Some people see a flooded river and think: stay away. Others think: perfect day for a jet ski.

A viral video from Brazil belongs firmly in the second category. Filmed on the Piracicaba River in São Paulo state, it shows a lone rider charging into a ferocious stretch of brown-water rapids that looks more like a washing machine than a river.

See the footage, linked here , and below.

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The jet ski bucks through standing waves, its nose punching skyward as the current tosses it around. Then the inevitable: the rider loses his grip and disappears into the churning water.

For a few tense seconds, it looks bad.

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But somehow, he resurfaces beside the craft, claws his way back aboard, and—because apparently surviving wasn’t enough—keeps riding.

The footage, credited in media reports to Instagram account @adson_ivan , has gone viral.…