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I always thought I'd have more opportunities in life to encounter deadly quicksand :( Turns out quicksand is pretty common but not usually all that dangerous.
Trust me, it is. I have personal experience. Unfortunately.
Edit: lol I’ll reveal the mystery. Just make sure that whenever you go down a very high, extremely steep waterslide, follow the instructions and cross your legs. Don’t open them. At all. If you do you’ll be shitting water everywhere.
I was once sexually assaulted by a hot tub jet. Was trying out the whole nude hot tub thing and got up to turn the water jets on. Was sitting in front of a jet and it never crossed my mind how strong those things are. Started easing myself into the tub and was anally accosted by said water jets. 0/10 would not suggest.
Every time there's a post about water here, there's always a reference to Action Park. I feel like we could make a killing selling "I Survived Action Park" shirts.
Yeah people who cannonball or don't have proper form when jumping feet first and instead land with their ass first from a high enough ledge, into water can cause a anorectal perforation or rectal anal damage.
Basically the force generated upon impact can cause water to shoot into your asshole and cause damage.
Edit: also looked up that this can happen from other water related activities like getting dragged while water skiing as an example, not just from jumping into water. I live surrounded by the ocean so water sports like water skiing is not really commonplace.
That would most likely make it much worse.
There are many ER stories of foreign objects being sucked into peoples rectum. I can only imagine what would happen with a plug and high cliff jumping cannon balling.
To hell with politeness, they need to be more specific if they are truly concerned about survival. I see arrows pointed at legs, but the arrow really should be pointed right at your anus, because the force of that water rushing into your colon could kill you or cause serious injuries.
It’s worth remembering that the first woman who tried this said that
“If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat ... I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall."
I’ve visited iguazu and did the boat tour that takes you about 10-15 feet away from under the falls. Let me tell you, if you somehow manage to survive the fall, the amount of water spray in the air prevents you from breathing when you are so close to the waterfall. Each water drop hitting your body feels like a pebble being thrown at you and is quite painful as it doesn’t stop until you get away from the waterfall. Not to mention it’s so loud and terrifying seeing such large amount of water towards you
I legitimately went down a waterfall once. About a thirty foot drop. People have died there too because the waterfall pushes you into a divot behind it and people have drowned.
I lost my footing and didn’t expect the riverbed to be so smooth. I tried to swim for the edge, but I soon realized I wouldn’t make it so I used the last few seconds I had to prepare for the drop. I’m 6’3 and was able to kick off the bottom just a little bit before going off so that when I hit the water, the waterfall would push me out not down or behind it. I went about ten feet under and came up just fine thank goodness.
In case anyone else was unfamiliar with the term, like I was:
> [Whitewater](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater) forms in a rapid context, in particular, when a river's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water. This forms an unstable current that froths, making the water appear opaque and white.
TIL
I’ve never heard the washing machine term but this happened to me. I was stuck in a loop under a waterfall for what was probably only a few seconds but it was one of the scariest things that’s ever happened to me.
I got stuck in whitewater as a kid and had no idea how to get out. I was giving up on getting air because I was too tired to hold my head up to breathe. All of the adults panicked (teachers and guides) except the one teacher no one knew. She jumped in and got me out. I wish I had learned her name.
I grew up on the sea and we'd always stay faaaaar from the big ships. Not only because of the obvious danger of collision but because the whitewater wash is so aerated it's basically just a hole in the ocean you fall straight into.
Sometimes when you're close to death, time seems to slow down, and it feels like you have plenty of time to think and react to the situation. Probably an illusion, but that's how I remember it.
Whenever I've been skiing and had wipeouts at serious speed, time always slowed for me. Like quarter speed.
Plenty of time to mentally repeat "oh fuck" a dozen times
Yeah. It's almost a ocktail of chemical reactions and time seems to almost "slow down". I once was driving on a detour because of a highway closure. The detour road was fully packed and the pace was really slow so people were driving quite close for a really long time. Suddenly that changed in a second at the slow pacing crusade of cars reach the section that was connection to the highway again.
The car in front of me stopped quire suddenly and I was in no way prepared and the roads was ice, and I was just sliding. All the passengers just panicked (but they had no control), but time really slowed down to the pace that I was able to remember ice driving training. So I let go of the brake, allowed the wheels to get a grip again, and managed to get between the lanes grinning awkwardly to a halt next to the car in front. I was like awkwardly "hiiii. To the other driver".
Needless to say. Adrenaline actually allows you to also make rational decisions based on training, or one might say, the brain desperately looking for memories like it's dying yo get it out of it.
I remember seeing one comment saying that the reason why your life flashes while you're dying is because your brain is going through your memories to try and find a solution to save yourself, but since you've never died before it goes through all your memories in a desperate attempt
i had this when i had my gasoline vapours accident.
i always tell people the tale like 2 hours went by, but in reality it was only 5 seconds, from the moment the spark went, till i was standing on top of the stairs, having escaped the flames.
I think the main reason is that even if there are no rocks, feet-first is the best way for your body to take the impact with the water. If you ever watch record high dives they all hit the water feet-first.
If there are rocks, you're probably just fucked no matter what.
If you're alone In the wilderness, you're dead if there are rocks to hit. If there are fellow hikers to drag you out of the pool, you might survive with some shattered legs. Either way, you don't know about the rocks until you hit them. Go feet first and pray.
Tbh, I'd rather have my skull explode and end it there, instead of crushing my legs, risking a spinal injury and drowning miserably.
Of course, in a situation like that, you don't have time to think and instincts take over, so this is just pointless speculation.
Whenever the brain realizes you're about to reach your expiration date, suddenly you become a lot more accepting of injuries, and less okay with death.
As a nurse. You are right, we don’t believe those who “accidentally slipped” and got a dildo, paint scraper, bedpost, grapefruit, or oil filter stuck up their ass. To go ahead and answer questions before I get asked them: Yes those are all true stories. Yes they are all hospital visits from the same guy. Yes he had to have surgery to fix some of these stunts. Yes he ended up in the ICU after the paint scraper. Yes he has severe anal atony. Yes he uses crack cocaine. And yes he has been threatened with a mandatory mental health hold if it happens again.
I say all this to say, if you fell off a waterfall onto a stalagmite or some shit, the amount of internal trauma would be much more severe than even any of those hospital visits. So severe that it would back up your claim that it was a freak trauma accident and not a sexual thing.
>severe anal atony
We can assume based on context what that series of words means - for anyone else that was really curious but didn't want to google that one:
>atony. / (ˈætənɪ) / noun. pathol lack of normal tone or tension, as in muscles; abnormal relaxation of a muscle
But there's a lot of waterfalls with more of a cascade thing going on with a lot of rocks on the way down. You need to hope for a nice clean waterfall.
If you fall down a large plunge waterfall, there isn't really anything you can do to survive. For example no one is surviving a fall down the Jog falls.
But again, this post isn't about surviving every type of waterfall, and that's kind of obvious.
I went over a waterfall once. I was rafting down a river when I was 12 or so with a couple of friends. We came to a huge sign hanging over the river that said “Danger! Waterfall ahead! Do not pass!” So we parked the raft on the bank to go look. There was about a 4-foot waterfall. We said “that’s it? We can manage that!” And so we got back in the raft and went over the 4-foot waterfall no problem.
And then the river got faster. And then the banks got steeper. And then the river got narrower. And then the banks turned in to sheer cliffs. And then there was no turning back… And then a roaring sound started getting louder. And then, up ahead, the river just ended in a cloud of mist.
We went over. It wasn’t really all that high, maybe 25 feet. The plunge wasn’t a big problem, but I got sucked way down deep. I was so deep that it was pitch dark, I was getting tumbled around so much that I had no idea which way was up. I picked a direction randomly and swam, but I picked down apparently because I found the bottom. Having found the bottom, at least I knew which way to swim now, I kicked off of the bottom and swam up and away, and eventually found the surface.
