@@starcloud4959 it has nothing to do with pc. Bravery is a dangerous action one undertakes for a greater good or desperately needed result, say running into a burning building to save a child. The individual in question is aware of the extreme danger but does it anyway because of a vital result. Stupid is doing the same thing for a wholly selfish or superficial goal while simeltaneously knowing the massive risk involved and choosing not to respect that risk or educate themselves upon it fully. So unless they did this as some sort of life saving action, their idiots.
@@kaneoheboi808jaja Did you not see him in that froth? His mates got to him in time - even with his buoyancy aid there wasn't much buoyancy because of all the air in the water! Then, even his empty kayak struggled in the flow! It's, of course, more dangerous when calm because people can't see the undertow and could try to swim in it - they may get out again........ but may not!
No matter how dangerous, brutal or lethal something is, there is always gonna be idiots that will do it, and some of them might get away with their lives
@@ChiyaQT “hurr durr natural selection, look at me i give a shit what other people do in their free time so much, im such a badass” go outside once in a while mate😐
@@christianhviid2167 Well you are half right and half wrong. yes people do what they want with their own lives, but it's not wrong or bad to worry about others safety. but yeah I agree why they are angry to this type of people I mean there are lot of hobbies you can that is safe. English is not my first language
I can just imagine some youtuber saying “In October 2020, a man named Daniel Morris and a few of his friends were one of many who had met a tragic fate at the Bolton Strid”
A kayak, floatation devices, full gear, a support crew and someone still almost died. I was skeptical until I watched Jack a snacks underwater videos. Now I'm pretty certain the only reason this guy survived is because he was horizontal in the water. Had he been vertical he would have been deep enough for the current to drag him under.
That's not how it works. There isn't some magical current that pulls people straight down. The hazard is falling in and being swept laterally under a ledge and remaining pinned there due to the current. The Strid's danger is a bit overstated.
@@ParadigmUnkn0wn There literally is a magical current that pulls people straight down. People have put cameras down and there are air bubbles 30 meters down. That means the current is pulling air bubbles down that far, straight down. You can then get sucked under a ledge as you've said, but you're certainly wrong about the current.
@@ParadigmUnkn0wn dawg that's literally what the current does work in most sections it literally has enough undercurrent to pull an Olympic swimmer down. it's not magic its physics lol
I was skeptical until the jack a snacks video where he put a camera into the water. The current only a few feet down is unreal. The only reason this guy didn't die is because he was horizontal in the water so his body was only in the more calm water on the surface.
After just learning about the strid 15 minutes ago, I can definitively say this is the stupidest, most reckless, most dangerous bit of tomfoolery on the internet. I’m glad that guy didn’t get eaten by the Morgens or water nymphs or whatever I’m sure lives in that strid.
Educated by another misinformation TH-cam video relating to the possible death blood and gore that "might" happen in a strid 15 minutes ago, now expert enough to call others actions stupid and reckless. Many more people die swimming in lakes in one year than people who have died in strids added together, does swimming in a lake get the same "this is the stupidest, most reckless, most dangerous bit of tomfoolery on the internet" from you.
@@dgrfsthrgsergwrtghasefq fucking thank you. every person came into this video imprinted with flashlight-under-face tent tales of the strid with overly-dramatic commentary that was told by locals with passed down anecdotes.
3:20 - is a great example what a dangerously turbulent place this is. Could very easily have gone the wrong way there. Some people just love to "play with fire" but water can be just as dangerous!
@CRAIG TOMKINSON Saw something similar (not a kayaker) when visiting as a kid in the 90s - very similar setup though and took 3 people to get a kid out just down from there - sadly a few haven't been so lucky.
Whitewater kayaks float because the sprayskirt around the cockpit keeps out water, as soon as you swim the boat fills up with water and loses almost all buoyancy. Kayakers keep inflatable float bags in the stern of the boat for this reason. When someone swims along an eddyline it's super common to see their boat do exactly what it did in the video. There is nothing unique about the Strid that's causing that and you can see exact the same thing happen at your local class III run if you wait for someone to swim. The Strid is certainly much more dangerous than it looks, but it is certainly not the most dangerous stretch of river that people have kayaked. It is not even close to the most dangerous stretch of river people regularly kayak (that's probably the Stikine).
I couldn’t take the risk. The guy who fell out was v lucky to live. If the guy pulling him up the bank slipped and fell he would have been a goner. Glad you made it through but I wouldn’t attempt it.
@@DirtyAstronaut just can’t quite balance the risk in general with the reward. I do look dangerous pursuits but think this could have gone wrong quickly. All the best
If you fall and you don't have any buoyant equipment you can't survive in there. It WILL suck you deep into the underwater cave systems and turn you into mush.
@@DirtyAstronaut what do you not get? If the guy pulling him out had fallen in with him, they both would have died as no one would have been able to pull them both out. How can you not comprehend that?
High Water the only reason they are alive. low water they would have had it due to the undercurrents. It's so flooded, can't even tell if it's the actual Strid.
Where was the post match interview with the orange boat guy describing to us how it feels to be the only person to swim in the Strid and come out alive?
Gotta use the smallest number and biggest numbers in the right place to make it sound more epic. 6 feet wide by 65 meters deep doesn’t sound as scary. 😅
it's nowhere near 200 feet, even if someone (not a professional hydrographer, as far as I can tell) measured it with sonar. The margins of error when measuring such a violent stretch of water are enormous.
