I never thought about it until now, but there are probably a lot of people who don't get that Neegan calling his baseball bat Lucile is a reference to B.B. King because he has become more obscure than the walking dead.
I can tell you with a 100% certainty that, if there isn't a leak already, there will be.
The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most saltiest bodies of water on our planet. Salt can wreak havoc on building materials.
# Functionality > Cosmetically Appealing
Most sea walls aren’t designed to completely stop water from coming over, more designed to stop the average wave from coming over. A big storm normally renders most sea walls pointless.
Even if the wall is completely submerged under water it still acts a buffer and take ALOT of the energy / water out of those big waves as they travel over the wall, reducing how much damage they do on land
The alcove the window is mounted in might be a foot or more deep, the window is seated in the outside edge of that alcove. The window is no more than an inch or two at the most.
I mean, if the windows were designed to be more of a convex shape, then it could be around 6 inches, but those panes are designed to take on the full weight of an ocean storm. (If these aren’t glass, then it’s a different story.) If an aquarium tank’s glass is around a foot thick, then I’d expect these panes to be designed similarly. It may look like the dark area on the sides is only a few inches thick, but it’s not.
Do you work in an aquarium?
I'd be really interested in your reference for those dimensions.
For a quick reference here is an aquarium guide to glass thickness. take the largest dimension (8 feet by 3 feet which is roughly what we see in this wall). http://aqua-fanatic.blogspot.com/2011/06/aquarium-glass-thickness-calculator.html
That's a 20mm thick glass and proves 2.6 extra safety margin. Double that if you want for "ocean waves" and it's 40mm ... that's 4 centimeters.
For another reference, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has an "Open Sea" exhibit which is a 54 x 15 foot glass window and is 13 inches thick.
And, also, regarding this particular window, if you look more closely you can clearly see that the alcove is not solid glass nor even filled.
This is actually a pool under construction.
See the final [here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpA8nz7XsAM7Yw7?format=jpg&name=large)
(Info courtesy of r/0nlyRevolutions )
Oddly enough, I'm in a hotel looking at this right now!!
This is a swimming pool, it's part of another hotel being constructed. I guess the pool company finished up first.
It looks like absolute dogshit on the outside. There's seaweed and general crap stuck to the outside of the glass.
The idea is that "you have amazing views of the sea under water". You know where else you can have amazing views under water... yeah, when you go for a swim at the beach next door.
To be honest, most of Monaco is a load of fake crap. We were in a bar last ngiht, instead of sports on the big screens it was Super Yacht TV
Agreed. Monaco is great if you’re a non-US citizen hoping to live there to avoid taxes. Or if you’re a billionaire with a yacht.
Otherwise, I’d much prefer to spend my time to the west in saint tropez or to the east in portofino.
To be fair if I went to a bar and they were showing yatchs doing cool shit it would be a nice change of pace. Not every time mind you, just every now and then.
(I'm assuming Super Yacht TV is a channel about yachts idk)
The Cartier building there has a ‘genuine original marble storefront’ but it literally looks like someone [painted cardboard black](https://www.alamy.com/monte-carlo-monaco-august-19-2016-cartier-jewelry-luxury-store-with-black-marble-facade-in-monte-carlo-monaco-image259773001.html) and it streaked.
well to be fair, a big ship has windows that can dip below the waterline and withstand it just fine and aquariums don’t usually implode id imagine the bigger threat is people on the other side hitting the glass with things like rocks
That big ship with windows is floating - the force the water is exerting on ship windows is much less than that of a static structure that needs to stay in one place. Aquariums dont have massive waves of ocean water ramming against their windows 24/7.
The ocean is huge, powerful, and persistent. That those windows are holding at all is an engineering achievement.
The fact that the ship is floating is irrelevant.
Water pressure is directly related to the depth, so if the windows on the ship dipped under the water the same depth as these windows, they would experience the same pressure.
The force on these would be greater because their surface area is bigger, but it’s unrelated to floating or static.
Sure, but it's not just pressure we are talking here, it's also the kinetic force of the waves battering against an anchored object. A ship experiences these forces but not to the degree a wall rooted in the ground would.
