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re: Updated- One dead at Tiki tubing, confirmed drowning victim
Posted on 7/25/21 at 7:33 am to SixthAndBarone
Posted on 7/25/21 at 7:33 am to SixthAndBarone
I never hear anyone dying in the Bogue Chitto only Tikfaw.
Wayne's World/BCT is better than Tiki.
Wayne's World/BCT is better than Tiki.
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Posted on 7/25/21 at 7:44 am to Cosmo
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People getting pass out drunk on river and drowning? Darwin
We’ve had a ton of water this year and think the river is much higher and the current is much faster than in previous years. There was a news story about it last week, will try and find the link.
ETA: Tubers recall dangerous Tiki Tubing trip, voices safety concerns
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 7:49 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 7:46 am to hubertcumberdale
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There was a news story about it last week, will try and find the link.
It’s in the OT, couple of pages back
Posted on 7/25/21 at 8:59 am to LSUAngelHere1
I thought it was 8
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:31 am to secfballfan
My grandfather’s land backed up to this river in Pride. My grandfather would catch huge watersnakes and cottonmouths near the bank like it was nothing. He even put a water snake in an aquarium for me until my mother had a cow.
My cousins and I fished the river in a small canoe we bought with green stamps with a small Sears outboard. We tubed in the river a lot with old tire tubes from old trucks as my grandfather worked on diesel trucks.
It is river you have to watch the conditions as they can change in hours.
You have trees in the river you can get caught up in. The river also will rise quickly after a good rain North of the area.
All these people are doing is giving people a place to park, ability to rent a tube, and transportation from down river back to the parking lot. I guess they should warn people of the conditions on the river to help people that are not familiar with the river to make better decisions.
At the end of the day it is a river and can be low with a trickle and in hours be a night mare.
My cousins and I fished the river in a small canoe we bought with green stamps with a small Sears outboard. We tubed in the river a lot with old tire tubes from old trucks as my grandfather worked on diesel trucks.
It is river you have to watch the conditions as they can change in hours.
You have trees in the river you can get caught up in. The river also will rise quickly after a good rain North of the area.
All these people are doing is giving people a place to park, ability to rent a tube, and transportation from down river back to the parking lot. I guess they should warn people of the conditions on the river to help people that are not familiar with the river to make better decisions.
At the end of the day it is a river and can be low with a trickle and in hours be a night mare.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:54 am to secfballfan
People act like the tiki tubing people are responsible for the river. They aren’t. They facilitate a parking spot, a tube, and launch site. Thinking they are, or could possibly be in control of the river is fricking insane. But here we are with people suggesting they are somehow responsible for a river being a fricking river.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 10:57 am to supadave3
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Of all the reckless shite I did back then, playing in the Comite/Amite wasn’t ever a part of it. We always heard about the ‘whirlpools’ that would suck you down and actually listened to that warning.
Same. We would even go mud riding in trucks down under the Magnolia Bridge and in those woods, but avoided the river entirely. If we stopped there, still never got in the water.
I had forgotten about the whirlpool stories until this thread. That was a big thing growing up.
I’ve been to Tiki Tubing once and it was fine, but it also hadn’t rained in a very long time and the water was shallow.
This post was edited on 7/25/21 at 11:03 am
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:37 am to secfballfan
I’m surprised this thread hasn’t been overrun with anti-jaxxers
Posted on 7/25/21 at 11:51 am to Napoleon
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I never hear anyone dying in the Bogue Chitto only Tikfaw. Wayne's World/BCT is better than Tiki.
Wayne’s World has had several drowning deaths in the past, alcohol is usually always involved. That area of the Bogue Chitto can be tricky especially if you aren’t thinking clearly because of alcohol or drugs.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 1:45 pm to LouisianaLady
Aren’t there alligators and snakes in that river? I’d assume so considering it’s Louisiana
Posted on 7/25/21 at 2:07 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
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Aren’t there alligators and snakes in that river? I’d assume so considering it’s Louisiana
Yes to both. Way more snakes than gators in the part of the Amite people are tubing in.
Posted on 7/25/21 at 2:32 pm to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:Gators and snakes hang mostly on the bank during the day.
Aren’t there alligators and snakes in that river? I’d assume so considering it’s Louisiana
Posted on 7/25/21 at 2:59 pm to Redbone
Went tubing last year I think at Tiki Tubing. Had to take a bus all the way deep into the woods oat trailers on like 20 foot likings raised up and such. Had a big trailer complex where you signed up and launched off.
I am a VERY VERY strong swimmer did swim team for fifteen years.
At a few points people got caught on some sticks.
It was very very tame but I could see how it you got caught up in a tube and turned over on a branch you could panic.
The only thing that got me nervous was when you’re supposed to exit the river it’s a slippery concrete ramp that you tube into and walk up. And at the point the river REALLY opens up and picks up speed. It went from lazy river with shallow brown silt filled water to deep green water moving fast, three times as wide, with big built up houses. I could definitely see if you missed the exit point (which I had to swim directly perpendicular to the shore to meet) you’d be swept down river quite a ways and panic pretty badly.
I am a VERY VERY strong swimmer did swim team for fifteen years.
At a few points people got caught on some sticks.
It was very very tame but I could see how it you got caught up in a tube and turned over on a branch you could panic.
The only thing that got me nervous was when you’re supposed to exit the river it’s a slippery concrete ramp that you tube into and walk up. And at the point the river REALLY opens up and picks up speed. It went from lazy river with shallow brown silt filled water to deep green water moving fast, three times as wide, with big built up houses. I could definitely see if you missed the exit point (which I had to swim directly perpendicular to the shore to meet) you’d be swept down river quite a ways and panic pretty badly.
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