Orange river mouth was opened on 23/4/2018 with 3 seal swimming down the fast moving water.
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@pauldudley88373 жыл бұрын
I can't stop watching this. So powerful and amazing.
@katarinanuumbembe4174 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this video many people will watch it and they will comment
@daniellenaerts57503 жыл бұрын
Nice - would have been great being captured also with a drone.
@larryslemp96983 жыл бұрын
Man that is insane, but I can't take my eyes off it..!! Too cool..!!
@billrobbins58742 жыл бұрын
The waves the way they kept changing. Quite awesome!
@user-xe8kn2sz4u4 жыл бұрын
당신 영상이 너무 좋아요 이런광경을 볼수 있게 해주어 감사해요
@none63524 жыл бұрын
I could watch this all day
@josephastier74214 жыл бұрын
That reservoir is huge.
@Oumaletta6 жыл бұрын
Dankie dat jy gedeel het!
@hrsnrnd104 жыл бұрын
Not sure I would be getting so close to that edge....
@Tugela603 ай бұрын
That is a huge estuary....things could go south for those folk there quickly.
@staggerlee20114 жыл бұрын
It's a seasonal river. When it does this at Aliwal-North it kills people. In the Great Trek one of them was my ancestor coming back into the Cape. Her husband's family founded the town of Rouxville, her surviving son married the Butler family who founded Aliwal. I was born and grew up with the sound of this crescendo just above the weir. There may be diamonds in there.
@samhly24 жыл бұрын
Well this comment is fucking all over the place.
@christianriddler50633 жыл бұрын
@@samhly2 Just the average youtube psycho babble.
@marthabakry73533 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were diamonds washing out in all that. It is the Namibian coast after all. I’ve heard of beaches owned by the cartels with armed patrols because of all the raw diamonds laying around.
@staggerlee20113 жыл бұрын
@@marthabakry7353 thanks for the reply. It's called The Forbidden Zone, and isn't controlled by the cartels, the diamond industry would be long gone if it was. That's Northern Angola, parts of Asia. this is De Beers and they control the world's diamond industry. No South African journalist is allowed to look into how much tax De Beers' pays, or Anglo-American. It's a concession, but they protect it as their own asset. Still there is leakage. In the Leonardo De Caprio movie the blood diamonds are taken out of circulation by De Beers. Be careful when buying diamonds to get natural not synthetic, but even Russia and Australia keep faith with the world leader, De Beers. Control was better under Apartheid. This is nothing like Colombian cocaine, Europe and America do everything they can to help keep the diamon industry taxable. (In the Kaokoveld furhter south you find beautiful peices of quartz and geodes just lying around-very harsh desert and you may be searched by a police car along the road.) Check a De Beers shop window in any major city to see the type f very white diamond you get from the Orange River, Graff uses Lesotho diamonds, also from the Orange River, deep inland. Bye'.
@MeanBeanComedy3 жыл бұрын
@@christianriddler5063 It's an old man telling a story. Be polite.
@anjalipuri21962 жыл бұрын
Superb video ! Superb views !
@beebop98084 жыл бұрын
Have to wonder how many times the seals have taken that ride down the rapids? They are fun loving critters.
@AngloSaxon-yx8tk11 ай бұрын
What would seals be doing in a river?
@beebop980811 ай бұрын
Visiting cousins
@albertschultz71512 ай бұрын
Beautiful! As a child I seem to remember, probably incorrectly, that the mouth was “Spergebied” due to the diamond mining activity. Thanks for sharing.
@PowerTom2864 жыл бұрын
This is a roller coaster for seals, hahaha
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
They had fun going down. Best part when his one buddy looked at the other like oh crap
@cosmosabinodossantos39773 жыл бұрын
Faz bem para a alma ver o movimento desse tanto enorme de água
@patricksivertsen7874 жыл бұрын
I was river guide for Felix Unite river adventures for many years running the Gariep ...never seen this!..Fantastic sight. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
I was at felix unite from 2007 till 2009. Only got to do the 4 day trips too aussenkehr. Also worked at the breede river in western Cape
@ObserverOfPakleds3 жыл бұрын
Wow, that is really impressive.
