Inchindown: a former Royal Navy depot which has the longest echo in the world

@ElentirENG ES 5·10·2023 · 23:37 0

There are abandoned sites that have fascinating features. One of the most amazing is found in the Scottish Highlands.

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In 1938, the British Royal Navy began construction of a large ship fuel depot at Invergordon, near the city's naval base. Officially named Inchindown Royal Navy Fuel Tanks, the bomb-proof, underground tank was completed in 1941 and consists of six tanks, five of which are 237 meters long, 9 meters wide and 13.5 meters high, and a sixth shorter tank.

The tank remained in service until the Falklands War (1982), when it reached its maximum capacity, according to BBC. In 1988 a plan to upgrade this reservoir was scrapped and it was finally abandoned in 2002, after undergoing extensive cleaning. Outwardly, the deposit goes very unnoticed. The only clue that there is a huge deposit there are the accesses to it.

In January 2014, this ancient repository was the site of a curious test organized by Professor Trevor Cox, an acoustic engineer at the University of Salford, and by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS): a gun was fired inside the tunnel and the reverberation of the sound lasted 112 seconds, setting a world record that until then had been held by the Hamilton Mausoleum in Lanarkshire since 1970.

In 2018, Tom Scott repeated that test , which we can see in this video: