If you ever see that, get as far away as possible. Concentrated gasses created in anaerobic environments, when released in significant volume could suffocate you. Especially if there’s little to no wind or you are in a low lying area…like a lake. You guys are honestly lucky. That’s the most significant one of seen.
This is actually pretty amazing footage. It's a methane release from a decaying plant matter sheet. Super, super rare. This can be deadly. Next time you see this get the hell away!
I agree with you about 90%.! That 10% is that I do not believe that this is super rare.! This happens all the time it is just that it is not captured on camera.! But totally cool video and you weren't wrong.! 😁👍
Also, depending on the area, bubbles could indicate a possible sink hole opening up which could swallow you up, recently here in Missouri a sink hole engulfed an entire lake at Lone Elk Park, a 17 acre Lake suddenly disappeared.
You’re lucky to be alive. That could have been a worse form of gas bubbling up. A lake in Africa did that and it killed everyone and every living thing in the valley surrounding the lake
I heard about that! It killed about 1,700 people and over 3,500 livestock within minutes. It was a volcanic lake and it released massive amounts of CO₂
@@yasmin030ya lake Nyos. Killed 1746 people and 3500 live stock. Many that lived on the lake shore died within minutes. Others died as the carbon dioxide cloud traveled through the valleys.
You lucky chap! Super rare and some of them are super deadly. Methane pockets aren't as bad as carbon monoxide pockets. Methane floats away. Carbon monoxide is heavier than air, so it creates a suffocating blanket. If that was the case, we'd be looking at found footage. Thanks for getting it on camera. 👍
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We actually just learned bout this in my chem class, when plant matter builds up at the bottom of the lake, it starts to decompose which releases methane(explaining the smell) normally it filters up to the surface slowly, but it can get trapped under the mud building up a bigger and bigger bubble, until it forces its way through making something like this happen, it’s really dangerous though, since the gas is more dense than air it can settle on the water and suffocate people, and if you’re on top of the bubble when it surfaces it could flip a kayak or small craft depending on the size of the bubble
@@alekk2320 methane may be odorless but other decomposition gases like sulphur aren't. I have read about similar things happening before that have killed people. Hell Brew even did the video about the potato cellar that killed people with dense gas from decomposition.
That's just crazy! Never seen anything like that in all my years. And after reading the comments learned what it was. Had no idea. See, you can teach an old dog new tricks. I'll tell you what though, it had my heart racing for you guys! Glad you are alright and thanks for sharing this. Learn somethin' new everyday!
@@warpedone4963 I mean no.... you can sleep near a body of water without fear of death. Driving to work has a greater chance of death than this rare occurrence. That being said, if you never want to die from a lake fart I guess you could stay clear of one....and if you never want to die in a car I suppose you could avoid being near those to.
Leaves will fall onto the water and eventually sink while the currents and eddies will gather them into leaf masses in various locations, as they decompose some gasses will be trapped until there's enough to lift part of the mass and break free. The smell is like sewage...cool that you caught it on camera.
Methane gas bubble... The smell is from Hydrogen Sulfide. There'll also be Carbon Dioxide too. The phenomenon is caused by decomposition of vegetable matter at depth. which builds up pressure because of the water volume above, eventually the pressure overcomes the mass of mud and rotting debris and rapidly expands as it rises to the surface... it starts out as a stream of bubbles first, but not always.
Looks like methane bubbles from decomposing matter. There's a lake in Europe or Russia that freezes during the winter and you can see the large methane bubbles frozen in the lake.
This is one explanation of ships that disappear in the Bermuda Triangle…when their vibration causes a huge methane pocket in the sediment below to release in a huge bubble that is the same thing as dropping the ship into a 50 foot hole in the water when it reaches the surface directly under the ship.
@@thebuttermilkyway687 There, there...you just keep thinking that if it makes you happy. Done a lot of bluewater sailing have we? Hmmm. Dead men tell no tales.
