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The Almö bridge in Tjorn Sweden, collapsed on the 18 January 1980, after the bulk carrier MS Star Clipper struck the bridge arch, collapsing the main span.
Multiple Cars would drive off the edge of the broken bridge.
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The idea was floated? heh!
Maybe I'm missing something. But why can't there be an illuminated stop sign at either end of the bridge that is normally off. They have wires, attached to the spans, running on either side of the bridge to the other end and if the wires break, the stop sign comes on. Simple technology, little electricity.
Was the shaking at 05:45 intentionally? It's a bit wierd and pointless thing to do.
Though great you haven't jumped on the horrible trend of adding "damaged video"-filter to anything old. That's so annoying treats the subscribers like idiots.
I like Ground News since most news is biased toward the left, but it's a tad expensive to use, especially for someone who just wants to check an occasional news story once in a blue moon :-(
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Just wanted to mention: I'm here BECAUSE of the dodgy cartoons. For people without your experience it's really easy to see a photo of a disaster and just be overwhelmed by the sheer mess of it. Your cartoons strip away all the excess visual clutter and focus on the objects at play in the scenario.
The technical explanations are better than most channels, and the cartoons play a big part in that.
Agreed! My first degree, and the base for all my other work, is in visual arts, and those dodgy cartoons work because they're simple, easy to figure out, and they're often funny, too. Humour is a great teaching tool, and it's used well in the dodgy cartoons. I'm particularly fond of the recurring Ford Pinto. What a great little car.
This
Also you are here because I’ve pestered poor John to cover this story as it happened very close to where live now.
oh my gosh, someone finally puts it to words!
"Maritime induced unintended deconstruction". This strikes me as a very British way of saying a ship wiped out a bridge.
Also very NASA, rapid unscheduled disassembly was the term used to describe the challenger explosion in 1986.
@@WhiteWolf-gx8ll"rapid unscheduled disassembly" 😂
@@WhiteWolf-gx8ll It worked very well for Columbia in 2003 as well, though they learned that rapid unscheduled disassembly tends to be even messier on reentry that time.
sounds like something drachinifel would say on such a topic😂😂😂
@@GearGuardianGaming I had the same thought!
'Massive Container Ship Crashes Into Bridge' does not narrow it down as much as it should.
Unfortunately that is one of the drawbacks of trying to move the mass of a large building with precision past in comparison flimsy structures. It was not the first, not the most recent, and unfortunately most likely we will see more of this in the future.
Modern technology could automatically detect a failure and block access to the structure, hopefully at least prevent unlucky road users from doing a Wile E. Coyote off what’s left of an unlucky bridge. Such warnings were technically available already when the Tjörn event occurred, but no one planned for this eventuality, so no automatic or remotely actuated barriers and warning lights were fitted to the road.
Shouldn't be but literally is "for me, it was just a Tuesday" or "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down" are two phrases that come to mind when they shouldn't.
This is what I was saying when all of those conspiracy theories came up about sabotage and the destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. It wouldn’t be the first time something like this happened accidentally, nor would it be the second or third. Hanlon’s Razor applies here.
Either this happened 50 years ago, or it happened 5 months ago..
(Or about literally 1 month ago..)
I saw the thumbnail and thought he was talking about the Baltimore Bridge 😑
“Maritime induced unexpected deconstruction” You sir, are truly a wordsmith.
Thank you
@@PlainlyDifficultcan we have a video of the 2019 Caledonian sleeper runaway train incident where the brakes failed and it went through Endinburgh Waverley at 120mph because of an error during recoupling the train. Please?
Ah yes the seafaring version of "rapid unscheduled disassembly".
@@michaelbuckersDoes this apply to Aircrafts too lol
I legitimately assumed this was about Baltimore, and thought, "Damn, aren't they still figuring out how to even rebuild that?"
They are! Also I assumed this was about Baltimore as well and thohfnt: "John works fast!"
It was just months ago! the NTSB investigative report isn't out yet.