I almost drowned on similar water in Austria and i was doing professional wild water slalom for about 10 years prior to that. I have a huge respect for similar natural waters after that experience. It may look fine, but it has huge energy and once you are out of the boat for any reason, it wont let you leave and just drain all energy from you, until you can't continue and drown. I was there, got rescued 5 minutes before 12. You are pretty much dead if there is no immediate help or you have extreme luck. Stay away from this.
Me finding out via TH-cam how dangerous The Strid is . Me then being recommended a video of some mad lads Kayaking down The Strid . Respect you utter nutters 👍👍👍
3:20 I just couldn't stop laughing. I'm sorry. He was being buffeted around by what looked like 30-40mph water force. That was a Darwinian ragdoll if I've ever seen one.
Wow, amazing footage and such a close call! What was it like being in the water and how strong was the downward current? I've always read the pull is so strong no one can survive getting sucked under. Did you feel any of the underwater caves? How did you manage to get/stay above surface?
Thank you. He was only in the water for a short period time and as he was wearing a buoyancy aid he wasn’t pulled underwater to deep. The water there is very aerated so it is very difficult to stay afloat or swim without support. He didn’t go deep enough to feel the caves, but he will be very happy he didn’t. You don’t expect to fall in but you do need to prepare and plan for it, so he was wearing a lot of PPE and we had safety available on the bank.
@@chasingeddies4801 thank you for the explanation. I was so scared for him and I caught myself holding my breath when they were struggling to pull him out of the water. Stay safe ❤️
@@chasingeddies4801 would love to see a video of you guys reading the water at the strid. I'm no expert but it seems like that first hole is where most risk is, and it seems somehow less risky when the water is high like this because the momentum continues downstream, at lower floods it seems to go more straight down there... Imma go browse your channel in case you already posted that
@@chasingeddies4801 set up? Sketchy! Dope on rope in that small space held by one guy on a rock with no support or footing? Think we would have gone for a different approach tbh!
Hilarious. I've watched all these vids of people talking about how dangerous that stretch of water is and you guys are kayaking down it and one of you very nearly dies lol.
It looked like he lost his paddle in a fairly shallow spot so 1. He couldn’t roll up, and 2. He couldn’t handroll up. Then his choices were either to get absolutely thrashed under the water with no chance of getting back to the surface or pull his skirt after his buddies knocked on his boat to let him know they were there for him.
Taking liberties! I would say he was a second or two from death there, didn’t know what to do, couldn’t do anything. The music seems all wrong as well.!
A youtuber called Jack a Snacks recently used a sonar scanner on that water fall that your buddy got stuck in, it was about 60m in depth, he literally could have been sucked dowm to murkey, bubbly hell and never have been seen again.
I noticed they're mostly at the parts where it is much wider. That stretch near the end where the fools nearly died is certainly one of the worst places to be I think.
Yep! You can ignore this info dump if you want or already know this- im just excited to share information ive learned XD The upper part of the river where they were originally at is just regular old river wharfe- but lower down where they crashed is called the bolton strid! Its actually quite flooded over in this video- which personally I believe is the reason their lives werent taken that day. The huge river up stream all funnels down into this canyon, "the bolton strid", basiclaly causing the whole river to turn on its side. The water there is EXTREMELY airated, causing people to be less boyant in the water. On top of that, the water is calm on top, while a extremely strong current is right underneith. Because of this if you are submerged vertically in the water, your feet are being pulled faster and stronger than your upperbody is, dragging you under the water. You cant really see it in this video, but underneith all those rocks they are standing on are tons of caves carved out by the water- the rocks they are on are just ledges of a few feet of rock between them and the water! Many people have drowned here. Personally, i think the main reason they survived this is because they were more-so parallel with the surface of the water when they fell in so they didnt touch both fast and slow currents. On top of that, because it was flooded over, the water they were touching was flowing over the rocks instead of between cliffs of rocks, so the current sucking you downwards isnt as strong.
Its some awesome stuff, you should search "bolton strid" and you can find SO MANY interesting things on it! im still binging on all the strid content i can find XD
@@captainsquiggles5958 that's exactly my take on it too. Besides, I was thinking it's such a long stretch and it's widest point is 6 feet across? There are several jack knives and turns in there too small for a boat to just be barrelling through as they were. The flooded nature of the water too was definitely over those cliffs with the carved out parts from extreme rapids. The water is indeed quite Aerated, it's incredible how many millions of bubbles is in there, gosh.
@@georgelabauve3469 Dang, I didnt even notice the tight curves till you mentioned it! It seems like falling in there would be very painful- even if you somehow had the ability to breathe under water
Why do people insist on putting shitty music in their videos? What could be an interesting videos, is something I instantly pause and leave. Why? And really?
@@pj7371 @peej Love a good rebuttal. To bad this is not one. Music in a video should be there to enhance. People treat this as an art form. As with all art forms there's criticism (hopefully constructive). And we all aim the make art better, not irritating. Okay bro.
What is this mans name is he on social media,does he know he joins the ranks of Niel Armstrong and the like.He is the only man known alive to be captured on film in the Strid. And more than that he is the only man in known living history to have been in the strid and lived .Will he be writing a book?He has literally just made history and not realised it.
