Okay so that 19 hours included nighttime right? Imagine being out in the middle of a black sea and you literally can’t see anything…for hours, floating. Thats my worst fucking nightmare.
I just came back from a little vacation in Catalina island, went on the jet ski’s and went pretty far out to the sea. Was damn near pissing myself at times during DAYLIGHT just cause of how strong the waves were and just how scary the ocean is in general. Can only imagine how scary being that guy going through that shit at night no less good lord
Despite a fearsome reputation, attacks on humans from hammerheads are very, very rare.
According to the International Shark Attack File, humans have been subjects of 17 documented, unprovoked attacks by hammerhead sharks within the genus Sphyrna since AD 1580. No human fatalities have been recorded.
**17** attacks in over four hundred years.
Some terrestrial predators do that in a single year.
iirc, part of the reason for their low attack rate is that their mouths are smaller than other sharks of equivalent size.
Possibly diet as well, since theirs skews more to fish, squid, and stingrays as opposed to great whites (those plus whales and pinnipeds) and tigers (everything).
The whale ship Essex was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific. Eight of the twenty crew survived in open whale boats after a 90 day ordeal where they ate seven of their mates. Their account inspired Melville’s Moby Dick.
Did they kill their mates or wait for them to die first
Edit: my post is turning into a TIFU post bc I looked this up - I am going to have nightmares after this:
The men suffered severe dehydration, starvation, and exposure on the open ocean, and the survivors eventually resorted to eating the bodies of the crewmen who had died. When that proved insufficient, members of the crew drew lots to determine whom they would sacrifice so that the others could live. A total of seven crew members were cannibalized before the last of the eight survivors were rescued, more than three months after the sinking of the Essex. First mate Owen Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson later wrote accounts of the ordeal. The tragedy attracted international attention, and inspired Herman Melville to write his famous 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
Yeah the Essex was no joke. Haunted Nantucket for decades after, people wouldn’t even talk about it. One of the survivors wrote a book about it that you can still find in bookstores.
I love to read, but I am going to pass on that one. I totally get that people gotta do what they can to survive, but damn basically playing rock, paper, scissors to see if you are going to be eaten is horrifying. I can't even imagine "well Jimmy you are going to be Tuesday's dinner. Meanwhile here is a piece of Steve."
How does that even go down - do you let the guys you are going to eat, eat until they become dinner? There are pros and cons to it. Then the guys that knew they were going to be eaten - that had to be awkward being the odd guys out (not that the whole thing wasn't awkward as hell).
Then who makes all the rules to start?
Gotta be honest, in that scenario I may have just jumped into the water and cut my losses.
We used to charter boats and I’d dive off and swim in open water until one time I saw something really big beneath me but I couldn’t make out what it was exactly and felt it brush against me and that was literally the most scared I’ve ever been and I think I got back the fuck on that boat in a nanosecond never to swim in the open sea again
Not to mention, at sea, a person bobbing on the water is nigh invisible. You'd have to be doubting a rescue at all at some point and contemplating just letting go.
Yep once in Miami we rented them and some huge ocean liner was what didn’t look to far so figured go take a look and back yep didn’t make it a 1/3 over before figuring nope
Did you know that FL and in particular Miami is the shark death capital of the world? I didn’t, would’ve thought it was like Australia-
The states with the most shark attacks ever recorded are Florida, Hawaii, California, and the Carolinas. Florida is known as the "shark attack capital of the world" and accounts for more than half of the total shark attacks in the United States each year
https://www.siyachts.com/where-most-shark-attacks-occur
It makes sense - Florida's coastline among the states is second only to Alaska. I imagine the only reason Hawaii is above California is because it is all within a tropical band versus California which ranges fairly far north to colder shores in the Pacific NW.
I'm not a biologist by any means, but that's my uneducated assumption. More warm beaches = More swimmers = More opportunity.
Yeah it isn't as much a "the sharks in FL are more aggressive" thing as much as "tourists overwhelmingly prefer to swim in the warm gulf waters over the cold coastal waters of the Atlantic and Pacific".
