Why This is The World’s Most Dangerous Dam
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They should build a memorial to honor the victims of the imminent dam disaster.
The Onion predicted this
"I wish there was a way to prevent this disaster..... that didn't require so much funding"
might I suggest a memorial dam?
I just watched that video lmaooooo
The local engineer had this to say about the eminent dam disaster and his family’s proactive reservation of a grave, “It’s not going to matter since they won’t find my body.”
Just surround the city with a wall of lava, as it will create a giant cobblestone wall and prevent more water from getting through
I wish 😂
Minecraft mechanics don’t apply to the real world.
@@Bob_Smith19 then how come I built a nether portal in my basement last night? Checkmate.
@@Bob_Smith19 🤓
Hows about they create diversion canals and drain all the water into the desert?
The arrival of ISIS also had major consequences for the Mosul Dam. There was a period of time where ISIS fighters were occupying it and the grouting stopped, which led to greater damage than usual due to the lack of maintenance. They knew they could stay there safely because the U.S. wouldn't risk bombing the dam. Even after they had left, it took *months* for the work to resume. From a local engineer quoted in a 2016 TIME article: "Several new cracks form every day, some holes need 50 tons of cement.". Maintenance costs "only" about $4M a year…
4mil is not that bad, considering it might potentially save thousands or millions of lives.
@@MarkWTK Yes it's a tiny amount given the consequences of not maintaining the dam, and yet the Iraqi government is still relying on foreign aid to cover part of this expense. This reminds me of when the city of Flint, MI decided to save $100/day by not treating the Flint river water with orthophosphates, the cleanup ended up costing at least $600 million and tons of people were poisoned by lead. Here it's a government pressuring foreign countries to help since they don't want to incur a small expense, once again with no concern for the huge disaster looming.
4mi a year is literally pocket change in regards to infrastructure maintenance
@@desmond-hawkins Thanks for pointing out what the video failed to do. It also fails to credit the USA for spending a good deal of tax dollars in mitigating the immediacy of the problem saving many lives after the long siege to remove ISIS so that work could actually be done.
@@ferrariguy8278 Yes! Thank you USA for spending tax dollars in continuation of an invasion triggered *under false pretenses* and the genius decision to dissolve Saddam's army, leaving hundreds of thousands of angry men with weapons and training disaffected (2/3 of the top ISIS commanders were previous Baʽathists). Thank you USA for spending tax dollars to bomb ISIS out of existence after literally creating the conditions needed for ISIS to appear in the first place. Thanks so much for the 800k to 1.3M deaths paid for by your "tax dollars", no doubt their families would want the American contribution to this expense duly credited, after all at $4M/year it comes to 0.0034% of the $118B/year on average spent from 2003 to 2020.
For anyone who wants to know more about fluid mechanics in stuff similar to this dam, Practical Engineering has some amazing videos
Yes! Great channel
Here’s the link for one of practical engineerings video that’s about this sort of dam failure
czcams.com/video/eImtYyuQCZ8/video.html
This was a dam good episode, it really did not hold back. It was bursting with interesting facts presented in a solid structure that broke open the topic into little pieces.
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Legend
Well said
Ignore R 2 H's Islam spam, he linked a cooking video that's nothing to do with the topic
If there's one thing I've learned from binge-watching "Seconds from Disaster", it's that when your engineers tell you "this is going to fail and kill everyone", *don't* ignore them!
The Johnstown dam killed 2,208 people when it collapsed in 1889. It was considered the worst non-war disaster in US history, only surpassed by the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the Twin Towers.
The Mosul Dam has 1.7 million people in the city behind it, according to the last confirmed population count.
@@strangelyukrainian7314 wow you’ve solved global politics!!
@@strangelyukrainian7314 sounds like Ukraine also can't cooperate with their neighbors to prevent war.
@@strangelyukrainian7314 they don't want to spend extra money because they don't have money, Iraq is still a warm torn country with a lot of water scarcity problems and cities sometimes getting sewage quality of water.
Partnering with Turkey would make the water scarcity problems even worse.
> 1.7 million people
In mosul alone! To say nothing of the cities farther down...
There was a dam in China that killed over 100,000 people, and is currently the biggest dam related disaster in history
The Mosul dam is a f***ing powder keg
Iraq has a population of just over 40 million, if the _lower_ estimates out the death toll at over 10 million, as Sam claimed, that’s a _quarter of the entire population_
Once again, Half as Interesting proving to be the educational channel we all want to be!
Loved your video on Saddam Hussein bro!
Two kings making two Iraq videos in two days!
