Engineering the Cape Cod Canal | Modern Marvels (S11, E27) | Full Episode
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In a battle against the ferocious Atlantic or safe passage through waters where ships wrecked and lives were lost, it was an engineering feat that many believed impossible. See more in Season 11, Episode 27, “The Cape Cod Canal.”
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An amazing feat of engineering and maintance. An astounding success story of the US Army Core of Engineers!
I’ve crossed the Sagamore and Bourne bridges many times.
I’ve lived on the Cape for 40yrs. After hearing the plans of replacing the bridges with new ones, including widening them to 4 lanes on and off the Cape, I shake my head. Rt 6 is only two lanes each way, until you get to Dennis, where it goes to one lane [suicide alley] until you reach the Orleans rotary. With the ridiculous amount of traffic on the Cape, I would think we’d widen the highway as well.
Cape cod is full of drunks and drug addicts
Cape cod is full of drunks and drug addicts
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve driven across both these bridges. Came down every summer from off cape and now I live here. I truly love where I live
Just a quick comment about ads I don’t think I every bought anything that is advertised on all the things I watch! But I guess someone does?
I grew up on the canal it’s beautiful down there
I never knew of this canal
Go Bourne Canalmen 1993
Wow it’s amazing how far we’ve come with technology and yeah this is a lot of work. It’s like doing Masonry, Carpentry and Engineer combined work on the bridges is very complex. I give thanks to the workers today and back in the day who put their blood sweat and tears to make this happen. Really this is like building the pyramids thank you to all the workers who put their heart and soul into this project true Americans. 💪💪🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🙏🙏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆
AMAZING
One year a buddy and i paddled 17’ kayaks with the tide from the opposite side of the control station to the Sandwich marina on a full moon night without detection, we even paddled by several Coast Guard cadets playing ball on a large dock near the marina on a dare 😅
All Done Now! Last I heard is the bridges are being turned over to the DOT!! Hold on to your wallets batman. I thorough round of RMV/DOT extortion is on its way. The Tobin Bridge is a great example of the serious implications of letting DOT grab this stuff. Stop the DOT
19:40 Ranger Samantha is a cutie! 😍
This is a great video! I hope they never replace the beautiful bridges built across the Cape Cod Canal. In the name of progress a lot of beautiful structures have been destroyed and replaced with soulless, ugly junk. These bridges are a work of art and part of the heritage of Cape Cod.
I cant wait until they rebuild the Bourne and Sagamore!
I feel so fortunate to call this beautiful place my home. I live in Orleans, right next to Chatham. For those looking at the arm, that’s right at the elbow. My husband grew up here. I’m a “wash-a-shore”, a name for people who weren’t born on the Cape. With 650 miles of pristine beach, it is really stunning in its beauty and quaint towns and villages. I like the fact that if you’re going to build on the Cape, it must look like the Cape, painted with nautical or weather worn shaker look. It is the richest and most expensive place in the country, but only has 28,000 year round residents. But the season brings millions and millions, the lifeblood of the Cape, tourism. But you won’t find slick city living. Here, it’s the endless stretches of gorgeous beaches and because there is so much of it, even though there are millions that vacation here every year, you can still find quiet solitude. There are no crowded beaches here. There’s enough for everyone to feel the peace they are seeking. And the Michelin 5 star restaurants are to die for.
Living in the canal. It has some of the most beautiful sunsets.
Born and raised here and absolutely love where I live. Live right across the street from the canal. Great episode, so much to learn about the canal.
I graduated from upper cape regional in 1981, and worked at the army core of engineers in the carpenters shop, but we maintained the canal roads
Canal is beautiful, it’s a 2 minute walk from my office and nice to go walk on lunch break. But, as a local I don’t bother going in the summer because there are too many people. A good amount of tourists don’t know the etiquette required while riding bikes there.
growing up in Wareham we used to take our bikes to the top of the bourn bridge and go like 40 miles an hr faster than our bikes were meant to go down the other side , i went over that bridge everyday when i went to voc, school, ahhh yes those were the days in the fall there was nobody.
Been there
Harwichport
There’s not a child in MA that hasn’t had the nightmare of driving over the top of both the sagamore and bourne bridges lol
Are they building new Cape Cod bridges? While construction likely won’t start until fall 2025, officials said Tuesday that they have determined the specific types of bridges that should eventually replace the existing structures, which have stood since the 1930’s.Jan 24, 2023
Loved growing up near the Canal!
10:45 what genius decided to use a steam train sound clip for a diesel loco.… 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
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Wish I my family had land before they did all that work I would be a Kennedy now.
ME and my husband used to travel to Cape cod back in the 70ths
We love Cape cod Massachusetts, and we have not been there since
Then more than fifty years. There was no bridge then . I am very impressed with the new technology for the Cape cod canals bridge.
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I’am over 50 years old and alway thought that I knew about such things but until seeing this video I never even heard that this canal existed. I live in Pa. and my only experiences with traveling to Mass. was going through on I‑95. Learn something every day!
the bay colony was opperating on cape when this was made?
Amazing that the natural flow of tidal sands which has been completely DESTROYED along Cape Cod Bay due to the mainland side rock jetty, was never mentioned once in this entire video. Now the Cape is devoid a nearly all beach sand along the coastline of Sandwich from the canal all the way to “sandy” Neck Beach resulting in monolithic amounts of erosion — which in hilarious fashion, is blamed on “Climate Change” instead of the canal project.
Scusset Beach on the mainland side of the Cape (Sagamore MA) is now literally drowning in sand that can no longer flow along the shoreline naturally. Meanwhile, homes in Sandwich are now falling into the ocean as the beaches erode insanely fast without having sand protecting the shorelines. Homeowners have spent millions on trying to erect temporary sand bag walls in an effort to save their homes while the government turns their backs on them. How bad is the lack of sand for the eco-system of the Cape? Go to Town Neck Beach yourself during low tide and take a look around. A tidal pool that was once filled decades ago with starfish, crabs, lobsters, sea urchins, muscles, etc…etc.… is now devoid of ALL sea life as their in no sand to survive in. Its all just barren stone and rocks, washed clean of all sand that can no longer hold the coastline together.
I machined a new wheel and shims for the train bridge, fun stuff
use to work at a place at the Myles Standish industrial park in Taunton Mass. today I learned who Myles Standish was. Thank you.
They were and engineering feat when they were built but living on Cape cod I can tell you these bridges are way obsolete, they are always being repaired and the traffic is horrendous especially in the summer. getting off cape even in the fall can take 30 minutes+ from Hyannis on Sundays. they keep threatening us with building new bridges but they can’t secure the immense funding required.
Well I now know the history that splits my town in half. It helps me explain how Bourne is as a town.
My old lady bled through her Kotex while sitting in traffic on the Bourne bridge last summer.
The canal has outlived its usefulness. Since it is shallow, ships have to anchor and wait for the tides, which wastes time. Once inside Cape Cod Bay, ships must reduce speed to a Maxum of 10 knots since it is a Wright whale zone. More wasting time
Tankers coming from the Straits of Florida don’t save much of any distance by going around Cape Cod.
One of the most awe inspiring sights I have witnessed was when the Tall Ships came thru the Canal! When ever we visit family on the Cape, I look forward to seeing if there are any ships coming in from Buzzards Bay and marvel at how big some of them are!
Driving on those bridges is terrible..they’re too narrow
I always love seeing a ship leaving towards who knows where!👍
On my bucket list to walk on the sagamore or borne bridge. I’ve drove cars and trucks many times over them. You can feel it shakes too much. I wonder how if feels when you’re walking on it.