Watch till the end WOW

[Ski]

 

[BrianMDTX]

Lucky. Foolish, but lucky! 

[Bird]

Wow is right.

Where was the lanyard ?

[GaryH]

Talk about lucky.. and dumb..

[Deleted account]

You could see that the passenger was not comfortable with this guy's driving. The sad part is that once the shock wears off, he's probably going back to his old ways.  Cue the fiberglass vs aluminum thread...

There is a local charter captain (I use the term loosely) that did this on his first day, (and blamed it on the sail boat), can't explain that either.

 

[scaleface]

Dang !

[RobA]

Wow.  Tough to watch.  What threw them?  Sharp turn to the left?  Water didn't look too choppy.

[newapti5]

41 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

You could see that the passenger was not comfortable with this guy's driving. The sad part is that once the shock wears off, he's probably going back to his old ways.  Cue the fiberglass vs aluminum thread...

 

Hopefully not. They are father and son, and they posted a second video explaining and warning people about kill switch safety: 

 

 

[Deleted account]

31 minutes ago, newapti5 said:

 

Hopefully not. They are father and son, and they posted a second video explaining and warning people about kill switch safety: 

 

 

 

I don't care if he was his surrogate mother, he was clearly not feeling it. And a safety video from this clown is priceless.

[Dogface]

1 hour ago, Bird said:

Wow is right.

Where was the lanyard ?

 

I'd bet a lot of guys don't attach it when there are two occupants thinking there is no way both would be thrown overboard. 

 

 

[Deleted account]

3 minutes ago, Dogface said:

 

I'd bet a lot of guys don't attach it when there are two occupants thinking there is no way both would be thrown overboard. 

 

 

Yup, kill switch is like a safety belt, you don't need it, until you need it, and when you need it, you really need it.

[Mike L]

 

38 minutes ago, Dogface said:

 

I'd bet a lot of guys don't attach it when there are two occupants thinking there is no way both would be thrown overboard. 

 

 

There is absolutely no reason not to have the kill switch attached when the big motor is on….None

 

 

 

 

Mike

[Bankbeater]

Looks like he was messing with the sonar right before it happened.  Distracted driving is no joke on land or in the water.

[Trox]

57 minutes ago, Bankbeater said:

Looks like he was messing with the sonar right before it happened.  Distracted driving is no joke on land or in the water.

Yup. at that speed, looking down for even a second can be very dangerous. Even though you may be aware of your structural surroundings, land, bridges, etc, the water is always changing. And at that speed, you have to CONSTANTLY be watching the water and what it's doing. Look down for a second, then look back up, and there is a 4ft swell from a house boat that you didn't see before that throws your plane all out of whack and next thing you know, you're in the water... 

Now as far as the killswitch thing, when this specific accident happened, it was not yet a law, but more of a common sense thing... and funny enough, today almost marks the exact 1 year anniversary of that law passing (April 1st, 2021)... why aren't we celebrating? lol

[MickD]

thanks!

[GaryH]

8 hours ago, Dogface said:

 

I'd bet a lot of guys don't attach it when there are two occupants thinking there is no way both would be thrown overboard. 

 

 

Two things always happen in my boat. Everyone is wearing a PFD whenever the big motor is on. It doesn’t matter how fast I’m going. And the kill switch is always hook to the life jacket. Sometimes you don’t get a second chance to learn from.

[TOXIC]

When i was guiding it was obviously a requirement for pfds when the big motor was running.  I always had the killswitch lanyard attached to me somewhere.  When prefishing or if I was out by myself scouting I was a little lax.  Then I had a dream.  I had a dream one night that I was running my boat wot down the lake early in the morning and I hit a rogue wave that threw me out of the boat.  I surfaced laughing and then saw my boat continuing down the lake at wot and I was wondering what it was going to hit.  I woke up in a sweat.  Have never started the big motor without the lanyard ever again.  Side note: if you have a hotfoot at least it  will drop back to idle even though it is in gear.  

[DINK WHISPERER]

Times like these I wish BR had a face palm SMH emoji! 

 

[fin]

Probably a stupid question, but why did it pick up speed around the two minute mark?

[Glenn]

This video has been around for a few years. I guess another site resurrected it to get some clickbait. 

 

23 minutes ago, DINK WHISPERER said:

Times like these I wish BR had a face palm SMH emoji! 

 

 

 

[throttleplate]

8 hours ago, Mike L said:

There is absolutely no reason not to have the kill switch attached when the big motor is on….None

 

2 days ago i was on tread mill at the health club, had the mill at 15 degree angle at speed of 3.3 mph.

Didnt have the E-stop lanyard attached to me and just caught myself in time before i was rolled dough.

[schplurg]

Lucky the boat didn't run them over as it circled, that's what I though was gonna happen. You can see them bobbing in the water during one pass.

 

The passenger (his father) didn't look uncomfortable about the speed at all, in fact he's the one who taught him to drive according to the second video. Dad's don't need to hold back. If son is being stupid Dad is usually first to say so...well at least my Dad would have, you better believe it lol  

[TOXIC]

17 hours ago, fin said:

Probably a stupid question, but why did it pick up speed around the two minute mark?

When the hull hooked, it made the boat plow in the water which is what threw them out but it also made it fall off plane. There was obviously no hotfoot on the boat or it would have snapped back to idle speed.  With the hand throttle still at running speed it just took the boat a while to get back up out of the water and plane out.  It then circled because it’s what all boats do with no steering input.  That’s due to the torque from the prop rotation.  

[FishTank]

We have a couple of wake boarding boats at both of lakes I fish and have seen this happen a few times. The wakes from those boats makes going over 20 to 25 mph almost impossible.  The danger from larger boats impacts everyone. I've seen whole families flipped in their kayaks. We did talk to the lady driving one of the boats. She said her son was a professional and ranked in the top 5 in the nation and their boat with a twin turbo Ford Raptor engine was paid for by sponsors.  

[Skunkmaster-k]

At 60 mph he’s super lucky his dad didn’t get hurt.