It ripped my heart out to see those two men embrace in their final few moments as their tiny air pocket rapidly vanished. It's sobering to think of the terror they must have experienced. At least they had each other down there in the dark.
10:20 Inspiring. Even as lego men, they still dont give up and help eachother as much as they can and sit their final moments in their last air bubble. *Truly* inspiring
its hard for me to watch these sometimes because i get so emotionally invested in the stories of the workers and their relationships as they meet their end
Imagine being that one Lego guy up top on the outside, slowly seeing the water rising, and the lifeless floating corpse of your coworker swirling in the current. You know you're going to be one of the last Lego people alive as the water swallows the people inside as well. This video has no business being this tense and heart-wrenching.
Note to future dambuilders: ensure that you have strong internal ladders incorporated in all your projects to hold up the masonry blocks when things get soggy!
Further note to legomen dam builders. Employ a Lego woman. She will tell you to add cement & gravel to your sand. That'll solidify things up no end. She can then choose some nice wallpaper for those subterranean caverns.
@@ferronzomeren2733 it depends on type of clay. The silty one, with very fine particules and high salt content are strong as long as the original mix is contained. Here water will dissolve the salt and the bond will quickly turn in liquid soup. They got good landslides in Norway for that reason. Pour that clay in a glass. It´s quite sticky and strong. Mix it with a spoon it turn just like water. Add a bit of salt in that liquid, stir it and it turns back real strong. But clay is less porous than salt you´re right about it.
The dam actually worked. Dams are meant to hold bodies of water and to prevent massive flooding at once. Even though it breached, it was minimal damage and water leakage, and the wall stood its place even after a few bricks fell. Meaning, in a real life situation- it would have saved countless lives and damage, as it would allow for more time for evacuations to take place since the breach was small.
An evocative story. A cinematic masterpiece. Why do I care so much about these toys and their tiny dam? Why did I gasp "oh no" when the little man fell off his little ladder and drowned? 🤷♀️😂
That dead body floating by at 13:25 horrified me lol. On a serious note, I don't know why these videos started coming across my feed, but I do enjoy them. There's something addicting about it that I can't stop watching and I can definitely appreciate the time it takes to build and set up these little experiments.
At 15:57 I burst out crying. What a beautiful construction, deeply motivational story, heart gripping characters, and beautiful cinematography to bring this masterpiece all together in one amazing treat for the soul
The structure held remarkably well. No catastrophic failures at all. It was cool watching the sand wash away and fill it's self back in from top to bottom until the water pressure equalized
This documentary brought to you by National Geographic The Lego City dam failure of 2003; how rushed construction, lack of training, budget cuts and cheap materials cost 5 workers their lives, and learn what we can do in the future to avoid these critical mistakes. On the morning of February 12th, 2003, the Lego City dam collapsed shortly after construction was completed. As the reservoir was being filled, the dam quickly failed, trapping five workers inside. Search and rescue operations lasted for almost 48 hours, to no avail, the five crew members did not survive the collapse. What caused the collapse, and how did the crew members not escape? Final plans for the dam came only a year after Octane Gas's main refinery shut down. The lost tax revenue left the city struggling to find it's infrastructure. The city lost nearly 200,000 studs a month as many of the workers at the refinery were now without jobs, and applied for unemployment. The dam began construction with cuts to it's budget. Rather than importing rock to fill the dam, the city found it best to fill the space with local soil, which was known to be very weak, and unable to support weight, as observed in the housing crisis over 10 years prior where an entire block of a neighborhood had to be abandoned after basement floods and movement of slabs and support beams. Many of the new workers in the dam were laid off Octane workers, with little training in the management of a hydroelectric dam. The dam was constructed with only one exit at the top, violating the cities fire codes. This also made search and rescue operations more difficult for the firefighters trying to gain entry. Rescue operations arrived 2 hours after the incident as the helicopter needed on scene was rescuing a man who had fallen into the river as the reservoir was being filled. The dam was constructed out of bricks with small empty areas running through, making the application of mortar difficult. The hallow space also allows for passage of water. Dam appropriate bricks were initially approved for the project, but after city budget cuts the board members settled on cheaper bricks. "Dam personnel should not have been inside the dam during reservoir full", according to Dave Brickston, the attorney representing the family of Robert Piece, one of the five killed in the collapse. With proper training and better spending future accidents can be avoided. Lessons learned aided in reconstruction of the City Dam in 2008, new jobs and generated power saved the city from bankruptcy during the recession.
