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Yeah basically. I guess it’s mostly me on personal nightmare fuel… The turbine output chute of the dam I grew up with was so rapid and voluminous that standing
by nurple 3y ago
Yeah basically. I guess it’s mostly me on personal nightmare fuel… The turbine output chute of the dam I grew up with was so rapid and voluminous that standing next to it was like being caught in a tsunami and the white water extended hundreds of meters from the dam. I spent a lot of time in the river in boats and jetskis and there were a number of signs and buoys ominously warning of certain death.
The scale of it all was quite terrifying to my young mind as I imagined all the unseeable hazards beneath the water’s surface, on which it capitalized during my sleeping moments.
- civilitty 3y agoI bet you're a big fan of low head dams :-)
- nurple 3y agoX( These are pretty abundant in the Jordan River (for feeding canals in Utah where I live now) and have sadly claimed a number of lives. Indeed, I do not like them at all.
- defrost 3y agoMany years ago, before I was twenty, I hitched a ride on a pearling boat with a sea kayak to shoot the horizontal falls in the Kimberley (Western Australia) which was then (~1980) unvisited and well off even the remote adventure tourism tracks although much better known now [1][2]. It remains today as both one of the most exhilarating and the stupidist things I've done. Equatorial tide changes through a narrow gorge are insane enough before adding in salt water crocodiles on one side and sharks on the other (well, both on both sides to be honest). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dIhCmo3g0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dIhCmo3g0c [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xYg73DV0V0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xYg73DV0V0