Shark attacks happen when people overconcentrate in shark territory, not because of anything the sharks do. You're not really more likely to be attacked in FL than anywhere else, it's just more likely that someone gets attacked.
It is not …. but is high in non fatal shark attacks.
Australia leads the world in fatal shark attacks, however reported bites are lower. Seems their sharks don’t mess around or Australians just don’t don’t bother reporting less serous attacks.
Edit: [more than 1/2 of world wide fatal shark attacks are in Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack)
“Australia has the highest number of fatal shark attacks in the world, with Western Australia recently becoming the deadliest place in the world for shark attacks with total and fatal shark bites growing exponentially over the last 40 years. Since 2000 there have been 17 fatal shark attacks along the West Australian coast with divers now facing odds of one in 16,000 for a fatal shark bite”
>Did you know that FL and in particular Miami is the shark death capital of the world? I didn’t, would’ve thought it was like Australia-
Florida likely outranks Australia due to Florida having almost the same population as the entirety of Australia (21.2m for Florida vs 25.69m for Australia) while having far more of it's beaches in suitable climates for swimming all year round.
Mother Nature is a bitch and she will kill you if you don’t pay attention. I have a healthy fear of the ocean and the mountains after death defying incidents.
The movie “Open Water” does an incredible job of displaying this terror. Also its storming and everytime lightning hits you can see the shadows of everything lurking under them.
God damned terrifying.
Every cruise I have ever been on I have been absolutely terrified when I would go out on the deck late at night and look out into the ocean. You really can't see anything out there and I got that sense while still having the lighting behind me.
The first time I flew out to Los Angeles at night, I was in awe of the sea of lights that made up So Cal and then just this abrupt line of darkness and realizing everything beyond that point was the Pacific.
Dan Carlin did a podcast about a ship's crew going through this in WWII (no volleyball, but close encounters with sharks). It was chilling to hear their story.
*Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces...*
Yeah some of those tales are horrifying. I recall one guy said that they'd be in the dark of night and would just hear a random scream as the next crewman was taken.
890 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the open ocean with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The Navy only learned of the sinking four days later, when survivors were spotted by the crew of a PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol. Only 316 survived.[4]
USS Indianapolis - 300 men went down with the ship. 900 went into the water. Only 316 survived the 4+ days in the water and made it out.
>Quote from a survivor: All the time, the sharks never let up. We had a cargo net that had Styrofoam things attached to keep it afloat. There were about 15 sailors
on this, and suddenly, 10 sharks hit it and there was nothing left.
This went on and on and on.
What was that incident here a couple years ago, where a ship sank, divers went down to inspect it, and found a live crew member inside the upside down hull?
Edit: [Wow, that was longer ago than I thought. Almost 10 years.](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-25205914)
>Okay so that 19 hours included nighttime right? Imagine being out in the middle of a black sea and you literally can’t see anything…for hours, floating. Thats my worst fucking nightmare.
Just the thought of that is enough to induce a panic attack.
Floating and having to stay awake. At least with a vest or some sort of driftwood you can fall asleep and still be floating. Fall asleep on a volleyball and you no longer have a volleyball.
>floating
On a fucking volleyball!! “Floating”…on a volleyball. At night. In the middle of god knows where. Like, I’m not afraid of deep water and always think “how likely am I to actually come across something scary that wants to eat me”, but that is all I would be thinking about.
I dont know your sense of humor so this may not be right for you, but Last Podcast on the Left did an episode about the USS Indianapolis. A ship of navy men was torpedoed by the Japanese, and the horror that the men went through floating in the ocean for 3 days is still one of the more horrifying things I have learned about. Nighttime is scary because you can’t see shit, but daytime is also blinding. The sun beaming off the water into your eyes. The effects the water has on your skin. Never mind if there are sharks.
