The deadly Bolton Strid: Fact or Myth?

I visited this place a few times and decided to do my own video. I've seen a few videos measure the depth but I was sure they were incorrect so I thought I'd do it myself the old-fashioned way. I also try to separate fact from myth, as there is a lot of myth online from people who've never even been before.

[@another3997]

The chap doing the 'milk bottle' test was to trying to determine if the sub surface currents were really strong or not. It had nothing to do with finding the depth. The fact that the bottles had different level of buoyancy should be self explanatory.

[@thealternativeview2692]

You're absolutely right. I got that wrong!

[@daviddawson6150]

You’ve proved absolutely nothing apart from how unprepared you were to carry out any ‘tests’. The GoPro video has shown that there are shelves under the water that can cause false readings that make it seem shallower than it is.

[@michaelscott7166]

As a local I say just go a mile down stream to the rather picturesque Bolton Abbey and see how wide the river is there. There's 60 stepping stones in place to get across the same river. Now given most fit and able adults could jump across The Strid providing you're dumb enough to accept the guaranteed Darwin Award if you slip and fall in I think that gives a decent idea of how deep it is there, the river basically rolls on to it's side.

[@garethevans7602]

You did a video on depth and forgot a means to measure the rope!! erm....

[@sayori3939]

A guy put a go pro in there it has a LOT of lips and pockets things being dropped get stuck on :(

[@HOTRODRICO]

2022 and filming in 11p definition ?

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

Rather than damming it off (which would be massively expensive), they could get a bunch of gasoline powered pumps and put them in an area deep enough upstream with little current. There are some rounded pool areas with no visible swirls. It should be on a day when the water level is low during a drought period on a very sunny day so that they can see what they are doing (yes, I know that the water is moss-colored). Metal pipes sticking into the water as far down as they will go and then held in place in the dirt with anchors to keep the pipes from moving. Attach a lot of pumps to them. The rest of the pipe could be angled off parallel to the banks and pumped far downstream using a bunch of connected hoses. There are gasoline powered pumps that can pump 5,000 gallons per MINUTE or about 83 gallons per second. To even make any difference, you would need a good 30-50 of them going at once. With just 30 pumps going at once, that's kicking out 2,490 gallons per SECOND or 149,400 gallons per MINUTE. In one hour, those pumps would have drained 9 million gallons to the lower side. There should be somewhere further down where the water could be discharged in past The Strid without running uphill into The Strid area itself. What would this require? Lots of money, a number of employees and a scientific team in place to map 360 degrees and 3D inside of the strid within a fairly short time period. You would also need a crapload of gas on-site for the pumps and 2-3 people available to fill them up quickly and start them pumping again in the event of running out of gas. This is the most logical way that I can think of to have a peek down there. I would certainly NOT recommend anyone going down there even if we could get the bottom water level to a foot deep in The Strid itself. No safety compromised, ever. There could be a number of pump failures at once that would send a ridiculous amount of water down into The Strid to drown them. It's not worth risking anyone's life. The Strid itself isn't that long, so this isn't unreasonable.

[@Iaintwoke]

You are criticizing other people. 1. You should have marked the level properly rather than just saying " yes, that feels wet". 2. You need something to actually accurately measure the rope and 3. You should do it a few times at several different points to be certain that you are actually hitting the bottom and getting a good result. And personally I wouldn't say that the signs were necessarily 100 percent accurate..

[@marklimbrick]

To measure a long length of rope. Fold in half. Then again and again. Estimate one leg with say A4 paper 30cm. Multiply.

[@beky2879]

Nice but why 420p.

[@thealternativeview2692]

My mistake. Great point.

[@thedoctor2102]

@@thealternativeview2692 Can’t learn without making mistakes or complete fucking up somewhere along the track.

[@propanbutan4634]

Must be a British way of measuring things

[@TheTruth10153]

Sorry going to measure how deep something is and forgetting to take a tape measure shows how well thought out this was lol your findings mean nothing lol

[@another3997]

Your hypothesis, and I use the term very loosely, is floored. How you can claim that it would be still water is beyond me. As anybody with experience of rivers or the sea will tell you, currents happen at many different depths and can be of vastly different strengths. You would have to know the depth, width and shape of the sub surface channel to even remotely hazard a guess. As for depth, "absolute certainty"? Really? How do you know your weight reached the bottom? Do you think the sides of that narrow gulley are completely smooth and straight all the way down? That's just one of the problems experienced in the videos you try to debunk. How do you explain the findings of others, those who used similar methods to you, never mind the sonar readings?

[@thealternativeview2692]

As I explained there is a sign saying how deep it is. I measured the depth and it corresponded with the already known facts. Case closed. And if it was 70 metres deep or any other utterly ridiculous depth, much of that water must be still because there isn't the volume of water coming in to allow 70 metres of water to all have a strong current. I made all this clear in the video.

[@sayori3939]

Yeah and I saw a VERY dtrong current at like 30 m deep that's crazy and j saw a stalactite there

[@driftwood5407]

@@thealternativeview2692 Their are thought that there are other under ground/cave rivers which enter it at depth

[@2perceezy]

Damn, u so mad

[@roccovanelli241]

Your going off of a weight on a string,u try to debunk the kid but there are so many nooks and crannies to get a proper reading. An the kids reading never said 70 meters. So I’d believe the kids experiment over yours. No offense mate.

[@____________________________.x]

here's 5p, go buy yourself some pixels

[@quaid667]

hahaha

[@allengrant]

LOL !! 😂

[@propanbutan4634]

Dude 😂😂😂

[@jeanboston310]

Your spot on, that is the correct way. Thanks buddy I finally got a answer. Don’t you go to far near the edge buddy. Thanks Ross 😱👍

[@Dixoncider1973]

fill it full of dynamite prob like couple hundred lbs n let er rip then you will kno how deep it is n whats down there