Go here all the time
I knew it was dangerous but doubt the most in the world
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Are the currents really that strong? Like he said the water looks rather safe.
how exactly can underwater currents be so powerful as to literally pulverize an adult man against rock
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;50333847]Are the currents really that strong? Like he said the water looks rather safe.[/QUOTE]
undercurrents are a hell of a thing
[QUOTE=Melnek;50333919]how exactly can underwater currents be so powerful as to literally pulverize an adult man against rock[/QUOTE]
I'd assume you end up stuck in a whirl of current off to the side and it just grinds your body around over time as you also decompose, occasionally releasing a small bit here and there that might be found, if ever
That looks ridiculously innocent.
Like if someone told me to take a careful dip in it from a gentler slope on the side, I wouldn't think anything of it.
looks like something out of monty python where it's super innocent but the knights get instantly thrashed about and pulverized when they set foot in the water
this is what the strid looks like underneath
[t]https://deborahrehmat.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/the-strid-5.jpg[/t]
these cause whirlpools and can be under the overhang or have their own sort of top to them
almost as bad as africanized water
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;50334065]this is what the strid looks like underneath[/QUOTE]
That pic is messing with my eyes
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;50333847]Are the currents really that strong? Like he said the water looks rather safe.[/QUOTE]
i looked into it, and normally the river wharfe looks like this
[IMG]http://www.flyfishingpoint.net/data/web/gallery/products/dvd/wetflym/river-wharfe-0956.jpg[/IMG]
however, at the bolton strid, all that water is funneled into a gap no wider than 6 feet
[IMG]http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PC7v3WLeHeA/VlQAFFnWuhI/AAAAAAABI5w/3vVov6505Ec/bolton-strid-7%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800[/IMG]
of course, all that water has to go somewhere -- effectively, the river has eroded a nearly vertical passage which probably looks similar to this
[IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LCYapIf0-MQ/UoqUiYtOn4I/AAAAAAAABG4/qFHRKR33Spw/s1600/522473_10151481915341151_2113826241_n.jpg[/IMG]
if you've ever taken a garden hose and tried to use your thumb to cover the opening, you know that the water continues to course through the hose at the same speed and pressure. with a smaller channel, the water coming out of the opening is at a much higher velocity & power than before; the same principle is applied here, except on a much larger scale.
if you don't die of drowning by the undercurrent, then you'll die of being tossed against razor-sharp rocks. nature is scary.
[QUOTE=Melnek;50333919]how exactly can underwater currents be so powerful as to literally pulverize an adult man against rock[/QUOTE]
No, It's not smashing you into the rocks so hard that you violently disintegrate, It just sucks you below where you get stuck in a whirl inside an underwater cave with no orientation or any way to escape the currents and to top it all off, once you're drowned your body will stay submerged and grind against the rocks until there is nothing recognizable left. That is, if you don't smash your head open on a rock first
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;50334065]this is what the strid looks like underneath
[t]https://deborahrehmat.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/the-strid-5.jpg[/t]
these cause whirlpools and can be under the overhang or have their own sort of top to them[/QUOTE]
i really cannot get a sense of depth in that picture
it's really weird
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;50334636]i really cannot get a sense of depth in that picture
it's really weird[/QUOTE]
It looks like someone photoshopped a really distant cliff of a very wide river below some really close up rocks.
[QUOTE=aznz888;50334473]i looked into it, and normally the river wharfe looks like this
[IMG]http://www.flyfishingpoint.net/data/web/gallery/products/dvd/wetflym/river-wharfe-0956.jpg[/IMG]
however, at the bolton strid, all that water is funneled into a gap no wider than 6 feet
[IMG]http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PC7v3WLeHeA/VlQAFFnWuhI/AAAAAAABI5w/3vVov6505Ec/bolton-strid-7%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800[/IMG]
of course, all that water has to go somewhere -- effectively, the river has eroded a nearly vertical passage which probably looks similar to this
[IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LCYapIf0-MQ/UoqUiYtOn4I/AAAAAAAABG4/qFHRKR33Spw/s1600/522473_10151481915341151_2113826241_n.jpg[/IMG]
if you've ever taken a garden hose and tried to use your thumb to cover the opening, you know that the water continues to course through the hose at the same speed and pressure. with a smaller channel, the water coming out of the opening is at a much higher velocity & power than before; the same principle is applied here, except on a much larger scale.
if you don't die of drowning by the undercurrent, then you'll die of being tossed against razor-sharp rocks. nature is scary.[/QUOTE]
That image right there underlines how horrifying a concept this all really is.
They should do a sonar map of that shit, would be interesting
[QUOTE=Melnek;50333919]how exactly can underwater currents be so powerful as to literally pulverize an adult man against rock[/QUOTE]
Water is heavy. Surface area (sail area) lets it exert enormous amounts of force at surprisingly slow speeds.
This line of thinking is how people get swept away driving across 6 inches of moving water.
[QUOTE=NightmareX91;50334636]i really cannot get a sense of depth in that picture
it's really weird[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;50336520]How deep is that river in that section?[/QUOTE]
Im pretty sure nobody knows how deep the strid is, it's too hard to reliably measure it with the structure of rocks underneath.
But for people unable to grasp how fast the current will be flowing; the section of river before the strid is about 55feet wide and about 6 feet deep, all of that water funnelled down a section about 7 feet wide. There is a fast current underneath that overhang.
There's a very similar place in a forest river near here, it also looks innocent but it is said some people have died there. It looks practically the same.
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