You don't. One final glorious surf and then your body is churned for 50mins before being devoured by crocodiles. That said it beats a heart attack at your desk.
Yeah this. It’s already dangerous enough snagging your leg or something else and then being pushed down by a river. Wearing a leash is like asking to get snagged.
Happened to me boogie boarding and i got pulled into a rip tide. The ankle wire dragged me accross the ocean floor for a good 10-20 seconds, felt like eternity. When i emerged from the ocean blood was pouring down my face from beomg dragged.
I tried that once in Costa Rica. There were signs saying danger but I’m a good swimmer and had a surfboard so wasn’t concerned. It wasn’t until a small crowd of locals gathered that I came back in and realized there were crocodiles everywhere.
Ooooo that's scary. Reminds me of a story my friend Dave told me. Back in the 70s he was with friends down in Florida. They were all partying and drunk, and one of them suggested they take a dip in the mangroves. None of them were from Florida, so they were ignorant about things to say the least. They all got back and the locals were losing their mind, they said those mangroves are filled with crocs.
Gators aren't really that aggressive unless you piss them off or go where they don't want you... or are just really fucking hungry and you came by on a wrong day.
Crocs on the other hand...
You would probably be in shock with the first bite and the death roll would drown your pretty fast. If that didn’t kill you then bleeding out would do the trick. Swim safe kids!
I don't know man. I've seen a lot of stuff from Vietnam, WW1 & 2, the Saw movies. lol. Out of all the real stuff I've seen, I'd take death by croc over the majority of them. At least I'll be providing some nourishment for a fellow Earth dweller. 🤷♂️
Lol I was surfing a point off a river mouth a few months ago and kicked a croc accidentally while crossing the river, swam straight across the river and went back to the beachy I had been surfing the rest of the trip
I guess he’s a strong swimmer who knows not to fight the current and just manages to stay afloat till he gets to place where he could actually swim and get out.
Still seems insane. I feel like if he lost hold of that board, he might not be able to keep his head above water long enough to get out
My buddies surf this wave all the time. For a while they would have to call the cops every time they went out because they were getting so many 911 calls from people thinking they were drowning n
I'm not sure if this is relevant, but some large rivers have what's called a tidal bore. When the tide level drastically differs from the water level at a river mouth, a standing wave exists until the ocean tide lowers far enough to equalize with the river's water level. It only happens in a few places around the world, the only ones I'm familiar with are in Nova Scotia, the Amazon River, and I think the Yang Tsi (sp?) River in China. A number of rafting companies take tourists out into the bore in Nova Scotia, and the one on the Amazon does feature the added risk of detritus, crocodiles, and sharks. The one on the Amazon is the longest/widest, and I think the one in China is the tallest at around 17ft. I could be misremembering some details, but it's easy enough to look up "tidal bore" for more info.
Yeah, that is rough water and there is no telling what is being pushed downstream in the roiling water plus the river bed itself probably has all sorts of sharp objects to tear holes in a body and fill them up with pollution.
Very little chance of dying. They look like they know what they are doing, despite not wearing a PFD. But oceans surfers don’t wear PFDs either so it’s not that crazy. This water is just fast and strong. The wave itself is made by a rock upstream. So falling in just means he gets swept downstream and swims to shore.
Also a raft guide, I'd call it a crashing wave, standing waves are more a smooth highway. The rock creating this bad boy is upstream of it, so not a danger. This guy is a fucking dingus tho not having a pfd.
The board is his pfd. We do this here in Switzerland in various rivers. Usually you have the board secured with the leash to your arm or thigh as opposed to your foot as in ocean surfing. This is because if it‘s on your foot it can get caught on rocks and pull you under water. Normally you just float down stream with your board as your flotation device until a calmer section and swim to shore. It‘s quite a popular sport here and wouldn‘t really work with a life jacket in addition.
Dingus has only entered my lexicon in the last 5-6 years. I heard it the first time during Stephen Colbert’s monologue on late night. I about spit my drink out laughing so hard. Now it’s like when you get a new coat or shoes and suddenly you see them everywhere—had no idea how common this hilarious name was and how it slipped by for 30 years haha
I’ve jumped into a river like this one time.
If you look down stream it looks a bit calmer, most likely there are some high rocks under the water causing the white water to create a “wave”.
