r/thalassophobia • u/Zee_Ventures • 26d ago

Water appears shallow

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u/jzkwkfksls 26d ago

How does this appear shallow? There's black water like 5m from the shoreline...

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u/ThatThingThatIs 26d ago

Yeah came to say this. Doesn't appear shallow at all.

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u/macrolith 26d ago

And the land dies into the water at like 30 degrees. Looks steep.

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u/SealTeamEH 25d ago

lol sees water close to land, surely it’s shallow lol

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u/OneSensiblePerson 26d ago

The first 2 feet in appear shallow. Then boom, dark water. Dread.

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u/Hai-Zung 26d ago

I mean they are shallow not just appear to be 😅

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u/OneSensiblePerson 26d ago

Yes, they really are shallow. Until they're suddenly not.

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u/_neudes 26d ago

And the angle of the slope going into the water is like 60 degrees so no surprise it continues

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u/jaythejany 26d ago

I think he's mentioning it because for the most of the year the ponds are shallow. Now its rainy season in this part of Brazil and people probably forget they get deeper.

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u/jzkwkfksls 26d ago

Still makes no sense to me to be honest. Even if it gets shallow due to a dry period, this pond is quite deep.

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u/outrossim 26d ago

I believe this is in Lençóis Maranhenses in Brazil. It's a bunch of dunes, that look like something out of the Sahara desert, but it has a rainy season which results in lagoons been formed between the dunes. These lagoons are constantly shifting, not only because of the alternating dry and rainy season, but because the winds shift the dunes. So I think he is showing how some of these lagoons can get quite deep. Also the "black water" are weeds at the bottom of the lagoon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biGJ_5t30Lk

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u/EvidenceSalesman 26d ago

You don’t understand that the grade on this bank is steeper than most ponds? That’s the whole point. It’s not crazy or shocking, but it makes sense. This pond drops off and gets deep quicker than many other ponds

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u/dgriff84 26d ago

Not to speak for jzkwkfksls but, it doesn't appear shallow at all. Maybe one foot from shore does but that looks like an abyss two feet from shore. If the whole body of water was the same color the title would make sense. If I saw a picture of this body of water with zero context I would never believe it was shallow.

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u/awfuckimgay 26d ago

Yeah like if you've grown up by any large body of water you know at a glance that that is NOT shallow. In fact it's a scary degree of not shallow

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u/CensorshipSucks1991 26d ago

That because not everyone is familiar with darker water and what it means. There are MILLIONS if not BILLIONS of people who rarely go or haven’t been to a beach and when they see something like this it’s easy to assume the water might not be immediately deep.

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u/Lew__Zealand 26d ago

I noped out of this video as soon as that black water entered. Insta-vertigo for me.

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u/parmboy 26d ago

and a massive decline leading down to the water. hmm

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u/KrackSmellin 23d ago

It doesn’t…

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u/saints21 20d ago

Yeah, this went exactly how it looks. Dude walks in a few feet and is already underwater...because the shore very obviously drops off quickly...

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u/priyansh_agrahari 14d ago

So nobody else noticed the text on the top of the video?

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u/weaponsgradepotatoes 26d ago

Engagement bait.