We will always remember the brave leggos that lost their lives trying to make the world a better place 🙏🏼 their leggo families will have a tough road ahead🥺 the engineers and construction managers should be investigated, we need to make sure nothing like this happens again👍🏻 the look of sheer terror on the red hard hat worker at the top of the ladder paints a grim picture of the events that transpired on that fateful day❤️
0:43 - George (fell off the ladder and hit his head) 5:06 - Howard and Steve (drowned inside the working area) 6:43 - Charles (drowns as water rushes into his working area) 9:11 - John (drowns) 11:20 - Rick (drowns on ladder in work area) 15:58 - Joe (falls off the bricks and drowns) 16:26 - Rob (crushed by bricks and drowns) RESULTS: Survivors - 0 Deaths - 8 [as mentioned above]
7:02 Notice how fast it goes through the back barrier of sand. In other experiments I've seen, they lacked the multi layered structure. And it just suddenly and instantly has a complete landslide while looking perfectly fine from the outside. So if an engineer tells you that water has gone past one barrier, take it seriously. This has the cute little internal flooding. But for all you know, the barrier they are talking about is the back wall of brick and everyhing could snap any second.
paused at 8:50 to see who's survived so far and got shocked at the worst 'death' so far. First side of flood, 1 dead, 1 on ladder still alive (so far). In tunnel, 3 dead, 1 on ladder still alive on 2nd side, one dead...by being burried in sand up to head THEN drowned O.O 9:20 aaannnd the ladder is gone, guy stays alive until he faceplants forward into water and sand... guess he was exusted from holding on. 10:23 oh wait, there was 4, not 3, guys inside the tunnel. I couldn't see the 4th one until his body floated into the flooding chamber. 11:26 annnd there goes the last guy inside the tunnel, if only he wasn't petrified with fear, he could have climbed higher. So far only the foreman, who was on top and outside of tunnel survived. OF COURSE you would stop the experiment, drain, MOVE the foreman so he's now in a vulnerable position and then start the flooding again. ;) TOTAL DEATH is the only acceptable result ... but hey I have to admit, the foreman has it coming, he just stood at that top while his men drowned.
In theory, you could probably use some hair spray as a sealant to mimic the waterproofing full-scale builds use. You would have to be a bit picky for a non-water solvent one, but it would allow you to layer it on reasonably quickly and seal the gaps without too much issue in the main structure.
This was basically my childhood & young life.. building things like this & blowing them up, burning, or flooding/drowning them. Like every great disaster epic :)
I really enjoyed this video thank you. One suggestion though: 90% of the action took place from the side view and in my opinion that’s where most of the video should’ve been shown from.
Here to agree. After a quick wrap around before it starts, the cross section was the only view I was interested in. It was annoying that it kept cutting too quickly I’m trying to keep with the beat. Awesome vid tho
Red hat guy's name is John, and the other's inside knew they were trapped and were urging him to go and save himself, but he just wouldn't give up on them. Dammit, John, why'd you have to go and be a hero? Your wife and lego son miss you.
Yeah the facing does a lot to protect the dam, if the sand inside was a lot more compacted (maybe even put in while wet, you would of probably had a dam that would not have failed. Also its intresting you drained it and restarted it cause its intresting to see how a damaged dam handles more flooding and it went as well as I expected lmao.
I see the main problem in all builds would be the stranslucent glass wall, because thats where it all starts, the first room flooded from exactly that spott, in reallity there would also be dranage pipes that would get rid of exes groundwaters, I understand this is not a 100 % accurate real life model, but if i where to make a model like this i would put silicone sealant where ever the structure touches that glass wall, cons - cleaning afterwards for another model... Non the less i still enyojed this demonstration 👍
Yeah compacting the sand would have strengthened the dam and slow the speed of water leaking in. Even with that the fact the “leak” was slow that it could be found and noticed before it got to a dangerous point to either evacuate or make repairs.
If you scale the weight you also need to scale the sand. The weight of the dam is supposed to keep the sand compressed enough to make it harder for water to get into. This dam is basically made with 2-5cm pebbles.
Dam. . . so brutal But I thought it was sweet how the 2 embraced towards the end. My mom and I absolutely cracked up when the dude started shimmying up the ladder for air, and the dude in the blue hat floated right in front of the camera haha Question: do you ever want to stop an experiment because you feel bad for the figures?
its cool here at 6:40 i believe that the design whether due to an oversight or intentionally, the structure created a siphon. Which is cool AF to see start tbh
@@KingOfDams yeah, youre basically doing what i couldnt get away with as a kid (onless it was like, in a natural water stream) , making a youtube channel out of it.
Really cool but you should get a longer tank or add some kind of drain to the other side so that you get that catastrophic failure on the first go. Both sides filling up kinda create equilibrium
This video is an amazing way to teach people about the importance of knowing how to build something near water in a safe way. It is also a good class to young people who want to have their own houses and private spaces.
My wish: fewer angles from above and more angles from the side, or a double screen. When viewed from the side, something is constantly happening, I even have to pause. When viewed from above, almost nothing happens, I have to rewind. And another thing: here you need a drain hole (and it's better to remove one wall) so that the dam break does not turn into a pool. Then the dams will collapse in a completely different way, more spectacular and believable. Tnx.
