Water level's a bit low, but let's do this anyway. Resusci Anne dummy in a life jacket? No. This? Yes. Alarming creaky sounds coming from the rope? Yes.
Maybe the caves go up into the mountains on the sides and they are not flooded and they are magical, filled with gems and sparkling gold and elves who snort pixie dust and grant wishes..... 🤔..... perhaps they travel underground to Ireland in the summer and that's where the legend of leprechauns came from.... 🤔.... then again, I'm just an American, as you can tell by the lack of unnecessary U's in my spelling oh, so what do I know?
@@johnchan754 I was looking for footage of people climbing on the Eiger. I found a video of someone up there on his own, climbing a rock then crossing a rope to a free-standing rock called the "Mushroom." Then he unclipped from the rope, which gave me the jitters something awful, and started walking around on top of the Mushroom, taking in the views all around, giving me the chance to go "Been there, climbed that," pointing at the 2343m peak of Männlichen far below him. Then he said: "3, 2, 1, see ya!" and took a running jump off the top of the rock. This was how I discovered that "squirrel suits" and wingsuit flying and BASE jumping exist. It's possible I swore at some point while watching that video.
@@johnchan754 I didn't even know BASE jumping existed. As far as I was concerned, parachutes were for ejecting from burning planes and the only activities available on the Eiger were climbing, freezing to death, being struck by falling rocks and falling to your death. Then he took a running jump off it. Imagine my surprise. Yes, though. Wingsuits are real. There's a spot in a fjord in Norway with a long vertical drop that's quite popular for the people who do that stuff. czcams.com/video/MZchINzk43E/video.html czcams.com/video/kTzwvyzzfjk/video.html czcams.com/video/4kgJqVbQJSw/video.html czcams.com/video/n3iSjcKElH8/video.html
Wish undertows were talked about far more often and that warnings were posted clearly at parks with rivers. Drowning disappearances happen yearly near us as people hop right in to swim and never come up. My mother says it was morbid of me to bring my own kids to overlook the most common place for it and tell them I went to school with people who got sucked under in there and never came back, but my kids don't even stick a foot in rivers without permission now.
Hell yeah! It's important for kids to look at the things around them and constantly question sources of potential danger. Not to drive themselves crazy, but just so that they don't take their safety for granted amid a comfortable, secure world that often disarms us. You sound like a good parent.
The official deepest point that's been found here along this scarey river is 68 metres deep somewhere just before the waterfall 😳 the way it twists on its side is just fascinating but horrifying what's below. If only people knew, it should be fenced off. It's just unbelievable that it's not.
You go to what has been labeled as "the world's most dangerous river" (due to undertow) to do an undercurrent test. You encounter an absolutely mindless fool who has brought his children to stand on the edge and play on the smooth and sometimes trecherously slippery rocks completely and totally oblivious to the dangers. Yikes!
Turbulence itself destroys buoyancy, so that has to be factored in as well. White water turbulence puts air into the water and affects the buoyancy in general.
Water with lots of suspended turbulant air bubbles is the real killer. Waterfall plunge pools are best example. I have personal experience - during a canyoning trip in France I jumped off a waterfall into an heavily aerated plunge pool (foaming!) while weighted down with harnesses and abseiling gear. Wont make that mistake again as it took far too long to surface after the jump. I was suspended - nearly neutrally bouyant despite a wetsuit and wasnt going down fast enough to kick off the river bed nor was I rising fast either - I had to hold my breath and hope - luckily I was washed out to a shallower place were I could surface. My two companions were looking down white as sheets and told me that I was under for well over a minute.
The bubbles that you have captured in the water (in your camera videos) put me in mind of the theories about ships lost in the "Bermuda Triangle" that may have been lost due to methane gas released by clathrate disruption on the ocean floor. Not that the same event is happening, but the same effect, sinking in a highly aerated environment, is occurring. Just an observation...
I've heard that theory before also. It makes sense. It'd be pretty cool if it was some mysterious paranormal thing but unfortunately we don't live in that kind of world. The bubbles theory makes way more sense than a spooky ghost pirate ship or giant monsters taking sailors down to the depths.
That's not a theory. It doesn't qualify. A theory has to be supported by evidence. That's just a hypothesis. A guess, basically. It also doesn't make sense, because there's really nothing special about the number of ships that have disappeared in the Bermuda triangle, compared to anywhere else
I have guided class V+ rapids and if I came across something like that even knowing nothing about it, I wouldn't get real close. The overhang. The speed of current... the noise level, alone suggests large volume (cfs), versus how much water you see is a big clue and those river features ( undercuts, swift water, body-pinning rocks, sives, falls... All unavoidable....) even if you didn't have that noise, are not cool for swimming. I bet you can feel the vibration through your feet.