I thought it was the Baltimore Bridge collapse, then I assumed it was the bridge collapse in Tasmania, Australia back in 1974.
Americans watching and going "hurrah it's not us for once!"
@@MostlyPennyCatthen think bugger hope that NTSB Baltimore report ain’t out soon!
Yay! Swedish viewer here! Thanks for covering this! It was a huge deal when it happened. The lorry driver that parked across both lanes of traffic was interviewed and he said he had a weird feeling when he didn't see the bridge rails as he usually would. Upon driving slowly forward he realised what happened and parked across to stop any casualities from his side.
I'm currently in the town Uddevalla (you did great in the pronounciation of it) you mentioned. We have road signs to Tjörn from here. :-D
Thanks for sharing this about the lorry driver. Input from people who are local to these stories adds to the human element.
Tuve landslide could be another topic for John !
@@darraghmckenna9127 Land slides and Göta älv in general i think 🤔.
Was he rewarded for his prompt action? Sounds like he prevented a bigger tragic outcome.
@@warsmithmia basically the multiple building projects on unsteady ground. Stenungsund landslide as another example but at least in that case no fatalities occurred
I live i Gothenburg and I remember this disaster. One of my co-workers almost drove off the missing bridge but he managed to stop right at the edge. He saw several cars plunge into the deep from the other side, turned on his hazard-lights and started to flash his headlight to warn people coming from the mainland. If he wouldn't have seen that the bridge was gone a lot more lives including his own would have been lost.
This is an amazing bit of info about this accident. Thanks for sharing!
Tack för att du delade denna informationen! Det är alltid väldigt intressant att höra ifrån människor som har någon form av koppling till vad som hände. Det måste ha varit enormt traumatiserande för din kollega att se bilar köra över kanten och känna sig så maktlös. Men det låter som han gjorde allt han kunde för att rädda så många som möjligt, och han gjorde ett fantastiskt bra jobb! Tack ännu en gång för informationen :)
I’m so glad he saw in time. Your comment made my stomach drop, I can’t imagine how many times that moment played over in his head. I have family in Sweden - regards from a currently disgustingly hot 113 degrees in Arizona US. ❤
Congratulate your friend on his quick thinking, he saved many lives that night.
Even contemplating what it must be like to drive over the edge makes my heart drop. Utterly terrifying.
Plainly Difficult still amongst the top 3 documentary channels on here. This and Brick Immortar are superb and very special experiences but totally contrasting in their approaches. Even with all the cr@p that’s on here, it shows that quality can still thrive. Thank you John
Max, in a currently (thank goodness) warm and sunny Yorkshire, England.
Leave it 5 mins, it's bound to start pi$$ing it down with rain again!!😂😂😂
Heather, in a currently warm and breezy Salisbury 😅
Portsmouth, 24 degrees and a light breeze (for Portsmouth)
We've been to Yorkshire so many times.
Specifically we go to Sowerby Bridge and collect a narrowboat and go for a steam around The Pennine Rings.
Moor at a pub each day for dinner, spend 2 weeks mooching along.
Cannot recommend it highly enough.
If you don't like "normal" holidays or bore easily like me, you will never be bored with a boat.
We use Shire Cruisers, we've been with others, these guys are the best.
I really like Fascinating Horror too.
I enjoy Well There's Your Problem's in depth (and often funny tangent filled) videos/podcasts.
And I envy you all your weather, from the midst of a heat wave just outside Toronto, where the humidity is currently boosting the real temperature of 26 to a humidex of 37, and we've got Great Lakes thunderstorms predicted for the next 24 hrs. I hope they actually cool things off a bit!
Check out scary interesting too, he is also very good. Carl, in a currently sunny, but changeable Surrey england
"lol fart"
Yeah, as a Swede, that's cracked me up a few times as well haha!
"The plane took a big fart and disappeared like a prick in the sky!"
it's not the fart that kills, it's the smäll
Here's another classic one then. A train or bus or other public transit has a terminating station, this can be translated into Swedish as "slutstation". Some places make a conscious effort to avoid that particular word. I don't know if I think "ändstation" is much better though, almost literally rear station.
