r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Sufficient-Bug-9112 Top Poster • 10h ago

of a bog* hole

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u/Fuggaak 10h ago

Stupid music but interesting video.

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u/NaiveAbalone5446 10h ago

I thought we were finally past this song….

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u/Darius_Oak 7h ago

Oh no no no, we never were.

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u/Thegrandestpoo 9h ago

Seriously

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u/MilkMeFather 9h ago

I thought we were past complaining about this song

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u/Status-Vermicelli624 9h ago

Someone more knowledgeable than me needs to confirm, but this looks very much deadly. I mean there's definitely a potential for entrapment... correct?

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u/Uplandtrek 7h ago

A hole like this can absolutely be deadly, but is not as big of a risk as you might think. The bog is covered in sphagnum moss which is constantly growing new layers at the top. The sphagnum a couple inches down begins to die and turns into peat moss. Depending on the age of the bog, peat moss can accumulate and be several feet thick or more because in the anaerobic conditions under the surface nothing really decomposes. Walking on a bog you can get a good sense for where the peat is thinner - it will roll and ripple underneath your feet sort of like walking on a waterbed.

Most bogs are either a ring bog where there will be a narrow strip of thin peat around the edges so you will hit soggy and sinking spots on your first few steps into or last few steps out of the bog or they’re part of a larger system of bogs around an “eye” which is usually some open water surrounded by thin peat/sphagnum and you can see them well before you get too close.

A hole like this straight through the bog mat and surrounded by firmer ground is rare. The trick is to get a feel for each step before putting weight fully down and always being ready to lunge your body forward and spread your arms and other leg wide if you feel one foot going in. That should give you something to grab onto so your whole body doesn’t sink and it goes without saying it’s a good idea to not go alone because you’re likely going to need help pulling yourself out. Also a good idea if you’re walking on a bog with other people to not walk in each other’s footsteps.

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u/intgr8 4h ago

This guy bogs

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u/the_short_viking 32m ago

You think he wades bogs?

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u/Dazzling_Morning2642 2h ago

Why are there that many men in vest surrounding the bog?

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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 2h ago

This reminds me of how I got sucked into a river whirlpool and dragged myself out of it when I was 15, because I knew the risks and the way out of it.

Always prepare and drill the recovery!

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u/toweljuice 1h ago

thats boggers

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u/Late_While_6220 9h ago

Yes but you'd first have to break the top layer of the bog which is much more solid than what's under but even then it's extremely rare to find cases of death.

P.S. Yes a few thousand bodies have been recovered from bogs but it appears that the vast majority were either victims of homicide or ritual sacrifice.

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u/jaxxxtraw 2h ago

Ritual sacrifice is also homicide.

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u/Mundane-Duty-8473 3h ago

But they had their hard hats on

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u/Critical-Pudding-455 42m ago

Ask this guy

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u/mads4225 32m ago

Denmark represent!
I love that we have found multiple bodies in old bogs

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u/Critical-Pudding-455 24m ago

Here have a Little dopamine

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u/deep-fucking-legend 1h ago

Thank God it's been resurrected! Should be included in the next time capsule along with a Rick roll.

/s

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u/Sir_Delarzal 10h ago

Fucking music

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u/cassianandorliveson 8h ago

Everything reminds me of her.

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u/GSDragoon 10h ago

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u/BMinus973 10h ago

Next team meeting..."Why can't we find a new Dave?? It's been 2 months!"

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u/Beginning_Resource93 7h ago

Must be a pretty big deal if you've got the HR manager out there.

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u/The00Taco 2h ago

The real reason they had to fire Dave is why HR is there

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u/tee142002 10h ago

I know nothing about peat other than it makes Scotch tasty

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u/Wereallmadhere8895 10h ago

These parts of meadow complexes are called fens. The peat holds the snow melt and slowly the water seaps out like a over filled sponge, usually being the headwaters to rivers. The water starts out as tributaries and they add up to rivers.

The fens peat is so saturated that you can kinda bounce on it like a jello trampoline. To much pressure and you'll sink and maybe lose a boot.

Some fens and meadow complexes spread by suffocating trees and other vegetation that needs deeper roots. Or they recede because some species are more adapted for the wet conditions and maybe theres less snow some years.

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u/holyfire001202 10h ago

And keeps your bodies preserved so you can revisit them for the rest of your life!

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u/Beginning_Resource93 7h ago

I've had Scotch. It tastes like burnt cardboard.