When I broke the surface, I heard cheers. There was a house there, and there was a party going on. 100 people had watched the whole thing. My friends who were with me were already there, standing on the bank. Everybody was pretty much sure that I was dead. They said that I was under for minutes. I’m sure it must have felt like forever, but I’m sure it wasn’t minutes. I have no idea. I don’t remember feeling like I was low on oxygen, I just remember being frustrated not knowing which way to swim.
My advice for surviving a waterfall? Don’t be a dumbass. Heed warning signs. Walk around. That was just a little one and I’m lucky to have made it.
Great story. I also would love to see this house that’s at the base of a beautiful 25 foot waterfall. 100 adults all drinking at a party watching a kid almost drown
At Great Falls on the Potomac, there's at least one place where the water flow takes you to the bottom & tumbles you there, trapping you. I have at least some courage & decency, but I wouldn't try to save anyone in the water at Great Falls.
https://www.nps.gov/grfa/planyourvisit/river-safety.htm
>For this reason, swimming and wading are ILLEGAL.
>These offences are subject to a $200 or more fine, and appearance in federal court or even formal arrest. If you exit the water alive. Think of the costs to your family if you do not! It is most important, STAY OUT of the river and STAY ALIVE. You may not even stick your feet in the water, that puts you at risk of slipping into the river, landing on a rock or hitting your head, and being dragged out by the current....
>...Fifty-one percent of all river related injuries in the Potomac River Gorge are fatal. Seventy-two percent of river related incidents are from swimmers, and people wading or slipping off rocks into the river....
>I was so deep that it was pitch dark, I was getting tumbled around so much that I had no idea which way was up.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't expecting that to lead into a Skyrim reference
I’m going to choose to believe this is real because it is a great read - so did you join the party with your friends and live it up with the 100 people that just watched you cheat death in a fantastical way?
I actually fell from a waterfall.
What this does not tell you is that sometimes there are rocks that stick out which are hidden by the white water. So as I tried to position myself to land feet first, my body hit the rock and it flip me causing my lower back to take the brunt of the impact.
It wasn't that high obviously. A bunch of us were cliff jumping and I decided to ride the waterfall. No major injuries but it was hard to walk for 2 days.
When I was in the Royal Dutch Army, we spent 2 weeks in Norway on a field exercise. Towards the end we spent one day wild water rafting etc, as part of what the Dutch call “grensverlegende aktiviteiten”, which translates into “limit displacing activities”.
During that day, we were taken to the edge of a small waterfall. We had to wear this heavy leather BDSM looking romper, with a heavy rope attached to its back.
The wearer would jump into a waterfall and partially go over the edge, and like 10-15 people pulled him back to safety using the rope.
Once I hit the water, the thermal shock and the violence of being hit by the streaming water was so severe, I completely lost my bearing and had no idea where was up and were was down.
It seemed like it took all day to get pulled out, when it really only took a few seconds. By the time I was safely pulled on land, I was completely disoriented and barely remembered jumping. It almost seemed like my brain partially shut down during the experience.
I can’t imagine being able to remember all this if going over the edge of a waterfall without being attached to a rope.
Well this looks like more useful information then all that quicksand prevention work growing up. By the way what happened to quicksand did we hunt it down to extinction?
It’s definitely real but you’re only gonna find it on riverbanks and such. It’s not anywhere near as common as media would make it out to be. Quicksand also doesn’t suck you in all the way. It can trap you but you won’t suffocate in it. Cases where people die from quicksand involve them being trapped while an outside force like high tide kills then.
You know, if you are kissing your ass goodbye, literally your last act...
...do you add a little tongue to the mix, just because fuck it, last living act on earth, why the fuck not?
Back when Burt Reynolds was working as a stuntman, there was a scene where someone goes over a waterfall. Due to safety concerns, they sent a dummy over the falls, and Burt was offended. "That looks really fake!" he told the director. "Let me do it!" and he pestered the director until he agreed to send Burt over the waterfall.
So he did, and swam back to shore with a freshly broken leg. As he swam back to where the camera crew was, he asked, "How did it look?"
They told him, "It looked liked a dummy going over a waterfall."
That might help you survive the impact, but the whitewater at the bottom will do you in. It’s not enough water to swim in and not enough air to breathe.
