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Places You Should NEVER Swim · Be Amazed

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Finally, when it is over, and it's almost speed-o-seasoned baby!
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As temperature start to climb, there's no better way to cool down than to take a dip in the pool.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But be careful because not all bodies of water are made for swimming.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Some of these lakes, rivers, and pools may look inviting, but they can a dip in them might be the last thing you ever do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: from pretty pools that are actually brimming with acid to flood at holes that are impossible to escape.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's dive into some swimming spots you should approach with Koshan, and others that you should approach at all.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: What do you know about Tanzania?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That it's in Africa, that it's owned as an amazing wildlife?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That it has a 490 square mile body of water which can turn living things to stone.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, what was that last one?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That sounds like something out of a fairy tale, but believe me, it's real.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lake Natron is located in a part of Tanzania that's so hot, it loses most of its water to evaporation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This leaves salty mineral-rich remnants to crust over the lake bed with salt-loving micro-organisms that sport a deep red pigment thriving on what the water leaves behind.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: However, the water that does remain is so saturated with salt that migratory birds who stop or refreshing bird bats suddenly find themselves coated in salt crystals.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Once they calcify these salty layers, trap the poor creatures in a matter of minutes, mummifying them alive.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so not exactly stone, but close enough.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though, that's not even the worst part.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The sodium and mineral rich bedrock makes lake neutrons environment strongly alkaline.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Meaning the water year has a pH of 10 on an average day and a pH of 12 when the water's reach is calling 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So, and it's worse taking a dip in this lake would be leg swimming through hot bleach, leaving you with serious alkaline burns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is something a group of wildlife photographers who are finally experienced first hand back in 2007.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: as they were flying over the lake, their helicopter pilot became disoriented and crashed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The chemicals in the water immediately began irritating their eyes, practically blinding them while slowly burning their skin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But miraculously, they managed to break the pain and scramble two miles across the shallow waters to the nearest solid ground.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, they all made a full recovery.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: But if they had crashed much farther out or if it had been an even hotter day, this could have ended fatally.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In the hut, Texas summertime kids near Wimberley love nothing more than plain and a local creek.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Springs like this are usually small, but the 12 foot diameter mouth of this spring looks weirdly huge, like it's meant punched into the bedrock.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And with a 30-foot plunge straight down, it seems like a perfect place to practice a cannonball, or six.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But something dark lurks at the bottom of the well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Something that's planned the lives of many people who have dive down too far.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not a monster, thank god, at least as far as we know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You see Jacob's well is a car stick spring that's part of an underwater cave system.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Passed the 30-foot main chamber that cavern continues down to a series of tunnels and chambers separated by narrow shafts.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That is until it reaches an average depth of 120 feet with adjoining caves and tunnels stretching out more than 4,500 feet.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just a caves that have been explored.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This intricate system is something that's attracted cave divers and freed divers from all over the world, then here in lies the main danger of swimming in Jacob's well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Some of the entrances to other tunnels are so narrowed divers have to remove their oxygen tanks to squeeze through them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All it takes is one fumble and their oxygen tanks could be lost to the dark cavernous stretches below.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: More than a dozen divers have lost their lives in Jacob's well this way, and like that wasn't scary enough, back in 2015 Diego Adomé was freediving in the cave, which is diving without use of an oxygen tank, relying instead on lung capacity and pure willpower alone.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He'd sunk down some 100 feet squeezing through him possibly small gaps when all of a sudden he lost a flipper.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Dare a vibe that he would be able to make it back to the surface in time without it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He'd cut away the weight belt he'd used to help him sink and made a desperate scramble for the mouths.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: miraculously Diego made it back up to the surface in the nick of time, but if he'd been down slightly deeper or hadn't been able to cut his belt away, it might have been a very different story.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Man, between me and stuck in an underwater cave or being boiled alive in a lake of bleach, I'm not sure which fate would be worse.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, deep breath.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: What watery nightmare
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Tell me something.
