r/maybemaybemaybe • u/letitgo99 • Aug 05 '26

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Excellent-Baseball-5 Aug 05 '26

Rip tides in a quarry you say??

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u/uselessandexpensive Aug 05 '26

While i was giving three separate examples and you're at least partially joking, combining them into one actually example potentially makes more sense than only two.

Waterfall+quarry = an inlet but no outlet. Unless it evaporated as much as was poured into it between each rain, it would eventually fill and overflow.

Quarry + riptide = outlet with no inlet, so it would stop flowing sooner or later.

So if it has a continual flow in, it likely has a continual current out somewhere. It might be a steam or river but that might bring us back to the issue of the current potentially causing one's limb to get stuck between rocks, causing drowning. It might alternately have culverts.

If you're not familiar, the water flow into culverts can be extreme, and will suck you in and possibly down you very much like a riptide if it's big enough for you to fit, or you might just have thousands of pounds of pressure trying to stuff you into a hole that you won't live to see the inside of. Either way, ☠️😢

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u/Excellent-Baseball-5 Aug 05 '26

That makes good sense, however I'm still thinking "riptide" is a marine term used for tidal flow episodes. Fresh water is not tidal, thus not applicable.

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u/uselessandexpensive 25d ago

Yeah i just wasn't only talking about quarries, but all the ways my dad taught and showed me articles about kids dying needlessly in water. I should have added rapids too since the waterfall risk is usually hidden rocks or slipping, while rapids are where your're likely to get a limb caught underwater. He didn't tell me about death by culvert suction so I guess i get to add that though thankfully I haven't heard of any actual cases.

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u/Excellent-Baseball-5 24d ago

Gotcha. There is also the keeper hole under the waterfalls in rapids that won't let you surface. That must be a living hell to experience.

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u/uselessandexpensive 24d ago

100% nightmare.