This is a wall that was built to help direct water into a small canal. After this video was taken, the river eroded the earth from underneath the wall, so parts of the wall fell down. In the video, Jeral speaks in Creole about how a steel gate was needed to keep excessive amounts of water from flowing into the canal when the river rises, but that's beside the point now.
The water was fairly high while this video was taken - a couple inches above an adult's knees, at the deepest point of crossing. (It'd be substantially deeper for anyone who did not carefully choose his or her crossing point.) With practice, it's fairly easy for adults to cross the river while the water is at this level. But when it's a few inches higher, there's a large risk of falling, and possibly being killed, if you try to cross. At the points where it's fast and deep, this river is not a good place to test your swimming skills.
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