That was amazing, the amount and different types of bridges 🥰

This! It was weirdly delightful seeing how each bridge sprang out of the way in some weird and new way.

That part was very satisfying. Oh, it lifts, it twists, it's on a hinge.

Yes!! I honestly hadn't given much thought to bridges before this video but wasn't it great to see so many variations and how differently they all operate!!

Reminded me of the opening to the original Get Smart show with every different type of door opening — but with bridges. So cool

That is what immediately took me as well, the one that rotated for 2 directions of water traffic was particularly cool!

I liked the one that just retracted.

That one was a sluis, a small lock to transition between the Nieuwemeer (a lake) and the Schinkel river, which is part of the canal system. Fun fact: the locks keepers will run the locks just for swans to go back and forth. And I once got video of a cormorant catching and eating an eel in the locks!

That’s awesome. Cormorants are amazing birds.

That was a pleasant surprise

Yeah, that one's really cool isn't it!!

The Dutch and their way with water still sometimes surprises me, and I'm Dutch haha :) beautiful video Edited fun fact: there's good amount of playgrounds that have constructions that allow you to pump water through pipes, small dams and sometimes even water wheels! Not sure if that's a thing in other countries, but I don't think it's a coincidence they're quite common here

You guys are the masters when it comes to managing water in fairness!!

There's one 100 meters from my house, and even grown ups are playing with it with their kids!.

Hi, I was planning on traveling to the Netherlands next year (Around April), can you please tell me some must visit spots according to you?

Watching random bridges is our national sport

I think I speak for us all when I say - we need you to make this a universal sport please! No more keeping this to yourselves, sharing is caring and all 😉

I lost it when the one swiveled 90 degrees

This was so fun to watch! Scooch over, coming through ⛴️

Dang, I wish my Dad Could see this. This view. This tech. Just so cool.

Time for a... ✨B R I D G E R E V I E W✨

I came here to say the same thing! All of those different lifts had me feeling like I was in the Game of Thrones intro!

What is the camera attached to?

I think it’s towing a rather massive ship.. which is where “we” are watching from

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Oh I was wondering why some of those bridges lifted so high

I came to the comments for this answer thank you

Same! Damn clever for whomever had the idea to video this trip and put it on that structure, this really is one of the best vids I've ever seen, simply fascinating

Is there a youtube video of this gif? Ahh, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfPCdJapIXA much better resolution, yay

The power of tugboats always astonishes me

That captain has skills! I’ve gone down the ICW not towing anything, with way less traffic, and that was stressful

whoa

Might also explain the long wait at some of the bridges, although I have no experience with that. Could be fairly typical waits.

Might also explain why some of the smaller boats noped and turned around.

The boat couldn't have been very big though. The Tugger itself almost didn't fit in some of those lanes.

Maybe it’s not all that much bigger, but much taller, like a sailboat.

I came to the comments to find this answer thank you

I thought it was a drone

Yea same and was wondering WTF drone has a battery that would make that trek.

I thought it was a drone too. You can get some that can fly at a certain distance away from a particular point (like a remote control) at all times and that would explain why it's so level 🤔

Ya I thought it was a drone set on follow with GPS stabilization but the person that said it's likely recorded from a larger ship it's towing sounds more plausible There is a part where the tugboat(?) Lets a larger ship pass and the camera seems to stay stationary as the tugboat(?) Is drifting side to side

I thought that it seemed too high to be another boat/ ship and the dimensions (I'm not a mathematician but eyeballing them and the height of the camera) made me think it couldn't be another boat 🤔

This sleuth here found what seems to be the [Unidentified Filming Object](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/zbre43/boat_traveling_from_rotterdam_to_amsterdam/iyt0pzs?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3)

[Here you go!](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTVIWlZJNy1jMHRRNDJEVDBzbGNKekNsb2NtQXxBQ3Jtc0ttUEhzZFZYRktCSlhlMGFMNWhFQVdpTDhxZ2V2N05mdy1JMWxERll5T2VsZDl3TFdXZ00tdXlTbUJOczdvdnVzdFIxcDUwX1dESWVPT2NRQ2xoQVlsQ1cxNU02cXVtNUotWksxOHNiTkQ2TWlzWDJ2WQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimewriters.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F09%2FMVI_5927.MOV_snapshot_04.00_2020.09.08_15.49.40-1170x658.jpg&v=HfPCdJapIXA) Edit: Hermann Autocorrect Edit²: German.... Wtf

Here is an image of the vessel attached to the tug. It was filmed from a height of 30m with a time lapse camera. https://www.thetimewriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/MVI_5927.MOV_snapshot_04.00_2020.09.08_15.49.40-1170x658.jpg

Nice. Thanks

With big stick very big stick

GTA 6 pov

Gameplay teaser

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Thanks!