@@Anonymous-zu7dh😂 thank you.
There are a lot of In farts and Out farts along Swedish highways. And there’s the Swenglish saying: it’s not the fart that kills but the smell (it’s not the speed that kills but the crash).
The female reporter that did the Swedish news segment in 1981 about the accident make modern reporters look like children.
It was extremely factual and sensible questions and answers where given, she also interviewed experts.
economic forces have changed the journalistic landscape since the '80s 🤭
not that it wasn't used for propaganda then too, it just wasn't endemic yet.
Yes but Sweden is inhabited by robots, so.
“It just wasn’t endemic yet”
Imagine genuinely believing this lmao
The biggest thing to change journalism and journalists is the need for them to become members of the Screen Actors Guild in the US because CNN started pimping itself and the news readers out to Hollywood as a way to advertise it's services through movies, just like brand placement deals that auto manufacturers, food companies, the military and even tobacco and alcohol companies had done since the 1960s.
The dodgy cartons is part of what makes the channel awesome
Dodgy cartoons forever!
I got the siamese twins tee and sometimes people come up to me saying: “Oh, you love that channel too ….”! Yes I do!
I just can't get enough of "dodgy" & "cheeky" slang❤!!
And when said cartoon men tend to say "BALLS!"
@@RoboP "Balls!" in every language!
More evidence that if you put a bridge where a ship can hit it; eventually a ship will hit it
Which is why most bridges now have barriers to prevent collision. Too small and too close in most cases, but at least something.
"Today we will be talking about a ship running into a bridge. No not that one. No, not that other one either!"
"It's the other other other one!"
"Emergency response was blamed for their lack of speed"
That is because the nearest police station and police unit was pretty much 20 minutes away from the scene at the time, even at full speed for a police vehicle at the time.
Also note that on the island side of things, there were ZERO police units in service. Luckily enough, there was an off duty officer sleeping on the islands, who had to get up and drive to the police station to pick up a police car and then rush to the bridge. That took a whole hour!
It is true that response time would have been faster if the ship had a working radio, but the vehicles that fell off the bridge would have done so regardless as they fell off in the following 40 minutes after the accident. The last one to plunge off the bridge came from the island side of things. And there were no-one there who had noticed the bridge being out, a total of 4 vehicles fell off on the island side.
The ship tried deploying a life boat to set up a road block on the island side, but the life boat could not maneuver in the ice packed waterway.
And the flares did have an effect in stopping a trucker on the island side... That trucker then decided to carry on right off the edge of the defunct bridge.
In short, it was all a major clusterffff and Swedish motorists learned something that day. If you see signs of something being off, something is probably off! Like a whole bridge being off it's supports.
wow
if can happen it will quite likely happen
those hard left and right turns really are the death blow of bridges in shipping lanes
You’d think they’d take into consideration that ships handle like, well, ships.
@@CatMom-uw9jl it was a fine turn back when the boats were smaller
but then the boats got bigger and bigger and the routes didn't get updated to one a bit less geographically demanding, living off the logic that the old lanes are "good enough" (also terraforming is bloody expensive)
"maritime induced unexpected deconstruction" made me lol
"Don't put bridge parts where ships could interact with them."
It really took us a few decades to figure that one out, huh?
Jon: "...The time honored tradition of maritime induced unexpected deconstruction."
Me: Translation-- negligence, incompetence, and/or stupidity. 😒
"Less Crashable" is going down in the annuls of history of dodgy but oh so appropriate phraseology! Congrats on the almost 1 million subs. Well deserved.
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny... I'm one of your million, but you're my one in a million. Your voice is the last and the first thing I hear every day. The greatest disastrous/nuclear/dark-sided lullaby I could imagine.
