Well done! That's the kind of rescue that makes all the difference! It just goes to show that having the right equipment, training, experience and keeping your head cool at the same time can save someone's life!
AWESOME SAVE...AWESOME SAVE!!!! Textbook! If you used your wedged kayak as an anchor for yourself, then this is elevated to the level of WORLD CLASS BRILLIANT!! You had the presence of mind to read the situation and act swiftly...and you knew the clock was ticking on your friend's ability to hang on. Swimming that falls likely would have ended with a broken femur/hip, because it was not a clean drop. so you HAD TO MAKE THAT TOSS!! And the editing of the two experiences together gave full breadth to the narrative of the film. Best of its kind I've ever seen.
Showing both perspectives was nice. You had one chance at that throw, he had one chance to make the grab...absolutely nuts. Glad you both made it out relatively safely!
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Just replaced my old ragged throwrope with a new 70 footer NRS partly due to this video - hope I don't need to use it... This is the best rescue footage I've seen! Thanks.
I like the comment about "don't run a waterfall you wouldn't care to jump down or swim over..." Does that guy think that the kayak is just for style? Being in a kayak allows us to do things in places that would be dangerous otherwise. That's the point. Awesome save. Sick drop. Great footage.
+Matt Jackson Speaking as someone interested in kayaking and who's yet to set foot in a kayak, I think it's advice I'll be taking for a while yet :) But have fun doing lunatic stuff while I'm stuttering about on a millpond lake, sincerely :P
Ya but waterfalls a much more unpredictable since you can't see the wall of the cliff or any shallow rocks on the bottom. On top of all this you a fighting a very strong current, waterfall jumping can be very different from cliff jumping.
Fair play to everyone involved. We all swim sometimes, but we definitely don't always pull off such a good rescue. Great effort! Haha, "only run something if you'd be happy to swim it or jump over it", what a ridiculous idea.
That was pretty gnarly. Nice toss on the throw bag. As somebody who's been bagged multiple times myself, it's comforting to boat with friends that you 100% trust. Good job. I've made your vid the video of the day on GPA.
I've never even done a class III but love watching stuff like this! Crazy footage and overall vid was put together with soundtrack and different angle edits perfectly.
Awesome to find this clip quite by chance. Was great to put a visual to the story put so well by Bren on the last Wet and Dry podcast. If you havent listened to it, check it out! That was a legendary save - how the hell Dave managed that one... but it seems you're a legend!
@@charlieconustedes9969 their looked to be undercurrent on him though which normally will suck you under and pinn yo that situaTION WAS DEADLY ON A LOT OF LEVELS
This guy literally fucking owes you his life.... like holy shit. I got a rush from that, can't imagine how you felt. Like man props as fuck to you for keeping your shit together and pulling that off, that's some insane respect!
Nice rescue. Good rougbag shot. Only one chance. It's a long fall with out the kayak (my english is not so good🙊) the most inportant is know who are you with in the river
Something like this happened me once. I planted my paddle to my right to break into an eddy just before a big waterfall. The blade got wedged into a split in a submerged rock (I presume) and was ripped from my hands. I tried to keep hold but the flow was too strong. I obviously pivoted around the paddle as I tried to keep hold and ended up flowing backwards towards a massive drop, with no paddle. My buddy was on the bank eating sandwiches (not paddling that day) just there with his girlfriend. Mercifully, he had a throw bag at his feet. There was an instant of panicked eye contact followed by flying sandwiches, followed by a throw bag launch. He just pulled me off the lip of the falls. It could have been a very bad day otherwise.
Not sure why people are wondering about how they got the boat. I was in a similar position 10 years ago. We free climbed out of there in the dark leaving the boat. The next day we brought our abseiling kit and a body builder into the canyon, to get it. Problem was it was a write off.
+Random Brandon He walked. And his boat.. either went over the falls and disappeared, or he was able to secure it before swimming, or it went over the falls and someone got it for him. There's your possibilities.
