15 MOST Dangerous Rivers in the World
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- A raging river with rushing water is obviously dangerous. But even calm, serene, slow-moving rivers can be dangerous. You can’t always judge a river by the surface of its water. Some of the most dangerous rivers in the world look relatively harmless on the surface. But aggressive reptiles, toxic waters, hidden tunnels, or violent undercurrents, the rivers in this video all have one thing in common - they’re deadly. So join us for today's video, as we take a look at the Top 15 Most Dangerous Rivers in the World.
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The 6 foot narrow channel of the Wharfe is called The Strid. It's seriously scary to look at in what is an otherwise extremely mundane river
The Strid is SO fascinating! If you've had the pleasure of seeing it in person, I am extraordinarily envious!
I saw the Strid in Sept this year. Looks scary. Park officer told me "fall in and your body will be found in around two weeks, after it emerges from the depths". I believed him.
a few years ago I was boating on the Mississippi River with my dad, I never realize how strong the current was until we were on the water, going against the current at full speed & still moving backwards in the boat. one of the scariest moments of my life. Luckily we made it back to our campsite dry & safe.
Fantastic picture, happen to be a lady with very long hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
@@danielobrien1571 the fuck
It has a really strong current!
Thank God you don't live in India fall in the water and you'll get dysentery or typhus or cholera or some s*** like that
@@danielobrien1571 😊😊😊😊
This channel is the best. Great content. Best narrator. Informative af without makiin ya feel like you're learnin stuff , but really are lol
19:12 The good thing about the mosquitos is that if you happen to be on the eastern banks of the Nile, you don't have to worry about the West Nile virus.
😂😂😂
The girl dangling above the crocodiles infuriates me. Anything could have went wrong with that little stunt. Something seriously wrong with both of them!
Wow fresh video.
Love this channel.
Keep it up!
Number 1 is so depressing ☹️
Sorry but that's real...i'm so sorry you have to see that. Our government has tried all the years to clean it, yet most people here not yet realize about throwing garbo to river
Sharks, snakes, crocs, spiders, NO. It is HUMANS that are the most scariest disgusting creatures on this planet
@@zombiemassacreify Education and awareness program is a must
@@nutzhazel we have tried all we can, it's just not all people are well educated about environtment
This was very interesting and eye opening thank you . ✌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks for watching!
I'd say the Amazon tops that list in honesty, although I'm surprised not to see the Ganges mentioned. The River Ganges has fierce rapids, strong undercurrent, Bull Sharks and heavy pollution - definitely enough to put it on this list.
Another great vid
The mighty Congo river is a beast especially during intense rains
A very educational video I knew a few of the dangerous rivers but had no idea there were so many Great Video!
Thanks!
And depending on what country you're in, the Amazon can also be home to some less than savory anti-government types who aren't particularly fond of foreigners (especially Americans). You also have uncontacted indigenous tribes who rely on the river, though I'm more afraid for them than of them, since even the remotest contact with an outsider could infect them with illnesses to which they have no immunity.
That last river makes me so sick, how can those people live like that? You've killed everything that lived there. It's truly disgusting and it doesn't say much for the people living there because they don't care.😠
Exactly, imagine all the food and other benefits they could get out of that River had it never been treated that way. I bet it reeks so damn bad. Gross
get off your high horse. You are wearing clothes made around that river. So you are also a part of the problem
Well said
Go look at Lake Havasu in the US. It was once a beautiful place to go, until people destroyed it with parties and litter. Walk down the street and look at all the random litter all over the ground, in most major American cities. Don't act like they're so terrible and you're so much better, most countries have their pollution issues.
How can they live like that? You mean the textiles factories that create stuff for you? Or the people that have to live with the destruction of the river ? The destruction they have no control over? Smh
I went to Thailand for a holiday a few years ago & i (being an Aussie) was absolutely shocked that the people that live literally in a shack on the river & used the river as the local garbo tip. They'd throw their garbage straight out the window into the water. Similarly the place we stayed absolutely reeked & there was rubbish all over the joint. Same deal, they'd throw their rubbish straight on to the street. A friend i went with tried to make the excuse it was so dirty coz they don't have garbo's to collect the rubbish like in any other normal country. Another of our mates said, i don't care if they have garbo's or not but just throwing garbage all over the joint is dirty as i said reeked, she said can't they actually throw their rubbish in a bin or plastic bag? No wonder they're very much a third world country.