Greetings from this Swede (now living in Norway). This was a *major* thing, I wasn't born yet, but at least in my school we talked about this in several different classes and my parents (who are just as nerdy and information-hungry as me) told me about this accident while growing up. I was born in 1990, so I don't know if schools nowadays see this as something important to teach kids about, but at least it was when I was 13 or 14. Thank you for this video! It was amazing!
yeah, it was talked about when I went to school as well (born in 86), though considering we had the Estonia disaster in 1994 and the Gothenburg Fire in 1998, maybe those have supplanted it since.
Born ’99
Never heard of it before now…
The P3 dokumentär about it is great if you want to listen to some interviews from people who were there (in Swedish)
Born in 04, not a mention of it in school, but my grandfather is from Uddevalla and the new bridge can be seen from close to the house, safe to say I'd heard of this disaster before
You still have the best prononciation of Swedish names of any English speaker I follow.
I live 30 km or so from tjörn! :)
I will pause the video and go get a cup of coffe for this one!
Hälsningar från Sverige!
honestly, thank you right back at you for providing so many fun, informative and laid back mini documentaries throughout the years.
Things crashing into bridges (ships, trucks, airplanes, trains even) seems to be a recurring theme down through history.
MIUD is a valued addition to the acronym catalog. Rolls off the tongue and perfectly evokes what happened.
My dad lives on Tjörn, i think about this disaster often as we drive over the new bridge. Thanks for covering!
Speaking of Sweden. Would be cool to see the Hallandssås tunnel construction disaster. Horrible, but interesting nonetheless.
I also assumed it was the Baltimore bridge collapse.
I always love your videos Mr Plainly
Just realizing you only have 9k more subs to go to hit 1 million! You deserve it dude, all your hard work and time definitely shows.
Greetings from Uddevalla! As others have mentioned this was a huge accident here at the time. To add, Uddevalla had one of the biggest ports and dockyards in Sweden at the time, and much of the Swedish merchant marine were holed up in the area outside Tjörn and Orust during WW2. The dockyard went out of business in the 80s.
as a Swede, i didnt know about this! thank you for the interesting video!
and got a good laught out of the "oh blimey" before having to pronounce the Swedish company name!
I certainly like my bridges to be a uncrashable as possible. So, well done with the improvements!
I don't know when I sub'd, but I do miss your videos when the algo messes up and doesn't tell me you posted. I haven't paid enough attention to know if you have a schedule for videos, but I do notice if a week has gone by and I haven't seen anything from your channel. Some of the things (not many) you tell about, I have already heard about. Just, you tell a different perspective and cover things others don't bother with. The train signals, for example: you explain how they work in that area in that time, but some others have glossed over it with "it was because of a signal fault" (even if it wasn't actually the signal, but the people's fault).
I hope you make it to 5million! Much love from Missouri USA
Thank you! I upload every Saturday at 2pm GMT 🌝
@@PlainlyDifficult Thank YOU for great content! I looked it up, that means 10am here in Missouri USA (central time). I will make a note of that.
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History repeats...
Well, rhymes anyway
And it frequently echos.
There’s a lot more ship to bridge crashes than just the two.
There’s at least three in the United States
...never?
Always does time flows like a river.
OMG. I’m so happy for you John! I’m so happy to see so many are now appreciating your content for what it’s worth! This milestone truly snuck up on me, but I’m so happy for the community that has grown around your great channel! Please take time to celebrate such a remarkable milestone, and realize your hardworking has and continues to pay off! ❤🎉
Really cool to see one of your videos about something I saw up close, I grew up a few kilometers away from this place and actually visited the site later the day after the bridge collapsed.
One minor error though, this was (as evident from the pictures), not a container ship, but a bulk loading ship.
Just a note, the "tj" is pronounced like the "s" in the name Sean. And "ö" is pronounced like the "ue" in the island of Guernsey.
Nah, more like "churn" but with a much softer "Ch". The tj, sch, ch, stj, sk, kj sounds are Swedish's infamous tje- and sje-sounds, some voiceless fricatives that are not common in other languages.
