of the job was going out in the DUKW and retrieving the shells.

@portal2kid 3 года назад

Tom, I hope you’re ok, and not dead. And by that I mean you didn’t edit and post this video in quicksand.

@domi7007 3 года назад

Who is tom?

@hexerei02021 3 года назад

@@domi7007 What is tom ?

@alialmans 3 года назад

@@domi7007 How is Tom?

@dafeels3085 3 года назад

@@hexerei02021 everybody ask what is tom but never how is tom

@oscarwong197 3 года назад

@@domi7007 How is tom?

@ClarinoI 3 года назад

I can see an episode of The Grand Tour on the horizon where they have to buy cars for less than a given sum and then drive them along this path, possibly modifying them first.

@adamjames1149 3 года назад

While being shelled

@scorchtongue 3 года назад

@@adamjames1149 Now we've got a episode

@alistairMS 3 года назад

It's great to see Tom Bennett doing well! A great musician and human being

@Duck_Ellington 3 года назад

I’m reading about this path right now in the book The Old Ways- cool to see what it looks like!

@BeyondthePoint 3 года назад

The MoD areas here are fascinating, also home to the laboratories involved with developing Britain's first nuclear bomb. I did a video walking the Great Wakering section a few months ago, and we found ourselves going across a footpath over the backstop of an active firing range complete with an autocannon pointed at us :)

@Kyrelel 3 года назад

Not to mention the MoD painting the runway at RAF Machrihanish four times a year to match the season

@stillious 3 года назад

Yes I read the place name wrong.

@romulusnr 3 года назад

why don't you link?

@LadyMcBite 3 года назад

I just love that little "cheers" the guide did when Tom introduced him x)

@HarrisonJamess 3 года назад

Shoeburyness is so cool when it comes to Military elements, visit the bunker and go to the beach

@jonathans1759 3 года назад

You were tempting the fates walking there. A very wise decision not to wear the red shirt.

@ElectroBOOM 3 года назад

Dang, now I want to go there! On another note, feels like I'm watching an episode of crown! hmmm... maybe you should review the amount of truth in that show.

@archockencanto1645 3 года назад

Stop shocking yourself you maniac.

@deathnova7 3 года назад

This the path my mom and dad took to get to school

@joeeeee256 3 года назад

Omg you're here :D I literally just watched your 500,000V arc video

@aneesh2115 3 года назад

Oh look I found a wild capacitor on the broom way. Capacitor explodes

@joelhasson6268 3 года назад

Why are you here lolol

@timmccarthy872 3 года назад

It's places like this - low, marshy, uninhabitable parts of the otherwise-heavily-populated island of Britain - that remind me of Doggerland and how it disappeared below the waves.

@JohnyG29 3 года назад

I used to live there, highly overrated.

@archerymidnight3422 3 года назад

@@JohnyG29 Going dogging doesn't make you an inhabitant of Doggerland

@jur4x 3 года назад

@@JohnyG29 What amenities did you have there? Mcdonalds, Costa and a small carpark for dogging?

@thePronto 3 года назад

I was the last resident of Doggerland. I told them, I said: "I'm a Doggerlander born and bred. My Dad was a Doggerlander, and his Dad before him, going back into the mists of time. You'll not see me dead livin' in any poncey 'home counties' village." They said that I would be seen dead if I stayed in Doggerland. I said: "I'm not leaving the birthplace of my ancestors for all the tea in China. At least not without compensation." They said it would cost the RNLI 500 pound to fish my body out of the sea. I said "400 pound and we've got a deal." Now I live on Foulness until global warming gets me a few bob more.

@gregoryspatisserie9858 3 года назад

@@thePronto Cracking

@budaguda9603 3 года назад

0:53 was it just me that thought it was a drone shot

@AGhostintheHouse 3 года назад

Brooms were SWEPT away, I like it.

@JoeBob79569 3 года назад

When I heard "quicksand" I immediately decided I'm never going there. There's no way I'm going out sinking in quicksand like some guy in a cheap 80s B-movie. What a horrible way to go..

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

Still better than spending decades in chasing happiness in an alien, consumer-centric world, only to find there is nothing, no-one, that can help you, only yourself, and you're tired, too tired...

@JoeBob79569 3 года назад

@@vaclav_fejt That's debatable, but surely there's a better way to go than choking on a mouthful of wet sand? You might even be unluckier and get stuck halfway down and starve to death, or get eaten alive by crabs.

@vaclav_fejt 3 года назад

@@JoeBob79569 Yes there are, but still...it's over in a couple of hours. Tens of hours tops.

