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Christiaan Kleynhans
South Africa
Приєднався 7 вер 2011
Christiaan Kleynhans is a gutter videographer that worked himself into a video camera and now immerse himself into nature and elsewhere to find beauty to share with the world. My first success was also with my first video "The Re-floating of the MT Phoenix Tanker". Since then I have made an effort to improve the look and feel of my channel and my videos. I tell stories of the world around me. I run my Vlog under the name Chris On The Rocks. Watch me grow and grow with me. Please SUBSCRIBE to my channel, that is how you can help to see it develop so that you can see more and better material. ua-cam.com/users/ChristiaanKleynhans1
COTR - CHRIS ON THE ROCKS CHANNEL TRAILER
The Trailer of the channel run by Christiaan Kleynhans also known as Chris On The Rocks or COTR.
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CHRIS ON THE ROCKS SURF SHOWER - THE GREEN SCREEN MAKING OF BALLITO STEVE’S ROCK SHOWER PRODUCTION
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A storm on the sea can be quite intense. At Steve's Rock the effects can be seen in full glory. Imagine somebody is sitting on those rocks during such a storm. I have decided to explore this experimentally. This is how I have done it. My neighbour stood on a stepladder, and he poured a bucket of water over me while I sat on my green chair in front of a green screen. And then I cleaned out the g...
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE TSHIPISE SOUTH AFRICA 4TH DECEMBER 2002
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Just before the 4th of December 2002, a group consisting of colleagues and myself plus some other related people, converged on a South African place named Tshipise which is south-east of a town named Musina, which is close to the Zimbabwean border, in the province of Limpopo. The scientific research company, in conjunction with the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), first established...
SEA STORM AT STEVE’S ROCK, SHEFFIELD BEACH, BALLITO - DIARY 18TH SEPTEMBER 2023
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According to meteorologists and weather scientists, the weather that caused the massive swells along the Western and Eastern Cape Coast was cause by a cold front that swept over the country with its epicentre in a low pressure system way South of the country on Saturday the 16th of September 2023. Coming past this cold front was what is called a Long Fetch. According to Vox Weather Forecast [1]...
MEDITATION FOREST WATERFALL SCENES AT GIBA GORGE - DIARY ENTRY 25TH OF OCTOBER 2012
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Geographical Positions (Copy and Paste the coordinates into Google Earth Search to see the location): GIBA GORGE FOREST WATERFALL, KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA 29.799107°S 30.776752°E All of this work is of my creation, and I am the producer and owner of it, unless otherwise stated. FURTHER SOURCES: [1] www.gibagorge.co.za/
RICHARDS BAY MV SMART BULK COAL CARRIER DISASTER COMEDY OF ERRORS PHOTO HISTORY-AUG 2013-JUNE 2015
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CHAPTERS 00:00:17 21 August 2013 HOW THE MV SMART STRANDED ON A SANDBANK AND SNAPPED IN TWO 00:00:38 26 August 2013 MV SMART FUEL OIL AND DIESEL REMOVAL COMMENCED TO AVOID POLLUTION DISASTER 00:01:20 30 August 2013 CONTINUATION OF FUEL AND OIL REMOVAL 00:01:48 16 September 2013 THE ARMADA CONDOR CRANE VESSEL ARRIVED AND IS ACTIVE IN ASSISTING WITH REMOVAL 00:02:15 05 October 2013 THE DRAMATIC S...
THE FOURTH AND FINAL REFLOATING ATTEMPT OF THE MT PHOENIX TANKER - PART 6 - 3RD SEPTEMBER 2011
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So, at 05h30 (AM) on the morning of the 3rd of September we arrived to find a gathering of people that were present on the street viewpoint on the hill above the MT PHOENIX TANKER SHIP. Plenty more were also assembled on the beach next to it. Some even brought their own chairs. It was still fairly dark, but the light was increasing. We went down to the beach, and I set up my tripod. I took my f...
THE THIRD RE-FLOATING ATTEMPT OF THE MT PHOENIX TANKER - PART 5 - 2ND OF AUGUST 2011
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On the2nd of August, a third attempt to re-float the stranded MT Phoenix tanker ship that ran aground on a bed of rocks at the beach in of Sheffield Beach, Ballito and in the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa, was going to be made. The salvage tugboat, the SMIT Amandla were also of assistance to stabilize the stranded ship. This is the fifth UA-cam video documentary story that runs over...
THE SECOND RE-FLOATING ATTEMPT OF THE MT PHOENIX TANKER - PART 4 - 1ST AUGUST 2011
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On the 1st of August 2011, a second attempt was going to be made, immediately a day after the failed attempt of the previous day, to re-float the MT Phoenix Tanker. The previous day showed no movement at all, the sea was too calm to facilitate any significant loft for the ship. The advantage of the spring tide was too important to let go off and if this opportunity was missed, it will take quit...
THE FIRST RE-FLOATING ATTEMPT OF THE MT PHOENIX TANKER - PART 3 - 31ST JULY 2011
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On the 31st of July 2011, a re-floating attempt was going to be made on the stranded MT Phoenix tanker ship that ran aground on a bed of rocks at the beach in of Sheffield Beach, Ballito and in the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa. The company SMIT Amandla provided the salvaging tugboat that was going to be involved. We were in spring-tide and with a favourable, preferably choppy sea, ...
MT PHOENIX TANKER SALVAGE WORK, POLLUTION CONTROL, PREPARE FOR RE-FLOATING - PART 2 - 28 July 2011
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On the 28th of July 2011, salvage work commenced on the stranded MT Phoenix tanker ship that ran aground on a bed of rocks at the beach in of Sheffield Beach, Ballito and in the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa. This involved a few companies that offered specials skills and technology to ensure that there won’t be any fuel or oil or other spills. Drums with oil were moved to the back o...
THE STRANDING OF THE MT PHOENIX TANKER - PART 1 - 26 July 2011
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In a storm on the 26th of July 2011, The MT Phoenix tanker ship ran aground on a bed of rocks at the beach in the quiet upmarket suburb of Sheffield Beach which is part of the town Ballito. On the east coast of the province of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa. After the stranding a whole process was started to do the necessary salvaging, pollution control and environmental assessments while a re-f...
SUNRISE OVER CHRISTMAS BAY VISUAL POEM - DIARY ENTRY 12TH OF JUNE 2013
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DESCRIPTION On the 12th of June 2013 I woke up early and went to the beach at Christmas Bay here in Ballito with my video camera. I took footage of the sunrise over the sea and what you have here is a combination of all the clips in mostly loner format so that the viewer can enjoy it as a meditation. Geographical Positions (Copy and Paste the coordinates into Google Earth Search to see the loca...
THROUGH THE ZASM TUNNEL TO THE WATERFALL AND BACK - DIARY ENTRY 14TH NOVEMBER 2012
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In this video we take a walk through the dark almost 130 year old ZASM Tunnel in Mpumalanga, South Africa to the magnificent scenic Elands river waterfall on the other side. This tunnel is at Waterval-Boven and just a few kilometers from Waterval-Onder and the Five Arches Bridge. The rail was built by the Nederlandsch-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij, also called NZASM or ZASM. It was par...
SUNSET OVER RICHARDS BAY HARBOUR DURING SALVAGING OF MV SMART COAL TANKER- VISUAL POEM 13TH MAY 2015
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On this evening I was filming late as there was some activity around the salvaging of the MV SMART Coal Tanker. The sun started to set and I captured some beautiful scenes while I tried to keep my eyes on the salvage barges as well. I decided to make this little video as a little visual poem. The shots are long and the idea is that it should relax the viewer. Enjoy! SOUNDTRACK:Intuit256 by Kevi...
ODE TO AMAZING WORKING TUGBOATS POSITIONING A TANKER IN DURBAN PORT - VISUAL POEM 28TH APRIL 2013
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ODE TO AMAZING WORKING TUGBOATS POSITIONING A TANKER IN DURBAN PORT - VISUAL POEM 28TH APRIL 2013
WAVE DANCING FIDDLER CRABS AT MHLALI RIVER / CHRISTMAS BAY - VISUAL POEM_2019_03_23
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DURBAN STORM DAMAGE AND CLEANUP OPERATION - DIARY 27TH APRIL 2019
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LONG LASTING BALLITO BLOOD MOON SMOOTH TIMESLICES - VISUAL POEM_2018_07_27
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DEAD HUMPBACK BABY WHALE WASHED OUT AT BLYTHEDALE BEACH, KWADUKUZA - DIARY_2017_11_30
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SEARCHING FOR A DEAD HUMPBACK WHALE AT MTUNZINI BEACH - DIARY_2017_08_26
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MTUNZINI MANGROVE SWAMP FOREST WALKTHROUGH - VISUAL POEM 2017_08_26
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BE NO FOOD TODAY - SEAGULLS LIVING IN STORM STONED AFTERMATH AT SALMON BAY- VISUAL POEM 2014_09_01
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BE NO FOOD TODAY - SEAGULLS LIVING IN STORM STONED AFTERMATH AT SALMON BAY- VISUAL POEM 2014_09_01
A SHORT VISUAL POEM ON TWO GLOOMY DAY FISHERMEN AT SHEFFIELD BEACH - VISUAL POEM 2017_11_09
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DURBAN STORM KILLED LOST ENDANGERED SPECIES AFRICAN PENGUIN AT CHRISTMAS BAY,BALLITO-DIARY2017_10_11
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DEAD HUMPBACK WHALE UNFOLDING TALE-REMOVING A GIANT- BOULDER BAY, BALLITO - DIARY20100818 - PART 2
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#THEBALLITOPRO BILLABONG-JORDY SMITH THE MAN-FINAL DAY PICS AT WILLARD BEACH, BALLITO-DIARY_20170708
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LUCKY ME SPOTTED THE FLYING FISH IN SCENERY AT SHEFFIELD BEACH, BALLITO - DIARY 5TH OF APRIL 2017
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LUCKY ME SPOTTED THE FLYING FISH IN SCENERY AT SHEFFIELD BEACH, BALLITO - DIARY 5TH OF APRIL 2017
Big hugs from bohemian forest. I like the music and the special touch it contributes to the documentary… but hey, may I ask how much money you were able to make with it ?
