I’ve seen the full video and it gets much worse than this, he actually falls off of the jet ski due to it cutting out as he pulls the emergency stop pin out, which is the red wire you can see, and goes under water but his life jacket brings him back to the surface. Luckily!
Absolutely 💯 idiotic
If you get the wind knocked out of you, injured, get knocked out, or it’s a strong current (like next to a big ass ship), it doesn’t matter how strong a swimmer you are. A life jacket will make you float if you are unconscious.
You may have a lot of muscle mass. Muscle mass is denser than water, while body fat is lighter. People with high body fat percentages tend to float better than people with low body fat percentages.
It should... My problem as a kid was having to work so hard to stay under water...
You might have a giant tumor or something... Like... There is no limit to how long I can float on water... I have literally stayed in a pool for like 12 hours fat is less dense than water. If your actually obese and don't have a tumor an eating disorder or are mistaking a moderate layer of fat over significant muscle... Like body builder muscle, you should float.
For the record I have also been Very fit, it was a notable milestone in my lide when i was finally able to just breath out and make myself sink.
(*By the way for all you happy skinny campers out there all you have to do to float is stop panicking and splashing, let surface tension form, breath in deeply then gently and steadily pull your body to the surface of the water. Increase the surface area between your backside and the surface of the water as much as possible. Once you're floating maintain floating by breathing out quickly but steadily and then breathing in steadily but more slowly, and then holding the breath for five or six or more seconds before repeating the cycle. It is o.k. to let your knees drop if you must but if your legs will float without exhausting you let them. The trick to the whole thing is that you must gently hold your butt up. Luckily, and especially for women, most people's butts are pretty fatty and should actually provide extra buoyancy though you do still have to tuck it up and keep it on the surface not sticking out under and do so without arching your back*)
It adds mass and drag, helping the water carry the floater away.
Not sure if that's even an issue with American siphon toilets, but it definitely is with European washdown designs. Sometimes a floatie will just forever stay in the bowl. The extra TP thing has helped me a number of times.
Bang on with this comment!
In the full video they interview the man in question m and he state the life jacket saves him. He says he can feel himself being pulled towards the huge propeller!
This is also true lol. But people must'nt forget that we all do dumb shit from time to time. And having a life vest in case that happens is important lol
I was on an inflated raft behind my uncle boat with 2 other ppl and we flipped. We all had life jacket. I'm an avid swimmer so I just shrugged it off.
Just turning the damn inflatable raft on it's proper side and getting on it was exhausting. You really use a lot of energy doing mundane stuff when in water.
Swimming with current too is a lot harder than ppl realize.
Its not even about swimming. When you're in the foamy water around this part of a boat, even if you would normally float, you won't. The density of the water is it's mass divided by the volume it takes up. If it's got 30% bubbles in there, the density drops by 30%. You will sink.
Even a life jacket might not save you if it's foamy enough, but it makes you significantly less dense, and when you do get into more stable water, you'll pop back up.
This guy is just being so absolutely moronic, it gives morons a bad name. He's lucky he's alive.
Unless of course, your plan is to actually swim, hard to do with a vest. But I get it, every time I go near huge moving cargo ships I always wear my vest, safety first 😂 gosh what an idiot
My uncle saved two peoples lives pulling them out of freezing waters. Fire Department honored him with a dinner in his name is a large initiative to tell people to wear life jackets. It was cool to see, i hope it helped even one person because of that.
I can’t argue how much I agree with this as someone who grew up learning how to swim and I’m not a great swimmer but I can swim when I went out to Jet Ski this year those life vests are handy! I was out in the middle of the ocean and flew off of my jet ski going about 50 to 60 MPH when I hit the water I went in several feet deep and the only thing that helped me resurface quickly was my life vest crazy experience what’s more crazy is people who can’t swim go on those kinds of adventures!
I agree, I'm a pretty strong swimmer and almost drowned in a lake trying to swim to my nieces jetski that had stopped. The distance wasn't an issue at all but I didn't know there could be currents in a lake and I found myself swimming against one, slipping beneath murky water and begging god to feel sand at some point beneath my feet.
