Certain death?
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Yes it would be certain death & the spillway is very slippery. There's several videos on Youtube showing what it's like inside, taken in the summer when it isn't overflowing of course:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ladyb...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ladyb...
There used to be a barrage of floats between the offishal fishery launching stage and around the drain hole. Wonder if these were not official boats on the reservoir.
My friend abseiled down inside (that is how my friend knew there were floats as we rowed out there) one night in a dry summer in the 1990s (1994?). You go down the plug to get to a nice horizontal tunnel which then bifurates into two tunnels, which he thinks were the risers back up to ground level. My friend didn't see any grid but did remark the place smelt a bit fishy. He got a suprise when he returned to the surface to see the rope was no longer secured to one of the bank towers, but just to our little rowing boat stopped at the lip pf the drain!!! (It wasn't really, we had a couple of decent cam-friends hidden under the boat on the structure, but the looks on his face in the moonlight that he'd climbed back up pulling on a rope attached to a floating object at the lip was priceless.
The bottom channels would be full under flow, so anyone going in would be bye-bye indeed.
My friend abseiled down inside (that is how my friend knew there were floats as we rowed out there) one night in a dry summer in the 1990s (1994?). You go down the plug to get to a nice horizontal tunnel which then bifurates into two tunnels, which he thinks were the risers back up to ground level. My friend didn't see any grid but did remark the place smelt a bit fishy. He got a suprise when he returned to the surface to see the rope was no longer secured to one of the bank towers, but just to our little rowing boat stopped at the lip pf the drain!!! (It wasn't really, we had a couple of decent cam-friends hidden under the boat on the structure, but the looks on his face in the moonlight that he'd climbed back up pulling on a rope attached to a floating object at the lip was priceless.
The bottom channels would be full under flow, so anyone going in would be bye-bye indeed.
I wouldnt say I have any phobias, but I get quite uneasy around man made structures that involve huge volumes of water, not natural ones so much but anything man made, the smell of the water, the noise etc.
Visiting the Hoover dam was great but it makes my head spin, the height, the heat and those intake towers.
Visiting the Hoover dam was great but it makes my head spin, the height, the heat and those intake towers.
You want to see the "fish filter" on a UK nuclear power station that draws water in from the sea. They are much much more immense than you think. Much more than the small flow going over that dam in the Ladybower picture. 125m3/s for a power station, (Hinkley C pdf online), compared to a Bellmouth weir of 24m diameter like Ladybower, with a 0.5 m head of water only about 10m3/s.
There are some good (or not so good depending on your phobia) videos knocking about......
https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/nuclear-new-build...
Of bizarre infrastructure phobias, do you know what mine is? Roundabouts with five exits / entrances!
No reason I can think of, and daft I know but they really unnerve me. If I know one is one my route I'll try and avoid it. I won't even drive into Derby (haven't had to go there for 25 years fortunately because of their pentagon roundabout).
Four entrances / exits is effectively a crossroads.
Six entrances / exits is often a road bifurcating a motorway (four on / off ramps and the two main road directions). Or that Swindon roundabout, but that doesn't bother me.
Any more than that, e.g. seven I'm fine with.
My only guess is I think it is the Alistair Crowley relationship with Pentangles that makes five exit roundabout scary to me. Read his books when I was perhaps a bit too young. (Let's just say before the 1st exams you had at school age in the 1970s).
There are some good (or not so good depending on your phobia) videos knocking about......
https://www.edfenergy.com/energy/nuclear-new-build...
Of bizarre infrastructure phobias, do you know what mine is? Roundabouts with five exits / entrances!
No reason I can think of, and daft I know but they really unnerve me. If I know one is one my route I'll try and avoid it. I won't even drive into Derby (haven't had to go there for 25 years fortunately because of their pentagon roundabout).
Four entrances / exits is effectively a crossroads.
Six entrances / exits is often a road bifurcating a motorway (four on / off ramps and the two main road directions). Or that Swindon roundabout, but that doesn't bother me.
Any more than that, e.g. seven I'm fine with.
My only guess is I think it is the Alistair Crowley relationship with Pentangles that makes five exit roundabout scary to me. Read his books when I was perhaps a bit too young. (Let's just say before the 1st exams you had at school age in the 1970s).
Edited by StanleyT on Monday 21st October 20:31
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Ohh, that has put the willies up me. Reminds me of a scene in Carmageddon II.
Will have to remember that phobia. "Stan, that Joule-Thompson valve you designed is sticking, can you come out to Claire Ridge next week and bang it in the right place with a wrench"? "Sorry boss, can't do the Atlantic North Sea this decade, GP has signed me off with submechanophobia".
Ohh, that has put the willies up me. Reminds me of a scene in Carmageddon II.
Will have to remember that phobia. "Stan, that Joule-Thompson valve you designed is sticking, can you come out to Claire Ridge next week and bang it in the right place with a wrench"? "Sorry boss, can't do the Atlantic North Sea this decade, GP has signed me off with submechanophobia".
Stalenhag's basically a sci-fi artist. I really like the atmosphere in his pics (I've got a couple of them on the wall of my study). They're all linked to a "story" of sorts where a half-life-esque experimentation goes a bit wrong.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/simonstalenhag?re...
https://www.redbubble.com/people/simonstalenhag?re...
J4CKO said:
I wouldnt say I have any phobias, but I get quite uneasy around man made structures that involve huge volumes of water, not natural ones so much but anything man made, the smell of the water, the noise etc.
I have two recurring dreams, one of which revolves around large volumes of water - essentially weirs and / or canal locks overflowing.
As to the guys in the boat
I’d say the water is too shallow over the top to let a boat go over even an inflatable it’s just going to beach
. Even if it was being dragged over you could fall out and stop yourself. A hard bottom boat is going nowhere.
So imo no danger but let’s call the fun police to preach about omg danger .
And if by some strange miracle one did go in and die so what? Author of his own misfortune.
I’d say the water is too shallow over the top to let a boat go over even an inflatable it’s just going to beach
. Even if it was being dragged over you could fall out and stop yourself. A hard bottom boat is going nowhere.
So imo no danger but let’s call the fun police to preach about omg danger .
And if by some strange miracle one did go in and die so what? Author of his own misfortune.
Mannginger said:
Stalenhag's basically a sci-fi artist. I really like the atmosphere in his pics (I've got a couple of them on the wall of my study). They're all linked to a "story" of sorts where a half-life-esque experimentation goes a bit wrong.
https://www.redbubble.com/people/simonstalenhag?re...
Hah! I was viewing on my phone and thought it was a photo https://www.redbubble.com/people/simonstalenhag?re...
Pesty said:
As to the guys in the boat
I’d say the water is too shallow over the top to let a boat go over even an inflatable it’s just going to beach
. Even if it was being dragged over you could fall out and stop yourself. A hard bottom boat is going nowhere.
So imo no danger but let’s call the fun police to preach about omg danger .
And if by some strange miracle one did go in and die so what? Author of his own misfortune.
Especially as they are rings with the anglers legs poking out of the bottom (at least the top one is).I’d say the water is too shallow over the top to let a boat go over even an inflatable it’s just going to beach
. Even if it was being dragged over you could fall out and stop yourself. A hard bottom boat is going nowhere.
So imo no danger but let’s call the fun police to preach about omg danger .
And if by some strange miracle one did go in and die so what? Author of his own misfortune.
Cantaloupe said:
I've long thought anglers are just suicides who have opted for the very, very long game.
No sense in being dramatic by chucking myself off somewhere high, if I sit in this boat long enough I will
die of f***ing ennui , or be eaten by a mutant 20 foot long pike.
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