Rough weather

[wessel]

Apparently this was a ferry that went out from a port somewhere in New Zealand.:o

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/ferry-depart-p1.php

I wonder how a Supercat would have handled itself in those kind of waves? ;D


Wessel

[Chimo]

Hey Wessel

Two comments

Now I know why they close the back doors on those things; its to stop the cars, trucks and people from falling out!

You know those frp rods they put on dune buggies? Well the NZ buggers put two solid flag poles up on theirs but forgot the flags!

Nice video tho

Cheers

Chimo

[Brumby]

Whooooooweee! How'd you like to be the poor mug who gets to clean up at the other end?

[Black_Rat]

Check these guys out on a practice rescue :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgxO9vceWFQ&mode=related&search=

[DaMaGe]

Great videos.. I wonder how many people were sea sick up on that ferry.

[Marlin_Mike]

I watched the praqctice rescue........twice.

To me, in alot of the camera angles and shots, their boat sure looks like a model boat, I suspect it is and the whole video is a fake. No right minded rescue group would go out in that, especially for a training run.

Mike

[seatime]

here's some more,

the monster wave is nasty, breaks a few windows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fQ1eWv36o&mode=related&search=

the RNLI regularly work in conditions like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwPm5c8_LY

the support vessel/tug is just showing off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPYodT4jl04&NR

[mitch92]

How bout in a rubber duck??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJZdd--OGaA

[DaMaGe]

Keep em coming!

[wessel]

I am impressed with the grabrails in that rescue craft, (black rat posting)
they seem to prevent people from flying upwards off the deck and backwards over the transom.

Why not use that rescue craft as a charter boat - no matter what the weather is doing, the charter will be going out :) You may even earn a few extra frequent flyer points while you are out there

Wessel

[ozlongboarder]

I watched the praqctice rescue........twice.

To me, in alot of the camera angles and shots, their boat sure looks like a model boat, I suspect it is and the whole video is a fake. No right minded rescue group would go out in that, especially for a training run.

Mike

Its reall!

I lived in California for a year on the coast and have watched them back there rescue boat into the beach in a huge swell then power out over/through everything just for practice. I surfed with a guy who was rescue jumper on a coast guard helicopter. The place were they filmed that rescue boat is at the entrance to river where they have a training base for all the extreme rescue training.

[toymod]

Another rescue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak-M5aq-T4
;D

[reef_king]

Marlin mike, ozlongborader is right, and every coastguard skipper in america has to train through that bar, to be qualified.

[ozlongboarder]

Another rescue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ak-M5aq-T4
;D

Thats where I lived and thats the older boats, I also saw the newer boats at Ocean beach as well.

[Ninja]

Watch Out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_8hOai9hGQ&NR

[Black_Rat]

Not a good place to be :o

[Fish Guts]

aweosome footage. its not possible to save you tube videos is it ?

[Marlin_Mike]

Reef_King, that says it all....in the STATES....only in America.......LOL.........they can have it

Mike

[wessel]

Some of those seas you need a submarine in order to stand a better than fair chance to survive......:o The one second you are still afloat, the next you are part of the spin cycle in a washing machine

I have only once experienced swells of over 15 meters in height on a ship of 170 meters long. The closest land was over 1600 nm away, a relative short swim across a cold south Atlantic. That was probably the longest two days in my life. You first think that you are going to die, then you start to wish that you will die. By the time that you are so sick that you want to just end it all and take a long walk on a short plank, you are physically incapacitated, but you are still conscious and aware of every roll of the ship. Every shudder as the bow plows through yet another small hill. And that was just day one, there was another full 24 hours to go before the worst of the storm passed. I now know why they call it the roaring forties. The furious fifties and the screaming sixties they can keep all to themselves thank you very much.

Wessel

[Sea-Dog]

Completely off-topic, but whilst browsing through you-tube, I found THE BEST remote controlled aircraft demo you will ever see.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gulv_bvZS94

[HIGH and DRY]

that irb reminded me of my mates thunder cat! we were out through the sea way the other week and were heading out over waves when a big onshore gust blew the boat over!! bit nerve wrecking, but we righted it and our mate towed us in to get it goin again!!! spose its got nothin on what those blokes were doin!:o