Yes let's make him famous for how brave and intelligent he is and give this hero the fame he deserves that way more people can be just as smart as these guys and try this out daily knowing it's completely survival and harmless. TH-cam sure exposes all the geniuses in the world with these vids and the baby geniuses that comment on them
All the lies about how fatal this river is and how he could drag you down if you fall in it and this man 3:02 had been under water and manged to roll on as nothing happened
FYI guys, a youtube user named Jack A Snacks has put a camera on a rope with a light down into The Strid a number of times now. There's some pretty awesome footage on youtube. Looks like mostly a bunch of flat overhang ledges similar to up top near the banks, but of course with some carved out areas. I've examined one of the videos and posted some photos in a previous comment to one of his videos with links to the specific photos. Very interesting stuff down there. Somewhere around 75-90 feet deep in the deeper parts. Bubbles under the waterfall extend basically down to the bottom, millions of them swirling everywhere and making it impossible to stay afloat.
Holy fuck... I cannot believe I just watched someone swim The Strid and survive! Jesus fuck guys, I am in awe of your courage and rescue skills, but that was one of the riskiest kayak descents I've ever seen. I would be so fucking scared if I got caught in a hole or flipped on the Strid, that I can't imagine properly setting up for and hitting a roll. That being said, you all obviously know what you're doing, and its silly for me to even say everything I just did, as if any of you guys who paddled it weren't fully aware of the risks and potential consequences. Amazing reaction time and rescue guys, seriously. I know I am coming off like I'm giving you guys shit for trying that, but im way more in awe of what I just watched, seeing you guys pull off one of the quickest, yet effective rescues ive ever seen. Cant even imagine the courage it would take to climb down onto the banks of the Strid like that, and attempt a rescue with a paddle. It worked like a charm and you saved his life, but holy fuck... I literally have goosebumps all over arms from when I realized he was about to swim for sure after that flip. This is actually one of the more incredible pieces of kayaking footage I've seen, even though it isn't anywhere near as violent or dramatic as some other swims posted. But this was by FAR the most danger I've ever seen a kayaker in, and including the time Mike Roy knocked himself out and spent 3 and a half minutes under water before being revived by CPR in that decision... Shit man, I would trust you guys with my life for the rest of eternity if you pulled me out of The Strid like that...
@@laurin9407 Exactly, there is a lot of white water more dangerous than this that people kayak all the time, but those people are much better paddlers.
There is a custom hatch on the bottom of the kayak for their balls to hang through. When balls get to this size they basically act as both a rudder and ballast. The one kayak that overturned actually did so because he didn’t have a hatch so the weight of the balls was higher up and threw of the center of gravity causing it to overturn. Hope this helps.
This is cheating.. the river is super high during this video.. all the most dangerous parts are covered up with a meter of extra water.. they aren’t getting sucked in, just skimming across the top.. go back after it doesn’t rain for a few days and let’s see how you do 🤣👎
This video is made out of pure desperation. People who do anything for views will literally do ANYTHING!!! Even if it means almost dying. Intelligent person: gives a small video warning about the history and hidden dangers. Hardcore “professionals”: Ah, it'll be fine. *Proceeds to almost die* Spot the problem? People are too bigheaded nowadays.
The Strid's water is not only dangerous, it's disgusting if you think of how much the river Wharfe is polluted with sewage. There's a reason why the water is so brown.
Only because it was high water that day. If they'd came into contact with the strong undercurrent they'd have been sucked under. Normally the Strid would be much too narrow to Kayak at the waterfall and dangerous part. I'm not sure they are actually going over the Strid in the video, but are further upstream still.
These dudes are kayaking the top portion of the river where it’s not even that dangerous. Only that one stretch where the river turns on its side is extremely dangerous
The depth isn't scary at all a good swimmer doesn't care about how deep it is, what makes it scary is the underwater currents pulling you down and the change in water density meaning your life jacket won't help you at all
@@thwalesproductions It's not the depth, it's the combination of the depth, and the narrowness that _creates_ that mad current, not to mention the chewed up rocks and holes and caves in those depths.
You are super lucky. First off, Water moving at 6 mph moves with about the equivalent force of category 1 hurricane winds (74 - 95 mph) .Imagine how fast the water was flowing through the strip at the time you were recording. Secondly, The top layer of water also churns, aerating the water and making you drastically less buoyant. So you would first be twisting through a mixture of air and water, then be dragged through the water in circles and circles until you drowned. Thirdly, if you had capsized, you would of been dragged deeper due to the strong gradient of flow velocity (shear) from the bottom of the river to the top, and no mater how strong you are, you will not be able to escape that. The only potentially successful way of escaping would be to attach somebody to a thick rope and Have a large haul them out of the water, because at 3 feet under the current isn't flowing at just 6 mph, more in the range of 30-50mph which is similar in force as an EF-5 tornado. In conclusion, a very stupid thing to do, however it also gives us insights about the flow patterns through the river.
The amount of tough guys on this video saying it isn't that bad, garunteed they wouldn't swim in it and if they did they'd absolutely 100 percent be dead. It's no joke, that guy nearly succumbed with a kayak, a life jacket and others to pull him out try doing it natural with no others.
Swimming, being immersed in the underwater vacuum that the Strid is, 100% deadly. Remaining on top of the vacuum in a boat, riding a tiger with dentures for teeth.
3:38
**guy almost succumbs to the Strid's water tomb and nearly fuckin dies while his buddies try to help him**
Music: "Epic time!"