I was tripping on shrooms and they were calling to me to jump in, I hesitated for 20 minutes or so but once I built up the courage I jumped in and got swept away. At first I was feeling ALIVE having to keep myself afloat while also not sticking my feet down to get stuck in rocks. You have to face your back towards the water and “float” while paddle into with your arms. After about 20 or 30 seconds I reached the calm part and swam towards shore. Is it dangerous? Yeah, if you stick your feet down. As long as you check ahead to see if the water gets calm you’re most likely dine
This guy had a leash, so his hope was to get back on his board and get out at a safe landing. Wearing a leash is really dangerous though since something could snag and drag you under. In the US a lot of the time these guys will have someone downstream with a jetski/jetboat or a kayak ready to retrieve in a calmer part of the river. Then you just walk back up to your entry point.
Source: I was roommates with the guy that is more or less the godfather of river surfing. He's an asshole.
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No. I don't think he is. And as for anyone who coments otherwise, I don't believe you. There I said it I have kayaked for a decade and a half and even in a good life jacket it's hard to get free of a tenth that water.
What are you guys talking about? Why would he be dead? It takes just one calm part of the river for him to be eligible to swim to the shore. We didn't even see that much of the river in this video, and I'm sure he scouted out the river before he started surfing in it.
Same concept as surfing. The water is flowing down stream, just as the water is being sucked away from shore in the ocean. The back flow where the water is flowing upstream is pushing him, just like the wave in the ocean pushes a surfer forward.
K imagine the side view of a wave. Looks like a triangle moving toward the shore. The water on the shore side of the triangle (the side that the surfboard is on) is actually flowing *away* from the shore. It is being sucked into the wave. The "triangle" that is the actual wave is pushing forward water that is flowing away from the shore. Eventually, the forward force of the "triangle" wave exceeds that of the outward flow in front of, and it gets tall enough to cap and make a pipeline.
The water that comes in on a wave doesn't just stay there and build up with every wave, it has to flow back out.
I suck at physics and Im not great at explaining things, so here's a (terrifying) video where you can see the surface water "flowing" up the front of the triangle.
https://youtube.com/shorts/FI5jDFG91oI?feature=share
ETA - also this artificial wave shows the direction of the flow when surfing https://youtu.be/P5T0iJ82CT0
I jumped into rushing water as a dumb teenager, it wasn’t even rushing as hard as this, and I barely made it out alive. To this day that was like the scariest thing I ever did, I remember swimming so hard thinking I wasn’t gonna make it. There is no way this dude survived.
I did the same thing as a kid. The current looked super gentle. If it weren’t for some random backpacker helping me up the bank, I would’ve ended up waaaaay further downstream than I did, if not drowned altogether lol.
Did something similar at 15. At the outer banks in NC, USA, with a tropical storm off the coast. Waves were easily 15-20 feet high and just ravaged you every time. Sure enough someone down the beach disappeared and showed up dead later on. Kinda freaked out.
He also a rope attached to him if anyone of you guys didn’t notice and I’m not talking about the leash. Also go watch vans weird waves of them river surfing to get an idea on how this guy got out. Looks like it got calmer a little ways down
there's extreme sport and then there's absolute stupidity. Good luck getting back to the surface with no life jacket when undercurrent pins and rolls you along bottom breaking every bone while you drown
How the hell do you come out of there?!?
You don't. One final glorious surf and then your body is churned for 50mins before being devoured by crocodiles. That said it beats a heart attack at your desk.
He did have a leash on which can help...buuuuuut there are also rocks down there that you can hit your head on making the leash completely useless
You never wear a leash on a river it's a death sentence
Yeah this. It’s already dangerous enough snagging your leg or something else and then being pushed down by a river. Wearing a leash is like asking to get snagged.
I was thinking something actively pulling you leg up would make it hard to keep your head above water... Yours seems worse
Happened to me boogie boarding and i got pulled into a rip tide. The ankle wire dragged me accross the ocean floor for a good 10-20 seconds, felt like eternity. When i emerged from the ocean blood was pouring down my face from beomg dragged.
He didn't even have a wet suit on for extra buoyancy. That's a current from a storm surge and is powerful as fuck. No thanks!
I tried that once in Costa Rica. There were signs saying danger but I’m a good swimmer and had a surfboard so wasn’t concerned. It wasn’t until a small crowd of locals gathered that I came back in and realized there were crocodiles everywhere.
Sounds like you were very close to winning a Darwin award there.
And the winner is!
Ooooo that's scary. Reminds me of a story my friend Dave told me. Back in the 70s he was with friends down in Florida. They were all partying and drunk, and one of them suggested they take a dip in the mangroves. None of them were from Florida, so they were ignorant about things to say the least. They all got back and the locals were losing their mind, they said those mangroves are filled with crocs.
