American Reacts to The North Sea!

hey y'all welcome to the channel today we're checking out the North Sea explained what is that in the northeast of the Atlantic Ocean Bound by the island of Great Britain the Norwegian Coast Denmark's uland and the coasts of Germany the Netherlands Belgium and France lies the North Sea home to Northern Europe's most busiest trade routes historic battlefields and they source of economic success this marginal sea is full of geographical anomalies Treasures buried deep under the seaf Flor and they convoluted history which has shaped the European nations for thousands of years in this video we'll dive deep into all of these aspects and uncover what makes the North Sea so special yeah I don't really know much about the North Sea it is in a place where people have been doing people stuff for a long time I can only imagine all the battles that have happened there I mean between England and France and Germany Denmark Norway lot going on there I've always heard that it's uh really cold and rough seas and apparently it has oil what are youall going to do with that oil chapter 1 geography of the North Sea okay just east of the channel tunnel at the inconspicuous leather coat point in England and the waly lighthouse in France the almost mythical North Sea starts to spread out for over half a million square kilm or 220 Square mil across the flat European continental shelf over this vast area the North Sea has a diverse perimetry meaning the Topography of the seabed and Coastal Landscapes range from dramatic FS over towering Dunes to mud flats and chocolate leather coat Point show me on a map leather coat Point wow it looks like there's not a whole lot there aren't even photos if I drop a pen here what does it look like oh okay oh oh okay oh it's a big Cliff okay can you see France from there looks like there's something back there oh it's a ship oh look at that wow I've oh who's this person oh God hippies are everywhere I've heard that the Romans could see the Cliffs of do across the channel and it's what made them want to Let's uh check out the French side if I drop a in here what's it look like oh they got oh look at that razor wire fences H interesting that looks very manicured interesting and Coastal Landscapes range from dramatic FS over towering Dunes to Mudflats and chocolates what is a f y is that how you spell it oh it's the name of a post hardcore German band what one does it mean oh Fjord with a d a narrow inlet of the sea between Cliffs okay all right the first section of the North Sea is the southern bite it is characterized by its enormous Marine trap connecting England and Central Europe with the rest of the world four of the largest ports of Europe exit into the southern bite with the ports of rdam and Anor being the largest and second largest ports by annual cargo tonnage of the entire continent following the Dutch Coast northeastwards we arrive at the fian front a 450 km long archipelago with flat and Sandy Dune IDs stretching all along the German bite grezy in front what does it look like on the ground right yes let's drop a pin here a it looks very similar to the British side doesn't it I mean it's probably the same temperate zone and all that stuff some houses over there oh wow those are very Dutch looking houses with the roofs cool oh about 12,000 years ago during the last glacial maximum the sea level lays about 60 M or 200 ft below today levels oh wow a dense network of towering Dunes covered the depression in front of Germany's Coast with rising sea levels the water eventually broke through the natural dkes in several locations flooding the area behind it and leaving a series of islands as remnants of the once dry land huh these islands give shelter to the Mudflats called the Wen sea which spreads along the Dutch German and danish Coastline the region is considered an intertial Zone meaning that it is flooded during High Tides but exposed by the retreating Waters during every tidle cycle these patterns have created one of the most diverse ecosystems in northern Europe with hundreds of thousands of geese ducks Waters seagulls and herons praying on small Inver vertebrae and fish so they're like mud flaps mud mud flats all along here yeah H so sometimes there's like land here and sometimes it's mud drop a pin I mean it's a little town this looks like a British town to me other than the roofs the houses are slightly different but it looks in Johanson northernmost point of Germany what is this wait so that's Germany this is something different Rome bilron ah there we go people partying out that's a huge beach isn't it I mean I guess that's the mud flats Maybe the water comes up higher interesting anyway moving on tell me more continuing from the sendy beaches of uland the scenery drastically changes once we cross the skagerak the straight connecting the North to the Baltic Sea instead of lush Dunes we are greeted by a rocky Coastline dominated by small islands and narrow inlets we got to see a picture of it just show us that so this is you uland jetland it's just check this out oh yeah there's a lot of little Islands let's drop a pin here oh wow yeah oh very Rocky snowy wow lots of little islands like that very cool very Scenic that's all that that's crazy Hills and then mountains creating the fascinating F landscape of Norway sheer Cliffs of hundreds of meters plunging into salmon fil trenches are already hinting at these Seascape that lies just before the fs stretching from Oslo to Bergen the up to 700 M or 2,300 ft deep Norwegian trench marks the deepest point of the North Sea which geologists assume used to act as a highway for glacial ice masses that were pushed from the Scandinavian Mainland along the shore glacial land masses that's a long time ago huh where are we here so it's over here that it's super deep right what happens when we get over to Bergen what is that all about they have an airport there are little roads that run through all these FS let's drop a pin on this bridge beautiful wow very cool is there a restaurant here there's a restaurant here gles Cafe a catering okay the world oh sculptures let's drop a pin on this ah old people boating it's like Florida what are you eating oh little salad it's like a probably some salmon yeah it's got a nice sleeves on both arms homosexuals are accepted over there that's good what all these