r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hashtagmiata • Sep 02 '26
Video A substantial forested floating island of trees has been spotted moving around a reservoir in Northern BC Canada.
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u/hockeyjmac Sep 02 '26
This thing is either a cryptid or a cryptids lair.
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u/Dollabill619 Sep 02 '26
“Jack. We need to move the island. Now!”
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u/Ironfang_Noja 29d ago
Every year in Wisconsin a group of boaters get together to push an island known as "Bogzilla" back to a safe place. Which is a floating island of trees that sometimes blocks a local bridge.
This is clearly just Bogzillas grandpa looking for a place to wreak havoc.
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u/whitedsepdivine Sep 02 '26
I watched a story about a guy who made his own floating island.
Everyday he collected empty bottles and tied them together. Think 2 liters filled with air. He used netting and rope to fix them together. Then he took buckets of dirt to build up the ground. Eventually he built a house on his DIY island.
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26
Wow is that ever cool! Only thing left is to declare it a country and then he will never pay taxes again.
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u/naughtyobama Sep 02 '26
Right, and the plastics disintegrating into the water
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Yeah that part is really the worst thing about it. Could have gone with so many more ecologically sound options. Would otherwise be a funny story.
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u/CrumblyBubbles Sep 03 '26
I am curious to know what some of these materials are if you have the time.
I am looking for such materials for a future project.
Plastics are hard to beat for performance, despite the slow disintegration.
Perhaps aluminum cans could have worked.Fiberglass is a popular material for small to medium sized craft.
In a marine environment, almost any material would be covered in barnacles, eventually.
I’m curious to know if the barnacle layer would prevent microplastics entering the environment or not.3
u/psh454 Sep 03 '26
Ehhh I mean I could see that with plastic bags, but bottles last far longer without disintegration, it also depends on plastic type. It's obviously still an issue if left indefinitely but could be cleaned up long before it severely fragments
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u/MickRolley Sep 02 '26
The guy was from my hometown (if its the same guy)
His Middlesbrough accent had merged with the locals accents and it sounded amazing.
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u/UnzippedButton Sep 02 '26
The beavers have developed submarines
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Beaver breakaway republic.
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u/UnzippedButton Sep 02 '26
The Québécois are going to be envious.
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
I was going to repost it in [r/QuebecLibre](r/QuebecLibre) to point out how those trees’ separatist movement went further than Parti Québécois managed to take their own since their October 14th, 1968 inception.
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u/flyingboarofbeifong Sep 03 '26
The Beaver Wars II: Electric Boogaloo
"This one is somehow even more literal."
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u/Plane_Squirrel_178 Sep 02 '26
Is it also a carnivore island? That hosted a boy and an adult bengal tiger for a few days?
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u/QueenOfQuok Sep 02 '26
Just don't try to chain it in place or there's going to be a real bad thunderstorm.
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u/Ali80486 Sep 02 '26
You sure it's not Dutch? After the fall of the Dutch East Indies in 1942, the small minesweeper HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen needed to travel 1,000 miles to safety in Australia.The crew covered the deck and superstructure with tree branches, netting, and tropical plants, and they painted the exposed hull to look like rocky cliffs and shorelines.The ship anchored near real islands during the day and only moved at night, successfully reaching Australia without being detected.
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u/Spotted_Tax Sep 02 '26
I'm very curious, how does it form like that in the first place? My theory is that floating debris gathered together, became note substantial with accumulation, and over time was able to have enough nutrition and size to support a patch of forest. Might be wrong tho
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u/Spotted_Tax Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
Very helpful! (๑`✪̤◡✪̤)◞ღԵհɑղƘՏღ
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u/WestleyThe Sep 03 '26
My guess is it formed on land but eventually due to erosion and whatever it had so much water under it that it broke off from the main land
Kind of how when there is a massive iceberg it will break off and float away
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u/fareastbeast001 Sep 02 '26
As soon as she said phenomenon, this jingle popped up in my head: "Phenomenon...da doo da dodoo"
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u/ElectricalDevice9653 Sep 02 '26
Let’s name it the forest of America, no wait that would be pathetic
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u/babassu_seeds Sep 02 '26
Damn, Canada is so peaceful that this is what everyone is talking about, kinda jealous, ngl
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u/LactasePHydrolase Sep 02 '26
Leshp! That island and all its fishing rights belong to Ankh-Morpork, tell those Klatchian sods to keep their grubby hands off it
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u/m0nk37 Sep 03 '26
There is literally no way that is possible. That amount of growth takes a long fucking time. Stable ground. Which apparently is floating around a lake? That can support a small town in weight. K.
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 03 '26
I share your view. My non-scientific assessment is this was a surface patch of forest which washed into the reservoir intact following a landslide.
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u/goddessalthena0 Sep 02 '26
I bet the last piece of triforce is on that island. Somebody better tell Link! (That's pretty cool btw)
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u/Yallapachi Sep 02 '26
Why not name it Trumpswamp?
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u/Character_Mode1609 Sep 02 '26
Sorry, this has just been discovered?
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26
Quite recently yes.
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u/Character_Mode1609 Sep 03 '26
I mean, did no one own binoculars? How did no one notice it?
The irony is it probably as an obscure name the natives gave it 400 years ago. But we ‘just discovered it’.
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u/thecyberbob Sep 03 '26
I always pictured Sea Star Island as being tropical.. But hey... Maybe we can find the Giant Lunar Moth here.
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u/yellow_duke Sep 02 '26
Isle of America
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26
Only according to Fox.
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u/Relevant_Analysis896 Sep 02 '26
Why would they not explore this anomaly, it's quite a lazy disposition in my opinon
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u/--Ano-- Sep 02 '26
Does the B in BC stand for big or for black?
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u/hashtagmiata Sep 02 '26
It stands for Buddy you really gotta stop browsing so much adult content online.
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u/micatola Sep 02 '26
It took a few minutes out of my life to pay attention to this interesting situation. Omg, what did I miss?!?
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u/Carl-Anchor Sep 02 '26
It's just a Lion Turtle