[William May]

Originally Posted by newjerseydeevil ↗

DR should have an Indian electricity, transport, urban and rail section.

And one for flaming trucks driving down the street with no apparent drama.

[bartoszt1977]

Dumb fucks who don't know how to swim should stay away from water activities

[houseoftechno]

Things the people with the capsized raft could have done to avoid deaths:
1. Folks on top should have tossed the rope to the two people in the water. The rope was likely connected to the raft (a flotation device).
2. Rafts almost always have handholds. Folks in water should have grabbed handholds and held on.
3. For 1 and 2, note that the raft stalled in the backflow of the low head dam. If the people in the water stayed with the boat, the backflow may have held them next to the boat without much exertion.
4. Granted, the people in the water were held stationary by the backflow for a few seconds, but they were eventually flushed downstream. They were probably exhausting themselves trying to swim against that flushing current. As soon as you exhaust yourself in water, you drown. In big water, never try to fight the current, just go with the flow! Look for opportunity to lunge for an eddy. Swim with the current to steer yourself toward the eddy or still water, then sprint for it like there is no tomorrow when you get close.
5. Avoid boulders, strainers and limb-grabbing crags.
6. If you don't understand vectors or are a weak swimmer, you are screwed trying to traverse big water, so just enjoy the ride, go with the flow and hope you find a lucky exit.

[retr0styl3z]

It do go down

[kellyhound]

well, a good captain goes down with the ship

[Yanni]

i didn't think indians did any type of outdoor recreation of any kind.

[ironmike]

Originally Posted by houseoftechno ↗

Things the people with the capsized raft could have done to avoid deaths:
1. Folks on top should have tossed the rope to the two people in the water. The rope was likely connected to the raft (a flotation device).
2. Rafts almost always have handholds. Folks in water should have grabbed handholds and held on.
3. For 1 and 2, note that the raft stalled in the backflow of the low head dam. If the people in the water stayed with the boat, the backflow may have held them next to the boat without much exertion.
4. Granted, the people in the water were held stationary by the backflow for a few seconds, but they were eventually flushed downstream. They were probably exhausting themselves trying to swim against that flushing current. As soon as you exhaust yourself in water, you drown. In big water, never try to fight the current, just go with the flow! Look for opportunity to lunge for an eddy. Swim with the current to steer yourself toward the eddy or still water, then sprint for it like there is no tomorrow when you get close.
5. Avoid boulders, strainers and limb-grabbing crags.
6. If you don't understand vectors or are a weak swimmer, you are screwed trying to traverse big water, so just enjoy the ride, go with the flow and hope you find a lucky exit.

Good advice, no no known translation into the language spoken by India people.