How to be stupid in Iceland
Black beach (Reynisfjara) is dangerous place if you are stupid. People have died when taken by the Sneaker Waves. Don't be stupid be safe. You can never be careful enough around nature.
June 10th 2022 - Man was taken by the waves. He drowned
On November 10th 2021 - one more person, a young woman was taken by the waves and lost here life.
30 May 2018. Woman died at the beach
9. janúar 2017 - Woman was taken by the waves, here husband and kids managed to save them self.
10 February 2016 - young man was taken by the wave while his wife watched. He was not to be saved.
2007 - Woman taken by the waves.
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True Story: One winter I went ice fishing and rescued a person who fell through the ice. The next winter I went ice fishing and someone rescued me after I fell through the ice. The next winter I decided not to go ice fishing.
Did anyone drown that year in your spot?
“It’s not a risk until it have happened to me”
I went ice fishing that winter and no one was there to save me when I fell through the ice, my death is on your hands!
I assume the guy who you were meant to save that winter is dead now.
@@silotx i saw you go thru the ice but i had a fish nibbling on my line and i wanted to catch it.
When I was young went to a local beach in the Summer with my mate. It was not a beach we had been before and quite remote with noone else there. I was only in 3 feet of water and a wave knocked me over and took me out. Within seconds I could not touch the floor and was being pulled further out with every wave. Tried not to panic and just keep swimming for 20 minutes but I was not getting any closer as the current was pulling me back out and I was getting tired. Its a terrifying feeling, really thought I was going to die If I can't get in enough to get my feet down and rest. I remember thinking about my family and how upset my mother was going to be. Was trying to shout to my friend but he could not hear me. After about an hour in the water" it felt a lot longer" of swimming as hard as I could with the waves, I remember thinking If I cant feel the bottom now , that's it, as I was exhausted and I felt something on the tips of my toes, was hoping it was the bottom not just something in the water. This gave me a boost to know I might have a chance and I put all my energy into getting in a bit further, where eventually I managed to feel the bottom and stand up. It was still a battle to get out of the water as the undercurrent was so strong, was like a vortex spinning under the surface. When I got out I collapsed on the sand. All my skin was full of cuts and bleeding off the shells being churned up in the water. My mate had fallen asleep in the sun and did not know anything was wrong..Found out later many people have died there over the years and that its not safe for swimming because of the severe under currents. I was very lucky. I am 52 now and this happened when I was 15. I can't remember so many things these days but I remember every second I was in the water that day.
hope you lived your second life to the fullest
@@sidhantjasrotia220 Thank you!
@I I Thanks for your kind words. So glad you were ok. Its a terrifying experience and one that I won't forget, you feel so helpless against the power of the currents. I remember the sea looking "normal" before I went in. When I got pulled under could see the water spinning and pulling back out to sea. Like you said, every body of water has its own characteristics and it's definitely a reality check. I was just very lucky that day. I still love the sea but have a greater respect for the dangers. All the best my friend..
@I I Yeh the waves were not huge just powerful, but under the surface it was spinning and pulling. I told my grandfather what had happened and he told me he got caught out there on the same beach. He was a very strong swimmer but he could not get in, he had to swim across the shore for a couple of hundred yards before he could get back in. I did not consider myself a strong swimmer, had only learned the year before so even when I tried to keep calm you still freak out and try to get back in as quickly as I can. I was only about 30 feet from the sand, maybe less, so I thought I could reach it easier. It just felt like the sand and safety was so close but as it turned out was a nightmare to get to. Thank God I had those swimming lessons lol.
I've just come back from Iceland. We(I went on a tour) got to that beach just after three people got caught by a sneaker wave. Two men managed to stand back up and run back to the rocks, but a lady got swept out to sea!!!!. There were loads of rescue crews and an ambulance crew looking from the beach for any signs of her out in the water. Her body was found 4 hours later by the helicopter crew out at sea! Be very careful with your visit people!
rip
No it is most certainly not your visit. It is your blatant ignorance. Do not put the blame somewhere else. It is not Disney World, whatever the American share holders fool you. I saw the poster 'Iceland Funpark of America ' A beautiful country corrupted by American money grabbers. It is not at all a funpark, is it ? Never was. It is Awesome Nature.
I've been there, and as a former water guard I was constantly nervous looking at other people and was constantly warning my friends not to go too close to the water. It looks horribly deadly.
It is. Thats a dangerous beach. Trust me.