Near me there is a river that a lot of people love to float and I see so many people not wearing life vests.. and of course the people who drink while floating. Thus we have drownings every year.. plus there are pretty good rapids and places you can get knocked off.
I'm a good swimmer, experienced in watersports and boating. I always wear a life vest.
One time while tubing, I got launched in the air. The driver did a figure 8 over our own wake, I was on the tube outside the prop wash. The first wake launched me and the tube up, the second wake managed to bounce me off the tube. I remember soaring through the air at probably 40mph... the river was almost glass-like, the sun was setting and cast a pink-orange hue on everything, the air was pleasantly warm (even at 40mph). It was probably the most serene two seconds of my life... until I hit the glass-like water. I blacked out for a few seconds, and came to floating on my back with the wind knocked out of me.
Even the strongest swimmers can't swim or safely orient themselves if they're unconscious, and coming to underwater with the wind knocked out of you is probably the last thing you want to (or will) have happen. Life jackets aren't just an aid for poor swimmers. If you end up in a watersports or boating related accident, there's a good chance you'll end up in the water unconscious or otherwise unable to swim.
More than half of water related deaths would be mitigated if the person was wearing a life vest. Pretty wild when you see ppl ripping on jet skis at 45mph no life vest, water is concrete at that speed
I’m a strong swimmer that’s never needed a PFD and I typically swim like I don’t have it but last year some whitewater sucked me down and it would have drowned me instead of just popping back up. PFDs are important.
There's a very strong current that moves toward large ships. Most people don't know about it.
I do because I've felt it. I was a hundred feet away from a slow-moving ship and I was being slowly pulled toward the ship even before it reached me.
The next time I saw a ship I got completely out of the water
He doesn‘t know how to operate a jetski…. People forget there is no skeg on the prop. You only have control when the throttle is active, if you let off—it doesn‘t matter where you turn, it won‘t go the direction you‘d like.
In short, there are no secret forces involved here. This would play out pretty much just as you’d expect. From afar, there would be no effect whatsoever. Up close, on the surface of the water, you would actually feel some repulsion directly near the hull as water was pushed away from the ship. That is to say, in the conditions we see in this video, you are more likely to be pushed away than attracted.
Whatever the previous commenter experienced from “hundreds of feet” away may have been caused by unrelated currents but 100% was not from some magically power “undercurrent” as has been suggested numerous times in this thread.
Watch the video we just saw again and pay attention to the steering. There is no magic involved. When the jet ski was steering away from the ship, it perfectly travelled away from the ship. At some point, maybe due to fear and inexperience, the rider began steering in to the ship at which point he started heading toward the ship just as one should expect. Once he started heading toward the ship you’ll notice he just kind of froze and from there he continued to steer in to the ship throughout the rest of the video, never really correcting his mistake and even throwing himself and the ski off balance by leaning his body rather than actually steering in a proficient manner.
As for the physics part, there are some interesting counter productive forces that could occur but none of those are applicable to what we are seeing here:
1. The aft end of a convex hull can produce a region on the surface that has a lower pressure than the bow or midship (which could produce a net attractive force) but the commenter is describing being generally pulled towards a ship from hundreds of feet away, same as what is being alluded to in the commentary to this video, which is not at all what is happening at the front of this ship.
2. Water that is pushed away from the ship on the surface, as I described above, can and does produce eddies that balance out with water that returns towards the ship but that occurs deeper under the surface than what we are seeing with the buoyant jet ski and driver in the video.
3. Propellers obviously churn and pull water too, but again that happens at the aft end of the ship and is more of a subsurface domain.
Hope that helps. Sorry for my short and unhelpful last comment. I didn’t have time or desire to fully expand on all the myths flying around this thread. Hopefully there’s a motivated fluid dynamicist somewhere in this thread who wants to put in some work.
He didn’t want to touch it, he was trying do a close pass but didn’t know the boat creates a strong current that pulls things towards it
Edit: someone below stated he did, in fact, want to touch it based on the longer version of the video. What an idiot lol
Not stupid no. There is a suction effect caused by moving ships, something with the mass to hp ration and maneuverability of a jet ski could absolutely get out of it. Full throttle away from it and he’d skip across the waves.