@CyclonesFan244 жыл бұрын
Looks like heaven.
@debraolivier21473 жыл бұрын
Magnificent!
@z1ggy5014 жыл бұрын
You deserve a like nice video!
@eroildocortes49737 ай бұрын
No me cansaría de estar mirando esto por largo Tiempo This is Spectacular
@123TauruZ3213 жыл бұрын
Very nice video. Shame it is edited and cut to loop at one point .. but i can live with it.
@duncanwallace77604 жыл бұрын
Had no idea it was even possible for the mouth to close until I saw this, considering what a large river it is, even during low-flows.
@user-rr5ce1wb2j3 жыл бұрын
Might not have been natural. In some places they close the river mouth to protect low lying land along the river from flooding during the wet season.
@kaladwarakanath55033 жыл бұрын
I had the exact same question. Never knew river mouths could be closed! I thought they are always open.
@kaladwarakanath55033 жыл бұрын
Oh ok.
@kaladwarakanath55033 жыл бұрын
But by artificially closing the mouth with a barrier, aren't they increasing chances of floods? The water has no place to go!
@user-rr5ce1wb2j3 жыл бұрын
@@kaladwarakanath5503 That may be a possibility depending on where it's done, I'm not sure. Remember though that the difference between high and low tide is about three metres depending where the river is, so that's three less metres of water they have to worry about.
@makanaokalanichong8083 жыл бұрын
In Hawaii when the surf is down we open Waimea river and surf the rapids.
@piuhairstyle19062 жыл бұрын
Beautiful
@careljtemple26533 жыл бұрын
Who is looking at this FEB 2021 thinking, ‘I would like to have been there now since Augrabies is in flood and the best part is, all SA dams are full as of today, 10th and opening the floodgates. Imagine Augrabies in a weeks time and then in two weeks the opening of the river as shown in this video. Spectacular, I guess.
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
I take a vidoe of how the river is in flood would love to fly a drone up and down the river I see what I can do
@careljtemple26533 жыл бұрын
@@Floki__TV think that would be awesome. People do amazing with drones... spectacular views. It gives a different vantage point to what we are used to.
@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 Жыл бұрын
Chill out guys. The current is only strong on the passage. Even if you fell in, it would only drag you for some dozen meters and you could swim back out.
@wildcarma40223 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@rajbaniwal323611 ай бұрын
That was amazing.
@Rickcpt6 жыл бұрын
looking for the entire clip where he just draws a little stripe in the sand !
@myrinsk4 жыл бұрын
maybe he didnt
@waltspears81792 жыл бұрын
The seal doing 60 as he went by .most powerful force on earth .its easy to see how continents were formed
@teresamartin47352 жыл бұрын
Actually water has less to do with the formation of the continents. It has more to do with the movement of the tectonic plates of the earth moving. It's called continental drift. If you look at a map, the continents are like pieces of a puzzle that could fit together.
@yogione2 жыл бұрын
@@teresamartin4735 We should also consider the fact that plate tectonics was only a theory until 1968. Now we know that the Andes contain rock from what was once the Appalachians because of subduction and continental drift including polar shifts. Best not to dip a toe in that "brook," unless you're a seal with good fins and exceptional surfing skills.
@enricoholmes37934 жыл бұрын
OK so wat is die rede vir die soort uit grawings?
@TheHoboShoestring2 жыл бұрын
Where is this?
@elizabethranialladi5582 жыл бұрын
Namabia. African continennt. ..Greator of nnature Thank you jesus India
@jeninebrandt61533 жыл бұрын
Dankie my eie swaer .
@davidkeller81323 жыл бұрын
Encrivel a natureza
@robertmurphy45494 жыл бұрын
There should be more dams further up the Orange River to store a lot of this water for agriculture.
@sigisoltau60733 жыл бұрын
But then the flow downriver would be reduced greatly. It's already greatly reduced with all the current dams.
@germasehloho96103 жыл бұрын
Part of it feeds the Katse Dam in Lesotho where the river stream begins.