people waiting for old people are just sitting around next to the water I hope I make it to that age where I can just sit around next to the water you know now wonder can I check out these islands guess not there's so many islands gosh somebody has to keep track of them all probably some nerdy professor at a college wow the landscape is so interesting there's all these rocks popping up look at that wow beautiful beautiful sorry to digress but moving on the trench eventually leads to the deeper waters of the Norwegian sea which is separated from the North Sea by the 61st de North to the West the chatland and orne islands of Scotland continue the boundary of the North Sea and similarly to the Norwegian Shore the coastal RS are rugged and mountainous the seabed in front of the Scottish and English coasts is scattered with several sandbanks and trenches which deviate in depth from just a few meters on the banks to over 450 M or 1,500 ft at the deepest points around Devil's Hole many of these trenches are believed to have been eroded riverbeds during previous ice ages while the sandbanks used to be more rains meaning an accumulation of debris collected by glaciers moving over the surface okay the the last significant bimetric feature of the North Sea before returning to the English Channel is the dogger Bank a massive sand Bank bending over 260 by 100 km across the southwestern part of the North Sea that's gigantic with the shallows bits only laying 50 m or 50 ft under the sea level the sandbank is one of the most productive marine life habitats and has been exploited as such for hundreds of years for equally as long the dogger bank and practically the entire North Sea have been a Battleground for European powers ever since the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 CE countless Wars have been fought on its Waters and trade routes have connected the people of Northern Europe bringing us to chapter 2 so the dogger Bank it must have so much life because of the water pressure dogger bank is a large sand Bank in a shallow area of the North Sea during the last ice age the bank was part of a large land mass connecting Mainland Europe and the British Isles now known as dog land it has long been known by fishermen to be a productive fishing Bank it was named after the Doggers medieval Dutch fishing boats especially used for catching Cod at the beginning of the 21st century oh the UK might put a wind farm there wow there there's some battles there there's two battles of dogger Bank One in 1696 one in 1781 the dogger Bank in incident I guess that's what the video is going to tell us next in the history that's a giant area 161 miles crazy for thousands of years the North Sea has connected and divided the many nations around it and the sea has often played a pivotal role in the wars of the continent as early as the Roman Empire when Southern Britain was formerly invaded by Emperor Claudius ports and trade routes were set up spanning from the European Mainland to Southern Britain for the following centuries there has been a reoccurring connection between who held Naval Supremacy over the North Sea and who was the dominating Regional power of Northern Europe okay after the collapse of the Roman Empire the Vikings were the next dominating Force taming the North Sea with their slim and agile roaring boats and extending their reach to anything accessible by boat okay so he's saying whoever controls the North Sea controls Europe makes sense so these are where the Vikings attacked so in the 8th Century Norway and Sweden I guess and 9th century it's a long time it's 100 years apart the 10th century over Eastern Europe and then 11th century Britain or Wales wow in response to these Scandinavians plundering Villages and ports across the North and Baltic Sea even protruding up the massive rivers of Central Europe Merchant guils in Northern Germany started cooperating in their trade bitions and organized protected trading ports and trade routes along the Seas the exact origins of the htic leak are not known since there was not a single event leading to its establishment instead the network of merch simply continued growing over the centuries finding new allies in various trading ports and eventually covering most coastal cities in Northern Germany the Netherlands and today's Belgium during the climax of The htic leag their influence reached from London to the Russian noot and their political and economic influence rivaled those of contemporary Nations technological advances in ship building and navigation led to the Dutch and later the British becoming Oceanic seaf firing Nations gradually overtake the hanic League's significance in the North Sea and setting the foundation for their respective Global Empires by the end of the 17th century the British achieved Naval Supremacy over European Waters including the North Sea which has stayed this way until the 20th century the North Sea was moved into the spotlight once again during the world wars where it presented a weak spot for the German war effort since it was the only Oceanic Supply Route they shift from Naval battles to a blockade strategy the allies managed to severely hinder German supply lines in both Wars having a significant impact on the outcome of the war with smart we did it y'all it is crazy to think about how the Dutch were so powerful for in in trade for a long time but when you look at it like this in terms of the North Sea and trading routes they're right in the middle of it it makes sense they have all that Coastline a lot of places to store boats makes sense I get it that's so much land I mean vast distances of all these coastlines and all these tiny little islands and rivers that go deep into that's wow never really thought of it like that I didn't think the Vikings were going to Inland Inland areas Through Rivers you know don't really think about that with the end of the second world war the North Sea transitioned into a new era and for the first time since civilization sped around its Shores all constituting nations were part of these same Alliance the NATO this new has brought with it a dramatic shift from seeing the North Sea as a strategic military aspect to it being first and foremost a vessel for trade communication and economic development this development was even more accelerated when a black and sticky treasure was first