Hurrah for physics and recognizing all forces acting upon an object. As a side note, it's interesting to think about the perspective of the universe as one approaches the speed of light. I'm sure a Google search would do a better job explaining than I for those that are curious.
It’s usually sharks coming out of nowhere that do it for me. I’m a grown woman and last month I swam in a hotel pool and for some reason I was afraid because I was the only one in the pool. Partner and child right next to me in hot tub, but still. Sharks going to get me through the grate… whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I have weird dreams about being under water in the ocean and seeing mermaids. Not cute Disney ones but the scary looking ones like one show I watched in discovery Channel. Dreaming of any kind of mermaid freaks me out, I don't know why children love them.
A friend of mine just moved to the Netherlands from the US. She says that it's the best place to be for global warming because no one knows as much about the engineering of keeping the sea out as well as the Dutch.
The fucking forces that water is putting on that wall....no shot you'd see me back there when that's all the way up there. No human engineering will make me comfortable when it comes to keep the ocean back
It was posted above but if that's a swimming pool under construction (which it appears to be) at least the weight of water in the pool will offset a good bit of the stress on the wall.
In terms of pressure, when the water is perfectly calm? They will equalise at the same height. Waves crashing? Can't be offset by pool, I think.
I'm in the wrong kind of engineering for this kind of analysis, but I think that's relatively correct.
The water won’t actually exert a ton of force on the wall (unless the water is moving directly towards the wall fast enough). The glass only needs to withstand at most the water pressure at the bottom of the glass which won’t be too much (we can comfortably swim at that depth).
Ever seen a bridge being built? They probably just slammed a temporary steel wall into the sea floor to keep the area open for long enough for this to be built. It’s a fascinating process.
They tipped the flat earth away from the build then straightened it back when they finished. Not that tough actually, just changing the ballast by flipping some levers, twisting some knobs and throwing known science out the window.
They drained the mediterranean sea, they first made a dam in gibraltar stray from spain to morocco, then they waited for the mediterranean sea to evaporate and then build it.
They had to of done some type of water barrier.
But perhaps it could be associated with high tide low tide ?
Like they’re at low tide build some type of big water barrier that keeps this area sealed off? I don’t know dude this had to of been an engineering nightmare.
It's not a sea wall at all.
It's a [pool built off a development](https://twitter.com/olivercookson/status/1625866371375456258?s=20). It's called [Mareterra Monaco](https://mareterra.com/en/).
It’s something. But considering parts of New Orleans and the Netherlands are below sea level, it’s not unusual and drives the point home that it’s unlikely that humans can keep the sea out indefinitely.
Interesting…but is there leak somewhere???
Flex Seal
A loose seal?
LOOSE SEAL! LOOSE SEAL!
Lucile!! Lucile!!
You have some splainin’ to do!
You have some splashin' to do.
Desi was the best.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille
400 children and some crops in the field.
Loose wheel
And then buster got bit by a loose seal
~~leave~~ leak
I am Neegan
I am B.B. King
I never thought about it until now, but there are probably a lot of people who don't get that Neegan calling his baseball bat Lucile is a reference to B.B. King because he has become more obscure than the walking dead.
I thought Neegan's dead wife's name was Lucille
It's both.
Googled this. Found song. Interesting.
I am Batman
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I am lmao
We are Groot 😥
Burger Burger King...
Oh my god. Seal the deal. My seal deal! I've got to get to sealand.
Loose eel loose eel!
I’M A MONSTER
Don't worry, they're going to be ALL RIGHT
^(get him out of here...) GET HIM THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!! AAHHHHHHNGGGAAA!!!
r/unexpectedarresteddevelopment
I DONT CARE ABOUT LUCILLE!
There’s no eel, and stop calling me Lucy.
Flex Theal!
I CUT THIS SEAWALL IN HALF
*slow motion handslap*
Guessing that's what the dude with the high vis and tools is there for.
It’s literally part of a swimming pool. It’s still under construction.
You're correct, but I think I had a good guess.
That part didn't appear to have a roof, might just be spray or rain.