@calrisonjames17954 жыл бұрын
Can see the diamonds flowing by
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
น้ำไรเอาไปใช้
@serenity_now19992 жыл бұрын
How deep is the channel where water Is flowing out into the sea ?
@MichaelClark-uw7ex4 жыл бұрын
What an amazing event and only 9 people there to witness it. How sad.
@richardsb614 жыл бұрын
Having lived and worked in this area this event usually happens every few years depending on river flow rates and the rate of build-up of the sandbar across the Orange River mouth. Tides and weather conditions are critical to determining whether the river beats the sea or the sea beats the river.
@RA9gaymore3 жыл бұрын
@@richardsb61 No surfers?
@Divedown_253 жыл бұрын
Tagging so I remember it in 7 years time when KZfaq graciously will suggest it’s time for me to watch this water to water clip again
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
Let's see if it works see you in 7 years
@benjaminbaber21146 жыл бұрын
would be coool to surf that
@Kelerei3 жыл бұрын
Not a good idea, as that's the international border between South Africa and Namibia (do you want to risk incurring the wrath of border officials?). Plus, there's the small matter of a minor border dispute to deal with: South Africa claims the border is the north bank of the river (the side where the camera and spectators are), but Namibia claims the border is the centre of the river. The camera and spectators are in Namibian territory, by the way.
@triheybi33293 жыл бұрын
Hypnotisch
@AdstarAPAD3 жыл бұрын
How long was it blocked and how long did it take for the backed up water to flow out?
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
think it was only blocked for like 6weeks or something river was very low first time i have ever seen it closed. took like 2days to flow out till it back to its normal level. But the river mouth is always open with an outflow
@DragonSlayer-ho4mi3 жыл бұрын
Here, hold my beer. I have a raft. 😆
@sgtkah072114 жыл бұрын
Real great place for a kid to be!
@gregsmith80894 жыл бұрын
A little to close for my liking as well.
@warrenharvey44203 жыл бұрын
I think all of them are pretty dumb to be standing so close to the edge at all!
@joshrandall93715 жыл бұрын
And amazing
@abdurohmanaburahim86242 жыл бұрын
Не могу понять с одно берега в другую или речку с морем смешали?
@bethroesch21562 жыл бұрын
How long does the river stay open like that and does it happen regularly???? I live in Ohio and I've never seen this before
@adethoem78152 жыл бұрын
You've never seen a river drain into the sea in Ohio?how bizarre.
@cleusamaria5513 жыл бұрын
Q legal!!!!
@frankquitjooste53794 жыл бұрын
On both sides of the border South-Africa and Namibia,very close by , there is a desperate outcry for fresh water. Couldn't we have used this water better. Plan better or put in the necessary infrastructure to alleviate the plight . We pray for rain , isn't this an answer to solve the problem.
@RisingTidesAC2 ай бұрын
Please tell me why the river doesn't breach the ocean naturally.
@Floki__TV2 ай бұрын
It does but there always a idiot with a shovel
@RisingTidesAC2 ай бұрын
@@Floki__TV Well that explains it. Thank you so very much for your answer.
@johnnyfred21253 жыл бұрын
That lake is literally pushing back against the ocean.
@rebeccamcalindon52172 жыл бұрын
Amazing to watch but if you're stood on the orange sand bar and the water suddenly burts through and widens it's channel and your biggish island washes away to nothing it could kind of turn into a bad cartoon
@aspenflagecamo86542 жыл бұрын
why are the good parts cut out? is this the stuff you couldn't sell?
@DragonSlayer-ho4mi3 жыл бұрын
8:31 seals.. yeah
@Superkuh23 жыл бұрын
More seals @ 9:11 to 9:37 and 11:55
@geoffreylee51994 жыл бұрын
South Africa ... wonder how long this ran ... how does this happen, best go do some reading.
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
south africa on the other side
@navyanavy12113 жыл бұрын
😍😍😍
@vijayagori50975 жыл бұрын
does its is really
@sajadjamali6705 Жыл бұрын
سبحان الله الله أكبر مُحَمَّد ﷺ
@user-bo3ik4yl3v4 жыл бұрын
Клас
@fiegenfiegen3 жыл бұрын
So you can walk over to Namibia when the mouth is closed and you are stranded there when it opens?
