15 Places Where You Should NEVER Swim

Think of your favorite beaches. Your favorite hotel pools. Favorite lakes. Everywhere you love to swim. What makes them great? Is it the color of the water? Or maybe it’s the perfect temperature. Maybe you can even swim with dolphins. But what about all of the places that you can’t go to? Or the places where you can but should absolutely never swim in? Like the waters of the world full of massive predators like sharks or crocodiles. Or the places that are just so polluted or teeming with strange bacteria? Join us for today’s video, as we count down the top 15 places where you should absolutely never swim!

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[katfromthekong]

If you are ever in a rip-current DO NOT swim towards the beach (it is impossible to outswim the current and you will only tire yourself out), but swim PARALLEL to the beach until you get out of the rip-current and only then swim towards the beach.

[ShermanCassidy]

People need to be smart when they visit hawaii. The ocean is violent, and it is not wise to go to places without lifeguards. Even in Atlantic coast beaches.

[kawailoadoo]

"But a total of zero Hawaiian locals have died here in the pool of death, because not only do they generally know how to swim against the forceful waves and how the waves fluctuate over time, but they also tend to stay away completely." Couldn't have send it better myself. Mahalo to this channel and aloha!

[DreamsongsProductions]

Funny that they mentioned the Bondi Bath pool. My high school would take us there to practice swimming and PE classes. I would not consider that dangerous. Even if one shark got trapped in there once.

[debrakleid]

I live in New Smyrna Beach and I won’t swim here. I actually live about 4 miles inland in NSB but a lot of people like to swim here. I got stung by a man-o-war once and that was enough. I’ll stick with bird watching here as we have so many birds including large ones like sandhill cranes!

[daisiejensen]

One other dangerous beach is Grenen in Denmark. Grenen meaning "the branch" in the town Skagen is located at the tip of the country, where the beach has a unique natural phenomenon, where the two seas Skagerrak and Kattegat meet and the waves culminate with each other. It has therefore become illegal to swim there, because it's extremely dangerous because of the oceans colliding.

[cressworth]

The box jellyfish is very dangerous for sure but Queenslanders can usually safely swim in the waters because the jellyfish stay up north and are seasonal. Plus all surfers and divers wear stinger suits to protect them from all jellyfish stings. We were mandated to wear stinger suits that covered our hands and feet when we went diving in the Great Barrier Reef.

[NormaLilia]

7:47 I’m from Houston and this true, the local news also warn to not get in that nasty water

[MotherofDragons]

As a California North Bay native I can tell you that even though our ocean is dangerous, it is not worse than a lake filled with radioactive waste that can kill you within an hour.

[LuthaisRonso]

I've been to Kaua'i a few times, and never swam in Queen's Bath (Pool of Death). I knew better. Even the most recent time I visited the ocean was swelling, and it was a very rainy day. I still saw tourists rushing down to get a dip. I never took the risk to hike to it, volcanic rock injuries are nasty.

[paulrichardson]

I spent a week in Broome, Western Australia and Cable Beach is stunning. We went most days - especially to stay to watch the sunsets over the Indian Ocean which were amazing. I went in the ocean a couple of times, but only a few metres. I really wouldn't recommend going further out as there can be big waves and there are salt water crocodiles for part of the year as the video says. There is also a possibility of sharks (which crazily I didn't really think of at the time). However, the most dangerous thing I saw was a sea snake washed up on the shore which a man coming in the opposite direction warned me about when I was walking along the shore line.

[griffinq]

Jacobs well is perfectly safe to swim or jump into, its only dangerous if you go cave diving, and the closest cave entrance is like 50 feet under water, so you cant accidentally get lost in it

[christineparis]

When we were in Maui, we went to the "blow hole" a lava formation that waves went into and shot out like a huge fountain. The danger was the air after the wave would be so strong that if you stood too close to the hole, you'd get sucked down thru it and drown, since it would be like a bug in an agitating washing machine, just getting thrown around until you're torn apart. Hawaii doesn't use much signage, to not ruin views, but they had a huge sign about the blowhole, in five languages, warning people to stay away from the blowhole, and to keep children and pets close, which of course everyone ignores, leading to many drownings. We witnessed adults letting their kids run right up to the lava ledge, it was terrifying!

[Oceanlover]

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[christineparis]

I grew up in the Bay Area in the 60s, and we didn't know about sharks then, the only people telling us about the ocean was Jaque Cousteau. If you remember him, you know what I mean....every year a shark attacked someone, but we had been told great whites don't come into cold water (?!?). I have no idea why we believed it, but until the movie JAWS came out, we had no info on sharks at all. We used to body surf and swim with seals at Santa Cruz, having no idea that sharks would be likely around for some seal meat! After the movie came out, we were all scared!

[RandysRides]

So, when you're swimming under a waterfall and it feels like you're being pulled under, could it maybe, just possibly, NOT be a monster but the obvious drag of the water....FALLING ??

[jeffhubbard]

I am with the couple of folks here who wondered why the Bolton Strid wasn't on this list. Of the places listed in here, the only ones I wouldn't at least take a quick dip in (on a bet, say) are the Boiling Lake and the radioactive Lake in Russia. And, given its "100% mortality" record for everyone who has entered the Strid, I'd say that it certainly deserves a top 5 spot on a list of this sort. That doesn't even seem like a matter of opinion, to my mind.

[StepSeven]

7:04 he's talking about pleasure pier in galveston, TX. Right off the gulf of mexico. there were many shark sitings on that beach.

[citizenshane]

A few years ago a guy went into the Gulf in Galveston and died the next day from sepsis. He was a young dude who just got a tattoo a day or two before. Same thing happened to young man who jumped into the Chicago river running
from police. That guy got away from the cops, but he didn’t get away from the fate of being submerged in the filthy river.

[hb]

It’s nice to see Australia making these lists and as an Australian, it amuses me that people from overseas think every animal here is out to get you. I’ve never even seen half of our dangerous animals in the wild let alone been bitten by them. It’s just common sense really, have your wits about you, leave them alone and they’ll leave you alone.
I grew up on the south coast of NSW, and used to go swimming at our local rock pool with waves spilling into the pool at high tide. It was scary but fun and in my opinion the only pool to swim in. Always respect the ocean.