Yes it is very dangerous if you fall in and fatal if it’s in flood. If you were n normal cloths deadly one because of water temperature and then there are lots of rocks that you would hit.
It’s not as deep as claimed, I know as I have swam from the downstream end up to the waterfall at the top end.
I was in full diving gear and the only way to swim upstream is when there is a low amount of water flowing down the Wharfe. You have to sort of wriggle upstream going from rock to rock using the eddies to move.
There was on particular rock that I remember that had been worn into a ship’s propeller blade type shape.
At the top end there was a hollow worn out of the rocks which was like a Chastity belt and you could actually wriggle into it.
In the late 60’s or early 70’s either Leeds or Bradford Uni. Did a full survey of Strid so we knew what it was like before we entered the water.
I still have a copy of that survey in my diving book collection.
There is a chap who supposedly did a survey with high tech gear and came up with the max. Depth of 213 feet. Obviously his gear was wrong.
As far as I am aware the Strid was closed to divers years ago ( 1980?) probably as some tried to enter it at times of flood but maybe because they stopped access by cars and it was too far from the cars parks to haul diving gear
It used to be a regular training dive for our club up,to mid/ late 70’s
I only dived it once, as off to the salty stuff.
I find now that I cannot get back to the artical. Humbug
Allan C.
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