• 5:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: How many times have you dived into a pool started swimming and then?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Getting lost.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Not a regular occurrence at home, but for those brave enough to step foot into the Eagles' nest single, it's a very real possibility.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Located on the Floridian coast, the eagle's nest is a flooded sinkhole that, at a glance, looks like a secret pool hidden perfectly from the rest of the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes its waters are completely clear, other times it's practically black, died by naturally occurring pigments called tenons from the surrounding vegetation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But no matter what the water looks like on the surface once you head under, the danger is turned up to 11.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because this is just the entrance to a huge network of caves and tunnels submerged beneath, some is deepest 310 feet, stretching out more than a mile, all in the pitch black.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a popular spot with cave divers who take some sort of psychopathic joy in the idea of traveling underground underwater well practically blind.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What's more, because some either incredibly brave or utterly deranged partner them once to push the boundaries of exploration, they try to map previously uncharted caves and tunnels.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The issue is, it's easy to get turned around and lost, and here, especially in the pitch black when all the rocks around you look the same in the torchlight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As such, some overambitious divers and swimmers have become so lost that they never made it back to the surface.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Since 1981 at least 13 divers have succumbed to this utterly horrifying fate, it's gotten so bad that signs have been installed in the cave to try and dissuade over eager swimmers from swimming further on and getting lost.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, no need to dissuade me, Florida, because, look over you, I am a massive coward.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Over in the UK, another deceptively beautiful looking lake can be found in a pit dug into the Dervershire countryside.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the beautiful blue waters of the aptly named Blue Lagoon, or at least they used to be.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and 2013 and then again in 2020 the local council died the waters black to try to sway to your locals from taking a dive in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But why?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well despite the lagoon part of its name it's actually situated an old limestone quarry which after it was disused in 1952 was eventually left to gather rainwater.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because the surrounding limestone rocks leached cow side crystals into the water, the water gradually became that, and vining turquoise color.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But it also gave the Lugoon a strong alkaline pH of 11.3.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Considering ammonia has a pH of 11.5 and bleach is about 12, swimming is the last thing you want to do in these waters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: At that strength, the water causes skin irritation, stomach problems, and even chemical burns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But this wasn't enough to stop people taking a dip, especially during lockdown.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite the amounts of trash in the water, dead animals and an impossible to miss warning time, people can still be found risking a panel in this bit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I knew public pools don't have the best reputation, but swimming in bleach surrounded by garbage doesn't exactly seem like an upgrade.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A lot of open bodies of water can look enticing thanks to their incredible coloring, though they're not always shades of blue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lake Hillier in Australia, for example, is famous for its bright pink waters.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Bound right on the coast of the country's middle island, the 2000-foot-long lake is separated from the ocean by a thin strip of land, and looks so vividly painted it almost seems fake.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The super salty waters get this hue from a mixture of a red-colored bacterium and algae that reside in it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Both contain red-carotanoids, pigments that help protect them from extreme environments such as the high amount of soil.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But for all the high-salt content though waters aren't dangerous and less ingested in large quantities.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's an influencer's pink colored paradise.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just hope they don't try and drink it for the likes.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Over on the other side of the world, there's another colorful lake I'm sure but many of influencers would love to get a picture of them swimming in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: From a glance, it looks like those waters are made from liquid emeralds.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: But, before any influencers start planning which filter they're going to use, this isn't a lake you can use for a photo shoot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For a start, it's located in the crater of an active volcano in Mexico, known as El Shishon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Following its catastrophic eruption in 1982, the crater of the volcano today is some 420 feet deep.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though the depth of the lake itself varies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: a series of super heated springs channel ground water from the crater floor into the lake, but these waters aren't just dangerous because they're hot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Desolved into them are deadly volcanic gases from the magma beneath, such as sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen fluoride.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These don't just give the lake its glowing green color, they also turn the water acidic, like very acidic.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After the eruption in 1982, the lake that formed in the crater the following year had a pH of 0.5.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For perspective, that's the same as battery acid.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the sulfuric components make it even more deadly.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So if an instant background is what you're looking for, I'd search elsewhere unless you want your followers to watch or ask for the recovery story.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, not all deadly bodies of water are just one color has proven by that Grand Purismatic Spring of Yellowstone National Park.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Located in the Midway geyser basin, this is the third largest natural hot spring in the entire world, measuring in at 370 feet in diameter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That means from end to end, it's more than double the length of an Olympic swimming pool.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The bedrock sports huge, concentric circles of vibrant blues, greens, yellows and oranges, making it look like a magic portal rather than a pool.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But these aren't magic.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're down to the geothermaly heated water that erupts from the center of the spring,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When this wonder spreads out, it cools allowing rings of different bacteria that thrive at temperatures to develop ranging from 131 to 1809 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's still seriously hot, like third degree burns hot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though burns are the least if your worries in this area.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2016, a tourist was visiting the Yellowstone Springs when he and his sister, despite all the warning signs decided to go hiking into a restricted area.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They planned to take a dip in a hot pool away from Brian public eyes, but, as he was checking the temperature of the water, he accidentally slipped and fell.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He scrambled desperately, but couldn't get out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: His sister tried to pull him out, but with the waters here reaching a scalding 199 degrees Fahrenheit, she suffered serious burns and couldn't help.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because they deviated from the pan help her right far too late.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A thunderstorm called off in attempt to retrieve his remains, and they made plans to return the next day, but because the water in this area is also slightly acidic, combined with the intensity, when they returned the next day his body had dissolved.
