The Devil's Swimming Pool: Swim On The Edge Of The Victoria Falls

Breathtaking, yet scarey as all hell. No matter how safe it is, I don't think I could bring myself to swim there.

I'm also terribly afraid of heights.

i did this once, on the zambia side too. i asked our guide if he'd ever lost anyone and he laughed. that should have been my cue to run away fast but instead i got in the water and hung over the falls like superwoman. i guess going to africa in the first place is insane enough (to some) that once you're there, things like this seem like no big deal.

wow! anyone who wants to swim on the edge of a waterfall is stupid! You could fall off and die.

What a cool thing to see - I've never heard of this before despite seeing stuff about these waterfalls before.

I'd like to think that I'd be up for having a go at this - the idea of it is very cool if nothing else!

And people thought Micheal Jackson was an irresponsible parent for simply holding his child out over a balcony railing.

That looks great! I would LOVE to be in the pool with all those kids!

Not many brothas go there I bet

And people thought Micheal Jackson was an irresponsible parent for simply holding his child out over a balcony railing.

And people thought Micheal Jackson was an irresponsible parent for simply holding his child out over a balcony railing.

whats does that have to do with Mk?

That is crazy scary, I mean what if you fell off??!! I wonder if the devils swimming pool has claimed any lives... I WOULD NOT RISK IT...it makes my stomach churn just looking at it

Mark Barber Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
That looks great! I would LOVE to be in the pool with all those kids!

oh my god, ew, and why am i the first person to reply to his post in over a year?

Looks great but maybe too risky for me, maybe if there was a rope I could hang onto or something I'd feel a bit more confident.

I totally agree with Suzanne, it's stupid, you could fall off and die. Also, anyone who crosses the street is stupid, you could get hit by a truck and die. And anyone who gets dressed in the morning is stupid, you could get your feet tangled up in your pants, fall over, hit your head on the dresser and die.

It would be useless to later claim "I just turned my head for a second!", when your six year old is added to the list of those who ignored the first warning on the sign!

What YOU do for excitement is one thing... cg

Breathtaking, yet scarey as all hell. No matter how safe it is, I don’t think I could bring myself to swim there.

I did this on the Zambian side and it was scary to walk through the waterfall with water up to your knees only 10 meters from the edge of the waterfall. The pool itself is not scary att all, that's the nice part of it :)

Actually, I do know of a similar rock pool - summer use only and probably not sanctioned by the authorities. It is at the top of Yosemite Falls in California,
and the drop from there is about 2400 feet, interrupted a very long way down by the pool above the lower falls... I swam there with a couple of friends when I was 14 - that was 52 years ago and it wasn't exactly open to the public then, but, there was no one watching either... The pool was roughly rectangular and about 50 or 75 feet long by maybe 30 feet wide, I have no clue how deep - but the water was emerald green and it ended in a stone shelf about three or so feet wide with just a couple of inches of water flowing off into the abyss. Crawling carefully out to the edge you could look straight down into the lower pool, I think it's about 1800 feet, it was awesome. I just checked Wiki: Upper Falls: The 436 metres (1,430 ft) plunge... Obviously they don't know about the pool at the top - but it's there. Total height of the falls is listed as 739 metres (2,420 ft) from the top of the upper falls to the base of the lower falls.

that woman screaming looks like she falling off the edge holy wow that looks awesome but im 2 chicken 2 do that because i ten i cant watch scary movies y on earth would i do that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!think question ask

STUPID!

Animal Flower Cave here in barbados is also awesome. the pool is in a seaward facing cave on the rough atlantic shore.

Wow, I'm thinking that looks fun and maybe not so much all in the same breath.