@@vaivaivv And now I do
Glad to hear it buddy. The North-Atlantic is an unforgiving power. People need to understand this
it is. There are rogue waves there that kill people regularly, even in sunny weather.
I wonder how your ancestors were able to get there on wooden sailing vessels doesn't the open sea looks horribly deadly too ? modern Scandinavians.......
I like how this video could be called "Me and my family having fun on the beach."
Anywhere else in the world, it could be. Not where the water is cold as ice and waves are strong and unpredictable.
@@TR4R oh boy... 🙄 Learn to live for f sake. You can't be a wimp your entire life. Oh but the water is ice cold and the waves are super dooper strong oooh. Get over it it you safety Karen.
@@thebiglarratshow3385 you seem to be the only Karen around here with your ignorance lol
@@thebiglarratshow3385 this isn’t learning to live though, this is an attempt for winning a Darwin award 🤣
@@thebiglarratshow3385 3 people have died here from getting too close to the sea and being surprised by sneaker waves which swept them out to the cold and rough sea. It's known as one of the most dangerous tourist locations in Iceland. But people go there and assume it's just an average beach and "let's live a little".....
Ive visted Iceland twice to go surfing. The seas have alot of power and the water is cold. Without a wetsuit, your energy will be gone in minutes. Amazing country, with great waves but you have to be safe and respect the ocean
The water is cold - wow - mind blown
Mt everest n other himalaya mountain are colder n dangerous than Iceland
rahul raj It can be more dangerous but Iceland has volcanoes
@@theblackphoenix6498 people don't go to volcanoes..but they do to himalayas.. climbing Himalayan Mountain r the ultimate human challenge
rahul raj people go to volcanoes lol
Been there a few times - plenty of warning signs saying not to get close to the water, because there are regular rogue waves - much more powerful than the frequent waves - that will rip you out to sea in a blink. What you see here is not the worst it gets. It has quite often caused deaths - people really are dumb. It's an awe-inspiring place, but you really have to give it huge respect. While I was staying there (in Vik-y-Myrdal), a German photographer was on the black beach the other side of this headland (beyond the rocks you see here) and he turned his back on the water because the sand was driving into his face in the wind, wasn't paying attention, a rogue wave came and took his entire tripod and camera (worth thousands of £££s) and just swallowed it up never to be seen again. He was knocked over and pulled off the shore and it was only by desperate scrambling back between waves that he saved his life - he almost died there.
Thank god it only took his things and not his life 😨 near death experiences changes a man. I’m going to Iceland *finally* and will be visiting this beach
Scary indeed. A good reminder that the universe and the forces of nature are indifferent to our existence.
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist9 Hardly relevant.
Thanks for the explanation, because I couldn't see the problem with just the video.
@@philweight3480Never is. I report it as spam gleefully and instantly
I was in butt deep water in Florida when a wave slammed me against the ocean floor, and instantly dragged me away from shore. I hadn't had time to take a good breath, and I was moving too fast along the bottom to do anything but wait it out. Once the current weakened, I pushed off the bottom as hard as I could and bolted toward the surface. . . which was about 25 feet above me. My body desperately wanted to give up and breath water before I made it halfway up, but somehow I stuck it out. All said and done, I must have been underwater for roughly two minutes, but felt like a lifetime. It took another couple of minutes, and every bit of energy I had left, to swim back to where I could stand. Please take undertow warnings seriously. I was 18, and an incredibly strong swimmer, yet I almost met my end at a beach not really considered high risk for this sort of thing. You never really understand the power of water until it's rendered you utterly helpless. By that point it may be too late.
I gave up immediately and felt my hair waving above me. It felt nice and deeply relaxed as I went up and down with the calm movement of the water. Next moment I woke up, my feet touching ground, dragged to the beach between two strong man that told me off.
@@user-ij1nv8be3i Wow! Glad you made it out.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” ― George Carlin
Oh shit
George was extremely intelligent. One of my favorites of all time.
Ah, the irony...
That is not how statistic works, but ok...
His maths was weak tho
The people visiting Hawaii say Hold my beer.
Lol
Now, thats really stupid hahahahahaha
Lol
How cold is it on Hawaii compared to Iceland?
@@beeragainsthumanity1420 Waves are way more powerful in the North Pacific, especially along the Northshores in winter.... Stupid people die in/near the ocean all the time in Hawaii....
