The most dangerous river in the world? The Strid.

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  • @eastwoodsadventures
    @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you very much everyone for watching and leaving a comment, I don't like asking too much, but if you could subscribe to the channel, it would be a great help. If you already have, then thank you 😊

    • @peterbock5372
      @peterbock5372 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Inoffizielle Messungen gehen stellenweise von über 60m Tiefe aus!

    • @peterbock5372
      @peterbock5372 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      By my opinion only not more than 10.000 years were necessary to form the strid. This valley seems to me as if it had been shaped by the last iceage an the river's water just deepened it. Similar erosion-figures are to be found in Germany - but they are not as spectacular.

  • @Lixmage
    @Lixmage 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Again, as a local, I can confirm that this stretch of river is lethal. It has been measured by sonar as being at least 60 m deep just after the waterfall and still about 25 m deep much further down. The currents about 2 m below the surface are so powerful they drag you down. The river has gouged out so much of the rock that the banks that you stand on are all overhangs. Furthermore the water churns so much over the waterfall that it is full of air bubbles. This means buoyancy in the water is dramatically reduced. Basically, if you go in you are not coming out alive. The real danger, I guess, is when the river is not in flood it looks so placid on the surface.

    • @myriaddsystems
      @myriaddsystems 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Then it smashes your head against underwater obstacles- then it laughs..

    • @wireycoyote3544
      @wireycoyote3544 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Hilarious starting a comment thread with 'Again' as if there was another comment we were supposed to have read before it 😂

    • @wireycoyote3544
      @wireycoyote3544 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Or you want us to know youve said this before, as if that means something. I swear youtube is THE weirdest place.

    • @Lixmage
      @Lixmage 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@myriaddsystems Or maybe other locals have already commented and the again means I am adding yet another local perspective...

    • @Lixmage
      @Lixmage 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@wireycoyote3544 The again refers to the fact that other locals have already posted... Quite simple really and not weird in the slightest...

  • @jackasnacks
    @jackasnacks ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Enjoyed the video mate, thumbs up from me! Love seeing people come out with more Strid content

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks, it's a beautiful and dangerous place in equal measures.
      Many happy childhood memories of Bolton Abbey.

  • @SPd.Triple
    @SPd.Triple ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I live here. Nobody who goes IN comes out alive. In places the strid is said to be 1000ft deep with canyons and caves. At the mouth the strid it said that the geography of the cave is a series of hour glass shapes on top of eachother. The Strid is part of the mighty river Wharfe. Although the wharfe never actually "flash floods" it is the faStest rising and falling river in the UK.
    The Strid is both deadly and beautiful.
    When i go with my children i never let go of their hands. The Strid is deadly.

    • @blackluxurians6062
      @blackluxurians6062 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      1000 feet deep! That's insane...someone once said it was 216 ft

    • @SPd.Triple
      @SPd.Triple ปีที่แล้ว

      @blackluxurians6062 it is beautiful but sooo scary at the same time! You should visit. Its really a magical part of Yorkshire🫶

    • @sonicartzldesignerclan5763
      @sonicartzldesignerclan5763 ปีที่แล้ว

      Theres no proof for that its just a speculation.
      But its proofen that the shapes of the undersite of the river is deadly since you cant comeback out.@@blackluxurians6062
      Some people are still in the water trapped forever going circle again and again

    • @FoxEnigma
      @FoxEnigma ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Jack a Snacks" a UK youtuber recently did some video expeditions to the Strid clocked the depth via sonar to approximately 66m (217ft) which is still mind boggling deep, that part being right at the whirlpool at the bottom of the falls. The strid is geological anomaly and falling in would pretty much be 100% fatal but it has yet to be proven to reach further depths than 66m.

    • @peggymorgan6355
      @peggymorgan6355 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Possibility exists.Be cause technically NOBODY knows it’s true depth.So it’s ok to speculate.For all we know it could be 1000’s of feet.Look at the specs on underwater caves systems around the world.Some ARE a1000 ft deep documented!!So to say the strid is only 60meters deep is ignorant.

  • @biggerandbetterthings7222
    @biggerandbetterthings7222 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Surreal how the Water ontop barely seems to flow, scary stuff! great vid!

  • @eastwoodsadventures
    @eastwoodsadventures  2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Take a look at @jackasnacks channel for his videos on measuring the depth of The Strid.