Yeah. This was honestly as stupid as seeing parkour people teeter on the edge of skyscrapers without a chute.
For real lol wtfffffff 🤣🤣😂🤦
jesus this was fucked
Took a dip in the strid and lived to tell the tale, not many people can say that
lmao they included it in the middle of the montage to blend in like nothing happened
This video should be titled 'Failed attempted suicide'
There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
I know right
It's only brave if there's a noble cause behind this, if this was just for fun, this would fall under the category of stupid.
sometimes not so fine a line
There's no line at no line at all you stupid politically correct ass holes.
@@starcloud4959 it has nothing to do with pc. Bravery is a dangerous action one undertakes for a greater good or desperately needed result, say running into a burning building to save a child. The individual in question is aware of the extreme danger but does it anyway because of a vital result. Stupid is doing the same thing for a wholly selfish or superficial goal while simeltaneously knowing the massive risk involved and choosing not to respect that risk or educate themselves upon it fully. So unless they did this as some sort of life saving action, their idiots.
The Strid: I'll get them next time
no it won't because its not as dangerous as people make it seem
@@kaneoheboi808jaja Did you not see him in that froth? His mates got to him in time - even with his buoyancy aid there wasn't much buoyancy because of all the air in the water! Then, even his empty kayak struggled in the flow!
It's, of course, more dangerous when calm because people can't see the undertow and could try to swim in it - they may get out again........ but may not!
@@computerbob06 im from hawaii b swim at pipeline in the winter and tell me that river is more dangerous
@@computerbob06 that undertow is a joke lmfao
@@kaneoheboi808jaja Hawaii has nothing on this level of danger wtf are you talking about.
No matter how dangerous, brutal or lethal something is, there is always gonna be idiots that will do it, and some of them might get away with their lives
Indeed
Because they're not stupid at all 😂😂
@@killlame3406 of course they aren't stupid... its natural selection
@@ChiyaQT “hurr durr natural selection, look at me i give a shit what other people do in their free time so much, im such a badass” go outside once in a while mate😐
@@christianhviid2167 Well you are half right and half wrong. yes people do what they want with their own lives, but it's not wrong or bad to worry about others safety. but yeah I agree why they are angry to this type of people I mean there are lot of hobbies you can that is safe. English is not my first language
I can just imagine some youtuber saying
“In October 2020, a man named Daniel Morris and a few of his friends were one of many who had met a tragic fate at the Bolton Strid”
Number 15
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On a brighter note.. they took on the Strid and survived, that’s quite an achievement
@@sertaki someone is a fan of the strange, dark and mysterious delivered in a story format.
A kayak, floatation devices, full gear, a support crew and someone still almost died. I was skeptical until I watched Jack a snacks underwater videos. Now I'm pretty certain the only reason this guy survived is because he was horizontal in the water. Had he been vertical he would have been deep enough for the current to drag him under.
That's not how it works. There isn't some magical current that pulls people straight down. The hazard is falling in and being swept laterally under a ledge and remaining pinned there due to the current. The Strid's danger is a bit overstated.
@@ParadigmUnkn0wn There literally is a magical current that pulls people straight down. People have put cameras down and there are air bubbles 30 meters down. That means the current is pulling air bubbles down that far, straight down. You can then get sucked under a ledge as you've said, but you're certainly wrong about the current.
@@ParadigmUnkn0wn dawg that's literally what the current does work in most sections it literally has enough undercurrent to pull an Olympic swimmer down. it's not magic its physics lol
The strids mortality rate has been reduced to 99.9% after this video
mortality rate is bullshit. Who knows how many fell in and were fine. Probably 1000s because we never hear about it. Also only 3 people died
@@AverageAlien /\ This is massively untrue, I'm assuming you're a troll or uneducated.
@@dited358 no it's massively true. It's not that special or scary
I was skeptical until the jack a snacks video where he put a camera into the water. The current only a few feet down is unreal. The only reason this guy didn't die is because he was horizontal in the water so his body was only in the more calm water on the surface.
@@AverageAlien You can't swim in aeriated water. You just fall straight down because you can't swim through air.
Fatality Rate: 99.99%
He's the 00.01
They were 4. 99.96%?
It's kayaking, not swimming. Still no one ever has come out alive attended to swim in it
@@stefanba2029 Dunno man, guy at 3:45 dipped in pretty good
@Matt Hk bear grills will survive underneath eating moss for oxygen and sustenance.
After just learning about the strid 15 minutes ago, I can definitively say this is the stupidest, most reckless, most dangerous bit of tomfoolery on the internet. I’m glad that guy didn’t get eaten by the Morgens or water nymphs or whatever I’m sure lives in that strid.
Educated by another misinformation TH-cam video relating to the possible death blood and gore that "might" happen in a strid 15 minutes ago, now expert enough to call others actions stupid and reckless. Many more people die swimming in lakes in one year than people who have died in strids added together, does swimming in a lake get the same "this is the stupidest, most reckless, most dangerous bit of tomfoolery on the internet" from you.
@@dgrfsthrgsergwrtghasefq fucking thank you.
every person came into this video imprinted with flashlight-under-face tent tales of the strid with overly-dramatic commentary that was told by locals with passed down anecdotes.
totally exaggerated lmao
@@dgrfsthrgsergwrtghasefq incorrect.
@@zombie445hehe incorrect.