This made me remember my local fishing graphic novel that depicted a mythical creature that preyed on whoever arrogant enough to fish despite its presence, or daring enough to challenge/fish it.. the leaves the creature spit out alongside the bubbles could even be lighted up after they surface, because they're supposed to be dry somehow. It's called "Sulur Bidar". But yeah the other comments explained everything so 👍🏼
This can be a "limnic eruption" of the lake(degassing). Similar to Lake Nyos disaster in Africa that killed thousands. CO2 can get super saturated in the deep cold waters of a lake(which is very rare) It starts rising up due to a triggering event like a rise in temperature or earthquake or a volcano etc.. as it comes up CO2 gets released out of the water like opening a soda. These bubbles go up and displace water creating a vertical column of bubbles... which creates suction and pulls the water from the deep and eventually all the CO2 gets released into the air. Can be powerful enough to cause a tsunami depending on the size and depth of the lake
@TJP projects yes. The smell can be because of other gases like methane, hydrogen sulphide or Sulphur dioxide etc which can be present along with the CO2
Now imagine that smell all summer long. That's basically what living on the swamp is like- a constant science experiment that reeks of decay and houses things that want to kill you.
Yeah, I live on the outskirts of New Orleans and on windless mornings coming over a bridge that crosses the Mississippi River, in the distant atmosphere you can see a transparent yellowish/brownish haze. That's what the swamps and Lake Pontchartrain belch up.
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Probably a sub surface Methane release from gases trapped in the lake floor. It's a pretty common phenomenon in the "Bermuda Triangle". Some speculate that this is the reason for ship disappearances. Sudden loss of buoyancy from sailing straight through a methane release field/event.
So, this also can effect a plane directly overhead. Not really, sorry I lied, the truth is bubbles can't sink a ship in almost every occurrence. There is only one single very specific situation where the would. That scenario needs numerous unconnected events to happen at the same time. Generally, the don't sink because the current created by the rising bubbles is more than enough to offset the lost density. If the release is large enough, and creates a strong enough current, sometimes the ship will be lifted further above the water. Oddly enough, the chances of the ship being lifted are higher that it sinking. The plane thing sounds impossible right? However, if you believe bubbles sink ships, you should also believe planes are also impacted, because both are two aspects of the same same theory.
I've heard that Bermuda triangle theory. A model ship demonstration showed mass bubbles events can swamp a ship from reduced density and turbulence. No word on a gass source, which would be enormous. Suffocation is a much bigger danger.
@cali gdp Magnetic anomalies do indeed cause havoc on a compass. But resulting EMF fields would likely change conductivity and static. As well as radio interference. Sparks and lighting is a less than ideal flying environment. As you mentioned, a mass bubble event that can swamp a ship with gasses may also create a fuel / air bomb effect under the worst conditions. And an engine ingesting these flammable gasses could over rev, overheat, stall or explode. Not to mention, gasses of varying densities would interfere with aerodynamics and lift. The transient nature of this is quite puzzling. Comes and goes. It makes me glad I only drive a car.
@cali gdp Agreed. Flying would be an amazing feast. The same could be said for a driver's license. Dieing is a substantially rare occurrence. Apart from it being already assured, it is worth it. I'm partial to Cessnas as well.
@cali gdp only in ridiculously rare cases. The most recent scientific paper covering Your theory is from the early 2000's. The theory I am referencing was published as recently as 2017. Stop citing outdated/disproven hypotheses. Your statement about planes is almost impossible. For a plane the be effected the amount of methane released would cause suffocation on the east coast of the US. The most likely explanation for both types of disappearances are the same as the reasons on any other part of the planet. The Bermuda triangle has the same disappearance statistics as any other major shipping lane. There's nothing spectacular happening Inside of it, just people(like you) hearing, believing, and further Sharing the same wrong information about it.
What everyone missed is the side of the lake, where it looked like a mud slide. Right in line with the , gas bubbles. Lakes do punch thru old caves, salt mines. A shift of the earth under the lake.
I’ve seen those before, but that one was massive for such a small lake! Definitely shouldn’t hang around right next to it, but also getting up close footage of that event is pretty insane
That was exactly what so many commenters said, a methane bubble from under the lake. It can actually be dangerous to anyone on the surface that too close. Any time I see large amounts of air coming up in a body of water like that I stay clear. What if it were a cavern or cave under the lake that collapsed and cause a whirlpool to pull your boat under? Better to be safe than sorry.
