★★★ *FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VIDEO / FACT UPDATES* ★★★ *1) What do Foghorns Do?* - A foghorn is a fog signal that uses sound to warn ships when visual navigation aids such as lighthouses are obscured, foghorns provide an audible warning of rock outcrops, rocky coastlines, shoals, headlands, or other dangers to shipping in foggy conditions. *2) Why do Foghorns still exist in the age of GPS & Radar?* - Modern maritime navigation technologies have all but washed away the need for coastal warning Foghorns. Nowadays, captains have things like Sonar, GPS, and Seabed-mapping programs, to say nothing of lighthouses that use laser beams as echolocating warning systems, which help prevent running aground when it's otherwise impossible to see through fog with a naked eye. But in some areas like the Golden Gate Bridge in America, they still use foghorns on foggy nights to assist barge captain to navigate the waters, modern technologies may be far superior to a horn, but simple technologies like the foghorn can still help.
I remember being a wee girl lying in my bed supposed to be asleep listening to the fog horn on the River Tay. There was just something about the sound.. ❤️
Ive been on the Canberra in 1969. But grew up in Guernsey within earshot of the foghorn at St. Martins Point. Which I loved. Im quite sure its still working today. Dont live there anymore.
There was a fog horn in Ericeira, NW of Lisbon, Portugal wich was a directional siren, starting with a lower tone with a high pitch peak. High, low, high, low. It sounded for as long as there was fog, for whole days if need be. It doesn't work anymore. It may sound absurd but I miss it a lot, maybe because it reminds me my infancy. 🙁 The Town keeps an old fashion siren that does sound every day at noon; and I remember reading once in a newspaper, in the seventies, a translated letter from a British tourist, a Lady that complained that she had enjoyed her holidays in Ericeira a lot but to some extent they had been spoiled by a disturbing siren that sounded every noon and reminded her of the war and the dreaded Air Raid sirens, greatly upsetting her... 😨 wouldn't it be possible to turn the thing off? Well, we're at 2024 and I just heard the die-hard siren today once again!
"Last working Foghorn in Scotland".....thats not the case anymore. The big red Foghorn at Mull Of Galloway Lighthouse was recently restored to working order.
@@TSAR2010 no its a fog siren not a fog horn. It has a rotor stater and the air powers the rotor stator. The reason it sounds like a horn is that the siren speeds up with the air driven motor then the air is forced into the rotor stater t make the sound when it's at full speed and you can hear it moan because it is a FOG SIREN.. If it was a horn it would have a diaphram to make the sound. It's not a diaphone because it may have ports but they dont rotate they vibrate to make that sound the only thing that is like a horn is what that big red thing is at the front. I have heard another one like this and it sounds like a cow and it has the same red horn at the front. I also love sirens and this is very much a FOG SIREN
omg wait what? I was just browsing youtube and i live in shetland! Edit: Just to help out its not pronounced Sum-burg its pronounced sum-bur-ah or sum-bra one of the 2 (:
Thank you so much for the hearty laugh! I assume that your mention of "dog horn" is a typographical error. However, I do have a "Dog Horn". It is a salvaged air horn from a diesel locomotive. I live out in the country. A neighbor has a kennel full of hunting dogs on an adjacent property. Some evenings, especially full moons, the dogs will get to carrying on, barking and such. It is usually deer or coyotes moving through the area that gets them all excited. Because of how the buildings are laid out on his property, my neighbor can't hear his dogs from his house. I, however, can hear them quite well, even though they are more than 200 yards away. If they don't settle down after 15 minutes or so, I go out on my back porch and give the lanyard a 3 to 5 second tug. The horn is mounted on an 8 foot tall post and is aimed directly at the kennels. I run it at 60 psi, from the compressor in my garage. There are no rail lines within 10 miles of us, so it isn't a sound the dogs are used to hearing and they tend to quiet right down. Usually, after I let the lanyard go, all I hear is the sound of the horn echoing through the woods. It even shuts up the coyotes.
I have a far neighbor with one in the middle of buttfuck nowhere in mainland. Build it himself. As long as you satisfy the construction permits, the air travel safety permits (it's a tower, it needs tower top lighting) and can convince your neighbors that it won't impact them, pretty much everyone can build a small ones (if they have the dough for it)
I think everyone should get together is Sam the foghorns at the same time for like 10 minutes straight let's see if we can hear them around the world what kind of like the end of times in the coming of the Angels
The way I understand it, the engines are started on gasoline, and switched to diesel once they’re hot. Some tractors used a similar system back in the day
_"Sir, sound the horn, sound the horn! Ship incoming!!"_ Around 20 minutes later, foghorn blares out the first warning. Next morning newspaper headline: *Shipwreck at Sumburgh, all onboard drowned!*
You were probably joking, but just in case not: foghorns are routinely sounded in foggy weather, if they waited until a ship was approaching they'd have been in trouble even if startup took no time, because in fog they wouldn't have seen the ship before it was too late. 🙂
★★★ *FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VIDEO / FACT UPDATES* ★★★
*1) What do Foghorns Do?* - A foghorn is a fog signal that uses sound to warn ships when visual navigation aids such as lighthouses are obscured, foghorns provide an audible warning of rock outcrops, rocky coastlines, shoals, headlands, or other dangers to shipping in foggy conditions.
