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GoPro has performed it once more. Nicely, GoPro, however even moreso its professional, daredevil, adrenaline-chasing, extremely expert athletes. This video shares the ingenious (and terrifying?) expertise that’s the “Epic Drainage Ditch” run on a small tributary in Lions Bay, which heads from the bay in coastal British Columbia out to the Pacific.

Dropped at us by fearless whitewater kayakers Stu Telfer, Harrison Stacey, Jarrah Anderson, and Chloe Pocock, that is presumably the primary “unhinged” kayak race we’ve seen — through which all individuals are launching down this similar run directly.

Apparently, this was a “treatment for wet day boredom — all you want is a kayak, a artifical waterslide, and a ‘ship it’ mentality.” Who wants good, fast-moving rivers if you’ve received a drainage ditch and a few rain?

“Hopefully it’s excessive tide on the backside,” one racer jokes earlier than they launch.

By the top, and factoring in velocity, it’s arduous to consider what you’re watching. That is fairly the departure from, say, the Colorado or the Snake. This rain ditch isn’t even a creek; it’s barely a puddle. However hey, there’s water. And the place there’s water, there’s a method.

For those who’re a stuntman like these paddlers, simply keep in mind to at all times scout your route and examine the circulation (or on this case, the climate forecast).

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