@@ahmadubaidillah4440 This is sedimentary. There's a layer of coarse-grained gritstone sedimentary rock between layers of fine-grained sandstone sedimentary rock. The sandstone is softer and erodes more smoothly and more easily, allowing the river to cut a wide channel under the gritstone, which falls in as boulders. You can see the gritstone layer as a band of steep and lumpy slops along both sides of the valley downstream of the Strid. It won't be forming all that grand a canyon, though, as it's only 110 m above sea level.
Are you wearing a facemask? You sound muffled? I don't think the rocks are gonna catch covid from you. EDIT: Just got to the part in the video. mask confirmed
This leads me to think that there must be a deep cave or underground river that flows deep and into the earth. Otherwise an undertow would not be so strong. I wish the military would use their underwater remote cameras to robotically explore this interesting place. It is amazing that it is open to the public.
you know whats funny? we've only drilled 12km into the earth, a human has never even been that close. meaning we dont know whats inside the earth.. dont ever trust science, they make large claims that simple people are too intimidated by, to look into. but when you do, you just find out they made up a bunch of stuff that will suit their future interests. also we dont have military cameras.. lol.. we cant even put out forest fires.. yet you people think we've gone to mars.. we have special cameras that can withstand huge amounts of pressure. nah. why do you think you cant watch live footage of a satellite in outerspace or the telescopes they have, cause its fake and they dont exist. you think we have satellites.. then why do i not get a cellphone signal in a bunch of places? cause cell towers are what transmit phone signals.. literally a super high tower.. from the ground.. its not floating.. man is much more stupid than you people realize. go look at pictures of earth, tell me how many satellites you see. LOL. outerspace is fake, and the earth being round is fake. time to wake up
Part of the Strid's deadliness is caused by actual undertow. The rest is caused by all the bubbles caused by the turbulence. Most of a human body is liquid with the same density as water, bone which is heavy than water, and lungs, which, if filled are much lighter than water, so in still water, a body is bouyant. If a human body ends up in water that is churning with bubbles, the amount of water/bubble mixture that is displaced by a human body is lighter than the human body, so that human's body is headed for the river bottom.
@@haroldgodwinson7241 Reminds me of a story I heard where a guy's dog jumped into a geothermal pool at Yellowstone so he jumped in after. They were in the water for under a minute but still died of burns all over their body
I should have used a spring balance to measure that. Unfortunately, I didn't. I can tell you it hurt my fingers. The string was creaking under the load.
@@taylormcdaniel603 That's the plan for next time. First I have to repair or replace my brand new inner tube. Maybe I should get another and glue it over the first to double-layer it rather than looking for individual holes in the thing.
@@Sableagle Awesome man. There's almost nobody doing tests at the strid, at least not making videos. What's the innertube for if you don't mind? Also have you tried any dept measures before or will this be a first?
@@taylormcdaniel603 The inner tube's for a tyre, and this'll be the first try at hitting the bottom with something. The bottles were buoyant so that I could see whether the current would haul them under. Unfortunately that meant they never even reached the current. Next one will have rocks in it, so it should go all the way, if it doesn't get wedged in something.
It's cool to see the perpsective of this place with people stamding beside it. I never understood why the Strid was such a big deal but holy cow that is a river where I come from! Yeet away my man.
at 5:30 the last bottle is a good example of what the waters can do to a body, when the bottle was pulled up at 6:00 (and I'll be theorizing that the bottle didn't sink too deep) that there is a quick big dent.. and that's just the shallow part of it-- so imagine the great power if it sunk deeper--
There are at least two signs: preview.redd.it/vmwy8tvaze811.png?auto=webp&s=6e82349788e96c10126e5443a1cc03bc10c3e4c8 i2-prod.examinerlive.co.uk/incoming/article18615718.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_IMG_9051jpeg.jpg
I'm convinced this thing is actually a prison/trap made by Druids to contain some truly horrific, old world, heinous monsters (and probably Roman legions). That is the only reason I can fathom for the existence of the Bolton Strid, the Corryvracken Maelstrom, and these other......lovely......places.
My mind was functioning upon very similar lines..definitely some remnants of ye olde world magic going on there. Those rocks are definitely guarding something.
This is grade school science. Whatever you throw into a churning rapid will float downstream rapidly. It would have made more sense to throw it into the calm water upstream to see the strength of the deep current.
It's a real thing, alright. I swam into an undertow in the Tarn a few years ago. There were a dozen of us swimming, and I got onto the downstream side of a submerged boulder that was just the right shape to create a steep downward current. I went under like _{snaps fingers}_ that. Bobbed right back up a metre downriver, obviously, but in a bigger river with more aggressive currents, it could obviously be a lot worse.
Good idea with the bottles, in still water I suppose they would float vertically like a body if tied closer together. Not much chance of getting out of there if you fell in.
