Damnit, If i knew you would be around in Zealand, I would have wanted to meet you.... Nice video though! Never knew that the Delta Works were one of the Seven (civil engineering) Wonders of the modern world.
There is a lot of public footage on this subject, it is easy to find. ;) As a matter of fact, National Geographic or Discovery Channel has got an old documentary about it.
remember your training young hollander (i mean the years of building sandwalls on the beach as a kid to stop incoming waves from ships) deport all the water back to the mexican golf
There were commercial considerations too, most notably the Oosterschelde estuary, there was a lot of oyster growing industry that require salt water and tides.
MsLia32 well yeah that is actually kinda true, it feels good to be a dutchie sometimes and im proud. A big thing is that we tried to fight the water but that just didnt work so now we are living with the water instead of fighting it
Now, we need to build more of these. One for Nile Delta, one for New Orleans and a frickin' huge one for Bangladesh! And many, many more. Thanks, Netherlands for showing it's possible.
Too be honest, the skills learned by the dutch in this project are now used in bangladesh and new orleans, but also venice for example. The lessons learned here are now being used by dutch engineers all around the world, and hopefully everyone will learn to pretect themselves
The most dutch thing about the delta works is: it's an engineering milestone and is quite the impressive structure and nobody gives a single shiiiiiiiit here. It's there, it works, we're sure there is some smart people making sure it keeps doing that and that's really all we need to know.
I visited Neeltje Jans once when I was 10, and it is still the most impressive school trip ever. Even at an age when you don't understand the enormity and importance of it. My visit was a few months after the 1990 storm, which did put a perspective to it.
Yea taking land you don't own used to be a very Dutch thing too, but were not very proud of that anymore. To be fair back in the day pretty much everyone did that.
Part of the Delta Works is “De Maeslandkering” a huge sea gate to be able to close a large shipping route when needed. www.deltawerken.com/The-functioning/463.html
Me neither, even as a dutchie, left met with some goosebumbs. @real engineering Next time you'r in the netherlands make sure you drink a beer with your dutch fans!
Daan de Bree Too few Dutch people know. It's a pity. Our close ancestors did so freaking much for us. I was taught all of this in school, group 6-8, but it never actually sank in what it meant. Now that I'm a little older, I do. We owe them our lives and our freedoms. We owe them to learn about what they did and to spread our knowledge. We owe them to use our freedoms and knowledge to keep us safe and to grow. And above all, we owe them to celebrate and enjoy our freedom with pride! So the next time you go out and have a drink with your friends, think about your ancestors and remind yourself that you can enjoy your time with your friends in absolute freedom because of them. But above all, enjoy it because that is exactly what they fought so hard for, for us to enjoy our lives in fairness and safety. We at the very least owe them that.
The Netherlands is my dream country. Very open and friendly, intelligent people. Fascinated by this country for a long time. I do even have a travel book of this although I cant afford going there. Love you Dutch.
Dutch Rule: watch every single english vid about the netherlands Edit: 1K? Nice, I'm looking forward to beating my current record of 1.8K, but you never know, probably won't happen.
I am from the Netherlands and always when I see a video on YT about the Netherlands I have this strange feeling that makes me realise that my own small country also exists in the big world.
It's called the Dutch-internet-kid syndrome. It happens to all of us. There is no cure, you just have to resist posting a comment that inflates our ego.
yeah it's real, i've seen this effect too, literally any video that even mentions something or someone dutch once (doesn't even have to be in the thumbnail or title) and dutch people flood it with patriotism and loud chanting. it's quite beautiful, and on that note
Momenteel wordt er gewerkt aan updates en upgrades voor de Deltawerken. Overigens zijn er nu proeven gaande om de Oosterscheldekering óók een getijdencentrale te laten zijn :) Dat wassende water wassen we de oren!
The grammar in the title is also wrong sadly, because we as the kingdom of the Netherlands is plural. So correct phrasing would be why the Netherlands aren’t under water. I don’t really care, because the content was good. But the title sadly was faulty. -Bye
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While the Delta works are a big portion of the Netherlands defense against the sea, it is only a small part of the total of the work that goes into it. There are the dunes which are strictly protected (you aren't actually allowed to dig on the beaches or dunes, Germans...) and constantly being reinforced. Just sea what the Sand Motor is or the renovations that took place at the Hondbossche Zeewering. Then there is the Afsluitdijk which ended the Southern Sea (Zuiderzee) into the IJssellake (IJsselmeer). In the north of the country, especially around Friesland, the situation is completely different where the Wadden Sea is essentially a giant estuary. Inland the rivers form a major problem as well. Instead of trying to get rid of the water as quickly as possible, as is often seen in Los Angeles, New Orleans and Houston, the rivers were given space back. This was all in the project Ruimte voor de Rivieren (Room for the Rivers). This was no easy feat, especially around places like Nijmegen where the city severely constricted the Waal (aka the Rhine) in a meander of the river. But it was achieved through innovative solutions. Talking about the defenses of the Netherlands from water would easily take hours, and you would only be skimming the surface. This video, while very good and I have nothing bad to say of it, barely scratches the surface. Anybody interested in civil engineering or water defenses, should really take some time to figure out more about what it takes to keep a country from flooding. (and if you have any questions, I'll try to answer them as well.)
