@@Al_Dente-d1p you know, an intelligent person uses words to lift others up, not tear them down in such an ignorant, rude way. You only make yourself look like the dumbass...couldn't resist since this was especially offensive & childish.
Same, I was thinking oh look at that little creek, the waters gonna rise a couple of inches or something nobody’s harmed, but then I saw the rafters and I was like “Woah, that’s a big river!”
This is the 1996 Olympic Course that only gets water flow 17 - 34 days a year. The course was modified for the 1994 World Championship , Olympics Team Trial's, and the Olympics but different World Championships have been held there since 1977. The lower Ocoee river is the most common run for both commercial and private kayaking and rafting trips. When I was a kid there in the late 60's and 70's we called this area the " Blue Hole " and the only water there was from rain runoffs and natural springs. The water was clear and cold and many locals used it as a swimming hole where you swam in pools and through natural hole's in boulders. If you ever go to that area the " Blue Hole " can be found just above stream of the Olympic Whitewater Center. Park there and it's just 150 steps north of the bridge. Thanks for posting
Always nice seeing comments from people that knows the area and their history of the area. I do the full river ever year for about 20 years now. Going again in a couple weeks!
We had the pleasure of riding this river many years ago. Four agin’ geography teachers on vacation from Oxfordshire, England travelling from Atlanta to Memphis and then south following The Mississippi to New Orleans. What a morning! 15 years later still remember it as if it was yesterday. Such a thrill.
Right me and my cousins would swim in that like nothing lol had lots of spots like this in texas that looked just like it did after it all filled up and was flowing. some of the best times of my life.@@KumarNikhils
They're actually releasing the water specifically for the boats. They used to keep the river permanently diverted to generate power, and now they have an agreement with boaters to release the water on certain days.
This was really cool to see. As a small child I always thought it was lucky to see the beginning of a water stream, this brought back that feeling of good luck. Followed by very peaceful sounds and relaxation. Thank you!💕
True story... Roughly 20 years ago when I was a younger lad, I took a fishing trip/tour of Tennessee... Fished the Clinch , Watauga ,Hiwasssee ,North , and Little Tennessee rivers. Great experience! I just stayed in primitive campgrounds along the way. One morning in particular, I was heading to fish the Hiwassee River and as I was driving along the Ocoee River ( pictured in this video) I started cramping up from excitement and had to shit desperately. So I pulled over at a pull off, grabbed some TP, and headed down the path to the river bank. I was in mid-shit when all of a sudden this loud voice echoed through the valley, the water levels are about to rise! I’ve never been in a more desperate race for time in my life! As I was walking back up the path, there came the water. My apologies to anyone who floated down with the flow of the water, like these people did! Good times!!!!
Ya gotta love the complainers. Everybody wants instant gratification these days. If something doesn't happen in 30 seconds , it's keyboard warrior time and off to another video.
As Meatloaf sang years ago, "You took the words right out of my mouth." I remember a time when ADULTS TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN, "Be patient...wait a minute, it'll happen." Now it's all, "Instant gratification takes TOO LONG!" I mean, how does one FAIL TO SEE the majesty and sheer force and power that nature can deliver in a matter of seconds?
@Robert Gardea Wow...were you cheated. LOL I'm not a nerdie one. I'm just not one to say, "Eh, this takes too long." I'm an APPRECIATIVE one. THAT, I will own. As a recovering meth addict who sped through TEN YEARS of his life, I have finally learned how to slow down and enjoy life as it happens, in its own time. I carry no shame in that. Lastly, having no children, but having been around many, I learned that when you say things dramatically and build the suspense (that's the actor in me), the children are mesmerized and appreciate the outcome that much more. Trust me on this one...I'm an old man, but people never believe my age when I tell them. I don't act it, I don't look it, and I refuse to make myself old and dead before it's time.
The river is divided into 2 parts for rafters/kayakers. The Upper river and the Lower river. You can do just one of them or make a day out of it and do both. I've been rafting the full river several times and it's never a disappointment. The water is always cold and will take your breath when you first hop/fall in it!!!
A similar thing happens on the San Joaquin below the hydro dams. Fisherman are always getting drowned because they won't pay attention to the warnings when the water is released.
Started watching this on my tv and had to jump to my phone to verify-I thought this spot looked familiar! I remember camping by the river in the 70s and watching unsuspecting campers wade out into the shallow river early in the morning to bathe and brush their teeth only to have to scramble back to shore when the ice-cold water released by the dam started flowing downstream. They didn’t realize the reservoir release was closed at night. Loved kayaking and rafting on it!
3 of my 4 grown children joined me & all went White Water rafting. Rafting can ONLY be done when the water level is raised ! It’s STILL dangerous, tho ! BTW : several weeks prior to the rafting trip, A grown man fell out of a raft, got his feet caught under some rocks & he drowned ! YES - it’s NOT for the “faint of heart” !
