This is the Most Dangerous Stretch of River on Earth -- The Strid in Strid Wood 

You sure a cabbage? They float okay? How about a melon? 😬😬

No Joe D is a nice cabbage don't do it.

That's no way to talk about Joey D! ;o) Take care, Hazey lad.

It would most probably get eaten by the 2ft crayfish that thrive there!

Bruh, parsnip every time

lmao

Only a mad lad would try such a thing.

LMAO

🤣

Are you mad? Are you enticing death?

😂😂😂 cheeky swine

Bottomless? 😎👍

That’s proper deep

Nice one old bean!

Erm,,,,,, WHAT POCKET ????

Amazing.

Congrats, a dog is smarter than you.

@@PatrickPierceBateman nice musak bro. Sounds generic!

@@EKdlwoasred Who cares what you think? You're the guy who would have paddled right into the Strid if your dog didn't save you. So you're clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed. Let's hear what your dog thinks about the music, I value her opinion more than yours, seeing as how she is miles ahead of you in terms of intellect.

@@PatrickPierceBateman I don’t know if “seeing as how” is good English but whatevs. Hey man I was saying I like the music! What you said is insulting. I’m really a fan of generic things... You shouldn’t speak ill of your fans n my dog won’t like it she has integrity like you say. Your music will only appeal to idiots like me. Keep on rocking

Definitely a dangerous river but the title seems a little wrong. Who ever titles this video must have never heard of the zambezi river.

Like a fly drawn to a bug zapper

@@billfred9411 What's so dangerous about that one?

How is the jump not doable if it's only 3 or 6 feet? People can run and move that far through the air.

@@reversalmushroom while doable most people who land slip... river moss is no joke

😂

Hi, I'm Blair from Canada...I live about 3 hours from Niagara Falls, been there numerous times, I have witnessed a person going down the falls in a wheel barrel, death was the result. Literally thousands have lost their lives at it's mercy. My question Stephen is....Is the STRID really the worlds most dangerous section of river? "or" is he saying this as clickbait? to make it more interesting. without a doubt it does look intimidating ""buuut"" worlds most dangerous, Hmmmmm?

​@@blairsmith1812 Is it based on how many people it kills, or it's potential to kill anyone who falls or willingly gets in? The Strid doesn't actually kill many people, because the danger is well known and people know not to get too close. This video says that many people have died there, but I couldn't find more than a handful of accounts when I looked. However, likewise... there are no easily findable accounts of anyone falling in (or willingly getting in without a lot of kit and a team) and surviving; there are some famous accounts of people going over Niagra and surviving, and indeed there might be such accounts related to the Strid if thousands of people actually went in there too. So, both are certainly very dangerous, but the Strid not so much if you go by body count alone... more people die in some relatively safer sections of rivers simply because so many more people go in there. Of course, that's just one way of looking at it. And by that metric, I'd say that no... the Strid is beat by a 4 mile section of one river in Peru where, I couldn't, when I looked find any reliable record of it actually killing people... but, the water is consistently well above 80 degrees Celcius and cooks any creature that goes in... the danger is obvious to humans, the water actually boils in places, and puts out a huge amount of steam.

@@blairsmith1812 it looks nothing but believe m e its reputation proceeds it

There's a video of a guy jumping across it. Totally mental.

@@blairsmith1812 no its true honestly.

Did they died?

@@user-zy9yg2eu5t yep they both did, found downstream a few weeks later.

@@jimjoelliejack Oh no. R.I.P 😥 did they survive?

@DWTZ ONE The Strid is river

@DWTZ ONE - Your comment has me crying 😂

Not just in the country. I was surprised to find its in the top 10 in the world 😱

I used to go ferreting around there 😆

Martin Burke. Are you “H”?

@@peterchute926 am I what??

@@peterchute926 the 4th man, surely!