If the intention is to not flood, for science, vs flood, for scientific curiosity. Then you should have the red facing completely separate the sand at the base. From a content perspective its quite riveting to watch, especially with legos.
That's very interesting. The sand shrinks as it gets wet, leaving the top unsupported. If there were some kind of foam, rubber, or even a spring loaded foundation, it could prevent that damage. Edit: I think foam that expands when wet would work best. That way, as the leak moves through the bricks, the foam would expand, push the water back out, and seal the cracks with the expanding foam, as well. The worse the leak, the more the foam expands and then hardens as it dries.
Interesting video! When looking at the side views, I noticed that you used some type of white putty or sealant on the middle edges of the dam. I wonder if the dam would hold up better if you also used it to seal the front portion of the dam? The bricks can't seal flush with the wall, and it seemed like a lot of water was able to make its way through by just squeezing through the sides
Just keep in mind that most of the water is going in from the side! Next time put glue or something on the side so you can see the full potential of your dam! Amazing video!
Glue is not gonna work, it cant be dried fast enough lets say this was a new dam and this instantly happens lets say 1 day after theyre just putting the glue the glue is not waterproof
Thanks. Nice video. The side view was the most interesting view and the cutaways were frustrating. Could you do a split screen version so that the side view is always visible?
While most of the dam workers were crushed or drowned in the line of duty, surprisingly, the first worker inside the tunnel simply died the instant he touched water, and began floating even though he had plenty of air to breathe. It turns out, he's deathly allergic to water.
The main problem here is that even if the dam could hold the water could still flow through the gaps between the bricks and the glass, as well as some spaces between the bricks, i think a way to fix this would be to use waterproof glue or a sealing material to put in between the gaps
For a better simulation of a dammed up river, you should have drainage on the right (lower) side simulate the water going down the dry river bed. Now it filled up quicker on the right side than it drained from the left side. It would probably have resulted in more damage in only one go.
The key to earthen dams is to pack the sand to prevent seepage, get a rolling pin and work it across the sand as you build it into the dam, you may need something to hold the structure together while doing this such as wooden blocks, afterwards remove the blocks and replace them with unpacked sand and add the bricks, the resultant dam should be much stronger.
Deaths: Gerald: Fell off ladder breaking his neck Dan: Drowned with Ian Ian: Drowned with Bob Thomas: Drowned while trapped under ladder Ryan: Trapped under sand and water flow Ashton: Drowned after desperately trying to climb up the dam before it collapses Don: Drowned after being stuck on a ladder Alan: Fell off tower
I would've loved this as a kid! I had a weird interest in flooding buckets and my parts of my yard with miniature towns and action figures, just seeing how the water washed them away and submerged everything 😆
@@ERPP8 tbh I don't mind the cameras on all different angles if it would at least only cut to specific angle when something interesting that's best visible from there is happening. This vid had a ton of cuts to just the exterior of the wall with nothing going on. The only really interesting thing that ends up happening at that angle is the central outer walls falling in, which wouldn't have shown up in the cross section. But that's about it.
RIP Lego man. It's always sad to see somebody lose their life. I thought he was going to be able to escape but unfortunately he got stuck on the ladder
This also shows, that a dam may hold a very large storm-surge at first, without showing any signs of damage, but may fail on a much smaller storm a week later due to being still saturated. Especially prone to happen with peat-dams witch are still around from the late middle-ages (Europe)
Suggestion, instead of having everything at a level, have the ground in front if the dam angled away or mimic a river bed allowing the water to flow away. Having the water pool in in front of the dam would effect the behavior of the water and the pressures on the dam. There was something disturbing about the little Lego guys drowning.
That first dude floating around face down dead had me laughing. The little men in these videos getting swept away to their deaths is extremely satisfying
Poor Timmy was the first to see all this happening. Didn’t even try to warn the others. Or even get back up and save his own life. He just accepted his fate!
You can't rapidly hydrate sand and expect it to maintain any sense of structural integrity. The slope and foundation slide was almost instantaneous. Do it again, but instead of dry sand, use moist topsoil. Give those Lego workers at least some shot at survival.
When it comes to dam building with lego men....it's never best to go with the lowest bidder on this kind of project. RIP to all the lego families who lost loved ones in this video.
I don’t know if you’ve already done this, but it would be cool if you compared materials for bricks. Like plastic, wood, rubber, etc. Just an idea. Love your vids man! Keep up the great work!
F for ladder guy at beginning who died from not having a spotter. Spotter could have stabilized latter long enough to evacuate or at least try to his head above water
It's actually pretty harrowing to imagine the figures as people. Starts off with the guy on the ladder falling off and breaking his neck, then at 7:47, by the time the foreman realizes he should run, the water's rinsed half a ton of sand over his legs, and the rest of it a moment later; giving him just long enough for him to realize how he's going to die... This is the kind of thing you'd see on the news for a week afterwards and have a video on it by "Plainly Difficult" the following Saturday.