I once rescued - as in literally swam into the ocean- a German tourist who underestimated our beaches here in New Zealand. Even when I was speaking German to her and telling her "gefahrlich" to get out, before I needed to strip off and swim out I was ignored. She found it all amusing. Until she was getting drowned! It was her lucky day an ex lifeguard was on the scene that day.
Glad you were there buddy!
I just wanted to ask, how far away from the coast can currents drag you? (Exception being rip currents.) Cause in beaches in Goa there doesn't seem to be undercurrents after entering 5-10 metres into the ocean. I'm nowhere near as experienced as you, but I've noticed currents only in the receding waters nearest to the coast. And if dragged out into the sea, how probable is it to come back to the shore if you're an alright swimmer?
Just 3 metres from the tideline a stony beach can drop-off quickly, so that at say 5 metres you will be over your head and dragged out to sea with the next wave. You will then need to be a strong swimmer to get back to shore. Depends on the beaches slope, wave size and if its sandy or rocky beach. This beach in question would be 7 out of 10 on the danger level. I am a good swimmer and you would never catch me getting this close.
@@InterestingFingz Oh damn! I've never seen a beach stony beach IRL. I don't have much experience swimming in the ocean, so pardon me if I sound dumb but once 20-30 metres inside the ocean, if we are trying to swim back to the coast, shouldn't the waves be pushing us towards the coast? Cause my understanding is the undercurrents are near the land surface and we are on the water surface.
If caught in a rip, you just go with it and slowly, calmly start swimming diagonally back to land. It doesn’t matter where you come back in diagonally ( could be kms further down) main thing is to stay calm and NEVER try to swim against the current. If you’re at a busy place with other people, as you’re being dragged out by the current you put one arm up. If you’re a crap swimmer, basically you should ONLY swim between the flags on beaches with lifeguards.
I got pulled out in a wave here in Cali. I’m a great swimmer but one gulp of water from the up and down waves threw all of that out the window. I was able to get back to shore but from 5 ft in to 30 ft out in 2 seconds can really scare you when you look up. Never again.
This is exactly what people are not realizing the cold ocean is so different from swimming in a pool or at a warm beach like in Cali that still can be tricky in so many ways
"Look at me! I can outrun Mother Nature!" Mother Nature: "Hold my beer."
Underrated comment 😂
More like Hold my maple syrup
Good awareness about how to enjoy the nature and what should not to do while visiting such places where anything's can go wrong.
Boring..
😂
For anyone who doesn't realise why this beach is so dangerous, the water temperature is a surprisingly minor consideration - you would straight drown before freezing enough to drown! Look at how the waves break & roll in - the beach actually doesn't continue on a clean downslope like the shore appears to; there is a massive lip/drop-off where the waves break, and the incoming waves are actually rolling over the top of the outgoing ones. This all combines to mean that once you lose your grip on land, the water will instantly suck you like a vacuum cleaner out to sea and push you down into the drop-off space below the incoming waves - you wouldn't bob up to the surface again till you get spat out a few miles or so away, and trying to swim against such powerful ocean currents is impossible.
Wooow terrifying
This is every beach though 😂
@@moralester he just explained to you why this is not every beach. do you have a reading problem?
@@atlasbailly5439 lol... Brother... 🤦♂️
Someone should, as a lesson, take camera and diving gear and show us how this works and why it’s dangerous. That would make for some really good (and informative) television.
A lot of people are scared by lava, but lava doesn't chase you around, it just flows downhill in a sluggish rate. This, on the other hand, _looks_ nice and harmless, especially for people with no ocean experience. In Hollywood movies, no one is suddenly swept away and drowned on a beautiful beach - places like this are stages to feel beautiful and heroic, not at all associated with a sudden pointless brutal death.
Well... There is that 'thick porridge' lava you mention, and then there's the lava that flows fast like milk. Anyways, often it's not the lava that kills, but the dangerous gases that precede it; they are heavier than air so you will want to run for the hills - literally - in order to stay alive.
Lava is indeed slow and beautiful to observe. But what is truly terrifying when a volcano erupts is the tephra, hot ash that comes at a huge speed towards you
@@janalu4067yessir it’s the pyroclastic flows that kill you - 300C moving at 400mph mixture of ash and various gases. Basaltic lava flows can reach high speeds however if insulated
I mean look at the nyiragongo eruption, 60kph lava while rare across the world could easily kill you. But I'll concede wayyyy more people died to the ocean
@@miliba Literally came here to say this. Alo at OP. *at a sluggish rate.
My aunties husband worked there as a tour guide, when he worked there he told the tourists how dangerous that beaches and not go that close to the sea and to stay away and JUST take pictures yet they did not listen and still did it anyway, it resulted in three tourists being swept away only one surviving. Stupidity can kill you!
'The Chinese take-away' is what the Icelanders call that beach. Warning signs meters high and in all sizes with pictures and all languages. They have a beautiful spot now on top of a rock with well fenced plateau. Directly above the huge waves. Just Icelandic made a video.
Are we just going to ignore how crazy looking those massive rock formations are in the background above the beach at 1:08
Vik, Iceland. If you ever get a chance to go it is iconic
@@waymanirwin2539 I've been there. There's a rocky pier thing that breaks the waves by the town and walking out to the edge of that thing, seeing the ocean and the land behind you. It's truly something
search columnar basalt (geology) for further insight
Is just a few places around the globe that have this: Iceland, Hawaii, Mexico, Ireland and some other countries and the formations of rocks are gorgeous.
Yes
When this came up on my recommendation page I asked myself “Did I do something wrong?”
It got recommended to me just after the viral whale shark video ...
When I visited that beach a few years ago there was a SIGN at the beach telling people about the tourists who died there with a newspaper-clip and an explanation in the style of "Don't be stupid enough to die like that woman mentioned here".
I surfed for years always taking advantage of the thrills the ocean's push can give and never giving the pull a second thought. One day my beach had an insane rip tide. I knew it. I didn't care. I used it to paddle out then sideways to get out of the rip...I thought. 2 hours later (exhausted myself) I managed to get back to shore, but I was on a different beach. I didn't respect the ocean's pull. Remember when you're admiring the beauty of the push that the mercilessness of the pull is right there too.
Just a few years ago a family of 3 who were visiting Iceland as tourist experienced a tragedy. The dad was on the beach taking photos and than a wave swept in and he ended up drowning. Exactly like shown here.
I'd still probably run near the waves like them. It's too beautiful to miss out on. Just dont be stupid. Respect nature and think before you do things that you know are dangerous.
Theyre called sneaker waves
@@matthewreid1175 So the country should spend thousands of dollars to send a chopper to look for your freezing ass in the ocean because the waves "are too beautiful to miss"?
In Chile, South america, there's a Beach You need to be safe. The sea comes and don't permit You to Go out, it closes the two sides and You have the mountain in your back, the ocean growing front of you. Respect the advice.
@@jweber297 Sounds interesting. Where is it exactly in Chile?
The quality of this video is better than the quality of our world today
Damn. Lol good one
Now we are in a world of covidiots
You just insulted 198 countries
@@japhethdwyer9265 achievement unlocked: start world war lll
@@sanstheanimator1964 **Hides in Switzerland**
I like how they are straight forward in the promotion of their country
😂 I had a little pause at the end, when I realized this was a tourist promotional video 😅
Well, sometimes being straight forward is not enough for stupid people lol
It looks like it is not even from this planet. Absolutely breathtaking! The cuts on the mountain side, the dark colour of the beach and equally contrasting white frothy waves and the reflection of the sun rays... And also, thanks for this excellent quality video. Hope to visit it someday, and not be washed off.
Welcome and enjoy the magic of this place when you arrive in Iceland
The video quality is stunning. Wow
@J it's called wind ever heard of it
Christoforos Georgoulas iTs caLleD WInd eVeR hEaRd oF IT
it's not the camera it's just iceland
Digital bass
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Just recently returned from Iceland. Absolutely beautiful beach yet equally terrifying with those roaring waves. Tourists just don’t listen, I saw plenty of people wandering too close and nearly getting swept away with the tide.
Did you see the woman at Jokulsarlon sit on the mini iceberg for a pic and get swept out to sea? Stupid beyond measure.
@@mtlassen1992 That’s crazy! Especially since Jokulsarlon was very calm when I visited. I did see a guy jumping over the safety barrier at Gulfoss to be photographed right at the cliff edge above the falls!
Andrew Phillips That almost happened to me there (not that the incoming wave was very big, but the ice I was on did flip over and start moving out to sea).
Are there always roaring waves or is it just during stormy weather?
@@danlightened It’s pretty much always like this. The sea around the south coast of Iceland is notoriously rough. The Atlantic stretches from Iceland down to Antarctica without any land in between, so naturally the waves gain a lot of momentum!
This is the kind of place that looks safe enough, but is actually really terrifying
Not really.. I can tell it from the surface, looking from how the water rolls in. They don't seem "calm".
