Posted on 01/08/2022 1:17:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
Sometimes erosion happens very quickly.
Some videos show rock crumbling and breaking away from the base before the main spire gives way...time to vacate.
Where a person is from and what they are used to has a lot to do with that.
Its summer time there. Even now as night approaches and a storm has just passed over its still presently 74 degrees. Probably a great deal warmer during the day.
If I understand correctly the river water is coming from a reservoir. The nearest mountain is covered in a tropical plateau.
I would doubt that the water is cold at all.
Even when it is cold your body learns what to do so if the tourists are from elsewhere, vacationing in a warm place because they live in a cold place, it may not have been an issue at all.
According to the folks who work down at the Chamber of Commerce that looks over the beach on Lake Michigan where my family swims, we are “the first ones in every year and the last ones out”.
So as early as late April and occasionally into October. The water temp goes from mid 40s, up through the summer and back down again to mid 50s. Not just wading, not just a short dip. Sometimes after a really long hot day its the only way to cool down enough to sleep, air conditioning just wont do it.
Maybe if the tourists were from some desert environment where its always really hot, otherwise I would doubt hypothermia came into play at all.
Maybe they thought their loud music or boat wakes disrupted the rocks...
For those of you who know some of Brazil, this is only about 1 1/2 hrs west of the the Brumadinho dam disaster in 2019 and a few hours north of Sao Paulo...
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