Impossible Engineering Dubais Impossible Island Eng S07E01 Subtitles

At 00:00:02,380, Character said: In this episode... Without a doubt, we
are breaking new ground.

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At 00:00:07,620, Character said: We are pushing the bounds of
engineering.

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At 00:00:10,180, Character said: A new city district rises from the
Arabian Sea, crowned by the world's

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At 00:00:16,880, Character said: biggest observation wheel.

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At 00:00:19,480, Character said: Things that 10 or 20 years ago, people
would have felt it's just not possible.

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At 00:00:23,360, Character said: It is possible now.

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At 00:00:24,600, Character said: It's really very exciting.

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At 00:00:26,000, Character said: And the pioneering historic innovations.

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At 00:00:28,880, Character said: Oh, man.

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At 00:00:30,180, Character said: This is amazing.

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At 00:00:32,150, Character said: What a beautiful, impressive, and
powerful bit of Kim.

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At 00:00:37,490, Character said: That make the impossible possible.

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At 00:00:50,330, Character said: Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, is

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At 00:00:57,170, Character said: home to some of the most innovative
engineering on the planet.

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At 00:01:01,480, Character said: where each new build must push the
boundaries of what's possible in order

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At 00:01:06,660, Character said: stand out from the crowd.

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At 00:01:12,280, Character said: One man who knows what it takes to make
a mark on this ever -evolving city is

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At 00:01:18,300, Character said: Mohammed Al Mullah.

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At 00:01:20,620, Character said: Dubai has been able to prove that there
is no limit to your freedom of thinking.

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At 00:01:25,360, Character said: It's important that we keep pushing the
boundaries of engineering across every

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At 00:01:29,520, Character said: project we do.

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At 00:01:31,509, Character said: Dubai known to be bringing the best in
class in various aspects, from the

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At 00:01:36,050, Character said: tallest towers to the biggest airport.

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At 00:01:39,410, Character said: I'm sure Dubai in the next few months
will be another mega project that will

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At 00:01:43,690, Character said: announced.

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At 00:01:45,810, Character said: Once you have a dream, people will get
together and just help you to achieve

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At 00:01:49,770, Character said: that dream.

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At 00:01:57,370, Character said: Desert City is determined to keep
creating the most spectacular structures

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At 00:02:02,070, Character said: the world.

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At 00:02:02,990, Character said: But Dubai is quickly running out of its
coveted waterfront locations.

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At 00:02:08,070, Character said: So engineers now have to think outside
the box.

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At 00:02:12,300, Character said: The coastline in Dubai has a limited
stretch.

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At 00:02:15,400, Character said: You have certain type of tourists who
look for beach, so we must make sure we

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At 00:02:19,940, Character said: have enough beaches. We must extend the
coastline. It's very important for our

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At 00:02:24,680, Character said: survival to move forward in a very
competitive landscape.

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At 00:02:29,900, Character said: Creating land where there once was none
is a massive undertaking.

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At 00:02:37,640, Character said: And engineers in Dubai aren't just
creating land.

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At 00:02:41,480, Character said: They're thinking much bigger and
creating a whole new

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At 00:02:48,380, Character said: island.

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At 00:02:52,100, Character said: This is Blue Waters.

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At 00:03:02,120, Character said: Constructed from 28 .3 million cubic
feet of rock and 141

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At 00:03:08,720, Character said: .3 million cubic feet of sand,

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At 00:03:12,680, Character said: Blue Waters Island covers an area larger
than 12 New York City blocks and will

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At 00:03:18,040, Character said: be populated by a combination of
residential towers, shops, and five

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At 00:03:23,340, Character said: hotels.

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At 00:03:24,920, Character said: Its crowning glory is the Ein Dubai, an
observation wheel that stands an

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At 00:03:30,220, Character said: unprecedented 820 feet tall.

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At 00:03:33,480, Character said: When you arrive, you'll see the wheel.

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At 00:03:35,660, Character said: It will be a moment, a wow moment.

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At 00:03:38,440, Character said: I'm sure everybody's jaw will literally
drop and they'll just stand there in

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At 00:03:42,160, Character said: awe.

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At 00:03:43,460, Character said: But this multi -million dollar project
poses huge engineering challenges.

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At 00:03:51,280, Character said: Is it possible to create land where
there is nothing but sea?

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At 00:03:56,500, Character said: Blue Waters Island is a very challenging
project for us because that plant is

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At 00:04:00,400, Character said: not suitable for island construction.

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At 00:04:02,440, Character said: How do you make it strong enough to
support tower blocks and a

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At 00:04:07,380, Character said: Loose down, it's very limited in the
load that it can support.