@@amandamol9050 yeah but average people dont look that much into it
@Y T Right ! Even from this video, if you actually look at it you can already get a sense of the dangers. The disparity of the distance the waves come up to the shore is already a good tell of the unpredictable nature of the waves.
Yeah, I don't get it either. The sea does look a bit violent like it's monsoon time. And as another commenter mentions, rolling waves and noise. Maybe I haven't seen it before as much to identify it. I guess it depends how strong the undercurrents are. And judging by the comments and people who have been there, it probably really strong.
It doesn't look safe at all ..
When I visited this beach last year it was 10’-12’ mutant double ups detonating on the sand. I was extremely anxious because of all the people near the water and around that little point. They have no clue how much power is in those waves and currents. I’m extremely experienced in big waves and without fins I had considerable doubts that I could survive myself, let alone save someone. I seriously thought I was gonna have to jump in after someone.
The ever changing situation is what seems hard to grasp for people
I've seen this exact same looking Beach in my dreams so many times. And never really thought that this place existed if I hadn't seen a picture of it today. Even the the position of those rocks. Ghad.. If feels so surreal watching it on video. This automatically goes on my bucket list.
Hope you do get a chance to visit, it's a place of unearthly beauty - and possibly the spookiest one I've been to. Just take the advice on board; we visited on what we were told was a decent day in June, the crashing of the waves was relentless (and yes they do come in fast) and the wind strong enough to make walking awkward. I cannot imagine what the place must be like when the winter gales come.
@@andreabertuzzi4097 it does look very, very spooky and intimidating!! If you don't mind me asking.. how did you feel, when you was there..
Wow, I have goosebumps
Vik, Iceland. A lovely place. Don't let these people fool you, nothing scary about it
U wr viking in old life
If this video saves just one life, then it was well worth the upload. Thank you good person.
Actually when you enter that beach in Vik, the first sign you see is about all the people and tourist that have died in the last years.. just doing that for a photo.
Ok but let's take a moment to look how sick these rock formations are
...And in the past, vikings would just be chillin in their boat
Nearly two third of them used to suffer from called death
everyone dumbass
"chillin"... right
We went there - was told to stay away from the waves and we stayed away! Beautiful beach!
and thats literally the most boring history ive ever heard
@@vor946 Weak
@@projectkj7643 lmao you replied after 2 years XD
@@sidhantjasrotia220 yup, still on YT! Wish I was in Iceland creating more boring history for trolls! 🤣
@@vor946 Maybe you should go swimming in this particular spot and film it so we have something thrilling to watch?
The basalt columns and cave here are spectacular. Also, the cliffs above are covered with puffins. Just don't give tourism a bad name. Leave only footprints. Take only memories.
Not your floating, dead corpse
Oh the people that got drug out left only footprints as well.
The scenery is gorgeous.
Think this is the place where the dark lord hide his horcrux locket of the Slytherin, and prof Dumbledore and Harry came here to find it
Haha
One might find a still or two. Hard to smell ‘em in that breeze.
I visited in 2016, we toured the circle in winter, it was magical. Just before we were going down to see the black beach, waves took and drowned a tourist. The beach was closed while they recovered the body, we head he was married and his wife saw it. Those waves are fast.
Gorgeous location, but one should never underestimate the ocean and mother nature.
I live in SW Washington State, USA. I have grown up playing in the Pacific Ocean... in rivers... lakes... etc. I cannot imagine playing this "game" with those clothes, in those temperatures. To say nothing of the current, underwater geography, etc. You can't save everyone from themselves - but maybe you can someone. Good work Mr. Logason.
Thank you
Looks like the temperature is really great for a bath
I got engaged on this beach this january! Safely away from the waters edge! I lived on the scottish west coast but I have never seen such powerful waves as this one beach. It was surreal. Nowhere else like it.
Hi are you single
@@brahimkarim812 Literally said I got engaged on the beach dude. 😂
Hi I'm from Algeria I want relationship relationship true
@@brahimkarim812 Too late buddy.
Hello are you single, I from the southern dunes.
This was actually shot in August and was the hottest day of the year in Iceland. All 17 locals hit the beach that day.
I think all the people saying "theyre just having fun and living life" fail to realise these waves will pull back, drag you out and down, im pretty sure they're called sneaker or sleeper waves but I cant remember correctly. And, the slope isnt gentle like most beaches, its a massive drop. In short ; If you are caught by the wave, you're better off just praying and holding your breath.
