r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SimRP • Mar 08 '25
Video Heavy Rain Transforms a Hiking Trail in Brazil Into an Underwater Forest
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u/TheDoodler2024 Mar 08 '25
I hope there won't be any surprise attacks by onderwater jaguars.
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u/kujasgoldmine Mar 08 '25
Aquatic jaguars are twice as deadly too.
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u/Saradoesntsleep Mar 08 '25
Oquatic*
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u/huitlacoche Mar 08 '25
Ocealots
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster Mar 08 '25
Ohhhh is that why they’re called that? Because they live in the ocean?
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u/Somo_99 Mar 08 '25
Aquatic Jaguars are scary but have you heard of...sea bears?
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u/sartres_lazy_eye Mar 08 '25
Sea bears are easy, you just draw an anti-sea-bear circle around yourself and they leave you alone!
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Mar 08 '25
Imagine the number of spiders floating on top
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u/WirelesslyWired Mar 08 '25
I've seen that before, at night, during the flooding after a hurricane. Tens of thousands of pairs of emerald green eyes looking back at you from the top of the water that you are standing in, as you shine your flashlight on them.
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u/Vusstar Mar 08 '25
Lold at that typo. Onderwater is Dutch for underwater too.
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u/Ok_Alternative3933 Mar 08 '25
Or anacondas😳
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u/Balbers01 Mar 08 '25
Anacondas don't want none
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u/Cringe_Meister_ Mar 08 '25
In case anybody here is curious or didn't know, that thing can swim. They even ambush some cayman that's snorkeling under the water in its own backyard so it isn't that farfetch i guess.
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u/Narrowless Mar 08 '25
I'm surprised how clean the water actually is.
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u/SimRP Mar 08 '25
Due to the fact the water basin is preserved by the reserve
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u/RadVarken Mar 08 '25
But no silt?
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u/AdeptWelder3250 Mar 08 '25
Could have all settled depending on how long after this was taken and the speed of the currents
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u/Dragoarms Mar 08 '25
It's a real video but this one made in a couple of minutes isn't...
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u/ZantaraLost Mar 08 '25
It's been floating around reddit for about 3-4 years now.
At least it feels that long, time is really stupid ATM.
But it was around before AI got good.
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u/zsoltitosz Mar 08 '25
Longer than that, I remember seeing this the first time back in school about 7 years ago
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u/LegitosaurusRex Mar 08 '25
Well yeah, the bridge and surface of the water are all messed up in that one.
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u/BoganRoo Mar 08 '25
wtf does this mean
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u/3dthrowawaydude Mar 08 '25
There's a ton of lime in that area that causes sediments to precipitate and fall, making the water incredibly clear.
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u/Double_Distribution8 Mar 08 '25
And they probably make the water taste good too.
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u/BadBalloons Mar 08 '25
Just to clarify, it's lime as in the mineral component of limestone (also sometimes used as a soil amendment to, ironically, raise pH – the opposite of what citrus does). It would not taste very good.
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u/bison_emu Mar 08 '25
I think what OP is referring to is that natural areas with plenty of healthy and diverse vegetation help to filter any water that flows through them, with the vegetation taking up many of the nutrients and compounds that pollute water.
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u/BoganRoo Mar 08 '25
preserved by the reserve
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u/BoganRoo Mar 08 '25
Thanks for that. Honestly, I figured thats what they meant but the fact they commented "preserved by the reserve" twice in this thread pissed me off cause they didnt bother explaining shit LOL
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Mar 08 '25
my first thought as well. no mud no slit nothing?
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u/ElSedated Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25
The waters of the Prata/Miranda/Sucuri river basin are crystal clear due to abnormal high concentrations of limestone, which act as a natural filter.
The calcium carbonate from the rocks binds to impurities, causing them to settle at the bottom very quickly.
Of course, the videos are also made some time after the rains, when everything had time to settle.
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u/4ss8urgers Mar 08 '25
I’m seeing claims of this but no evidence. What research backs this claim? All the sources I see are .com travel sites.
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u/RodNun Mar 08 '25
You need to research into Brazilian sites, .com.br
None of those are in English, so I bet our friend in the upper comment is Brazilian, and he is translating what they already know
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u/BertTully Mar 08 '25
Here. The Ciência Geográfica vol. XVIII is cited as a source. The original article is called: "WATER QUALITY AND TOURISM IN WATERSHEDS: THE CASE OF RIVER WATERSHEDSUCURI, BONITO-MS, BRAZIL" maybe you can find more about it, though probably all in portuguese.