  • @davidmacgregor5193
    @davidmacgregor5193 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I visited The Strid on a school trip in 1968, it was certainly an impressive sight, The Strid is claimed by locals to have a 100% fatality record and it doesn't give up it's victims readily, most are trapped in the whirlpools and caverns hidden within it's depths. Those corpses that do escape The Strid are washed downstream as far as five miles from where they met their doom. I have walked across the stepping stones on the wide section of the Wharfe, by Bolton Abbey, we had a picnic on the grass. The Abbey and The Strid are certainly worth visiting.

  • @eddiesterling5705
    @eddiesterling5705 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Best video of the Bolton Strid I’ve watched.
    So beautiful, yet so deadly.

  • @rottsandspots
    @rottsandspots ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Fantastic video. Thinking of the river being broad and calm looking, then turning on it's side, really made sense and is such a good explanation of why it's so dangerous, even the narrow parts that look both shallow and calm(ish).

  • @bobbysilver272
    @bobbysilver272 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Living in the South of England, I drove to Scotland on holiday via Norway, just to avoid the Strid.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😆 🤣

    • @RichardMathews-gv7lb
      @RichardMathews-gv7lb หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Sensible chap. I have to say though on one damp breezy day I was out walking and a sudden gust of wind caught me unawares and before I knew it I had tumbled over. I was in Wales at the time but suffice to say the Strid nearly claimed another unsuspecting victim. Take care out there folks.

  • @theelectricgasstation
    @theelectricgasstation ปีที่แล้ว +5

    How do you only have 843 subs? You are very good at this. From Malibu California.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you very much, I don't know to be honest. For some reason the TH-cam algorithm hasn't picked my videos up. Hopefully things will change eventually 🙏

  • @lindsaywarden1746
    @lindsaywarden1746 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I grew up nearby and I seem to remember hushed conversations between adults of folk who had thrown themselves into the Strid. Back then, suicide was a sort of taboo.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lindsaywarden1746 More innocent times when children were allowed to be children and adults tried to protect them from the realities of life.

  • @taraemcintyre
    @taraemcintyre 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful drone footage. Best I've seen yet. Looking forward to seeing, someday, imaging of the topography below the surface and graphics describing it's effect on the current. Crazy stuff.
    Big 👍!

  • @robgunnAK47
    @robgunnAK47 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Back in the hot summer of 1976 most of the rivers in Yorkshire were reduced to a trickle for months due to the lack of rain and varius abstraction schemes to top up domestic water supplies. Just a shame nobody took the opportunity to survey this part of the river at that point as we could have had more of an insight into whats down between those stones. Going onto the more recent surveys it points to a submerged world where you would lose your life in a moment and due to its hidden depths and swirling currents needs to be given respect. When i lived in Yorkshire i have seen people jump across this maelstrom years ago fortunately they all made it but as we know not all were lucky.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shame indeed the opportunity wasn't seized upon. Thanks for watching and commenting, and thanks for the Sub. It means a lot.

  • @LumbeeNative
    @LumbeeNative ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I enjoyed this video very much nice job! It's so crazy how calm it looks but can kill so quick

  • @theolder_man5768
    @theolder_man5768 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It amazes how deep the potholes by the river are- to be so deep when they are dry most of the year. Also surprised by the lack of visitors, even in winter it is popular with the hardy rambler. Long ago I saw a teen jump over, but it was from the higher side when the rocks were dry.
    Trivia. There is a second strid on the river, a mile or so above Grassington Bridge called Ghaistrill's Strid. It cuts through Limestone so is wider.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching and leaving a comment

  • @willlaflam
    @willlaflam 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Really good video man. Great quality and informative. 👍

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Then it smashes your head against underwater obstacles- then it laughs..

  • @HadoukenHero
    @HadoukenHero ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Amazing cinematography.

  • @charlesachurch7265
    @charlesachurch7265 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Impressive presentation xxx thanks

  • @karuiosce8301
    @karuiosce8301 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the video. Great footage of the river and bridge.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for watching.
      For an idea of what else is on the channel that may interest you, follow the link th-cam.com/video/1muFJ-VRL6E/w-d-xo.htmlsub_confirmation=1
      Or head to the channel
      youtube.com/@eastwoodsadventures
      Thanks Chris

  • @Lemon86807
    @Lemon86807 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    6:26 mark. I definitely agree that is what the strid look like.

  • @CJCon885
    @CJCon885 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The bridge is beaitiful. The river, and the Strid are amazing beauty of nature.