3:20 - is a great example what a dangerously turbulent place this is. Could very easily have gone the wrong way there. Some people just love to "play with fire" but water can be just as dangerous!
That man in lucky to be alive
3:38 That moment when you realize you've made a terrible mistake.
Incredible way to die.. somehow your alive mate..
Lucky man haha
If he was alone, hed surely die 🤣🤣🤣
@@denzelwashington6222 no doubt about it.
Not really great music for this dude's near death experience
Excellent footage destroyed with horrible music.
I'll agree with that!
Yes!
Really is man, sounds like a keyboard in the hands of a nut
@Treez 93 So
hear hear....(rather not)
Had he not had all of that buoyancy equipment on he would have been dead for sure...
even then he was being sucked down suprised he got out😂 thanks to his friends
Yes the bouyancy won't help it was pulling him down, his canoe disappeared
@@trollking202 didn't disappear, but flowed downstream.
What did you do today.
I was floating around in the bolton abbey strid water fall witha life Jacket on after a flood.
WHAT
Why? Theres so many other places to kayak. Just why?
Fun 🤷
Because it’s there.
Because they can
3:54 u can see how powerful the drag is, nearly takes the whole kayak under.
@CRAIG TOMKINSON Saw something similar (not a kayaker) when visiting as a kid in the 90s - very similar setup though and took 3 people to get a kid out just down from there - sadly a few haven't been so lucky.
And that's on the surface where the water is relatively calm. The current is absolutely insane just a few feet deep.
Worst part is, I’ve heard it can be slippery on those rocks. We almost watched one persons tragedy become 3 🤦♂️
Whitewater kayaks float because the sprayskirt around the cockpit keeps out water, as soon as you swim the boat fills up with water and loses almost all buoyancy. Kayakers keep inflatable float bags in the stern of the boat for this reason. When someone swims along an eddyline it's super common to see their boat do exactly what it did in the video. There is nothing unique about the Strid that's causing that and you can see exact the same thing happen at your local class III run if you wait for someone to swim.
The Strid is certainly much more dangerous than it looks, but it is certainly not the most dangerous stretch of river that people have kayaked. It is not even close to the most dangerous stretch of river people regularly kayak (that's probably the Stikine).
I couldn’t take the risk. The guy who fell out was v lucky to live. If the guy pulling him up the bank slipped and fell he would have been a goner. Glad you made it through but I wouldn’t attempt it.
Well the guy was in the water at the same spot the other dude would have fell in... not really getting your logic here.
@Gustavo Tuamadre yep in most cases a meteor to the head or back causes death ☠️
@@DirtyAstronaut just can’t quite balance the risk in general with the reward. I do look dangerous pursuits but think this could have gone wrong quickly. All the best
If you fall and you don't have any buoyant equipment you can't survive in there. It WILL suck you deep into the underwater cave systems and turn you into mush.
@@DirtyAstronaut what do you not get? If the guy pulling him out had fallen in with him, they both would have died as no one would have been able to pull them both out. How can you not comprehend that?
High Water the only reason they are alive. low water they would have had it due to the undercurrents. It's so flooded, can't even tell if it's the actual Strid.
The upbeat music in the background while this dude flips his kayak and almost drowns made me laugh
I see you in mma comment sections all the time
lmao
Found the sociopath
Flipping in a kayak isnt very dangerous because you can easily do whats called a escimo roll and flip back up
You guys came T H I S C L O S E to ending up in a MrBallen video lol
Truth
Lets be honest, if the upbeat music wasn't playing so loud, they'd all have panicked.
there is a version of this clip without the music, they are surprisingly calm
I think that’s the GoPro stock music too 😂😂😂🧈
@@sirtraineewhat576 Wooosh!
Would have like to have seen where and when that empty kayak popped out downstream.
If it pooped out lol it might still ne under in a side cave
Yeah, same. Missed opportunity.
@@Dontcare_at_all at end of vid he was kayaking in it again.....
Where was the post match interview with the orange boat guy describing to us how it feels to be the only person to swim in the Strid and come out alive?
Not true. People dove the strid in the 70s and got out without major issues
@@lilhombrae3532 haha, it was a tongue and cheek comment. I would like to see someone break the myth for all of TH-cam to see.
Trying to die? This was a beautiful way to flirt with death...keep trying...it was close... 😎👍
Green Helmet's left hand grab at 3:50 is the reason he doesn't have to buy a beer ever again when orange kayak is in the bar
Some parts of the strid are 2 metres wide but are 200 feet deep as the river basically turns on its side. No coming back from that 😳
Did you just use meters and feet? Where they do that at?😆
Gotta use the smallest number and biggest numbers in the right place to make it sound more epic. 6 feet wide by 65 meters deep doesn’t sound as scary. 😅
it's nowhere near 200 feet, even if someone (not a professional hydrographer, as far as I can tell) measured it with sonar. The margins of error when measuring such a violent stretch of water are enormous.
@@DaveDexterMusic any evidence to back this up?
It's not 200ft deep, 25 - 30ft is more like it.
I almost drowned on similar water in Austria and i was doing professional wild water slalom for about 10 years prior to that. I have a huge respect for similar natural waters after that experience. It may look fine, but it has huge energy and once you are out of the boat for any reason, it wont let you leave and just drain all energy from you, until you can't continue and drown. I was there, got rescued 5 minutes before 12. You are pretty much dead if there is no immediate help or you have extreme luck. Stay away from this.