Sneakwr waves is the term I learnt and you are absolutely right about the situation
Always be careful in Iceland. Its so easy to loose your life doing something you take for granted anywhere else
Stunning place! The rock formations in the distance, that unique black beach, and those powerful waves! Wow
Not in Iceland, but I once did get caught in the waves like that, pretty scary experience, the worst part is you rarely see it coming.
I visited a black sand beach in Hawaii when I was 13. I was MAYBE ankle deep and it felt like it was about to pull me off my feet and into the ocean. The scariest thing I had ever experienced. Can't believe such low water can have so much power.
When I went to this beach, there was a guy doing cartwheels in front of these waves showing off to everyone on the beach. The sea nearly got him at least 4 times when we were there, that was only in the space of 15 minutes.
My first reaction was "so cartwheels are sufficient for showing off"? But doing them for 15 minutes? That's actually kind of impressive.
@@stefanwrabetz5650 hahahahahaha
That is the most ancient looking beach I've ever seen!
We have a few places like this around humboldt county. Not only is this water extremely cold but with a drop off like this if you got pulled out past the shore you're in open ocean currents. Best bet is to tread water and hope it circles you back if you're anything but a very very strong swimmer. I surf and there is a spot with a drop that makes me nervous every time I come back in.
This is a good description of the situation. Only difference is the cold cold water. 4c in winter and maybe 8c in summer
One time, I was visiting my grandmother in North Carolina, we went to a nearby beach and the waves were huge. It was a rainy day too. My dad took us all out into the water and we had these tubes we were floating on. I was sat on mine and so was my brother when this wave took us both out. The wave hurt my brother more than it hurt me. He rolled off and slammed his head against the ground while I was having trouble finding my way back out of the water, I was stuck in an impact zone. My brother got out of the water but I kept getting pulled back and slammed back down with waves. My dad had to swim in and get me. This happened last summer.
I found a different way to be stupid in Iceland. I filled my diesel rental car with gasoline. Oops. Cost me 4 hours & $500. The people who helped me were incredibly nice, and knew just what to do. Because I wasn’t the first person to that. Iceland is stunningly beautiful, and the people are absolutely gracious.
The seas are rough because it's the home of Jörmungandr ☺️
what's that
Great that you posted this video. Some of the comments are very instructive and educational.
thank you
See those pointy rocks in the background? I've walked up to those in a low tide, waves were somewhat calm so it looked safe. Took in the scenery and next thing I knew a huge wave hit me behind. Got my footing and went back to the safe ground. I wasn't in that much danger but I did have to deal with wet clothes on a very cold winters day.
There are $$$$$ worth of camera gear that have been lost that way. Those waves are always tricky , but not alway lethal
Great add Iceland to my list of beautiful places I will probably never see
"Don't be stupid, be safe"
Karens never listens
Dont go out of the cave caveman. You might get hurt.......
About 20 years ago two students were playing, just the same, on the beach at Aberystwyth. It was night time, they had been drinking Absinthe in one of the sea front Hotels. No one saw it happen but it's assumed a rogue wave took one of them on the steep shingle beach, the other tried to help. At that part of the beach up against the southern edge of Cop rocks, at most states of tide, there is nowhere for the water to go crashing up the beach, so, it forms a temporary sub-surface rip that heads back out to sea along the edge of the rocky slab. Experienced local surfers use the rip to get a jump start out back, when they can surf the slab at high tide. You'd never expect something like this to be possible on the coast of a shallow bay at the back of a sheltered sea. but, it is.
The big problem is that people assume that what you see is what you get but under the surface of the ocean are all kinds of things that change the situation based on weather and currents
Thanks for the tutorial, it's gonna be really useful!
That is good to know
the most dangerous place in the world is my kitchen when my mother-in-law is visiting us.
Damn
1952 called and wants its joke back.
I clean out a spot in the closet before my mother in law comes. So she has a place to hang upside down during the day..
Do you know the difference between in-laws and outlaws? Outlaws are wanted.
I have been to this beach hundreds of times with travellers. As I get older I try to get tours that don't include the beach and not a day tour where I haven't got time to see what kind of characters are on the tour. I prepare and look out for my groups but I am getting tired of all the multiple near fatal selfie travelers. But one of my favourite places. See the Bollywood video from the movie Dilwale, the video to the song Gerua, one of the most viewed music videos on KZhead. Sharukah Khan came here just to have the whole south shore as a backdrop for a love song in a film happening in India. One of the best adverts for the South Shore. Justin Bieber also shot a music video there with his friends while travelling. Forgot the name. And Venus as a Boy by Björk.
men did not even look back when she fell - true gentlement, real team spirit...wow!