It's not just currents, undertoes etc but things are far less bouyant in aerated water. With these areas of bubbly water you have no chance of floating. The tumble at low head weirs will spin and trap you but the bubbles are what stop you floating up and having a chance at breathing or escape. In that case you may even be better swimminb down first then away from the weir.
I take that as a compliment on the skill with which I excluded all the families visiting the Strid at the same time as me from the video while making it look natural!
@@Sableagle great btw what about a 3d graph of the whole underground structure, is there such video. Actually my original question was that but I made a mistake with my sentence and words. 🤪😁😁
I was gonna say that you failed miserably on the test, but yea you failed miserably on the test.. Just give me a cold beer and an Intertube and I'll float that heffer!
You would need 4 separate ropes and attach a tension measure or even weight scale. Then, individually test them to see where the strongest pull is, compared to different depths.
Maybe its just me, but it creeps me out to see people and even children in EVERY footage of the strid standing right on the edge at rocks covered with slippery moss. I mean wtf? No fence, no guard rails, just children casually playing there.
Why do I keep returning to items on the Strid? I can't swim, have a healthy respect for water yet I feel drawn to the implied threat and menace. I feel I will never visit. I might inadvertently do something silly!
Check out Pas de Soucy on the Tarn in France, too. If anyone gets washed into that they wait until it dries up in late autumn before they fish out whatever's left.
Seems to me that diverting the river will drain the interesting section only down to the shallowest part. The deeper sections will become lakes and you'd also need to pump the water out of them. Or send down scuba divers. Safer, at least, without the flow.
Standing unsecured, close to the edge, holding on to a loop of string with the force of an entire river pulling the other end, Darwin candidate for certain - WCGW?
My first thought was "no way," because of all the crap in the other rivers that share the same estuary as this one, but I checked, and they've been seen running up it. There are parts higher up that could be good spawning grounds, around Yockenthwaite, so if they don't mind the Humber, sure. I don't know whether there's a fish ladder at the weir in Otley, but maybe there is.
@@Sableagle I’ve seen the occasional salmon do this at Stainforth Force near Settle that’s why I was wondering. The River Ribble eventually opens out into the Irish Sea.
No offence but this is kinda dumb, what if there was an insane current and it ripped the line, wrapping it around your arm and pulling you in... I thought you would attach the line to a heavy rock or tree and see the tension
I am guessing the hydraulic of that first main falls is what pins down and drowns most people who fall in. Then they get wedged in those overhangs and crevices until water levels change and eventually wash out the bodies.
I live in Arizona and this is Antelope canyon. It's a "slot" canyon carved through sandstone; it has a very narrow gap at the top that opens to a 20 meter deep canyon below. It fills during monsoon season and hikers have been drowned by flash flooding. I think this is perhaps what the Bolton Strid would look like if it were drained. czcams.com/video/t4nM1FoUqYs/video.html
I suspect the Strid's more of a mess of boulders. Antelope Canyon's sandstone, which erodes quite evenly and leaves those beautiul sculpted-looking scoops and curves. I've seen homes and wineries carved out of sandstone in Turkey. The Bolton Strid is different stuff. " The geological map of the area shows that Bolton Priory lies at the junction of the Bowland Shale Formation and the Pendle Grit Member, with much of the area being covered with Quaternary till, glaciofluvial sand and gravel and river terrace deposits." thelanguageofstone.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-brief-investigation-of-river-wharfe_7.html You can see boulders in the middle of the flow and what looks like a very shallow part, but with nowhere near enough currents to be the whole of the river. I suspect it looks more like Brimham Rocks. Imagine getting washed through a gap like this: www.familiesonline.co.uk/images/default-source/national/brimham_rocks2.jpg?sfvrsn=9d3c769d_0 at whatever mad speed that current is doing down there. There are a few holes through the rock formations at Brimham big enough to have a lot of current through them but not big enough for a body to go through them like this guy: czcams.com/video/Ky9mo1dryF8/video.html There are also those swirling holes along the sides, including in the rocks where I was standing, with the collections of river-washed pebbles and cobbles in the bottoms where the current goes round and round like a drill. If you were in one of them you'd be used like a buffing pad to polish the sides of it.
@@b.a8908 That's a shame. Try this one: mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html You can add layers to see various info, but they only show up at appropriate zoom levels, so if you zoom in to find the Strid you lose the geology layer and have to zoom back out to see it. It seems to be where the river crosses a narrow band of millstone grit between sandstone areas.
According to the Estate's page, yes, anywhere from Barden Bridge above down to Kex Beck beyond the A59: boltonabbey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bolton-Abbey-Fishing-Map.pdf I've never seen someone fishing the Strid itself, though. I suspect the currents would take the end off a line.
I wanted to see this for a long time , i would like to see this same experiment when the river is calmer like , just bubbly flowing water looking like a regular stream.