the music is super anoying
Annoying
@@ChristiaanKleynhans annoying
Furchtbar 😂
silly music for goofies
Slow down boet
❤😂🎉🎉😢😮😮😅😊😊😊😊😊😅😅😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉prost,.nawigator,.pres,kopf.,😅😅😮😮😢😢🎉😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤😂
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Great job
Incredibly impressive, the strength of a tugboat has an engine even more powerful than a ship...
Great work Chris! This was really nice to watch as your footage made one feel that you are there on the beach!
Thank you for watching Marietjie and that you made the effort to comment. I was hoping that the feeling would be immersive of the environment and that is why I made these more extensive videos on this subject.
Great docementory series with the amazing photography and videos!!! Thank you very much for sharing that journey with us and looking forward to more from you!!!
And the plot thickens… Very interesting video!
Thank you very much. And the next episiode is already available. Thanks for your comment.
Beautiful video, interesting story and looking forward to your next episode....
Thx Chris, you did excellent research and your footage is brilliant.
Thank you very much Marietjie. I appreciate your supportive words.
Very educational & informative and with some amazing photos &videos!!! Thank you for sharing and looking forward to your next episode...
Interesting indeed....
Very interesting!
Glad you think so! Thank you very much.
I am hooked Chris. You covered this so well. Loved it.
Thank you very much Marietjie.
Another good documentary very informative. Also love your beautiful photographics!!! Thank you for shating and keen to know the fate of her, await for your next one....
Very interesting!
Thank you!
I like this Chris. You worked very hard. Brilliant footage and narrative.
Thank you very much Marietjie.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans @Christiaan Kleynhans Thank you all with camera's doing the job of filming these fascinating doc's. I am simply addicted. No need for cable tv anymore. I can watch these types of videos forever. Your channel has a great variety of things that I love.👍 Thank you. Hello from Atlanta Ga USA 👋
What an incredible story!💥
Thank you Karin.
A good documentary, well made, the tone and the speed of the narrative are very calm, clear and comfortable to listen too so really looking forward to your next episode.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you L, I appreciate your kind words.
Nicely done Dad!
Thank ypu.
Though the out come was beautiful but that wooded balcony was frightening.
I agree. But it also adds a bit of drama which is always nice to have in a video. I was a bit nervous to walk there.
This first effort is visually powerful, truly original artistry. The bucolic Bach sound track reflects the light--hearted mood of the bystanders on holiday. This choice of music is a stroke of genius. The technical flaws in videography are normal for a first effort and easily ignored. If only there were a UA-cam audience for more examples of the author's huge talents..
Hehehehe Roger, I am not sure if you are serious or sarcastic. Hopefully you mean it. I agree, I would love to have an audience for my other videos. I have spent more time and effort on the later ones and it is sometimes a very ungrateful job. You need to have a kind of love for what you do. I hope to release a rework of the material of this video as it is almost 10 years since this happened.
How safe is it for tourists to stop theirm
@@ChristiaanKleynhans how can we get hold of the guard please?
@@mashaalekperova5627 Hi Masha, this was in 2012 and I found the guard at the parking spot where I stopped. There were even lady guards. I have no idea what the current situation is but I think there is an info-buro in town which should be able to tell you and maybe they may even organize one for you. I think they all wear special T-Shirts so that you don't get conned by rip-off artists.
Love the views, wish I could sit there in person!
Beautiful!!!
Блять,что музыка так орёт,нихуя не могу разобрать,что там автор пиздит!!!!