You should make a video about the other big water project the Dutch have made like how about 20% of the surface of the Netherlands consists of artificial islands and polders
I'm Dutch, and I'm proud of our country. This is absolutely 100% the true story about our Delta Works, and I thank you and your channel for making this wonderful explaination.
for some reason this makes me think of all the german vehicle names during WW2. things like panzerselbstfahrlafette. or shortend pzsfl. but to be fair in dutch oosterscheldekering doesn't sound weird at all, in my opinion.
best way for me to explain it to english people (as a dutchy myself) is that it's basically german with different grammar, and less harsh tones and pronounciation.
Saw "Afsluitdijk" in the comments and thought people were randomly smashing letters on their keyboards until I saw other comments with the same spelling, so I googled it. Huh. Afsluitdijk is an interesting name for a bridge.
One of the engineers actually warned the US years prior that this could happen. He even quiet accurately predicted where the defenses would fail first and what could be done to prevent it. They contacted the Dutch after the disaster to improve their flood defenses.
Continue to be proud... one of my favourite countries and lovely people too. I've been to Zeeland and the storm surge barrier - a marvel of engineering.
Boogster Su Rivals other countries? Nope, we've simply the best cycling infrastructure in the world. Every country in the world is copying from us, even the Danes and the Chinese which are our cycling rivals.
1vachmed94 Just come to India, china and South East Asia. You will be grateful to be living in First World Country. The road sucks, the air sucks, the police sucks and the government super duper sucks.
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Awesome video (as always), but there is a small detail you overlooked. Flevoland (the blob in the middle of the Netherlands) didn't exist in 1953, but it is on your map at ~0:40. But still, awesome video and those shots are top notch.
when i was little i used to me and my friends used to try to defend against the tide with sand walls and ditches, our record was about an hour with standard walls and no tools and about 2 with a mound we built and walls coated in bark to help stop erosion.
I'm almost completely ignorant of Dutch history- but it feels like they have spent much of recent history around 100 years ahead of the rest of the world! Forward thinking
This is just a really cool video. By the end you really brought it all back, and it was just really interesting, and i enjoyed every minute of it. I love this channel
The Netherlands have some of the world's finest architects and engineers! Their infrastructure is insane, you would never see so well maintained highways in Germany :D
A few years back we went to the netherlands and did a group project on the dutch delta works, even visiting them up close. Even though I'm a Physics freak I honestly was rarely as impressed by engineering as when I visited them. Great example of what humans can accomplish.
Cody Hunter it's true the Germans are better at engineering cars, machinery and tools. But for civil engineering in general and waterworks specifically, we beat the Germans hands down.
My grandfather helped defending against the water. he died a few years ago. I have the same birth name as my grandfather and the job to bring forward the family name
When I watch these videos I'm both filled with wonder and doubt. I always ask myself how others were able to come up with all these inventions, solutions, and solve complex problems. I always ask myself why I doubt my own ability to follow along with the process they came up with to do simple things like build a house or make concrete. I'm grateful for our world's brilliant minds, but I feel so lost sometimes.
Many minds worked together to invent this, and the technology they built upon was invented by many thousands of minds over the course of human history. We're just individuals contributing to something bigger.
Im dutch my self and this is just COMPLETELY CORRECT your one of the first youtubers that acctually get things about the netherlands right! also the video why the netherlands is not a country it completely right!
@@Saartje05 simple, Netherland is a country consisting of twelve provinces and three municipalities. The Netherlands is not a country, but a Kingdom of four countries
@@wolfetone2012 Still a country... Kingdom doesn't mean it's not a country. And like you said, it's a kingdom of four COUNTRIES. The Netherlands is one of those four. A country.
I've never heard about parties that weren't in all the years I'm alive. There's Always something wrong it looks like. Can't make everybody happy but we do have to realise we live a very good life here.
@EnigmaDrath Sadly enough that still isn't enough for many places and governments around the world, including the US. It's nice to hear that sometimes people do actually learn lessons though.
it is my deam profesion to study water structures like this, waaaw amazing mega project what netherlands did. i am somalain in somalia(mogadshu) never go out of my nation. also bachelor of civil engineering. i am the ending step of a resaerch right now.