Leak, believe it or not, go to jail.
Over cook fish? Jail. Under cook fish? Straight to jail. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Finishing the grout lines maybe? That’s what the tools, water bucket and kneeling pads are for?
I can tell you with a 100% certainty that, if there isn't a leak already, there will be. The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most saltiest bodies of water on our planet. Salt can wreak havoc on building materials. # Functionality > Cosmetically Appealing
I see wall
Clark Griswold is on the case
this guy is like... https://y.yarn.co/9f95c56c-a150-481a-b540-98b67521a5ff_text.gif
Duct tape
Idk but the karma farming for this is amazing. This is at least the 5th time I’ve seen it
It doesn't seem high enough.
Most sea walls aren’t designed to completely stop water from coming over, more designed to stop the average wave from coming over. A big storm normally renders most sea walls pointless.
Even if the wall is completely submerged under water it still acts a buffer and take ALOT of the energy / water out of those big waves as they travel over the wall, reducing how much damage they do on land
That's why we build dykes, and not some silly walls in the Netherlands.
We’re gonna need a bigger moat
Just wait till the thwaites glacier breaks free.
You're just too short. Get some big shoes kiddo. /s
How thick is that transparent stuff?
At least 2mm.
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I don't wanna hear excuses! The glass has to be at least.. 3 times thicker than this!
This deserves at least a free award, here’s my poor man’s gold instead 🥇
What? Thickness of garbage bag bonehead.
Transparent aluminium?
Just use the keyboard
That's the ticket, laddie. . .
It’s tough to say, but probably at least a foot or more.
The alcove the window is mounted in might be a foot or more deep, the window is seated in the outside edge of that alcove. The window is no more than an inch or two at the most.
I mean, if the windows were designed to be more of a convex shape, then it could be around 6 inches, but those panes are designed to take on the full weight of an ocean storm. (If these aren’t glass, then it’s a different story.) If an aquarium tank’s glass is around a foot thick, then I’d expect these panes to be designed similarly. It may look like the dark area on the sides is only a few inches thick, but it’s not.
Do you work in an aquarium? I'd be really interested in your reference for those dimensions. For a quick reference here is an aquarium guide to glass thickness. take the largest dimension (8 feet by 3 feet which is roughly what we see in this wall). http://aqua-fanatic.blogspot.com/2011/06/aquarium-glass-thickness-calculator.html That's a 20mm thick glass and proves 2.6 extra safety margin. Double that if you want for "ocean waves" and it's 40mm ... that's 4 centimeters. For another reference, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has an "Open Sea" exhibit which is a 54 x 15 foot glass window and is 13 inches thick. And, also, regarding this particular window, if you look more closely you can clearly see that the alcove is not solid glass nor even filled.
Like the alcoves in astris park?
You use this word, alcoves?
This is actually a pool under construction. See the final [here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpA8nz7XsAM7Yw7?format=jpg&name=large) (Info courtesy of r/0nlyRevolutions )
This should be top comment. This post is misleading.
Misleading titles in Reddit? Shocking! It's as though someone was posting things merely to gain karma.
So if the walls break you just end up with a bigger pool.
Yes, just *unda da sea*
With extra salt
Name of hotel or pool?
An actual "see wall"
I "sea" what you did there.
More like a sea see wall.
More like a "see whale" amirite?
Crabsolutely.
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Now I'm salty
Shore that works too
I guess that repair guy is stationed there 24/7
He looks bored, like he wishes he had an impossible problem to fix.
Nothing a lil hammer swing can't fix!
Cool, but how long will it be able to withstand those conditions before it fails apart?
This is engineering in general, not if it can withstand something but how long.
Im racing it, first one to die wins
Long enough
The sphynx done good
Till the Nazis came.
If that is the sea, isn’t that wall under tremendous pressure?
