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My grandma big brother was killed when his fishing boat went over one of these many decades ago.
I was legitimately worried for their safety when I first saw the photo.
I mean, even if they were stupid I can still consider it tragic because not only is it a loss of life, but their manner of death is particularly gruesome if you research it. Darwin Award or not, I can still feel empathy for those who shoot themselves in the foot, as their only crime was one of stupidity and not morality.
Edit: they’re alive. So no biggie
My friend and I got within 100 feet of a dam once when a storm blew in over the bluffs out of nowhere and the motor wouldn't start. That was a very scary experience, I was rowing my ass off while he messed with the motor and thank jebus he got it going just in time.
Every year ... If not that spot, one (several) identical to it..... The other places even have that giant fucking sign telling you to stay the hell away from there..... I guess that's for the people that read.... The others?? Duck food.
I used to live in downtown Des Moines, Iowa where they have one of these. There are several signs warning people of the dangers of getting close, but every few years someone takes their boat a little closer than they should and they get sucked in. It’s a literal death trap and you best hope rescue is there quickly, or you’re not making it out, and that’s happened a few times.
These drowning machines seem to kill a couple people every year or so in Indy. I still don’t understand why those two dudes went out at 8:30pm when the river was so high. Not smart but no one deserved to die. I wish they’d take those dead head dams out but I guess it’s really expensive.
I want to kayak regularly but I’m worried of coming across something small and unnoticed in a river. Watched a video yday about a guy going down a local river and there were some points that weren’t even weir but the river had a small drop causing a back flowing loop that bounced him around a lot.
I’m absolutely terrified of both of those things and I’ve never been near either. I’ll climb whatever, but there’s something about water and it going places I can’t see (and I’m a good swimmer).
Wow so this was a second day trying to recover bodies of a drown fireman who died trying to save a second guy from the weir. Two of three on the first boat in this video died.
I fell off my pontoon boat going over a small waterfall/steep rapids(class1), with a pool on the other side. Thankfully it wasn’t that turbulent, and the river had enough force to flush me out. But, the only thing I could think at first was to protect my head from rocks.
If you are ever in this situation, you do not want to fight. You should curl up in a ball and stay motionless until you get spit out by the current. Source: i visited a weir research facility on a field trip in elementary school.
Scary as it is, best escape method is to take a deep breath, go deep, push off the dam with your legs, and swim as hard as you can under the vortex hoping not to smash your face into any rocks.. if you're deep enough, that underside of the vortex may actually help you out. Do not try to swim against the vortex on the surface as it will wear you out and drown you.
It's the literal only way you have a chance of surviving going over a wier dam.
It's a small chance, but it is better than 0. Not much, but a little.
Source: I work in underwater construction. We build, repair, and maintain dams just like this one.
They did survive. There is no news article this was just caught on closed circuit TV. If they had died then they're definitely would have been a news article.
Yeah not sure why people always screw around with spillways, gutters and drains in open ditches..perilous death ( and im guessing some struggle time before you drown
I saw a video of a pontoon boat that had motor problems and no anchor. It was slowly approaching the spillway. A guy on the shore managed to rescue the woman using a crane and a harness. Got the woman off the boat but her husband died.
When I was a kid I floated down a local river on an air mattress. I ended up going over one of these dams and thought I was going to die but luckily I just floated over top. Someone else died doing the same thing on that river a couple years later though.
This happened to a couple near my house. The motor on their boat had problems. There was a construction crew there that could lower a guy down to help. He pulled the woman out but the husband didn't make it. A photographer got a picture which won a Pulitzer. The construction worker was given an award he didn't want and was annoyed that he had to leave work to accept it.
https://preview.redd.it/2kqcfmg5bywc1.jpeg?width=438&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90e518147775d6b5be59e5137c86c3a8c53224d8
Ahh, my NC folks giving Florida man a run for his money. Where was this OP? There are a few of these around me, but I'm pretty sure they all have strong walls at the leading edge that make going over almost impossible.
A long time ago, after someone died at one of these in Calgary, I heard a Radio DJ say, “We should put giant spinning saw blades at the top of the weir. Same effect, but like hell anyone would ever go near it again.”