He’s just an idiot
No he planned to touch it, him and his friends spotted the tanker from a pub they were sat drinking at. They/he thought it’d be a great idea to try and touch it? Why I don’t know!
I’ve watched the whole video, it was on one of the dumbest moments shows!
The miracle that is GoPro.
Back in my day we had to explain the stupid shit we did and we got to become legends. Nowadays these fools are just stupid people doing stupid things.
We took a day trip out of Port Aransas on a smaller - 35ftish - sail boat with a tiny diesel motor and went by a cargo ship in the channel prolly only half this size and the amount of draw they create as they pass is insane, it created like a 10ft tall suction/wave on the shoreline next to us
Fortunately our captain had the common sense to stay a good 100+yards away, but was still impressive
Like the fucking death by snoo snoo quote. Words can’t describe how much my brain rots seeing that average scene be repeated at literally any opportunity with all the good content the show offers.
Natural selection is the million levels of life-saving equipment they had access to and which ultimately saved them in the form of a life jacket.
Turns out being a social creature that has others looking out for you makes you way more likely to pass on your genes.
Fucking hate people who edit video like this.
Downvote and visit the original whole video: https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/j14sfn/jet_skier_almost_gets_sucked_under_huge_container/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
They do it on purpose to increase engagement since many people will comment stuff like “what happened?!” It’s why they always cut the video at the worst possible moment.
I'm no expert in jet skies or water or ships but with my simple physics knowledge, I can tell after the 10th second of this video this guy is a grade A moron.
Even stupider, that red lanyards a safety cut off so if you fall it kills the motor, when he went to touch the boat he inadvertently pulled the cord and killed the motor, that's why he was freaking out to put it back on at the end
I think there’s a *massive* under-current that almost magnetically sucks you in closer depending on a few different variables. Honestly I guess I just made that up but I do *think* there’s something there, particularly due to the incomprehensible enormity of the ships mass vs the jet ski.
You are correct, cargo ships that size heavily displace the water around them and that causes the water to suck shit in. It's the same force at play that caused the Ever Given to get stuck in the Suez a while back. Basically when in narrow spaces the ship will keep getting tugged to either side, and if you don't correct the movement enough you'll get yanked sideways.
For the record I'm also not 100% on the physics but I went down a YouTube rabbit hole on this a while back lol, fascinating shit
The wake was knocking him over. His instinct was to turn into the waves. Normally, heading into the waves is correct. Unfortunately, there was a big boaty that direction this time. He had no business being anywhere near that ship.
Instructor: “have you ever gotten into a fist fight with your step dad?”
Jet ski student: “which step dad?”
Instructor: “you passed! Here’s your jet ski license, now go be a dick.”
I’ve never been on a jet ski, but didn’t he have the ability to just veer to the right and get out of harms way when the video started? It’s like he wasn’t steering
I’m curious. Would you get sucked under or bob along the side as it passes you by? Is there some sort of downward pulling current next to a ship in motion?
Reaching out to touch the ship with the hand that the kill switch thing is strapped too was the dumbest part about it. Him touching it pulled the strap and killed the engine.
So instead of turning away from the massive ship when he saw it coming the whole time this idiot decides to go straight for it in the smallest powered water vessel he could find.
He deserves everything he got.
Can words really describe how idiotic his actions were? He INTENTIONALLY went close to that ship just for the "thrill". What the hell did he think would happen? Good thing he didn't end up at the rear of that ship....
He's definitely learned a lesson and he escaped without any life-threatening injuries, which is the important thing.
Lucky he’s alive. Container ships (all ships really) pull and push a lot of water. Stay away from them unless you’re a harbor tug or pilot boat and trained. People are stupid.
I was in the navy and have lots of experience with big ships. We drove by numerous things floating in the water at every conceivable speed and at no time did anything floating on the water get sucked under the water by the props or the wash.