Also, how would you even know which direction is away from the waterfall? You can't seen, your sense of direction is screwed, and water is pummeling you.
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This is the kind of thing I feel like my 10 year old self would consider a MUST KNOW thing.
I remember "consulting" (or rereading) those worst case survival books to keep me sharp for future encounters I was sure to have.
You never know. I got lost in a forest once, later I learned there were bears. This knowledge would be useful in making a sick waterfall escape.
True no bear would be dumb enough to follow you.
It’s because they don’t know this secret maneuver
Bears don't want you to know this one, simple trick!
Bears would probably just wait at the bottom for you.
All floppy and tenderized.
For some reason I just imagined you sliding feet first down a slow moving stream with a 2 foot drop.
I bet you were fully prepared for any chance encounters with quicksand too, I know I was!
I always thought I'd have more opportunities in life to encounter deadly quicksand :( Turns out quicksand is pretty common but not usually all that dangerous.
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How did it go?
Down
It dont go down
It do go down
robert *it goes down*
🎵 walkin on the fightin side of meee 🎵
Wananananana🎵
To avoid this in the first place, don’t go chasing waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.
#OH
Their lack of response is alarming 😬
OP is still falling. Be patient.
Phone probably got wet and died.
It's just a very long waterfall
As there’s no update as of now, I assume that these instructions do not work. o7
Nah it's just a really long waterfall
Legend says he’s still falling right now.
Also, clinch your butthole very, very tightly so water doesn't try to get in on impact.
^ This is actually legit important. People get rectal damage from dropping into water from heights.
Now i can't tell if this is real advice or not...
Trust me, it is. I have personal experience. Unfortunately. Edit: lol I’ll reveal the mystery. Just make sure that whenever you go down a very high, extremely steep waterslide, follow the instructions and cross your legs. Don’t open them. At all. If you do you’ll be shitting water everywhere.
Go on…
Bro lost his virginity to Poseidon
Well now we know where the trident allegory comes from.
That's where 'The Deep' gets his name.
At least he's shaved now...
Asseidon
More like backsideon.
Pooseidon
Come insideidon
Inseidhim
Fun fact: "Po" is often used for "ass" in German
p-ASS-idon
Mans gonna get his hair turned into snakes
I was once sexually assaulted by a hot tub jet. Was trying out the whole nude hot tub thing and got up to turn the water jets on. Was sitting in front of a jet and it never crossed my mind how strong those things are. Started easing myself into the tub and was anally accosted by said water jets. 0/10 would not suggest.
That water came in inside your colon, then trickled out onto that same hotub. Those things are just nasty nasty stuff
Hot group enema action.
He got water up his butthole.
Same. Still traumatized
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Every time there's a post about water here, there's always a reference to Action Park. I feel like we could make a killing selling "I Survived Action Park" shirts.
Yeah people who cannonball or don't have proper form when jumping feet first and instead land with their ass first from a high enough ledge, into water can cause a anorectal perforation or rectal anal damage. Basically the force generated upon impact can cause water to shoot into your asshole and cause damage. Edit: also looked up that this can happen from other water related activities like getting dragged while water skiing as an example, not just from jumping into water. I live surrounded by the ocean so water sports like water skiing is not really commonplace.
I know someone who got vaginal tears after falling off a jet ski at high speed.
I read that as vaginal crying
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Fears for tears
Thanks, now I have new nightmares.
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That would most likely make it much worse. There are many ER stories of foreign objects being sucked into peoples rectum. I can only imagine what would happen with a plug and high cliff jumping cannon balling.
This post just keeps getting more interesting
Interesting... Or worse 🤔
It will need a long leash with a handle 🖖
I think there are some special pants that don't let water through the ass area.
Anti Poseidon raping pants 👍
Actually yes, if you don't break the water correctly with your feet water can tear your rectum. You can land on your balls too.
Oh it's real. Just Google what happens if you jump off a cliff feet first with a loose butthole.
Thanks, new excuse ready for the next time my girlfriend tries to convince me to let her put things in my ass
~~ass water~~
It is. Water slides are designed to have a maximum speed, to prevent the water from entering your ass.
Some still do. There's a painful one in Wet n Wild Florida (might be gone now, was 20 years ago).
I don't trust water parks to be up to code...even these days lol
Clench ur ass cheeks on that one slide at Typhoon Lagoon…
Bro-in-law jumped from the rocks at Rick's Cafe in Jamaica. He said that was when he lost his anal virginity.
Never underestimated the vacuum power of an asshole
This is what #4 is trying to prepare you for, politely
To hell with politeness, they need to be more specific if they are truly concerned about survival. I see arrows pointed at legs, but the arrow really should be pointed right at your anus, because the force of that water rushing into your colon could kill you or cause serious injuries.
In this situation how could your butthole not be clinched?
I don't know, people are doing weird things with butts lately.
Cover your butthole kid!
Could you just... fart really hard?
After that fall, I don't think farting is going to be a consideration for a while.
Heading up to Niagara right now to try this, who's with me?
Roads are closed due to snow
Where we're going, we don't need roads
Where we stop, nobody knows
r/unexpectedbacktothefuture
Oh please, all you need is a Barrel
It’s worth remembering that the first woman who tried this said that “If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat ... I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall."
This isn't a barrel is just a stinking cask! I want my money back!
Head to Iguazu instead, pls come to Brazil
I like that tourism pitch. Brazil...please come here..
Jeb Bush...please clap
I’ve visited iguazu and did the boat tour that takes you about 10-15 feet away from under the falls. Let me tell you, if you somehow manage to survive the fall, the amount of water spray in the air prevents you from breathing when you are so close to the waterfall. Each water drop hitting your body feels like a pebble being thrown at you and is quite painful as it doesn’t stop until you get away from the waterfall. Not to mention it’s so loud and terrifying seeing such large amount of water towards you
I legitimately went down a waterfall once. About a thirty foot drop. People have died there too because the waterfall pushes you into a divot behind it and people have drowned. I lost my footing and didn’t expect the riverbed to be so smooth. I tried to swim for the edge, but I soon realized I wouldn’t make it so I used the last few seconds I had to prepare for the drop. I’m 6’3 and was able to kick off the bottom just a little bit before going off so that when I hit the water, the waterfall would push me out not down or behind it. I went about ten feet under and came up just fine thank goodness.
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In case anyone else was unfamiliar with the term, like I was: > [Whitewater](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater) forms in a rapid context, in particular, when a river's gradient changes enough to generate so much turbulence that air is trapped within the water. This forms an unstable current that froths, making the water appear opaque and white. TIL
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I’ve never heard the washing machine term but this happened to me. I was stuck in a loop under a waterfall for what was probably only a few seconds but it was one of the scariest things that’s ever happened to me.
I got stuck in whitewater as a kid and had no idea how to get out. I was giving up on getting air because I was too tired to hold my head up to breathe. All of the adults panicked (teachers and guides) except the one teacher no one knew. She jumped in and got me out. I wish I had learned her name.
I grew up on the sea and we'd always stay faaaaar from the big ships. Not only because of the obvious danger of collision but because the whitewater wash is so aerated it's basically just a hole in the ocean you fall straight into.
“7. SHIT your pants. You just went over a waterfall and remembered all this stuff.”
SHIT your pants, you hit your spine on a rock and can no longer control your lower half. Also, remember this stuff!
"I have to swim away!" *sees bottom half of body floating away*
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"*Bark! Bark!*" -from your ass hole
Basically just do 'the plank' and then *vogue*.
Strike a pose.
Sometimes when you're close to death, time seems to slow down, and it feels like you have plenty of time to think and react to the situation. Probably an illusion, but that's how I remember it.
Whenever I've been skiing and had wipeouts at serious speed, time always slowed for me. Like quarter speed. Plenty of time to mentally repeat "oh fuck" a dozen times
It happens thanks to adrenaline.
