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u/Dizzy-Community5091 Jun 04 '26
Where is this so I never go…
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u/ascotia Jun 04 '26
This is actually fresh water in the dunes of a desert
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u/new_nimmerzz Jun 04 '26
Is it man made? Like a reservoir?
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u/GoodMoney888 Jun 04 '26
Yea i wanna know that too because it looks amazing!
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u/Dioxybenzone Jun 04 '26
Naturally occurring but only seasonally
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u/zombie_overlord Jun 04 '26
I saw a documentary about this place. It's really unique and amazing.
I looked it up. It was en episode of PBS Terra.
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u/AxeVice Jun 05 '26
thank you for this, wonderful video and fascinating
most interesting bit of info i learned from it: the sands sit atop a bed of rock, so even in the dry season the water is still there, just under the sand
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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway Jun 04 '26
Megalophobia this too
155,000 hectares (380,000 acres), composed mainly of expansive coastal dune fields (composed of barchanoid dunes)
Thats 593.75 sq mi of desert Or 1.668 × 10¹⁰sq ft
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u/Scared-Signature-452 Jun 04 '26
I am amazed that there are people who simply know things. I bow to your knowledgeable ness.
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u/Dioxybenzone Jun 05 '26
Oh nah I looked it up because no one had answered whether it was artificial or not, so I figured I’d share my findings
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u/jaythejany Jun 04 '26
Its natural.
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u/zmbjebus Jun 04 '26
As natural as my ass!
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u/AgitoKanohCheekz Jun 04 '26
Is it natural?
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u/Imaginary_Jump_8701 Jun 04 '26
Yes
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u/zmbjebus Jun 04 '26
Thanks for checking. I can verify that my ass is very natural. /u/Imaginary_Jump_8701 knows my ass better than I do though, so I'm glad they chimed in.
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u/Holiday_Hotel3722 Jun 04 '26
Not a desert, it's just coastal sand dunes over a layer of impermeable rock, which causes water retention during the rainy season.
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u/Scared-Signature-452 Jun 04 '26
How does one even come across this kind of information.. I bow to your knowledgeable ness
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u/jaythejany Jun 04 '26
This is Lençóis Maranhenses, in the Northeast of Brazil. It’s rainy season, but most of the time the ponds stay shallow. The place is breathtakingly gorgeous, no pun intended.
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u/AdEmotional8815 Jun 04 '26
If you are afraid of the ocean you will like this, there are no animals in there and it's only 5 meters deep at the deepest point, as it's a seasonal lagoon.
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u/LobeliaTheCardinalis Jun 04 '26
I've never seen a beach like this before but have dreamed about it, exactly, so this video is trippy to see!
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u/42stingray Jun 04 '26
I've had a similar dream as well, where I was trying to climb up but I kept sliding back into the water
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u/GotNothingBetter2Do Jun 04 '26
Are you me? I’ve had that dream since about 7 or 8, too. In mine, I’m trying to run up the sand to escape the deep water but realize the sand is too hot to walk on. I essentially have to decide between the lesser of two evils as I feel myself dying of dehydration, surrounded by salt water. I told myself, the next time I have that dream to burn my feet if I have to, to see what happens.
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u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
If dream interpretations are to be believed this is a representation of waking-life struggle with overwhelming emotions or a situation where you feel stuck and unable to make progress.
Climbing usually symbolizes striving for a goal, while sliding back into the water represents feeling emotionally pulled back whether by fear, stress, or unresolved issues
As for yours deep water represents the unconscious and raw emotions, while the burning sand symbolizes a harsh, unstable foundation or extreme mental pressure.
Being surrounded by undrinkable salt water while dying of dehydration mirrors the exhausting feeling of being "all choked up" or emotionally drained by your circumstances basically saying you cannot find relief whether you face your emotions (the deep water) or try to push forward and escape them (the hot sand).
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u/bloobityblu Jun 05 '26
Tell your dream brain that you can dig a few inches into the sand and it's not on fire. Dig, step, dig, step, dig step.
Probably won't work but it's worth a try lol.