• 13:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think I'll just take two more regular hot tub, thanks.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we've established it going off round and trying to take a dip in naturally high pools of water definitely isn't a good idea, but I get the feeling that message hasn't reached every risk taking skinny dipper out there, so we're going to look at another more extreme example of a spring that could quite literally kill you if you decided to step foot in it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For this, we need to head over to Iceland, a nation famous for its well-canically active landscape and geothermaly heated water sources.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's here we find a pretty small innocuous looking pool located beside the Havito River.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's all very serene, but around every 10 minutes something disturbs the peace.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Strucker geyser one of the most active fountain-type geysers in the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Geysers like this are made from flooded systems of tube-like holes and link chambers that run deep into the earth's crust.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Magma then heats the water at the closest end of the tube until it begins to boil, and as it does it rises up into the chamber, we're at begins to steam and turn into gas.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This gas then shoots towards the surface forcing the water around it to jet out an incredible speed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now as one is it might look to dive in and shoot up on Nature's own slingshot ride and ain't off on in games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The power of the steam forces the water out to heights of up to 130 feet, meaning it has the power to launch something within it to around the height of a 10-story building.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: On top of that, the water in this geyser can reach us by, say, 464 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So making that dumb decision to jump in here would leave you with two options, wielded that poor body or dead.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the third option is to stay well away from it, but I'll leave that decision up to you.
• 15:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: If there are any anime fans out there, this next was the body of water is definitely for you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Over in Japan, the Naruto Strait is a channel between Naruto and Tokushima, and a Wagi island in Hugo.
• 15:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: It may be less than a mile long, but it connects the Pacific Ocean to the inland sea, and when the tide's rise in fall twice a day, something amazing happens.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Because such a huge amount of water is pushed in or dragged out of this area, the tide creates a water level of difference of up to 5 feet between the two seas.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And because the street is so narrow, the water rushing through here it up to 12 miles per hour creates a series of massive whirlpools, circling some 66 feet in diameter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: These are the Naruto whirlpools.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They don't really inspired the name for Naruto Maki, a spiral-style fishcake, which in turn inspired the name for Naruto Uzumaki, one of the most popular anime characters out there, whose name literally translates to Naruto Spiral.
• 16:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Told you the anime nerds would like this one?
• 16:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: While the whirlpools themselves aren't strong enough to be dangerous to boats, lone swimmers are cushing to avoid the straits as they can be quickly overpowered by the currents.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Case in point back in 2014 a dear devil underwater photographer intent on capturing footage of a comparatively small whirlpool in Cornwall UK didn't make it back to the surface.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Though it appeared small the current creating it had the power to drag the photographer under and hold him there, which without any breathing apparatus proved fatal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So to all the ninja anime fans out there unless you've mastered the walk on water technique I'd suggest using a boat.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now open swimming and wild waters can seem like a great idea on a hot day, but if you decide to go paddling in a reservoir, you'll have more to worry about than forgetting your sunscreen.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Natural lakes and manmade reservoirs can look very similar.
• 17:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Though reservoirs are generally built for flood control and as such they have a few in-built elements that make them incredibly dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Take Lake Barrier's than California, for example, which has held up by the mighty 304-foot tall Monta-Chello Dam.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The reservoir stretches back more than 15 and a half miles and one full can be up to 275 feet deep.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They have heavy rain threats to exceed this level and spill over the dam, though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Barrier's a secret weapon gets to work.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about an open mouth spillway more than 72 feet in diameter, which is locally known as the Glory Hold.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously, California?
• 18:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Glory Hold channels water down a 200 foot drop to the base of the dam where the diameter shrinks down to about 8 feet wide.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With this design, the spillway can drain a maximum of 48,000 cubic feet of water, roughly 359,000 gallons per second.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a little under half the water in an entire Olympic swimming pool, meaning it generates one heck of a current when it's in use.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But, despite warnings and even a cordoned-off section, it's not enough to stop swimmers from trying their luck.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 1997, after heavy raids, the woman decided to test her metal by ignoring all the warnings and swimming close to the Gloriole.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No match for the current, she was quickly dragged into the mouth, realizing her mistake she clawed at the edge and managed to hold on, but the Gloriole is located miles from the nearest available help, and so after 20 minutes she lost her grip and was dragged down.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But despite the severity of stories like this, they're not enough to dissuade some people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like two anglers at Lady Bauer Reservoir in the UK who seem to have had a death wish because they posted photos of themselves online hanging out where they shouldn't have.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Unlike Barry Yes, a ladybauer has not won but two bill-mouthed spillways affectionately nicknamed Plug-Holls.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Each one is 78 feet in diameter with a 66-foot drop channel that deposits water back into the river on the other side of the dam through a grill.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They may not have the same drop length as Barry Yes, but with those staggered stone steps I'd argue that being dragged down into this watery mall would hurt a heck of a lot more.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The firm that manages the reservoir allows people to fish boat and swim out on it, but advises everyone to steer clear of the spillways, a memo boat does idiotic anglers missed apparently.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, no fatalities have been recorded regarding either the plug-all so far.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I, for one vote, we keep it that way by not swimming in bodies of water that have giant holes in them.
