The 5 Billion Euro Barrier Failing To Protect Venice | Massive Engineering Mistakes

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  • čas přidán 28. 10. 2020
  • In the late 1960s, Venice suffered some of its worst flooding in recorded history so the decision was made to create a barrier that would protect the city from dangerously high tides. 50 years and 5 Billion Euros later, the project is still incomplete with major engineering flaws that cause many to question the usefulness of the barrier in the first place.
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  • @grabskikuba
    @grabskikuba Před 3 lety +6

    That is ridiculous. It was my first thought how would they clean that gap form sand and mud deposits before I even saw this document. I imagined some submarine drones doing that job :)

    • @aa2339
      @aa2339 Před 2 lety

      Probably a blower would do.

  • @theSkankhunt42
    @theSkankhunt42 Před 3 lety +21

    They really didn’t anticipate the sand?

    • @keirfarnum6811
      @keirfarnum6811 Před 3 lety +3

      That was my first thought. Sand flows with water.

    • @tattabox
      @tattabox Před 3 lety

      #italians 😂😂

    • @user-cb6jw5ky1i
      @user-cb6jw5ky1i Před 3 lety

      @@tattabox #getadolmiogrinupya

    • @joophaan132
      @joophaan132 Před 3 lety

      Sea water euuhh lets wasted 5 bil.. 🤑🤑🤑 people getting rich.. good its with tax money 😅🤨

    • @willieerik3845
      @willieerik3845 Před 3 lety

      Pro tip: watch series at Flixzone. I've been using them for watching all kinds of movies during the lockdown.

  • @PanzerDave
    @PanzerDave Před 3 lety +5

    The bigger issue is that the area is subsiding. Until they stop that nothing will help.

  • @peachezprogramming
    @peachezprogramming Před 3 lety +8

    Why didn’t they just copy the Dutch delta works

    • @snaipess3429
      @snaipess3429 Před 2 lety

      I know i’m late but the main reason is that this solution is much less notable and more elegant. The dutch one is simpler, cheaper and overall better.

  • @Ridgerunner49
    @Ridgerunner49 Před 3 lety +6

    I would have loved to heard more about the engineers

  • @XMarkxyz
    @XMarkxyz Před 3 lety +6

    1:13 Might be a physicist but he doesen't know his geography Venice is not on the ocean, it is in a lagoon which comunicate with the Adratic sea which is part of the Mediterraneum one of the most known internal seas; there are not huge tides as you could see near Mont Saint Michel in France; while the fact that it's in a lagoon with rivers flowing in it is part of the problem

  • @Highriezher
    @Highriezher Před 3 lety +7

    1:47
    Look at the left side of the screen
    It’s Jesus

  • @sphumelelengcamu1984
    @sphumelelengcamu1984 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Nothing lasts forever. The year is 3024 and some explorers have found remains of what may be the lost city of venice

  • @eyes2c..519
    @eyes2c..519 Před 3 lety +3

    So we’re at 3:00 in roughly and I can tell the lady is not a fan of what they been talking bout 😂😂

  • @valerianocuomo996
    @valerianocuomo996 Před rokem +1

    Is the most great engineering work in the last years

  • @bhaveshpatel7054
    @bhaveshpatel7054 Před 3 lety +1

    Superb analysis. 🙏

    • @DavidColex
      @DavidColex Před 3 lety

      You are all idiots listening to this sensationalistic crap.
      Moses works brilliantly, it saved Venice from high tides every time since it has been put into function.
      Bear in mind that the development of Moses started in 1982 with an international team of University professors that experimented with 15 different types of mechanisms for which even various books have been written. There was also an experimental facility built in Padua where they simulated the Venetian lagoon in small scale, we are talking 20 years of research before construction even began. So yes, the money was spent with A LOT of thought behind it.
      The only thing thats currently still under construction is a canal for sea traffic for when the Mose is up, similar to the ones in Panama, but it will be finished in a couple of years.

  • @NHSSHINOBI
    @NHSSHINOBI Před 3 lety +7

    Why do we need 3 different people to tell us how corroded the barriers were?

    • @joophaan132
      @joophaan132 Před 3 lety +1

      Because the wasted 5 bil tax money.. people are stupid thats why 3 people telling it...

    • @valerianocuomo996
      @valerianocuomo996 Před rokem

      ​@@joophaan132 great engineering of a great country

    • @valerianocuomo996
      @valerianocuomo996 Před rokem

      For venice 5 bilion they are ridiculess, italian rich, true rich s

  • @notj5712
    @notj5712 Před 3 lety +5

    Hello people.... Seawall. Turn Venice into an inland lake area instead... Locks to transit ships in and out as you choose, or leave open when the tide is more reasonable.