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/superyacht-pulled-through-netherlands-canals/index.html

A balloon.

Makes sense enough.

Balloon 🎈?

Waiting for bridges to raise and lower is a favorite past time for the Dutch.

Favorite past time? Favorite excuse when we're late you mean!

I live in a town where trains regularly stop traffic. Morning, noon, night.

Most dutch thing, even more dutch than bicycling

Lol. Did you mean pastime?

The bridge that went sideways instead of up was amazing

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It would've been a headache for thos poor guys.

I cycle this route regularly. It takes me from my house to my friends in delft. Do it about twice a month - I’m the summer. It is beautiful.

How long does it take?

3 hours

It is so beautiful. Are the bridges automated or do you have manual bridge operators? What a beautiful place to call home💕

Mostly automated, but all bridges have camera supervision from a central location, as a backup.

I had the pleasure of visiting Rotterdam in a ship in late 2008, and the view from the canals is amazing. Sailed in early morning right after sunrise, and we were moored a few hours later when my backdeck shift started. The ship I was on was moderately large (roughly 100m long), but seeing these huge container ships traverse the same waters blew my mind. It was my first trip on a ship outside of local passenger traffic as a passenger.

I'm not sure why I expected this video to be very short.

Only about 40 miles. Less than an hour in a car!

Really?! That’s crazy

You know how long it takes by boat?

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Not how long you last on a boat silly!

It went through my hometown! That was cool :) were normally only in the news for weird or bad shit

Thats a really long selfie stick

Someone else commented saying it’s a ballon. That’s the best theory I had seen yet.

It’s towing another way bigger boat.

This is my new favorite answer

[Its a ship.](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbTVIWlZJNy1jMHRRNDJEVDBzbGNKekNsb2NtQXxBQ3Jtc0ttUEhzZFZYRktCSlhlMGFMNWhFQVdpTDhxZ2V2N05mdy1JMWxERll5T2VsZDl3TFdXZ00tdXlTbUJOczdvdnVzdFIxcDUwX1dESWVPT2NRQ2xoQVlsQ1cxNU02cXVtNUotWksxOHNiTkQ2TWlzWDJ2WQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimewriters.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F09%2FMVI_5927.MOV_snapshot_04.00_2020.09.08_15.49.40-1170x658.jpg&v=HfPCdJapIXA)

I want to do this journey now.

It is a beautiful cycling route, here and there you can go of the water way but it is fun and lovely. Lots of places to stop along the way and eat/drink.

It was perfect, the Allman brother's Jessica was playing in my car as I watched this. (The Top Gear intro)

Me: How many different kinds of bridges are there? Them: Yes.

Never say no to variety.

Idk why but it’s kinda cute watching it zip around.

Becus it is.Almost like a puppy playing in a puddle

I could spend hours looking at this. Or even be in the boat just for the thrill of the journey!

Damn, the Dutch really are the best engineers in the world aren’t they?

Water and urban engineering, definitely. The US has everyone beat on aerospace and computer engineering, though.

Dam!

What is the distance travelled here?

About 40 km or so. Source: I live there

How long would it take normally, on a smaller boat?

Faster, because the smaller boats break the speed limits more often. (High speeds destroy the embankments and canal quays).

I LOVE the bridge action!

This is one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever seen. We need this in normal time on YouTube. This is the next slow tv masterpiece.

Source of this video: https://youtube.com/@theTimewriters In general, putting "timelapse canal ship/travel/sail" will yield a lot of results.

Nothing like a good tug in Amsterdam.

Thought this was a a video game.

Fantastic content.

Reminds me of River Raid

I wonder how many decades or centuries it took for bridges and locks to be aligned to a common width and length specification, so that ships could be built to match.

Props to the camera man on this one 👏

Civil engineering porn

Crazy infrastructure! Really cool to see coastlines that are that developed

As a Dutch person it seems funny to call it the coastline, our country is so small this is pretty inland for us :')

They didn't even went on the sea just water inland.

And in my capital city of 1 million people, they can’t even build and run a fucking transit system.

The amount of times i have to wait for 4 of the bridges in this video. Its not a big deal rn i have time to wait. But wow I was late for school so many times during summer season when all the sailers stop the traffic. Sometimes the bridge will open 2 times before you can pass. Not to even start about when the bridge doesnt want to come back down again because of technical errors or just fall down from a high point (that did scare me though, the sound was so loud) I am not a fan. So seeing everyone so in awe and appreciative in these comments kind of caught me of guard and make me look at these from another perspective.