• 20:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, with a lot of these lakes, it can be hard to tell at first glance what exactly makes them dangerous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But you don't have that problem with South Africa's aptly named Big Hull.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Once known as the Kimberly Mine, it used to be an open-pip diamond mine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When work started here back in 1871, digging progressed until the pit itself was more than 1500 feet wide and 790 feet deep.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Meaning it was four fits as deep as the Chrysler Building was tall.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As it got deeper, the only way miners could get in and out was by a series of death-defying aerial trams which led down to the workable surface of the mine.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: By 1914, after 22 million tons of rock had been excavated along with more than three tons of diamonds work on the mine ceased.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The water pumps installed at the bottom to keep the hole from flooding were removed and water naturally filled it up to the water line.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Part of the hole was filled in leaving the final depth of it today at some 705 feet deep, where 134 feet of water sits at the bottom of the big hole.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Surrounded by a sheer rock face, the walls are practically impossible to scale as one unlucky dog found out back in 2013.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The poor pooch had accidentally fallen into the hole in for several days, swam desperately from one side to another, hoping to find a way out of midst this year rock faces.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, pastors buy spotted him before throwing down some food in the learning emergency services.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But the workers were hesitant to help.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The laws of the minor incredibly unstable, and they didn't have ropes long enough to lure someone in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They made multiple unsuccessful attempts to get that dog out, but it wasn't until the eighth day, when a team of seven people were sent down into the pit with rope and pulley systems in place, that they were eventually able to hoist the dog out.
• 22:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, unless you're very good at treading water and then glimming up a partially sheer rock face for 575 feet without help, I wouldn't recommend diving into that death trap.
• 22:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now let's imagine a beautiful place, bright blue waters, golden sands, blue skies, it's a textbook perfect beach I'd deal for swimming, right?
• 23:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: But wait, this isn't episode about beaches you should never swim, so there's a catch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For all its scenic surroundings, this is one of the deadlyest beaches in the world, with many people speculated to be close to 100, having been swept out to see over the years never to return.
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you have signs one of this danger but tour still don't listen.
• 23:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: After all, it doesn't look all that dangerous at first, but unlike most beaches along the Kauai's coast, there's no major barrier reef before it, so there's nothing stopping the strong ocean currents from breaking along the ledge of the beach with their full force, rolling onto it and dragging unsuspecting tourists out into the blue.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Plus, there are no lifeguards here, so if you're swept out to see, you're out there on your own.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Remind me to never take my water wings off ever again.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now lastly, if you were to visit Bute, a city in Montana you'd notice that it looks like any other typical American city.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That isn't until you spawned the mile long half mile wide pit lurking at the edge of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And roughly 1,780 feet deep filled with a reddish brown liquid that can only be described as ominous.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the Berkeley bin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was an open-pit copper mine dugout back in the 1950s, but it was closed just 30 years later in 1982 and after its profitability hit rock bottom.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They shut off the palms keeping the groundwater at bay and the pit was left the flood.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: However, the water that filled it up had leached chemicals and metals from the surrounding rock like arsenic cadmium zinc and sulfuric acid, which gave it that worrying color.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's not all.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A while later in 1995 a migrating flock of 342 snowgis flew down and arrested in the lake to avoid a squaw.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: little did they know the lake had a pH of 2.5, meaning it was acidic.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: While it was only about as acidic as lemon juice, the poor birds were off and lifeless the next day completely covered in burned soars.
• 25:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: The shocking incident spurred Montana to treat the water in the pit but it's still incredibly toxic, so much so the Berkeley Pit Waterfowl Protection Program has been established to deter any birds from resting there.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And yet now what they say, if birds won't take to the water, then neither should you.
• 25:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, literally no one has ever said that, but the message is still the same.
• 25:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't go swimming in the big dags of pain.
• 25:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, after that, I don't think I'm gonna need my Speedos any time soon.
• 25:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Did any of these horrifying bodies of water put you off swimming for life?
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening, I'll see you next time you wanna be amazed.