Working boats in Vietnam

[Edders]

This looks dangerous. Watch the lady on the bow at about 5 minutes in.

 

Edited October 24, 2020 by Edders

[24hrs Max]

Yeah, I've been watching these videos lately, crazy stuff!

 

[mrsmelly]

Thats just how you used to handle JR1 and JR2 Tony ?

[ditchcrawler]

Bit like the K&A coming down past the Rowbarge

[Edders]

1 hour ago, mrsmelly said:

Thats just how you used to handle JR1 and JR2 Tony ?

Only at Fradley  Junction. ?

[magpie patrick]

I've seen a few of these, all seem to be shot at the same location somewhere on a distributary of the Mekong River, but I haven't been able to work out exactly where.

 

It looks like the boats are on a non-tidal channel and as the tide makes a level the gate is opened - of course fairly quickly the tide is higher than the channel and the current fair whizzes through the gap, making for a bit of white-knuckle boating as they go up against the current. 

 

I've never seen footage of them going the other way, but it may be there is another gate elsewhere in the dam

[ditchcrawler]

11 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

 

 

I've never seen footage of them going the other way, but it may be there is another gate elsewhere in the dam

Between 4 and 7 minutes shows how they open the flood gate 

 

[matty40s]

11 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

I've seen a few of these, all seem to be shot at the same location somewhere on a distributary of the Mekong River, but I haven't been able to work out exactly where.

 

It looks like the boats are on a non-tidal channel and as the tide makes a level the gate is opened - of course fairly quickly the tide is higher than the channel and the current fair whizzes through the gap, making for a bit of white-knuckle boating as they go up against the current. 

 

I've never seen footage of them going the other way, but it may be there is another gate elsewhere in the dam

There is another gate for vessels travelling the other way about 100 yards away.

[magpie patrick]

1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:

Between 4 and 7 minutes shows how they open the flood gate 

 

That clearly shows several other gates open in the same structure - not something I'd seen in other footage

[Dorlan]

14 hours ago, magpie patrick said:

I've never seen footage of them going the other way, but it may be there is another gate elsewhere in the dam

 

[magpie patrick]

8 hours ago, Dorlan said:

 

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