Yeah and they can't figure out why they're getting dysentery from drinking the water that they shit in
Yeah that's the case with our citarum river and even so, many people still rely on such river for life and likely need more time to get away with that
The irony is, the ancient people used to dig holes behind their house and buried their trash in it or burnt the trash in that hole. The rivers were used as main transportation and water source for bathing and house hold used so it was generally clean. However as open burning is considered as a pollution in modern times, they've ditched that practice and simply throwing their trash in the river instead, since they didn't use the river like they did in the past. Sad eh. They should be allowed to burn their trash if their government cannot provide garbage collector for their villages. And they should be using incinerator like in Japan for their trash instead of using landfill.
I love learning about this stuff
I grew up near the red river and spent a lot of time around it. My brother nearly drowned in it once when he was wading he hit a drop off and was caught by an underwater current. Luckily he had a life jacket on and I kayaked him back to shore but still really scary. I grew up hearing stories of people who drowned in the river.
Wow! I know our humble little Truckee River doesn't look like much, but it's all snow melt and some confident people get hypothermia and die after they overestimate it. Have respect for nature wherever you are! Enjoyed this video, thank you ☺☺
*Underestimate
Wonderful! Let's go swim. Thanks for showing us the most exciting places in which to swim.😇
You wanna swim in our Citarum river? 😂
Can we do a video on most green cities with most green canopy.
Mybe cities with most green energy.
Or both together at same time.
5:00 did he really just say crocodiles are not known for being too aggressive? They are one of the most aggressive creatures on the planet! 😂
@AnikaHope-gd6xu what is that supposed to mean?
Cool video. Thank you.
Amazing picture, how long do you keep your hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
I grew up along the Red River. You can see the whirlpools from the levee.
Nice! A list of 13 rivers I will never visit willingly and 2 I will never return to (Kern and Mississippi).
Zambezi is so beautiful, Victoria Falls is my bucket list, neighboring country see you soon 😊
Zambezi dragon will eat you 😱
When you enter from Zimbabwe through the National Park they give you a raincoat. The mist from the falls will soak you
@@paulsoxl7739 That's on my bucketlist, I need to save up for this, I can imagine the fresh air, the smell of water ❤
Aa a young Airman stationed at Castle AFB in the early 80's we often were warned about the dangers of the Kern. Signs in the Yosemite park read "IF YOU FALL IN THE RIVER>>>YOU WILL DIE!" And they are correct. We saw people jumping rocks and ignoring the signs all the time.
Did they drown?
Kern river here in Bakersfield Since 1968, there have been 317 people who died from its treacherous waters
Being living in Bakersfield CA for 18+yrs definitely been told by former HS teachers, parents friends & others how scary/deadly Kern River is. I remember going once roughly ~10yrs old all I remember was the river didn’t look too wide but definitely rocky being along a crevice of hills. Waters looked fast from what I remember but different levels of fast.
Bakersfield native for 21 yrs now. That river is a menace. Watched a rescue of two people from the crazy waters at 4am when their car fell in the canyon 2 years ago. Took about 2 hrs for the rescue team to secure the couple cuz that river was relentless.
We lost a couple of Airman from Castle AFB on that river.
@@stanstanly3812 I came within an eyelash of drowning while tubing on the upper Kern River (above the bridge) when I was young. Got sucked into a whirlpool...felt like I was in a washing machine. It was during spring melt and the river was roaring down the canyon. My wetsuit saved me. Managed to drag myself out of the river then walked out of the canyon..never to return.
Isn't that California river the one that has a boater toll booth every quarter mile.
There's a nice little rhyme about the Wharfe - and also about the nearby River Aire, which is fairly dangerous in its own right - "While the Aire is quick, and the Wharfe is lithe, where the Aire drowns one, the Wharfe drowns five." Interestingly, the worst bit of the Aire is quite far away from the worst stretch of the Wharfe, at the Castleford weirs.
How about the short but mighty Saco river in NH USA and Maine USA and the legend? I'd love to hear about that.....I live in that area
The Grumeti and the Mara river would also have to be up there… as would be the Adelaide river. Basically any river in northern Australia or in Africa would be ringing the dinner bell if you went for a swim.
@AnikaHope-gd6xu prob the only reason for entering the Mara or Adelaide river. It's easy to forget how powerful Zebras and Wildebeest are when they are being taken down by a croc... a human would stand no chance Crocs are also one of the few animals that have no problems eating ppl and don't seem to fear us.