*2) Why do Foghorns still exist in the age of GPS & Radar?* - Modern maritime navigation technologies have all but washed away the need for coastal warning Foghorns. Nowadays, captains have things like Sonar, GPS, and Seabed-mapping programs, to say nothing of lighthouses that use laser beams as echolocating warning systems, which help prevent running aground when it's otherwise impossible to see through fog with a naked eye.
But in some areas like the Golden Gate Bridge in America, they still use foghorns on foggy nights to assist barge captain to navigate the waters, modern technologies may be far superior to a horn, but simple technologies like the foghorn can still help.
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HOW LOUD ARE THESE PARTICULAR FOGHORNS? APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY DECIBELS???
The Thames at Isleworth used to have a foghorn that sounded next to our infant school ..A deeply nostalgic sound.
Foghorn sound has a strange comforting beauty,a feeling of keeping you safe. Awesome.
I remember being a wee girl lying in my bed supposed to be asleep listening to the fog horn on the River Tay. There was just something about the sound.. ❤️
I remember the foghorn on the Thames near Isleworth where we went to school- very evocative.
The horn on SS Canberra was amazing. I felt the sound in my body.
Ive been on the Canberra in 1969. But grew up in Guernsey within earshot of the foghorn at St. Martins Point. Which I loved. Im quite sure its still working today. Dont live there anymore.
Fog horns. So beautiful and feeling of being lonely. Coronado island, California. Miss the fog horns
Super impressed with those engines. Btw, I am here after listening to one of my favorite songs, “Into the mystic”. Van Morrison.
I needed to fix something in this video, so I re-edited & re-uploaded.
Wonder World your professionalism is admirable
What a beauty Awesome 😎
Beautiful lighthouse, love them
Each foghorn is unique to the lighthouse, legislation also governs the shape of the lighthouse as well
Wonderfull old technology.
Great to see and hear it come to life once again.
Thanks for sharing this
Sumburgh is pronounced "sumburra" - as in Edinburgh best done with a full Scottish "r".
Thanks for the video brought back memories!
26 miles can hear that thing on fair isle
i'm here because of Foghorn Leghorn
So, its basically a really big goose?
Check out the floor tiles. The Victorians didn't do things by halves. The attention to detail was fantastic. We were World leaders back then.
I agree with all you said! 'British Made' meant THE BEST!
Yes, first thing I noticed
whos here after watching The Lighthouse
ye are fond me are ye?
Hark, Triton, hark!
Not me. I got here from the Pipe Guy somehow and some other sound videos in between.
Ye like me lobster, don’t ye?
What a thirsty comment. What do you get out of it. Affirmation?
There was a fog horn in Ericeira, NW of Lisbon, Portugal wich was a directional siren, starting with a lower tone with a high pitch peak. High, low, high, low. It sounded for as long as there was fog, for whole days if need be. It doesn't work anymore. It may sound absurd but I miss it a lot, maybe because it reminds me my infancy. 🙁
The Town keeps an old fashion siren that does sound every day at noon; and I remember reading once in a newspaper, in the seventies, a translated letter from a British tourist, a Lady that complained that she had enjoyed her holidays in Ericeira a lot but to some extent they had been spoiled by a disturbing siren that sounded every noon and reminded her of the war and the dreaded Air Raid sirens, greatly upsetting her... 😨 wouldn't it be possible to turn the thing off?
Well, we're at 2024 and I just heard the die-hard siren today once again!
"Last working Foghorn in Scotland".....thats not the case anymore. The big red Foghorn at Mull Of Galloway Lighthouse was recently restored to working order.
Really?
@@TSAR2010Really.
They are fog sirens not horns
@@jezcolborne6329 they are horns, no choppers, no speakers. Just air. No not a pneumatic siren. ITS A HORN.
