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re: Swimming across the Mississippi River in south Louisiana
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:43 am to The Boat
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:43 am to The Boat
My grandpa said they tried a few times….he grew up in Buras.
He also said when he was a teenager they used to hitchhike to the French Quarter on the weekends and on the way home they would untie barges on the river.
He also said when he was a teenager they used to hitchhike to the French Quarter on the weekends and on the way home they would untie barges on the river.
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Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:47 am to The Boat
The water is nasty.
The lower the water, the more likely you'll come across underwater obstructions.
Or, you might end up like this:
The lower the water, the more likely you'll come across underwater obstructions.
Or, you might end up like this:
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:50 am to The Boat
Yes. At Williams Boulevard in Kenner in the 1920s and 30s. My dad’s brother used to skip out of school at Kenner High School across from the levee and swim the river. When the principal would report him to my grandfather there would be trouble. I heard those stories many times.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:52 am to chinhoyang
Posted on 10/19/22 at 10:57 am to KamaCausey_LSU
It was just a theoretical shortest distance to swim across the river.
You could swim to the island take a break and then make the rest of the swim. Channel on the backside is deep enough for barge traffic, so you wouldn't be wading any part of it.
You could swim to the island take a break and then make the rest of the swim. Channel on the backside is deep enough for barge traffic, so you wouldn't be wading any part of it.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:00 am to geauxpurple
The Corps has announced that the river is low enough (low volume) that the salt water wedge is moving up and will impact the Plaquemines water intake so they will dredge and create a 'levee' to keep the salt water downstream.
How will that affect currents upriver at least as far as NOLA?
Or will the effects just be at depth and the surface will continue to be a lot slower than 'usual'?
How will that affect currents upriver at least as far as NOLA?
Or will the effects just be at depth and the surface will continue to be a lot slower than 'usual'?
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:11 am to OweO
quote:you gonna catch hell wheeling up the levee
Try it, I will come watch you
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:11 am to The Boat
A few years ago when it was really high, I got in it at the levee in Port Allen and the clothes I was wearing got stained brown.Worse than any river or lake I've ever been in. You guys have fun, but I'm not getting in that river ever again.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:12 am to LSUBogeyMan
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My grandpa said they tried a few times….he grew up in Buras.
My dad and his dad and his dad all grew up in Buras. Just south of the old Buras High School
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:15 am to TheRouxGuru
My Dad and a couple of his brothers did it in Baton Rouge. This is back during the 40s, when there was much less river traffic, and the water was probably a lot cleaner. There was a ferry then, but it cost a nickel to go one way - the other way was free. Dad and the boys swam the river so they could ride the ferry for free going back the other way.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:19 am to nicholastiger
The human body is 80% water, so you only need 20% of your body to actually swim.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:35 am to Cycledude
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This means the sea level should start dropping because you don’t have as much River water going into it!
Climate change busted again.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 11:47 am to nicholastiger
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people don't even get in kayaks in that river
False. I paddled a 13 mile race from the Wilkinson bridge to the L’auberge casino in 2014. The river was high and swirling. Did it in a 14’ wilderness systems.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 12:07 pm to The Boat
I wonder if a bridge jumper would even drown right now?
Posted on 10/19/22 at 12:35 pm to AutoYes_Clown
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I wonder if a bridge jumper would even drown right now?
He might hit bottom if he doesn’t jump mid channel
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:12 pm to The Boat
I tried once I only made it halfway across and realized I couldn’t make the other half so I swam back
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:32 pm to The Boat
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vehicles don't float
That is the very point I am making.
Consider swimming the river and being struck by a telephone pole or the tailgate of a pickup 2 or 3 feet beneath the surface. You won't see it until it slams into you.
Perhaps there are times the current is slow enough to allow the victim not to be killed or crushed at the initial impact.
Consider being dragged downstream for as long as it takes for the swimmer to free himself from the underwater battering ram .
Chances are the swimmer will not emerge unscathed, if alive.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:33 pm to Winston Cup
quote:Getting stabbed with a Bowie knife at Natchez Under the Hill would be more impressive.
I got shot
Posted on 10/19/22 at 1:35 pm to The Boat
A couple times on tubes back in the 80s. Took 5 or so miles down each way across
Posted on 10/19/22 at 2:00 pm to robchand58
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This is back during the 40s, when there was much less river traffic, and the water was probably a lot cleaner.
I would wager that the water is cleaner now than it was in the 1940’s.
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