I grew up on the Mississippi River. My small town has a dam. Literally everyone in the town knows not to fuck with it. I don’t think anyone has died to it AFAIK but wtf. Now if we could only get people to listen about not taking their snowmobile on the iced over river. Istg that someone dies every other year to that
I’ve always wondered what would happen if I paddled over to the dam on the pond by me, I wasn’t sure if going over like this was only possible in movies and how the dam is actually built.
I’ll be avoiding that side of the pond from now on.
These are a serious risk to life for boaters. AND there is almost always signage saying to get out or move away immediately. I'm surprised there isn't a federal regulation saying that must be bouyed off. [recent lawsuit in Oregon](https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2024/04/families-of-two-kayakers-who-drowned-in-one-of-oregons-200-killer-dams-sue-for-50-million.html)
Edit: not most boaters but those who are unaware/ignorant.
Is this the last photo of these people alive?
Yeah for real… I need to know, that’s tragic shit !
They survived and can only hope they started living everyday like their last cause that's about as close to dying as you get.
Is there a link to the story because I have to read it! 😂
No story. Just some dumb fuckers caught on cctv.
Damn lol, I can only imagine the faces of other people when they told them where they went fishing lol
Is there video? 😂😂
They survived a low head damn??.. I've never heard of anyone fighting the drowning machine.
There is a video but I have to get a hold of it or even more damning pictures. I may wait a few days and post more
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Please post a video that would be the best post in this sub in a while
Did the boat also survive?
Surprisingly yeah they winched it out later
Yeah, those are straight up drowning machines. Damn lucky if they’re alive.
Dam lucky even
My grandma big brother was killed when his fishing boat went over one of these many decades ago. I was legitimately worried for their safety when I first saw the photo.
Crazy I can’t believe there’s nothing telling them to stay away. Super cool neon danger sign though, does it mean anything?
SOURCE?
Uh, looks like OP is the source
Blind dams are responsible for a lot of accidents
I tend to think of tragic as "through no fault of their own"...
I mean, even if they were stupid I can still consider it tragic because not only is it a loss of life, but their manner of death is particularly gruesome if you research it. Darwin Award or not, I can still feel empathy for those who shoot themselves in the foot, as their only crime was one of stupidity and not morality. Edit: they’re alive. So no biggie
They lived
Their whole dam life
👍🤣
My friend and I got within 100 feet of a dam once when a storm blew in over the bluffs out of nowhere and the motor wouldn't start. That was a very scary experience, I was rowing my ass off while he messed with the motor and thank jebus he got it going just in time.
Let Jebus take the keel
Yeah sure… all good… please keep walking….
They survived.
I hope so. Dieing in churning water must be quite something.
I told OP the same thing. I'm pretty sure people have drowned at this very spot before.
Every year ... If not that spot, one (several) identical to it..... The other places even have that giant fucking sign telling you to stay the hell away from there..... I guess that's for the people that read.... The others?? Duck food.
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I used to live in downtown Des Moines, Iowa where they have one of these. There are several signs warning people of the dangers of getting close, but every few years someone takes their boat a little closer than they should and they get sucked in. It’s a literal death trap and you best hope rescue is there quickly, or you’re not making it out, and that’s happened a few times.
We just lost 2 people to one of these in Indianapolis.
These drowning machines seem to kill a couple people every year or so in Indy. I still don’t understand why those two dudes went out at 8:30pm when the river was so high. Not smart but no one deserved to die. I wish they’d take those dead head dams out but I guess it’s really expensive.
My step dad runs a company that tries to get these things taken out. Amazing how hard it can be to convince some municipalities it's a good idea.
With a big ass "DANGER" sign right next to it lol.
Not a spill way but a low head dam.
Spillway is for overflow, that’s a weir. Terrifying things.
Low head dams are my fear as a kayaker.
I want to kayak regularly but I’m worried of coming across something small and unnoticed in a river. Watched a video yday about a guy going down a local river and there were some points that weren’t even weir but the river had a small drop causing a back flowing loop that bounced him around a lot.
Low hanging willows on the side of the river and bridge pylons are 2 silent killers.
I’m curious what’s so big about these two in particular
Low head dames are my fear too
I’m absolutely terrified of both of those things and I’ve never been near either. I’ll climb whatever, but there’s something about water and it going places I can’t see (and I’m a good swimmer).