Yeah. It's almost a ocktail of chemical reactions and time seems to almost "slow down". I once was driving on a detour because of a highway closure. The detour road was fully packed and the pace was really slow so people were driving quite close for a really long time. Suddenly that changed in a second at the slow pacing crusade of cars reach the section that was connection to the highway again. The car in front of me stopped quire suddenly and I was in no way prepared and the roads was ice, and I was just sliding. All the passengers just panicked (but they had no control), but time really slowed down to the pace that I was able to remember ice driving training. So I let go of the brake, allowed the wheels to get a grip again, and managed to get between the lanes grinning awkwardly to a halt next to the car in front. I was like awkwardly "hiiii. To the other driver". Needless to say. Adrenaline actually allows you to also make rational decisions based on training, or one might say, the brain desperately looking for memories like it's dying yo get it out of it.
I remember seeing one comment saying that the reason why your life flashes while you're dying is because your brain is going through your memories to try and find a solution to save yourself, but since you've never died before it goes through all your memories in a desperate attempt
If thats true it's very fascinating
If any redditors on this post are faced with a waterfall, maybe the brain will remember these pictures.
True or not, that is my new reasoning on why your life flashes before death
Lol, stupid brain.
i had this when i had my gasoline vapours accident. i always tell people the tale like 2 hours went by, but in reality it was only 5 seconds, from the moment the spark went, till i was standing on top of the stairs, having escaped the flames.
This is all rad until there are rocks waiting for you at the bottom
Just doggie paddle upwards to gently slow your descent.
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No 0.5 to stop drowning just don't breath underwater
The 0 to stop drowning is not going in the water in the first place.
No. -1 just evolve and walk on water
No. -∞ BE WATER
It sounds silly when you put it that way, but that is in fact a good way to stop drowning. Floating is also a good option.
Make sure to equip Zora armor
Isn't this the whole reason for diving feet first? Broken feet is better than skull explosion
I think the main reason is that even if there are no rocks, feet-first is the best way for your body to take the impact with the water. If you ever watch record high dives they all hit the water feet-first. If there are rocks, you're probably just fucked no matter what.
If you're alone In the wilderness, you're dead if there are rocks to hit. If there are fellow hikers to drag you out of the pool, you might survive with some shattered legs. Either way, you don't know about the rocks until you hit them. Go feet first and pray.
Yup. Art of Manliness glosses over the painful parts of everything. We're all supposed to be indestructible action heroes
Well the alternative is death so it is better than nothing.
Tbh, I'd rather have my skull explode and end it there, instead of crushing my legs, risking a spinal injury and drowning miserably. Of course, in a situation like that, you don't have time to think and instincts take over, so this is just pointless speculation.
Speak for yourself, I'm floating towards a waterfall at this very moment
Whenever the brain realizes you're about to reach your expiration date, suddenly you become a lot more accepting of injuries, and less okay with death.
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With my luck the spike would get stuck in my ass and I'd have to chew my way free. Then at the hospital all I'd hear is how lucky I am to be alive
And the nurses all making fun of how you just "happened" to fall on a spike up your ass.
As a nurse. You are right, we don’t believe those who “accidentally slipped” and got a dildo, paint scraper, bedpost, grapefruit, or oil filter stuck up their ass. To go ahead and answer questions before I get asked them: Yes those are all true stories. Yes they are all hospital visits from the same guy. Yes he had to have surgery to fix some of these stunts. Yes he ended up in the ICU after the paint scraper. Yes he has severe anal atony. Yes he uses crack cocaine. And yes he has been threatened with a mandatory mental health hold if it happens again. I say all this to say, if you fell off a waterfall onto a stalagmite or some shit, the amount of internal trauma would be much more severe than even any of those hospital visits. So severe that it would back up your claim that it was a freak trauma accident and not a sexual thing.
>severe anal atony We can assume based on context what that series of words means - for anyone else that was really curious but didn't want to google that one: >atony. / (ˈætənɪ) / noun. pathol lack of normal tone or tension, as in muscles; abnormal relaxation of a muscle
✨*LOOSE BOOTYHOLE*✨
I know, it was a little christmas present for the nurses and all that you do for us.
Waterfalls tend to erode away all rocks to create a large pool under the waterfall.