Even more scary is that crocs aren't even the biggest danger in the rivers of Africa.
mmm that one in Peru i would love to see it myself one day i love nature😘
I would have added the Ganges as number 2!
Hey hey hang on folks, the Mississippi River is technically its most wide (11 miles) at a LAKE basin that the river runs through. The widest point of its navigable shipping channel is only TWO MILES, which is still impressive. But, don't be thinking of a strip of river that is 11 miles wide, that portion is actually a lake.
So your comment was pointless then...
The stories behind #15 are terrifying, idk about most dangerous but definitely the most scary
Thank you for adding the Mississippi River to this list.
Fantastic picture, happen to be a lady with very long hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
The Kern river is like most major rivers in the Sierras
Columbia River is beautifully awesome. Early one the most powerful and scenic in all the world. But being in the Pacific Northwest of America & Canada it's pretty much ignored. Oh and was very dangerous until it was dammed. The Columbia whips the ol miss by far when it comes to hydro power, actually all American rivers
When the narrator said the Yangtze has had flooding problems for the last hundred years...more like the last 3000 years.
A river in Peru was unknown to WESTERNERS? Where TF do you think Peru is? Asia?
I can not believe the Niagara River wasn't on there. Currents, speed, the falls and massive world pool.
also where is Ganges river, extreamly poluted also
What's a world pool?
@@Mr.Plant_man typo lol Whirlpool
@@runeguidanceofthenorse I was like "that's not how you say that" lmao
@@Mr.Plant_man lol 😆
Broke my leg and came VERY close to drowning while rafting the Zambezi...During the crazy ass low water season, too; where the water is blasting around the boulders on the riverbed...Good times! 🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, the most insane run I've ever rafted. TONS of fun, but be careful. Just getting down the cliff at Victoria Falls to the river is pretty intense.
The only thing I know about the Zambezi river is that Worlds of Fun in Kansas City used to have a somewhat tame roller coaster called the Zambezi Zinger.
@@augiegirl1they remade it and turned it into a wooden coaster last year
Hanging from the croc bridge in number 11. Craziness.
OMG - #3 is so good if you’re thinking of your enemies!
Great video but one mistake that I caught. The Mississippi River is not the longest in North America. The longest river in North America is the Missouri River. The Mississippi River, however, has the largest water basin. The Missouri river is 2,341 miles long while the Mississippi river is 2,340. So the Missouri River beats the Mississippi River by 1 mile.
I paused the video to come say this. Although the USGS officially lists the Missouri River at 2,540 miles.
Number 1... How can people allow this to happen? This is so sickening, this is so wrong 💔
F-ing disgusting, anyways humans treat each other like garbage so why not the environment
Bolton strid, Rio grande, the Nile, the amazon river
I view rivers as a "Fuck around and find out" sign. It never hurts to stay TF away from them.
Rivers are so amazing, interesting and very important things in our world. I Have Been heared about Amazon and Niel rivers. Hippos, Crocodiles, Snakes and Mosquitos are deadly Animals and rocks, mines or trash are dangerous in Waters too But yeah some rivers are deadly and dangerous, after Tish video would you do video about world deadliest lakes? 🌊🌊🌊
You say hippos crocs snakes and mosquitoes but leave out humans? Humans are actually the MOST scariest and disgusting creatures of them all
wow
The strid in the uk should be on list list and possibly top of it
The strid is an absolute freak of nature
Jaguars eat black caiman my brother! Love your video though
No Ganges river? Or it is considered clean?
That last one is so sad. You can’t even see there’s a river there…you’d think someone would have noticed and thought to start picking it up sooner 🤔
Whoever manages Jakarta, take care of your garbage and waste!! Number 1 was disturbing to watch. How can someone willingly allow such amount of waste to be dumped in a river?
I was there on a warship in 1981 and we, in the engineering branch, had to run extra watches on the coolant pump filters even back then.
The current degree of pollution there now looks to be more than 120 times what it was back then.
I guess one consolation is, I would no longer have to worry about pulling a live snake out of a filter anymore...😮💨
Well i'm a Jakartans and it's not really ours only problem. Citarum flows from many East Jave villages and yeah it all begins from there. While our garbo management has gone better here, some parts still dont, thats why
I have a huge respect for rivers growing up on the killer kern River.
