Man drops GoPro in ‘most dangerous river in the world’ and people are disturbed by what lies below
Niamh Shackleton
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/@jackasnacks
A man dropped a GoPro in a river that's been dubbed as the 'most dangerous in the world', and the results left people's minds blown.
Located in Yorkshire, UK, The Strid is only two meters wide at its narrowest point, but runs a whopping 65 miles through the Wharfe Valley and into the River Ouse.
While The Strid sits close to many popular hiking routes because of its idyllic surroundings, the body of water is extremely dangerous.
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The river is over 200ft deep at its deepest point, and anyone who is unfortunate enough to fall into the water is unlikely to survive.
In fact, there is no recorded incidence of anyone having survived a falling into The Strid. It's unclear how many people have died in the waters, however.
Most people who are believed to have died are thought to have done so by trying to jump across The Strid, which 'mercilessly sucks its victims into the underwater caves and eroded tunnels which lie hidden underneath each side of the rocky channel', as per The Yorkshire Dales website.
With the lore that surrounds the notorious river, YouTuber Jack Harding, who goes by @jackasnacks on the video sharing platform, risked losing his GoPro by throwing in into The Strid to film what it's like beneath the surface.
Of course the nifty piece of tech was tied to a rope, but the ordeal saw Jack nearly have to wave goodbye to his GoPro after it go wedged between some rocks for almost 30 minutes.
Jack shared footage for different depths and in different parts of The Strid. The deepest point he got to was somewhere between 25 and 30 meters.
One thing that people pointed out were the air bubbles that remained at that depth.
"The most frightening thing there is the bubbles at 25m-30m," one person commented on the 2021 video.
"It shows just how powerful the downwards current is at that point. If it can take air that far down (and further) then it's easy to see why a person falling in or being swept into that section is not coming up again!"
A second wrote: "Dude, as a diver, I cannot imagine anything more terrifying than seeing air bubbles constrained in current at that depth, that came from the surface vs. a diver's exhaust gas.
"It takes a huge amount of energy to drag air down there. And if that's cavitation... well, just look up how pressure that requires! I'm honestly amazed you got your camera back!"
"The fact the bubbles haven’t been about to rise all the way down at 30 meters is terrifying, that downward current is so strong," echoed someone else.
Another added that it was 'immediately clear why this river is so deadly' from the video.