It’s scary to think that those rocks are the top of a huge cave system beneath flooded by a violent river flow 😱😱😱
And even scarier to know theres bodies and skeletons down there still, and unknown number
Maybe the caves go up into the mountains on the sides and they are not flooded and they are magical, filled with gems and sparkling gold and elves who snort pixie dust and grant wishes..... 🤔..... perhaps they travel underground to Ireland in the summer and that's where the legend of leprechauns came from.... 🤔.... then again, I'm just an American, as you can tell by the lack of unnecessary U's in my spelling oh, so what do I know?
@@wifighostcruiser9665 All this just adds to a very strange year 😳
@alfred lauridsen BAHAHAHAHA
@@wifighostcruiser9665 Or a giant salamander engulfing anything that falls underneath.
"Let's yeet"
He was never heard from again...
Something like this? czcams.com/video/tBX8NeZydsI/video.html
That video was how I found out such activities existed.
@@Sableagle I dont think I want to click on that video by your description
@@johnchan754 I was looking for footage of people climbing on the Eiger. I found a video of someone up there on his own, climbing a rock then crossing a rope to a free-standing rock called the "Mushroom." Then he unclipped from the rope, which gave me the jitters something awful, and started walking around on top of the Mushroom, taking in the views all around, giving me the chance to go "Been there, climbed that," pointing at the 2343m peak of Männlichen far below him.
Then he said: "3, 2, 1, see ya!" and took a running jump off the top of the rock.
This was how I discovered that "squirrel suits" and wingsuit flying and BASE jumping exist.
It's possible I swore at some point while watching that video.
@@Sableagle so he was wearing a wing suit? I had no idea those were real?
@@johnchan754 I didn't even know BASE jumping existed. As far as I was concerned, parachutes were for ejecting from burning planes and the only activities available on the Eiger were climbing, freezing to death, being struck by falling rocks and falling to your death. Then he took a running jump off it.
Imagine my surprise.
Yes, though. Wingsuits are real. There's a spot in a fjord in Norway with a long vertical drop that's quite popular for the people who do that stuff.
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Wish undertows were talked about far more often and that warnings were posted clearly at parks with rivers. Drowning disappearances happen yearly near us as people hop right in to swim and never come up. My mother says it was morbid of me to bring my own kids to overlook the most common place for it and tell them I went to school with people who got sucked under in there and never came back, but my kids don't even stick a foot in rivers without permission now.
Yes, educate them, not morbid at all, would do the same thing with mine.
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Hell yeah! It's important for kids to look at the things around them and constantly question sources of potential danger. Not to drive themselves crazy, but just so that they don't take their safety for granted amid a comfortable, secure world that often disarms us. You sound like a good parent.
The official deepest point that's been found here along this scarey river is 68 metres deep somewhere just before the waterfall 😳 the way it twists on its side is just fascinating but horrifying what's below. If only people knew, it should be fenced off. It's just unbelievable that it's not.
@@AverageAlien would you rather have your kids be risk seeking and dead or cautious and alive?
People who are here from mr ballen unite
Im from mr.ballen
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@@AvatarAppraisal i commeted to your channel
I'm not here from mrballen, I actually searched for this. If you haven't already, see Tom Scott's video on this.
Yep, samd
Lies
Yeah, here from Tom Scott
Indeed
And me.
That was the most casual use of yeet I’ve heard. Good form
I heard that after it being used in this video it officially entered the Oxford English dictionary
You go to what has been labeled as "the world's most dangerous river" (due to undertow)
to do an undercurrent test. You encounter an absolutely mindless fool who has brought
his children to stand on the edge and play on the smooth and sometimes trecherously
slippery rocks completely and totally oblivious to the dangers. Yikes!
Hes trying to get rid of em
Its hard to watch because of that crazy family
Baby.
He’s quite safe he’s got a mask on
Wonder if they put any warning signs anywhere.
Finally someone tested that damned river
the only test data here would be a decibel level test.
Tested? He threw a plastic bottle in, it hit a rock and he gave up
He didn't test anything. He threw plastic jugs in the river and left them there. Except like one.
Exactly what I thought
lmao these replies
This footage is from a camera that was found on the banks of the mighty strid...
did this man just say "Lets Yeet"
Turbulence itself destroys buoyancy, so that has to be factored in as well. White water turbulence puts air into the water and affects the buoyancy in general.
Water with lots of suspended turbulant air bubbles is the real killer. Waterfall plunge pools are best example. I have personal experience - during a canyoning trip in France I jumped off a waterfall into an heavily aerated plunge pool (foaming!) while weighted down with harnesses and abseiling gear. Wont make that mistake again as it took far too long to surface after the jump. I was suspended - nearly neutrally bouyant despite a wetsuit and wasnt going down fast enough to kick off the river bed nor was I rising fast either - I had to hold my breath and hope - luckily I was washed out to a shallower place were I could surface. My two companions were looking down white as sheets and told me that I was under for well over a minute.