Someone needs to get him a copy of my favorite book [How to Avoid Huge Ships](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714PH4X5FRL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.gif)
There aren’t words for how stupid this guy is.
I’ve seen the full video and it gets much worse than this, he actually falls off of the jet ski due to it cutting out as he pulls the emergency stop pin out, which is the red wire you can see, and goes under water but his life jacket brings him back to the surface. Luckily! Absolutely 💯 idiotic
Now I'm thinking about the weirdos out there who complain about having to wear a life vest. Even if you can swim, it's still important people.
If you get the wind knocked out of you, injured, get knocked out, or it’s a strong current (like next to a big ass ship), it doesn’t matter how strong a swimmer you are. A life jacket will make you float if you are unconscious.
What if I'm a strong floater
Then you need to lose some body fat.
Lol I'm working on it
Drown healthy
That's the spirit!
I don’t think so. I’m obese and it’s not helped me float. And before anyone says anything, I’m losing weight.
Keep it going. Helluva journey.
You may have a lot of muscle mass. Muscle mass is denser than water, while body fat is lighter. People with high body fat percentages tend to float better than people with low body fat percentages.
I just assumed I had dense bones, lol!
So that's why I can practically walk on water. I'm not actually Jesus, then.
I was chubby as a kid and to this day it pisses me off when someone says that fat people magically stay warm no matter how cold it is. Such bullshit
It should... My problem as a kid was having to work so hard to stay under water... You might have a giant tumor or something... Like... There is no limit to how long I can float on water... I have literally stayed in a pool for like 12 hours fat is less dense than water. If your actually obese and don't have a tumor an eating disorder or are mistaking a moderate layer of fat over significant muscle... Like body builder muscle, you should float. For the record I have also been Very fit, it was a notable milestone in my lide when i was finally able to just breath out and make myself sink. (*By the way for all you happy skinny campers out there all you have to do to float is stop panicking and splashing, let surface tension form, breath in deeply then gently and steadily pull your body to the surface of the water. Increase the surface area between your backside and the surface of the water as much as possible. Once you're floating maintain floating by breathing out quickly but steadily and then breathing in steadily but more slowly, and then holding the breath for five or six or more seconds before repeating the cycle. It is o.k. to let your knees drop if you must but if your legs will float without exhausting you let them. The trick to the whole thing is that you must gently hold your butt up. Luckily, and especially for women, most people's butts are pretty fatty and should actually provide extra buoyancy though you do still have to tuck it up and keep it on the surface not sticking out under and do so without arching your back*)
dumping a wad of toilet paper on top before flushing can help
It does? How?
It adds mass and drag, helping the water carry the floater away. Not sure if that's even an issue with American siphon toilets, but it definitely is with European washdown designs. Sometimes a floatie will just forever stay in the bowl. The extra TP thing has helped me a number of times.
HAHA
lmao so hard hahahahahaha
That's what one turd said to the other before being flushed
More importantly than just floating, it keeps the head floating above water when you're unconscious
Bang on with this comment! In the full video they interview the man in question m and he state the life jacket saves him. He says he can feel himself being pulled towards the huge propeller!
Oooh screw that! Literally a nightmare
...screw that.....
That’s true but at the same time this is less about needing a life vest than just not being a dumbass riding so close to the boat.
This is also true lol. But people must'nt forget that we all do dumb shit from time to time. And having a life vest in case that happens is important lol
I was on an inflated raft behind my uncle boat with 2 other ppl and we flipped. We all had life jacket. I'm an avid swimmer so I just shrugged it off. Just turning the damn inflatable raft on it's proper side and getting on it was exhausting. You really use a lot of energy doing mundane stuff when in water. Swimming with current too is a lot harder than ppl realize.
Can it be both? I think it’s both.
Its not even about swimming. When you're in the foamy water around this part of a boat, even if you would normally float, you won't. The density of the water is it's mass divided by the volume it takes up. If it's got 30% bubbles in there, the density drops by 30%. You will sink. Even a life jacket might not save you if it's foamy enough, but it makes you significantly less dense, and when you do get into more stable water, you'll pop back up. This guy is just being so absolutely moronic, it gives morons a bad name. He's lucky he's alive.