@geoffreywilson7008 3 года назад

I'm hearing 'stuck, then eventually drowned' going off the pace of the tide and all. Maybe if you bring a long enough snorkel, might manage long enough to ponder flotation gear and cold-proofing.

@gemfyre855 3 года назад

The quicksand won't kill you. But it will slow you down so the incoming tide can.

@HeyItsJakegaming 3 года назад

I was walking my dog at brightlingsea (across the water from there) when the ground shook and my ears nearly burst. Brightlingsea is 20 miles away... mustve been hell for the soldiers in WW1

@Reddsoldier 3 года назад

I worked in one of the offices in Southend and occasionally you'd see plumes of smoke from Foulness as they blew something up.

@57thorns 3 года назад

How did your took take it?

@HeyItsJakegaming 3 года назад

@@57thorns dog ? Not well. At all

@poja82 Год назад

Really nice of you to help a local guide.

@sneaks9150 2 года назад

Govt: "Why were you trespassing onto military property?" Tom: "I was just visiting, but I got too tired to make the walk back I'm sure you understand"

@andyp1510 3 года назад

My parents walked this to school every morning.

@ruben307 3 года назад

doesnt the tide vary? would that mean they came a few hours late or early if the tide was in bad sync?

@variousthings6470 3 года назад

Uphill both ways!

@shiverinxd 3 года назад

r/woosh

@sussurus 3 года назад

uphill both ways in the dark and the pouring rain. and they liked it!

@JamesFreedmanIsVeryCool 3 года назад

@@ruben307 I think it was a joke

@Quixotic-rr8qu 3 года назад

Tom guided by another Tom tries to reach a forbidden island.

@amojak 3 года назад

they could of used a GPS but they already had a Tom Tom

@adrianthoroughgood1191 3 года назад

@@amojak *applause*

@batya7 3 года назад

That really scares me. The idea of being cut off by a tidal surge.... Brave Tom!

@ToolkiT73UK 3 года назад

If you like this kind of walk, but more muddy, try 'waddenlopen' in the Waddenzee (in the north of the Netherlands), it is the traditional way of walking to the Wadden islands (group named after the sea they are in) during low tide when the sea is a mostly mudbanks.

@ChrisH78 3 года назад

Back when I were a lad that byway was uphill both ways

@ErilynOfAnachronos 3 года назад

Everything went downhill after that.

@areadenial2343 3 года назад

If you walk both ways while the tide is going out, the elevation will be rising relative to sea level so yes, you can walk uphill both ways

@MemesnShet 3 года назад

Reminds me of that mushy river that some people jump over that also gives a false sense of security

@daanwolthuis 3 года назад

Tom will never run out of material for videos. Let's be honest this guy could talk us through replacing a used toilet roll and we would be hanging from his lips. Amazing talent to make subjects engaging and just very nice to listen too.

@b4builds89 3 года назад

Tom Scott walks through wet sand... Awesome as always!!

@rolfs2165 3 года назад

I'm a bit surprised that nobody has taken it on themselves to replace the brooms again.

@sykeassai 3 года назад

Just a guess here, but I highly suspect that the Military would make a habit of using the replacements as target practice.

@safe-keeper1042 3 года назад

You missed the opportunity to make a cheap "you'd have to hire a guide... so I hired a guide!" joke based on the Iceland vid. Thank you.

@MateusSFigueiredo 3 года назад

that'd've been nice

@Anankin12 3 года назад

That would have been predictable

@MenloMarseilles 3 года назад

You have to be really careful about introducing a running joke as a popular RU-vidr. Too many uses of a ritual format and people start to get disturbed when you *don't* conform to it!

@kekow176 3 года назад

Better save it for extreme ones like a rocket to get to orbit

@jchopat2099 2 года назад

Absolutely mad, I have lived next to this island for my whole life. Had family who worked there. So cool to see Tom so close to where I once lived.

@bubbledoubletrouble 3 года назад

“Anything that’s road legal” Drat, no hovercrafts then.

@TheMaskedArcanum 3 года назад

Amphibious car still is still on the table though

@BuzzinsPetRock78 3 года назад

@@TheMaskedArcanum It might be, but that too will get stuck in the mud. Maybe a roadlegal tank?

@TheMaskedArcanum 3 года назад

@@BuzzinsPetRock78 It is simple, wait for high tide

@stensoft 3 года назад

Technically, hovercrafts are road legal according to the Hovercraft Act 1968. The main problem is passing MOT, getting DVLA to tax it and obtaining a vehicle insurance.

@extrastuff9463 3 года назад

@@stensoft Ah but would it be legal to use a hovercraft to deliver a person to the last bit of the broomway and then they walk that last minute onto the island as a pedestrian?