Yes first they thought of them self then the lady once they were in safety
Is it safe if you view it from a bit away?
Yes of course
I have been to this beach and we were not aloud to go close because someone had recently been swept away and drowned there. But it was beautiful
so what are the real dangers of swimming there? Temperature of water? Particularly dangerous bottom? Or just strong waves that require technique and timing when You decide to leave water? What kind of danger is there except need to time ones movement with wave?
This is the beach that inspired the scene in Frozen II of Elsa battling the waves. It looks absolutely magnificent
this makes me want to visit iceland. but i'm not sure if i can stand the cold temperature...
People are usually used to waves, they might be used to cold water, but most people are not used to freezing waves in the dead of summer. The North Atlantic is deadly cold. Swimming just a few yards in the bay in Rejkyavik where the water is flat as glass is enough to drown most people not prepared for it. Falling into the raging surf wearing heavy clothing and getting dragged out? That's a death sentence.
Excactly my point and we like people to enjoy but stil stay safe
Remember everyone, never take a risk, never have fun, never travel anywhere and make sure you point out any obvious dangers from the comfort of your parents basement as you skip through youtube.
That is very condensating towards people and the words of a fool that is villing to risck the lifes of others while he hum self sits at home in the sofa watching their ago y
I was thinking, 'Those waves aren´t that big, is it just the riptide or something that´s dangerous?' And then I understood the first picture was forced perspective, and the waves were truly taller than all of the people. 'Ah, so that's why.'
Natural selection at its finest! ☺️
That beach reminds me of the beach from Frozen 2. The producers said they've designed the beach after one from iceland, so maybe it's even same!
I thought so too, it must be a metaphor for Elsa being taken away
Thought the same. The rock to the left in the water even looks like one they showed in the behind the scenes.
@@greenivy713 Hi 🖐 wohl noch ein Frozen Fan :D Was ein Zufall, dass ich den Film vor einer Stunde nochmal geschaut hab und du zum gleichen Zeitpunkt auf einen drei Wochen alten Kommentar geantwortet hast
@@lpweltsinan8158 Haha, yup :D Kenne den zweiten Teil erst seit Anfang des Jahres, aber er hat mich so begeistert, dass ich mich jetzt wohl eindeutig Frozen Fan nennen kann :D
They’re trying to pick something out the water or off of the shore. What are they trying to pick up?
is this heaven? or am i sleep deprived? why is it the most beautiful place i’ve ever seen. Looks like a video game
I’ve been there once. Please listen to the people who ask you to be careful. The waves are very unpredictable. Instead of going for the waves, why not enjoy the amazing out of this world view!
Me- You have 30 seconds to prove to me that you are stupid Them- I’ll do it in 10
Hahahha tht is a good one :)
If they got pulled out there, in full winter clothing, they'd drown in 1 minute.
if they don't drown, then freeze to death
Less than 1 minute, I would say.
@@sidhantjasrotia220 morons right?
@@lamle5183 it's like when an animal is playing near the power lines
Yo estuve hace 8 meses en esa locura de país,creo que es un disparate.Paisajes de ultratumba,un país lleno de oscuridad,lluvia que no para y mucho viento. Es uno de los mejores viajes de mi vida. Me siento agradecido por haber ido de visita a Islandia. Estuve en esa playa,pero viendo desde arriba.Y se los digo,es tenebroso ese lugar. Como el mar revuelto y las olas chocan. La lluvia,la oscuridad,el frío y el viento crean un ambiente espectacular. Todo viajero tiene que hacer un esfuerzo por ir a ese país. Una vez el viento voló la puerta del auto y estuvo a punto de tumbarme. Cascadas,glaciares,volcanes,agua en abundancia. Larga vida a Islandia.
I was there two years ago and the tides can be deceiving, but luckily I was not caught in the water (although barely).
That looks like a savage rip tide right there.
That looks so cold and they're just laughing and having a good ole time 😂🥶🤷♂️
It's not the cold that kills you. It's the current. If you lose your footing and the ability to stand back up the current will drag you out to sea pretty fast. That is the thing people are underestimating.
"Respect Nature, respect science, cherish your life"
In Alaska, tourists get stuck in the salt flats and drown when the tide comes back, happened this year.