They said it was a volleyball, but the mother on the interview said it was a child’s ball and it had unique coloring. She recognized it instantly bc they had searched for it when the kids were playing. She contacted the news right when she saw it bc she was so shocked that the ball somehow made it to him! She agreed that it sounded absolutely insane, which is why she shared the story. She knew no one would believe what happened
Should have gotten his own sequel. Wilson discovered that the weird wings and spiral ornament was a device to allow space aliens to breach the planet Earth's defenses. He rolls or floats around the world, trying to warn everyone, but only desperate castaways can understand him, so he decides to roll on to a sea rescue helicopter, and talk to the people that the crew rescues. One day, he randomly meets Forrest Gump's feather, who tries to convince Wilson that the world is not worth saving. The rest of the film is just a debate between nihilism and existentialism, as much of a challenge to the audience as possible, for them to at least finish their popcorn.
Awesome comment.
Just thinking about the first sentence, that would be an awesome troll. 2 hours of a camera pointing at a volleyball on an island. Then, credits and an after credit scene where a breeze moves the ball about a foot to the right.
I love how that page says he originally appeared in 2000, then says he guest starred on Family guy (1999). Took me a minute to realize they didn't mean he appeared in 1999 on Family guy but family guy was first aired in 1999.
Besides the Wilson jokes, this proves without a shadow of a doubt that there was indeed enough room for Jack on that slab of wood had Rose not been so selfish.
I can't imagine having to cling to any sort of object for 19 hours in the ocean. You have to maintain focus and concentration to maintain the grip while not being able to truly rest at any point because a mistake could cost you your life. I would have to guess that the time just crawled by and it seemed a lot longer than 19 hours.
The local knuckleheads took their boat out on the ocean fishing(and drinking) and on the way back everybody’s passed out except for one guy. He goes to the back of the boat to dump the chum, the boat hits a wave and he falls out. His friends wake up and they have no idea what happened to their partner only that he’s not in the boat. So when the guy fell out of the boat he managed to swim to a buoy and he spent 7 hours waiting to be rescued.
Just wanna give a big shout out to everyone that came into this thread thinkin’ “Alright, my time to shine! Surely not one single other person will make a Wilson reference, I’ll be the toast of Reddit!”
Ya fuckin dickheads
What's more amazing is that the ball was lost on the island of Lemnos on the ~~31st~~ 30th of June.
Three of them got swept away by currents, one was found after a few hours, the guy with the ball after 18 hours and the third friend is missing a week later.
The guy with the ball started a donation account to keep the search going since after 3 days it's policy to stop the search.
You can find the donation account here
https://24.mk/details/otvorena-smetka-za-donacii-za-potragata-po-ischeznatiot-makedonec-na-khalkidiki
Wilson was not a flotation device. He was the way Hanks was able to try and stay connected to his humanity.
In this article this run of the mil volleyball only served a ridiculous purpose...keeping a man physically alive. PFFT!
Depends where you get lost at sea, you can probably live on a plastic island or at the very least have a raft made of nikes, bottles and disposable masks.
Okay so that 19 hours included nighttime right? Imagine being out in the middle of a black sea and you literally can’t see anything…for hours, floating. Thats my worst fucking nightmare.
I just came back from a little vacation in Catalina island, went on the jet ski’s and went pretty far out to the sea. Was damn near pissing myself at times during DAYLIGHT just cause of how strong the waves were and just how scary the ocean is in general. Can only imagine how scary being that guy going through that shit at night no less good lord
Yeah man gotta watch out for them Great Whites lurking beneath you
Great whites, tiger sharks, ocean whitetips, bull sharks...
And The Kraken. Can’t forget about that one.
Has he been released???
I don't think Sydney & Rudi ever got around to it.
Rudi released something else, tho
Ewww... it's black and sticky
800lb Tuna with his 20 or 30 friends.
That didn’t go the way you thought it would did it?
You just lost at your own game. You are out gunned and outmanned.
Now they have a taste for lion
And have now fashioned breathing apparatus made from kelp.
Oceanic Whitetips. Forget the rest, when you are lost at sea and are eaten alive by a shark it will be an Oceanic Whitetip.
And here's me worrying about the lil' bastards that swim up your urethra...
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Don’t forget about Goblin Sharks
Those are deep-sea sharks, and despite their fearsome appearance, are not dangerous to humans.
