The evaporating Mediterranean Sea - BBC

[95fabiswa]

LOL the cloud at 0:09 looks like Ireland!

[Kelly14UK]

What? So next time I go to Malta, where my Mum comes from, I can stand at the Dingli Cliffs, look out to Africa and imagine a sea of SAND? Cool. Cos the Great Whites nurse their young below those cliffs.

[jjclassjj]

brilliant video

[CWCandMRSAFETYRULES]

how come the mediterranian sea evaporates from being cut off from the ocean, but big lakes dont?

[Yeuxvert]

@CWCandMRSAFETYRULES Some lakes do. Check out the Aral Sea in central Asia. Also, the Great Salt Lake in Utah was, thousands of years ago during the last Ice Age, a much larger, fresh water lake dubbed Lake Bonneville. The Dead Sea is shrinking as more and more water is diverted from the Jordan River. In California, the Salton Sea is evaporating and has filled and dried out several times, and Owens Lake evaporated after the Owens River was diverted to supply water for Los Angeles.

[CWCandMRSAFETYRULES]

@Yeuxvert hmm, interesting facts! thanks :)

[jessyjessy4]

good work here

[prchecker]

you have some great stuff here

[thegeffc]

Very enjoyable thank you

[bribribri56]

love the video man

[bryonlape]

All the rivers that keep the med dried up too? Water from the Black Sea? Did that stop too?

[Urisihapai]

I love irish/scottish announcers.

[Nacke3000]

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[antho3001]

@Nacke3000 remember when you paid an anual fee to enter youtube? no? well you will miss the ads when you have to pay por youtube

[atheer2002]

wow..

[levent1234]

that should happen again. we need more land. no no just a joke :)

[712maggot]

Screw salt... were are the atlantis?

[MrJohne21]

OH NO IF THAT HAPPENDS THEN CYPRUS WILL BE LAND LOCKED!!!!

[MrJohne21]

im from the mederteranean island of cyprus and we neva had da problems but maybe it will

[MultiGakka]

can't be millions of years if there are salt statues there...

[epicxbonejordak]

@Spancho91 soon it will be hail to the ginger king

[Boogyman4050]

That's great they got all that salt. One day we WILL need to dump ALL of that into the mid Atlantic zone during the next desalinization process of the mid current, due to polar ice caps melting and fresh water intake. If not, Europe is gonna turn into an ice cube.

[kebabrullemums]

BBC are masters at propaganda

[Furellus]

@kebabrullemums In what they are trying to convince you? If you don't believe it just don't comment and go on.

[acrookedking]

@kebabrullemums It's called an opinion. Get one.

[MrKittytoenails]

This is my poem

Ginger ale and a bottle of wine

Ginger ale and a bottle of swine

Ginger ale and a great big pine

Ginger ale and a watermelon rind

Ginger ale and what's with this lime

Ginger ale and I have some slime

AND PROFESSOR PONY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!

[hotboyclarence]

is anything the matter with the voice-in fellow? is he retard or something? he hardly can pronounce the English he is using

[truckernacion]

GIBRALTAR ES ESPAÑA¡¡

[goodatmath12]

@truckernacion no!!its england!!

[PureJockPureBrit]

@MrBlueButtons Because the BBC like to scare people. It helps us focus our minds on these problems instead of problems at hand that could upset the governments control over us like e.g. the EU taking away Britain's democracy and powers (which the government are in favour of). I'm sure if more people new about that they'd be pretty pissed off, but they don't ;)

[spichanka]

Prelijepo.

[213Algeria]

thanks for the video

[HotPantyChicksCom]

Amazing !!

[markgreer]

This is only one of the many times the Mediterenean has dried up, and consequently flooded, later. Core samples from the Nikoloi Strokov & Tri-Beam sonar from the Glormar Challenger, as well as our 2004 EDT Cyprus - Atlantis voyange have collected data to support a recent flood from approx 10,000 -15,000 years ago. See the city found in the under 4,952' of water, 50 miles off the coast of Cyprus in the eastern med. in 2004.

[wolfauraa]

more salt for fish n chips :3 i never thought a documentary about evaporating Mediterranean could make me this hungry >.>

[TheXRealXBrapp]

Yeah well, the water is going somewhere. So someplace is getting a lot of water. It's not going into space, or disappearing...

[niamtxiv]

wow, salt.. lol

[barnsleybornnbred]

first its rising sea tempretures and it's going to flood us all

and then its that the sea's are evaporating and are going to turn into deserts

Make your mind up BBC which lie do you want to tell us???

