A VERY rare treat! I'm Rhodesian & never got to experience the gates open.

@livingthings5161

Жыл бұрын

I don’t see Rhodesia on the map

@Matt-rq3bu

4 ай бұрын

@@livingthings5161 But in the heart.

@Promwan6661-

28 күн бұрын

​@@livingthings5161Rhodesia turned into zimbabwe

2:10 I would be terrified there :/

I was in Kariba in the late seventies and early eighties. There was a drought so the sluice gates were never opened. Also, because of the war, I was not able to go on the wall itself either. The people in this video are very, very lucky!

best dam video i ever did see

Great video, this explains why the plunge pool needs fixing, after nearly half a century of brut force pounding on that foundation

The spillway pool is so deep(90 meters, 300ft) that the dam can collapse over itself because the pit reached dam's base, spillway is too powerful for the rocks just under.

@shaibannatha795

6 жыл бұрын

Lucas Pittol da Silva True

@islamicschoolofmemestudies

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly, although this seems to be one of the most magnificent engineering pieces in africa, the Kariba dam had a fatal flaw. The stream could've instead directed a little bit lower to avoid depthning the already deep spilway pool. Kariba dam wouldn't go down due to wall fracture albeit old age or dam concrete exhaustion, but instead it will go down because of that spilway pool.

@jackholman5008

7 ай бұрын

​@@islamicschoolofmemestudiesthanks to Italian engineers

The dam wall is 480 ft high.(144m)This outflow has eroded a pothole 90m deep below the dam wall, & soft strata are threatening to undermine it. I worked as a diver on the first repairs in 1969. The hole was then 230 ft (69m) deep.We performed dentistry at 180ft. The hole worn by the water had smooth vertical sides. The softer rock layer at this level was being eaten away, & it left a cave mouth about 2m high, tapering down to .5m at the back, which was about about12m from the mouth. We built a cement bag wall, back-filled the cave with rocks, & pumped cement into the space to make the fillings. There was quite a bit of hysteria about a potential collapse, fueled by the fact that a dam in Italy which had been designed by Kariba's architect? had recently had a catastrophic overflow. There is now a project underway to re-build the pool.

@platvis379

6 жыл бұрын

Ant Hay-Buchanan We did exactly that to. Repaired a number of caves at 45m of water. Some small and others very big. Also with sandbag walls, then rock and then grouting.

@donravenscroft398

4 жыл бұрын

In 1957 when the the dam was in the early days of construction my Family travelled from Mufulira and stopped on the Dam wall. I still have the home movies my Dad took of my three brothers and myself taken standing together on the middle of the dam wall all dressed in red shirts and grey shorts. My Mom used to make our clothes and we all had the same. You can see the coffer dam and the heavy duty trucks moving around. Wish I could load onto tube.

@gregorymalchuk272

3 жыл бұрын

@@donravenscroft398 Please post those home movies!

Mind boggling power

Wow,wish i was thre

Good clip thanks

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What the soviets did to the Aral Sea is considered the worst environmental disaster in human history but if this dam ever breaks it will undoubtedly be at the top of the list as the worst environmental disaster ever

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2:10 Hhaaaaaaaaaaahh

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That's a lot of dam water.

My father was on the team that built Kariba, after the Italians screwed it up!

@mosesbullrush8051

9 жыл бұрын

***** lol Houghton actually believed his fathers' bullshit.

@jamesdevilliers3560

8 жыл бұрын

+Moses Bullrush and now? since the knowledge has been kicked out, there is a danger that it will collapse. Go pack some mud in the cracks old chap

@drmic3401

4 жыл бұрын

@Jerry C The Italians built phase 1 and delivered a month ahead of schedule and 3% below the price. The second phase 20 years later was delivered by UK's Mitchell Construction and had a 2.5x cost overrun. Source: The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, edited by Bent Flyvbjerg (2017). You can read the relevant pages for free through google books.

@drmic3401

4 жыл бұрын

The Italians delivered phase 1 (the dam and the first generators cavern) in 1960 on time and on budget. Your father must have worked on phase 2 (Kariba North Power Station) in the 70s, which was finally completed by a Yugoslavian contractor at the cost of 2.5x the original price after the collapse of UK's Mitchell Construction who had underbid the Italians and the Yougoslavians by almost half. Did you father work by any chance for the engineering consultants, another big UK name, which were alleged to have misrepresented to Mitchell the quality of the rock as much better than it was? Source: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Report No. P-1380a-ZA. You can google it.

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Leave it to the Italians to design a dam that dumps huge masses of water from the spillway straight down onto the bedrock footings of the dam itself. I'd swear that dam was built by Fiat or Alfa.

@drmic3401

4 жыл бұрын

They built the design they were given. Besides, plunge scour is nothing special to Kariba, nothing works forever without maintenance.

This is fake katiba dam is found in zambia not Zimbabwe stop fooling people

@ivykashukwemangenda9270

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@munesumangava9751

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah right!!! And I'm from Mars

@takudzwaronaldorunoinda2648

Жыл бұрын

yes katiba dam is in zambia but we are talking about Kariba here which is shared by Zim and zambia

Looks like a video of a video. Thumbs down.

@frogmanant

6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video showing the power of the water.10 thumbs up for informative & educational value.