As a fisherman I’m wondering what exactly happens to the fish? Do they stay put? Relocate? It’s not just the depth that suddenly changes, it can also be the clarity, temperature and ph. How do they react?
Temperature, clarity, and even pH can vary quite drastically in different regions of a lake (e.g. near shore, central surface, deep). Remember that many North American fish quite happily survive lakes and rivers freezing over in winter.
Looking from a bridge this looks like a small creek when in reality those rocks that look small are boulders the size of people as you can see by the raft later on. The power of water is underestimated soo often thays why soo many deaths occur. Those white bubbles are air that'll keep you down in the water and kill you if you don't respect it.
So the air bubbles kill you...?? Sounds like you have alot of experience with white water. You are correct about people underestimating the power of water though
These are whitewater professionals. They read the water. They work this river. They are the ones who take you all down the gnarly shit you're too afraid to step into yourselves. I used to be a raft guide/class 4 kayak instructor. We know what we're doing. I promise. I used to wait at the the top of control release dams to get the "pillow" of water that came out, then we would ride it down, making laps over and over until the water ran out. For those of you confused and alarmed by this, it's okay. Stay in your house, behind your keyboard, drinking your soda, and eating your garbage, and let the professianls do their thing. P.S. if I made any grammatical errors you feel the need to call me out on.........suck it.......👍🤷🏼♀️💩🖕. WHITEWATER!!!!!!!!
In western Mass. there's a popular trout fishing river that has sirens to warn when an upstream power plant is about to let some dammed water through the turbines. Quite impressive when it happens.
I love the sounds of August. Listen to all the insects. It's March here in Long Island. Still cold...everything's still dead. We're close, though. Come on May.
Yeah, his tone def gives a feeling that what he is saying is the most important thing ever spoken haha. Not sure about creepy. Now, if the loudspeaker starts playing the banjo music from "Deliverance" and the same guy starts screaming "Squeal like a pig!" that would be creepy. And probably hilarious...
Not exactly - or anything like a “wilderness” area. Not with a campground, highway with cars going by, people in flip flops, a restaurant, etc. all in view.
My Uncle lived in Blue Ridge, Ga & used to complain about them draining his Beautiful Lake Blue Ridge just for the rafters! Thanks for posting. The road along this river used to get me car sick. 🤮
Interesting about 15 or 16 years ago I don't recall hearing those warnings, as I had been up there loads of times as I work over in Cleveland on weekends and would come up there to relax after work on hot summer days. Seen the rapids start in the lower sections so either this is new or the Olympic section has them and I've never seen that section start up. For anyone that's curious this was where the 1996 summer Olympics held the Kayaking competitions.
I hear ya! I lived in Atlanta during my college years (2007 - 2012) and I would occasionally take the bus up from Georgia Tech to the Roswell section of the Chattahoochee, and of course, near there is Vickery Creek and the abandoned masonry dam from one of the old mills. When I was in college, it was just this wild little secret, a ruin in the woods, surrounded by trees and boulders, available for you to discover if you ventured far enough over the hills. Now they've got all these ridiculous observation towers and bridges and parking lots and other overdevelopment. When I saw it again the weekend of an interview at Delta Airlines, I was disappointed at how crowded it now is. I get that they want as many people to use the park as possible, but it's a real shame.
I know when I was stationed at Dobbins AFB in Marietta, and being a fly-fisher from the Pacific Northwest, everyone pointed me towards the Chattahoochee. They warned it had regular routine releases from a dam north of Atlanta. I ended up not going but this reminded me, what if you were seriously hearing impaired and not aware of local releases. That could have a bad ending real fast if you were wading in the middle of the stream.
Don't worry, you haven't shocked any engineers with your question to where they are smacking their foreheads and saying, "Oh, geez! We didn't think of that! I knew we forgot SOMETHING!" I'm a Civil Engineer and I designed several dams and their downstream infrastructure. We definitely thought of all of that kind of thing and a whole lot of things that most all people don't think of. Flashing lights, signs, and in most of these locations, Game and Fish Commission officers or Forestry Service Officers, or Park Rangers are given notice when water is going to be released quite a bit ahead of time so they cam make their way over to the warned area location and observe if any people are in or around the river and they approach them and communicate to them that they need to get out of the river and move away from its banks, especially if the release is going to be particularly voluminous. So there are plans, alert types, and evacuation protocols in place that take into consideration all types of people, animals, unusual debris, and rescue personnel on csll in case they are needed. It's all taken care of. But your question is a good one. It shows you think about things that a lot of people just don't.
I love the Ocoee River. I got to Raft on it once and it was so soothing. Never seen it like that, and it was a treat. THANK YOU for keeping all the wonderful natural sounds. It made me feel like I was there. Subscribing to you to see more of these!