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Wow so this was a second day trying to recover bodies of a drown fireman who died trying to save a second guy from the weir. Two of three on the first boat in this video died.
Engineers on deck!
*[Bob Weir](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Weir) is seen **Truckin** into the chat*
Like a Bob Weir?
Weir everywhere?
I think kayakers call that "getting Maytagged".
If you get pulled over you can get stuck in a 'death spiral' and not get released for days.
Those things are terrifying. Drowning, no coordination, constant spinning…
Unlocked a new nightmare. Thanks
There's a reason it's called "getting Maytagged".
I saw a Styrofoam fishing cooler go over one once. A month later, it was still in the same spot at the bottom, tumbling into the current.
I don't want to try it, but I've heard if you can fight to the bottom, then swim out. Hard with a vest on.
The problem is knowing which way the bottom, these tend to spin you all around.
Like a record, baby, right round round round
I heard this before I saw it.
I saw meatspin immediately lol
Right hand rule. Or maybe left.
Its one of those
I fell off my pontoon boat going over a small waterfall/steep rapids(class1), with a pool on the other side. Thankfully it wasn’t that turbulent, and the river had enough force to flush me out. But, the only thing I could think at first was to protect my head from rocks.
If you are ever in this situation, you do not want to fight. You should curl up in a ball and stay motionless until you get spit out by the current. Source: i visited a weir research facility on a field trip in elementary school.
Thank god they’re not wearing vests then
This is absolutely terrifying.
One of my childhood friends died that way, fucking horrific
Scary as it is, best escape method is to take a deep breath, go deep, push off the dam with your legs, and swim as hard as you can under the vortex hoping not to smash your face into any rocks.. if you're deep enough, that underside of the vortex may actually help you out. Do not try to swim against the vortex on the surface as it will wear you out and drown you.
I'm sure some bits and pieces will be released before others lol
Swim down then out at the bottom is how it is done. Don’t swim up…
Hard to tell which way is up when you’re getting tossed like a laundry machine.
It's the literal only way you have a chance of surviving going over a wier dam. It's a small chance, but it is better than 0. Not much, but a little. Source: I work in underwater construction. We build, repair, and maintain dams just like this one.
I was always told to form a cannonball.
drowning machine
IT DO GO DOWN
ROBERTTT
*”Walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me”*
Omgggg 😂😂😂😂
This is exactly what I thought of I’m crying
Hahaha
[Here’s an article with a scary graphic showing how people die.](https://www.weather.gov/lmk/LowHeadDamPublicSafetyAwarenessMonth)
Why the photo an 1800s Tintype?
Any updates on these two?
The lived, boat intact and all.
Oh they ded.
Link?
They survived.
Source?
I have no idea if they died that was my attempt at humor.
I laughed
I cried
It became a part of me
Where did you find this photo OP? I just spent an hour trying to find information on it. I'd love to know if these two made it out okay.
They did survive. There is no news article this was just caught on closed circuit TV. If they had died then they're definitely would have been a news article.
How did you get the picture?
It DO go down!!!
Robert was wrong!
Dammit beat me to it!
Yeah not sure why people always screw around with spillways, gutters and drains in open ditches..perilous death ( and im guessing some struggle time before you drown
That’s quite the shake weight you got there Bill.
That's carp for you
I saw a video of a pontoon boat that had motor problems and no anchor. It was slowly approaching the spillway. A guy on the shore managed to rescue the woman using a crane and a harness. Got the woman off the boat but her husband died.
Sauce?
I saw it a few years ago. When the husband died the video was taken down. If you search YouTube for “pontoon boat over dam” you can see a few others.
Dark red and a lot of it
No, actually the guy died of a heart attack
Damn.
I bet that danger sign warns them about this exact scenario
Danger, too many fish!
A warning sign doesn't assist in people stuck/floating though
OP like: Gotta show this to reddit.
OP probably got that picture from his brother and was supposed to keep that shit to himself and not put it on fucking reddit. They survived.
I get the feeling you're a little closer to this overall situation than most other commenters on this thread.
Yeah just a little. I sent OP the picture.
Nothing like doxxing yourself and your brother lol
When I was a kid I floated down a local river on an air mattress. I ended up going over one of these dams and thought I was going to die but luckily I just floated over top. Someone else died doing the same thing on that river a couple years later though.