Who else is here because of mrballen?
Yea am back checking these new vids on it thanks to him!
I just saw his latest upload and here I am!
Same here haha. ive watched an old video on the dangers of the bolton strid. its terrifying but super interesting lol
me, and after this another vid about that coconut crab island
Yeah, i watched ten or so videos on coconut crab, and this fucking strid! Love mrballen
Who’s here from that one tumblr post?
im here from tom scott
I'm here from Friendster
There is no way I’d be holding those bottles. I’d have the line attached to a scale that’s tied to a tree, and a wench to pull them back.
We don't call them wenches anymore, we call them ladies
He left all that plastic trash in the river.
@@VidarrKerr ok
@@VidarrKerr i know it makes me really mad actually. Wish he had used something else.
@@user-pe2yx9kt4e He basically just went there and threw trash in the river.
Props for actually testing this river
5:15 - thank me later...
too late
Better yet, 7:31
4:53
This video was not helpful....
"She can't stay down with 3 barrels not with 3 barrels"
Hahahahahahahahaha
Lool
We need a bigger boat
It is amazing that something so calm looking is so totally deadly.
Yeah, I’ve gone sliding:floating down currents like that for fun as a child. Thankfully I wasn’t dragged into some underwater cavern
@@Deadlyvoltage3 Well you definitely haven’t been down currents like the Bolton because it kills everyone who enters it.
@@Deadlyvoltage3 you have never been in water like this lmao. People say it has a 100% kill rate
@@willy2928 ignore that dummy, THE WAY HE REPLIED IS TOTALLY SHOWING THAT HE'S A 12 YER OLDS
@@michellekahlez2105 you gotta learn how to spell correctly before insulting the intelligence of another person.
The bubbles that you have captured in the water (in your camera videos) put me in mind of the theories about ships lost in the "Bermuda Triangle" that may have been lost due to methane gas released by clathrate disruption on the ocean floor. Not that the same event is happening, but the same effect, sinking in a highly aerated environment, is occurring.
Just an observation...
I've heard that theory before also. It makes sense. It'd be pretty cool if it was some mysterious paranormal thing but unfortunately we don't live in that kind of world. The bubbles theory makes way more sense than a spooky ghost pirate ship or giant monsters taking sailors down to the depths.
Interesting
That's not a theory. It doesn't qualify. A theory has to be supported by evidence. That's just a hypothesis. A guess, basically. It also doesn't make sense, because there's really nothing special about the number of ships that have disappeared in the Bermuda triangle, compared to anywhere else
Who is. MR BALLER
It’s like watching your professor struggle through an experiment on zoom.
Bruh why are people disliking this, you clicked on a video to learn about the Strid and you're learning about the Strid.
"The plan: is to yeet them into the water and see what happens" #SCIENCE
Had me feeling uneasy when you went near the edge 🙈
I have guided class V+ rapids and if I came across something like that even knowing nothing about it, I wouldn't get real close.
The overhang. The speed of current... the noise level, alone suggests large volume (cfs), versus how much water you see is a big clue and those river features ( undercuts, swift water, body-pinning rocks, sives, falls... All unavoidable....) even if you didn't have that noise, are not cool for swimming. I bet you can feel the vibration through your feet.
This river could well cause a Grand Canyon in a few milion years.
Greetings from Italy.
i doubt that. grand canyon consist mostly of sedimentary rocks.. where as this river is igneous.. sedimentary rocks washed away easily
@@ahmadubaidillah4440 Only time will tell. " Gutta cavat lapidem".
Greetings from Italy
@@lorenzonotarianni1667 G R E E T I N G S F R O M I T A L Y
@@ahmadubaidillah4440 This is sedimentary. There's a layer of coarse-grained gritstone sedimentary rock between layers of fine-grained sandstone sedimentary rock. The sandstone is softer and erodes more smoothly and more easily, allowing the river to cut a wide channel under the gritstone, which falls in as boulders. You can see the gritstone layer as a band of steep and lumpy slops along both sides of the valley downstream of the Strid.
It won't be forming all that grand a canyon, though, as it's only 110 m above sea level.
@@Sableagle looks igneous lol, thats news to me
Are you wearing a facemask? You sound muffled? I don't think the rocks are gonna catch covid from you.
EDIT: Just got to the part in the video. mask confirmed
This leads me to think that there must be a deep cave or underground river that flows deep and into the earth. Otherwise an undertow would not be so strong. I wish the military would use their underwater remote cameras to robotically explore this interesting place. It is amazing that it is open to the public.