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
The border staff came to mark the line with a big tree stump but yes you could walk up and down the beach.
@bigbiff382 жыл бұрын
Apparently this is in South Africa, in case anybody else was wondering...
@Floki__TV2 жыл бұрын
Standing on Namibian side other side south Africa
@WadeSmith192 жыл бұрын
This needs to be surfed!
@Quenchcar3 жыл бұрын
Please is this Orange River in Florida (USA), Whiting ME (USA), Lesotho (Africa), or Namibia (Africa)?
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
Hey so this orange river in Africa it starts in Lesotho runs through South africa all the way to namibia where it runs into the Atlantic Ocean
@Quenchcar3 жыл бұрын
@@Floki__TV, Thanks a lot.
@romeowhiskey11463 жыл бұрын
Yup...that's WATER flowing downhill.
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
XD yup
@razzaus15703 жыл бұрын
Ah ok. I was wondering what i was looking at. Thanks for clearing it up.
@mickcarson85042 жыл бұрын
Where is this place?
@elizabethranialladi5582 жыл бұрын
Namabia ...Africa Gods wonderful creationn. ... ..Greator of Nature .Thannk you jesus. India
@johnrflinn2 жыл бұрын
Where are the surfers and kayakers?
@albrdenafifi9004 жыл бұрын
طريقه غير زكيه اهدرت مالايين الامتار من المياه العزبه في البحر لو كنو ركبو مسوره على اتفاع معين كنات صرفت المياه الزيده واحتفظت بالمياه الباقيه وكان هيكون مسيطر عليه اكثر من هذا الطريق الى ممكن تصرف كل الميه المجمعه من الامطار في البحر او المحيك
@muziquebox3 жыл бұрын
What was the creature shortly after the 3:00 mark? Was that a seal??
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
Yes it was
@patriciakwast28172 жыл бұрын
Wow
@ChubChik.4 жыл бұрын
Лайк и подписка!!!🔔😀💦
@gregturner58904 жыл бұрын
Ok...looks like the sea is feeding it self...all the nutrition it needs...smart ...it has a mind of it's own...4.3 billion years.. Same water..
@dunruden97203 жыл бұрын
its
@kerigpope2 жыл бұрын
@@dunruden9720 itself
@doraduplessis27272 жыл бұрын
All that water flowing into the sea and the sea doesn't get fuller, or does it?
@Tugela603 ай бұрын
The amount of water is tiny compared to the sea.
@joesfishingadventures27133 жыл бұрын
Is this in south Africa
@Floki__TV3 жыл бұрын
On the border of South Africa and namibia
@thetravelinsagittarian13162 жыл бұрын
Satisfying to watch 😍 🏞️💦💖
@romafin3 жыл бұрын
Зачем человек уничтожает пресную воду?
@barendvorster32222 жыл бұрын
I also thought that the mouth of the Orange River never block
@joshrandall93715 жыл бұрын
This is the best to surf in😎😁😀
@winfriedkubitzki75235 жыл бұрын
Try!
@shabanovalexander56604 жыл бұрын
I enjoy this video like having a good dream while sleeping
@clovelly19466 жыл бұрын
What was the reasons?
@Floki__TV6 жыл бұрын
Barbara-Louisa walker they were scared the gold course would get flooded that what been said don't know if that the reason they opened it
@jordanbeck1234 жыл бұрын
The farms along the river and pastures were flooding so they approved the opening to save the land
@secondchance66034 жыл бұрын
@@Floki__TV And now it's dried up just a year and a half later. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8ChfbOas6fXm3k.html
@NightShade11614 жыл бұрын
Second Chance well that just really sad!... thank you for sharing 😊
@GrantonTheFly4 жыл бұрын
I wish people wouldn't make up untrue answers. This was illegal and never approved. The mouth hadn't closed in about 20 years. We were working on a project to try and save the estuary. This was the best thing that could've happened and these individuals messed it up. Have a look at the link below. We made this video just a few months before. Allowing the ecosystem to go through it's natural processes would've had a massively positive impact. There was no danger to people. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e7p1q8ebz7u1pmQ.html
@neha-ww8bo2 жыл бұрын
River is sea 💋💋💙🖤
@susampson2782 жыл бұрын
see the seals? what timestamp?
