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re: Swimming across the Mississippi River in south Louisiana
Posted on 10/19/22 at 2:11 pm to Tigerbythetale
Posted on 10/19/22 at 2:11 pm to Tigerbythetale
People are really, really underestimating the strength of the current/undertow
Y’all are absolutely insane if you think the river is something to be played with
Y’all are absolutely insane if you think the river is something to be played with
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Posted on 10/19/22 at 2:41 pm to The Boat
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The stage is so low you can see the diurnal tide cycle impacting the water level all the way past St Francisville approaching Red River Landing. Normally you can’t see that very far past the New Orleans gaug
Yep. Pretty cool.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 2:50 pm to Tigerbythetale
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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
Like right now. The entire premise of this thread.
If you walked across the crosswalk right now and got hit by a car doing 5mph, would you get killed or seriously injured?
That same car that's floating in the river is doing less than 2mph. With your legs not going to get caught on the cement and getting bent, it's just going to bump into you and that's it. Nothing is 'slamming' into you out there right now
No one in here underestimates the power that the river holds. It's just at its weakest time in most peoples lives on here.
It can be crossed right now by an experienced swimmer
Posted on 10/19/22 at 3:41 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
In the early 80's, my 11 yr old brother and his cub scout troop took a canoe trip from a landing near Dow to that island you can see in the bottom of the picture. They stayed overnight and paddled back across the next day.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 3:46 pm to Deactived
How many cars end up in the river? Y’all are talking like it’s somewhat common.
I would have never thought it could even be an issue.
I would have never thought it could even be an issue.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 3:51 pm to Tigerbythetale
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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 yo
Aren't you and the tailgate/telephone pole flowing downriver at the same rate? Unless the hypothetical tailgate/telephone pole has an Evinrude on it, how is it going to catch you?
However, I fully support your point that it is a foolish endeavor.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 3:57 pm to PoppaD
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I'm curious, why wouldn't people kayak on the River?
People kayak in the river all the time. That guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Kayakers ride from Port Gibson to Natchez to just north of Baton Rouge weekly. Once you go south of Baton Rouge you are supposed to have a River permit to be on a paddle boat which is why you don't see them on the river in Baton Rouge....but the permits are attainable.
I also saw a drunk dude leave the old downtown Tabby's Blues Box bar and swim across the river. The next weekend he told us that the Police picked him up in West Baton Rouge Parish as he came out of river. It was wild! We all thought he died.
This post was edited on 10/19/22 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:07 pm to Tigerbythetale
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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.
This is so dumb
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:09 pm to The Boat
My grandpa used to tell me he tried to swim across once. Damn near made it too. Got within just a few feet of the other side but was too tired to press on so he had turn around a come back.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:20 pm to Basura Blanco
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In the early 80's, my 11 yr old brother and his cub scout troop took a canoe trip from a landing near Dow to that island you can see in the bottom of the picture. They stayed overnight and paddled back across the next day.
They were doing it as recently as a 3-4 years ago. A friend of mine who was a scout leader took a group there.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:21 pm to The Boat
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The river is at 4.6 feet at Baton Rouge and getting lower.
At that point wouldn’t it be easier to just walk across?
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:21 pm to Darth_Vader
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The river is at 4.6 feet at Baton Rouge and getting lower.
At that point wouldn’t it be easier to just walk across?
not for mungo.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:23 pm to Stevo
quote:you win the dumbest post of the day award
Have to imagine water is deeper than 4.6 feet, but it is down substantially!
congrats
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:23 pm to The Boat
Never swam across but my uncle made us jump off the boat in the river and swim (with vests ) near the uss kidd.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 4:25 pm to redstick13
Miss river is not nearly as deadly as the amite river
Posted on 10/19/22 at 5:15 pm to The Boat
Years ago near Marathon where I was working, a guy fell off of the barge with his life jacket on. As soon as he hit the water he was immediately swept about 100 yards and then he was sucked under. Never saw him come back up. They found his body several days later miles downstream washed up with a bunch of debris.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 5:34 pm to MikeD
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This is so dumb
How many times have you swum a cross the Ms River!
If that number is zero, why not.
I was a competitive swimmer from age 12 to age 20.
I was a competitive springboard and tower diver
I am/was a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor, I trained lifeguards.
Yeah I read Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
I have swum in the Ms River far downstream at Southwest Pass and at The Algiers crossing back in my young and foolish days.
Ole man river is powerful beyond your imaginings and to suggest any untrained individual do so is irresponsible.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 5:39 pm to The Boat
I just don’t see the point of attempting stupid shite. This is like that moron who chained himself to a palm tree during hurricane opal. They found him in Dothan, Al, Opp, AL, and some in Andalusia.
Posted on 10/19/22 at 6:13 pm to RedPop4
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My father and his cronies used to do it all the time growing up in Algiers
Your father had cronies? Mob boss?
Posted on 10/19/22 at 6:16 pm to The Boat
Use to do it all the time in Buras, swim to the channel marker rest and go across.. then back. Crossed in a piroge many times too.. low river of course
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