Why The Amazon is STILL More Dangerous Than The Congo

Everyone just decided the Congo is more dangerous than the Amazon. Count the right things and the Amazon still wins, and we'll show you every number. The Congo has the deepest river ever measured, hippos, Nile crocodiles and a malaria toll more than a thousand times Brazil's. We give it every one of those points. Then we ask the question the Congo videos skipped: dangerous for whom? Eight rounds, one running score. The size of the Amazon basin and the water it moves. Electric eels that hit 860 volts and hunt in groups. Black caimans, vampire bats that killed 21 people in two Pará towns, wandering spiders and a caterpillar that makes you bleed. The common lancehead and the six hours that decide who survives a snakebite. More than 8,000 violent deaths a year in Brazil's Amazon region. The uncontacted peoples of the Javari Valley, and the explorers who never came back. It ends with Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, the most prepared man the Amazon had and the journalist who traveled with him. Sources named on screen: Brazil's Health Ministry, the World Health Organization, the USGS, the Brazilian Forum on Public Security, Global Witness and peer-reviewed papers. This is a documentary, not travel or safety advice. 00:00 The Other Kayaker 03:16 Three Rounds to the Congo 07:54 The Size of the Problem 11:15 Killers Nobody Names 16:30 The Six Hours 20:38 The Killer With a Boat 24:58 Where the Map Stops 29:32 The Man Who Knew It Best #AmazonRainforest #CongoBasin #AmazonVsCongo #DangerousPlaces #NatureDocumentary