    • @XMarkxyz
      @XMarkxyz Před 3 lety +1

      You can't just build a wall, the lagoon lives with the flow of water if you enclose everything the all ecosystem would die and rot

    • @notj5712
      @notj5712 Před 3 lety

      @@XMarkxyz What ecosystem? You mean the ecosystem in the canals of Venice? I have never seen a fish in there any time I've been.

    • @DavidColex
      @DavidColex Před 3 lety

      @@notj5712 Its not polluted, its muddy. There is an ecosystem, and a lot of fishing too. The biggest problem with closing the lagoon would be the fact that it would dry out, at least during the summers, which would literally destroy Venice since it has been built on slabs of trees, which being underwater don't oxidize at all, but as soon as you expose them to dry air, they would start to decompose. There must be free water flow, even the current natural water flow is too small for the needs of the city.

    • @notj5712
      @notj5712 Před 2 lety

      @@DavidColex Really, and the Porto Marghera industrial zone and the petrochemical industries nearby have stopped polluting the waters here? When was that?

  • @OldTownLad
    @OldTownLad Před 2 lety +1

    @6:00 he’s crystal clear. What a shame!

  • @neddyboy01
    @neddyboy01 Před 3 lety +6

    I only clicked to watch because I was wondering what Stan Lee had to do with this.

  • @Benito-Musolesi
    @Benito-Musolesi Před 2 lety +2

    It works well

  • @kokujin5446
    @kokujin5446 Před 3 lety +1

    This is the inspiration for Water 7 and the Aqua Laguna in One Piece

  • @SteveBueche1027
    @SteveBueche1027 Před 3 lety +2

    Would reinforce plastic gates work?

  • @richardbello5732
    @richardbello5732 Před 3 lety +5

    Everyone knows that metal rusts what idiot's didn't know this ?

    • @joophaan132
      @joophaan132 Před 3 lety

      Yeah 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

  • @noycamba
    @noycamba Před 2 lety +1

    italy is the paradox of the world. proud proud proud people. they don't know it is their downfall. they are too proud they didn't ask the successful Thames barrier designer for help. let this people swallow their pride to save venice. they think they are close to GoD than most of the people in the world

  • @daneurope9167
    @daneurope9167 Před 2 lety +1

    after 50 years this failed project will cost more than venice real estate price..

  • @dragonfly8807
    @dragonfly8807 Před 3 lety +2

    We have so much plastic causing problems in our world, why not recycle all this plastic into thick, solid gates?

  • @makedredd299
    @makedredd299 Před 3 lety +3

    Venice should have called Kevin Costner for this job if they wanted to build the Waterworld. 🐳

  • @alessandrovisintini8835
    @alessandrovisintini8835 Před 3 lety +3

    The MOSE is working fine, why this video?

  • @joophaan132
    @joophaan132 Před 3 lety +2

    Okeeeee.... its sure we all are crazy... 😂😂😂 5bil thats a lot of money... anddddd its gone ffs..

  • @MeatMachine69
    @MeatMachine69 Před 3 lety +9

    That black haired lady is super fine

  • @richardbello5732
    @richardbello5732 Před 3 lety +1

    Sea level rise is inevitable

  • @canadianspiritz3844
    @canadianspiritz3844 Před 3 lety +1

    Crooks is a proper word to describe IT. 🇮🇹 ALY

  • @NoMoreMrNiceGuy223
    @NoMoreMrNiceGuy223 Před 2 lety +1

    Follow the money.

  • @martareitmajer
    @martareitmajer Před rokem +2

    Honestly, just let it disappear. Let it become like Atlantis.

  • @heyremember89
    @heyremember89 Před 3 lety +3

    Stay strong 💪 Italy, remember success doesn't come at first place.
    Atleast you tried and gave your best, don't get demotivated by this.
    Try again 🙂

    • @joophaan132
      @joophaan132 Před 3 lety +1

      Yeah taxe payers money gone.. iq 60 plx

    • @Electromagneticplutonium
      @Electromagneticplutonium Před 3 lety

      5B gone just like that

    • @DavidColex
      @DavidColex Před 3 lety

      You are all idiots listening to this sensationalistic crap.
      Moses works brilliantly, it saved Venice from high tides every time since it has been put into function.
      Bear in mind that the development of Moses started in 1982 with an international team of University professors that experimented with 15 different types of mechanisms for which even various books have been written. There was also an experimental facility built in Padua where they simulated the Venetian lagoon in small scale, we are talking 20 years of research before construction even began. So yes, the money was spent with A LOT of thought behind it.
      The only thing thats currently still under construction is a canal for sea traffic for when the Mose is up, similar to the ones in Panama, but it will be finished in a couple of years.

  • @lewisdoherty7621
    @lewisdoherty7621 Před 3 lety +1

    They should just buy used barges, line them up long end across the channels, flood them them and maybe even pump in more water above the sea level to anchor them. Then after the threat is over, pump the water out, re-float them and move them out of the way. I'm not sure how much of a good seal there would be on their bottoms, but something likely could be done like that.

  • @sirwhodison
    @sirwhodison Před 3 lety +1

    Thought this was gonna be about aliens...fooey

  • @ricardomurillo5205
    @ricardomurillo5205 Před 2 lety +1

    Leonardo DaVinci is rolling in his grave. He would have been the first to spot the problem of Moses and proposed an alternative.

  • @mannbill1
    @mannbill1 Před 3 lety +1

    Sorry but she was an engineering marvel. #Goddess 🥺

  • @Ricky-uc1on
    @Ricky-uc1on Před 3 lety +1

    But they fixed it now so…

  • @itsmePassportBro
    @itsmePassportBro Před 3 lety +1

    Clearly dosnt work.. see november 2019

  • @kailen98
    @kailen98 Před 3 lety +4

    It is actually working my dad lives in Venice so he knows.

  • @jacquesmertens3369
    @jacquesmertens3369 Před 3 lety +1

    Why don't they just dump rocks to close the gaps? For 5 billion Euro I can get you a lot of rocks.

    • @DavidColex
      @DavidColex Před 3 lety

      The Lagoon would die biologically, it would become a rotten mess and it would slowly evaporate, this becoming a dry city which would desintigrate Venice itself because without water it would collapse since it was built on slabs of trees that, being underneath the surface of the water are protected from oxigenation and rotting.
      Don't listen to this idiotic documentary, the research of Mose started in 1982, 20 years before construction. There was even a couple of books written after the research. The project is not a joke.

    • @jacquesmertens3369
      @jacquesmertens3369 Před 3 lety

      @@DavidColex Why would closing the lagoon prevent letting water in and out? You could pump as much in and out as you want, depending on the need. I do understand that the city needs to be in the water in order to survive. But rather than letting nature flood the city several times per year you could regulate the water level, and you can only do so after building a dam.

  • @Michaelangelo91
    @Michaelangelo91 Před 3 lety +3

    Why dont we just suck up the water put it in a rocket and launch it away from earth tht way the earth dont flood ik its a great idea lll take my world peace medal now

  • @raygrange7312
    @raygrange7312 Před 3 lety +1

    Engineers not understanding that we have to think nature before we build in seas. It's not finished and already it doesn't work. Shame.

    • @XMarkxyz
      @XMarkxyz Před 3 lety +1

      At this day it's actually working and with good results, the maintenence will be hard but it's better than the all city going underwater

  • @valerianocuomo996
    @valerianocuomo996 Před rokem +1

    20year, but now is save for ever...NY?

  • @TEACHERSSEES
    @TEACHERSSEES Před 2 lety +1

    Sorry you dont listen, still... hmmm

  • @TEACHERSSEES
    @TEACHERSSEES Před 2 lety +1

    I DID SAY NOT TO DO THIS... DO NOT DO THIS... I SAID YEARS PRYOR... SCRAP THIS IDEA, PRETTY PLEASE... ONE MORE TIME YOU DID NOT LISTEN TO ME... THX BRO...

  • @paulthetallsigma1552
    @paulthetallsigma1552 Před 3 lety +9

    Never trust italian cars or even their ideas about engineering.

    • @coldstonecanc3rgang994
      @coldstonecanc3rgang994 Před 3 lety +1

      *laughs in aqueduct*

    • @paulthetallsigma1552
      @paulthetallsigma1552 Před 3 lety +1

      @@coldstonecanc3rgang994 the best thing that came out of italy is pizza lol.

    • @josephsmith2063
      @josephsmith2063 Před 3 lety +1

      Italians are the best designers in the world ignoramus!

    • @josephsmith2063
      @josephsmith2063 Před 3 lety +1

      Could any other country build a city like Venice in this world? I highly doubt it!

    • @paulthetallsigma1552
      @paulthetallsigma1552 Před 3 lety

      @@josephsmith2063 italians build windows in the back of their tanks for a better view of the battlefield.