3:54 the current is trying to pull the kayak under. the kayak is 80% submerged, vertically
didn't see it come out
Me finding out via TH-cam how dangerous The Strid is . Me then being recommended a video of some mad lads Kayaking down The Strid . Respect you utter nutters 👍👍👍
My *same experience here, some two months later.
Lol, the same.
Same!
Same.
Same!
You should really delete this. The thought of this giving another person the idea to do this makes me sick.
but at the same it time it’s pretty cool ngl
PUSH
Natural selection
@The Hobo Hunter shut up lol
Oh look I told you what to do with your life
@@dap3023 no it doesn’t. Not on this river it doesn’t. Are you familiar with geography?
"Bravery is often the kindest term for stupidity " - Mycroft Holmes
3:48 never somewhere I would want to be
What’s amazing is how you’re not embarrassed by how stupid this was. That’s the real bravery here. Displaying this video
lol so funny. But no kidding at the same time lol
@@Taboloncawonthemasters 😂😂😂
we're men lady, we have to do stupid stuff so woman can have nice things :D
@@daMillenialTrucker 😂😂😂😂😂thank you for your sacrifice
Considering half of them struggle to roll properly or take the right lines
3:20 I just couldn't stop laughing. I'm sorry. He was being buffeted around by what looked like 30-40mph water force. That was a Darwinian ragdoll if I've ever seen one.
He made it look much harder than it is. TBH they aren't very solid ww paddlers.
What’s the song in the video?
River was very high , you couldn’t do it through the narrow part when it’s low
3:38
this dude now has strid marks
Neil Armstrong was asked to would he rather kayak the strid or go back ti the moon. He said I think I left my umbrella on the moon.
Is this the actual infamous part of the Strid though? The one everyone films?
Someone hears "100% death rate" and thinks, "I'll go test that theory!"
Wow, amazing footage and such a close call!
What was it like being in the water and how strong was the downward current? I've always read the pull is so strong no one can survive getting sucked under. Did you feel any of the underwater caves? How did you manage to get/stay above surface?
Thank you. He was only in the water for a short period time and as he was wearing a buoyancy aid he wasn’t pulled underwater to deep. The water there is very aerated so it is very difficult to stay afloat or swim without support. He didn’t go deep enough to feel the caves, but he will be very happy he didn’t. You don’t expect to fall in but you do need to prepare and plan for it, so he was wearing a lot of PPE and we had safety available on the bank.
@@chasingeddies4801 thank you for the explanation. I was so scared for him and I caught myself holding my breath when they were struggling to pull him out of the water. Stay safe ❤️
@@chasingeddies4801 would love to see a video of you guys reading the water at the strid. I'm no expert but it seems like that first hole is where most risk is, and it seems somehow less risky when the water is high like this because the momentum continues downstream, at lower floods it seems to go more straight down there... Imma go browse your channel in case you already posted that
@@chasingeddies4801 The Strid no longer has a 100% fatality rate. You've ruined her reputation! 99.9% will have to do now.
@@chasingeddies4801 set up? Sketchy! Dope on rope in that small space held by one guy on a rock with no support or footing? Think we would have gone for a different approach tbh!
Hilarious. I've watched all these vids of people talking about how dangerous that stretch of water is and you guys are kayaking down it and one of you very nearly dies lol.
They didn't go down the narrow paths
@@waxdoe115 They literally went through the start of the kill zone
the most narrow parts are like 1,5 or 2 meters wide
Rumour has it, the strid was formed from when chuck Norris took a piss in the hills
Guy's face after it just nearly swollows him whole!
4:04
Did I see that correctly? Was he sucked out of his kayak? I don't imagine he slid out of his own free will
It looked like he lost his paddle in a fairly shallow spot so 1. He couldn’t roll up, and 2. He couldn’t handroll up. Then his choices were either to get absolutely thrashed under the water with no chance of getting back to the surface or pull his skirt after his buddies knocked on his boat to let him know they were there for him.
Taking liberties! I would say he was a second or two from death there, didn’t know what to do, couldn’t do anything. The music seems all wrong as well.!
A youtuber called Jack a Snacks recently used a sonar scanner on that water fall that your buddy got stuck in, it was about 60m in depth, he literally could have been sucked dowm to murkey, bubbly hell and never have been seen again.
Hey guys, let’s skydive with a 50% chance that the parachute doesn’t activate
that‘s the dumbest amount of sheer luck i have ever witnessed. stupid idea should have gotten a darwin award for sure
I noticed they're mostly at the parts where it is much wider. That stretch near the end where the fools nearly died is certainly one of the worst places to be I think.
Yep! You can ignore this info dump if you want or already know this- im just excited to share information ive learned XD
The upper part of the river where they were originally at is just regular old river wharfe- but lower down where they crashed is called the bolton strid! Its actually quite flooded over in this video- which personally I believe is the reason their lives werent taken that day. The huge river up stream all funnels down into this canyon, "the bolton strid", basiclaly causing the whole river to turn on its side. The water there is EXTREMELY airated, causing people to be less boyant in the water. On top of that, the water is calm on top, while a extremely strong current is right underneith. Because of this if you are submerged vertically in the water, your feet are being pulled faster and stronger than your upperbody is, dragging you under the water. You cant really see it in this video, but underneith all those rocks they are standing on are tons of caves carved out by the water- the rocks they are on are just ledges of a few feet of rock between them and the water! Many people have drowned here.
