Orange river mouth opening 23 4 2018 

The waves the way they kept changing. Quite awesome!

That is a huge estuary....things could go south for those folk there quickly.

Well this comment is fucking all over the place.

@@samhly2 Just the average youtube psycho babble.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there were diamonds washing out in all that. It is the Namibian coast after all. I’ve heard of beaches owned by the cartels with armed patrols because of all the raw diamonds laying around.

@@marthabakry7353 thanks for the reply. It's called The Forbidden Zone, and isn't controlled by the cartels, the diamond industry would be long gone if it was. That's Northern Angola, parts of Asia. this is De Beers and they control the world's diamond industry. No South African journalist is allowed to look into how much tax De Beers' pays, or Anglo-American. It's a concession, but they protect it as their own asset. Still there is leakage. In the Leonardo De Caprio movie the blood diamonds are taken out of circulation by De Beers. Be careful when buying diamonds to get natural not synthetic, but even Russia and Australia keep faith with the world leader, De Beers. Control was better under Apartheid. This is nothing like Colombian cocaine, Europe and America do everything they can to help keep the diamon industry taxable. (In the Kaokoveld furhter south you find beautiful peices of quartz and geodes just lying around-very harsh desert and you may be searched by a police car along the road.) Check a De Beers shop window in any major city to see the type f very white diamond you get from the Orange River, Graff uses Lesotho diamonds, also from the Orange River, deep inland. Bye'.

@@christianriddler5063 It's an old man telling a story. Be polite.

What would seals be doing in a river?

Visiting cousins

They had fun going down. Best part when his one buddy looked at the other like oh crap

I was at felix unite from 2007 till 2009. Only got to do the 4 day trips too aussenkehr. Also worked at the breede river in western Cape

Might not have been natural. In some places they close the river mouth to protect low lying land along the river from flooding during the wet season.

I had the exact same question. Never knew river mouths could be closed! I thought they are always open.

Oh ok.

But by artificially closing the mouth with a barrier, aren't they increasing chances of floods? The water has no place to go!

@@kaladwarakanath5503 That may be a possibility depending on where it's done, I'm not sure. Remember though that the difference between high and low tide is about three metres depending where the river is, so that's three less metres of water they have to worry about.

I take a vidoe of how the river is in flood would love to fly a drone up and down the river I see what I can do

@@Floki__TV think that would be awesome. People do amazing with drones... spectacular views. It gives a different vantage point to what we are used to.

Chill out guys. The current is only strong on the passage. Even if you fell in, it would only drag you for some dozen meters and you could swim back out.

maybe he didnt

Actually water has less to do with the formation of the continents. It has more to do with the movement of the tectonic plates of the earth moving. It's called continental drift. If you look at a map, the continents are like pieces of a puzzle that could fit together.

@@teresamartin4735 We should also consider the fact that plate tectonics was only a theory until 1968. Now we know that the Andes contain rock from what was once the Appalachians because of subduction and continental drift including polar shifts. Best not to dip a toe in that "brook," unless you're a seal with good fins and exceptional surfing skills.

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But then the flow downriver would be reduced greatly. It's already greatly reduced with all the current dams.

Part of it feeds the Katse Dam in Lesotho where the river stream begins.

Having lived and worked in this area this event usually happens every few years depending on river flow rates and the rate of build-up of the sandbar across the Orange River mouth. Tides and weather conditions are critical to determining whether the river beats the sea or the sea beats the river.

@@richardsb61 No surfers?

Let's see if it works see you in 7 years

Not a good idea, as that's the international border between South Africa and Namibia (do you want to risk incurring the wrath of border officials?). Plus, there's the small matter of a minor border dispute to deal with: South Africa claims the border is the north bank of the river (the side where the camera and spectators are), but Namibia claims the border is the centre of the river. The camera and spectators are in Namibian territory, by the way.

think it was only blocked for like 6weeks or something river was very low first time i have ever seen it closed. took like 2days to flow out till it back to its normal level. But the river mouth is always open with an outflow

A little to close for my liking as well.

I think all of them are pretty dumb to be standing so close to the edge at all!

You've never seen a river drain into the sea in Ohio?how bizarre.

It does but there always a idiot with a shovel

​@@Floki__TV Well that explains it. Thank you so very much for your answer.

More seals @ 9:11 to 9:37 and 11:55

south africa on the other side

The border staff came to mark the line with a big tree stump but yes you could walk up and down the beach.

Standing on Namibian side other side south Africa

Hey so this orange river in Africa it starts in Lesotho runs through South africa all the way to namibia where it runs into the Atlantic Ocean

@@Floki__TV, Thanks a lot.

XD yup

Ah ok. I was wondering what i was looking at. Thanks for clearing it up.

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Yes it was

its

@@dunruden9720 itself

The amount of water is tiny compared to the sea.

On the border of South Africa and namibia

Try!

I enjoy this video like having a good dream while sleeping

Barbara-Louisa walker they were scared the gold course would get flooded that what been said don't know if that the reason they opened it

The farms along the river and pastures were flooding so they approved the opening to save the land

@@Floki__TV And now it's dried up just a year and a half later. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MZqJPiNAskE.html

Second Chance well that just really sad!... thank you for sharing 😊

I wish people wouldn't make up untrue answers. This was illegal and never approved. The mouth hadn't closed in about 20 years. We were working on a project to try and save the estuary. This was the best thing that could've happened and these individuals messed it up. Have a look at the link below. We made this video just a few months before. Allowing the ecosystem to go through it's natural processes would've had a massively positive impact. There was no danger to people. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ETExdjjUQv0.html

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One reason that was floating around was the golf club was in danger of breaking its flood walls. But they should have left it so the wetlands could get some water.

What are you talking about? There were some heavy rains in the catchment area and Van der Kloof dam overflowed, it caused the Orange River to flood. Did you ever visit that area? It is impossible to excavate a channel to the sea because of the huge sandbanks and delta-like geography. This is a natural phenomenon and occurs seldom.

@@SB-wh9kf river hasn't flooded in years and was very low. Why the river mouth closed on it's own happens naturally. If some idiot's didn't go dig it open the wetlands in Alexanderbay would have filled up the salt pan would have gotten new water aswell.

@@SB-wh9kf you be surprised what two people with shovels did all the did was dig a small channel and let gravity do the rest. Video somewhere on facebook

LYCAN if that is the case it is idiotic. I didn’t know about the incident affecting Alexander Bay. This video is confusing though. Maybe you should write an intro explaining what happened. The area is remote and thinly populated. We don’t get all the news from there. Just a suggestion ... Not all of us uses Facebook either 😏

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fresh water. you should see when the river floods whole ocean turns brown

Namibia Oranje river. The mouth of the river closed due to low river fall and big storm from ocean closing the mouth. After about a month it open and drained into the ocean.

@@Floki__TV thank you very much, eh!

Nnama bia Africa ....,join Atlantic ocean. .Inndia ..Thanks. Jesus

probably mad he opened it up !

I will email you at your email submissions@monthlyfails.tv is this the right one?

Man is not god!

When freshwater river or stream meets ocean, its called an estuary. An ecosystem on its own.