I meet the best channel on the internet again
But it's becoming more political)
Ignore R 2 H's Islam spam, he linked a cooking video that's nothing to do with the topic
For those not counting there are 39 dams in this video (including the one at the beginning of the video in the word damage) but not including the possible last word(s) in the video which ended mid-syllable
Damn
Thank you, I was looking for this comment and was about to rewatch and start counting 😂
Is that OCD? 😄
That there is a German-Italian engineering firm is the most unbelievable part of this story.
its believable that a German-Italian engineering firm exist (just look at ww2) BUT what is surprising is the fact that the italians did not mess up
@@bestname6669 -Associates former axis nations only with axis
-Gets stereotype historically wrong
-Proceeds to insult entirety of Italy
-Refuses to explain
@@doomslayerobama sir, is a ww2 joke that bad
Hochtief is not a German Italian company, they copied that wrong from Wikipedia... There it says a German italian consortium of companies build it.
we could make an axis joke if they hire japanese engineers
My grandpa used to work on this dam and he used to always say how bad of an idea this was... yet here we are listening to Sam about this 🙃
there used to be western scientists who spent alot of time monitoring the dam, but after ISIS took over Mosul they just fled, no idea if they are still there, becasue ISIS flat out ignored it
they have probably returned, since the ISIS threat is quite thoroughly eliminated and the iraqi authorities are stronger now.
ISIS: gets rid of infidel scientists. ISIS in deep torrent of water from dam burst: WHY?
If this breaks it will be the most appropriate use of the phrase "Biblical scale flood" since Noah
Yeah, the flood of Noah is likely based on a local flood like this that occurred in the Babylonian plain, which is the origin of the Semitic peoples.
Time to wash the land again, and this time, Noah's children aren't around, thus the Covenant shall still be honored.
Surf's Up! Noah better get busy building that Arch.🌊
@@justbecause3187 Why an arch? Please explain!
@@geoffreyfoster8039 oops, I meant Ark.
"First most ranked city for names that sound like T Mobile."
What about Mobile Alabama?
You also have to remember that Mossul stayed a warzon only until a few years ago.
I remember that during the war in Iraq the US military had a plan in their back pocket to take out the dam if deemed necessary.
Nuclear grade destruction without having to use a nuke...very economical.
Talk about a genocide....
Why did they take out the other thing anyway? Did it serve a purpose other than allow them this cheap nuke option?
@@TURBOMIKEIFY it's not genocide. War crime maybe but calling it genocide is just factually incorrect.
War crimes on a budget
@@kv4648 I just googled it. The area was being defended by elite Iraqi troops. The US saw it as a chance to demoralize troops by taking the troops out. This also let them show the civilians the power of the US and it's ability to destroy dams. This lead to a civilian uprising against the local government which the US wanted. Civilians demanded the locals surrender out of threat of being washed away.
When the dam does break, that will probably be the biggest "I told you so" moment in history
CalemGalco ..... The huge dam in China will be bigger when it breaks
The Well There's Your Problem episode on this will be interesting for sure
TLDR: The Mosul Dam doesn't hold water.
This video is only 6 minutes long, it can't be too long
@@net6406 Have you noticed the attention span of some people these days? But anyways, the video may be short but the dam is 3.4 km long! That's more than 37 398 pizza boxes stacked on top of each other!!!
Did I miss the memo about the new meaning of the acronym TLDR?
@@Rerbun Well, the memo was too long to read so that's understandable. But to sum it up: the TLDR limit is now 30 seconds.
@@tessjuel Sir this is a Wendy's
You know it's not an issue if Half as Interesting is making a video about it. If it was Sam from Wendover on the other hand you know this dam is about to collapse.
The logistics of Armageddeon.
All these dam puns 😂
I see what you did there (edit: I meant the original commenter
Ignore R 2 H's Islam spam, he linked a cooking video that's nothing to do with the topic
This is like watching the first half of a disaster documentary. I wonder when part two will be posted...
This was dam interesting!
But seriously, hopefully someone figures this out!
Here is one solution:
czcams.com/video/yjfrJzdx7DA/video.html
A fine pun!
And not to worry! This has been well figured already. The dam will collapse and lots of people will die.
Remember everyone: It doesn't always pay to be stubborn!
@@lukesellars7178 neither does it to have someone bomb your backup plan and use it to as a potential genocide switch
@@lukesellars7178 Not a single instance of dam dangerous, it's daming, this could really spill over...
There is in fact a way to absolutely prevent the dam's failure, which is to cover the area with so much stuff that it _can't_ flood Mosul.
If you think this is a _good_ idea, then I'd like to introduce you to another city in Iraq, by the name of Babylon, which _stopped_ being a city because it's kinda hard to survive if the river you depend on decides that it doesn't want to do "river" anywhere in your general area.
