The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe
At the Tyne Tunnels, I get very wet and cold underneath a river… but not how you might expect. | AD: 🪒 Less razor burn, less waste, and 100 free blades: https://hensonshaving.com/tomscott | 🗺️ Series map: https://www.tomscott.com/england/
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@TomScottGo
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Yes, that is a Jimmy Nail reference in the opening monologue. | AD: 🪒 I was really impressed by Henson Shaving, they just make a really good razor. Get one with 100 free blades: https://hensonshaving.com/tomscott
@CarloPiana
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Cool. Literally!
@FCBfullMatch
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Next week: Tom Scott, a writer, and the Stalker experience the brutal horrors of The Zone
@hingedelephant
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
It is so good to have you back, Tom.
@jfwfreo
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
The whole "behind the scenes at some cool place the public doesn't normally get to see" genre of YouTube video is one of my favorites.
@Feynt
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
13:40 – Ha, he said "Oh!"
@MusicalMarauder
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
i love that you can tell which buttons are the big red ones even with the blurring
@Mayurpaj
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Same system is also used in ship engine rooms. We call it hyper mist system.
When there is an unsuppressable Engine room fire we had co2 system which reqd. complete closure and evacuation of the space.
And always a risk of killing someone due to CO2 due to not evacuating before activation.
But with hypermist no such dangers and only need to fill the tank with fresh water to use again. CO2 system vessel need to go to port just to replace spent CO2 cylinders.
@ChrisTopher88A
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
dude this is one of the best channels on the tube
@Jenny-n6j1f
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Is bar metric?🤔
@glypnir
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
I wonder if this will have any effect at all on a lithium battery fire? One hopes it will cool things down enough to protect people and tunnel structure away from the fire. I wonder if they’ve got a test tunnel somewhere that they’ve used to test a big lithium battery fire with the mist system. Also, of course, an oil fire. Would the mist cool things down enough, or would it just float the fire down the road.
@Kezajaws01904
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
My main takeaway from this is that "float valve" is the actual term for "the floaty ball in the toilet" XD
@nkende
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
The footage was already so cool, must've been 100x cooler actually standing under the mist!
@bodyshotbill
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
If a 6'5" man can work in tunnels for decades, you can do anything
@manudehanoi
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
the english mug on the table….on a coaster 😀 😀
@damie9412
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
N8ce
@_Cactyss
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
i love companies that suggest things like this
@alexcrouse
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
That was exceptional!
@Smeiksmeiksmeik
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
3:11 the fact that davids face is blurred too in that shot makes it seem as if he is also a big red emergency button
@DrywallJackson
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
So this is the “fog challenge”
@joshuakarr-BibleMan
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Bar is atmospheric, same root as barometric.
1 bar is one atmosphere of pressure. 10 bar is the equivalent of ten atmospheres of pressure.
150 bar is what you'd find deep underwater.
@CiderDivider
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Bang on video as always, Tom! And thank you again for your helpful captioning. May more cool opportunities come your way to show us 🙂
@ED-EllisDee
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
I can see you spent quite a bit of Tyne on this
@glennmcgurrin8397
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
@14:17 that's the same as most sprinkler systems, they are not designed to put the fire out, just slow it and give time to evacuate and to a lesser degree responders to arrive. The only systems I normally hear of designed to actually put it out are the inert gas or similar systems.
@Russeljrjs
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
13:41 I'm too immature for this
@BWalnuts
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
I only laughed at ballcock because Tom told me not to laugh at ballcock
@ahomestucker
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
yay, a less clickbait-y title
@AccidentalNinja
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Risking hypothermia for our education & entertainment.
@Max_Marz
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
play with a pressure washer sometime, from anything more than a foot away it just feels like wet wind
@Hesmos_
May 26, 2026 at 6:34 am
Donno why but the thumbnail looks so similar to MJ from thriller, like any second Tom's gonna start doing some fire dance steps.
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