@@yungsweatshop8797 If you think those are class 3 and 4 rapids. Then you have never been on class 3 or 4 rapids. From what I saw in the video, they are class 2 at best. I could easily canoe thru there with no real fear.
Depending on how robust the local fish are, once the river lowers a bit, fishermen would be swarming so thick, they'd be getting in altercations about whose lines were tangling the others!
They do this at the Ripogenus dam in Maine. Open the gates n flush the rafters down the Penobscot river. The source is the Chesuncook, Caribou and Ripogenus lakes. It's a massive waterway. It's only a drop in the bucket when the 3 connected lakes are high. Serious fun. Beautiful wilderness. Moose, Black Bears, Bald Eagles, River Otters and White Tailed Deer to name a few of the natives. Awesome place.
The Ocoee River in Tennessee is a dam-controlled river and they open flood-gates in the spring for mostly Class III and in some stretches, Class IV rafters. Boulders the size of cars are often in these white-water rivers, trees can come down, get into the river and cause strainers, which are very dangerous. This river looks quite safe though. Some pretty country! I did quite a bit of white-water rafting (NOT kayaking!) and I prefer the more technical, strategic smaller rivers to the huge mogul-rolling rivers like in the Grand Canyon, where you just mostly go up and down, up and down and I don't like brown water! Sometimes early spring rivers are fast and dangerous, and high so a little later and they're more fun, more technical. Too low and you can face the danger of strainers and wedges in the boulders and that's not fun, a wedged raft becomes WORK!
Longer ??? Are you out of your mind 🤪? This diarrhea is already 2 hours too long. Why don’t you just watch paint dry you moron. You better get going the short bus awaits
If you were actually there, relaxing on that bridge you would effortlessly be entranced by the slow, rhythmical, almost pulsing sounds, of the rushing and rapidly rising waters . . . your spirit momentarily transposed to a simpler time and a much simpler lifestyle. We became less human the moment, when as a society, we quit listening to and being in tune with GOD through Nature.
I thought this might be the Ocoee. Some friends and I went swimming there a few years ago while the water was still up. It was great! I'd love to raft it.
Yeah this isn't British Columbia, look at the description. That being said, if you want a more "wild" experience and to "challenge nature", you might want to head to BC, or at least over to the Chattooga river about two hours east of here for some natural class V rapids. The Ocoee river here was basically terraformed for the purpose of creating a semi-controlled course for the Olympics in '96. Oh, and Murphy might be an ok place to stay, but if you're not white, I wouldn't recommend doing too much exploring around there, as it's one of the prime racist areas in the southeast.
If you get a chance thru TN, there is a place I go trout fishing and when they generator water it rises and drops like that, a truly amazing site, just like this video
Ok so ocoee dam number 1 and 2 were built in the early 1900s I'm a actual local and live in Polk county Tennessee which were used for nearby cities like Chattanooga and local copper mines now they are used to control raft waters considering now days tourism is the county's biggest income maker after the 96 Olympics made the area huge alot of what you see is man made for the 96 Olympics they have just recently in the past years made some deal to keep the dams running for rafting
Great footage. I nearly got caught in an unexpected release of Nantahala at Patton Run. Fly fishing with waders on. At the time, they were doing maintenance and shouldn't have normally sent the water down. It was good to have my son on the bank that spotted it first. The good Lord saved my life again.
Thank you for great video. Nicely done, beautiful place, slowly water rising thanks camera person. Till then keep smiling with lol politely & safely rising water
Beautiful. Thank you for keeping the natural sounds and not overshadowing it with obnoxious music or yelling and voices.
Could’ve put on a polka or something snappy like that 👨🏿💼👀🥴
I could've sworn I heard the first few intro notes to "safety dance" as I was reading this lol
@@100GTAGUY someone's ring tone on the bridge near me
@@Al_Dente-d1p you know, an intelligent person uses words to lift others up, not tear them down in such an ignorant, rude way. You only make yourself look like the dumbass...couldn't resist since this was especially offensive & childish.
I chouldnt agree with u more
They knew Post 10 had just cleared a big clogged drain.
lul
That is an awesome comment, haha!
Haha that's weird just watched one of those vids yesterday 😂
lol I see we are on the same video circuit.
We got a whirlpool
Glad the rafts showed up to give some scale. What I thought were 1-foot-high weeds turned out to be trees.
I'm assuming that's what it used to look like before they damned it up
Michael H - Same here...
You not at the beach
@@dougdreyer4962 Don't remind me.
That's a Barbie and friends raft.
I totally misjudged the scale of this river. The rocks are actually boulders and he weeds are really saplings. LOL
Same, I was thinking oh look at that little creek, the waters gonna rise a couple of inches or something nobody’s harmed, but then I saw the rafters and I was like “Woah, that’s a big river!”
Me too! Seeing people next to the river in comparison put things in perspective
Yeah the proportions are misleading for sure
Didn't see it until you pointed it out.
You are middle beast at this day. 333
This is the 1996 Olympic Course that only gets water flow 17 - 34 days a year. The course was modified for the 1994 World Championship , Olympics Team Trial's, and the Olympics but different World Championships have been held there since 1977. The lower Ocoee river is the most common run for both commercial and private kayaking and rafting trips. When I was a kid there in the late 60's and 70's we called this area the " Blue Hole " and the only water there was from rain runoffs and natural springs. The water was clear and cold and many locals used it as a swimming hole where you swam in pools and through natural hole's in boulders. If you ever go to that area the " Blue Hole " can be found just above stream of the Olympic Whitewater Center. Park there and it's just 150 steps north of the bridge. Thanks for posting
Always nice seeing comments from people that knows the area and their history of the area. I do the full river ever year for about 20 years now. Going again in a couple weeks!
@@raymondcaylor6292 yeah I know about the center. That was messed up.
We still call it the blue hole and locals still go swimming there to this day.
I would like to see how they will do this with the LA River when the Olympics come here in 2028.
Thank you -- I though parts looked manufactured/not natural!
“Warning the water level is about to rise, exit the river bed immediately”
Fish:👁👄👁
Cringe
And here come people in rafts 👁️🚤👁️
People that are in the middle of the be like 🤭🌊 ⚰️
What if you’re deaf?
@@lindaj5492 Universal sign. I guess take note of the people running.
We had the pleasure of riding this river many years ago. Four agin’ geography teachers on vacation from Oxfordshire, England travelling from Atlanta to Memphis and then south following The Mississippi to New Orleans. What a morning! 15 years later still remember it as if it was yesterday. Such a thrill.
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can't wait for part 2: Warning!! Water level is going back down.
Hahahahaha
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Good one!
Amazing how quickly that riverbed went from a fun place to hop on rocks and get your feet wet, to a raging river. Thank you for posting!
Well it was not raging river at end. But from dead almost dried river to well just normal river
Right me and my cousins would swim in that like nothing lol had lots of spots like this in texas that looked just like it did after it all filled up and was flowing. some of the best times of my life.@@KumarNikhils
Why did you even mention this when this is not even a religious video @jesushasgivenyouall.repent9986
I’ve learned not to even question my recommended any more
Start a river and within 5 minutes you've got some buggers in a boat.
I used to live with people like that. They once left at 4am to get somewhere in time for the dam release, the crazy fools.
Couldn't agree more. Shame they couldn't let spectators enjoy the spectacle naturally.
@@bebajoro77 oh you're one of those guys.
@@bebajoro77 it’s not natural, it’s a man made dam
They're actually releasing the water specifically for the boats. They used to keep the river permanently diverted to generate power, and now they have an agreement with boaters to release the water on certain days.
Wow, you don't realize how big that river is until people show up on rafts.
Dam water is released.
*TH-cam* *after* *7* *Years:-|*
"Its time to recommend this"
This was really cool to see. As a small child I always thought it was lucky to see the beginning of a water stream, this brought back that feeling of good luck. Followed by very peaceful sounds and relaxation. Thank you!💕
True story... Roughly 20 years ago when I was a younger lad, I took a fishing trip/tour of Tennessee... Fished the Clinch , Watauga ,Hiwasssee ,North , and Little Tennessee rivers. Great experience! I just stayed in primitive campgrounds along the way. One morning in particular, I was heading to fish the Hiwassee River and as I was driving along the Ocoee River ( pictured in this video) I started cramping up from excitement and had to shit desperately. So I pulled over at a pull off, grabbed some TP, and headed down the path to the river bank. I was in mid-shit when all of a sudden this loud voice echoed through the valley, the water levels are about to rise! I’ve never been in a more desperate race for time in my life! As I was walking back up the path, there came the water. My apologies to anyone who floated down with the flow of the water, like these people did! Good times!!!!
Ha ha ha ha!!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😜✌️
You had me at young lad!🤣🤣
😂🤣😅
So you've found the ultimate auto-flush toilet. Good on you Jim :D
That's a crappy story
Imagine living on the banks and hearing the beautiful sound of water flowing every day .... Paradise!💕
@David Smith thank you for allowing me to hear your beautiful childhood memory. Bless you💕
I love that the warning alarm sound like a certain reble ship from star wars.
That's what I thought the siren sounds like an old fashioned alien ship noise
Ya gotta love the complainers. Everybody wants instant gratification these days. If something doesn't happen in 30 seconds , it's keyboard warrior time and off to another video.
As Meatloaf sang years ago, "You took the words right out of my mouth." I remember a time when ADULTS TAUGHT THEIR CHILDREN, "Be patient...wait a minute, it'll happen." Now it's all, "Instant gratification takes TOO LONG!" I mean, how does one FAIL TO SEE the majesty and sheer force and power that nature can deliver in a matter of seconds?