This topic is worth a "full as interesting".
or, alternatively, just ‘as interesting’’
"lion share of the Tigris..." I see what you did there.
Snerk snerk😊
I suspect that this video could age very, very badly indeed. Let's hope the dam doesn't fail and the video doesn't age as badly as I fear.
but it will fail, eventually
As an Iraqi i can just feel that this will happen
*cough* flashbacks to HAI's video about the Queen's funeral *cough*
Why? Are they going to fix the dam?
You mean age quite well?
I drove by it on a convoy back in 2007. All I remember was that the surrounding walls were huge and tallaf. Relatively clean.
me, an Iraqi who lives by the river watching this: interesting
الله يعينك
There's a similar situation up river from Fredericton New Brunswick. The rock that they use in the concrete of the dam is eroding the dam and it will need to be replaced soon
Mactaquac dam?
This is the best dam channel on CZcams.
well done 👏
That's dam good
formerly known as "Saddam dam". or, y'know, just "Sad-dam".
This happened in the USA in 1976. Google the Teton Dam failure. Fortunately the loss of life was limited. As opposed to what is expected in Iraq
Please do a video on “the most watched damn in the United States” the Cumberland river damn (Wolfe creek damn). It’s one of the largest earth filled dams and it’s leaking.
You shouldn't swear so much in your messages. Your phone went on and switched all your dams to damns.
too many damn dams
Damn McDaniel
@@screwyourhandle lmaoooo
@@lonestarr1490 😂
"Dam," said the Mosul dam, "we gotta start flooding some stuff"
Good reference
"a lion's share of water from the Tigris"
A-tier pun
Edit: and it's followed up almost immediately by "flip the bird to Turkey"
However much the writers are paid isn't enough
2:50 missed opportunity to say "the whole dam point of a dam"
4:36 I think the fundamental problem is that the engineers responsible for designing and fixing the dam are looking at a house plan than the plan of the dam.
idk how to measure the half as interesting's content's interestingness rating at this point but this topic is very interesting and rather important contrary to most other subjects discussed here.
True... this one didn't fit the usual "quirk Wikipedia article" mould.
Here before the ‘aged like milk’ comments
2:19 It's always a pleasure when someone tries to pronounce german words and then doesn't even take the shortcut of abbreviating "Aktiengesellschaft" to "AG", like everyone in Germany does 😊
"hochtief aktiengesellschaft", while being a corporation's name, basically translates straight to "publicly traded structural and civic engineering corporation". ("hochtief" abbreviating "hoch- und tiefbau")
And no-one uses the full name. The last word is just AG.
What's the difference between a Lake and a Dam?
Lake I give a Dam.
Dam good joke
Them dam(n) beavers!
Hehe your sense of humor = 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I love the script.
I also love learning new things on this channel because it makes me chuckle while my knowledge increases. Win win!
TreviGroup posted a video on CZcams about the rehabilitation work undertaken to shore up the dam back in 2018, so I believe the government turned around right after the ISIS occupation and finally spent money on at least mitigating the worst case scenario.
I hadn't heard that the death toll was going to be anywhere near that high, more like 500,000-1,000,000. But an interesting point to add, an extremist group did take control of the damn for a time and for months and months the concrete refilling wasn't happening for all this time
Hoch-Tief ("high-low") is actually just some german construction company, "Aktiengesellschaft" means that it's a joint-stock company. Not too hard to pronounce tbh
Also, it's not German-Italian.
Damn expert is the most damn underrated profession in this damn world, I'm damn sure.
I can't wait to watch Practical Engineering's video about the inevitable failure.
This is an amazing channel, I only recently found out about, even though I knew Wendover. You guys are doing a great job with your content.
But the main thing I wanted to say is that I listened to your pronouncuation of Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft about a dozen times, because it sounds so funny and amazing when a English speaker says it😂
0:05 Corrections video here: The captions spell T-Mobile correctly. However, the graphic shows T-Mobil
You're cracking me up with all the damn quips!
My little brother and I love "Welcome to the damn tour; I'll be your damn guide - If you have any damn questions, please wait till after the damn tour is over! Vegas Vacation!
Did you know that every day since 1976, allegedly a damn is built in the "United States"?
Could I ask if you could post links to the background tracks? Love your videos!
because it has no beans and all bones
Thank you for making this dam video. Turns out I didn’t know a dam thing about any of this.
The sarcasm in this video cuts deeper than the dam does into its foundation.
0:37 A long time ago, actually, never, and also now, nothing was nowhere.
