Carnage at Crystal Rapid on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Grand Canyon Swim Team Motto: "Hit it Sideways..."
How not to row into Crystal Rapid on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon at high water...or ever. Flip - everyone was ok and we got the raft back upright in under an hour.
July 29th, 2020
If that's a good line I would love to see a bad one.
Definitely not a recommended line...
That line is great if you want to learn what not to do during Crystal 🤣 10/10
@@_shinaman_3972at that point i think he was saying it to hype them up bc he knew they were fucked
Refreshing swim in the lovely calm waters of the Colorado!
Back to the pond rookie!!
Good line! You got it, you got it! You don’t got it.
I kept hearing good line good line. I said for what flipping? And guess what! Nasty swim on the right.
No flip lines on the boat? good for helping you climb back on top....
right? how are you supposed to get up there and self-rescue?
Good line, good line, hit it O O O oo oo OO O ufff, ufff, uffff
Started moving right WAY too late. Should have been at least a full boat length (almost two) to river right before hitting that first little lateral off the guard rock at the top. If your stern is floating almost OVER that guard rock/little lateral, then you're far enough right. If not... the current is like a Death Star Tractor Beam and there is no hope of missing the hole.
good line?
LMAO it would have been good if he kept pulling away from the center of the rapid 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ at the very least he should have T-upped to the wave instead of going in sideways.
I would like to do this one day. I am really inspired. This was peaked after listening to an album the called The River Speaks plainly by Pixie and the Partygrass Boys which led me to be currently reading The Emerald Mile.
Seems like he could have gotten to shore a bit sooner.
Why did you let go of the raft?
That doesn't look fun. A long and tiring swim in really cold water. My daughter almost did the same thing. We were just a few weeks behind you. She was able to straighten it out just in time. We got some major air, but luckily did not flip.
The part where you swam river right… that was a good line.
Went through Crystal successfully in 2018. Everyone said it was good to be ABC - Alive Below Crystal. Looked like a tough swim. That water is COLD!
Been though the hole twice in an 18 footer but hit it straight on made it both times
yeah, sideways not recommended
The hole I remember from the 1970s is gone!! 😢
That thing was a hole of horror. I could see the bottom of the river going past it on our raft ~50 feet down. It almost swallowed a 30 ft commercial Banana boat. The boat stopped @ the top of the hole wave @ stared to slip backwards into the hole. Even @ full power on the boat engine, it barely crawled out
The only place I ever flipped..’80s.,13’ Miwok ..
Yer boat's swimmin' away, dude...
This looks awesome! I want to do it.
You both should have been on the upturned raft within 30 seconds. Where was you safety?
Nice friends, got the beers out of the water before you.
Put a chicken line on your boat!
What size raft
18 footer
So many things wrong here that I’m not gonna even bother to critique. Hopefully you learned a hard lesson from this “good line”
As the rower with the mullet. I’ve been snakebit here by sneaking it right. Flipped 3 times. So the strategy was to use monentum and blow past it. Clearly misjudged it. But don’t forget.... we’re all between swims!
You guys went right up the middle..never a good idea on this rapid. I’ve sneaked right a few times but have run it left most often….so fat…no flips there, but yes, we are all between flips
Not the line I’d take at Crystal. Jaws wide open and angled
Roll on your back
this looks easy
Way too long of a swim!
That’s not a good line!!
Where is his help ?? Oh filming
Swim to shore! Don’t just float downstream like a log!
It’s easier just to float down with the boat until they reach a calm eddy. Navigating downstream on the shoreline definitely isn’t easy or safe. As long as they have proper cold water gear on, they’re fine.
What they could have is some sort of rope that allows them to pull themselves up onto the flipped raft. That way they can at least get out of the water. But they also get to stay with the boat.
There are plenty of places we’re swimming to sure is the correct decision. Not here though.
It’s easier just to float down with the boat until they reach a calm eddy. Navigating downstream on the shoreline definitely isn’t easy or safe. As long as they have proper cold water gear on, they’re fine.
What they could have is some sort of rope that allows them to pull themselves up onto the flipped raft. That way they can at least get out of the water. But they also get to stay with the boat.
There are plenty of places we’re swimming to sure is the correct decision. Not here though. 5:14
He need to pull alot harder and sooner ! It might of been those oar rights or wrongs
So you enter rapids in reverse?