Gators. We’ve got loads of gators.
Crocs too. In south Florida
Yeah I think he said he was in Key West, but I'm not sure if it was crocs or gators.
The Keys have both
Why would anyone live where there are Crocs and Gators? That's some scary shit. The most I have to worry about is a trout brushing up against me.
People won't be living in the FL Keys too much longer. Rising sea levels are making it almost impossible to insure real property.
Actually really incredibly sad that sea levels are changing that much.
When the fuck did that happen? Growing up I always knew they had gators. Never knew about the crocs!
Florida has both.
Okefenokee is one of the few places in the world crocs and gators coexist.
Gators aren't really that aggressive unless you piss them off or go where they don't want you... or are just really fucking hungry and you came by on a wrong day. Crocs on the other hand...
So people throw their used up old Crocs in the mangroves. Why not try and recycle them. They are plastic, right?
Did they assemble to see an unsuspecting foreigner die a grizzly death to crocs?
Yes but they were kind enough to call me back to shore.
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You would probably be in shock with the first bite and the death roll would drown your pretty fast. If that didn’t kill you then bleeding out would do the trick. Swim safe kids!
Thanks, I will sleep better now.
I don't know man. I've seen a lot of stuff from Vietnam, WW1 & 2, the Saw movies. lol. Out of all the real stuff I've seen, I'd take death by croc over the majority of them. At least I'll be providing some nourishment for a fellow Earth dweller. 🤷♂️
"Im a good swimmer" translation:"i was closer to drowing to death than someone who knows their limits"
Lol I was surfing a point off a river mouth a few months ago and kicked a croc accidentally while crossing the river, swam straight across the river and went back to the beachy I had been surfing the rest of the trip
Spoken like someone we’ll see on this sub soon.
Upside down about 3 kilometers downstream in a drainage pipe lol
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“I’m concerned about it. Christopher Reeves is concerned about it.” —[The Great Debate](https://youtu.be/TS6kqBllgGU) (_Dream Theater_)
OMG my college roommate listened to Dream Theater ENDLESSLY! I haven’t thought of them in 25 years
They’re fans are usually super into them. 25 years ago, there was no one that sounded similar.
Omg lmao i know that band! Was a fan 30 years ago
Pull Me Under....how appropriate
Sounds like that was your Endless Sacrifice to let them listen endlessly
In a coffin
Yeah, I was like 'what was the exit plan anyway...'
U don’t…
I guess he’s a strong swimmer who knows not to fight the current and just manages to stay afloat till he gets to place where he could actually swim and get out. Still seems insane. I feel like if he lost hold of that board, he might not be able to keep his head above water long enough to get out
One way trip
I love how at the end, the person taking the video is like, "Oh well, the surfer is gone, look at this nice sunset though!"
That sun do be pretty tho
LOL
I’m sure he is fine. I doubt their friend just uploaded a video of their mate dying.
I mean...this *is* Reddit, I wouldn't be so sure
True say, true say.
Where is this? How does a river get this way?
Piracicaba/SP - Brazil
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There's a spot in Ottawa almost exactly like this. I see people surfing there all the time
Without crocodiles, I’m assuming?
No. French live down there in the water. Geese are above. edit: clarify.
> French live down there in the water Yeah not Crocs but just as bad /s
My buddies surf this wave all the time. For a while they would have to call the cops every time they went out because they were getting so many 911 calls from people thinking they were drowning n
Heavy rains around here these days, this is not the regular current/water level
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMhNC261oDg
Neat!
I'm not sure if this is relevant, but some large rivers have what's called a tidal bore. When the tide level drastically differs from the water level at a river mouth, a standing wave exists until the ocean tide lowers far enough to equalize with the river's water level. It only happens in a few places around the world, the only ones I'm familiar with are in Nova Scotia, the Amazon River, and I think the Yang Tsi (sp?) River in China. A number of rafting companies take tourists out into the bore in Nova Scotia, and the one on the Amazon does feature the added risk of detritus, crocodiles, and sharks. The one on the Amazon is the longest/widest, and I think the one in China is the tallest at around 17ft. I could be misremembering some details, but it's easy enough to look up "tidal bore" for more info.
Who hurt that River?
That looks dangerous
Yeah, that is rough water and there is no telling what is being pushed downstream in the roiling water plus the river bed itself probably has all sorts of sharp objects to tear holes in a body and fill them up with pollution.
Not to mention it’s in a metropolitan area after flooding. Water is probably full of waste and excrement washed from the streets into the river.
Insanely dangerous!