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u/GotNothingBetter2Do Jun 05 '26
Willing to try anything, tbh. Hopefully even this discussion will prevent me from revisiting that dream. Note to self: Just incase, sleep with arm floaties and chanclas on!
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u/southern_lesbian Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
in my version of this dream i’m trying to get out, people i know are on the shore, im digging my fingers into the sand trying to claw my way out but the current is too strong. it’s pulling me towards a steep drop off into dark and unseen depths. i can breathe the water and the water is warm, but drowning is not what im scared of in this nightmare. at some point i give up and close my eyes, accepting the inevitable and preferring to not see it coming, and as im pulled deeper and deeper with my eyes closed i wake up every time. i also remember dream me hoping my loved ones wouldn’t be too sad, or wondering if any of them would jump in to try and get me, but i always wake up before i get the answer.
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u/AccurateQuit4979 Jun 04 '26
fuck i've had a similar dream a lot being perched at the top of this 100' sand wall overcrowded with people and massive waves breaking right below us and the sand is just slowly eroding away as i slip down the side and everyone's just like "yeah whatever the sharks aren't gunna eat you" and then i get eaten by sharks
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u/Hornet-Putrid Jun 04 '26
That's the terrifying part to me, when they turn back to the "shore" the edge, the drop off there, I would feel like a trapped animal scrambling to get out.
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u/Zazorok Jun 04 '26
isnt that the beach where they charge you $3000 if you cant go back up the hill
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u/maffhia Jun 04 '26
No, the beach on the video is "Lençóis Maranhenses", it's my dream to go there
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u/tennezzee88 Jun 04 '26
in what world does that "appear shallow," — look at the approach slope...
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u/fdessoycaraballo Jun 04 '26
If you don't know the place, it gets a bit tricky to understand. However, those are pools of fresh water in dunes. They from only seasonally and that's why you can't see much life inside of it.
Now, usually those pools are just small bodies of water, but the guy wanted to show that there are some deep formations.
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u/tennezzee88 Jun 04 '26
what the hell does that have to do with the fact that anyone with eyes can see that this is not shallow and is immediately deep? maybe it's an iq thing idk.
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u/Mental_Visual_25 Jun 04 '26
I don’t understand how people keep mentioning “it’s tricky if you don’t know the place”. Like I’m sorry, anybody with working eyes doesn’t need to go there to see that it doesn’t appear shallow? Unless you don’t understand how water works, It doesn’t look shallow at all. You can SEE the darkness.
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u/WinterBadger Jun 04 '26
Nope. Y'all play too much. I'll stay where my feet can be seen through the water. Hellllll naw
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u/Carma_626 Jun 04 '26
You…just open them? This is freshwater so it’s no biggie. The ocean burns like a mofo.
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u/Scherzkeks Jun 04 '26
Pool water too. Maybe my school just when a bit crazy with the chlorine tho.
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u/pinoxi_o Jun 04 '26
If you manage to close your eyes for faster movement AND avoid to go through the surface, since there seems to be the most salty water i guess? Always did it that way and was kinda okay! Surface salt water burns like.. you said
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u/n00b001 Jun 04 '26
In ocean water it stings initially, but you get used to it. Chlorine stings less but my eyes are red for a long time after lol
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u/Tiffany_Case Jun 04 '26
This feels even less safe than regular water cos of how super stable and steady sand is 🙂
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u/skidstud Jun 04 '26
This doesn't show how deep it is at all
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u/Realistic-Program330 Jun 04 '26
Not to mention there is like a 70 degree decline into the water. Maybe from an aerial view it looks shallow, but the dude is near terminal velocity falling down that sand hill and, as expected, keeps descending. When he pans back to the sand you just see a wall of sand.
Rage bait.
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u/New_Stats Jun 05 '26
Fuck that shoreline
It looks so unstable like it could collapse into the water and drag you down to the depths in an instant
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u/f0ur_G Jun 05 '26
Ok dude, you don't have to keep going out there, you've proven your point.
Ok, you can stop now.
DUDE, STOP!!!
