Thread: How not to cross a river.......

You've seen how not to pull a 4X4 out of the mud, now how not to cross a (swolen) river. Some of the photo's look familiar, this must be the vid to go with them...............[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlqy5ZYJAI4&feature=related"]YouTube - Jeep Washed Away - Deep River Crossing (HQ)[/ame]


The story goes............
River crossing gone bad. Jeep gets washed away in deep current after glacier melt on a warm sunny day. Vehicle recovered 6 months later.

Only a Jeep lost, could have been much worse

I don,t know about people who will never learn, but it happens, at least once or more per year, up north, that someone in a car gets washed off a causeway, from fast moving water as a result of a cyclone, the following rain depression or just from wet season rain, and if they are lucky, they end up clinging to a tree, to be rescued by the SES.
I,m talking, a concrete or bitumen causeway, not a stream, creek or river with a shifting gravel base.
It shows how inexperienced people can easily misjudge the power of moving water. Combine that with an over estimation of what their vehicle is capable of, also.
I,ve heard that if one has a choice between crossing a stretch of water or a stretch of mud, then the water, (usualy) has a hard bottom, where as mud can be bottomless.
Any comments on the mud/water choice?
Laurie.