+Joseph M If you notice at 3:31 in video there is a bridge upstreamso there is access to river left, come off cliff on belay tierope to boat have someone pull it up then you.
after the small one, drop the big one. there was an undercut where the green kayaker went, and he got sucked under it. the yellow kayaker was waiting in the flat water where he was to give info about the drop to the green kayaker.
Some people are not afraid to die. It is more of the fear of not living that I try to avoid. Go be fearless.... It's an amazing great feeling.. However, it's probably not safe to stay there too long though, eventually death may find you..
He ran the falls a week later again... and succeeded Today he is one of the leading figures in the sport, running 120 ft waterfalls, creeking and doing freestyle - no kayaker lets themselfes bein stopped by a swim.. its just important to learn a lesseon from it
First off. Nice save dude. Shit happens and it's always comforting knowing your boys have your back. I have a couple of homies save my bacon more than once throughout the years. #pushdemshit. Second off. Macklemore is the best white rapper since the Beastie Boys. Keep on KeepN boys!
Well done!
That's the kind of rescue that makes all the difference!
It just goes to show that having the right equipment, training, experience and keeping your head cool at the same time can save someone's life!
Just saved my friend's life. Now I'm going to drop this 60 footer. No biggie.
Its not like they have any other choice XD
That's what it's all about - yeah BOI!!!!
Joe Booth well she was gonna go swimming down that that’s not good
XD true
@@maggiecurrie3783 he
AWESOME SAVE...AWESOME SAVE!!!! Textbook! If you used your wedged kayak as an anchor for yourself, then this is elevated to the level of WORLD CLASS BRILLIANT!! You had the presence of mind to read the situation and act swiftly...and you knew the clock was ticking on your friend's ability to hang on. Swimming that falls likely would have ended with a broken femur/hip, because it was not a clean drop. so you HAD TO MAKE THAT TOSS!! And the editing of the two experiences together gave full breadth to the narrative of the film. Best of its kind I've ever seen.
Showing both perspectives was nice. You had one chance at that throw, he had one chance to make the grab...absolutely nuts. Glad you both made it out relatively safely!
You can fake a lot of things, whitewater kayaking is not one of them
Thank you for saving bren! This time and all the others we didn't see.
That goof-music is just wrong for this.
No, it's the background music. It's a movie. Staged.
Yeah reminds me of baby shark doo doo doo doooo music lol
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@Sterling Ayden Yea, I've been using instaflixxer for years myself :D
Epic song. Awesome for the clip.
Just curious. What would you have chosen?
I thought people were probably exaggerating about the song... nope it's definitely awful.
Just replaced my old ragged throwrope with a new 70 footer NRS partly due to this video - hope I don't need to use it... This is the best rescue footage I've seen! Thanks.
The guy (Bren Orton) saved in the video died a few weeks ago on a river in switzerland.
One of the most beloved kayakers in the scene
I wonder how he got out of this situation, because it seems like both sides were vertical
I like the comment about "don't run a waterfall you wouldn't care to jump down or swim over..." Does that guy think that the kayak is just for style? Being in a kayak allows us to do things in places that would be dangerous otherwise. That's the point. Awesome save. Sick drop. Great footage.
+Matt Jackson Speaking as someone interested in kayaking and who's yet to set foot in a kayak, I think it's advice I'll be taking for a while yet :)
But have fun doing lunatic stuff while I'm stuttering about on a millpond lake, sincerely :P
Paul Bottomley can't blame ya man....it's a progression!
As a cliff diver, that waterfall wasnt that big... 60ft is about the average size cliff to dive, the largest being 120ft
Ya but waterfalls a much more unpredictable since you can't see the wall of the cliff or any shallow rocks on the bottom. On top of all this you a fighting a very strong current, waterfall jumping can be very different from cliff jumping.
@@fender8421 iI still use that mindset as a packrafter. I'll run all types of class IV, from bigwater to 500 fpm microcreeking. But class V's: nope
That was just so well executed that rescue ! Excellent job. Assessed the situation made sure he was safe and secure before attempting rescue!
Fair play to everyone involved. We all swim sometimes, but we definitely don't always pull off such a good rescue. Great effort! Haha, "only run something if you'd be happy to swim it or jump over it", what a ridiculous idea.