The water is too dark for practical cameras and equipment
Not too many military uses for a random waterfall in the woods and you can't fit a frigate through there.
you know whats funny? we've only drilled 12km into the earth, a human has never even been that close. meaning we dont know whats inside the earth.. dont ever trust science, they make large claims that simple people are too intimidated by, to look into. but when you do, you just find out they made up a bunch of stuff that will suit their future interests. also we dont have military cameras.. lol.. we cant even put out forest fires.. yet you people think we've gone to mars.. we have special cameras that can withstand huge amounts of pressure. nah. why do you think you cant watch live footage of a satellite in outerspace or the telescopes they have, cause its fake and they dont exist. you think we have satellites.. then why do i not get a cellphone signal in a bunch of places? cause cell towers are what transmit phone signals.. literally a super high tower.. from the ground.. its not floating.. man is much more stupid than you people realize. go look at pictures of earth, tell me how many satellites you see. LOL. outerspace is fake, and the earth being round is fake. time to wake up
Part of the Strid's deadliness is caused by actual undertow. The rest is caused by all the bubbles caused by the turbulence. Most of a human body is liquid with the same density as water, bone which is heavy than water, and lungs, which, if filled are much lighter than water, so in still water, a body is bouyant. If a human body ends up in water that is churning with bubbles, the amount of water/bubble mixture that is displaced by a human body is lighter than the human body, so that human's body is headed for the river bottom.
Imagine not knowing about the dangers and taking your dog for a swim and watch him / her get pulled down to their death 😳
The worst thing is most people wouldn’t realise and would probably jump in after it
@@haroldgodwinson7241 Reminds me of a story I heard where a guy's dog jumped into a geothermal pool at Yellowstone so he jumped in after. They were in the water for under a minute but still died of burns all over their body
I'm here from mr. Ballen. This stuff scares the crap out of me but I can't stay away.
All the Americans trying to understand what this Yorkshire man is saying! 😆
“The plan is to yeet them into the water and see what happens.”
I like this guy already, lmao
You watch one video about this river then your whole recommended is about it
That's YT's way.
Been looking for something like this for years now. how hard did u have to pull to get those bottles back?
I should have used a spring balance to measure that. Unfortunately, I didn't. I can tell you it hurt my fingers. The string was creaking under the load.
Can you do a dept measure video? I'm really curious how deep that actually gets
@@taylormcdaniel603 That's the plan for next time. First I have to repair or replace my brand new inner tube. Maybe I should get another and glue it over the first to double-layer it rather than looking for individual holes in the thing.
@@Sableagle Awesome man. There's almost nobody doing tests at the strid, at least not making videos. What's the innertube for if you don't mind? Also have you tried any dept measures before or will this be a first?
@@taylormcdaniel603 The inner tube's for a tyre, and this'll be the first try at hitting the bottom with something. The bottles were buoyant so that I could see whether the current would haul them under. Unfortunately that meant they never even reached the current. Next one will have rocks in it, so it should go all the way, if it doesn't get wedged in something.
1st bottle: I can confirm this river will ruin your career.
He said he was going to "yeet" them into the water lmao.
he yeeted alright.!!!!
Thought you said "let's eat " and then would casually sit on a rock and eat a sandwich 😭😂
It's cool to see the perpsective of this place with people stamding beside it.
I never understood why the Strid was such a big deal but holy cow that is a river where I come from! Yeet away my man.
at 5:30 the last bottle is a good example of what the waters can do to a body, when the bottle was pulled up at 6:00 (and I'll be theorizing that the bottle didn't sink too deep) that there is a quick big dent.. and that's just the shallow part of it-- so imagine the great power if it sunk deeper--
Yknow rocks exist also...
What's up with the mask? Who's out there to protect/be prorected from? (Like the stupid things work at all.)
Question: are there any warning signs or safety barriers? In the lawsuit-happy USA a similar location would be barricaded and idiot proof.
There are at least two signs:
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I'm convinced this thing is actually a prison/trap made by Druids to contain some truly horrific, old world, heinous monsters (and probably Roman legions). That is the only reason I can fathom for the existence of the Bolton Strid, the Corryvracken Maelstrom, and these other......lovely......places.
Or maybe it’s just nature?
You are a true neo Pagan. Or someone in waaayyyy to much escapist fantasy
Lol sorry bro. Life isn't that interesting. Keep reading those fantasy books though!
My mind was functioning upon very similar lines..definitely some remnants of ye olde world magic going on there. Those rocks are definitely guarding something.
@@andrew2393 nothing fantastical about the Druids..actual history, look it up.
This is grade school science. Whatever you throw into a churning rapid will float downstream rapidly. It would have made more sense to throw it into the calm water upstream to see the strength of the deep current.