  • @CriptonBot
    @CriptonBot ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i dove the strid and while i was getting washes around like i was in a washing machine, suddenly out the dark i banged my head into a old wooden box and then got flushed out

  • @zonderbaar
    @zonderbaar ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful video, music, and potentially even life saving
    Thank You

  • @susanneubert6447
    @susanneubert6447 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautifully photographed.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you Susan glad you liked it, please could I ask you to consider subscribing for lots more videos 😉 it would greatly help and would be much appreciated

  • @mcjdubpower
    @mcjdubpower 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Gud vid, subbed. 💯💥

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thank you 😊

    • @mcjdubpower
      @mcjdubpower 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @eastwoodsadventures More than welcome bud, fascinating stretch of river, I wonder what is really going on down there, bubbles air at 60+ft deep, wow.

  • @propanbutan4634
    @propanbutan4634 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautifully done

  • @sussysenpai1712
    @sussysenpai1712 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The forbidden waterslide...

  • @talltreesnaturereserve
    @talltreesnaturereserve ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video.

  • @marc9089
    @marc9089 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was below the strid and looking up saw two young boys in an inflatable dingy go over it. I climbed down to the edge. Luckily for them and me they popped up in the water and came to the edge. I reached down and pulled them out by one arm but they could have climbed out themselves. I looked around for their Parents but again they were lucky they weren't there.

  • @luckyotter623
    @luckyotter623 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So scary but so interesting. Thank you.

  • @propanbutan4634
    @propanbutan4634 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just came back from my second visit beautiful place

  • @rebeccahill5146
    @rebeccahill5146 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice video!

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you @rebeccahill5146 glad you liked it

  • @angelmorales3308
    @angelmorales3308 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We have a river like that in Vermont it's called Huntington George it claimed over 25 people a under tow current to like the Bolton strid they always have to remind people not to go swimming in the George because of it's danger and some people pay they ultimate price for not listening to the authority s

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว

      Life is very fragile when put up against mother nature. Thank you from watching

  • @fixento
    @fixento ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There was a youtuber who had sonar and in some places it was 70 meters deep.

  • @lorenzbroll101
    @lorenzbroll101 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Instinctively, you know there is something 'wrong' when you look down into that black water. Evidently, by the waterfall it's 200+ feet deep - that's deeper than the upstream river is as wide.
    Also, any poor unfortunate who fell in by the waterfall would sink like a stone due to the water having almost zero buoyancy.
    Certain death.

  • @crocodile1313
    @crocodile1313 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Relaxing video, very nicely done.

  • @tinawantland398
    @tinawantland398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very beautiful, and very, very dangerous!

  • @Tysto
    @Tysto 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hey, if I accidentally drowned in a strid, do not burn up my body and throw the ashes in the strid.

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nice to hear commentary from Yorkshireman (I'm a bloody southerner) rather than all these other "experts" (except for Tom Scott).

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@myriaddsystems I am actually from over the border in Lancashire

  • @klemmetv6875
    @klemmetv6875 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I heard that it was 2000 meters deep some places.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @klemmetv6875 not sure it's that deep to be honest. Thanks for watching.

  • @BBDA-CLEAR
    @BBDA-CLEAR ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I think you just said that the warning sign says danger 9m
    Or 30ft deep. Actually believe it or not in that narrow River the deepest spot is 65 m or about 210ft . About the size
    Of a 21 storey building deep.
    There is a young man that has a radar who always does a regular post on this dangerous
    River. When I watched the telemetry that the radar gave out , I had to do a triple take..

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He has also debunked his own findings in another video. Thanks for watching

    • @BBDA-CLEAR
      @BBDA-CLEAR ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eastwoodsadventures I absolutely agree with you . When he gave out them figures in regards to the radar telemetry I thought it was
      Impossible. For a narrow section with no waterfall to be 210 ft doesn't make sense . Thank you !

    • @parthsavyasachi9348
      @parthsavyasachi9348 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@eastwoodsadventuresi watched his videos and the claim is not really debunked. All he did was to use the equipment the way people suggested and the depth was still at least 50meters if i remember correctly.
      No one is 100 percent sure but thats the only thing here.

    • @parthsavyasachi9348
      @parthsavyasachi9348 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@BBDA-CLEARthats the part of the danger there that people think like you that its not possible.

  • @homeschoolelectrics4323
    @homeschoolelectrics4323 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thank you.