It ripped my heart out to see those two men embrace in their final few moments as their tiny air pocket rapidly vanished. It's sobering to think of the terror they must have experienced. At least they had each other down there in the dark.
Wow.. You brought me to tears :)
.. . alone, in the dark , with 10k feet of water between us , . . . "knew it was a one way ticket " ( The Abyss ) :)
So sad. Life will go on as they say. Their memories will live on in their children.
You brought me to tears but I’m trying to hold them back I just can’t with this life Changing comment 🥲🥹🥹
Rip those brave men
10:20 Inspiring. Even as lego men, they still dont give up and help eachother as much as they can and sit their final moments in their last air bubble. *Truly* inspiring
I hope someday LEGO will release a special series in their honor..
i named one with the white hard hat his name is Mr Tuts and the one with the shovel is Mr David
its hard for me to watch these sometimes because i get so emotionally invested in the stories of the workers and their relationships as they meet their end
I cried when the ladder fell
The lifeless lego bodies floating really tugs at my heart.
For me it was at 16:27 when that poor lego guy got crushed by debris and drowned in mud ):
Unsure if serious comments, or...
8:35 watching your friends drown
Imagine being that one Lego guy up top on the outside, slowly seeing the water rising, and the lifeless floating corpse of your coworker swirling in the current. You know you're going to be one of the last Lego people alive as the water swallows the people inside as well.
This video has no business being this tense and heart-wrenching.
LOL
L for them
I didn't sleep for two weeks after this drama..
Note to future dambuilders: ensure that you have strong internal ladders incorporated in all your projects to hold up the masonry blocks when things get soggy!
@@Stevie-J at least long enough for a couple battles to be fought over it
Using clay instead of loose sand will help a lot too lol
Further note to legomen dam builders. Employ a Lego woman. She will tell you to add cement & gravel to your sand. That'll solidify things up no end. She can then choose some nice wallpaper for those subterranean caverns.
But the foundation is weak the ladders may fall
@@ferronzomeren2733 it depends on type of clay. The silty one, with very fine particules and high salt content are strong as long as the original mix is contained. Here water will dissolve the salt and the bond will quickly turn in liquid soup. They got good landslides in Norway for that reason. Pour that clay in a glass. It´s quite sticky and strong. Mix it with a spoon it turn just like water. Add a bit of salt in that liquid, stir it and it turns back real strong.
But clay is less porous than salt you´re right about it.
The dam actually worked.
Dams are meant to hold bodies of water and to prevent massive flooding at once. Even though it breached, it was minimal damage and water leakage, and the wall stood its place even after a few bricks fell. Meaning, in a real life situation- it would have saved countless lives and damage, as it would allow for more time for evacuations to take place since the breach was small.
Most of the workers drowned! This was a disaster
I agree
@@iron54eagle Let's not forget they also had time to evac...only Lego figures can't run for themselves ;)
...and produce hydroelectric power in some cases.
@acheronchip the dam got demolished by the water, on second flood so it didn’t really worked.
An evocative story. A cinematic masterpiece. Why do I care so much about these toys and their tiny dam? Why did I gasp "oh no" when the little man fell off his little ladder and drowned? 🤷♀️😂
Rip john
Bruh, we're same 😭
I like spaghetti
@@deepmodelowrider2935 i like vicickularmanslaughter
@@deepmodelowrider2935 That is the most interesting thing I've learned today thank you for you're contribution.
Respect to all those lego people who sacrifice themselves to educate us.
They are real heroes!
That dead body floating by at 13:25 horrified me lol. On a serious note, I don't know why these videos started coming across my feed, but I do enjoy them. There's something addicting about it that I can't stop watching and I can definitely appreciate the time it takes to build and set up these little experiments.
I am very glad that you have joined me, my dear friend!
A MAN HAS FALLEN INTO THE RIVER IN LEGO CITY
Bro really said "vine boom sound effect"💀
All of the comments I've read, are not joking.
This was a story of hope, friendship, and darkness.
Truly, an inspiring piece of work, bravo my friend.
Wow.. Thank you very much!
this channel is awesome for when you're bored
edit; or high like the replies say
Yes I agree, and do you play gorilla tag, if so I also like the game.
Glad you think so my friend!
Yes
@@republicofluckteinburgpres1385 wrong place
@@gerneric454l08 its a question
This lego man at 13:25 was like "hello there"
Water looking at
At 15:57 I burst out crying. What a beautiful construction, deeply motivational story, heart gripping characters, and beautiful cinematography to bring this masterpiece all together in one amazing treat for the soul
I am so glad you like it, dear friend! :))
the guy that was trapped under the rubble 😭
Thank you men for your countless testing and sacrifices you have made, rest in peace kings
Wow.. :)
The structure held remarkably well. No catastrophic failures at all.
