How plausible is this?

[Yaayuh!]

They rarely get dredged (Kennet and Avon, looking at you), so they're not that deep in most places and the amount of times you bottom out when mooring is frustrating.
So long as you can swim, you should be fine regardless. Though this will differ canal to canal.

 

[a-Wonderous-Cheese]

They rarely get dredged (Kennet and Avon, looking at you), so they're not that deep in most places and the amount of times you bottom out when mooring is frustrating.
So long as you can swim, you should be fine regardless. Though this will completely canal to canal.

What if the person can't swim and the canal is shallow enough to stand? would they be able to easily stand up?

 

[Mr Badger]

What if the person can't swim and the canal is shallow enough to stand? would they be able to easily stand up?

And the canal is on a treadmill.

 

[a-Wonderous-Cheese]

And the canal is on a treadmill.

I'm guessing if the silt is so slippery you can't get traction to stand up you'd kind of feel like you're on a treadmill trying to stand up.

 

[Yaayuh!]

What if the person can't swim and the canal is shallow enough to stand? would they be able to easily stand up?

Be a bit slippy and you'd lose your shoes i'm sure, but i'd say so, yes.

Unless you're disabled or have a severe phobia of water, you really should know how to swim.

 

[Begbie]

Was he able to stand up on the canal bottom?

If I remember rightly he

 

[Hades]

Did you ever have swimming lessons as a kid? There was always a day where you jump in in your pyjamas and try not to drown to simulate falling in a canal.

The survivors were then advanced to the next level; picking up a brick from the bottom of the shallow end to simulate... I'm not sure what.

Christ on a light, that takes me back!

 

[Mercenary Keyboard Warrior]

They rarely get dredged (Kennet and Avon, looking at you), so they're not that deep in most places and the amount of times you bottom out when mooring is frustrating.
So long as you can swim, you should be fine regardless. Though this will completely canal to canal.

I think you need to go on a diet if when you swim to the side people think your mooring

 

[a-Wonderous-Cheese]

Alright, so I found several videos of people falling into canals.

They appear to stand right back up without issue. It also shows just how shallow they are.

 

[Semple]

I know some might say "you can drown in a puddle" and I'm not saying you can't. my question was if it's plausible that the canal bed could be so slippery that a person would find it impossible to stand up even if it's shallow

I'd guess you'd need to be in a standing position to get enough leverage to get onto the edge, which is a foot or more taller than the water. If the canal bed is actually so slippery you couldn't stand then I could see that leading to drowning.

I would generally say it depends, those cleaning canals and standing in them may have footwear with some good grip, as opposed to someone who's just come off their bike perhaps.

 

[Begbie]

I admire your dedication to this rabbit hole you've sent yourself down.

 

[a-Wonderous-Cheese]

I would generally say it depends, those cleaning canals and standing in them may have footwear with some good grip, as opposed to someone who's just come off their bike perhaps.

In my previous post in this thread I posted a bunch of videos of people falling into canals including 2 cyclists and they appear to have no issue standing up

 

[Thekwango]

In my previous post in this thread I posted a bunch of videos of people falling into canals including 2 cyclists and they appear to have no issue standing up

middle vid, the guy slips a couple of times and has to hold on to the plank of wood he fell off to steady himself.

in case it's not obvious, every canal will be slightly different. cause you know, reasons.

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

I've fell in twice while running and once on purpose to clean myself of poo/sewage
The water was waist high and I'm only 5' 6" and I got out dead easy.

I used to run down the edge of the canal on the bricks

I know of 3 cases of people dying in Stoke canals in recent years.

Also very close to where @Malevolence lives is this memorial to a Tram driver who drowned in the Canal, the Canal used to be where all the grass is.
Timothy Trow was his name.

 

[div0]

And the canal is on a treadmill.

Does the drowning person still take off?

 

[Zefan]

Alright, so I found several videos of people falling into canals.

They appear to stand right back up without issue. It also shows just how shallow they are.

Does this hurt the canal?

 

[a-Wonderous-Cheese]

I've fell in twice while running and once on purpose to clean myself of poo/sewage
The water was waist high and I'm only 5' 6" and I got out dead easy.

I used to run down the edge of the canal on the bricks

I know of 3 cases of people dying in Stoke canals in recent years.

Also very close to where @Malevolence lives is this memorial to a Tram driver who drowned in the Canal, the Canal used to be where all the grass is.
Timothy Trow was his name.

How did the Tram driver not stand up in the waist-deep canal?

 

[Jonny69]

What if the person can't swim and the canal is shallow enough to stand? would they be able to easily stand up?

“It’s ok, Bertie,” laughed Zigby. “I can stand up here.”

 

[Jonny69]

Does that answer your question?

 

[a-Wonderous-Cheese]

Does that answer your question?

Kinda, but like RetiredGreyFox said, there's apparently been drownings in the waist-deep canals. How do you not stand up in a waist-deep canal?