How Stupid Would This Be?

[freedivernd]

Eino,
only six to 10 feet deep.. I'd only take a mask and snorkel and a good pair of fins.. oh yeah, a wetsuit and a weight belt.
I've "snorkeled" rapids in Montana.. checking out the trout (there was a lone fisherman that wasn't too impressed, he must have been having a bad day ;D) what suprised me was as I was letting the rapids take me I would keep my hands out in front to avoid the rocks.. only thing was I never hit a rock because the flow of the water always took me over them. As far as how fast the rapids were I don't know. I do know that in some places, finning as hard as I could, I would lose headway. (I've finned at almost 5mph) and some places I had to pull myself by rocks or roots that were sticking out the sides of the river or I would have been a bit more downstream. The shallows were the toughest.. the deeper I got the better the going was.
Fred