That is very sad
Beautiful but, scary at the same time. An undertow almost killed me two times when I was young. One was an underwater hidden rip current. The other was ignorance swimming into waves after a hurricane when I was 8 years old. I would of stayed back from these waves.
Wish to visit this place really 😊. Love from Pakistan
Me encantó islandia , volvería otra vez
This place looks like it's on another planet. Beautiful.
Had a neighbor friend of mine who was on a second honeymoon in Hawaii and taking a walk down the beach when a wave swept in taking him out to sea. The body was never recovered. I walk by his house and always think of that. This was back in the early 90's. Weird huh?
That is a sad story and nature is misterius.
This place is so enigmatic. You'd think you're watching a space movie, and this place is in an outer planet
I was at a beach once , in prakasam district of andhra pradesh, India, me and my friends went ahead and walked until we were in waist deep water, walked a few steps more till the water level was coming up to our chest, we could still feel the ground beneath our feet, we were doing that to feel the force of waves on our body, most of the time was spent in waist deep water, as by that time I figured out and decided to stay at that spot as it was safe and fun at the same time, I don't know what was getting into me and my friends, because sometimes we would go in chest deep water to feel the waves and for the thrill, there were times when I felt the overwhelming power of the water and also the sand quickly escaping beneath my feet giving me no foothold or grip, later when I left the beach and during the following days I realised how foolish it was for us to walk that far into the water, we were lucky that nothing happened to us, because when the fun and excitement takes over, people tend to be careless and don't think wisely, also I am from the mountains and totally inexperienced when it comes to surviving in a coastal area.
I'm a prairie lad through a d through, never seen the sea with my own eyes truth be told, so I don't quite understand what makes these waves so dangerous. I was wondering if maybe someone could explain.
This beach is the southernmost point of Iceland. Between us and the mainland is nothing. This results in waves building up and nothing there to break them down before they hit the beach. These waves can come in 6-7 very innocent but then the 8th can be a giant one. The beach it self is Narrow and about 4m out there is a cliff in the ocean. This means that it is not normal slopey beach and the waves break with a heavy force and can break on top of each other. Furthermore there are small pebble stones on the beach which make it very difficult to stand up if you get swept of your feet. What is tricky about the beach is that even in beautiful weather it can be dangerous, all depending on the weather out at sea and even the days before. The tide, being high or low also comes in to play. So not a single day at the beach is the same or similar. It is like a demon that you don't know what is up to so you have to be careful not to feed him. This demon has taken 6 lives in recent years and hundreds through history. We like people to visit, enjoy the country and be safe. If the do like in this video play with their lives they are also playing with the life of rescue workers that will try their best to save them if at all possible, wich in most cases is not.
@@KristjanLogason Wow. Thank you for the long and detailed response. I certainly understand the situation a lot clearer now.
@@WretchedRedoran My pleasure
People really are ignorant idiots sometimes. I grew up at a surf beach in NZ and know the ocean. There were days when I wouldn’t even put my big toe in the water. My children who grew up in Europe know that when they’re in NZ they’re not experienced enough swimmers to swim anywhere except between the flags. When I was a child we were at a west coast beach. All adults there were strong and experienced swimmers. A freak wave came in and dragged a child in. My Dad and his best friend dove in to try and save him, only my Dad came back. Never underestimate the power of water.
nature is so powerful tall dont even know. Also please never do This. Soooo many ppl have died cuz of This and cus they ignored the Signs that are on tourist destinations. So just be careful and follow what the signs say❤️
Those shoes will never be the same...
I just saw a video of big ass waves hitting this place and now this is in my recommended
And the hypothermia time clocks starts ticking!
US Air Force says 20 minutes and hypothermia max hits, then cardiac arrest and RIP.
besides the cold water what makes this beach so dangerous? is it the force of the water coming in and going out? i actually live in Florida on the Atlantic and while there are big waves that crash the shoreline, it won't drag you back out if you stay close to shore. i guess the weather plays a factor in making it more dangerous.
The beach is narrow and the power of the waves unbelievably strong.Below sea level there is a steep cliff. Last person that was taken by them this winter was swept at see with in seconds and nobody could do anything to save here. She was found an hour later by helicopter over 100m out.
@@KristjanLogason yes this makes more sense. the narrow beach is creating more power when the waves come in. i knew something else had to be at play here :)
What a beautiful place. Better enjoyed from a distance.
That they vould beat mother nature
This is so relaxing to watch. In reality I wouldn't go near it though. I love reading about Iceland. Maybe I'll get there one day.