@Floki__TV2 жыл бұрын
7 40
@michaelmixon24794 жыл бұрын
That was cool! Why did they do it?
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
One reason that was floating around was the golf club was in danger of breaking its flood walls. But they should have left it so the wetlands could get some water.
@SB-wh9kf4 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? There were some heavy rains in the catchment area and Van der Kloof dam overflowed, it caused the Orange River to flood. Did you ever visit that area? It is impossible to excavate a channel to the sea because of the huge sandbanks and delta-like geography. This is a natural phenomenon and occurs seldom.
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
@@SB-wh9kf river hasn't flooded in years and was very low. Why the river mouth closed on it's own happens naturally. If some idiot's didn't go dig it open the wetlands in Alexanderbay would have filled up the salt pan would have gotten new water aswell.
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
@@SB-wh9kf you be surprised what two people with shovels did all the did was dig a small channel and let gravity do the rest. Video somewhere on facebook
@SB-wh9kf4 жыл бұрын
LYCAN if that is the case it is idiotic. I didn’t know about the incident affecting Alexander Bay. This video is confusing though. Maybe you should write an intro explaining what happened. The area is remote and thinly populated. We don’t get all the news from there. Just a suggestion ... Not all of us uses Facebook either 😏
@bigpeeler3 жыл бұрын
Great, now I have to pee.
@hstetser53762 жыл бұрын
Is this south Africa or Australia?
@elizabethranialladi5582 жыл бұрын
Namabia African continent Thank you Jesus
@roverxanz4 жыл бұрын
why the camera is going back in port? and nothing new is being seen
@tscarborough21964 жыл бұрын
Is that salt water entering an ocean?
@Floki__TV4 жыл бұрын
fresh water. you should see when the river floods whole ocean turns brown
@Runehorn4 жыл бұрын
That's an insane amount of water that little sand bank is holding back
@rochelimit555554 жыл бұрын
They'd surf on it
@robandcheryls2 жыл бұрын
Where is this, and why is it draining? Please
@Floki__TV2 жыл бұрын
Namibia Oranje river. The mouth of the river closed due to low river fall and big storm from ocean closing the mouth. After about a month it open and drained into the ocean.
@robandcheryls2 жыл бұрын
@@Floki__TV thank you very much, eh!
@elizabethranialladi5582 жыл бұрын
Nnama bia Africa ....,join Atlantic ocean. .Inndia ..Thanks. Jesus
@user-xm2qh3wg2u3 жыл бұрын
มีคานไม่แถวนั้น
@sharonolsen65793 жыл бұрын
This is a spectacular event .. The camera moving back and forth was simply too much and caused sea sickness feeling .. : (
@MonthlyFailsOutreaching Жыл бұрын
Hey FLOKI, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) :) Cheers, Felix
@Floki__TV Жыл бұрын
I will email you at your email submissions@monthlyfails.tv is this the right one?
@JohnAlbertRigali2 жыл бұрын
Seal appearances: • 2:30-circa 3:11 (it disappears into the surf) • 7:39-7:56 (cut short by scene change) • 9:21-9:37 (cut short by scene change) Is that Afrikaans being spoken?
@SAKOadventures4 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice the screaming Person at one minute or before?
@Mappy-xn1om3 жыл бұрын
probably mad he opened it up !
@dapto2342 жыл бұрын
That will be a few million gallons(Litres) of water going out to sea.
@derickcoetzee72985 жыл бұрын
Wonderwerk vn God
@jclemme14 жыл бұрын
Man is not god!
@amak2063 жыл бұрын
At the 4:00 mark, hey ocean... Here's yer sign!
@williamstevens94943 жыл бұрын
shame nobody was surfing it
@bairives633 жыл бұрын
class V rapids
@tscarborough21964 жыл бұрын
If that isn't salt water, won't all that fresh water entering ocean mess up sea life?
@suep94454 жыл бұрын
When freshwater river or stream meets ocean, its called an estuary. An ecosystem on its own.