discovered lurking under the seet cheers to Nato we did it we're doing it Russia bringing us to chapter 3 oil in the North Sea postwar Western Europe saw a dramatic cultural shift with rapid reindustrialization increased consumerism and the rise of the private automobile which created a never-ending thirst for oil the very sparse domestic Productions in the UK and some parts of Germany weren't even close to keeping up with these needs and Western Europe quickly became heavily reliant on oil imports from the Middle East this Dynamic however completely shifted when the Netherlands stuck natural gas at the honing and gas field in 1959 in the northeast of the country the reservoir at the depth of around 3,000 m or 10,000 ft sparked the interest of many northern European countries since it meant that there is the possibility for further fossil fuel discoveries on the continental shelf especially Norway what year was that what year was that grown engine gas field the gr gas Fields is natural gase largest natural gas field in Europe and one of the largest in the world the gas field was discovered in 1959 okay that long ago relatively this is natural gas not oil initially it was expected that nuclear energy would eventually replace the use of natural gas it is not yet the first earthquake induced by a Dutch natural gas field occurred in 1986 so taking that gas out of there is making the ground go crazy so this is a monument called the gas molecule this is a monument I guess that's the hole in the ground that they dug okay all right yeah especially Norway and the UK the two countries with the largest e in the North Sea started extensive exploration campaigns drilling hundreds of holes during the following years it took Norway over 200 attempts at various locations across the North Sea but in 1969 the fate of this rather insignificant Nation changed forever almost at the center of the North Sea where the EZ of Norway the UK the Netherlands Germany and Denmark meet Norway discovered one of the largest oil reserves of the North Sea called the Fisk oil field seems like it's this turned Norway from a simple fish and timber-based economy to one of the largest and richest oil producers in the world really the UK quickly followed suit in their discoveries in the 30 years following the installation of the first drilling platforms production has skyrocketed and Norway has quickly achieved one of the highest oil production rates per capita in the world bringing incredible wealth and prosperity to the nation the oil gas hasn't always been a fairy tale for the people working of many disasters across the past 60 years have cost the lives of hundreds of workers from explosions of oil rakes like the piper Alpha which took 165 lives in 1988 to storms and rogue waves catching the platforms the North Sea can be a very threatening place while the shallow depth may seem like an advantage at First Sight the interplay between the shallow depth strong tides and Storm surges that rush into the North Sea from the Atlantic amplify storm waves creating a very hazardous environment can you imagine trying to drill an oil well and build an oil platform with those waves like that how do you do that like that's a feet my God that's more of a feat than probably the Eiffel Tower or the Statue of Liberty also the fossil fuels in the North Sea are not endless and as we all know they are not replenishable on a human time scale true since the beginning of the extraction it is approximated that 60 to 80% of all EX accessible oil has been taken from the rock the yep you know it's just dead dinosaurs and there aren't any more dead dinosaurs we're eventually going to run out of dead dinosaurs unless Jurassic Park happens for real let's get to work on that scientists the combination of these factors which make oil extraction more costly combined with a rising Consciousness about the abysal impacts of fossil fuels on our climate is leading to an inevitable decline in production capacity since the turn of the Millennium okay with the oil and gas era coming to an end in the North Sea the next industry is already on the rise trying to take its spot year by year new wind parks are popping up in front of the shores of the North Sea countries a new Mega projects on the dogger bank and the horn sea zone are underway guaranteeing A continuing rapid growth of the industry and once again having the North Sea Supply Europe with energy interesting uh yeah I guess lots of high winds you would want to put a wind farm there what's the top wind speed analysis of wind speed observations in the North Coast oh this is a scientific journal I'm not going to read all that here we go Google Groups I'm curious about North Sea wave heights generated by North Sea wind apparently 142 mph has been recorded highest wave recorded was in 1995 85 ft Crest to trough 85 ft wave that'll kill you it's hard to visualize that now uh is 85 ft like show me 10 things that are about 85 ft okay great half as tall as Nelson's column I don't know what that is length between baseball bases okay 4.2 times the elevation of Niagara Falls four Niagara fses a dread naus scan I don't know what that is never seen one a person the width of Noah's Arc how do we know what the width of Noah's AR like oh well I guess from the Bible they say right that's 85 ft I've never been there unisco headquarters okay it's as tall as a 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 story building this is great though wind farms in the North Sea seems like a smart thing very interesting video I know it's a little boring if you made it this far I want to say thank you and uh thank you for watching this boring video with me and I'll see you next time later

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Keywords: American Reacts, North Sea, Ocean Exploration, Maritime Adventure, Coastal Beauty, Seafaring History, Marine Life, Ocean Wildlife, Coastal Communities, North Sea Coast, North Sea Islands, North Sea Fisheries, North Sea Culture, North Sea Ecosystem, North Sea Travel, North Sea Discoveries, North Sea Wonders, North Sea Ecology, North Sea Conservation, British Culture, Europe, North Sea Battles, Doggerland, Wind Farms, Denmark, Norway, England, Vikings, Germany, Sweden, Fjord

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Length: 20min 26sec (1226 seconds)

Published: Wed May 15 2024