That was pretty gnarly. Nice toss on the throw bag. As somebody who's been bagged multiple times myself, it's comforting to boat with friends that you 100% trust. Good job. I've made your vid the video of the day on GPA.
Great save... shitty song, but great save.
Yep, but honestly...how often do we get decent music in kayak videos.
@@Jeeiff no kidding damn I'm glad I'm not the only one who peep that bullshit
OMG, yes! Kayakers have terrible taste in music.Why is this a thing? It's definitely a thing.
Awesome video and wicked rescue. That dude owes you one! Nice work
I've never even done a class III but love watching stuff like this! Crazy footage and overall vid was put together with soundtrack and different angle edits perfectly.
Awesome to find this clip quite by chance. Was great to put a visual to the story put so well by Bren on the last Wet and Dry podcast. If you havent listened to it, check it out! That was a legendary save - how the hell Dave managed that one... but it seems you're a legend!
Man, wouldn't want to swim that! Great save dude!
Wow!!! Nice editing!!! thanks for this piece. Yeah..."Now I'm going to drop over this 60 footer!" so good.
Entertainment at others' expense. The very essence of comedy. Must have been a fun climb out of there for Orton.
How did he end up getting out of that gorge?
I guess we will never know
Well that song kept playing and finally the kayaker couldn’t take it anymore and let himself go
@@charlieconustedes9969 their looked to be undercurrent on him though which normally will suck you under and pinn yo that situaTION WAS DEADLY ON A LOT OF LEVELS
Probably climbed up somehow and found the trail, and they used whistles to blow to find each other
HATE THE MUSIC.
This guy literally fucking owes you his life.... like holy shit. I got a rush from that, can't imagine how you felt. Like man props as fuck to you for keeping your shit together and pulling that off, that's some insane respect!
This video has it all. Swim queen action, superman saves the day and then the hot boater runs the next waterfall. Reminds me of the big swim of 89.
I could hardly finish due to music'..if u can call it that
theres a magical thing called mute
Good save! Your the hero man!
He is one DAMN luck guy. KUDOS to the rescuer!!!
Great save mate, well done :) i would paddle with u happyly knowing u got my back
I would die happy if I got to do a pool session with dave
Amazing rescue!
Nice rescue. Good rougbag shot. Only one chance. It's a long fall with out the kayak (my english is not so good🙊) the most inportant is know who are you with in the river
Whoop! That'll make you feel alive! Nice FN save. Nice throw too😎
Something like this happened me once. I planted my paddle to my right to break into an eddy just before a big waterfall. The blade got wedged into a split in a submerged rock (I presume) and was ripped from my hands. I tried to keep hold but the flow was too strong. I obviously pivoted around the paddle as I tried to keep hold and ended up flowing backwards towards a massive drop, with no paddle. My buddy was on the bank eating sandwiches (not paddling that day) just there with his girlfriend. Mercifully, he had a throw bag at his feet. There was an instant of panicked eye contact followed by flying sandwiches, followed by a throw bag launch. He just pulled me off the lip of the falls. It could have been a very bad day otherwise.
Followed by flying sandwiches LOL. Always great to hear good rescue stories.
Nice. (But: the music is, as ALWAYS in these kinds of vids superfluous).
Not sure why people are wondering about how they got the boat. I was in a similar position 10 years ago. We free climbed out of there in the dark leaving the boat. The next day we brought our abseiling kit and a body builder into the canyon, to get it. Problem was it was a write off.
It gave me the beautiful goosebumps equipment that god illuminates them forever for that courage of friends
When you play with nature, specially water, don't expect to never die: it's coming for someone.
Wow that guy is strong!
The dude's gotta swim back across and get his kayak. :)
Awesome bro!🤙🏻
Mute Song and watch along.
Can the music, Jesus!
Great job
Ha GOLD! That would have been a pretty tense ferry on the rope, couldn't have got much closer to the lip!
I'd def want that guy on my team !
the music was very unbearable
what a shot with the rope bag
Nice rescue
WOW! what a hero
ROBERT... IT GO DOWN
Macklemore I can dig it
Just wondering, how the resuced guy now can come to his green boat again ?