@@michaelkarnerfors9545 That's a very hard "tj" in churn if you ask me :)
@@theknivjocke Not nearly as hard as English's "Check" or "Churn" or "Challenge"
@@michaelkarnerfors9545 I realize that it's got to do with dialect. I suppose in Norrbotten you would say it with a hard "tj".
@@theknivjocke And especially so the closer to the Finnish border we get, I would assume.
I wonder how the ice fouled the steering?
Ship steering relies on water being pumped over the rudder by the screws.
It's why you can't really control a ship going backwards and you have to be turning the screws to steer (Remember, No Gear, No Steer)
Maybe it's because the ice was on one side, causing asymmetric drag?
So the ship no longer steams true so it limits the amount of steering you have in one direction?
An interpret it as a surface ice sheet in/on the sound, so the ship scraped along the edge. Although broken up, ice slush and floes can quickly freeze together solidly.
Yes, I check some quotes from the report and it mentions winds and currents building up an ice barrier, so it checks out, although steering failure isn’t ruled out. So it’s not so much fouled steering as fouled manoeuvre.
ice drag, ice on the rudder or the hull next to the rudder stopping it from being able to turn the whole way, lots of ways I can imagine
As a sailor worked on ferry ships for two years, hearing accident like these break my heart, so many things that can be done to avoid this, the pilot knowing the ships capability releasing anchor ordering the ship to run a ground, big ships have huge momentum so we are taught not to change/altered the engine, changing the engine speed or even reversing have a very huge chance of stalling the engine making the problem worse, big ships equal ship takes long time to respond, limited visibility means high alert watch out, using radar a watchman at the very end of the bow, communicating with everyone on the bridge what they can and cannot see, asking to have at least two tugboat to accompany, after the accident they could have turned on all the lights use the ship foghorn to warn drivers
People are often presented with situations that are bad and worse. They’re going to hit the bridge. So running aground or stalling the engine is not going to make it worse.
There’s been several airplane pilots that were going to crash. They had to decide where to minimize ground casualties, not save their airplane
What would have been lost with a bridge on top of their bridge though? They sent up flares, and people wouldn't have seen them below the line of sight, even lit up, if the bridge was out. Would the foghorn have been operational? Would drivers have even paid attention in an area near a coast? I know the times I have been a fair bit away from the coast (like in town not at the shore) but heard them I was like "oh foghorn, cool" and thought nothing else. I grew up in a desert and still live in one, is there something water people are taught about them I'm not growing up?
I don't understand enough about boats/ships or frankly waterways to understand all the possible options they could have used, tbh, but I am very curious about where there lights and foghorn would have been in relation to the damage to the ship.
@@neilkurzman4907we actually had that happen here with a life flight helicopter. It had a pilot and a couple medical staff but no patient at the time, and something went horribly wrong in a densely packed neighborhood. Evidence after the crash from eye witnesses, video, and other data says the pilot very deliberately crashed into a shed to avoid the houses or busy road all around. The only casualties were those on board the helicopter.
Most wild was that adults who witnessed it and called 911 literally thought it was anything but a helicopter hitting a shed - a van crashed into a shed, a piece of cardboard falling and landed on the shed and there was a loud crash, etc.
The 9 y.o. on the other hand described it in very clear detail as a helicopter behaving strangely and hitting the shed.
Experts consulted by the news at the time suggested she wasn't old enough for the neural pathways to be set in stone that helicopters are in the sky or on a helipad or similar surface and if it isn't acting like a helicopter it clearly isn't, while the adults were dealing with an object and situation their brains were having trouble processing (being stressful especially, but also just weird) and their brains didn't add the facts up to helicopter they added them up and decided it couldn't be a helicopter and filled in what it must be instead. Rather like if I saw even a small container ship in our local (usually very dry) river, in the desert, hundreds of miles from anywhere a container ship could even hope to travel, I would probably assume it was a train or a sculpture or a bunch of shipping containers piled up or a smaller boat made to look like one or _anything else._
The ship was out of power if I remember. I'm also Swedish from thexwest coast and was 17 when it happened.