Personally, i think the main reason they survived this is because they were more-so parallel with the surface of the water when they fell in so they didnt touch both fast and slow currents. On top of that, because it was flooded over, the water they were touching was flowing over the rocks instead of between cliffs of rocks, so the current sucking you downwards isnt as strong.
Its some awesome stuff, you should search "bolton strid" and you can find SO MANY interesting things on it! im still binging on all the strid content i can find XD
@@captainsquiggles5958 that's exactly my take on it too. Besides, I was thinking it's such a long stretch and it's widest point is 6 feet across? There are several jack knives and turns in there too small for a boat to just be barrelling through as they were. The flooded nature of the water too was definitely over those cliffs with the carved out parts from extreme rapids. The water is indeed quite Aerated, it's incredible how many millions of bubbles is in there, gosh.
@@captainsquiggles5958 thank you friend I'll look into some more
@@georgelabauve3469 Dang, I didnt even notice the tight curves till you mentioned it! It seems like falling in there would be very painful- even if you somehow had the ability to breathe under water
I barely survived the soundtrack. Yikes! 🏊♂️ 🎵🎵🎵
Strid: I have a 100% mortality rate
These guys: lol
Strid: 😮
how are you not dead
You know, the difference between being brave or stupid sure looks pretty clear from your video.
Why do people insist on putting shitty music in their videos?
What could be an interesting videos, is something I instantly pause and leave.
Why? And really?
Because youre overreacting? Its literally just music bro.
@@pj7371 @peej Love a good rebuttal. To bad this is not one. Music in a video should be there to enhance.
People treat this as an art form. As with all art forms there's criticism (hopefully constructive). And we all aim the make art better, not irritating.
Okay bro.
“A river with a 100% mortality rate”
Meanwhile…
“Welcome back to jackass!”
What is this mans name is he on social media,does he know he joins the ranks of Niel Armstrong and the like.He is the only man known alive to be captured on film in the Strid.
And more than that he is the only man in known living history to have been in the strid and lived .Will he be writing a book?He has literally just made history and not realised it.
Yup! He actually is
Yes let's make him famous for how brave and intelligent he is and give this hero the fame he deserves that way more people can be just as smart as these guys and try this out daily knowing it's completely survival and harmless. TH-cam sure exposes all the geniuses in the world with these vids and the baby geniuses that comment on them
He wasnt even in the most dangerous part of the strid
after 3:38 they immediately stopped kayaking and went to the slowest current LMAO
All the lies about how fatal this river is and how he could drag you down if you fall in it and this man 3:02 had been under water and manged to roll on as nothing happened
Music?
Drowning to dance music - epic.
FYI guys, a youtube user named Jack A Snacks has put a camera on a rope with a light down into The Strid a number of times now. There's some pretty awesome footage on youtube. Looks like mostly a bunch of flat overhang ledges similar to up top near the banks, but of course with some carved out areas. I've examined one of the videos and posted some photos in a previous comment to one of his videos with links to the specific photos. Very interesting stuff down there. Somewhere around 75-90 feet deep in the deeper parts. Bubbles under the waterfall extend basically down to the bottom, millions of them swirling everywhere and making it impossible to stay afloat.
i expect clickbait, but this is some good shit
Why?
THAT WAS CLOSE! I believe that river is enchanted.
When he flipped you could see the water sucking him down. If his mates weren't there to pull him out he was dead
It would’ve been put down to covid.
@@davidbillyard6629 Put down to covid?🤔🤔💀
🥴🛍️🔨🔨🤣
@Sean covid death
Holy fuck... I cannot believe I just watched someone swim The Strid and survive! Jesus fuck guys, I am in awe of your courage and rescue skills, but that was one of the riskiest kayak descents I've ever seen. I would be so fucking scared if I got caught in a hole or flipped on the Strid, that I can't imagine properly setting up for and hitting a roll. That being said, you all obviously know what you're doing, and its silly for me to even say everything I just did, as if any of you guys who paddled it weren't fully aware of the risks and potential consequences. Amazing reaction time and rescue guys, seriously. I know I am coming off like I'm giving you guys shit for trying that, but im way more in awe of what I just watched, seeing you guys pull off one of the quickest, yet effective rescues ive ever seen. Cant even imagine the courage it would take to climb down onto the banks of the Strid like that, and attempt a rescue with a paddle. It worked like a charm and you saved his life, but holy fuck... I literally have goosebumps all over arms from when I realized he was about to swim for sure after that flip. This is actually one of the more incredible pieces of kayaking footage I've seen, even though it isn't anywhere near as violent or dramatic as some other swims posted. But this was by FAR the most danger I've ever seen a kayaker in, and including the time Mike Roy knocked himself out and spent 3 and a half minutes under water before being revived by CPR in that decision... Shit man, I would trust you guys with my life for the rest of eternity if you pulled me out of The Strid like that...
More the fool you...
They were everything, but not ready for it. I mean they can't even roll properly ffs.
It's for for a game OF:
*NAME THAT STIMULANT*
@@DeathByBaconHawk I'd name it stupidity. XD
@@laurin9407 Exactly, there is a lot of white water more dangerous than this that people kayak all the time, but those people are much better paddlers.
Seriously, I'm perplexed why you would do this, no matter your skill level. Unless you can breathe underwater, hardly seems worth it.