  • @stefanhernold345
    @stefanhernold345 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Actually, the river is eight times as deep as is officially acknowledged.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I guess that has to be officially verified first.

  • @duncanbryson1167
    @duncanbryson1167 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Elsewhere there have been comments about how the turbulence causes air to be churned into the water thereby reducing buoyancy.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for pointing out my omission 😆 I thought I had mentioned that 😅

  • @DAN351980
    @DAN351980 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We used to play on lylos on the stid as kids 😂

  • @liamfinch4129
    @liamfinch4129 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Maybe some information would help make this video more intertesting?

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  หลายเดือนก่อน

      Could you inform me what information was missing from the information which was included in the video. The information will be helpful to make sure I include enough information in future videos.
      Oh and thanks for watching 👀

  • @peterhoward8727
    @peterhoward8727 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    👍

  • @isaaclosh8082
    @isaaclosh8082 ปีที่แล้ว

    260 feet deep in that one area. It’s all hollowed out under the rocks

  • @olheghtt
    @olheghtt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    10:12... No, not without proper tests.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for watching and leaving your thoughts

  • @Aktoto1
    @Aktoto1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:13 lovely shot. It looks like made in unreal engine

  • @myriaddsystems
    @myriaddsystems 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No not 9 metres, in actual fact, 60 metres! Thats about 200 ft in old money...

  • @evangelicalsnever-lie9792
    @evangelicalsnever-lie9792 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This river can be fully charted to it's depths. Only thing lacking I funding for such a study. Richard Branson could easily fund it.

  • @christopherwoolnough2160
    @christopherwoolnough2160 ปีที่แล้ว

    Define deadly! Definitely top category.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว

      Causing or likely to cause death, I think, is the best definition.
      Thanks for watching

  • @zlevelx
    @zlevelx ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I Imagine someone thinking its nothing because it looks calm enough and swimmable then the second they go in and they're being sucked down by the insane force they hear the voice "GOTCHA B*TCH" on repeat as the perish to the deceptive river

    • @duncanbryson1167
      @duncanbryson1167 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Something that's dangerous and looks dangerous is giving out a warning. Something that's dangerous but looks innocuous adds to the danger by lulling people into a false sense of security.

  • @kenrogers7369
    @kenrogers7369 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So beautiful but so deadly

  • @godofsquirrels494
    @godofsquirrels494 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This really gives me huge Mushishi vibes. Love it.

  • @alex-E7WHU
    @alex-E7WHU ปีที่แล้ว +2

    River wharfe.. is this where the name wharfedale comes from (wharfedale speakers)

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It certainly is. Thanks for watching

    • @Lixmage
      @Lixmage 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Dale means river valley so all the Yorkshire Dales are named for their rivers: Wharfedale, Airedale, Nidderdale, Swaledale for example.

  • @blue_tree_meadow
    @blue_tree_meadow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yes

  • @lynnthomason6589
    @lynnthomason6589 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some things should be simply left alone!

  • @johnbarroll1120
    @johnbarroll1120 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hitchcock would be. A more appropriate name! His classic film The 39 steps should have been shot there.

  • @Trailhiker1
    @Trailhiker1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Best video on the strid 👍

  • @Bond2025
    @Bond2025 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you remove the background music as it adds no value, it ruins it and people watch something else.. Think about how many deaf viewers you have - what does the music do to the video for them???
    What do you add music for? TH-cam people never answer this question.
    Fortunately there is a browser extension called SponsorBlock that mutes the music, but that also means taking your voice off in most parts of it.

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sorry if the music is not for you. Most people have enjoyed it. I always add subtitles for the deaf, and make sure it is available in different languages.

    • @justaroundthecorner2883
      @justaroundthecorner2883 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lovely video, and the music fits perfectly. Many thanks for the upload.@@eastwoodsadventures

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you very much for watching and leaving a comment, I don't like asking too much, but if you could subscribe to the channel, it would be a great help. If you already have, then thank you 😊

    • @bettyjane6684
      @bettyjane6684 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@eastwoodsadventures yes, I will subscribe. Great job! May God bless and continue to prosper you!

    • @eastwoodsadventures
      @eastwoodsadventures  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thank you very much @bettyjane6684

  • @davidhoins4588
    @davidhoins4588 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great advertising for tourists no explanation about that river so it's a total waste of time watching a 12, min 53 second's of a tourist advertisement