Instead of Macklemore we need Mackle-less.
damn that water looks good to me about right now as Im drenched in sweat
Good rescue. What happened to Bren after? Was he able to hike out of that area?
just left the kayak and friend up there.
holy shit. good job you stud
Some recorded audio of what you were doing and why would have way more useful than that song...
Well done.
Who's scrolling through comments in hopes to find out how ole dude got out?
Quick fast and in a hurry with that rescue!!
Wait, he saved himself and his friend but did they go down the fall anyway?!
Or just the first guy?
Oh my 😮
Damn it. I lost my water bottle
DUDE... the music... why would you do that? Video would have been great.
Nooooo Bren don’t fall
😢....🎉🎉🎉
No way he said “you have one chance for this”
The music is an odd choice, but I didn't mind it.
Whats the name of the fall? Looks like a sick spot
How did you get the swimmer back into his boat or down the other waterfall. Basically how did he get away from the falls????
+Random Brandon He walked. And his boat.. either went over the falls and disappeared, or he was able to secure it before swimming, or it went over the falls and someone got it for him. There's your possibilities.
+Joseph M If you notice at 3:31 in video there is a bridge upstreamso there is access to river left, come off cliff on belay tierope to boat have someone pull it up then you.
Note to self...don't go kayaking in rapids with 60 foot waterfalls.
I had to watch twice to understand the situation , great save!
Admittedly, my spine would probably do better swimming than kayaking over a 60-footer. :-D
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No sir, I assure you it would not
how did they get the green kayak unstuck to eventually get the kayaker down the waterfall?
Good save.
А как же каяк?!
great job!
Ok so what exactly is was the plan there??? get down the small waterfall and then what? there is nowehere to go.
after the small one, drop the big one. there was an undercut where the green kayaker went, and he got sucked under it. the yellow kayaker was waiting in the flat water where he was to give info about the drop to the green kayaker.
Holy shit ive never seen such a bunch of entitled children in the comments having a rager that the music isnt exactly what they want...
lmao this is macklemore? Why does he suddenly "rap" with a british accent?
Hamma Hamma Falls on the Olympic Peninsula in WA.
Well that was sick, and really freaky
Thanks for saving the short ginger bloke, he's one of my favorite kayaker's. I have to agree about the music, what were you thinking?
I THOUGHT THE SONG WAS WRECKING BALL LOL
Ok and how did you guys get out there?
What was their plan in the first place? To drop the second fall as well?
Will L yes
This is like the weirdest fuckin song i've ever heard lmao. Fail
And this is exactly why you dont do such potentially fatal sports if you dont wanna die !!! I doubt he'll do that type of maneuver again !!!
I doubt that this experience will stop him for more than a few months :P
Some people are not afraid to die.
It is more of the fear of not living that I try to avoid.
Go be fearless.... It's an amazing great feeling..
However, it's probably not safe to stay there too long though, eventually death may find you..
He ran the falls a week later again... and succeeded
Today he is one of the leading figures in the sport, running 120 ft waterfalls, creeking and doing freestyle - no kayaker lets themselfes bein stopped by a swim.. its just important to learn a lesseon from it
Nah, once a fool, always a fool. Most fools are lucky. It's only the few who are not lucky that everyone then calls fools.
Is that Pete DeLosa over there 😂😂😂
Did the 2nd paddler not have a good line to hit the 50 footer?
No, he didn't paddle hard enough and got pushed up against the far side, he landed too far left.
Hayden needs faster longboard or good bike to chase to maneater rapid!
First off. Nice save dude. Shit happens and it's always comforting knowing your boys have your back. I have a couple of homies save my bacon more than once throughout the years. #pushdemshit. Second off. Macklemore is the best white rapper since the Beastie Boys. Keep on KeepN boys!
just heard this song for the first time- new favorite song because of how ridiculous it is
Is that Bren?
did he ever get his gren kayak back
Whoa chills
Holy shit please tell me the location of this beast of a river.
Ohio
Brenshitz Forever 💙
why the music????
What song and artist is the music in this video?
Music made this hard to watch