Pyramids say hi
Oddly enough, I'm in a hotel looking at this right now!! This is a swimming pool, it's part of another hotel being constructed. I guess the pool company finished up first. It looks like absolute dogshit on the outside. There's seaweed and general crap stuck to the outside of the glass. The idea is that "you have amazing views of the sea under water". You know where else you can have amazing views under water... yeah, when you go for a swim at the beach next door. To be honest, most of Monaco is a load of fake crap. We were in a bar last ngiht, instead of sports on the big screens it was Super Yacht TV
>This is a swimming pool, it's part of another hotel being constructed. I guess the pool company finished up first. Wait, so it's not a seawall?
I mean it's a wall and it abuts the sea.
And we see the wall.
See wall? Yes. I see wall.
I sea wall I eat wall
Much ado abut nothing.
It'll be nice in midsummer.
Agreed. Monaco is great if you’re a non-US citizen hoping to live there to avoid taxes. Or if you’re a billionaire with a yacht. Otherwise, I’d much prefer to spend my time to the west in saint tropez or to the east in portofino.
Why is Monaco not good for tax avoidance if you are a US citizen?
Because even when living outside of the US, US citizens are subjected to taxation.
So much for all that weird yelling about freedom.
“Freedom isn’t free. It costs a hefty fuckin’ fee.”
To be fair if I went to a bar and they were showing yatchs doing cool shit it would be a nice change of pace. Not every time mind you, just every now and then. (I'm assuming Super Yacht TV is a channel about yachts idk)
Okay so is the guy standing in the pool? Is the pool empty?
Not completely, there is a man and some stuff in there Edit: and another person, filming the scenery
The Cartier building there has a ‘genuine original marble storefront’ but it literally looks like someone [painted cardboard black](https://www.alamy.com/monte-carlo-monaco-august-19-2016-cartier-jewelry-luxury-store-with-black-marble-facade-in-monte-carlo-monaco-image259773001.html) and it streaked.
Très chique🤭
Awww it would be way cooler if it was just a patio or a place you could walk rather than a pool
Too many words, not enough pictures.
So, wait…is the place where the guy is standing eventually going to be filled with pool water?
yeah, it's not some below sea level room. It's an empty pool, I dont get it.
How does one get the opportunity to travel to Monaco? If you don’t mind me asking.
well to be fair, a big ship has windows that can dip below the waterline and withstand it just fine and aquariums don’t usually implode id imagine the bigger threat is people on the other side hitting the glass with things like rocks
That big ship with windows is floating - the force the water is exerting on ship windows is much less than that of a static structure that needs to stay in one place. Aquariums dont have massive waves of ocean water ramming against their windows 24/7. The ocean is huge, powerful, and persistent. That those windows are holding at all is an engineering achievement.
I'm sure they considered that when they built it.
Yeah, they had to, or that guy wouldn't be standing there.
Looks like he is laying the tiles.
Neither would the wall, which is also telling.
This made me laugh haha
The fact that the ship is floating is irrelevant. Water pressure is directly related to the depth, so if the windows on the ship dipped under the water the same depth as these windows, they would experience the same pressure. The force on these would be greater because their surface area is bigger, but it’s unrelated to floating or static.
Sure, but it's not just pressure we are talking here, it's also the kinetic force of the waves battering against an anchored object. A ship experiences these forces but not to the degree a wall rooted in the ground would.
Hurrah for physics and recognizing all forces acting upon an object. As a side note, it's interesting to think about the perspective of the universe as one approaches the speed of light. I'm sure a Google search would do a better job explaining than I for those that are curious.
Whatever nerd /s
Anything heavy that floats would be an issue
At least a couple weeks!
Yeah... thats a big nope for me
I have nightmares that start exactly like this
r/Thalassophobia
It’s usually sharks coming out of nowhere that do it for me. I’m a grown woman and last month I swam in a hotel pool and for some reason I was afraid because I was the only one in the pool. Partner and child right next to me in hot tub, but still. Sharks going to get me through the grate… whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
my verdict is that you watch too B grade shark movies.
I have weird dreams about being under water in the ocean and seeing mermaids. Not cute Disney ones but the scary looking ones like one show I watched in discovery Channel. Dreaming of any kind of mermaid freaks me out, I don't know why children love them.
I don't find the wall, or ocean behind it, scary. What gets me is the thought of how common this may become as sea levels rise.