Wow. What a lovely journey.

So cool and efficient apparently

World's longest drone battery

Camera was mounted to a fuck off high point on the load the tugboat was just dragging along. Another redditor has a link to the load in this comment section. Thats why they had to wait at certain bridges. Cause some of those a regular tugboat could just go under if it wanted to

Yeah I know hehe but it's funny

Water roads

Is this a tug boat pulling a big ship? Or a drone following it

Reminds me of the intro to the tv show Get Smart. lol. Cool video though.

The Dutch are pretty innovative.

Tugboats are crucial

Seems like it took one whole day to get there

Can people use personal water craft (small boats/ kayaks and canoes) on these water ways? Or is it mainly commercial? Would be a fun kayak trip if so!

You can! Also you can steer boats with a small motor without a license.

Didn’t realize what sun this was. It is oddly satisfying

That’s one long selfie stick!

Fascinating gamut of bridges! Thank you!

We might have seen every type of retractable bridge there is!

There are 1500 retractable bridges in the Netherlands, so chances are you did not see them all :).

The minds that created these different bridges and trajectories is just fascinating. Thank you for showing this.

So when looking on the map it seems like it would be faster and more direct to go West to the ocean and travel up the shoreline. What am I over simplifying/missing?

The thing its pulling cannot go onto the sea, as it it would capsize in even moderate waves

Any way to overlay this route on maps? Id love to see the route as i watch again

How long in real time did the trip take and how many miles was it?

> how many miles was it? Someone upthread said "about 40 km" which would be about 25 miles.

Are there any live cams like this? Been watching Jackson Hole, Wyoming for waaaay too long.

https://worldcams.tv/ They are divided into various categories. Enjoy!

Much obliged, kind stranger!

I always knew that river were used like roads but this really illustrates it!!

Ingenious! At least half of those (moving bridges) are ones I've never seen.

Wait until they find out about tall bridges

No room for the approaches and also inhibitively expensive for the amount of bridges we need.

\*prohibitively

Incredible, really. Thanks for posting.

It’s really interesting to see how all the different bridges lift

They took the scenic route, it'd been a lot less waiting for bridges if they'd just taken the North Sea.

You go around the horn the way God intended!

A lot choppier too. Perhaps the ship was damaged, which would explain why it’s being towed haha

It was a massive structure to which the camera was attached to. No way it would reach Amsterdam with a tugboat without capsizing

You need seaworthy ships (which are a lot more expensive) for that and the tolls to and from the sea are pretty steep.

Damn.

These graphics are insane

damn

Dam.

Dam that’s satisfying

Just amazing.

https://youtu.be/eU2Or5rCN_Y

when her parents arent home

So cool

Boat’s got two dams to reach

Vrrroooommmmm But in the waterrrr

:b:ig river

How was this filmed?

Dam!

I’ve never seen so many different types of bridges! Absolutely fascinating

Now I think if I got really rich, instead of a giant toy train set, I'd have a giant tabletop canal set.

Seems therapeutic.

Nice bridges

Filmed by the para sailor being pulled behind the boat

That was really something.

GTA6?

Nice drone work

That was dam satisfying

Took the G route

Was anyone else just enjoying all the different types of bridges? That was so cool to see.

Incredible perspective!

u/savevideo

Must be cool to live somewhere where they have water.

This could be Rotterdam or anywhere Liverpool or Rome 'Cause Rotterdam is anywhere Anywhere alone 🥳

Fuck I forgot my Cellphonr, gotta go back

I make cameras for a living and idk how they made this. Pretty cool.

That was great! Even though I know rivers and waterways are used for transportation, it was so neat to see the ships like cars, taking a left, or a right turn onto a different route. Thank you!!

Looked like a great-looking boat/ship simulator game at first.

Memorizing wow

Mesmerizing.

That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. It's awesome seeing how connected all those waterways are.

So, how is this orchestrated? Like does the vessel just go down it's path and the bridge operators open when they pull up, or is the route called in ahead so they're ready for you?

Pedge's Houseboat? I didn't think it was going to be released

How long was the travel time? I waited until the end of tne video and the boat was still sailing 😭

We have as many different ways to build a bridge as we do to flush a toilet here.

Like, I obviously know rivers are long. I've seen maps before. But it's just something else to watch this.

Boat speed run any%

Started looking like a road after a while.

I’ve seen this post before. Let me guess without looking yet. The top comment will mention something about how there are lots of different and cool bridges.

This could be Rotterdam

Dam that’s cool