Who else thought this was the Baltimore bridge disaster of 2024?
As usual, great video, thanks!
Some background and further details:
1) There was and still is a lot of ship traffic under this bridge, but not just to Uddevalla, but also to the much more adjacent town of Stenungsund which is the site of Swedens largest concentration of petrochemical plants. Today the commercial ship traffic to and from Stenungsund outsizes that to and from Uddevalla by a huge margin. This is still a very busy ship lane.
2) When the bridge was planned there were a lot of people arguing for a suspension bridge, precisely because of the problems of the design choosen. But suspension bridges was more expensive, and would also take a longer time to build.
3) Looking at the map at 8:59, note the shape of Källön (the island to the right from Star Clippers point of view). Back when this accident happened, the southwestern (wooded) cape of this island had a much pointier shape which protruded a lot further into the ship channel. Notice how it is now kind of chopped off ... Because a large portion of it was dredged away the year after the accident, reducing the severity of the S-turns ships have to make to get around Källön.
4) There is one silver lining in the timing of this accident. Roughly half an hour earlier a bus carrying 50+ people drove over the then still standing bridge ...
5) Already the day after the accident a couple of passenger ships showed up from a shipping company further up north along the coast. People at the shipping company heard about the accident on the news early in the morning and - correctly - assumed people on Tjörn needed to get to and from the mainland. They quickly manned a couple of ships (who were somewhat idle for the winter) and just went there and started ferrying people. There are always people around who do not need to be told what to do in an emergency.
6) The new bridge was built at record speed, it was ready to open more then six months before the planned time. And well under the budget. And as mentioned it is still standing there 🙂
This accident took place about 40 km from where I live. Really looking forward to hear your take on what happened. ETA Overall I think you did well with the pronounciation, a few sounded a bit odd, but I understood what you where trying to say, so 👍
I meet The driver of The truck that stopped. Anordning to him The road was pretty much invisible in The dark night, even With full Breams on. What made him stop was that he NO longer could se The railing. It wasnt untill he jumped out and walked to The edge that he relized The bridge was out.
Also The bridge wasnt really that old when it colapsed
1:32 Ah, the Woolwich ferry. Two things I'm pretty sure I will never see in my lifetime: a bridge in East London and the Bakerloo extension.
Let's get this Brit his million subscribers!🎉
I love your videos but I wish you would discuss your choices in terms of the disaster scale and effects, directly.
oh hell yeah! a new PD vid to start my morning! :D
Hope you enjoy!
Love your videos! I like to read the bingo card at the end. In future videos it may be helpful to leave it up just a little bit longer and then people who want to read it have a better chance to pause and compare. Congrats on getting close to 1 mill! I know you’ll make it soon!
Whoa!! That is the Tjörn Bridge disaster! I remember that one actually, it was nationwide news.
Damn, I am old...
Pronunciation correction: Tjörn is spoken "churn", with a softer attack on the "ch".
The ö is not an o, it is actually a separate letter with its on sound. Same with å and ä.
John, you should used a thicker, more legible font on your Disaster Bingo Card. For those of us watching on mobile devices, the squares without yellow dots are hard enough to make out, the squares with them, forget about it.
Unplanned but not unscheduled.
Thank you John!
You DESERVE all the subscribers ❤❤❤
You will be pleased to know that "Skånska Cementgjuteriet" later changed their name to just "Skanska"
I remember when that happened. I was nine at the time and it was the only thing on the news for what seemed like forever. Scared me silly. I seem to remember grainy footage of car headlamps disappearing off the edge but I've searched for it and I'm unsure if it something I actually saw or if it was a nightmare that just stuck with me hehe.
Finally someone covering this! Thank you!
Thank you John for continuing to make factual, intriguing, unbiased accounts of disasters around the world. Your videos are always amazing
Thank you!!