My mom used to tell me to be careful swimming in rivers for undertow and its always been a big fear getting into water
It's a real thing, alright. I swam into an undertow in the Tarn a few years ago. There were a dozen of us swimming, and I got onto the downstream side of a submerged boulder that was just the right shape to create a steep downward current. I went under like _{snaps fingers}_ that. Bobbed right back up a metre downriver, obviously, but in a bigger river with more aggressive currents, it could obviously be a lot worse.
Good idea with the bottles, in still water I suppose they would float vertically like a body if tied closer together.
Not much chance of getting out of there if you fell in.
There *isn’t* a chance of him getting out. This river has a 100% mortality rate
Everyone who has fallen in (witnessed) has died
I almost died here ❕
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czcams.com/video/sQvg-aGwB7s/video.html
From what I understand the water is about 6 to 9 meters deep but has anyone actually measured it or mapped the underwater topography?
It's not just currents, undertoes etc but things are far less bouyant in aerated water.
With these areas of bubbly water you have no chance of floating.
The tumble at low head weirs will spin and trap you but the bubbles are what stop you floating up and having a chance at breathing or escape. In that case you may even be better swimminb down first then away from the weir.
Throw those bottle where the river is calm. 🤔
*1:40** "the plan is to YEET them into the water" HAHA okay also HERE FROM MR BALLEN* ♥️
Me too all hail Mr ballen
I wonder how many amateur Strid scientists are pinned against a rock at the bottom of the Strid.
My man with is corona cold face diaper on. Keeping it 💯 I guess 😷
Well there’s 7 minutes I’ll never get back
Even the rocks looked evil in this video
Keeping safe outside in nature with his mask on……good lad 👊😒
I take that as a compliment on the skill with which I excluded all the families visiting the Strid at the same time as me from the video while making it look natural!
Still waiting for someone to post a damn geographical outline of this damn river.
Here you go, then:
www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1CU1f9FfR0vIdlaR_ow70WcI9rHeKgUs4&usp=sharing
@@Sableagle great btw what about a 3d graph of the whole underground structure, is there such video. Actually my original question was that but I made a mistake with my sentence and words. 🤪😁😁
I was gonna say that you failed miserably on the test, but yea you failed miserably on the test..
Just give me a cold beer and an Intertube and I'll float that heffer!
You would need 4 separate ropes and attach a tension measure or even weight scale. Then, individually test them to see where the strongest pull is, compared to different depths.
yeah this test was stupid in many ways
Well, lets drink another 4 gallons of OJ and try again...
A suggestion for the next video. Explain what you want to do somewhere else where it is quiet.
...without a mask on
The river is louder than a PS4.
Maybe its just me, but it creeps me out to see people and even children in EVERY footage of the strid standing right on the edge at rocks covered with slippery moss. I mean wtf? No fence, no guard rails, just children casually playing there.
why not use a lead plumb with a float ?
Why do I keep returning to items on the Strid? I can't swim, have a healthy respect for water yet I feel drawn to the implied threat and menace. I feel I will never visit. I might inadvertently do something silly!
Check out Pas de Soucy on the Tarn in France, too. If anyone gets washed into that they wait until it dries up in late autumn before they fish out whatever's left.
Broo I was literally just thinking "why doesn't someone throw a stick or something in there to test the current" lol
Whis hesr cause of crusader dan?
Thanks man for doing these test's, i've been dreaming about diverting the river and take a look inside the bottom of that thing!
Same, friend, same. It haunts my dreams, actually, thoughts of somehow stopping the river’s flow in that area long enough to explore.
Leave it be....I'd hate someone to alter it.
What makes you think apostrophes play a part in plurals?
Seems to me that diverting the river will drain the interesting section only down to the shallowest part. The deeper sections will become lakes and you'd also need to pump the water out of them. Or send down scuba divers. Safer, at least, without the flow.
@@daves.9479 Scuba divers wouldn't survive the current is too strong to surface once you get pulled down.
Why go in the part of the river where it looks rough? Do that test where the water looks calm, and they say it's the deadliest.
Nice deep forest river, let's yeet some plastic down there.
hey! someone has now done this with professional sonar! :) I applaud your efforts despite your lack of equipment
I dont understand how anybody has the balls (or stupidity) to stand within 50 feet of that thing
Well, there's 7:00 minutes ILL NEVER GET BACK!!!! LOL!!!
This was the most British accent I have heard, had to turn the subtitles on
But it was worth it, awesome and scary video
Asking myself what this guy is doing is what brought me here and I’m not disappointed
Is the sound of that river is scary sounds and screams in in a strange way
honestly thought you were brave dave at first when I heard your voice and demeanor
This is such an insane body of water it blows my mind.. scarier than most any other looking all innocent. I
wonder how long the Strid is?
who's here from unbelievable facts?
Not sure how bottles tied together tells you how dangerous a river is.
This looks more like the river getting ready to rid us of stupidity.
