8 Places You Should Never Swim In (Even If You Want To)

There are lots of amazing outdoor swimming areas in the world. Some of them are safe and protected with lifeguards watching over you while you swim, bathe, dive off rocks, and play in the water. But some beaches are not just unsafe — they’re outright dangerous! Here are 8 places where you should never attempt a swim if you treasure your health and life.

TIMESTAMPS:
Blue Holes 1:03
Colorful Pools 2:15
Laguna Caliente 4:18
Nyiragongo Crater's Lava Lake 5:16
Pink Lake 6:19
New Smyrna Beach 8:12
Frying Pan Lake 9:22
Eagle's Nest Sinkhole 10:22

SUMMARY:
- Most blue holes are open to the public. However, some of the biggest ones have acquired a really bad reputation among divers.
- It's hard to believe that nature created something as colorful as the thermal pools located in Yellowstone National Park. They look like something from another world: bright, beautiful...and deadly.
- Laguna Caliente is located in Costa Rica and differs dramatically from its sibling, Botos Lake. These 2 bodies of water are crater lakes of the Poas Volcano.
- Mount Nyiragongo, which is situated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is an active volcano. Its last eruption took place in 2002. In its crater, there's a lake. But it’s not your typical lake.
- Lake Hillier in Western Australia is indeed as pink as it looks. This is a shallow salt lake that’s beautifully edged with white salt formations and surrounded by eucalyptus forests.
- New Smyrna Beach has been called the “Shark Capital of the World” by the International Shark Attack File. In 2008, almost 40% of all shark attacks on the planet happened in this region.
- If you look at the photo of Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand, you might think that there's fog hanging low over the water. Similar fog (or, more precisely, steam) forms over warm water on a cold morning.
- Eagle's Nest Sinkhole is a body of water in Florida that looks like an ordinary pond. It’s only when you get into the water that it gets dangerous. Beneath the lake, there's a huge system of underwater caves with rooms and passages that spread for miles.

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[BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL]

Which of these lakes would you choose to visit if you had to?

[pumpkin_paipai]

2:03 "Too many inexperienced divers underestimate their skills"
Um... don't you mean "overestimate"?

[uqqkdif]

I still want to go to the Pink Lake, not for swimming, just to see it.

[weirdo]

Imagine you dye a lake pink and you just have the whole lake to yourself cuz everyone is scared

[dphilipson]

the amount of anxiety i'm feeling right now at 9am is unfathomable. ya'll have a lovely day, i'm going to lay down

[tatyanadivino]

Why would you go to a place called *THE DIVERS CEMETERY*

[BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL]

TIMESTAMPS:
Blue Holes 1:03
Colorful Pools 2:15
Laguna Caliente 4:18
Nyiragongo Crater's Lava Lake 5:16
Pink Lake 6:19
New Smyrna Beach 8:12
Frying Pan Lake 9:22
Eagle's Nest Sinkhole 10:22

[RoTerra]

pink water: *exists*
ME: wow pink so pretty
ME: dies one minute later

[lemondraws_]

2020 be like: *see I’m saving your life from these very dangerous things*

[angiemcdonnell]

Aww man I was really considering swimming in a lava lake this summer😭😭😭😭😭.

[uhno]

The reason is why the pink lake is so pink


*food coloring and more salt*

[Sidney_AGHHH]

Me after watching the vid: I'm never going to swim anywhere again

[dr.foxclaw]

When he said “frying pan lake” I was like well if I get lost for a while I could just find food and fry it 😂

[roguefisherman]

Darn, before I watched this video I was really considering swimming in that lava lake this summer.
Wow, so many likes. Awesome!

[fromgsyea]

Lake Hillier (the pink lake in the video) is actually safe to swim in (though it has a high salt concentration (just like the dead sea)). Although scientist don’t know what causes the pinkness it’s speculated that it’s caused by the reaction of sea salt and sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) or caused by red halophilic bacteria in the salt crusts. It’s also just like Spencer Lake which is on main land Australia (in Western Australia) except Spencer Lake hasn’t been pink in over 10 years. And it doesn’t stop there, there’s Hutt Lagoon. Hutt Lagoon is located near the mouth of the Hutt River (which I believe leads to the Principality of Hutt River which is actually a micro-nation). This lagoon/lake also has a high salt concentration but changes colour depending on the time of day, the season (time of year) & the amount of cloud coverage; these colours include a red to a bubblegum pink to a lilac purple.

[lowkeyloki]

Me: *pours food colouring into pool*

Also me: *jumps in*

ALSO ME: yay i'm savage

[Lavenderrose]

8:00 "And if you get into the water, it's recommended that you don't stay there for longer than 10 minutes."

You mean you can actually _set foot in this one?_

[unknownhuman]

Hmmmm I wonder why you WOULDNT want to swim in a lava lake

[NotCamillaPlayz_YT]

Imagine if you ever swim in the pink lake and your hair suddenly turns pink! 🤣🤣

[gavinsmith]

Bermuda triangle was not on here. Guess I should take a dip!