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At 00:04:10,220, Character said: Typically, maybe 10 to 20 percent of
what you would expect on traditionally

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At 00:04:13,920, Character said: formed ground.

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At 00:04:15,540, Character said: And how do you build a wheel that towers
over every other wheel ever

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At 00:04:19,640, Character said: constructed?

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At 00:04:21,380, Character said: These cables have to be very strong, but
if we put all the tension in the

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At 00:04:25,280, Character said: bottom, we would just buckle the rim.

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At 00:04:28,120, Character said: Blue Water Island, we keep on pushing
our boundaries.

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At 00:04:32,300, Character said: This is the most challenging engineering
project happening in the world at the

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At 00:04:35,860, Character said: moment.

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At 00:04:37,640, Character said: It's going to take a top -notch team of
engineers to pull it all off.

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At 00:04:42,420, Character said: Okay, let's go.

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At 00:04:47,680, Character said: Civil engineer Cone Sweers is overseeing
island construction.

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At 00:04:52,340, Character said: It's a good day for surveying today, I
think.

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At 00:04:55,480, Character said: To find the perfect location, the team
needs to uncover what lies beneath.

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At 00:05:01,140, Character said: We start island with what we call an in
-survey.

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At 00:05:04,620, Character said: where we map the sea floor, where the
future island will be, and that's

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At 00:05:08,980, Character said: basically our starting point.

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At 00:05:12,100, Character said: Sonar and GPS allow Kohn and the team to
precisely map the bottom of the sea.

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At 00:05:18,200, Character said: You can see the depth coming up on the
screen.

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At 00:05:21,160, Character said: Yeah, perfect.

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At 00:05:22,920, Character said: So here now it is 7 meters, eh? Yeah,
exactly. It's between 7 to 9.

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At 00:05:27,520, Character said: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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At 00:05:29,040, Character said: Based on that, we can calculate up till
the design level of the island.

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At 00:05:37,050, Character said: Building blue waters will require a
staggering 141 million cubic feet of

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At 00:05:44,550, Character said: And despite being located in the world's
fifth largest desert, finding the right

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At 00:05:49,470, Character said: sand is far from easy.

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At 00:05:52,950, Character said: Desert sand is not suitable for building
an island.

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At 00:05:57,930, Character said: The sand particles of desert sand are
very round, and this is not good for the

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At 00:06:03,050, Character said: interlocking between the individual
rains.

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At 00:06:05,640, Character said: It's like you have a jar with all of the
same marbles.

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At 00:06:09,600, Character said: Engineers have to use sand from below
the sea.

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At 00:06:13,680, Character said: We use marine sand. Marine sand is very
suitable for construction works because

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At 00:06:19,360, Character said: it is much more angular.

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At 00:06:21,740, Character said: And marine sand has a lot of particles
of different gradings.

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At 00:06:26,140, Character said: And it is coarser, so it settles much
more easier.

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At 00:06:30,880, Character said: But with the marine sand sites 30
nautical miles away, engineers are

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At 00:06:36,700, Character said: giant challenge.

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At 00:06:38,080, Character said: Instead of bringing sand by road
transport to the location, we have to

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At 00:06:43,700, Character said: other means to bring the material from
sea to the location of the island.

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At 00:06:58,700, Character said: There is a solution across the world.

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At 00:07:02,930, Character said: Miami Beach in Florida.

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At 00:07:05,450, Character said: Today it's one of the most glamorous and
prestigious coastal resorts on the

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At 00:07:09,630, Character said: planet.

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At 00:07:11,030, Character said: But just over a hundred years ago, it
was a desolate, swampy wilderness.

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At 00:07:18,650, Character said: Its success is all thanks to the vision
of one man, Carl Fisher.

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At 00:07:24,550, Character said: He came up with a genius plan to convert
this marshland into what he called the

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At 00:07:29,690, Character said: prettiest little city in the world.

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At 00:07:36,719, Character said: Mechanical engineer Dan Dickrell is on a
mission to find out just how he did it.

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At 00:07:41,580, Character said: Oh man, this is amazing.

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At 00:07:44,140, Character said: What a unique experience. Probably the
airboat of the Everglades.

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At 00:07:49,540, Character said: Yeah, this is the natural Florida.

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At 00:07:53,120, Character said: In the early 20th century, Miami's coast
was a very different place than it is

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At 00:07:58,300, Character said: today.

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At 00:08:09,390, Character said: Yeah, we're going to go a little bit
more up ahead.

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At 00:08:11,670, Character said: There's a good spot right up there.

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At 00:08:15,570, Character said: Perfect,...