@@TSAR2010 no its a fog siren not a fog horn. It has a rotor stater and the air powers the rotor stator. The reason it sounds like a horn is that the siren speeds up with the air driven motor then the air is forced into the rotor stater t make the sound when it's at full speed and you can hear it moan because it is a FOG SIREN.. If it was a horn it would have a diaphram to make the sound. It's not a diaphone because it may have ports but they dont rotate they vibrate to make that sound the only thing that is like a horn is what that big red thing is at the front. I have heard another one like this and it sounds like a cow and it has the same red horn at the front. I also love sirens and this is very much a FOG SIREN
I love that futurama engine sound at the beginning lol.
Love lighthouses too ❤️
Thats really cool
This is amazing
Great video
Wow that’s so huge
That what she said
omg wait what? I was just browsing youtube and i live in shetland!
Edit: Just to help out its not pronounced Sum-burg its pronounced sum-bur-ah or sum-bra one of the 2 (:
Hey it sounds like me!
This horn, sounds hot to me!
Lonnie Donegan asked the eternal question in one of his songs: "If tin whistles are made of tin, what do they make foghorns out of?"
1:58 reuwas da.. nu make jeket bodas.. :)
There is an elegance to the older gear that todays mass produced Chinese stuff simply cannot match.
They sound so lonely and forlorn. I would work there fo free.
Didn’t know these things are getting rare, here in Rhode Island just about every lighthouse has a dog horn
Thank you so much for the hearty laugh! I assume that your mention of "dog horn" is a typographical error. However, I do have a "Dog Horn". It is a salvaged air horn from a diesel locomotive. I live out in the country. A neighbor has a kennel full of hunting dogs on an adjacent property. Some evenings, especially full moons, the dogs will get to carrying on, barking and such. It is usually deer or coyotes moving through the area that gets them all excited. Because of how the buildings are laid out on his property, my neighbor can't hear his dogs from his house. I, however, can hear them quite well, even though they are more than 200 yards away. If they don't settle down after 15 minutes or so, I go out on my back porch and give the lanyard a 3 to 5 second tug. The horn is mounted on an 8 foot tall post and is aimed directly at the kennels. I run it at 60 psi, from the compressor in my garage. There are no rail lines within 10 miles of us, so it isn't a sound the dogs are used to hearing and they tend to quiet right down. Usually, after I let the lanyard go, all I hear is the sound of the horn echoing through the woods. It even shuts up the coyotes.
How cool would that be to own your own lighthouse???...🤙😎🤘
Do I have to do the work? I’d do it, just curious.
I have a far neighbor with one in the middle of buttfuck nowhere in mainland. Build it himself.
As long as you satisfy the construction permits, the air travel safety permits (it's a tower, it needs tower top lighting) and can convince your neighbors that it won't impact them, pretty much everyone can build a small ones (if they have the dough for it)
I want to hear how loud that baby is when your in the path of the sound...on the water.
The sound like when behemoth is coming in bt 1
I came cause of Janice
Sonic in the fog 🌁 the cobra commander's foghorn
*SHETLAND*
Somewhere out there: i heard the heavens trumpet.. the end is near..
The Glow, Pt. 2 lol
Huge thumbs up for me......
...No.
Need a smaller one to fit in my Zafira....
Lest we forget.
I think everyone should get together is Sam the foghorns at the same time for like 10 minutes straight let's see if we can hear them around the world what kind of like the end of times in the coming of the Angels
HOW LOUD ARE THESE PARTICULAR FOGHORNS? APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY DECIBELS???
190dB (a rock concert is 115dB for comparison)
@@Elijah8890 at 100 feet???
SEND TO OTTAWA NOW!!!
Why am I watching this
@JayBee, because they are cool
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There must be a large cow on that island. 🤔🐄
Its a Canadian moose on the shetland islands not a cow. Its a sad long yell not a moooo
thats sick. I mean its so creepy to hear this sound in a fog living next to the lighthouse... Hmmm.... Something lovecraft-ish in it
you said kelvin diesel engines why are two sparkplugs on the engines ? i guess that this engine runs on gasoline or similiar easy volatile fuels
The way I understand it, the engines are started on gasoline, and switched to diesel once they’re hot. Some tractors used a similar system back in the day
_"Sir, sound the horn, sound the horn! Ship incoming!!"_
Around 20 minutes later, foghorn blares out the first warning.
Next morning newspaper headline: *Shipwreck at Sumburgh, all onboard drowned!*
You were probably joking, but just in case not: foghorns are routinely sounded in foggy weather, if they waited until a ship was approaching they'd have been in trouble even if startup took no time, because in fog they wouldn't have seen the ship before it was too late. 🙂
That is a fog siren that sounds like a horn
some burg
Loud
Sumburgh is pronounced sumburra
Liberal College Students:"pls only jazz hands or we PTSD"
Sumburgh:"lol house go NOOOOOT"