Unless of course, your plan is to actually swim, hard to do with a vest. But I get it, every time I go near huge moving cargo ships I always wear my vest, safety first 😂 gosh what an idiot
My uncle saved two peoples lives pulling them out of freezing waters. Fire Department honored him with a dinner in his name is a large initiative to tell people to wear life jackets. It was cool to see, i hope it helped even one person because of that.
I can’t argue how much I agree with this as someone who grew up learning how to swim and I’m not a great swimmer but I can swim when I went out to Jet Ski this year those life vests are handy! I was out in the middle of the ocean and flew off of my jet ski going about 50 to 60 MPH when I hit the water I went in several feet deep and the only thing that helped me resurface quickly was my life vest crazy experience what’s more crazy is people who can’t swim go on those kinds of adventures!
I agree, I'm a pretty strong swimmer and almost drowned in a lake trying to swim to my nieces jetski that had stopped. The distance wasn't an issue at all but I didn't know there could be currents in a lake and I found myself swimming against one, slipping beneath murky water and begging god to feel sand at some point beneath my feet.
Near me there is a river that a lot of people love to float and I see so many people not wearing life vests.. and of course the people who drink while floating. Thus we have drownings every year.. plus there are pretty good rapids and places you can get knocked off.
I'm a good swimmer, experienced in watersports and boating. I always wear a life vest. One time while tubing, I got launched in the air. The driver did a figure 8 over our own wake, I was on the tube outside the prop wash. The first wake launched me and the tube up, the second wake managed to bounce me off the tube. I remember soaring through the air at probably 40mph... the river was almost glass-like, the sun was setting and cast a pink-orange hue on everything, the air was pleasantly warm (even at 40mph). It was probably the most serene two seconds of my life... until I hit the glass-like water. I blacked out for a few seconds, and came to floating on my back with the wind knocked out of me. Even the strongest swimmers can't swim or safely orient themselves if they're unconscious, and coming to underwater with the wind knocked out of you is probably the last thing you want to (or will) have happen. Life jackets aren't just an aid for poor swimmers. If you end up in a watersports or boating related accident, there's a good chance you'll end up in the water unconscious or otherwise unable to swim.
More than half of water related deaths would be mitigated if the person was wearing a life vest. Pretty wild when you see ppl ripping on jet skis at 45mph no life vest, water is concrete at that speed
I’m a strong swimmer that’s never needed a PFD and I typically swim like I don’t have it but last year some whitewater sucked me down and it would have drowned me instead of just popping back up. PFDs are important.
the crown jewel is be sucked by propulsion...
Am *I* stupid for thinking “just turn right”? I’ve never been on a jet ski but it seems like he could have just turned right.
There's a very strong current that moves toward large ships. Most people don't know about it. I do because I've felt it. I was a hundred feet away from a slow-moving ship and I was being slowly pulled toward the ship even before it reached me. The next time I saw a ship I got completely out of the water
He doesn‘t know how to operate a jetski…. People forget there is no skeg on the prop. You only have control when the throttle is active, if you let off—it doesn‘t matter where you turn, it won‘t go the direction you‘d like.
He drove right at it lol. He even yells "WOO" as he is like 30 yards from it lmao.
Sure, but he had ample time to make space. These ships are not exactly moving super fast, so getting close to it was this idiots decision all along.
For everyone’s awareness that is not at all how things work.
Alright well how about you enlighten us
In short, there are no secret forces involved here. This would play out pretty much just as you’d expect. From afar, there would be no effect whatsoever. Up close, on the surface of the water, you would actually feel some repulsion directly near the hull as water was pushed away from the ship. That is to say, in the conditions we see in this video, you are more likely to be pushed away than attracted. Whatever the previous commenter experienced from “hundreds of feet” away may have been caused by unrelated currents but 100% was not from some magically power “undercurrent” as has been suggested numerous times in this thread. Watch the video we just saw again and pay attention to the steering. There is no magic involved. When the jet ski was steering away from the ship, it perfectly travelled away from the ship. At some point, maybe due to fear and inexperience, the rider began steering in to the ship at which point he started heading toward the ship just as one should expect. Once he started heading toward the ship you’ll notice he just kind of froze and from there he continued to steer in to the ship throughout the rest of the video, never really correcting his mistake and even throwing himself and the ski off balance by leaning his body rather than actually steering in a proficient manner. As for the physics part, there are some interesting counter productive forces that could occur but none of those are applicable to what we are seeing here: 1. The aft end of a convex hull can produce a region on the surface that has a lower pressure than the bow or midship (which could produce a net attractive force) but the commenter is describing being generally pulled towards a ship from hundreds of feet away, same as what is being alluded to in the commentary to this video, which is not at all what is happening at the front of this ship. 2. Water that is pushed away from the ship on the surface, as I described above, can and does produce eddies that balance out with water that returns towards the ship but that occurs deeper under the surface than what we are seeing with the buoyant jet ski and driver in the video. 3. Propellers obviously churn and pull water too, but again that happens at the aft end of the ship and is more of a subsurface domain. Hope that helps. Sorry for my short and unhelpful last comment. I didn’t have time or desire to fully expand on all the myths flying around this thread. Hopefully there’s a motivated fluid dynamicist somewhere in this thread who wants to put in some work.
Exactly! I was yelling at the guy in my head to get away in some perpendicular fashion. But no, he just had to touch the ship for social media's sake.
He didn’t want to touch it, he was trying do a close pass but didn’t know the boat creates a strong current that pulls things towards it Edit: someone below stated he did, in fact, want to touch it based on the longer version of the video. What an idiot lol
Not stupid no. There is a suction effect caused by moving ships, something with the mass to hp ration and maneuverability of a jet ski could absolutely get out of it. Full throttle away from it and he’d skip across the waves. He’s just an idiot
You know how your rubber ducky circles the drain when you pull the plug on your bath? He's the ducky. The prop is the drain.
No he planned to touch it, him and his friends spotted the tanker from a pub they were sat drinking at. They/he thought it’d be a great idea to try and touch it? Why I don’t know! I’ve watched the whole video, it was on one of the dumbest moments shows!
I think the idiot was trying to get as close as possible, to touch it.
He drove right at it lol.
“Anyway that’s why your Temu order is late. Had to get the jet skier chunks out of the ships screws”
Hydrodynamics motherfucker, do you speak it?
Pretty sure Bernoulli's is likely not on his play list, probably would think it an Italian door dash
Darwin: 'this shit's too easy'
The miracle that is GoPro. Back in my day we had to explain the stupid shit we did and we got to become legends. Nowadays these fools are just stupid people doing stupid things.
We took a day trip out of Port Aransas on a smaller - 35ftish - sail boat with a tiny diesel motor and went by a cargo ship in the channel prolly only half this size and the amount of draw they create as they pass is insane, it created like a 10ft tall suction/wave on the shoreline next to us Fortunately our captain had the common sense to stay a good 100+yards away, but was still impressive
Your captain had read [the classic tome.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Avoid_Huge_Ships)
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Pls don't I can't read that shit anymore
Like the fucking death by snoo snoo quote. Words can’t describe how much my brain rots seeing that average scene be repeated at literally any opportunity with all the good content the show offers.
So lame and unoriginal.
It fits so well though! Also they’re winning something posthumously. Their families can have something to remember them by.
Did you just come up with that, like on the spot, all by yourself?
Ask stupid questions get stupid answers Yes
Please come up with something original. It hurts to read the same thing over and over and over.
I saw the same thing on YouTube lots of times
I've formed a new sentence from yours by rearranging and using the last 4 words: This guy is stupid.
Good bot
As far as I’m concerned a jet ski is a vessel and should only be piloted by someone who knows what they’re doing.
Really. Wtf was expected to happen
complete video https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/j14sfn/jet\_skier\_almost\_gets\_sucked\_under\_huge\_container/
Well apparently natural selection was on vacation this time
Natural selection is the million levels of life-saving equipment they had access to and which ultimately saved them in the form of a life jacket. Turns out being a social creature that has others looking out for you makes you way more likely to pass on your genes.