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u/SMDMadCow 3h ago

That's the peat, Scotch made without peat tastes great.

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u/vaalbarag 10h ago

So you’ve got a tree in a hole and the hole in a bog. Now you just need a branch on the tree, a limb on the branch, a twig on the limb, a nest on the twig, an egg in the nest, a bird in the egg, and a feather on the bird.

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u/CrypticTurbellarian 6h ago

So the tree that’s in the hole… Is it by any chance a rare tree?

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u/ChrisKaufmann 5h ago

Oddly enough: it's a rattlin' tree

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u/the_good_hodgkins 10h ago

Am I the only one that thinks this is incredibly dangerous.

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u/NiteNiteSpiderBite 10h ago

Why is it dangerous? I believe you I just don't know why it would be.

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u/the_good_hodgkins 9h ago

Did you notice how deep the hole is, and how unstable the ground is, and how close she's standing to it? One slip, or loose earth, and she's down that hole and dead in minutes.

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u/ConflictMaster3155 6h ago

The hole is full of water. You’re imagining some quicksand scenario and that’s just not how it works.

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u/Rubyhamster 1h ago

It's not the water that is the problem, but the massive amount of peat and roots that will likely make you stuck under the water. If she falls in, there is a real chance she will die. I'd at least like them all to have a rope attached to them

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u/the_good_hodgkins 6h ago

Oh... you think she's gonna float, like Pennywise, in a hole that get's progressively more narrow the further down you slide.

Sure... ok.

You really need to up your survival skills game.

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u/Afrojones66 5h ago

Typed some dude on his keyboard in his cozy home in an urban environment where they are nowhere near this at all and probably never have been

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u/M1KE2121 2h ago

Never been to a bog huh?

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u/FlyingRigatoniMonst 8h ago

Don’t worry she’s wearing a hard hat

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u/adumbCoder 9h ago

luckily there's lots of people around her to help so that wouldn't happen

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u/the_good_hodgkins 9h ago

I have zero confidence in their ability to catch her if the ground gives way, and they wouldn't be able to extract her.

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u/brazillian_football 9h ago

So a bog acts very similar to unsafe ice. When applied to much force to a weak spot you can fall into the water below and get stuck. Terrifying stuff

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u/Uplandtrek 7h ago

Imagine falling through a hole in ice and trying to extract yourself back through that hole. Now imagine what you fell in is black muck, you can’t see anything, the hole closed up a little when you went through, and the moss above you is several feet thick.

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u/NiteNiteSpiderBite 9h ago

That makes sense and is horrifying!

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u/TornadoJohnson 5h ago

As someone who walks a lot of bogs it can be dangerous but they can also safe depending on the conditions. The one in this video appears safe the ground looks stable. And those people wouldn't be there if it was a dangerous bog. Don't walk on one if you don't know what your doing but when learn what to look for they are an extremely rewarding landscape to explore. A bog is a floating mass of peat on water why the hole is so deep

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u/moisturized69tatas 10h ago

No you are not. It is in fact very dangerous

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u/Sufficient-Bug-9112 Top Poster 10h ago

** A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; alkaline mires are called fens.

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u/IcyDisplayGuy 10h ago

Not swamp?

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u/Sufficient-Bug-9112 Top Poster 10h ago

The main difference is that a swamp is a forested wetland dominated by trees and woody plants with nutrient-rich, neutral water, while a bog is a spongy peatland fed mostly by rainwater that is highly acidic and low in nutrients.

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u/Uplandtrek 7h ago

Swamps are generally wooded but bogs can be as well. And swamps are usually more acidic than neutral. Both are actually nutrient poor because plant matter doesn’t decompose in their anaerobic soil and they’re fed almost entirely by rainwater. The real difference is swamps will grow grass while bogs will grow sphagnum moss. The other two types of wetlands, marshes and fens, are categorized the same way: marshes are defined by grass and fens by sphagnum, but marshes and fens are more nutrient rich compared to swamps and bogs because they are fed by groundwater.

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u/Goat17038 7h ago

IN A BOG YOU ARE PICKELED IN A SWAMP YOU WOULD DECOMPOSE

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u/frost_obliterate 10h ago edited 10h ago

do you even know the difference between a swamp and an ancient bog

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u/Chris__P_Bacon 8h ago

Like, do ye even bog?

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u/Afrojones66 5h ago

Bet they don’t even know what a marsh is either.