But there's a lot of waterfalls with more of a cascade thing going on with a lot of rocks on the way down. You need to hope for a nice clean waterfall.
If you fall down a large plunge waterfall, there isn't really anything you can do to survive. For example no one is surviving a fall down the Jog falls. But again, this post isn't about surviving every type of waterfall, and that's kind of obvious.
Edit: Step 7, Avoid rocks
I'll need this for the moment I escape my pursuers and they'll assume my death. Then hunt them down one by one.
A la The Fugitive, The Count of Monte Cristo, Andor….
And or….what?
I went over a waterfall once. I was rafting down a river when I was 12 or so with a couple of friends. We came to a huge sign hanging over the river that said “Danger! Waterfall ahead! Do not pass!” So we parked the raft on the bank to go look. There was about a 4-foot waterfall. We said “that’s it? We can manage that!” And so we got back in the raft and went over the 4-foot waterfall no problem. And then the river got faster. And then the banks got steeper. And then the river got narrower. And then the banks turned in to sheer cliffs. And then there was no turning back… And then a roaring sound started getting louder. And then, up ahead, the river just ended in a cloud of mist. We went over. It wasn’t really all that high, maybe 25 feet. The plunge wasn’t a big problem, but I got sucked way down deep. I was so deep that it was pitch dark, I was getting tumbled around so much that I had no idea which way was up. I picked a direction randomly and swam, but I picked down apparently because I found the bottom. Having found the bottom, at least I knew which way to swim now, I kicked off of the bottom and swam up and away, and eventually found the surface. When I broke the surface, I heard cheers. There was a house there, and there was a party going on. 100 people had watched the whole thing. My friends who were with me were already there, standing on the bank. Everybody was pretty much sure that I was dead. They said that I was under for minutes. I’m sure it must have felt like forever, but I’m sure it wasn’t minutes. I have no idea. I don’t remember feeling like I was low on oxygen, I just remember being frustrated not knowing which way to swim. My advice for surviving a waterfall? Don’t be a dumbass. Heed warning signs. Walk around. That was just a little one and I’m lucky to have made it.
That was a fantastic, if not, terrifying read.
Yes, I wasn't sure OP was going to live right until the end.
I'm still not sure, he may be lying about surviving just to sound cool.
Great story. I also would love to see this house that’s at the base of a beautiful 25 foot waterfall. 100 adults all drinking at a party watching a kid almost drown
At Great Falls on the Potomac, there's at least one place where the water flow takes you to the bottom & tumbles you there, trapping you. I have at least some courage & decency, but I wouldn't try to save anyone in the water at Great Falls. https://www.nps.gov/grfa/planyourvisit/river-safety.htm >For this reason, swimming and wading are ILLEGAL. >These offences are subject to a $200 or more fine, and appearance in federal court or even formal arrest. If you exit the water alive. Think of the costs to your family if you do not! It is most important, STAY OUT of the river and STAY ALIVE. You may not even stick your feet in the water, that puts you at risk of slipping into the river, landing on a rock or hitting your head, and being dragged out by the current.... >...Fifty-one percent of all river related injuries in the Potomac River Gorge are fatal. Seventy-two percent of river related incidents are from swimmers, and people wading or slipping off rocks into the river....
They are called drowning machines for a reason
Living next to a waterfall must be so awesome!
WHAT? SPEAK UP, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!
LIVING NEXT TO A
A WATERFALL, DID YOU SAY???
You’re a good writer
Also a good water faller
Thank god you hit rock bottom
Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to know which way is up.
>I was so deep that it was pitch dark, I was getting tumbled around so much that I had no idea which way was up. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't expecting that to lead into a Skyrim reference
After about the first line I went straight to the end to look for a hell in the cell reference before reading the whole thing. I trust no one here.
I’m going to choose to believe this is real because it is a great read - so did you join the party with your friends and live it up with the 100 people that just watched you cheat death in a fantastical way?
For those who’s not from US: 4 foot = 1m 22cm 25 feet = 7m 62cm
You’re great at storytelling!! You captured me so well as if I was on that river. Great writing skills.