It was cool watching the sand wash away and fill it's self back in from top to bottom until the water pressure equalized
This documentary brought to you by National Geographic
The Lego City dam failure of 2003; how rushed construction, lack of training, budget cuts and cheap materials cost 5 workers their lives, and learn what we can do in the future to avoid these critical mistakes.
On the morning of February 12th, 2003, the Lego City dam collapsed shortly after construction was completed. As the reservoir was being filled, the dam quickly failed, trapping five workers inside. Search and rescue operations lasted for almost 48 hours, to no avail, the five crew members did not survive the collapse. What caused the collapse, and how did the crew members not escape?
Final plans for the dam came only a year after Octane Gas's main refinery shut down. The lost tax revenue left the city struggling to find it's infrastructure. The city lost nearly 200,000 studs a month as many of the workers at the refinery were now without jobs, and applied for unemployment. The dam began construction with cuts to it's budget. Rather than importing rock to fill the dam, the city found it best to fill the space with local soil, which was known to be very weak, and unable to support weight, as observed in the housing crisis over 10 years prior where an entire block of a neighborhood had to be abandoned after basement floods and movement of slabs and support beams.
Many of the new workers in the dam were laid off Octane workers, with little training in the management of a hydroelectric dam. The dam was constructed with only one exit at the top, violating the cities fire codes. This also made search and rescue operations more difficult for the firefighters trying to gain entry. Rescue operations arrived 2 hours after the incident as the helicopter needed on scene was rescuing a man who had fallen into the river as the reservoir was being filled.
The dam was constructed out of bricks with small empty areas running through, making the application of mortar difficult. The hallow space also allows for passage of water. Dam appropriate bricks were initially approved for the project, but after city budget cuts the board members settled on cheaper bricks.
"Dam personnel should not have been inside the dam during reservoir full", according to Dave Brickston, the attorney representing the family of Robert Piece, one of the five killed in the collapse.
With proper training and better spending future accidents can be avoided. Lessons learned aided in reconstruction of the City Dam in 2008, new jobs and generated power saved the city from bankruptcy during the recession.
I love this
Wow, this is a very cool description of the video, I enjoyed reading it, thank you very much my friend!!
" Le costo a la ciudad" ese leguaje pro estado si se puede ver yanki 😸😂😂😂
Dude just wrote a whole article 🗿
@@Ty-0813 the public needs to know about the lies of the establishment. Lego City deserves better
16:25 RIP to that lego worker who got absolutely crushed in the bottom right corner.
We will always remember the brave leggos that lost their lives trying to make the world a better place 🙏🏼 their leggo families will have a tough road ahead🥺 the engineers and construction managers should be investigated, we need to make sure nothing like this happens again👍🏻 the look of sheer terror on the red hard hat worker at the top of the ladder paints a grim picture of the events that transpired on that fateful day❤️
Yeah he almost escaped but the ladder trapped him in. I'd be looking at the beneficiary of the life insurance for clues.
@@Mythos190 omg, are you serious? What a relief 😌 I've been broken up for months, thank you, I can start rebuilding my life now❤️
0:43 - George (fell off the ladder and hit his head)
5:06 - Howard and Steve (drowned inside the working area)
6:43 - Charles (drowns as water rushes into his working area)
9:11 - John (drowns)
11:20 - Rick (drowns on ladder in work area)
15:58 - Joe (falls off the bricks and drowns)
16:26 - Rob (crushed by bricks and drowns)
RESULTS:
Survivors - 0
Deaths - 8 [as mentioned above]
Nice!!
7:02 Notice how fast it goes through the back barrier of sand. In other experiments I've seen, they lacked the multi layered structure. And it just suddenly and instantly has a complete landslide while looking perfectly fine from the outside.
So if an engineer tells you that water has gone past one barrier, take it seriously. This has the cute little internal flooding. But for all you know, the barrier they are talking about is the back wall of brick and everyhing could snap any second.
This is a very interesting note!
paused at 8:50 to see who's survived so far and got shocked at the worst 'death' so far.
First side of flood, 1 dead, 1 on ladder still alive (so far).
In tunnel, 3 dead, 1 on ladder still alive
on 2nd side, one dead...by being burried in sand up to head THEN drowned O.O
9:20 aaannnd the ladder is gone, guy stays alive until he faceplants forward into water and sand... guess he was exusted from holding on.
10:23 oh wait, there was 4, not 3, guys inside the tunnel. I couldn't see the 4th one until his body floated into the flooding chamber.
11:26 annnd there goes the last guy inside the tunnel, if only he wasn't petrified with fear, he could have climbed higher.
So far only the foreman, who was on top and outside of tunnel survived.
OF COURSE you would stop the experiment, drain, MOVE the foreman so he's now in a vulnerable position and then start the flooding again. ;)
TOTAL DEATH is the only acceptable result ... but hey I have to admit, the foreman has it coming, he just stood at that top while his men drowned.