Love keyboard warrior :)
And by doing so they missed out on how beautiful the landscape is.
@Robert Gardea If giving bad critics is the only thing you're capable of, I pity you.
@Robert Gardea Wow...were you cheated. LOL I'm not a nerdie one. I'm just not one to say, "Eh, this takes too long." I'm an APPRECIATIVE one. THAT, I will own. As a recovering meth addict who sped through TEN YEARS of his life, I have finally learned how to slow down and enjoy life as it happens, in its own time. I carry no shame in that. Lastly, having no children, but having been around many, I learned that when you say things dramatically and build the suspense (that's the actor in me), the children are mesmerized and appreciate the outcome that much more. Trust me on this one...I'm an old man, but people never believe my age when I tell them. I don't act it, I don't look it, and I refuse to make myself old and dead before it's time.
The river is divided into 2 parts for rafters/kayakers. The Upper river and the Lower river. You can do just one of them or make a day out of it and do both. I've been rafting the full river several times and it's never a disappointment. The water is always cold and will take your breath when you first hop/fall in it!!!
Ah random video suggested by the TH-cam algorithm, we meet again.
I'm still puzzle how do they work out ads watch a nuclear explosion and I get ads for toys
Thanks
A similar thing happens on the San Joaquin below the hydro dams. Fisherman are always getting drowned because they won't pay attention to the warnings when the water is released.
Started watching this on my tv and had to jump to my phone to verify-I thought this spot looked familiar! I remember camping by the river in the 70s and watching unsuspecting campers wade out into the shallow river early in the morning to bathe and brush their teeth only to have to scramble back to shore when the ice-cold water released by the dam started flowing downstream. They didn’t realize the reservoir release was closed at night. Loved kayaking and rafting on it!
Thanks
Thanks for keeping the camera steady, and not swinging it around like a fire hose.
No zoom in and out, too.
Simply beautiful 💖💖 the sound of the water 💦 is so peaceful and relaxing. Thanks for sharing
3 of my 4 grown children joined me & all went White Water rafting. Rafting can ONLY be done when the water level is raised !
It’s STILL dangerous, tho !
BTW : several weeks prior to the rafting trip, A grown man fell out of a raft, got his feet caught under some rocks & he drowned !
YES - it’s NOT for the “faint of heart” !
As a fisherman I’m wondering what exactly happens to the fish? Do they stay put? Relocate? It’s not just the depth that suddenly changes, it can also be the clarity, temperature and ph. How do they react?
I'd imagine it to be like having dead non moving air suddenly turn into a nice fresh breeze which is quite refreshing and airy
Jeremy Sphincter I’ve been down there they are very few fish in it no trout because the water is to warm for them
They do what they do in a river that normally has water because there isn't a dam upstream.
Temperature, clarity, and even pH can vary quite drastically in different regions of a lake (e.g. near shore, central surface, deep). Remember that many North American fish quite happily survive lakes and rivers freezing over in winter.
It's just fish
Looking from a bridge this looks like a small creek when in reality those rocks that look small are boulders the size of people as you can see by the raft later on. The power of water is underestimated soo often thays why soo many deaths occur. Those white bubbles are air that'll keep you down in the water and kill you if you don't respect it.
thins out the population....
**white bubbles are air**
Wow. Never knew that.
@@kim79710 the irony.
So the air bubbles kill you...?? Sounds like you have alot of experience with white water. You are correct about people underestimating the power of water though
@@kim79710 And YOU'RE a stupid idiot!
I have been here. I have rafted here. I have seen people who I believe have had their entire relationship with God changed forever.
Really
@@eriecanalboatcompany Really!
Because they went rafting?
0:10 "Did you hear that R-2, they shutdown the main reactor, we'll be destroyed forsure."
Who else was waiting for the rafts to go down the water rapids at the other side of the bridge???
No one.
Apparently 36 ‘noones’ at current count.
@@georgevassey3729 up to 85 no one's now George
92 and counting
These are whitewater professionals. They read the water. They work this river. They are the ones who take you all down the gnarly shit you're too afraid to step into yourselves. I used to be a raft guide/class 4 kayak instructor. We know what we're doing. I promise. I used to wait at the the top of control release dams to get the "pillow" of water that came out, then we would ride it down, making laps over and over until the water ran out. For those of you confused and alarmed by this, it's okay. Stay in your house, behind your keyboard, drinking your soda, and eating your garbage, and let the professianls do their thing. P.S. if I made any grammatical errors you feel the need to call me out on.........suck it.......👍🤷🏼♀️💩🖕. WHITEWATER!!!!!!!!
Exit the River bed immediately ! 4.41 people gather on river bed.
Excellent video!! One of the best I have seen! Such patience! You captured the experience!
Beautiful scenery even tho the water flow was slow going. Good for the boaters. Fun!