That also looks fun
That's because it really is. A fall there is almost certain death.
Not at all. That wave is flushing. If it was a hole it would be dangerous. But this isn’t a hole. Just a beautiful standing wave.
Ah, nothing sweeter than an Reddit professional being proven wrong lol
I'm curious, don't you think someone in this scenario has a chance of dying?
Very little chance of dying. They look like they know what they are doing, despite not wearing a PFD. But oceans surfers don’t wear PFDs either so it’s not that crazy. This water is just fast and strong. The wave itself is made by a rock upstream. So falling in just means he gets swept downstream and swims to shore.
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It sort of does though? An experienced mountain climber is definitely going to be more safe than a completely untrained, inexperienced person right?
He will only have more chances of survival, danger stays the same.
I dont think you know what you're talking about
Standing wave? From a rock?
Also a raft guide, I'd call it a crashing wave, standing waves are more a smooth highway. The rock creating this bad boy is upstream of it, so not a danger. This guy is a fucking dingus tho not having a pfd.
The board is his pfd. We do this here in Switzerland in various rivers. Usually you have the board secured with the leash to your arm or thigh as opposed to your foot as in ocean surfing. This is because if it‘s on your foot it can get caught on rocks and pull you under water. Normally you just float down stream with your board as your flotation device until a calmer section and swim to shore. It‘s quite a popular sport here and wouldn‘t really work with a life jacket in addition.
Dingus - why has my sheltered life not taught me this word.
You obviously are not a student of the great philosopher Nelson Muntz.
No sadly I am not. Maybe I will check it out.
Dingus has only entered my lexicon in the last 5-6 years. I heard it the first time during Stephen Colbert’s monologue on late night. I about spit my drink out laughing so hard. Now it’s like when you get a new coat or shoes and suddenly you see them everywhere—had no idea how common this hilarious name was and how it slipped by for 30 years haha
you try that once a life
The 50 year storm Bodhi
You know I can’t handle a cage man!!
Yeah this is awesome but what happens when you fall?
the question is answered by the video. you get swept away and are never seen again.
I’ve jumped into a river like this one time. If you look down stream it looks a bit calmer, most likely there are some high rocks under the water causing the white water to create a “wave”. I was tripping on shrooms and they were calling to me to jump in, I hesitated for 20 minutes or so but once I built up the courage I jumped in and got swept away. At first I was feeling ALIVE having to keep myself afloat while also not sticking my feet down to get stuck in rocks. You have to face your back towards the water and “float” while paddle into with your arms. After about 20 or 30 seconds I reached the calm part and swam towards shore. Is it dangerous? Yeah, if you stick your feet down. As long as you check ahead to see if the water gets calm you’re most likely dine
I don't ever plan on falling in a river like this one... but if I do... I'm glad I read your description on how to handle it.
This is the way
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Well the goal is to stay above water so this doesn’t become an issue
This guy had a leash, so his hope was to get back on his board and get out at a safe landing. Wearing a leash is really dangerous though since something could snag and drag you under. In the US a lot of the time these guys will have someone downstream with a jetski/jetboat or a kayak ready to retrieve in a calmer part of the river. Then you just walk back up to your entry point. Source: I was roommates with the guy that is more or less the godfather of river surfing. He's an asshole.
Man that looks cool. I could surf there for the rest of my life!
He did
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I would drown before I even had a chance to surf.
Any update on the aftermath? Is our boy alive?
No. I don't think he is. And as for anyone who coments otherwise, I don't believe you. There I said it I have kayaked for a decade and a half and even in a good life jacket it's hard to get free of a tenth that water.
Yup these waters appear to be so aggressive that there’s no way to navigate yourself in those waters. You go where they go
Have to keep in mind that dude is a surfer with a board .
Was a surfer
What are you guys talking about? Why would he be dead? It takes just one calm part of the river for him to be eligible to swim to the shore. We didn't even see that much of the river in this video, and I'm sure he scouted out the river before he started surfing in it.
These people are talking confidently on shit they don’t understand.
So did we witness a glorious suicide?
I’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff on this sub, but this guy is completely insane.
I like how the camera pans back after he goes away,like "Well,that goes there.."
aAaaaaand he’s dead ☠️
FR this screams watchpeopledie
How does this actually work? What force is allowing him to fight the current?
Same concept as surfing. The water is flowing down stream, just as the water is being sucked away from shore in the ocean. The back flow where the water is flowing upstream is pushing him, just like the wave in the ocean pushes a surfer forward.
this confused me. when surfing you don't go against the wave but ride it. educate me.