Lucky! We require ventilation and wearing sniffers in confined spaces to avoid fatalities when working in an area that might trigger or become a hazard like this one.
This happened at a hot tub party one night and it scared the freak out of me. I jumped right out and ran. Held my breath til I was down the street. Only reason I survived….
I once witnessed a huge sinkhole form into a gigantic whirlpool that sucked acreage and buildings down in the matter of a couple hours in liberty Texas. You can look it up on you tube.
That can be a bad situation, if its Co2 it can asphyxiate every living thing in the lake basin because it's heavier than O2. It could be methane, nitrogen, or other types of natural gas, but in this case, it's probably a mixture of several byproducts of decomposing vegetation, cellulose, lignin, carbohydrates, im not familiar with the types of sub aquatic decomposers but it will find out!
That very easily could've been the collapsing of an inner air pockets. Those are commonly the cause for sinkholes... I would stay away from that area. I've saw massive sinkholes
A lot different than what I’m used to but it looks like a methane pocket. They happen on the golf course I golf at early in the season when the ground is thawing after the winter, there will be little hills in the fairways that are squishy when you walk over them. Stab a club into it and light it on fire 🔥
When you see such a natural event you should run as fast as you could. Something like that happened almost 30 years ago inside an extinct volcano lake in Africa. During centuries the bottom of the lake inside the volcano's cone acumulated huge quatities of CO2 inside the silt deposited at the bottom. One night there was a massive landslide from one of the cliffs overlooking inside the crater. The mudslide with thousands of tons of rock and mud slided inside the water like an avalanche and reached the bottom of the lake stirring the stagnant silt and its huge quantities of CO2. The CO2 was liberated in vast amounts bubbling through the water from the bottom-up like CO2 coming up from a shaken Coca Cola bottle. It surfaced and went into the atmosphere covering the entire region with a heavy charged CO2 cloud. Because it was during the earliest hours of the morning everybody was sleeping. The thik white cloud (that nobody saw coming because it was dark) came down from the volcano's crater passing over farms and small villages on its vecinity covering the towns and killing hundreds and hundres of villagers during their sleep. It was a terrible tragedy caused by a weird natural phenomena. Those bubbles inside the water of that lake in the vid maybe something similar. People should run away inmediatelly after witnnesing such events. Danger is quite possible.
I saw the same thing in the Nantahala River in North Carolina. In my case the whole leaf mat (8ft diameter) rose to the surface and broke apart. I got away from it because I didn't know what was happening.
You guys are extremely lucky to be alive. What you were filming and were so close to is possibly a methane bubble or even worse a carbon dioxide bubble. When the bubbles burst on the surface of the lake they can display the available air in the area, introduce itself into your blood stream and asphyxiate you from the inside.
sometimes gasses that come out of that are actually concentrated and deadly. That was showing every indication for you to get away from it. But you did what many curious men would’ve done. I would’ve gone there too had I not known how dangerous it can be.. Ala Lake Nyos of Cameroon in August 21, 1986.
@@paladinsmith7050 yeah me too and I don't want to hear that it's a stick or whatever because whatever it is it came up it looked it went straight back down super creepy
Yeah, if I witnessed something like that I'd be going down stream fast. Could be harmless, but it could be deadly gas or a sinkhole. Not worth sticking around to find out.
Definitely a trapped methane deposit sublimating (solid to gas) as the environment warms. It explains all of the leaves, and the brown dirt being churned up to the surface, as well as the stink. Like other commenters stated, this can suffocate animals, including people.
Solid methane doesn't form at the bottom of lakes. Not enough pressure. It takes an ocean of pressure to coax methane into a solid. This was probably methane and other decay products trapped by the silt and debris.
It could be what is known as a Swedish drain We have a lake in Utah that has one. It is a mine that is angled down then up then back down. As the drain fills the water flows into the lake and then it has to refill again. The one by me takes about 40 min depending on the local rain fall.
