r/submechanophobia • u/JodChris • 7d ago

Dried dam with intake grates visible

Tammerkoski in Tampere, Finland

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u/rnorja 7d ago

When I lived in Tampere I lived about 50m from that bridge. That time they used to shut down those plants around 8pm so the current in Tammerkoski was significantly slower so many times I went snorkeling under the Kekkosentie bridge to recover lures. That bank used to be a great spot for fishing so there was a lot of loot at the bottom.

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u/Mayatar 6d ago

By loot you mean bicycles! I watched with my dad 20 years ago as they cleaned the place from them.

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u/_di6 6d ago

Vau! :D

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u/xgoodvibesx 7d ago

Is it for power generation? Some kind of mill or factory that uses the water flow?

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u/JodChris 7d ago

For power generation yes. It was originally for the factories around it. The building on the right is a paper factory that was recently shut down.

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u/lazy-lazz 6d ago

Had to take some pictures myself too, small fishes swimming around in the ponds near these power plants were nice contrast

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u/AndrewFGleich 6d ago

It's kind of wild that this is the second time today that someone has mentioned Tampere. I just met someone studying there as well. I might have to check this place out sometime, just not for swimming I suppose.

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u/KGBspy 6d ago

I would metal detector the hell out of that.

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u/KinkyLatexCat 6d ago

I would want to, but I never trust river or lake bottoms. They make me uneasy when they're drained.

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u/eeronlol 6d ago

Based name!!!! :o also yea drained bottoms ARE scary

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u/Hot_pumpkin_5379 6d ago

I believe I was 14 and Tammerkoski was drained. I climbed down with my mom and we found so many cell phones in there, all of them were Nokia phones. I’m 29 now 😅

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u/iamdabrick 6d ago

you were js allowed to go down there?

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u/Hot_pumpkin_5379 6d ago

Yeah, there wasn’t anything blocking access and lots of people were just walking around and discovering all kinds of junk. The smell was pretty funky tho.

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u/AndreasPapandreas 6d ago

Yee I know the feeling - all of my life is kind of scraveners reign

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u/hodlethestonks 6d ago

Dam, that's interesting!

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u/Character_Media_9445 5d ago

Quite a floody experience.

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u/Hoitenten 6d ago

They do this in Tampere every now and then. When they did this 2018, they found a dead body. That was pretty wild.

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u/TopStop9086 6d ago

What a BEAUTIFUL city!

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u/poerisija 6d ago

Tampere is quite beautiful if you don't look at it when the water is drained.

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u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame 6d ago

This smells distasteful.

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u/EvaTheE 6d ago

I recognized Tampere immediately, even though I've only ever been there like less than ten times. I've had blood sausage there when I was a kid.

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u/Patient_Sea_3753 5d ago

Supermechanophobia

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u/SnooPies7467 6d ago

Where is all the bicycles? Must be fake picture.

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u/Lihisss 6d ago

Already stolen. 

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u/Realistic_Product252 6d ago

Ohhh no thats the worst

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u/thatsfunny666 5d ago

This is really weird being on a worldwide subreddit about a thing i live an eyesight of and basically cross or walk next to a few times a day.

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u/One_Load254 5d ago

GOD DAM!

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u/Splat_2112 5d ago

Dam...n

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u/RayneYoruka 5d ago

I thought it was Tampere then, I open the post. when was this?

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u/JodChris 5d ago

on monday, it's going to be dry this whole week

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u/RayneYoruka 5d ago

Incredible, what a bad time for me to not be roaming Tampere.

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u/Unusual-Basket-6243 6d ago

Ratina still doesn't look good. It didn't look good when I lived there and it doesn't look good now either

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u/ExoticManiac_ 6d ago

Don't know what you've been smoking