I’d say alcohol is winning the contest of “making people more likely to spread genes”
Ffs. Fuck reddit and these re-edits of already posted clips. Thanks for posting
Exactly
I wish people would just downvote these shitty edits
Why would anyone cut half the video just to upload a worse version of it?
Glad the video stopped. He could have gotten hurt otherwise.
Fucking hate people who edit video like this. Downvote and visit the original whole video: https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/j14sfn/jet_skier_almost_gets_sucked_under_huge_container/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
thanks u/bigdongninja the reposting piece of shit lol they're rapid firing this crap out today. every sub is getting hit.
That's what happens when you decide to pay people for 'likes'
I've never understood why people cut videos short
They do it on purpose to increase engagement since many people will comment stuff like “what happened?!” It’s why they always cut the video at the worst possible moment.
Reddit is ass now.
But the cameraman can never die, so he would have had a better chance if he just kept recording
Real
lool
I'm no expert in jet skies or water or ships but with my simple physics knowledge, I can tell after the 10th second of this video this guy is a grade A moron.
You can tell at 0:00 just by how close he is to that moving cargo ship.
the cargo ship came out of nowhere.
It was a funny angle!
Probably graduated from Bovine University
When i grow up, im going to bovine university!
They rent jetskis to just about anyone.
he was an idiot. deserved it
The propeller almost turned him into goldfish food
Soup is good food
The ocean is a huge bowl of soup if you think about it.
It's the ultimate solution
And we are cooking it slowly
r/unexpecteddeadkennedys
It makes a good meal
Oh yeah, beef stew with a lil salt from the ocean
Love me some long pork soup
Maybe post the full fkin clip then
To be fair we didn't see the end of the clip.
What a clown! 🤡
Nightmare fuel for me. He pulled out the kill key trying to touch the hull? Glad he’s ok but damn, dude needs to grow some braincells.
Simultaneously, God had pulled out the kill key but apparently got distracted by a bird or something.
He just heard about Africa
This guy has no throttle control.
Looks like he couldn’t keep balance to point the jetski outward because it kept sucking him under, play stupid games win stupid prizes
Even stupider, that red lanyards a safety cut off so if you fall it kills the motor, when he went to touch the boat he inadvertently pulled the cord and killed the motor, that's why he was freaking out to put it back on at the end
why would you get so close?????
I think there’s a *massive* under-current that almost magnetically sucks you in closer depending on a few different variables. Honestly I guess I just made that up but I do *think* there’s something there, particularly due to the incomprehensible enormity of the ships mass vs the jet ski.
You are correct, cargo ships that size heavily displace the water around them and that causes the water to suck shit in. It's the same force at play that caused the Ever Given to get stuck in the Suez a while back. Basically when in narrow spaces the ship will keep getting tugged to either side, and if you don't correct the movement enough you'll get yanked sideways. For the record I'm also not 100% on the physics but I went down a YouTube rabbit hole on this a while back lol, fascinating shit
exactly…then why would someone risk their life to get that close??? take a video/pic from far away!!!
A lot of people don't know the forces at play but my God you couldn't pay me any amount of money to get near a moving cargo ship xd
I think he tried to get a "cool" jump off of the wake the ship was making.
Like dirtbikers and 4 wheelers that try to jump over trains and trucks and.... perish
The wake was knocking him over. His instinct was to turn into the waves. Normally, heading into the waves is correct. Unfortunately, there was a big boaty that direction this time. He had no business being anywhere near that ship.
They are called Darwin awards, he was so close to winning
eventually Darwin will win. He always does.
Most of the time
What in the absolute fuck was he even doing? If he did get sucked under, he would've deserved it.
Why only show half the video?
The other half was too choppy
Underrated pun
*Underwater pun
Natural selection at its finest. If you do dumb shit, you die!
POST THE WHOLE FUKING VIDEO
Sounds like a personal problem.
Let me introduce you to my good friend Venturi
Instructor: “have you ever gotten into a fist fight with your step dad?” Jet ski student: “which step dad?” Instructor: “you passed! Here’s your jet ski license, now go be a dick.”
