The most dangerous thing in that video was rafting with your boots on. Dude that will get you killed.
I was a professional white water raft guide for a bit, so I've seen a bit of white (and brown) water in my time. I've also been rafting with some friends when i was a kid ans one of my mates had boot on when he fell in.
He went straight to the bottom - his boots filled up with water and then sucked onto his feet so he couldn't get them off. He walked out! Luckily the stream was pretty small and he made it to shallow water in time.
I learned a lot that day about thinking ahead and planning for things to go wrong.
As for the river you just rafted, completely safe (as safe as water can be). Even going down the creek would have been fine. it was not so high that i would consider it dangerous. The biggest hazard would be the trees.
But that's if things don't change.
At any time you could get a surge come down there and then all bets are off.
Watching your video got my feet itching to get back on a raft again. But I'm not sure my wife would be very keen on me doing that sort of stuff again. ;-)
Keep safe @papa-pepper, and remember, don't go in the water with your boots on, unless you plan on talking with the fish ;-)
Sure thing. The tube was actually scraping the bottom on the driveway, which was the only reason that I felt "comfortable" with that. Just "downstream" from there it got really shallow and split, so despite the random variables of the whole situation, it was "sort of" a "controlled environment."
Yeah I figured that :-)
And I'm a bit cheeky pointing out the risks, when I have taken some very stupid risks at time (and loved it). Never putting clients at risk, but putting myself out there - always ;-)
On the edge is where the most fun is. I would probably still be doing that if i wasn't married.
My wife takes a very dim view of my antics at times hehe