Now that we are all on this topic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JFKIKFkJ4AWatch this video, specifically after about 3:40. It is of the guy filming his girlfriend cross the river in her track pants and shirt.
If it was up to her knees, whatever. Waist... yeah, maybe if the flow was about walking speed.
But up to her armpits in swift moving water? Come on!!! She wades across a swift moving section of the river and bails at about 4:22. During the time I spent watching this my jaw hit the floor and stayed there... I would never allow my worst enemy to attempt that.
That is ridiculously dangerous and could have ended terribly. There are always a few fishing-related deaths each year...