With all the problems with this dam, I'm actually impressed it hasn't collapsed yet, after all these years.
the $4 millions per year renovation might had something to do with it. only delaying the inevitable though.
Hochtief AG means actually not more than "High(rise)low(digging)" AG from the German words "Hochbau" for Overground construction and "Tiefbau" for Underground Construction.
the dam puns tho 😂😂
Remember that time Half as Interesting made a video so they could say Damn a lot?
That was awesome.
Can you do a video on lobotomies and their paralleled with science today?
actually Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft is pronounced like "Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft" hope this helps
Reminds me of my favorite clock hole video about building a memorial for a future flood
Damn fine job, Sam, taking about the damn dam.
0:34 what government?
You vs the dam she tells you not to worry about
00:42 I think the dam word you were looking for is "interventionism".
your puns make me feel funny inside, and even sometimes a lil on the outside
Wow, HAI actually used self made diagrams instead of stock images, quality video here lol 😆
Bro... I can't even with these "jokes":
The government refuses to listen to a DAM thing the Experts say.
The joke is so bad, i'm laughing my ass off😂 that's the Bullshit i love this channel for
De nile..... it's more than just a river in Egypt!!! 😅❤🎉
Excellent and succinct video!!! Thank you 😊❤
Dammit, this a freaking dam fine dam.
You think that's bad.
You should see the Three Gorges Dam.
Already crumbling and 400 million people in thr splash zone.
it's not crumbling, it's flexing withing construction parameters... the party says so.
No, the Three Gorges Dam was build just as good as chinese products and electronics...oops
If you think about it, this video is all about a giant brick wall.
He did a damn fine job of putting the word dam in as many times as he could
Time to bookmark this for when it happens
I hope they do something to prevent this.
Dam! That’s concerning.
it's Dam near insane!
Now, this was one dam fine episode.
I thought this was a Wendover video😂 so when he started cracking jokes I was like WTF IS HAPPENING
What did the fish say when it hit the wall? Dam. What did the other fish say to that fish when he hit the wall? Dumb Bass.
From mousl and wll i have say is: Haha am in danger.
No but honestly we want to be from turkey i am Assyrian and am not baised with turkey but i and our people want to be part of turkey i even consider its turkish land
36 Dam{s) by the 5 minute mark
+ 2 extra dam(s) in the advert.
Nicely done my good sir!
This is a perfect example of why politicians should not only listen to the input of experts but follow their advice as well.
What if they pulled an unofficial reverse and started releasing the water bit by bit so it doesn't cause flooding. And then, individually remove each part of the dam and build a new one with the exact same materials like a km downstream. Then they don't have to worry abt it for another 5 years with essentially no extra cost
the materials isnt the problem, the amount of labour that would be required for that is.
Did you mean uno reverse?
Also nope, you can't reuse the materials. Concrete can't be just "melted down" and reused. Even if you remove it bit by bit, it's still impossible cause well, the control gates are mounted on the top and you can't remove those first. What *can* be done is releasing the water bit by bit and build a new dam, but that costs billions and won't happen before a few million die.
... yall its is a joke I'm very cognisant of the fact that it's a stupid idea...
@@psychopathetic5341 You are the first person I’ve ever seen use “y’all” and the British-origin variant of spelling of a word within the same sentence.
@@alahiri2002 Fun fact: I'm neither American nor British 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
What's the difference between the Mosul Dam and Saddam Hussein ?
Saddam Hussien is a Sad Dam!! 😂😂
What a damper! Damn this damaging and damning dam!
Take a drink everytime he says dam or damn.
3:22 oh wait... isnt that a war crime? or so did some claim few months ago after certain other event... cool
Blowing up a dam is not a warcrime, unless the attack was meant to wipe out civilian population centers.
They need Evan Almighty to build an ark to save those people.
Thought this was going to be about the Hoover Dam wiping Laughlin, NV off the map from the thumbnail.
The Sadam joke had me gasping
I don't really follow along, my interest is the puns and the transition from the topic to the adverts super cool
At least we'll probably get a nice Plainly Difficult video about this dam.
*”when the levee breaks” plays*
time to build one of these myself
Hopefully, there are 24-hour security cameras stationed on high ground, so when the dam bursts, we can watch it on CZcams.
that sounds fun
Then we would have been able to watch a world wide pandemic, the Myanmar coup, the first modern war in Europe in the 21st century, and an apocalyptical flood all live from our phones just within the last 2 years.
@@a-drewg1716 and then a sponsor from NordVPN in the middle of that all.
Needs more bricks
needs more cowbell
Dam that sucks
It could be worse, you could plant your cantaloupe tree inside the house of Johnny the Cantaloupe Smasher.