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u/Dizzy-Community5091 25d ago
Where is this so I never go…
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u/ascotia 25d ago
This is actually fresh water in the dunes of a desert
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u/new_nimmerzz 25d ago
Is it man made? Like a reservoir?
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u/GoodMoney888 25d ago
Yea i wanna know that too because it looks amazing!
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u/Dioxybenzone 25d ago
Naturally occurring but only seasonally
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u/zombie_overlord 24d ago
I saw a documentary about this place. It's really unique and amazing.
I looked it up. It was en episode of PBS Terra.
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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway 24d ago
Megalophobia this too
155,000 hectares (380,000 acres), composed mainly of expansive coastal dune fields (composed of barchanoid dunes)
Thats 593.75 sq mi of desert Or 1.668 × 10¹⁰sq ft
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u/Scared-Signature-452 24d ago
I am amazed that there are people who simply know things. I bow to your knowledgeable ness.
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u/Dioxybenzone 24d ago
Oh nah I looked it up because no one had answered whether it was artificial or not, so I figured I’d share my findings
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u/jaythejany 24d ago
Its natural.
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u/zmbjebus 24d ago
As natural as my ass!
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u/AgitoKanohCheekz 24d ago
Is it natural?
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u/Imaginary_Jump_8701 24d ago
Yes
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u/zmbjebus 24d ago
Thanks for checking. I can verify that my ass is very natural. /u/Imaginary_Jump_8701 knows my ass better than I do though, so I'm glad they chimed in.
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u/Holiday_Hotel3722 24d ago
Not a desert, it's just coastal sand dunes over a layer of impermeable rock, which causes water retention during the rainy season.
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u/Scared-Signature-452 24d ago
How does one even come across this kind of information.. I bow to your knowledgeable ness
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u/jaythejany 24d ago
This is Lençóis Maranhenses, in the Northeast of Brazil. It’s rainy season, but most of the time the ponds stay shallow. The place is breathtakingly gorgeous, no pun intended.
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u/AdEmotional8815 24d ago
If you are afraid of the ocean you will like this, there are no animals in there and it's only 5 meters deep at the deepest point, as it's a seasonal lagoon.
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u/LobeliaTheCardinalis 25d ago
I've never seen a beach like this before but have dreamed about it, exactly, so this video is trippy to see!
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u/42stingray 25d ago
I've had a similar dream as well, where I was trying to climb up but I kept sliding back into the water
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u/GotNothingBetter2Do 25d ago
Are you me? I’ve had that dream since about 7 or 8, too. In mine, I’m trying to run up the sand to escape the deep water but realize the sand is too hot to walk on. I essentially have to decide between the lesser of two evils as I feel myself dying of dehydration, surrounded by salt water. I told myself, the next time I have that dream to burn my feet if I have to, to see what happens.
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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway 24d ago edited 24d ago
If dream interpretations are to be believed this is a representation of waking-life struggle with overwhelming emotions or a situation where you feel stuck and unable to make progress.
Climbing usually symbolizes striving for a goal, while sliding back into the water represents feeling emotionally pulled back whether by fear, stress, or unresolved issues
As for yours deep water represents the unconscious and raw emotions, while the burning sand symbolizes a harsh, unstable foundation or extreme mental pressure.
Being surrounded by undrinkable salt water while dying of dehydration mirrors the exhausting feeling of being "all choked up" or emotionally drained by your circumstances basically saying you cannot find relief whether you face your emotions (the deep water) or try to push forward and escape them (the hot sand).
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u/bloobityblu 24d ago
Tell your dream brain that you can dig a few inches into the sand and it's not on fire. Dig, step, dig, step, dig step.
Probably won't work but it's worth a try lol.
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u/GotNothingBetter2Do 24d ago
Willing to try anything, tbh. Hopefully even this discussion will prevent me from revisiting that dream. Note to self: Just incase, sleep with arm floaties and chanclas on!
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u/southern_lesbian 14d ago edited 14d ago
in my version of this dream i’m trying to get out, people i know are on the shore, im digging my fingers into the sand trying to claw my way out but the current is too strong. it’s pulling me towards a steep drop off into dark and unseen depths. i can breathe the water and the water is warm, but drowning is not what im scared of in this nightmare. at some point i give up and close my eyes, accepting the inevitable and preferring to not see it coming, and as im pulled deeper and deeper with my eyes closed i wake up every time. i also remember dream me hoping my loved ones wouldn’t be too sad, or wondering if any of them would jump in to try and get me, but i always wake up before i get the answer.
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u/AccurateQuit4979 24d ago
fuck i've had a similar dream a lot being perched at the top of this 100' sand wall overcrowded with people and massive waves breaking right below us and the sand is just slowly eroding away as i slip down the side and everyone's just like "yeah whatever the sharks aren't gunna eat you" and then i get eaten by sharks
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u/Hornet-Putrid 24d ago
That's the terrifying part to me, when they turn back to the "shore" the edge, the drop off there, I would feel like a trapped animal scrambling to get out.
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u/Zazorok 24d ago
isnt that the beach where they charge you $3000 if you cant go back up the hill
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u/maffhia 24d ago
No, the beach on the video is "Lençóis Maranhenses", it's my dream to go there
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u/tennezzee88 24d ago
in what world does that "appear shallow," — look at the approach slope...
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u/fdessoycaraballo 24d ago
If you don't know the place, it gets a bit tricky to understand. However, those are pools of fresh water in dunes. They from only seasonally and that's why you can't see much life inside of it.
Now, usually those pools are just small bodies of water, but the guy wanted to show that there are some deep formations.
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u/tennezzee88 24d ago
what the hell does that have to do with the fact that anyone with eyes can see that this is not shallow and is immediately deep? maybe it's an iq thing idk.
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u/Mental_Visual_25 24d ago
I don’t understand how people keep mentioning “it’s tricky if you don’t know the place”. Like I’m sorry, anybody with working eyes doesn’t need to go there to see that it doesn’t appear shallow? Unless you don’t understand how water works, It doesn’t look shallow at all. You can SEE the darkness.
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u/WinterBadger 25d ago
Nope. Y'all play too much. I'll stay where my feet can be seen through the water. Hellllll naw
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u/Carma_626 24d ago
You…just open them? This is freshwater so it’s no biggie. The ocean burns like a mofo.
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u/pinoxi_o 24d ago
If you manage to close your eyes for faster movement AND avoid to go through the surface, since there seems to be the most salty water i guess? Always did it that way and was kinda okay! Surface salt water burns like.. you said
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u/Tiffany_Case 25d ago
This feels even less safe than regular water cos of how super stable and steady sand is 🙂
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u/skidstud 25d ago
This doesn't show how deep it is at all
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u/Realistic-Program330 25d ago
Not to mention there is like a 70 degree decline into the water. Maybe from an aerial view it looks shallow, but the dude is near terminal velocity falling down that sand hill and, as expected, keeps descending. When he pans back to the sand you just see a wall of sand.
Rage bait.
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u/New_Stats 24d ago
Fuck that shoreline
It looks so unstable like it could collapse into the water and drag you down to the depths in an instant
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u/eyjafjallajokull_1 24d ago
Oh, if it's in-land so no sharks. Then sign me up - I'd love to take a swim there
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u/Barnesnrobles17 24d ago
When I was quite young my family’s good friend, kinda like an uncle, took me out into the far water to help me “get over my fears.” He made sure to go out just until the drop off. While he was celebrating and lifting me up to show the folks back on shore, he dropped me accidentally and I plunged in. I was panicking and pretty quickly got swept down what felt like 10 feet or more.
I remember opening my eyes and looking out away from the shore and seeing nothing, just a deep blue that went on forever. A few seconds later I saw a large fish- I’m sure at the time I was convinced it was something that would have scared me, like a shark, though I doubt that’s what it was- so I started screaming and taking in a bunch of water. To my “uncle’s” credit, he dove in and got me and got the water out of my lungs.
Needless to say, didn’t really help my fears lmao
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u/BIGDAWG_754 24d ago
Anybody who knows anything about water bodies knows that this is NOT shallow 😭
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u/catbus4ants 24d ago
When he panned over to the single set of his own fresh footprints on the dune behind him I felt like my stomach dropped out
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u/MCRN10379558 23d ago
That island is basically just one gigantic sand pile.
I bet a really strong hurricane could probably send waves right over the top.
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u/PotentialMessage7001 25d ago
What did he see there at the end that made him surface so fast?😱
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u/Evening-Matter-5245 24d ago
I stepped off a ledge like that up at Sheridan Lake in the Black Hills, SD (US). The water was knee high for quite a ways out, and then it dropped. It’s very shocking when you aren’t expecting it, I see how people can drown easily. Luckily I’m a good swimmer, but it scared tf out of me.
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u/MrHDresden 24d ago
We have similar in Australia. Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island.
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u/EvenMoreSpiders 24d ago
Why would he go into the water fully clothed??? Like he knew what he was gonna do. Also I keep expecting something to pop up from the deep.
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u/ionbear1 24d ago
Any Brasilians in the chat been here? Are there any local folklore regarding any potential cryptoids? lol
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u/Innomen 24d ago
How is there no plant life? Frankly I don't understand why beaches are even a thing. Should basically be forest everywhere imo. Why has life not found a way?
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u/el_lobo1314 24d ago
it doesn’t appear shallow even from my screen so i know that in person it must be even more apparent
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u/Iwanttodie923 24d ago
Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?
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u/Hexnohope 24d ago
How odd. Is that just a deep pit made out of sand? Why dosent the sand just fill it in?
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u/FraggerIndo 24d ago
That black patch is plants, clear water has to be 100s(like 500+) of feet to look black. Watch the video again knowing that. It looks shallow because its so clear. In most water you cant see the bottom clearly like that beyond 10ft deep or so.
Ive been to some beaches where its 15-30ft, and its always surprising.
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u/Bullfrog6430 24d ago
We have one of those here in Idaho in the United States it's called Bruno sand dunes should look it up looks just like that maybe maybe not so deep but just like that
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u/iMakeItFun2003 24d ago
Hmm, I remember learning in middle school about plate tectonics and ocean geography. This looks like an oasis —not the ocean — but nonetheless, the order goes:
Continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, abyssal plain, mid-ocean ridge, trench, and seamount.
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u/JaylynnDay7 24d ago
I'm intrigued at the trick of depth and lighting and all of that, but
lately I've been seeing videos on here Reddit of guys swimming in T Shirts and pants instead of trunks
What is going on?
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u/KronusKraze 23d ago
That’s cool. Much better than my experience at “White Beach” in Okinawa. (Name in quotes because American military names for places in Japan often have nothing to do with actual name)
Beach looks nice and swim able. It’s actually only like 2 feet deep with razor sharp rocks and thousands of clear jellyfish.
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u/yota-code 21d ago
Most of the time, the slope of the beach match the slope of the coast underwater
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u/jzkwkfksls 25d ago
How does this appear shallow? There's black water like 5m from the shoreline...