[RoelTA]

@barnsleybornnbred this is a documentary about what would/shall happen if the Strait of Gibraltar closes, eg by tectonic activity. It is unlikely, due to sea level rise, that this water inlet vital to the existence of the mediterranean will be cut of. Yet as the African continent is still moving towards the Eurasian continent, like Spain, it is still a possibility. So both sea level rise and evaporating seas can be true at the same time. The BBC tends to do their homework.

[barnsleybornnbred]

@RoelTA I just don't see why BBC have spent money making this documentry when they could spend it on real entertainment.

"Six million years ago the continents of Africa and Europe collided to close the Strait of Gibralter. Starved of water, the Mediterranean Sea evaporated to form a vast desert"

6 million years ago? well i guess its due course to happen again in my lifetime.

[RoelTA]

@barnsleybornnbred It's a while ago, indeed. But history can provide insight into the future. For instance, in the Cretaceous (145 - 65 millions of years), natural carbon exceeded even modern post-industrial levels. At the same time natural termperatures were 4 degrees above the current level. Coincidence? Probably, but a lot of politicians think it is our responsibility to act now against carbon emissions. The 'enhanced' greenhouse effect will not be felt by us, but certainly within 1000 years.

[barnsleybornnbred]

@RoelTA 1000 years? we've got enough time for a quick pint then?

[RoelTA]

@barnsleybornnbred Enough time to have a fair share of beer and Guinness. :-)

[nyrbsamoht]

@RoelTA imagaine if they had a carbon tax back then! i want me a slice of that pie

[cruciphile]

@barnsleybornnbred they should have made a show about lighting farts. learning stuff is boring.

[barnsleybornnbred]

@cruciphile exactly, put the money to good use.

[Newbpwng]

holy shit that is a hell lot of salt

[Newbpwng]

cool africa and europe were a one land

[Mermaid1962]

The patterns in the salt are so beautiful!

[petersim101]

first rate documentary nicely narrated and scots and nortern irish are used because the world can understand them as they have not butchered the english language yet. Could you imagine a geordie brummie or cockney narrating hardly anyone in the world would understand

[sk8mate123abc]

lol building a chapel out of salt...now that is a sad religion

[Draknid]

@sk8mate123abc

Jesus is our savior and also goes good on fries.

[Rumbleman99]

wow .... thats a lot of salt, cool!

[mickwillie1]

6 trillion years ago when bill and ben walked the earth.lol.

[chaz1886]

bloody scots, they want their independance and yet they are on our TV stations, tossers

[GuysSeriously]

@chaz1886

[mickwillie1]

6 million years ago scientist came from pond scum,and turned into the animal it is today,lmao.stop the lying propaganda.

[robbaslob]

@mickwillie1 Scientists stop lying? It's the Christian shits who should stop lying, brainwashing.

[harry0able]

how could our atmosphere hold all that water vapor from the evaporation? someone get back to me please

[robbaslob]

@harry0able It's big.

[thegiantpigeon]

WOW JUST WOW

[DumbfoundAdog]

why does he have to use metric? this is england

[revankader]

if the Mediterranean sea evaporated, the black sea should also go with it. most of the worlds civilizations are built on those two seas.

[naybobdenod]

Typical BBC,brilliant

[marathonjimmy]

holy cramps ;p...i see this as an answer to rising sea levels.. what say eh?

[shgfe3ay]

why have you put the adverts as 19 seconds or more. its already stopped me from watching this

[rnm1011]

think it's a bit rough the bbc being paid from the proceeds of adverts. this programme has already been paid for. that's why we pay our licence fee. when I watch the bbc, I don't want to watch adverts. and especially with such a short clip as this.

[adamgm84]

@rnm1011 but you are paying youtube for the convenience of watching this short BBC clip on demand 24/7 anytime you want, etc, etc.

and by the looks of it BBC is a youtube partner meaning that they are collecting bonus revenue to create even more awesome documentaries in the future.

[TheMinifro]

Is it just me or does the whole world hate the english?(including the english) because i bloody do! cocky ignorant little bastards.... wait why am i saying this instead of commenting on the video? oh well who cares. subscribe to me if you never want to be bothered about email updates about your subscription because i don't do anything...... :)

[xxxDEATHCORExxx]

why do we have to pay TV license when there is BBC iPlayer and youtube?

[testdavideo]

@xxxDEATHCORExxx Because without the lience money the BBC wouldn't have any budget to produce anything. Its why they don't have advitisement when others like Channel 4 and ITV get their budget through adverts.