Congrats on hitting a millie! You've been by far my favorite entertainer that talks about past disasters. You got me hooked from all the past nuclear disasters and I love how diverse you've gotten since then. Look forward to more videos in the future!
I am from Sweden and when you named Tjörnbron I recalled that disaster immediatey but only as a faint memory of something being mentioned very long ago. Then when you said the year it happened - 1980, I got the reason for it just being a faint memory - it happened 1 year before I was born in 1981 so I probably only heard of it from some news history I happened to overhear on the TV some year/years after the disaster and also maybee my parents mentioning it sometime also when I was just a very small kid and thus I have more or less forgotten all about it now. I also dont remember reading or hearing anything about the disaster more recently then that so for me it´s just been a faint childhood memory of some bridge that collapsed. Interesting to see it covered in detail! Some more good info: a boat pilot is known as a "lots" in swedish. Skanska Cementgjuteriet means Skanska Cement castings. I think its a bit fitting they are named Skanska as in Skandal = scandal as there have indeed been some really big scandals involving that company including the Roca Gil disaster at Hallandsåsen (an event you maybee can cover in another episode) wich brought the chemical acrylamide into the entire worlds vocabulary list of dangerous substances as well as giving birth to the discovery that fried potato chips and fries also contains acrylamide (starch converts to acrylamide from high heat) wich caused a world wide panic for a while about eating fried potatoes and fried food in general. And yes speed = fart in swedish! lol! We use to say - Its not the fart that kills but the smäll = bang/impact. :)
Thank you from a (currently) warm corner of Wiltshire in South-West England!
Never heard of this “accident”. Thanks again for another great episode. You’re one of the best!
You're doing awesome work. You narrate very clearly and have a wicked sense of humor. Fun to listen to....
what kinda username is that
@@jeebusk The one YT randomly picked for me. Didn't feel like changing it.
Congrats on (almost) a million! Your charming accent and quirky technique deserve it.
Thank you!!
I find this type of disaster especially chilling for some reason. Suddenly discovering that the bridge I'm driving on doesn't go all the way across is a thing I've had occasional nightmares about since I was little. I think I can trace this to a childhood encounter with the bridge over to Deer Isle in Maine, a relatively short span that had to be built ridiculously tall in the middle so as not to inconvenience some bougie yacht club nearby.
Good luck getting 1M subs soon - you deserve it, thats good content. Thank you for that
I can’t even remember when I joined this channel, but I think it was very early days. Amazing to see you jumping from achievement to achievement now!
You are my favorite channel.
Godamn, surreal to watch a video you made talking about a accident my dad was involved in. Dont remeber what job he had on that boat. Think it was mate or lookout. He retired from the sea decades later as a captain. He said he saw the cars drive of the edge, into the water and for a few brief moments you could see the lights flicker underwater. My uncle is still pissed at the swedish police, for how they treated the sailors of the boat. The sailors got isolated from each other and then interrogated about the accident, but no shrink or priest to talk about the trauma they had experienced. Just got released and told to go away.
Super nerding out here...saw the new video upload and ran to put my Plainly D RBMK shirt on while I listen! Kind of the same idea as wearing the shirt of the band you're seeing hehe.
I love the RBMK shirt!
I've been waiting for someone to cover this ^^
Is it me, or do bridges have an invisible neon sign over them that says, "Come at me, bro!"??????? Whether it be nature, marine, or incompetence, it seems like there is a resounding, "Challenge accepted!"
Sam at Brick Immortar is superb at long form serious things like this. And, of course, this is excellent too.
My favorite part of this channel other then the cartoons is how clear the closed captioning is. I use them because I’m mostly deaf.
also, i’m so thrilled your channel is growing and almost at 1M!!! you definitely deserve it. your channel is unlike others. i found you separately to Qxir but you two are among my top 5. i enjoy putting your videos on to relax. something about your voice, your candor, the information presented easily and comfortably, makes for highly enjoyable videos. i always give your videos a like before getting through the intro because i’ve never once been disappointed with one.
Swedish person here!!
