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The place where they are swimming is the part where its 5 meters deep. Upstream it's 65+ meters deep, and when you watch the video there appears to be a zero ch
by Exuma 4y ago
The place where they are swimming is the part where its 5 meters deep. Upstream it's 65+ meters deep, and when you watch the video there appears to be a zero chance anyone could survive that (watch the other videos down in the article)
- tptacek 4y agoI 100% believe it's a very unsafe place to swim; it's a rapids, after all.
- jupp0r 4y agoPeople have swum down Niagara Falls. How can you possibly say it's "impossible" to survive this?
- jupp0r 4y agoThere are tons of videos of people kayaking this creek [1], some with people exiting their kayaks and swimming in it and not dying. When did HN become a place where extraordinary claims without extraordinary evidence get defended by downvoting reasonable doubts? [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkPUPxPfFHw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MkPUPxPfFHw
- theteapot 4y agoPlease don't make light of The Strid by describing it as a mere "creek". One video does not make "tons". Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence! This video is clearly fake, or if not perhaps the kayakers in this singular video are some kind of immortal demigods.
- kuschku 4y agoThere is one video, and even in that, a person with a kayak, a life vest, and assistance from others, still almost drowns.