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Supposedly you swim downwards, in a downstream direction, when you reach the river bottom. Note the path of the blue arrows escaping downstream in the diagram.
by ip26 5y ago
Supposedly you swim downwards, in a downstream direction, when you reach the river bottom.
Note the path of the blue arrows escaping downstream in the diagram.
- waste_monk 5y agoThe catch being that you're submerged, being spun around in the currents and disoriented, and you have a very brief window to claw yourself along the riverbed. I can't find the source but have seen reports where people have been caught in a weir, drowned, and remained spinning in the currents for a couple of days before they're eventually spat out by chance and the bodies are recovered. They've well earned the name "drowning machines". I have no intention of going anywhere near one of these dams, if I can help it.