I wanted to say that this is a really amazing video, and you made a really valiant effort with the Swedish pronunciations❤ Had to do a double take on some parts, but it’s a pretty difficult language sometimes, especially with our hard r’s and unique letters🤣
Really awesome job💕
(I actually live really close to where this happened, and can confidently say that the new bridge is still going strong🔥)
Hi, congrats john! And thank you!
My favourite part of John's video?? Seeing the little black and white box in the top right corner prior to an ad😂 Takes me back to watching TV as a kid!!😍 #genX #gettingold
I don't know why YT haven't adopted this as a way creators can tell them where to insert any necessary adverts.
Those are timing marks for movies. They are placed at the ends of each roll of film. Cinema technicians had to either splice the reasonably sized rolls of movie to one that's way too big for handling or start an entire second projector synced with the first. The mark were used as tells to do the projector switch.
“Maritime induced unintended deconstruction” very interesting way to put it. Accurate for certain!
Another great video John, congrats on almost 1M subscribers. Really dig the Business Meeting track at the end. Also I wouldn't call the cartoons dodgy, rather, I'd say they're minimal, but effective.
also lol fart. :D
Haha,, for years I thought this was a quirky but small channel. Always interesting and witty in a way that only English people can pull off. Almost a million subs is crazy and very well deserved. Just shows that good research and zero clickbait is the best way to run a channel. Got a plan for when you cross a million??
Thank you!! No plans as of yet tbh
Good morning! Fingers crossed for that 1 millionth sub ASAP!! Cheers!❤️
As soon a I saw the thumbnail I knew what it was, as a kid I was very fascinated by this disaster as I often would travel over the new bridge.
Nice video!
I can't imagine how terrifying it must have been for the people who drove off the bridge. Driving normally and then suddenly falling because the road isn't where it's supposed to be
dont ever change brother, thats how you got to 1m. been here from the beginning and ill be here til the end!
Been watching the Bali deconstruction since it started. Really good and fast work they do
If you're a fan of Swedish disasters, you might want to look into the Hallandsås Tunnel construction
Congratulations on almost one MILLION!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😊
Got a huge chuckle out of the "Oh blimey" at the swedish company's name.
In these kind of nautical situations I'm always curious about how difficult would it have been to install flared out guide bumpers in the ship lane? Would something like that even work?
Congratulations on your almost 1M. I’ve been here since the start and I love the comics and little speech bubbles, those are hilarious 😂
There's no way I got an ad for a swedish cruise trip while watching this!!
Appreciate ya. Thanks for sharing.
The new bridge was inaugurated on 9 November, 1981, less than two years after the collision. It's a nearly 700m long cable-stayed bridge! That's insane. That's the video i want to see.
I subscribed today, and actually really like the imbedded ad for ground news. Great channel!
Another banger! Thanks, P-Diff.
Coming from a place that had a fairly spectacular bridge deconstruct of its own...this is great.
Nicely done as always!
Finally! Simply love you!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Tjörn is more pronounced as ”churn”. The bridge’s real name is Almö bridge, though many (in Sweden) call it the Tjörn bridge, which is the name of the bridge the replaced it.
We were many that woke up that morning hearing about the accident. We heard how the crew on the ship tried to alert the drivers on the (non existing) bridge.
Just a few miles from the bridge, a large section of a hill collapsed and ruined the highway between Norway and Europe. Someone put a shovel into the “quick-clay” on the hillside and made a great impact on the infrastructure.
eep just mentioning quick clay makes me shudder.... we don't have it, as far as I'm aware, in the UK... but there is that one famous example out there when an entire valley decided to migrate due to it....
@@warailawildrunner5300 We have an upcoming issue. The river from our largest lake runs through a quick clay infested valley. If the climate change brings more rain, the locks and gates along the river cannot be opened more as that will trigger landslides along the river, sending houses along and also clogging an important waterway.
This area of Sweden has alot of that shit.
At testament to your production quality is that we are treated to commercials every 3 minutes with some of them being longer than your actual video!