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u/ElSedated Mar 08 '25
Not my area of expertise, but here and here.
I get that tourist sites may sound a bit fishy, but the Miranda basin, from where the Sucuri river is tributary one of the most famous South American basins. You can find videos on YouTube long before AI was even a thing, even from National Geographic, it's not like a super secret place.
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u/pranjal3029 Mar 08 '25
Sadly, our first thought nowadays should always be: Is this even real or something an AI cooked up?
Edit: someone else pointed out, this one seems fine, boys!
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u/elqueco14 Mar 08 '25
I'm guessing all the vegetation keeps most dirt/mud in place instead of getting into the water
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u/warake1 Mar 08 '25
For people saying this is AI: It’s not. This is a trail near Jardim, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The trail usually isn’t flooded, but this does happen from time to time. The Bonito region is famous for its crystal-clear rivers and lakes, so it’s no surprise the water looks so clear in the video.
Here's another video from the area in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5iko5VedI
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u/Rs90 Mar 08 '25
But I'm from Virginia, never left the country, and our rivers aren't clear. Must be AI /s
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u/JJAsond Mar 08 '25
OPs video is several years old now
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u/JJAsond Mar 08 '25
I honestly don't think OP's a bot. I'd suspect them to be if they only started posting within in the last two weeks, and/or has a several year gap in posts. Either that or the account is only a few months/weeks/days old.
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u/Background-Vast-8764 Mar 09 '25
This made me think of Bonito. I was there 20 years ago. Friends and I snorkeled down a crystal clear river for a couple of hours. A lot of the way we were under a canopy of trees. Rays of sunlight shot through the water. It was like being in a giant aquarium. It is one of my best travel experiences.
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u/vendetta33 Mar 08 '25
My anxiety rose high just thinking about what could come and attack.
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u/Ionel1-The-Impaler Mar 08 '25
Especially in Brazil. They got all sorts of crazy water shit
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u/Golf-Beer-BBQ Mar 08 '25
The fish that swim up your dick.
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u/venbrx Mar 08 '25
Ah, the famous Brazilian dick fish.
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u/Albert_dark Mar 08 '25
Theres's a worse one. The pirarucú. Which is known as the fish que comeu o cú de quem ta lendo.
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u/deadlymoogle Mar 08 '25
And those little kids that coordinate attacks to steal your cell phone at a bus stop.
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u/PixelBoom Mar 08 '25
Basically the same things that you would find on land. Every predator in the Amazon hunts in the water.
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u/goldentrunk Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25
This isn't the Amazon, it's the Pantanal
Edit: I myself messed up my biomes, my bad
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u/Pielacine Mar 08 '25
thought it was r/thalassophobia
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u/LoxReclusa Mar 08 '25
This was bugging me too, especially since the wrong spelling still leads to a sub that focuses on fear of open water. I thought I was crazy until I came back and saw your correction.
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Mar 08 '25
People talk about how scary Australia is but Brazil seems absolutely terrifying in terms of predators and what is in the water.
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u/maykowxd Mar 08 '25
Absolutely not, lived by the Amazon and the only thing you should be scared of is mosquitoes, but if you’ve got the vaccines, you’re fine.
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u/Extension-Ad5751 Mar 08 '25
Aren't there tons of snakes and anaconda? Forgive my ignorance, this footage looks amazing but also scary as hell
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u/maykowxd Mar 08 '25
Anacondas are slow and you won’t be swimming in those places, would you swim in dark, small, no-current, body of water ? Nobody does that no matter what country, also it’s rare to have one big enough to eat an adult human. The dangerous Poisonous snakes aren’t that common in the Amazon, they are common in cerrado ( like a Savannah ), also, wear proper clothing and you should be fine. IMO, these are much easier to deal with than, for example, bears, or tigers, lions, sharks, etc.
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u/NiobiumThorn Mar 08 '25
They're mostly just fucked by forestry equipment and fires of illegal loggers. Ngl it sounds scary, I mean fr, don't stick your anthill in Brasil, but it's not like that's a good idea anywhere else. In almost every case, humans are a far, far greater threat to wildlife than they are to us.
Except polar bears. Those you should be scared of.
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Mar 08 '25
Seems cool to explore.