From what I understand, it’s a 200+ foot narrow valley

That poor dog. :(

That's terrifying mate

That's creepy. You are one of the few people on these comments who directly saw how scary and haunting the place is. That's horrible. I'm sorry you went through that.

People kayak it, it’s not that bad. Go somewhere and look at a class 5 class 5 white water rapid, then come back to this dinky little thing and it will give you some perspective.

@@JPoleet I don't doubt that, I think the message here though is this looks like a nice spot for a wild swim.... But don't you'll die.

@@JPoleet Go have yourself a swim, when you come back and say it's fine I'll take that into perspective.

@@JPoleet Pretty sure people don't kayak it, the fatality rate is very high.

@@BeavisT-800 I’m certain they kayak it, and the fatality rate is not high compared to actual white water rivers. I do this for a living.

More like this please

I agree the narration was top and I love watching more vids of hidden gems on the uk, I’m always so jealous of Canadians 😅

Woah! That’s crazy mate.

Yeah, I get tired of the ghost story aspect to these tales.

the river Stygx

That, that was the joke he made....but he replaced stig....with strid *whoosh*

😂

60m of rushing water creates a siphon effect. When there are no heavy rains, the water looks calm - that's the danger.

Excellent analogy

Wow best comment on RU-vid I've seen in ages🙏

Damn

Nerd lolz

The best explanation I’ve read for a long time .

A drought you say. Im sorry to break it to you mate but this is the UK. It rains permanently.🥲

@@christianhviid2167 No it doesn’t! We’ve had many a drought in the past. I was only five at the time, but 1976 was the most well known.

@@nigelkthomas9501 It was obviously not a serious statement.😂 It would be amazing to see it dry. It would also be amazing to see what wildlife lives in it!

@@christianhviid2167 Me too. I knew you were taking the urine! I guess it could be drained by sucking the water out and diverting it away, but it wouldn’t be easy.

@@nigelkthomas9501 I wonder if it would be possible to map the riverbed by using multibeam echo, sonar/lidar etc like we do with the sea floor. Perhabs the water is moving too fast to lower any sort of equipment into it without damaging it. It would be interesting to divert the flow for a few days just to find out. I doubt the animals who reside within it would agree with us though😆.

Sorry for your loss mate

Damn sorry for your loss :(

That's awful ,sorry for ur loss

We have a spot like that we called the waterslide. It was about 50 foot long and maybe 7 foot wide and we would put our arms out to the side and go feet first and just get sucked under and bounce off the sides but if you got sucked down to long you always had the rock wall next to you to climb out

All good and well, but not so if you get pulled under and smashed about against the rocks by a 20mph current for longer than you can hold your breath. Then you're fucked. A bit of common sense and heeding local warnings go along way. Would you volunteer for a game of football in a known area of land mines, or jump between skyscrapers "cos they do it on telly"?

@@daic7274 we were kids who were going to swim in the closest body of water we could walk to obviously its not smart and i wouldnt do it now but i still fish that river and have seen people in there and there are signs now but if you have a few friends you will be mostly fine the waters crystal clear most of the time

@@daic7274 calm down Karen

@karma comedian ...'better to be a live coward than a dead hero'.

you wont get it back it will be sucked under into a cavity. i dont belive the wireless feature on the go pro would work either.

We're all waiting for someone to try it!

@@blakehancock776 no it won’t, there’s all kinds of pictures on the Internet where people have tied go pros to rope and put them in the Strid. All the bodies washed out downstream.

@@JPoleet lol oh yeah where are they at ?

@@JPoleet link plz.

Go! It's stunning

I’m not a big replier to you comments but thanks you very much mate. I appreciate it.

Like that lake full of skeletons in India.

Or they were forced down the river

Couldn't they temporarly dam it to se how it looks?😳

@@akepaow Yeah, I am sure the environmental agency will spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on a very high risk project, cause flooding upriver, disturb fish movement and destroy habitat to just "see how it looks"

How deep?