Standing unsecured, close to the edge, holding on to a loop of string with the force of an entire river pulling the other end, Darwin candidate for certain - WCGW?
What does yeet mean?
to throw, typically far away from yourself and without hesitation
One of if not the most dangerous river in the world.
Perhaps another video will show the results of your test.
I like how he said, "...YEET them into the water." I kept hearing that word but didn't know what it really meant.
Do salmon jump this waterfall?
My first thought was "no way," because of all the crap in the other rivers that share the same estuary as this one, but I checked, and they've been seen running up it. There are parts higher up that could be good spawning grounds, around Yockenthwaite, so if they don't mind the Humber, sure. I don't know whether there's a fish ladder at the weir in Otley, but maybe there is.
@@Sableagle I’ve seen the occasional salmon do this at Stainforth Force near Settle that’s why I was wondering. The River Ribble eventually opens out into the Irish Sea.
any chance of filming the action next time? nothing happened, I saw your feet and and elbow going out of shot and not much else
No offence but this is kinda dumb, what if there was an insane current and it ripped the line, wrapping it around your arm and pulling you in...
I thought you would attach the line to a heavy rock or tree and see the tension
I am guessing the hydraulic of that first main falls is what pins down and drowns most people who fall in. Then they get wedged in those overhangs and crevices until water levels change and eventually wash out the bodies.
That horse must have been pissed to realize it wasn't a body. Or ramsay Bolton as I call it lmao it's where he went
What baby??
"Lets Yeet!"
Indeed. Let it *yeet*
LOL - at some point some fool is going to be the next victim of the river. Its only a matter of time.
The strange .....dark.....and mysterious brought me here....im hiding from the like button who is out for revenge
You didn't tie safety cable lines to your self I notice.
This guy actually posted that. Ok?
I live in Arizona and this is Antelope canyon. It's a "slot" canyon carved through sandstone; it has a very narrow gap at the top that opens to a 20 meter deep canyon below. It fills during monsoon season and hikers have been drowned by flash flooding. I think this is perhaps what the Bolton Strid would look like if it were drained. czcams.com/video/t4nM1FoUqYs/video.html
I suspect the Strid's more of a mess of boulders. Antelope Canyon's sandstone, which erodes quite evenly and leaves those beautiul sculpted-looking scoops and curves. I've seen homes and wineries carved out of sandstone in Turkey. The Bolton Strid is different stuff.
" The geological map of the area shows that Bolton Priory lies at the junction of the Bowland Shale Formation and the Pendle Grit Member, with much of the area being covered with Quaternary till, glaciofluvial sand and gravel and river terrace deposits."
thelanguageofstone.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-brief-investigation-of-river-wharfe_7.html
You can see boulders in the middle of the flow and what looks like a very shallow part, but with nowhere near enough currents to be the whole of the river.
I suspect it looks more like Brimham Rocks.
Imagine getting washed through a gap like this:
www.familiesonline.co.uk/images/default-source/national/brimham_rocks2.jpg?sfvrsn=9d3c769d_0
at whatever mad speed that current is doing down there.
There are a few holes through the rock formations at Brimham big enough to have a lot of current through them but not big enough for a body to go through them like this guy:
czcams.com/video/Ky9mo1dryF8/video.html
There are also those swirling holes along the sides, including in the rocks where I was standing, with the collections of river-washed pebbles and cobbles in the bottoms where the current goes round and round like a drill. If you were in one of them you'd be used like a buffing pad to polish the sides of it.
Sableagle your First link is not working
meptune also you can check Valla kanyonu in Turkey
@@b.a8908 That's a shame. Try this one:
mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/home.html
You can add layers to see various info, but they only show up at appropriate zoom levels, so if you zoom in to find the Strid you lose the geology layer and have to zoom back out to see it.
It seems to be where the river crosses a narrow band of millstone grit between sandstone areas.
I liked that video. If the strip is like that it would be pretty terrifying.
This is more of a flooded cave system deep underground than a river
time to go cave diving you feel me dawg?
Is this a place people fish?
According to the Estate's page, yes, anywhere from Barden Bridge above down to Kex Beck beyond the A59:
boltonabbey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bolton-Abbey-Fishing-Map.pdf
I've never seen someone fishing the Strid itself, though. I suspect the currents would take the end off a line.
Perfect spot for a hydroelectric damn
……who is my baller…….who is Mr Baller
I clicked this the second I understood what it was!!!
I wanted to see this for a long time , i would like to see this same experiment when the river is calmer like , just bubbly flowing water looking like a regular stream.
So like, never?
@@sugarnads czcams.com/video/mCSUmwP02T8/video.html
Look at how calm that looks
Anyone else thing having that rope hooked around his fingers while standing right on the edge was a tad foolish? lol poking the bear springs to mind.
Mr Ballen Gang Representin.