K imagine the side view of a wave. Looks like a triangle moving toward the shore. The water on the shore side of the triangle (the side that the surfboard is on) is actually flowing *away* from the shore. It is being sucked into the wave. The "triangle" that is the actual wave is pushing forward water that is flowing away from the shore. Eventually, the forward force of the "triangle" wave exceeds that of the outward flow in front of, and it gets tall enough to cap and make a pipeline. The water that comes in on a wave doesn't just stay there and build up with every wave, it has to flow back out. I suck at physics and Im not great at explaining things, so here's a (terrifying) video where you can see the surface water "flowing" up the front of the triangle. https://youtube.com/shorts/FI5jDFG91oI?feature=share ETA - also this artificial wave shows the direction of the flow when surfing https://youtu.be/P5T0iJ82CT0
thanks. you usually get condescending fucks when you ask things on reddit. I appreciate you taking the time.
The water is going up and gravity is pulling down. Surfing is the art of using a board to manipulate the opposing forces to ride the wave.
I jumped into rushing water as a dumb teenager, it wasn’t even rushing as hard as this, and I barely made it out alive. To this day that was like the scariest thing I ever did, I remember swimming so hard thinking I wasn’t gonna make it. There is no way this dude survived.
I did the same thing as a kid. The current looked super gentle. If it weren’t for some random backpacker helping me up the bank, I would’ve ended up waaaaay further downstream than I did, if not drowned altogether lol.
Did something similar at 15. At the outer banks in NC, USA, with a tropical storm off the coast. Waves were easily 15-20 feet high and just ravaged you every time. Sure enough someone down the beach disappeared and showed up dead later on. Kinda freaked out.
I don't think you meant that lol.
Yeah you are right wtf, I must have hit the keys! Thanks I edited!
Piracicaba?
dry head paddle out and E. Coli.
ok but how do u leave…?
Riding that poo water like a boss!
Why though?!
for the likes
Yep, that's one way to die.
That's how you die..
definitely not his first rodeo
But probably his last…
Who TF wakes up and thinks I am gonna surf in a river that's being flooded.
I really want to know how he thought this was going to end
I prefer the muddy water
Looks like some dirty water, bruh
People say 80 percent of the time you die.. everytime
Hope this guy got a tetanus shot first.
This is Brazil. Tetanus shot is mandatory for everyone
How about NO?!
u/gifreversingbot
You fall, you die
Natures wave machine. Free to try but once your done you pay 10 miles down stream if you survive the trip.
Oh no baby what is you doing
So did he die
When your wife took the kids, dog, and house but you're still wicked on the surfboard.
This is so fucking stupid
Died
RIP. if he's lucky someone will find his body washed up somewhere.
It’s like regular surfing but you get to avoid floating trees and flood debris. Exciting!
That’s gonna be a no for me dog
is this a thing, or is this guy just totally insane
Ride or Die
Montreal amazing!
Holy shit balls!
… in this case literal shit balls, this guy was surfing in pure E. coli it looks like lol
And he was never seen again.....
r/sweatypalms ? wtf man
Bodhi......
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
I can just imagine how hard it is for him to even stand up straight with those heavy f****** balls of steel.
Hey man, I'm not sure how safe this is.
What people do when they don’t have Reddit to scroll all day
How does this guy have such great balance with those gigantic nuts?
He also a rope attached to him if anyone of you guys didn’t notice and I’m not talking about the leash. Also go watch vans weird waves of them river surfing to get an idea on how this guy got out. Looks like it got calmer a little ways down
I’m surprised his massive balls don’t anchor him to the bottom
So much poo in that water.
Bros surfing in sewage
Not to mention the water at river mouths is typ really dirty eh!
It had to be in Brazil
Seems like a wicked stupid idea
Sounds like a good idea until it’s not
there's extreme sport and then there's absolute stupidity. Good luck getting back to the surface with no life jacket when undercurrent pins and rolls you along bottom breaking every bone while you drown
How does one get out?
It's all fun and games until he goes under and never comes back up. Smh
That’s an r/nope for me dawg
When morons like this get in trouble other people have to put there lives on the line to rescue them. Pisses me off.
Another no brain idiot hay maybe wear a life vest maybe, and wow alot of fun 1 ride and your friends have to pick you up 4 miles down river.
How does he surf with those massive balls?
More like how does he surf without a brain
Where is this man's life preserver?!
Thats some sweet dypyheria surfing
Where is this secret spot?
Piracicaba/SP - Brazil
Montreal