There's a lad on YT that's dropped a weighted camera down into The Strid recently, and also mapped parts of it with sonar

Someone has done this! A video using a go-pro and 40ft of cable, thrown camera in to the bottom... very creepy. Water tornados and millions of bubbles, absolute death! Fascinating video.

Send us a link

@@cjtathome I'm sorry, but I just watched in personal amazement, about twenty years ago. I hope and trust they still do it, but it's terrifying to watch. The tannic acid makes the water like coffee, but it's mostly air in the boil. Similar situation, where a large wide river squeezes to a few feet across, except it's vertical. Maybe it's on Google Earth. It isn't as deadly as the Strid, I'm sure. Those kids jumped all day, it looked like, but you can't see dinkum about what you're jumping into. I couldn't watch for long.

If they come out alive, it can't be that dangerous.

If the strid was in America we’d make that a nice little swimmin hole! You’d have hillbillies, country boys, thrill seekers and adventurers swimming, rafting and tubing.

Typical yank - if you've had a headache they've had brain surgery. I was once on a bus in London and we drove past a car accident, and these american tourist started talking about much worse car accidents are in the U.S. True story !

Lol same

Me too

Me too. Would definatly where a wetsuit at this spot though. Looks cold

Hahaha love the British humour

And me. 🙋🏻‍♀️

I thought you said you're NOT one of those people...was like damn that's rude lol

@@munky871 No no, I’m defo in the fan seating grandstand.

Mr Simon That had me cackling 😂 His local liaison guide told him ‘Eeee, dinner be s’ soft lad’ ‘ Tha ‘ll git deed’

Hilarious mate, i thought he must be kidding. Its practically a stream especially if you've seen the Zambezi which has some proper rapids in it and flows at an average rate of 3500 cubic metres a second and than there's the crocodiles. The Zambezi isn't even the most dangerous river in Africa in my opinion, never mind the world.

Hilarious, that had me laughing.

Yup; almost died in one myself! Whirlpool pulled me down until my feet hit the sandy bottom. I looked up and could clearly see the hydraulics at work, and realized I had no way up. As a last resort, I started walking in the sandy bottom away from the whirlpool. Thank God I did too, as I eventually got past that spot and into running water. At that point, the river pulled me forward and up, and I was able to reach the top just as I almost blacked-out. An absolutely crazy experience; one which strengthened and prepared me for many more near-death experiences to come. As I said, thank God!

yea, when I first seen it I knew it looked dangerous

Shit, there's ledges like that all over Ohio. Clifton Gorge is just one.

Very true. I just picked Clifton as my favorite example.

Very lucky mate

I think your river definitely wins the " Most Dangerous" tag !!!

Merle Haggard has a very good song about the Kern River.

I was thinking maybe underwater caves why people get sucked under

@@smallfries3462 could be. Mapping it would be very interesting.. at least for someone like me...

@@smallfries3462 i recommend u to watch a more scientific Video about it. Where some can show u what forces are present in the water. The water has carved out serval meters left and right beneath the surface. You cant see it. When u standing on these rocks left and right from the river, there is definitly flowing that shit right under you in thos moment absolutly unnoticed but when u fall in u get sucked right under. Its so strong, that a boy of 8 years who felt into was catched by a really strong dude in the last moment but he couldnt hold him because the power of the water was so overwhelming and that was a sunny day where it runs quitly

The hobbit when they were in the river in the barrels the river looked like that

Shit! Glad ur OK.. close call there

Thanks for saying it for me

I don't think a life vest can save you

It’s literally been immortalized for 1000 years with ghost stories and poetry.

He did.

I watched that, along with every other video ever made on the stid. I went deep mate, I’m a bit obsessed with what it’s like under the water. I’m thinking of getting an underwater drone 🤔

@@HazeOutdoors think It'd just get carried away hahahaha

Haze Outdoors Do that mate, great idea. Would be some sic footage. New visual cracks and crevices, the odd dead stuff, wombats etc

@@HazeOutdoors that's called a submarine isn't it..😉