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Originally Posted by Mr.NoCredit ↗

The hydraulic somersaulting tumble at the edge of a spillway is most often a fatal predicament. The force of the water keeps an object recycling over and over in the boil of the current. The best chance at recovery is to relax (that alone will take a mighty serious effort given the circumstances) and try to swim deep to get into the slower, downstream current that does flow out of such holes.

Or try for the sides. There isn’t a ton of recirculating going on here - maybe a little towards the middle and far side, but I don’t see much of a boil line if any. Several wash out pretty fast. It seems like no one ever knows how to swim in these videos outside of Europe and the U.S. which is probably the biggest culprit.