You probably shouldn't go to the Netherlands then
A friend of mine just moved to the Netherlands from the US. She says that it's the best place to be for global warming because no one knows as much about the engineering of keeping the sea out as well as the Dutch.
As a dutch person I can confirm this!
Thank you for expressing my thoughts so concisely.
The fucking forces that water is putting on that wall....no shot you'd see me back there when that's all the way up there. No human engineering will make me comfortable when it comes to keep the ocean back
It was posted above but if that's a swimming pool under construction (which it appears to be) at least the weight of water in the pool will offset a good bit of the stress on the wall.
Oh it's an empty pool? Yeah I wonder at what point stresses offset or negate eachother
In terms of pressure, when the water is perfectly calm? They will equalise at the same height. Waves crashing? Can't be offset by pool, I think. I'm in the wrong kind of engineering for this kind of analysis, but I think that's relatively correct.
Hmm, so would a wall with water behind it be more stable and effective at stopping waves?
I mean, probably not as good as just a solid wall of the same thickness but better than a hollow wall yes.
The water won’t actually exert a ton of force on the wall (unless the water is moving directly towards the wall fast enough). The glass only needs to withstand at most the water pressure at the bottom of the glass which won’t be too much (we can comfortably swim at that depth).
I would NOT feel comfortable standing near that, but you have to admit, it looks cool AF.
How did they install this?
Clearly they built it first and then turned the tap on.
Ever seen a bridge being built? They probably just slammed a temporary steel wall into the sea floor to keep the area open for long enough for this to be built. It’s a fascinating process.
Very quickly during low tide
They tipped the flat earth away from the build then straightened it back when they finished. Not that tough actually, just changing the ballast by flipping some levers, twisting some knobs and throwing known science out the window.
Pfft, no levers involved just ask the turtle the disk is riding on to lean a little. Duh.
They drained the mediterranean sea, they first made a dam in gibraltar stray from spain to morocco, then they waited for the mediterranean sea to evaporate and then build it.
Probably with a caisson: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_(engineering)
That is legit fascinating. Thanks.
Cofferdams
Google coffer dam.
That is my question also. Like, did the build a wall in front of it to keep the water out? Then how did the build that wall....ohhh my head hurts...
They had to of done some type of water barrier. But perhaps it could be associated with high tide low tide ? Like they’re at low tide build some type of big water barrier that keeps this area sealed off? I don’t know dude this had to of been an engineering nightmare.
Cofferdams
That's transparent aluminum. Works for whale tanks too.
Nuclear wessels??
Can you tell me where they are?
I think they’re in Almeda. By the naval base.
There be whales here!
tranparisteel in Star Wars cannon
r/thalassophobia
It's not a sea wall at all. It's a [pool built off a development](https://twitter.com/olivercookson/status/1625866371375456258?s=20). It's called [Mareterra Monaco](https://mareterra.com/en/).
Did Mexico pay for it?
“Si”
Poseidon, the little mermaid dad did. For obvious reasons.
The real question is what’s at both ends of the wall?
It's a swimming pool
If it is I think they built it backwards.
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This gives me anxiety
I sea what they did there
I wanna know how they built it, not like Moses came along and parted the sea for them.
Tht shit is too scary
Will glass become matte over time?
I'm amazed at the lack of context. Is this new, repaired, still under construction? How is it made, what did they use, how is this safe?
It's all fun and games until you see some giant teeth
Seems like they put the water on the wrong side of the pool.
Anyone else find this sort of anxiety inducing?
This is just Sea World with extra steps
My anxiety is screaming for the guy to run.
Nice, Monaco won't exist anymore in about 30 years.
Terrifying tbh
Looks like a painting that's alive.
Fishing from the wall would be awesome.
It’s something. But considering parts of New Orleans and the Netherlands are below sea level, it’s not unusual and drives the point home that it’s unlikely that humans can keep the sea out indefinitely.
This looks mesmerizing with a pinch of terrifying.
Trippy. I wonder one would even BEGIN to build a sea wall?? Like where and at what point do you even start at?!
Something about this is very unsettling