As a point of order: Tinto means wine stained. So "red" is a bit of a mistranslation.
And the caroni river in Venezuela is very dangerous
Rock.snake.mosquitos..rock and a lot mino fall with high speed
I thought Angel Falls in Venezuela was tallest😊
Mississippi River is the longest River in North America?
3778 km long, but the Missouri River is 4087 km long
The people hanging off the crocodile bridge should probably be removed from the gene pool.
Not sure why kayakers don't use HEED bottles more in dangerous rivers?
What happened to your labels? I don't know how to spell these places so I can't look them up!
morale of the story....nothing is more deadly than human.....
And the New Madrid Seismic Zone also lurks beneath parts of the Mississippi. If a major earthquake happens, the river would once again spiral out of control, as it did 200 years ago.
the zambezi river deserves first spot
Sad😢 about that Indonesia river
The number 1 river is sickening, almost makes me ashamed to be human.
The #1 river is in human's control, and it should be a massive cleanup project that should begin now.
What's Krazy is the Mississippi river is literally a 5min walking distance from our hometown and while knowing now how dangerous it is, the dangers never occurred to us then because we used to actually get knee deep in.. yeah really stupid i know. Then when it get high, it literally be right at the tip top..one strong wind gust would push some over the levee
We not passifyin YT ppls conscious😂😂
The Amazon River and The Nile River are by far the most dangerous rivers in the world.
Responsible adults will always assume responsibilities along all rivers in the world. Even if there a risks with that responsibility.
very responsible comment
0:39 Man, that's scary. Most of the rivers I know properly chew up their prey before swallowing them.
Fantastic picture, happen to be a lady with very long hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
American crocodiles … I’m Australian; seriously? Hold my beer…
you forgot the ganghes river in india also the most polluted river in the world
I stopped at Crocodile Bridge and could count fourteen crocodiles in just a few minutes.
That last one in Indonesia. Makes you feel sick just looking at it.
I'll rather stay away from the Amazon.........so many freaky creepy crawlies and snakes...brrrrr
and Bezos
River LIMPOPO crossing between South Africa , Mozambique , Zimbabwe and Botswana
Amazon River is the largest river in the world..and you forgot mention that is Infected of pirañas
What river is longer of the Nile and the Amazon is very unclear and not settled
Nile, Amazon is largest river
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That last river must stink like crazy.
The last river it’s disgusting disgusting disgusting I am horrified
you left out the SLave river of ALberta/Northwest Territories Canada, far more dangerous than half of these
One glaring miss on this list is the Brahmaputra..
No mention of the Thames, the most dangerous river in Europe.
Number 1 is a disgrace and did not have to happen.
Amazing picture, how long do you keep your hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
I don't know that
Fantastic picture, happen to be a lady with very long hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
I find this list very Americo-centric. How is the Congo AFTER the Red River & a river in California? It should be after the Amazon, based on the depth & dangerous fish. It also passes through the second largest jungle on earth.
Historically, it was the region of King Leopold ‘s atrocities in the 19th centuries & contributed to the centuries-long slave trade.
Secondly, the Zambezi is pronounced the “Zam-bee-zee”.
Interesting video though. Thanks for posting!
No its pronunciation is fine, it depends on region, the one he uses is acceptable in Zimbabwe
Get over yourself libby
@@StudioBhobho ok great. Good to know. I’m from another region obviously.
Yes I believe you find it Americo-centric because it is and it's posted on an United States company site and because the World revolves around the United States, also we are not named America there's other Countries on this Continent.
Amazing picture, how long do you keep your hair? I find that quite attractive, please describe it?
What about THE STRID
Perhaps, the Indus should be on the list as its floods in 2022 caused over 2000 deaths and over a million animal deaths.
i like how you forgott what can happen to the people living before the three gorges dam on the Yangtze river when this thing breaks because the flood that than occures will kill over 400 million people down to Shanghai
Nothing should be dumped I. Our oceans or rivers
Why not the river seven?
The river Wharfe. The part he was on about is called "the strid" 1000ft deep in places and 6ft wide. You go in, nobody and i mean nobody comes out alive. You fall in there you are dead. Google the strid!
I live here. The wharfe is the faStest rising and falling river in the UK. It's also beautiful.
That pollution is awful..
The River has always been the Congo, only the country changed names
Is there not a river in Russia that is so radioactive that a person cannot even stand on its shores? Should've included the Techa River in your list here.