This is a natural quite common phenomenon that happens when methane gas is trapped beneath the surface of the lake floor and is suddenly released all at once… More commonly happens in swamp lands
The lake just had a pump (fart) been fishing loads of times and seen this but boy does it stink ,there’s enough methane to power a camping stove coming to the surface ,we used to light it when we where kids fascinated by the colour of the small flames probably dangerous but kids will be kids 👍👨🏻🏭🇬🇧
So, this also can effect a plane directly overhead. Not really, sorry I lied, the truth is bubbles can't sink a ship in almost every occurrence. There is only one single very specific situation where the would. That scenario needs numerous unconnected events to happen at the same time. Generally, the don't sink because the current created by the rising bubbles is more than enough to offset the lost density. If the release is large enough, and creates a strong enough current, sometimes the ship will be lifted further above the water. Oddly enough, the chances of the ship being lifted are higher that it sinking. The place thing sounds impossible right? However, if you believe bubbles sink ships, you should also believe planes are also impacted, because both are two aspects of the same same theory.
So, this also can effect a plane directly overhead. Not really, sorry I lied, the truth is bubbles can't sink a ship in almost every occurrence. There is only one single very specific situation where the would. That scenario needs numerous unconnected events to happen at the same time. Generally, the don't sink because the current created by the rising bubbles is more than enough to offset the lost density. If the release is large enough, and creates a strong enough current, sometimes the ship will be lifted further above the water. Oddly enough, the chances of the ship being lifted are higher that it sinking. The place thing sounds impossible right? However, if you believe bubbles sink ships, you should also believe planes are also impacted, because both are two aspects of the same same theory.
they are pockets of gas that are formed by the decomposition of the leaves on the bottom. Sometimes a real plug of leaves is created that holds the gas underneath, until the carpet gives way, letting all the gas escape.
It could have been a dormant volcano, like the one under lake Frascati in Rome. You could have well been kayaking in a volcano crater, Bubbles coming up and a noxious smell could be Hydrogen Sulphide, which is also a sign of volcanic activity. That landslide, could have been triggered by the shaking of the earth.
This is right by Mt St Helens, but I believe the discovery channel confirmed it to be the anaerobic decomp theory. Used to be a River, but was dammed and became a reservoir flooding the bank lines. Lots of organic matter decomposing!
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There is billions of tons of methane in solid form lock by extreme pressure and frigid temperature in the depths of the ocean floor. If the temperature were to rise at these great depths it would cause massive a release of methane on an unimaginable scale. The factors that control our climate are little affected by human input, 1% or less. Methane gas is a super contributure to global warming whereas CO2 is very minor and is quickly removed and a balance is maintained by plant life and the majority of CO2 conversion is in the ocean by algae and other oceanic organisms. 99% of the energy driving this is the solar radiation. Our planet is actually moving to a colder dryer climate cycle and there is a historical deficit of CO2 currently. The big lie of human induced climate change is politically driven by evil people.
@@cornpopsrevenge1891 You are kidding. Biden can't even choose the color jello without confusion. LOL This is the Obama presidency with all the other progressives who hate America and it's people. They are far from a being majority and govern by mandates. The executive branch, legislative branch, and judicial branch are broken and the MSM is a propaganda machine no longer representing the American people.
@@rickhale4348 yup I was kidding, I actually pictured Biden in my head with a blank stare and sniffing little girls hair on his mind while someone was trying to break the truth down so that he might be able to understand it. We are dealing with a beyond corrupt government and I really don’t know if people are ever gonna open their eyes to it.
@@cornpopsrevenge1891 I know you were. I was being satirical for comical relief. It's so absurd all you can do is laugh at the anarchy. America's most dangerous enemies are the Democrats and most of the Republicans. The most crucial loss is an honest and truthful MSM to keep the politicians honest. I don't see anything getting any better for America but have an optimistic hope at the same time. Remember what General Patton said; " I don't want Americans to die for their country but let the other poor bastard die for theirs." Paraphrased.
Built up Methane gas release from decomposing vegetation, and dead fish, IE decomposing leaves, dead fish, branches etc. trapped at the bottom decaying. The water pressure is greater and trapes the gases until they build up to a point they break for the surface like an air bubble.