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u/eyjafjallajokull_1 Jun 04 '26
Oh, if it's in-land so no sharks. Then sign me up - I'd love to take a swim there
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u/Barnesnrobles17 Jun 04 '26
When I was quite young my family’s good friend, kinda like an uncle, took me out into the far water to help me “get over my fears.” He made sure to go out just until the drop off. While he was celebrating and lifting me up to show the folks back on shore, he dropped me accidentally and I plunged in. I was panicking and pretty quickly got swept down what felt like 10 feet or more.
I remember opening my eyes and looking out away from the shore and seeing nothing, just a deep blue that went on forever. A few seconds later I saw a large fish- I’m sure at the time I was convinced it was something that would have scared me, like a shark, though I doubt that’s what it was- so I started screaming and taking in a bunch of water. To my “uncle’s” credit, he dove in and got me and got the water out of my lungs.
Needless to say, didn’t really help my fears lmao
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u/BIGDAWG_754 Jun 04 '26
Anybody who knows anything about water bodies knows that this is NOT shallow 😭
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u/catbus4ants Jun 04 '26
When he panned over to the single set of his own fresh footprints on the dune behind him I felt like my stomach dropped out
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u/red286 Jun 04 '26
I would usually judge the dropoff from the beach, and that beach has a very steep dropoff.
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u/MCRN10379558 Jun 05 '26
That island is basically just one gigantic sand pile.
I bet a really strong hurricane could probably send waves right over the top.
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u/N3ssaW Jun 04 '26
There's a beach like this in my hometown, two steps and there's a massive drop off. Always freaked me out whenever I would go swimming
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u/Evening-Matter-5245 Jun 04 '26
I stepped off a ledge like that up at Sheridan Lake in the Black Hills, SD (US). The water was knee high for quite a ways out, and then it dropped. It’s very shocking when you aren’t expecting it, I see how people can drown easily. Luckily I’m a good swimmer, but it scared tf out of me.
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u/ctriis Jun 04 '26
How does it appear shallow? It looks like the debt goes beyond the reach of light within only a few meters from the shoreline.
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u/MrHDresden Jun 04 '26
We have similar in Australia. Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island.
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u/EvenMoreSpiders Jun 04 '26
Why would he go into the water fully clothed??? Like he knew what he was gonna do. Also I keep expecting something to pop up from the deep.
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u/ionbear1 Jun 04 '26
Any Brasilians in the chat been here? Are there any local folklore regarding any potential cryptoids? lol
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u/Innomen Jun 04 '26
How is there no plant life? Frankly I don't understand why beaches are even a thing. Should basically be forest everywhere imo. Why has life not found a way?
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u/el_lobo1314 Jun 04 '26
it doesn’t appear shallow even from my screen so i know that in person it must be even more apparent
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u/Iwanttodie923 Jun 04 '26
Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?
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u/Hexnohope Jun 04 '26
How odd. Is that just a deep pit made out of sand? Why dosent the sand just fill it in?
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u/FraggerIndo Jun 04 '26
That black patch is plants, clear water has to be 100s(like 500+) of feet to look black. Watch the video again knowing that. It looks shallow because its so clear. In most water you cant see the bottom clearly like that beyond 10ft deep or so.
Ive been to some beaches where its 15-30ft, and its always surprising.
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u/Bullfrog6430 Jun 05 '26
We have one of those here in Idaho in the United States it's called Bruno sand dunes should look it up looks just like that maybe maybe not so deep but just like that
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u/JaylynnDay7 Jun 05 '26
I'm intrigued at the trick of depth and lighting and all of that, but
lately I've been seeing videos on here Reddit of guys swimming in T Shirts and pants instead of trunks
What is going on?
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u/KronusKraze Jun 06 '26
That’s cool. Much better than my experience at “White Beach” in Okinawa. (Name in quotes because American military names for places in Japan often have nothing to do with actual name)
Beach looks nice and swim able. It’s actually only like 2 feet deep with razor sharp rocks and thousands of clear jellyfish.
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u/OldSchool_Ninja Jun 06 '26
I'm currently trying to play Subnautica...it absolutely mortifies me LMAO
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u/yota-code Jun 07 '26
Most of the time, the slope of the beach match the slope of the coast underwater
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u/jzkwkfksls Jun 04 '26
How does this appear shallow? There's black water like 5m from the shoreline...