Your writing is very cool, thank you!
Was looking for this commment😭😂
Guess you could say these guys have been damned… I’ll show myself out
Hahahaha
He got stuck under the ladder even if he tried to escape he couldnt
In theory, you could probably use some hair spray as a sealant to mimic the waterproofing full-scale builds use. You would have to be a bit picky for a non-water solvent one, but it would allow you to layer it on reasonably quickly and seal the gaps without too much issue in the main structure.
And also not use entirely sand. Even uncompacted clay is mor reaclistic than this crap which is all sand.
i'd use several layers of lacquer with a water proof shoe/coat spray. But i'm but a humble rural woodworker and no little about damn building.
@@Stevie-J its not ment to be experimental or scientific. just fun
yeah he could do that, but then the dam wouldn’t break and there would be no content
DUCT TAPE
Love how the lego worker tried to save his buddy at 10:20, while the first one still leisurely snorchels around😁
Noooo! As a LEGO minifigure, I find this extremely horrifying! If they only had some scuba diving minifigures... they could have been saved. Damn!
It would be cool to see this in a big city on a large scale, where even some kind of device will cause waves. (probably in the pool)
Ok, I will try!
This was basically my childhood & young life.. building things like this & blowing them up, burning, or flooding/drowning them. Like every great disaster epic :)
I really enjoyed this video thank you.
One suggestion though: 90% of the action took place from the side view and in my opinion that’s where most of the video should’ve been shown from.
Here to agree. After a quick wrap around before it starts, the cross section was the only view I was interested in. It was annoying that it kept cutting too quickly I’m trying to keep with the beat. Awesome vid tho
Just be a little more conservative with the cuts, and cut to something cool/interesting taking place
13:27 Hi how are you doing today
Hi :)
I love how in the first experiment the guy who fell off the ladder span in circles the whole time
Red hat guy's name is John, and the other's inside knew they were trapped and were urging him to go and save himself, but he just wouldn't give up on them. Dammit, John, why'd you have to go and be a hero? Your wife and lego son miss you.
Cool! :)
Yeah the facing does a lot to protect the dam, if the sand inside was a lot more compacted (maybe even put in while wet, you would of probably had a dam that would not have failed. Also its intresting you drained it and restarted it cause its intresting to see how a damaged dam handles more flooding and it went as well as I expected lmao.
I am very glad that you are really interested in my videos, thank you for watching!
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Or he could use wooden planks in construction (on little river in my village I am building dams from wood and other litter near it)and it works good
I see the main problem in all builds would be the stranslucent glass wall, because thats where it all starts, the first room flooded from exactly that spott, in reallity there would also be dranage pipes that would get rid of exes groundwaters, I understand this is not a 100 % accurate real life model, but if i where to make a model like this i would put silicone sealant where ever the structure touches that glass wall, cons - cleaning afterwards for another model... Non the less i still enyojed this demonstration
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Yeah compacting the sand would have strengthened the dam and slow the speed of water leaking in. Even with that the fact the “leak” was slow that it could be found and noticed before it got to a dangerous point to either evacuate or make repairs.
13:28
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If you scale the weight you also need to scale the sand. The weight of the dam is supposed to keep the sand compressed enough to make it harder for water to get into. This dam is basically made with 2-5cm pebbles.
Those workers are so committed to their job they stayed until the end.
RIP in peace
Lego workers
All this content is extremely mesmerizing and very informative. Your dedication to these creations is greatly admired!
I am very very glad to hear it my dear friend!
You should use wet sand to set everything and see how that does
Ok, I'll try
Dam. . . so brutal
But I thought it was sweet how the 2 embraced towards the end. My mom and I absolutely cracked up when the dude started shimmying up the ladder for air, and the dude in the blue hat floated right in front of the camera haha
Question: do you ever want to stop an experiment because you feel bad for the figures?
If I stop the experiment, they will be left without a salary and their families will starve ..
These demonstrations are very interesting, but I always shed a tear for the lego families of the workers.
Don't worry about them, they have a highly paid and interesting job :)
its cool here at 6:40 i believe that the design whether due to an oversight or intentionally, the structure created a siphon. Which is cool AF to see start tbh
Glad you think so!
@@KingOfDams yeah, youre basically doing what i couldnt get away with as a kid (onless it was like, in a natural water stream)
, making a youtube channel out of it.
Respect to the one who died saving his friend . Their corpses remained entwined until the end .
I saved them later! :)
And also it was really cool when the water was coming in from the roof! It gave me titanic grand staircase vibes!
I am glad you like it :)
The death of the first legoman was brutal! He jumped from the ladder and his head smacked with a rock killing him instantly
He survived! :)
Really cool but you should get a longer tank or add some kind of drain to the other side so that you get that catastrophic failure on the first go. Both sides filling up kinda create equilibrium
RIP those legos, they are the true hero here.