Have rafted this river when full, it was amazing and we got to watch it drop in the evening when they diverted the water. It’s just as amazing
What river is this? It looks like the Ocoee.
@@rightwing66 it is
It’s beautiful there. Some nice swim holes and crystal clear.
Get out of the riverbed, because people are floating in the riverbed.
In western Mass. there's a popular trout fishing river that has sirens to warn when an upstream power plant is about to let some dammed water through the turbines. Quite impressive when it happens.
I'm in western mass ivebeen there
I see the black riders have been trying to get to Rivendell again
You are so silly and foolish.
@@vivianpullen4936 oh chill out. He's just having fun.
Neat! I've always been curious what the warnings actually sound like.
The Jolly Green Giant flushed his toilet. You don't have to tell me twice.
I love the sounds of August. Listen to all the insects. It's March here in Long Island. Still cold...everything's still dead. We're close, though. Come on May.
That's funny, I suspect it was March everywhere else too......
Beautiful scenery. And the nature sounds were very relaxing. Can't wait to visit there.
Creepy, a loudspeaker issuing commands in the wilderness. Life-saver though
Yeah, his tone def gives a feeling that what he is saying is the most important thing ever spoken haha. Not sure about creepy. Now, if the loudspeaker starts playing the banjo music from "Deliverance" and the same guy starts screaming "Squeal like a pig!" that would be creepy. And probably hilarious...
Not exactly - or anything like a “wilderness” area. Not with a campground, highway with cars going by, people in flip flops, a restaurant, etc. all in view.
@@binskibinski1418 I agree with you. I should have looked a little harder.
True. One day I was camping in the wilderness when a fake bird in a tree ahead uttered with a german intonation: "please identify immediatly".
My Uncle lived in Blue Ridge, Ga & used to complain about them draining his Beautiful Lake Blue Ridge just for the rafters! Thanks for posting. The road along this river used to get me car sick. 🤮
Rode this a couple times.Now I’m 70 years old.One of the reasons life is worth living!
Heck yeah, I been rafting it every year for decades.
That was cool watching the water rise. It was not boring, you just have to chill and enjoy.
Or set the playback speed to 2x.
@Canadian Guy Were you trying to spell moron or someones last name?
Think I'll just wait for the grass to grow.
Chill and enjoy that family struggling to get to shore before the water hits........ya so enjoyable........
Okay, this was unexpected. I pray someone does not use this as a flash flood.
I live 30 minutes from this area. It's so beautiful!
Do they periodically open gates to release water or is it rain from up river????
@@DJ-xr5wb they open up the gates at certain times the year for kayakers and when there is flooding.
Same, I live in Delano.
Sheba Coppit you’re very lucky 🍀
Where is this? Just wondering... very beautiful 😃
water sometimes takes it's time, but if it wants to go somewhere, it won't be stopped.
Kinda like when I have to go pee. If I don't go quickly, it will go somewhere nobody likes.
Awesome footage! I wonder how the rafters made out.
Incredible transformation. Beautiful!
It really is!
Interesting about 15 or 16 years ago I don't recall hearing those warnings, as I had been up there loads of times as I work over in Cleveland on weekends and would come up there to relax after work on hot summer days. Seen the rapids start in the lower sections so either this is new or the Olympic section has them and I've never seen that section start up. For anyone that's curious this was where the 1996 summer Olympics held the Kayaking competitions.
The Olympic section
I hear ya! I lived in Atlanta during my college years (2007 - 2012) and I would occasionally take the bus up from Georgia Tech to the Roswell section of the Chattahoochee, and of course, near there is Vickery Creek and the abandoned masonry dam from one of the old mills. When I was in college, it was just this wild little secret, a ruin in the woods, surrounded by trees and boulders, available for you to discover if you ventured far enough over the hills. Now they've got all these ridiculous observation towers and bridges and parking lots and other overdevelopment. When I saw it again the weekend of an interview at Delta Airlines, I was disappointed at how crowded it now is. I get that they want as many people to use the park as possible, but it's a real shame.
827k views. Just shows how bad regular TV is. Can't wait for the sequel. The video isn't boring, I'm boring.
The sequel is they play it in reverse.
@@biggawinnacrapsa3870 The reboot is gonna have trash in it
Now this one is pretty boring
Hey that's an idea,video the water receding,about 8 days
Sean Kelley nearly 5 Million views
Imagine hiking out there all by yourself on slippery rocks and breaking your leg only to hear this warning.
Ridiculous
Well at least I’d be able to fill up my water bottle.
Story of my life
What a gorgeous spot. Would love to picnic there and just watch the water pass by. Lovely.
Thanks for posting.
I know exactly where this is. My husband and I used to camp and hike along the Ocoee. Fun times,!
Man. I grew up in Seneca. My dad worked at Duke and would call me for this. It made for good fishing. And memories.