  • @WilldoAldone
    @WilldoAldone Před 3 lety +1

    How much money was spent on these 4 or 5 non-Italians learning lines and acting like experts on what Venice did wrong, but offer no solutions.
    Fill the first floors with cement and build up. In other words raise the level of everything 6 or more feet.

  • @coronadog1708
    @coronadog1708 Před 3 lety +2

    Let's not ask the Italian engeneers for a solution. They don't have the expertise and clearly don't think big enough like they did in Zeeland the Netherlands for instance. That massive flood barrier protects Zeeland for over 4 decades now!

    • @josephsmith2063
      @josephsmith2063 Před 3 lety

      You are an ignoramus and dont know how successful Italy is with design. You Northern Europeans stole everything from Italy during the Renasaince. Read your history!

    • @XMarkxyz
      @XMarkxyz Před 3 lety

      You can't just build a wall, the lagoon lives with the flow of water if you enclose everything the all ecosystem would die and rot

    • @coronadog1708
      @coronadog1708 Před 3 lety

      @@XMarkxyz You don't understand. We didn't build a wall sir. We kept our lagoon open. It only shuts at spring tide. We made a moveble barrier that actually works and doesn't get influenced by moving sand like yours. Thinking sand doesn't move during tidel changes like Italian engineers though is a major fu.. up!

  • @paradoxfossils
    @paradoxfossils Před 3 lety +5

    Just another political money exchange

  • @sansaofrancisco9568
    @sansaofrancisco9568 Před 3 lety +2

    💪😎👍🇧🇷

  • @MagicNibor
    @MagicNibor Před 3 lety +1

    They should ask Bill Gates about this

  • @yanelld.4220
    @yanelld.4220 Před 3 lety +2

    italian engineering and mafia.

  • @thatswhatshesaid.literally737

    🤔 Why doesn't everyone just move their homes up one floor, and leave the bottom floors in every single building as storage/garages for their boats? (Make sure they store everything in watertight containers though, of course.) Lol 😋
    😐 The historical areas that need protecting (churches, etc.) can easily have a flood wall built around those immediate few buildings that will protect them and they wouldn't need to render the bottom floor unused.

    • @yanelld.4220
      @yanelld.4220 Před 3 lety +1

      ...visit venice. later on we will talk.

    • @lewisdoherty7621
      @lewisdoherty7621 Před 3 lety

      Historically what occurred was that there was always some continuious subsidence and people would fill in their bottom floor with ruble and build a new floor on top. As a result archeologists have found several floors buried under the current buildings. But having historically important buildings, the bottom floor can't just be filled in and a new one built on top.

  • @domdegood5376
    @domdegood5376 Před 3 lety +2

    The mose is the most stupid opera in the world, its designed to stop sea water, but the high water comes in winter with the rain, from rivers, torrents and underground water.

    • @XMarkxyz
      @XMarkxyz Před 3 lety

      That's a good thought but rainwater from rivers can be held back with other systems already done made to contain the rivers, in normal condition the rainwater would normaly flow to the sea, its the wind that pushes the Adriatic water in the lagoon the principal cause of flooding

    • @domdegood5376
      @domdegood5376 Před 3 lety

      @@XMarkxyz Why it dosent push it in summer time?

  • @tattabox
    @tattabox Před 3 lety +1

    Sounds like a typical Italian project. I don't see why everybody is surprised about this. Haha 😂

    • @josephsmith2063
      @josephsmith2063 Před 3 lety

      Your just jealous cause you cannot afford a Ferrari! LOL

  • @paulvanderzaal
    @paulvanderzaal Před 3 lety +3

    Italian engineering and corruption. Nice combo. Why would you ask the dutch or german?..... nahh

    • @DavidColex
      @DavidColex Před 3 lety

      Moses works brilliantly, the documentary is sensationalistic crap. The amount of sand that enters is negligible, and the material used is STAINLESS steel, the formations on the surface are not oxidation/rust, but microorganisms.
      What do the dutch and germans have to do with it? Do they have lagoons? Are they more intelligent then italians? No.
      20 years of research preceeded the beginning of the construction, plus, if that would make you happier, the research team was international, with japanese experts as well, so no, you are all wrong.

  • @endor8witch
    @endor8witch Před 3 lety +1

    of course the project is busting deadlines. they're italians. they take too much time to enjoy life lol

  • @valerianocuomo996
    @valerianocuomo996 Před rokem +1

    Top engineering, holland it is inferior

  • @valerianocuomo996
    @valerianocuomo996 Před rokem +1

    This is a old woman bla bla