[Playstation3GamingHD]

Thumbs this up!!! *F5 will skip adverts!!!!!*

[jjbul]

We need to find more stuff to do with salt

[eliminateuk]

as always very good.thankyou BBC.

[trinex7]

The world is flooding.. we need to evaporate faster.

[TheXRealXBrapp]

@trinex7 you, sir, are correct!

[xake19]

the problem is that the Bible said this DID NOT HAPPEN. But we know IT DID HAPPEN. Why? Because scientific data said so and because the Bible was written by men for men. this is the biggest religious mythology ever in the face of this planet.

Platetectonics occur and is a fact, evolution occurs and is a fact. The Christian fundamentalist said no and they also want to control a woman's vagina and tell her what to do with it.

[SecretSilva]

@xake19 Perhaps you're forgetting that this event happened 6 million years ago, how could any human being document that event? Religious text or not.

[hendo337]

what a nice video..thanks BBC :)

[TogashiJack]

that.... is a lot of salt..

[kyle7286]

Great video

[adamcrookedsmile]

The BBC is ace.

[Okapi1997]

Bravo, Bravo!

[zx1011]

thats a lota salt

[Thornfox]

C'mon folks, I'm Canadian and I have no problem understanding a Scottish accent.

[1ngjoxsh]

@Thornfox

They are just arseholes who like putting people unlike themselves down. If you go to England you will meet them daily. You ask a question with perfect pronunciation and the shout "What?" in some Cockney accent at you. Very rude. If a person cannot understand this man they have serious problems

[MrGothamKnight]

@1ngjoxsh oi! listen ere' yankie boy. dont be bad-mouthin' us.

[1ngjoxsh]

@MrGothamKnight

amusing haha

[MrGothamKnight]

@1ngjoxsh what is?

[1ngjoxsh]

@MrGothamKnight

I criticised English people for being rude and condescending (albeit regarding foreign accents) and you proved my point.

[MrGothamKnight]

@1ngjoxsh we aint. i just dont like ppl from somewere else bad-mouthin' Britain. you would be pissed off too tho right?

[1ngjoxsh]

@MrGothamKnight

I actually live in the UK and as a whole I like English people, it is just that if you have a different accent English people are extremely rude for no reason and act like they can't understand you, despite the fact that they clearly do, this is something I have not noticed in the USA, Wales or Australia. English people often like to think of themselves superior to other people it seems.

[MrGothamKnight]

@1ngjoxsh its just some that are like that. not everone. i have no problem with ppl from USA india etc. i can understand them.

[1ngjoxsh]

@MrGothamKnight

obviously not everyone is like that, but the comments on this page prove my point: lots of people are claiming they cant understand this man despite the fact that he has perfect pronunciation.

[MrGothamKnight]

@1ngjoxsh well i'm from bolton. and i can understand him fine.

most of them just the cocky 1's who have been posting. no offence ppl lol

[ruuku00black]

wait till you hear a REALLY strong scottish accent, i cant even understand a word and im english.

[picsordidnthappen]

@Thornfox I'm German and neither do I.

[MultiGakka]

@Thornfox I am Canadian as well and English is my second language. I also have no problems at all to understand Scottish English.

[asklepije]

awesome

[accordeonist]

the chapel made of salt was really cool...

[clknish]

subhanallah Ar-Raziq is one of the names of our Lord (The Provider)

[joethy]

BBC- You need to sack your employee that is in charge of the description. It's Gibraltar. Due to the unique way the BBC is funded, I know may be a stretch to afford it, but if needs be, I can do the job for just a fiver.

[kittenlover377]

@joethy You're right :) . I also don't know what a "kilimetre" is.

[acer0993]

theres possibly fossils and other things down their then.

[NevadaChozo]

can i have my own salt room in there?

[MiCtheUnicorn]

i hate this guy's voice :S Gibrrraltrarrr (like a pirate yarr)

[ArabianMay]

@MiCtheUnicorn Ahhaa, this is nothing like a devonshire accent though :D

[kittenlover377]

@MiCtheUnicorn Haha :) , I don't think I hate him, but he made me laugh so hard I understood nothing of what he was saying (the "Gibrrraltarrr" was priceless to hear :D).

[subteleferic22]

@MiCtheUnicorn lmao

[theguymjp]

@MiCtheUnicorn Dude, don't say that. He's just Scottish, sheesh... it's a pleasant accent to most people.

[usuckmoron]

good god

[allanafraser]

interesting

[BSKpride]

Wow.. crazy stuff there

[luke1000123]

Good Good

[nriab23]

Thank u BBC for enriching the public's minds.

[asilayloathing]

awesome