Protect your nose !...and maybe everything else

[itmaiden]

Gosh, after all those shows about how clean and wonderful the waters of the Amazon are....

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...th/?test=faces

I can't help but wonder, if there are Spanish shipwrecks in the Amazon.

Any of you down "south" of the USA know ?

itmaiden

[pcolaboy]

I would imagine that if there were any colonial wrecks in the Amazon itself they would most likely be Portuguese. That is a very interesting thought you have there though and it would make sense that there would have been some early attempt to explore the Amazon by some sort of shallow draft vessel.

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

HI, may I also suggest that you never skinny dip in the Amazon or it's tributaries, especially if you have the habit of not surfacing when you find that you have drunk too many liquid refreshments. You may find yorself host to another even nastier critter.

Don Jose de La Mancha

[Bum Luck]

Here's another reason, in case you need one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru