Timeline for How dangerous is it to swim in the Amazon river?
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| Jun 4, 2022 at 21:53 | comment | added | Nearoo | ......dude what | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 19:39 | comment | added | Timothy | that for anyone. I am thinking about seeing how far I can swim parallel to the shore 5 m away from the shore of Lake Ontario though. I live in Toronto. | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 19:38 | comment | added | Timothy | diameter of 50 m and I was swimming, I probably would swim across it. Of course when I feel like I know what I'm doing, it would be really hard for me to commit to not doing it. I would not however swim 100 meters away from shore on a lake. I do realize that a really good organized plan might have authorities that are everywhere stopping anyone from doing something like swimming across a pond with a diameter of 50 m. I understand. Of course, they're going to do that even for me if they don't know me. However, if everyone had my body and swam like me, those authorities probably wouldn't do | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 19:33 | comment | added | Timothy | tendency to treat it is though the river is going to flow for ever like the current patch and they can always swim perpendicularly to the flow. However, if the river is really fast and the rapids or the ocean are not far enough way and you're in the middle, you won't be able to swim back to the edge fast enough. If you get dragged into the ocean, you might be dragged out too far to swim back even if you first swim sideways to not have a current to swim against. I can swim on my back and use very little energy. Maybe theoretically, I could swim 5 km. However, if there was like a pond with a | |
| Jan 7, 2021 at 19:26 | comment | added | Timothy | I've been doing some thinking and trying to form a general strategy for always thinking slowly and carefully how to do anything. Working on combining all those problems into one and forming a general strat is much easier that trying hard to remember a specific problem and gain the skills for it just from learning the one lesson about the one problem. This answer is a useful answer to me because it add a small bit that I can incorporate into the more general research I'm doing in my head so I upvoted it. I don't know how wide the river is but I think you have a good point. People might have a | |
| May 8, 2020 at 6:37 | vote | accept | Martin C. | ||
| May 2, 2020 at 8:30 | history | edited | bob1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 21:15 | comment | added | bob1 | @MartinC. The major immediate risk to swimmers in rivers is not animals in the water (apart from maybe crocodiles etc), but very much unseen obstacles in the water - tree roots, submerged but moving branches, eddies caused by rocks. The highest risk long-term is infection from a parasite or bacterial infection. Realistically you are much more likely to get a mosquito bite and get Malaria or Dengue in Brazil, than you are to get eaten by an animal in the river. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 15:43 | comment | added | Martin C. | Thanks for the answer! After reading the comments to my question and thinking about it a bit, I think my question was informed by an unconscious fear of 'dark scary things in the jungle that want to eat me' - my primary concern is wild animals, and i was hoping for some quantified measure of the risk, e.g. how many people are killed by animal x each year while swimming. I don't know how realistic that is, and I appreciate the time you took to formulate a sensible answer. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 8:53 | history | answered | bob1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |