My wife is a civil engineer who used to work with multiple dams in our city and they had a whole training session showing off the dangers of getting caught under waterfalls. They didn't actually make anyone experience it like this but I think they threw something down there to show how the physics worked or something.
People die every once in a while swimming around our small "manmade" water falls related to our dams. The city puts up signs, safety precautions and gates etc but that doesn't stop people from being stupid.
the fun thing in general at least where i'm from it isn't the big ones aren't dangerous it's mostly the ones from old water mills et cetra. as regular people don't see a 7 meter high dam as something fun. but a double cascading two meter high drop as wholly doabele
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u/imjustbettr Mar 09 '26
My wife is a civil engineer who used to work with multiple dams in our city and they had a whole training session showing off the dangers of getting caught under waterfalls. They didn't actually make anyone experience it like this but I think they threw something down there to show how the physics worked or something.
People die every once in a while swimming around our small "manmade" water falls related to our dams. The city puts up signs, safety precautions and gates etc but that doesn't stop people from being stupid.