We live in walhalla
I know when I was stationed at Dobbins AFB in Marietta, and being a fly-fisher from the Pacific Northwest, everyone pointed me towards the Chattahoochee. They warned it had regular routine releases from a dam north of Atlanta. I ended up not going but this reminded me, what if you were seriously hearing impaired and not aware of local releases. That could have a bad ending real fast if you were wading in the middle of the stream.
They do have flashing lights.
Don't worry, you haven't shocked any engineers with your question to where they are smacking their foreheads and saying, "Oh, geez! We didn't think of that! I knew we forgot SOMETHING!" I'm a Civil Engineer and I designed several dams and their downstream infrastructure. We definitely thought of all of that kind of thing and a whole lot of things that most all people don't think of. Flashing lights, signs, and in most of these locations, Game and Fish Commission officers or Forestry Service Officers, or Park Rangers are given notice when water is going to be released quite a bit ahead of time so they cam make their way over to the warned area location and observe if any people are in or around the river and they approach them and communicate to them that they need to get out of the river and move away from its banks, especially if the release is going to be particularly voluminous. So there are plans, alert types, and evacuation protocols in place that take into consideration all types of people, animals, unusual debris, and rescue personnel on csll in case they are needed. It's all taken care of. But your question is a good one. It shows you think about things that a lot of people just don't.
This is peaceful and relax washing the natural life coming back! Thank You!
Unfortunately the Olympic center burnt down this year. It is believed to be arson.
Great to here the sound off nature and no music BIG LIKE from the Nederland 🇱🇺
I love the Ocoee River. I got to Raft on it once and it was so soothing. Never seen it like that, and it was a treat. THANK YOU for keeping all the wonderful natural sounds. It made me feel like I was there.
Subscribing to you to see more of these!
Soothing is a very interesting way to describe class 3&4 rapids lol
So what happened to the people in the boats? And why were they even on the water? You turned away at the wrong time
@@yungsweatshop8797 If you think those are class 3 and 4 rapids. Then you have never been on class 3 or 4 rapids. From what I saw in the video, they are class 2 at best. I could easily canoe thru there with no real fear.
When the water goes back down...I would so be out there with my gold pan ............. all that bed rock would be soooooooooo nice to pick thru !~
Depending on how robust the local fish are, once the river lowers a bit, fishermen would be swarming so thick, they'd be getting in altercations about whose lines were tangling the others!
lol I thought that was a creek about 30 feet wide then... 3:32 and you see the rafters...make that 130 feet wide!
Antarctic Vortex hello
They do this at the Ripogenus dam in Maine. Open the gates n flush the rafters down the Penobscot river. The source is the Chesuncook, Caribou and Ripogenus lakes. It's a massive waterway. It's only a drop in the bucket when the 3 connected lakes are high. Serious fun. Beautiful wilderness. Moose, Black Bears, Bald Eagles, River Otters and White Tailed Deer to name a few of the natives. Awesome place.
The Ocoee River in Tennessee is a dam-controlled river and they open flood-gates in the spring for mostly Class III and in some stretches, Class IV rafters. Boulders the size of cars are often in these white-water rivers, trees can come down, get into the river and cause strainers, which are very dangerous. This river looks quite safe though. Some pretty country! I did quite a bit of white-water rafting (NOT kayaking!) and I prefer the more technical, strategic smaller rivers to the huge mogul-rolling rivers like in the Grand Canyon, where you just mostly go up and down, up and down and I don't like brown water! Sometimes early spring rivers are fast and dangerous, and high so a little later and they're more fun, more technical. Too low and you can face the danger of strainers and wedges in the boulders and that's not fun, a wedged raft becomes WORK!
I've been on the Ocoee River three or four times pretty good for a beginner after
Don't listen to the "that's boring" comments that was a really nice video relaxing and very pretty well done on capturing the beauty of nature.
The caption started off with WARNING! Hardy inviting to enjoy nature.
Wut? This river is dammed up for the benefit of the tourism industry.
Yeah, i'm not sure this is happening "naturally"...
This was NOT a natural event. It was totally man made.
wexfordam.....Shut up you little dweeb of a book worm!!
I wish it had been longer, I wanted to watch the rafts go through......... great video! Next time, show the rafts..... please?
Longer ??? Are you out of your mind 🤪? This diarrhea is already 2 hours too long. Why don’t you just watch paint dry you moron. You better get going the short bus awaits
Nice warning system, nature made safe, without breaking anything. Similarly, the Swiss have automatic warning lights and sirens for mudflows.
You can just make out where the siren is downstream on a roadside pole. It's a pair of Federal Signal DSA-3 speaker arrays.
why do you know this.
@@StylizedStation I've been into sound engineering for a long time and am especially focused on outdoor warning sirens.
Great filming thank you.
There’s a dam upstream that gets released in order to provide the rapids for rafting.