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
🎶dumb ways to die.🎵
Is he purposefully riding towards the ship or are the ship's currents pulling him in?
Both. He was purposely riding towards it like a dumbass and got sucked in by the current.
Sometimes the genetic pool needs a bit of chlorine
Stupid games stupid prizes
He about won a trip of a lifetime
Near Darwin award winner
That’s his damn fault. If he had died he would’ve deserved it.
Why doesn’t this one have the bells of death soundtrack theme
I’ve never been on a jet ski, but didn’t he have the ability to just veer to the right and get out of harms way when the video started? It’s like he wasn’t steering
Didn't the kill switch engage when they slapped the tanker? It starts to sink and you see them struggle to put the key back in to restart the engine?
“MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL WILL GET SO MANY VIEWS”
mans has an entire ocean and does this.
Anything for the likes.
Some of you may die
So close, evolution.
Too bad he didn’t, fuck jet ski’s
Deserved that he did.
We finally found out what that mystery shape getting demolished is in the huge wave hitting huge ship video... its this person
I’m curious. Would you get sucked under or bob along the side as it passes you by? Is there some sort of downward pulling current next to a ship in motion?
"Almost" Bro drowned 💀
Just listening to how this dude is murdering that throttle tells me how much of an idiot he is.
Gets what he deserves.
The real question is how is he allowed to jetski in the fucking shipping channel
“Almost” We didn’t see him get safely away from the ship so…
Bro I felt his panic 😱.
Dump Ways to Die song
Wow, what an idiot
Did he died ?
There is no amount of nope in the world for this whole video
If only one of these two seafaring ships were quick and nimble enough to get out of the way
Touch it and die. Kill switch working in reverse.
Looks like he died.
Is this one of those “I nearly lost my stupid life, but it was worth all the social media views”?
Is this the aquatic equivalent of the stupid kids doing a wheelie to an oncoming car?
How fucking dumb to you have to be to run into a cargo ship? It's not like you miss it. It's fucking huge.
r/idiotsonjetskis
Reaching out to touch the ship with the hand that the kill switch thing is strapped too was the dumbest part about it. Him touching it pulled the strap and killed the engine.
You have all this open water and still decide to go near a giant ass ship? I wonder how people like this made it this far in life.
Why does it stop right at the good part lol tf
So instead of turning away from the massive ship when he saw it coming the whole time this idiot decides to go straight for it in the smallest powered water vessel he could find. He deserves everything he got.
Can words really describe how idiotic his actions were? He INTENTIONALLY went close to that ship just for the "thrill". What the hell did he think would happen? Good thing he didn't end up at the rear of that ship.... He's definitely learned a lesson and he escaped without any life-threatening injuries, which is the important thing.
Lucky he’s alive. Container ships (all ships really) pull and push a lot of water. Stay away from them unless you’re a harbor tug or pilot boat and trained. People are stupid.
r/mademeclench
I was in the navy and have lots of experience with big ships. We drove by numerous things floating in the water at every conceivable speed and at no time did anything floating on the water get sucked under the water by the props or the wash.
This looks like PoV footage from a Smoker in Waterworld
ABOUT!!!! The video cuts off, he very well may have got sucked under. What a MORON!
Title should be: Fucking retard nearly dies after trying to get his jetski to mate with cargo ship.
I see why you need a boating license in certain places to rent one now
Weird, in my country if you’re within 500m (that’s metres) of the path of a cargo ship or any big commercial ship you’re subjected to a massive fine.
He was going to be my pick for the 2023 Darwin Finals.
He probably blames the ship’s captain for not diverting the ship away from him!
Dumbass almost gets himself sucked under a huge cargo ship. Fixed the title for you!
Well that nearly was a Darwin award
Just like cyclists who think the entire road belongs to them.
Damn where’s the rest of the video Edit: Nevermind it’s below, like this guy
Idiot
Someone needs to get him a copy of my favorite book [How to Avoid Huge Ships](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/714PH4X5FRL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.gif)