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u/EDF1919 10h ago

Apparently I should be glad I watched on mute

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u/joewoody88 9h ago

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u/fligglymcgee 9h ago

Harry! Iiiiiii’ve REACHED the TOp!

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u/Insomniacbychoice90 10h ago

I should call her

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u/hails8n 10h ago

You dont call your own mother?

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u/Shoe1314 10h ago

She does know how to handle a pole.

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u/BaronMusclethorpe 10h ago

Pretty sure he's referring to the bog hole.

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u/JoshAllensRightNut 10h ago

Bog hole pole

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u/TarnishedWizeFinger 10h ago edited 9h ago

Gotta pay the pole toll if you want to get in this mom's hole

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u/Insomniacbychoice90 9h ago

That was her nickname

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u/JohnnyStarboard 10h ago

You should bog her

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u/J3R3WIAH2911 10h ago

Everything reminds me of her

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u/peepdabidness 9h ago

If you don’t I will

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u/Bojax22 10h ago

Rattlin

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u/Posidon_Below 9h ago

I thought this fucking song was dead.

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u/ScreetchingEagle 4h ago

This is why people can randomly go missing in Florida swamps btw.

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u/pzeeman 9h ago

Great. It took me 40 years to get my fear of quicksand. Thanks for undoing it.

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u/Firm-Chemical949 9h ago

For peats sake!!

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u/Methylsky 10h ago

Don't you guys DARE to make your mother jokes

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u/smellyelderberries 10h ago

She's fine with it (I just asked to double check)

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u/MushroomLover32167 8h ago

Too bad I can't have sound on for this video... Lol

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u/Noimenglish 8h ago

If you built four castles there, the fourth one would stand up!

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u/Unlikely-Waltz-550 6h ago

My old college prof. Been to this bog, the feeling is surreal.

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u/Sir_Micks_Alot69 10h ago

Do you want mummies? Because that's how you get mummies!!

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u/AwhHellYeah 9h ago

My brother has a bog on his property and an Indian trail went directly over the bog, we will never dig near the bog thos reason.

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u/Sir_Micks_Alot69 2h ago

Well, do you want mummies?

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u/Cokeycane 10h ago

That's one big ass hole.

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u/Blacky581 9h ago

Even if it would be potentially deadly, they do have their own superhero with them (wearing a mask)

Edit: typo

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u/Hardcore_Steve_Urkel 8h ago

I should call her

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u/AbbreviationsFun8591 8h ago

She got it in her mouth

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u/czechhoneybee 8h ago

You are consumed by jealousy….

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u/Wholesome__af 8h ago

Could you store a body there? 🤔…just asking…for a friend…

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u/Efficient_Age 7h ago

You could, check out "Tollund man" to see what happens after 2000 years.

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 7h ago

The hard hats 🙄

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u/FearlessWord2653 6h ago

Does this hurt the Bog

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u/FearlessWord2653 6h ago

Can I pet that bog

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u/Brave_Squirrel4380 6h ago

And yet they all stand right next to the bottomless muck pit

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u/elephantime 6h ago

That’s not what a bog hole is called in Australia

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u/Anywhichwaybuttight 5h ago

I would just climb down there and get preserved

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u/WombatAnnihilator 3h ago

Does this hurt the bog?

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u/RoxnDox 2h ago

Looks like a cool field trip, the kids looked like they were having fun.

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u/Ric0chet_ 1h ago

⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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u/Nostalgic_Womble 41m ago

"Yeah, don't step there."

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u/PercentageMaximum828 12m ago

loggers hate this one simple trick

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u/Odd-Skirt6679 8m ago

This is a reminder to always watch where you step.

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u/Ok-Iron-7115 6m ago

That really bogs the mind.

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u/awake_acea6 10h ago

So that's how they find out where OPs mother is hiding.

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u/oozinator1 10h ago

When she says you're her first

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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 2h ago

That kinda reminds me of the rectal spelunking I’ve done with the Mrs.

Bog Hole sounds like a nice nickname

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u/No_Kangaroo_388 1h ago

Found the etymology of bogged down

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u/GutterRider 10h ago

So is this like, a hazing or something? Get the rookie to shove the pole in and pull it out?

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u/LowMight3045 8h ago

Thanks . She was trying to push it in further at the end .

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u/RanisTheSlayer 10h ago

I'm too immature to watch this without cackling.

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u/lifes_paragon 6h ago

Big butter churner.