@David-pt4bm 3 года назад

Thank you for always providing prime procrastination material

@evbo21395 3 года назад

My uncle used to be one of the handful of civilians that lived on Foulness (long story involving the Kray twins and him stealing the identity of Britain's oldest man...). I remember going to visit him as a kid and needing to go through the army checkpoint at the bridge, hoping he'd not forgotten to tell them ahead of time that we were coming. If only we'd known there was another route - we needn't have worried!

@ternovnik257 Год назад

Now I think we all want this story

@Chiszle 2 года назад

I've been in this situation elsewhere, as I was a bit delirious from sickness and wanted to cut to home as fast as possible. I walked across a low tide area. Then suddenly the tide was up. And I could no longer spot the razorsharp oysterbeds. So jumping across the fast expanding streams was risky. I followed a trail left by birds to avoid quicksand, I made it out.

@HeyDropthat 3 года назад

Drew Dober over here guiding tours what a cool episode. Now I have like 25 broomway tabs open. Right to roam/right of way is such a cool concept to me, as a yank. Or really just the idea of a countryside path you can take to travel between towns and cities. Meanwhile in Florida I'm constantly crossing the street when a sidewalk randomly ends half way into a block. great stuff

@joeytje50 3 года назад

This makes me think this is kinda similar to the Dutch Wadden Sea. The Dutch Wadden Islands are absolutely islands in every sense of the way, but at low tide, there are guided tours where you walk from the mainland through a very specific route all the way to one of the islands. If you don't follow the guide, you could very well get stuck in the wrong parts of the sea, but the guides do know what route to take. Very interesting to see the UK has something like that as well.

@daniel_bohrer 3 года назад

This is also very usual in the German part of the Wadden Sea, and there are a lot of guided tours for tourists to learn about the nature of the wadden sea. There is also a tidal path which is regularly used to deliver the mail between the islands of Pellworm and Süderoog, the latter of which is only inhabited by two people. (Search for Knud Knudsen if you want to know more, but most content is in German.)

@classicambo9781 3 года назад

There are a few little Islands around Tasmania that you can walk to as well at low tide - mostly on rocky land bridges though. Would be very dubious about mud.

@rhysmorgan7027 3 года назад

Something about hearing them talk about it being an MOD firing range while the MOD firing range across the road from me blows something up was certainly appropriate

@adrianthoroughgood1191 3 года назад

Are you THE Rhys Morgan?

@jaspboynl8094 3 года назад

In the Netherlands we also have something like this. Between Friesland/Groningen to the Waddeneilanden.

@grmackenzie1856 Год назад

The whole setup and aesthetic is like something from A Series of Unfortunate Events. The Bleak Broomway: Sergeant Loudwash (Olaf) tries to trick our three plucky orphans onto the sands during a live firing exercise, only to be outmanoeuvred by one of them getting hold of a tidal chart and subjecting a henchperson or two to a Very Fast Drowning.

@Opus313 3 года назад

Tom goes to the dangerous places so that you don't have to. Thanks, Tom!

@57thorns 3 года назад

In 2020, that would be "outdoors"?

@inund8 3 года назад

The Guide: "Historically, there is reportedly 60-100 casualties on the Broomway." 61 dead hikers: Dislike

@sagagis 3 года назад

now it is 117... some of them are seem to be died twice at there :D

@withhighregardsband 3 года назад

It’s the lack of time frame for me. 60-100 every what? Year? Month?! DAY?!

@reflectedcrosssite2848 3 года назад

@@withhighregardsband in history

@finboi0674 3 года назад

I live right next to foulness island, and every now and then I’ll hear loud booms coming from over there. Really throws you off when it happens

@thomasrobinson2317 3 года назад

Welcome to another episode of something you never thought you wanted to know but you find so interesting...

@Kynan29 3 года назад

Glad to see Tom walk the path that my parents took on their way to school as children!

@Kynan29 3 года назад

@@ragnkja Coped

@bradarmstrong3952 3 года назад

I do like Britain's system of byways, bridleways, and footpaths. It's a cool tradition. Reading about them actually led me to the existence of one of these near where I live in the United States, which I then traveled to just to walk it.

@NineEyeRon 3 года назад

Can we all please take a moment to appreciate the power of time and tide.

@carreg-hollt 3 года назад

There's something quite delightful about a mountain leader guiding around the Essex coast.

@thecrazyparrot1083 3 года назад

Hey dude, thanks for existing. You encouraged me to play through some of my favorite games again and again with a different view, and I was able to start seeing the connections and artful design in them. Thanks for being incredibly intelligent and articulate