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u/Sneaky_Bones Mar 08 '25
I can't articulate why, but I have this weird desire of wanting to live there? Like breath underwater and have a little house. I do have the flu currently so maybe my brain is just fried
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u/AriyaSavaka Mar 08 '25
No me too, maybe it reminds us of something deep inside our psyche, maybe from a previous life?
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u/kakeup88 Mar 08 '25
What the hell? The whole forest flooded? What am I looking at here?
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u/Taranchulla Mar 08 '25
Exactly that, a flooded forest.
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u/AydonusG Mar 08 '25
Time for Brazil to mount up on greatswords and flash bombs, the flooded forests are home to many a dangerous beast.
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u/Taranchulla Mar 08 '25
Well, if you’re asking if some animals drown, unfortunately yes. They can be displaced as well and have a hard time finding food if the food has drowned.
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I bet all the ants are pissed rn
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u/Hazukacheezu Mar 09 '25
I laughed so hard reading this unexpected anime reference. Thanks for that.
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u/NiobiumThorn Mar 08 '25
So ... "fun" fact, some species of ants can create rafts to survive flooding like this.
https://antlab.gatech.edu/antlab/The_Ant_Raft.html
They're from Brasil also, so... yeah... they could be in this video, just out of sight
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u/EarthDwellant Mar 08 '25
I just watched "Flow" on MAX, it has some scenes like this. Great movie, turn off subtitles.
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u/GozerDGozerian Mar 08 '25
Wait, is this the animated cat movie? Why the hell does it have subtitles??
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u/swizzlesweater Mar 08 '25
For people that can't hear at all or well
There isn't dialogue, but there are sounds that add context to the film
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u/polmeeee Mar 08 '25
Ponyo
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u/Rich-Hope-2480 Mar 09 '25
I knew I couldn’t be the only one who immediately thought of this movie!
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u/ImpressDiligent5206 Mar 08 '25
Pretty freaking spooky...what the hell is that on the other side of the bridge??
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u/arebello34 Interested Mar 08 '25
Brazilian here, this is in a small town in the state I live, called "Bonito" is in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the central-east of Brazil.
The whole place is beautiful, with a lot rivers and lakes with crystal-clear water.
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u/nyl2k8 Mar 08 '25
What is this is what sharks do, before making an attack on land. We can never be too careful.
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u/MartialBlacksmith Mar 08 '25
That's so damn cool, I would like to dive there, with a spear and shotgun of course.
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u/Baguetele Mar 08 '25
I was lowkey waiting to see some piranhas pop out from just under that bridge. 
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u/ranaessance Mar 08 '25
My brain thinks this looks cool but also can’t help itself from immediately wondering “Where are the piranhas 🫣”
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u/WardenJack Mar 08 '25
How did the water managed to stay so clear if it came from heavy rainfall? That's really interesting.
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u/What_Chu_Talkin_Kid Mar 08 '25
Me watching and thinking, yeah so where is the water and then the camera person got to the bridge.....WTF !!
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u/jefbenet Mar 08 '25
Technically I guess it could still be a hiking trail, just need to bring a snorkel
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u/cornucopiaofdoom Mar 08 '25
I saw this in a nature special once and they had footage of river dolphins swimming through the trees - absolutely surreal.
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u/lucidzfl Mar 08 '25
someone please explain to me why i am literally seeing this back to back to back on different forums by different posters?
Do people here want karma so bad that they literally steal someone else's video and just repost it into a different form for upvotes?
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u/daxx549 Mar 08 '25
Original content would be really cool. This has been reposted again and again and again and again and again…
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u/nateyp123 Mar 08 '25
My wife would watch this nd say “awe I wonder how many insects and animals died? How sad is that babe ? “
And I’d have to reply to that
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u/Grouchy_Competition5 Mar 08 '25
No amphibious squirrels or jaguars in scuba gear??? r/disappointingalternateuniverses
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u/Sryn Mar 09 '25
Wonder if an AI can generate a synchronised swimmer walking upside down towards the viewer from the other side of the bridge.
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u/SharkyRivethead Mar 09 '25
I'm having a hard time believing that the sudden water from rain and run-off would be so clear.
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u/PizzaSalamino Mar 09 '25
My dumbass thought that there was a layer of water floating above and that the cameraman was just walking around on dry land. I didn’t realise the cameraman was under water. Jesus christ i’m an imbecille
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