No way chuck! A dam? Highly doubtful 🧐
If you were actually there, relaxing on that bridge you would effortlessly be entranced by the slow, rhythmical, almost pulsing sounds, of the rushing and rapidly rising waters . . . your spirit momentarily transposed to a simpler time and a much simpler lifestyle.
We became less human the moment, when as a society, we quit listening to and being in tune with GOD through Nature.
Amen!
When some people run from a flood and others ride it. So much like life.
Warning: "Exit the riverbed immediately."
Rafters: "Are you kidding? This is what we're here for!"
I thought this might be the Ocoee. Some friends and I went swimming there a few years ago while the water was still up. It was great! I'd love to raft it.
You were right...2019 here we are 6 years later and since then my canal has gone up atleast 5 feet.
That's what you call good timing, unless those rafters and kayakers had been waiting for days
The water is released from the damn specifically for them...
I go kayaking here all the time ocoee river Tennessee... Always stay in Murphy N.C...😀
This is one of many rivers in British columbia Canada to go Kayaking th-cam.com/video/qtgnyJn9TKg/w-d-xo.html
Glad I found your post! I was thinking that this was where this was so I scrolled down to see if I was looking at the same place!
Yeah this isn't British Columbia, look at the description. That being said, if you want a more "wild" experience and to "challenge nature", you might want to head to BC, or at least over to the Chattooga river about two hours east of here for some natural class V rapids. The Ocoee river here was basically terraformed for the purpose of creating a semi-controlled course for the Olympics in '96. Oh, and Murphy might be an ok place to stay, but if you're not white, I wouldn't recommend doing too much exploring around there, as it's one of the prime racist areas in the southeast.
Not what I was expecting. I was expecting dangerously gushing waters. Since I heard that warning. But this was beautiful.
Great video enjoyed it very much. Thanks for sharing it!
That first siren sounds like the alarms on the Tantive IV at the beginning of A New Hope!
Thought I was the only one who noticed
Who else was thinking "Gotta be gold in there somewhere"?.
If you get a chance thru TN, there is a place I go trout fishing and when they generator water it rises and drops like that, a truly amazing site, just like this video
I will see if I have a chance and record it for a mini video
Amazing video! Instant river... just add water! loved it!
You could actually see it starting in a few minutes later the river has swelled and the rocks have disappeared underneath the Whitewater
This is very cool, there are 3 large hydroelectric dams on the Ocoee river owned by TVA, creatively named No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3.
And dam No.4 will be an underwater gathering of thrill-seeking rafters smart-filming their last--but unmissable ! --trip to a breathless bottom.
Can someone explain the rafts/boats? Is this a up stream dam planned discharge & boaters wait for this?
Yep
Ok so ocoee dam number 1 and 2 were built in the early 1900s I'm a actual local and live in Polk county Tennessee which were used for nearby cities like Chattanooga and local copper mines now they are used to control raft waters considering now days tourism is the county's biggest income maker after the 96 Olympics made the area huge alot of what you see is man made for the 96 Olympics they have just recently in the past years made some deal to keep the dams running for rafting
2013: Nope
2014: Nope
2015: Nope
2016: Nope
2017: Nope
2018: Nope
2019: Later
2020: Yes
!!WOOOOOOW!! EXIT THE RIVER BED IMMEDIATELY!! this guy “🗿”
Great footage. I nearly got caught in an unexpected release of Nantahala at Patton Run. Fly fishing with waders on. At the time, they were doing maintenance and shouldn't have normally sent the water down. It was good to have my son on the bank that spotted it first. The good Lord saved my life again.
I have been wanting to catch the Nantahala dam release, but haven't. Floated on it several times though
@@tat2joecool usually it’s mornings. That happened about 4pm
love the ocoee , one of my favorite childhood kayaking spots
Knew which river this was immediately. I miss TN
i scienctifically enjoyed this video for its interlectual properties of water and fun! this is awesome and people are stupid for the comments below!
interlectual....yeah
That would be AWESOME to watch in real life ! Bet it was really neat to float !
Thank you for great video. Nicely done, beautiful place, slowly water rising thanks camera person. Till then keep smiling with lol politely & safely rising water
Amazing video ! 👍
It's amazing, the louder it got. The more i felt i had to go pee.
00:50 ******Sounds like beginning to the song: “SAFETY DANCE” by MWH.
You can dance if you want to 😆
But is it alright to leave our friends behind?
Glad to not be the only one that thought that
Could have been an excellent ending to the warning...
"S - A - F - E- T - Y
Safety... First!"
The original poster said it was someone's ringtone next to him on the bridge 😂 It's a pretty ironic song choice for this video though!
I tubed this river in the 80s. Water came up and WAS IT COLD!!
When is this supposed to happen? It’s been over 8 years!
Reminds me of home in upstate NY. Currently in the desert in AZ. Ahhh that was refreshing!!!!!