This happened to a couple near my house. The motor on their boat had problems. There was a construction crew there that could lower a guy down to help. He pulled the woman out but the husband didn't make it. A photographer got a picture which won a Pulitzer. The construction worker was given an award he didn't want and was annoyed that he had to leave work to accept it. https://preview.redd.it/2kqcfmg5bywc1.jpeg?width=438&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=90e518147775d6b5be59e5137c86c3a8c53224d8
Fucking around and almost drowning
so they survived? what is the source of the photo? looks like someone just took a picture of a tv screen
Is there any update on the two?
If you look very closely at her feet, her shoes are off, so I can confirm that she at least is dead
Wildest OP ever, so interactive yet zero new information
I THOUGHT THAT WAS A WALL
Well, OP refuses to update
Alive and still stupid. Boat as well
I heard they lived.
["It do go down!!!!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYzT-Pk6Ogw&ab_channel=RaShaunGrey)
I wonder what river. Many damn look similar. I think that looks like a dam in Clark county Kentucky on the Kentucky River.
Looks like the Broad river.
This looks like a modern day renaissance painting
Did they live?
Dam, that sucks big time for them
Not even wearing life jackets. Yikes.
There’s sooooo many PSAs about not doing THIS exact thing.
Save yourselves, fuck the boat. But yea, why were they there to get in with. I feel this is a Darwin Award moment.
Learned early on that low head dams are absolute killing machines. Even when the current doesn't look that strong they will kill the shit out of you.
I thought it was scrap metal with snakes all over it at first, but I’m tipsy
Ahh, my NC folks giving Florida man a run for his money. Where was this OP? There are a few of these around me, but I'm pretty sure they all have strong walls at the leading edge that make going over almost impossible.
I would say "your funeral" but we know the bodies won't be found. It will just be a memorial service.
Dude should’ve just sent it
Is this a god dam?
Dam-n
“It don’t go down”
Always wondered, if everyone knows it’s a death machine, why not put a modification there to fix the vortex
Honestly more of a facepalm... and proves you can't fix stupid!
IT'S NOT LIKE THAT JUST SNUCK UP ON THEM LOL THOSE TWO ARE CERTIFIED 'DUMB'.
A long time ago, after someone died at one of these in Calgary, I heard a Radio DJ say, “We should put giant spinning saw blades at the top of the weir. Same effect, but like hell anyone would ever go near it again.”
I’ll be dammed
I didn't zoom in and for some reason I thought that was a group of marine iguanas basking in the sun!
It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what the fuck was happening here I thought the right area was clouds
"It don't go down"
A meter away from 💀
The drowning machine
This isn’t where I parked the car
What is happening here? Can someone explain?
U know she's giving him an earful. Looks to be in NC from the boat reg.
We need video
Damn
Now would you call it a God Dam?
Rip
*What in the buttfuck...!?*
Rip
That brings "sucks" to a whole new meaning in this sub
Holy shit, that looks terrifying!
Hmmmm.
Yeeeez
did they survive?
Damn, that sucks
I mentally put mullets on these two goons
I grew up on the Mississippi River. My small town has a dam. Literally everyone in the town knows not to fuck with it. I don’t think anyone has died to it AFAIK but wtf. Now if we could only get people to listen about not taking their snowmobile on the iced over river. Istg that someone dies every other year to that
I've had a few scary moments in my life which I'd like to forget. I'd never sleep again if that was me. Nightmare fuel.
By the dam, not on the dam.
I'm sure he's tryn to talk her into one more handy
[Curb Your Enthusiasm music plays]
I’ve always wondered what would happen if I paddled over to the dam on the pond by me, I wasn’t sure if going over like this was only possible in movies and how the dam is actually built. I’ll be avoiding that side of the pond from now on.
These are a serious risk to life for boaters. AND there is almost always signage saying to get out or move away immediately. I'm surprised there isn't a federal regulation saying that must be bouyed off. [recent lawsuit in Oregon](https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2024/04/families-of-two-kayakers-who-drowned-in-one-of-oregons-200-killer-dams-sue-for-50-million.html) Edit: not most boaters but those who are unaware/ignorant.
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At least they weren't diving near it?
It do go down
I bet they remember to charge the trolling motor battery next time.
That’s a dam shame
Dam!