Agree with you!
This video is an amazing way to teach people about the importance of knowing how to build something near water in a safe way. It is also a good class to young people who want to have their own houses and private spaces.
Absolutely agree with you.
My wish: fewer angles from above and more angles from the side, or a double screen. When viewed from the side, something is constantly happening, I even have to pause. When viewed from above, almost nothing happens, I have to rewind. And another thing: here you need a drain hole (and it's better to remove one wall) so that the dam break does not turn into a pool. Then the dams will collapse in a completely different way, more spectacular and believable. Tnx.
If the intention is to not flood, for science, vs flood, for scientific curiosity. Then you should have the red facing completely separate the sand at the base.
From a content perspective its quite riveting to watch, especially with legos.
I absolutely agree with you
@@KingOfDams omg
@@KingOfDams omg
@@Benneth12 omg
@@Benneth12 omg
I am the only one that likes to give the lego mans voises
No :)
The part at 11:15 when the 2 Lego men held each other as they drowned was phenomenal 👏
Glad you like it :)
Remember watching these when I was younger, brings back memories
That's very interesting. The sand shrinks as it gets wet, leaving the top unsupported. If there were some kind of foam, rubber, or even a spring loaded foundation, it could prevent that damage.
Edit: I think foam that expands when wet would work best. That way, as the leak moves through the bricks, the foam would expand, push the water back out, and seal the cracks with the expanding foam, as well. The worse the leak, the more the foam expands and then hardens as it dries.
This is very interesting, I will think about it
@@KingOfDams just remember me if the idea turns into a multi million dollar renovation for dams, lol!
@@KingOfDams we could be the flexseal of dams....think about it!
Iceberg: This is what you get for melting me.
Hahaha :)
May all the Lego men who lost their lives so we could learn more about sand dam building .....RIP
They sacrificed themselves for our future!
I don't know why TH-cam recommended this but I am enthralled by the peril of the LEGO people
Welcome aboard! :)
Those poor lego workers stuck inside the dam, really heartbreaking.
Drama..
Interesting video! When looking at the side views, I noticed that you used some type of white putty or sealant on the middle edges of the dam. I wonder if the dam would hold up better if you also used it to seal the front portion of the dam? The bricks can't seal flush with the wall, and it seemed like a lot of water was able to make its way through by just squeezing through the sides
Thank you! I almost never use mortar for bricks, I imagine that my dams have stood for a long time and the mortar has already dissolved in water
Just keep in mind that most of the water is going in from the side! Next time put glue or something on the side so you can see the full potential of your dam! Amazing video!
Glue is not gonna work, it cant be dried fast enough lets say this was a new dam and this instantly happens lets say 1 day after theyre just putting the glue the glue is not waterproof
Thanks. Nice video. The side view was the most interesting view and the cutaways were frustrating. Could you do a split screen version so that the side view is always visible?
While most of the dam workers were crushed or drowned in the line of duty, surprisingly, the first worker inside the tunnel simply died the instant he touched water, and began floating even though he had plenty of air to breathe. It turns out, he's deathly allergic to water.
Sand does not compact very well, nor does it cling together. I think this a great demonstration why real dams should avoid sand.
You are right!
Thank you. This was unsettling and entertaining.
I am very glad you think so!
The main problem here is that even if the dam could hold the water could still flow through the gaps between the bricks and the glass, as well as some spaces between the bricks, i think a way to fix this would be to use waterproof glue or a sealing material to put in between the gaps
It is meant to get through
Yeah im pretty sure the whole point of this is to demonstrate how the dam fails after a breech
Seems Like this Dam Had a few a few structural flaws which ended up costing alot of workers their lives.
Agree with you :(
That guy hanging onto the brick was holding on for DEAR LIFE
That hug of the two lego guys was so *dam*-n perfect..
I agree with you xD
For a better simulation of a dammed up river, you should have drainage on the right (lower) side simulate the water going down the dry river bed. Now it filled up quicker on the right side than it drained from the left side. It would probably have resulted in more damage in only one go.
The key to earthen dams is to pack the sand to prevent seepage, get a rolling pin and work it across the sand as you build it into the dam, you may need something to hold the structure together while doing this such as wooden blocks, afterwards remove the blocks and replace them with unpacked sand and add the bricks, the resultant dam should be much stronger.
It’s truly tragic that that one guy managed to live thru being buried alive and almost drowned, only to be crushed by a ton of bricks
And his insurance ran out two days before the flood..
Respect to all those Lego men who lost their lives in these experiments. Their contributions to society will never be forgotten 😭😭
I hope Lego will release a new series in their honor!
Deaths:
Gerald: Fell off ladder breaking his neck
Dan: Drowned with Ian
Ian: Drowned with Bob
Thomas: Drowned while trapped under ladder
Ryan: Trapped under sand and water flow
Ashton: Drowned after desperately trying to climb up the dam before it collapses
Don: Drowned after being stuck on a ladder
Alan: Fell off tower
Terrible..
Make a Dam where they have a chance poor lil guys:(
I've been trying to do this for 4 years now :(
Try sticking a straw through the dam so that the structure can control the water level without pressure building up into a catastrophic failure.
I would've loved this as a kid! I had a weird interest in flooding buckets and my parts of my yard with miniature towns and action figures, just seeing how the water washed them away and submerged everything 😆
Every time the cross-section is getting good it cuts back to the outside
Agreed, I found myself increasingly irritated by the cuts. Very cool video but I sure wish it had just stayed on cross section.
Also why does there need to be 4 cross section cameras right next to each other?
@@ERPP8 tbh I don't mind the cameras on all different angles if it would at least only cut to specific angle when something interesting that's best visible from there is happening. This vid had a ton of cuts to just the exterior of the wall with nothing going on. The only really interesting thing that ends up happening at that angle is the central outer walls falling in, which wouldn't have shown up in the cross section. But that's about it.
I can't believe the guy just sat there on the ladder the entire time and watched all those workers drown.
He wanted to take their insurance money for himself..
RIP Lego man. It's always sad to see somebody lose their life.
I thought he was going to be able to escape but unfortunately he got stuck on the ladder
It's his own fault for eating a lot of fast food...
This also shows, that a dam may hold a very large storm-surge at first, without showing any signs of damage, but may fail on a much smaller storm a week later due to being still saturated. Especially prone to happen with peat-dams witch are still around from the late middle-ages (Europe)
Suggestion, instead of having everything at a level, have the ground in front if the dam angled away or mimic a river bed allowing the water to flow away.
Having the water pool in in front of the dam would effect the behavior of the water and the pressures on the dam.
There was something disturbing about the little Lego guys drowning.
RIP to the brave Lego Men we lost, gone but not forgotten.
They suffered in the name of science!
That first dude floating around face down dead had me laughing. The little men in these videos getting swept away to their deaths is extremely satisfying
I am glad you like it :)
Respect to the lego men who gave there lives for this
They gave their lives for science!
Poor Timmy was the first to see all this happening. Didn’t even try to warn the others. Or even get back up and save his own life. He just accepted his fate!
So dramatic...
I LOVE YOUR PASSION FOR DAMS AND EXPERIMENTS.
Thank you so much for continuing to watch my videos my friend!
Use wet sand to build the model and let it dry naturally before putting the water in, it will make the structure less loosen.
I did this, but the dam collapses when the sand dries
When the ladder fell 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Deffo going in my next top 10 anime betrayals compilation 😭
Hahaha :)
Damn son you must really like dams if you have a whole channel around them.
Ohh yes..:)
You can't rapidly hydrate sand and expect it to maintain any sense of structural integrity. The slope and foundation slide was almost instantaneous. Do it again, but instead of dry sand, use moist topsoil. Give those Lego workers at least some shot at survival.
Ok, I'll try! Thank you for tip!
Oh! And the drowned guy floating by the camera! Classic!!
I am glad you like it :)
Rest in peace, my little Lego buddies
They survived :)
RIP to the guy that fell off the ladder at the very start, he never even had a chance
When it comes to dam building with lego men....it's never best to go with the lowest bidder on this kind of project.
RIP to all the lego families who lost loved ones in this video.
Absolutely agree with you!
RIP to Lego guy who died doing what he loved.
He survived, I checked :)
I don’t know if you’ve already done this, but it would be cool if you compared materials for bricks. Like plastic, wood, rubber, etc. Just an idea. Love your vids man! Keep up the great work!
Cool idea, my friend! Thank you very much!
I didn’t know I would spend 17 minutes of my life watching this and not click off
That plot twist with the lego man on the ladder on the inside watching everyone drown. So diabolical!
I think the flood is his plan..
F for ladder guy at beginning who died from not having a spotter. Spotter could have stabilized latter long enough to evacuate or at least try to his head above water
The second that man fell off the ladder, they probably knew their inescapable fate. Why do lego men have such tragic stories?
Such is their fate..
Rip to all the lego workers who died for this video
They survived, you will see them in the next video :)
It's actually pretty harrowing to imagine the figures as people. Starts off with the guy on the ladder falling off and breaking his neck, then at 7:47, by the time the foreman realizes he should run, the water's rinsed half a ton of sand over his legs, and the rest of it a moment later; giving him just long enough for him to realize how he's going to die...
This is the kind of thing you'd see on the news for a week afterwards and have a video on it by "Plainly Difficult" the following Saturday.
Ohh.. So dramatic..
I love how when the ground around them gets wet the lego people just quit on life.
They survived!
This is a representation of why it's so hard building basements at sea level.
Yes, you are right..