Music is too loud. Drowns out the narration. Subtitles not displayed long enough too read
Use the pause option.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans pause darkens the image AND YT-player text overlays your too-tiny text making it impossible to read
Interesting story, but unfortunately I had to interrupt my viewing due to impossible music, which doesn't fit the subject at all and it's way overbalanced to narrative
@andreproject4285 You could have watched the remakes. This was my first video on UA-cam and I had to use music that was legal. 13 million views. And I had an 8 minute limit. Now I have 5 episodes and the music is gone. Good luck.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans thanks, this one I found ua-cam.com/video/IBZJYoIdxTI/v-deo.htmlsi=DV9g4UnC_DhRqqWS
It would have been interesting to see that ship dissolve after being there for 50 years, but it’s Betsy to get it out so it doesn’t harm marine life
This is the incident ship where the tanker got stranded. Is the ship can not be saved to anchor
And then, after all that effort, the Phoenix sinks in shallow water due to a huge gash in the hill created by the rocks on which it had been trapped.
Stupid music
Good video,awful music.
Poor Bach.
Matadouro frigorifico
Loud music... What did he say? I'll have to watch this another 45 times
I don't mind. I love to get views.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans You mean you don,t care. You won,t get mine views again.
The music was too loud and the speaker too soft
Such a waste of materials! I tought, if they fight so hard for it, they want to repair the ship and make it operational again. If the plan was to waste it. Wasn't it better to cut it into pieces and recycle? Or if not - leave it for local junkyard heros... But no! Ownership is sanctity. If one with a torch shows up, 10 min. later would be yet another one claiming rights to the ship and issueing a law suit... So sad...
The ship was going to be scrapped in anycase before it even stranded. People did not want it to remain in their suburb and where do you suggest it should be parked for the local junkyard heroes?
The music is way to loud. It is really difficult to hear the commenter. The titles are shown for a way to short period of time so there is not time enough to read them. Really poor editing!
Thanks. I had a look at your videos and I have learned a lot. We are here for each other.
What’s with the music!
Not everybody understand Bach.
Music terrible
You are Sqeaky.
Mooi video Christiaan! Ek geniet Jou videos!
Baie dankie vir jou positiewe kommentaar Theo en dankie dat jy kyk. DIt inspireer my om aan nog te werk. Ek gaan harder moet probeer, daar is baie materiaal op my hardeskywe.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans dankie vir die reply!
Sound is trrrible with the music
You are just having a bad day Benjamin. I understend! We are living in difficult times. It is not easy to see the beauty in anything anymore. I suggest you switch on the mute and read. If you cant keep up, use the pause. That is what is nice about UA-cam. Seeing that you and me are just ordinary people and that this was my first attempt at a UA-cam video in 2011, we have to accept that there may be errors. Especially as this video was produced under pressure with primitive equipment. The fact that I am almost at 13 million views and over 75% likes to dislikes, shows that there are people out there that can actually seethe beauty and found it informative. Better luck next time.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans its not critisism actually,its just directing your attention to it as i was also interested in it but was not willing to listen to a barely hearable soundtrack and music that fades your voice out.
@@benjamincoetzer7611 Thanks Benjamin. In ten years my attention has been drawn a lot to it and I have answered this many, many times. I just wonder why that is the only thing that people see.
@@ChristiaanKleynhans It's because this is good content wasted on a bad audio mixing. It's a shame for the work you put in. that's why people notice
For all the time, I felt like in some 14th century Atlantic travel game for 8 bit machines [C= 64] xD
Wonderful video. I have studied this then crucial enterprise for both for the Portuguese and the SAR (it was a fixation for President Kruger, really). I travelled many times between Mozambique and Johannesburg and passed near this site on the...N4?. There is a book in Portuguese, written many years ago by LM-based historian Alfredo Pereira de Lima, called "Kruger's Millions", about the alleged gold treasure of the SAR. He also wrote "The History of the Mozambique Railroad", a masterpiece (in Portuguese) of which I have a copy here in Portugal, with every little detail of the Lourenço Marques-Pretoria endeavour. This tunnel is a historical monument and I am glad it is still in place.
Wow interesting
Wow, been there on "Veldskool" in gr 7, this took me way back with fond memories. Thx for taking ud to the other side and the beautiful waterfall and scenery! You had guts walking through. Thx also for the lesson in our history. This was great, loved the music!
Sorry should read great Grandfather
No problem Barbara.
My Grandfather was a stone mason who helped build this the stonework is still beautiful pity stone masonry has been lost to the world.
Thanks for this interesting piece of extra information Barbara. It is very interesting. I can just imagine what it was like in those times and they did a good job that is still standing very well.
Those waterfalls at the end of the tunnel are spectacular 👍👍👍 A good documentary, thank you for sharing with us!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Lijuan. Thanks for watching.