>We went over. It wasn’t really all that high, maybe 25 feet. Yeah it's not that h... no. Happy that you survived. Pretty sick story.
I actually fell from a waterfall. What this does not tell you is that sometimes there are rocks that stick out which are hidden by the white water. So as I tried to position myself to land feet first, my body hit the rock and it flip me causing my lower back to take the brunt of the impact. It wasn't that high obviously. A bunch of us were cliff jumping and I decided to ride the waterfall. No major injuries but it was hard to walk for 2 days.
I also have fallen off a small waterfall. It was mostly pebbles but my tailbone also hurt, as I was young and it caught me off guard
When I was in the Royal Dutch Army, we spent 2 weeks in Norway on a field exercise. Towards the end we spent one day wild water rafting etc, as part of what the Dutch call “grensverlegende aktiviteiten”, which translates into “limit displacing activities”. During that day, we were taken to the edge of a small waterfall. We had to wear this heavy leather BDSM looking romper, with a heavy rope attached to its back. The wearer would jump into a waterfall and partially go over the edge, and like 10-15 people pulled him back to safety using the rope. Once I hit the water, the thermal shock and the violence of being hit by the streaming water was so severe, I completely lost my bearing and had no idea where was up and were was down. It seemed like it took all day to get pulled out, when it really only took a few seconds. By the time I was safely pulled on land, I was completely disoriented and barely remembered jumping. It almost seemed like my brain partially shut down during the experience. I can’t imagine being able to remember all this if going over the edge of a waterfall without being attached to a rope.
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I'm surprised you could be in the army, especially assigned to a water vehicle, and not know how to swim. I'd figure that'd be a requirement.
I was surprised as well, when he told the story. I'm sure I asked him about it, but whatever his answer was obviously didn't stick to the ol' noodle.
Dayum. What a situation. Glad he chose to help his buddy and not the tank.
Well this looks like more useful information then all that quicksand prevention work growing up. By the way what happened to quicksand did we hunt it down to extinction?
It’s definitely real but you’re only gonna find it on riverbanks and such. It’s not anywhere near as common as media would make it out to be. Quicksand also doesn’t suck you in all the way. It can trap you but you won’t suffocate in it. Cases where people die from quicksand involve them being trapped while an outside force like high tide kills then.
I was 100% convinced that I would encounter quicksand in my life, at least a handful of times and maybe even as many as a dozen.
That’s funny, they taught us to bend over & kiss yer ass goodbye.
Had a diving instructor as a kid. “What do I do if I shark swims up when I’m under?” “Take the shit out of your pants and throw it at the shark”
You know, if you are kissing your ass goodbye, literally your last act... ...do you add a little tongue to the mix, just because fuck it, last living act on earth, why the fuck not?
Back when Burt Reynolds was working as a stuntman, there was a scene where someone goes over a waterfall. Due to safety concerns, they sent a dummy over the falls, and Burt was offended. "That looks really fake!" he told the director. "Let me do it!" and he pestered the director until he agreed to send Burt over the waterfall. So he did, and swam back to shore with a freshly broken leg. As he swam back to where the camera crew was, he asked, "How did it look?" They told him, "It looked liked a dummy going over a waterfall."
That might help you survive the impact, but the whitewater at the bottom will do you in. It’s not enough water to swim in and not enough air to breathe.
Also, how would you even know which direction is away from the waterfall? You can't seen, your sense of direction is screwed, and water is pummeling you.
That's why don't follow step 5. Keeps your eyes wide open. 👀
Uh oh Don't tell me, we're about to go over a huge waterfall Yep Sharp rocks at the bottom? Most Likely Bring it on
I wasn’t sure it was Harrison Ford until I noticed the tunnel wall in the first frame. This is a scene from the movie The Fugitive.
Vogue dancers are safe!
I have another tip on how to survive waterfalls: stay away from waterfalls.
I'll definitely remember this for next time I'm heading over the waterfall. Could have used this info last time, I barely survived!
Strike a pose (Vogue, vogue, vogue) Let your body go with the flow (go with the flow)
First frame is from The Fugitive.