Because its there
There are air pockets down there
@@erichughes284 lol bullshit
@@erichughes284 then show us, I'll wait for the link🤺😆
@@DeathByBaconHawk LMFAO In my youth maybe
My guy almost became part of that %100 mortality rate
Where did they get those kayaks that are modded to hold their chair-sized balls?
There is a custom hatch on the bottom of the kayak for their balls to hang through. When balls get to this size they basically act as both a rudder and ballast. The one kayak that overturned actually did so because he didn’t have a hatch so the weight of the balls was higher up and threw of the center of gravity causing it to overturn. Hope this helps.
@@slothmarathonpromotions2470 I suspect the ball-ballast works even better because of the lightweight, almost empty craniums at the top...
3:38 guy nearly dies, his canoe RIP don't try this🙈 that river is 100% Killer
Just want to know do you hear a clinking sound when yall walk cause all yall got balls of steel bad ass video
This is cheating.. the river is super high during this video.. all the most dangerous parts are covered up with a meter of extra water.. they aren’t getting sucked in, just skimming across the top.. go back after it doesn’t rain for a few days and let’s see how you do 🤣👎
Womp womp cry about it
This video is made out of pure desperation.
People who do anything for views will literally do ANYTHING!!!
Even if it means almost dying.
Intelligent person: gives a small video warning about the history and hidden dangers.
Hardcore “professionals”: Ah, it'll be fine.
*Proceeds to almost die*
Spot the problem?
People are too bigheaded nowadays.
why?
The Strid's water is not only dangerous, it's disgusting if you think of how much the river Wharfe is polluted with sewage. There's a reason why the water is so brown.
So fatality rate is not 100% as it seems that this man was not swallowed by the water despite the fact that the water is abnormally strong
He didn't really swim though. He went straight from the kayak to being attached to his friend.
Y’all, WTF. That dude almost died. And why is a child there? 🤦🏻♀️
Not sure what they got out of this aside from adrenaline. The fatality rate is for people who fell in and went below the surface.
this is genuinely the stupidest thing u could do in a situation knowing what kind of river this is
Did y'all write suicide notes before this?
🙄 the music..... why....
At least yall disproved everyones theory that the water has so many airbubbles that it anything will sink in it.
Only because it was high water that day. If they'd came into contact with the strong undercurrent they'd have been sucked under. Normally the Strid would be much too narrow to Kayak at the waterfall and dangerous part. I'm not sure they are actually going over the Strid in the video, but are further upstream still.
These dudes are kayaking the top portion of the river where it’s not even that dangerous. Only that one stretch where the river turns on its side is extremely dangerous
Notice how quickly it gets wider,it shows how much current it has
It looks scary, and then you realise the Strid is potentially 100ft deep and it becomes fucking TERRIFYING 😱
The depth isn't scary at all a good swimmer doesn't care about how deep it is, what makes it scary is the underwater currents pulling you down and the change in water density meaning your life jacket won't help you at all
@@thwalesproductions It's not the depth, it's the combination of the depth, and the narrowness that _creates_ that mad current, not to mention the chewed up rocks and holes and caves in those depths.
You are super lucky. First off, Water moving at 6 mph moves with about the equivalent force of category 1 hurricane winds (74 - 95 mph) .Imagine how fast the water was flowing through the strip at the time you were recording. Secondly, The top layer of water also churns, aerating the water and making you drastically less buoyant. So you would first be twisting through a mixture of air and water, then be dragged through the water in circles and circles until you drowned. Thirdly, if you had capsized, you would of been dragged deeper due to the strong gradient of flow velocity (shear) from the bottom of the river to the top, and no mater how strong you are, you will not be able to escape that. The only potentially successful way of escaping would be to attach somebody to a thick rope and Have a large haul them out of the water, because at 3 feet under the current isn't flowing at just 6 mph, more in the range of 30-50mph which is similar in force as an EF-5 tornado. In conclusion, a very stupid thing to do, however it also gives us insights about the flow patterns through the river.
AT 3:20 you can actually see when the pants were SHAT and the flow of REGRETS CAME IN
The amount of tough guys on this video saying it isn't that bad, garunteed they wouldn't swim in it and if they did they'd absolutely 100 percent be dead. It's no joke, that guy nearly succumbed with a kayak, a life jacket and others to pull him out try doing it natural with no others.
ya nearly lost one
Well apparently this is the most dangerous river in the world and sucks you in. So how is kayaking even possible here?
Dude in orange kayak lol
I learned about the strid 10 minutes ago and that’s just the most stupid, dumb, and reckless thing u could ever do.
Swimming, being immersed in the underwater vacuum that the Strid is, 100% deadly. Remaining on top of the vacuum in a boat, riding a tiger with dentures for teeth.
It isn't 100% deadly.
@@modelsteamers671it is. I don't think you can swim it because there is almost no buyoncy.
@donramanayake1505 people have survived, it isn't 100% deadly.
It's a bloody kayak, a big floatie, and that thing is still trying to swallow it.
I love how he seems to try to paddle UPSTREAM for a second! 3:29. 😳
Honestly thinking about the fact that at some points in the strid it’s like 100ft deep this makes this video fucking horrifying
I bet that guy got an earful from his mom after this!!😁😂👍❤️
The guy's face as they haul him out says it all ...
IKR?! 4:04
4:04 FC Norf has a close one on The Strid.