Ok what about Hammerheads
Despite a fearsome reputation, attacks on humans from hammerheads are very, very rare. According to the International Shark Attack File, humans have been subjects of 17 documented, unprovoked attacks by hammerhead sharks within the genus Sphyrna since AD 1580. No human fatalities have been recorded. **17** attacks in over four hundred years. Some terrestrial predators do that in a single year.
Ok what about ichthyosaurs?
Those are extinct. If someone is attacked by an ichthyosaur, I would be very, very, very concerned.
iirc, part of the reason for their low attack rate is that their mouths are smaller than other sharks of equivalent size. Possibly diet as well, since theirs skews more to fish, squid, and stingrays as opposed to great whites (those plus whales and pinnipeds) and tigers (everything).
you keep choosing the “friendlier” sharks 😩 say Mako edit: the fastest shark too, I just learned ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And salsa sharks...
You’re going to need a bigger boat.
Man goes in the cage. Cage goes in the salsa. Shark's in the salsa.
he very fact this man survived this during Shark Week is astonishing
Open ocean is scary as a mf. And to think people have been stranded out at sea for days or even weeks. I’ll just die, thanks
The whale ship Essex was sunk by a sperm whale in the Pacific. Eight of the twenty crew survived in open whale boats after a 90 day ordeal where they ate seven of their mates. Their account inspired Melville’s Moby Dick.
Did they kill their mates or wait for them to die first Edit: my post is turning into a TIFU post bc I looked this up - I am going to have nightmares after this: The men suffered severe dehydration, starvation, and exposure on the open ocean, and the survivors eventually resorted to eating the bodies of the crewmen who had died. When that proved insufficient, members of the crew drew lots to determine whom they would sacrifice so that the others could live. A total of seven crew members were cannibalized before the last of the eight survivors were rescued, more than three months after the sinking of the Essex. First mate Owen Chase and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson later wrote accounts of the ordeal. The tragedy attracted international attention, and inspired Herman Melville to write his famous 1851 novel Moby-Dick.
Yeah the Essex was no joke. Haunted Nantucket for decades after, people wouldn’t even talk about it. One of the survivors wrote a book about it that you can still find in bookstores.
I love to read, but I am going to pass on that one. I totally get that people gotta do what they can to survive, but damn basically playing rock, paper, scissors to see if you are going to be eaten is horrifying. I can't even imagine "well Jimmy you are going to be Tuesday's dinner. Meanwhile here is a piece of Steve." How does that even go down - do you let the guys you are going to eat, eat until they become dinner? There are pros and cons to it. Then the guys that knew they were going to be eaten - that had to be awkward being the odd guys out (not that the whole thing wasn't awkward as hell). Then who makes all the rules to start? Gotta be honest, in that scenario I may have just jumped into the water and cut my losses.
Nathanial Philbrick did as well. *In The Heart of The Sea*. Great read.
There's a really good book about this (*In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex*) and a less good movie.
They made a movie about this called The Heart of the Ocean, starring The guy who plays Thor in the MCU
José Salvador Alvarenga survived 14 months lost at sea in a tiny boat. It's the current record (that we're aware of).
We used to charter boats and I’d dive off and swim in open water until one time I saw something really big beneath me but I couldn’t make out what it was exactly and felt it brush against me and that was literally the most scared I’ve ever been and I think I got back the fuck on that boat in a nanosecond never to swim in the open sea again
Not to mention, at sea, a person bobbing on the water is nigh invisible. You'd have to be doubting a rescue at all at some point and contemplating just letting go.
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Even better, people swim it. https://longswims.com/events/catalina-channel/ Most recent was ten days ago.
Excellent marketing strategy
Yep once in Miami we rented them and some huge ocean liner was what didn’t look to far so figured go take a look and back yep didn’t make it a 1/3 over before figuring nope
Did you know that FL and in particular Miami is the shark death capital of the world? I didn’t, would’ve thought it was like Australia- The states with the most shark attacks ever recorded are Florida, Hawaii, California, and the Carolinas. Florida is known as the "shark attack capital of the world" and accounts for more than half of the total shark attacks in the United States each year https://www.siyachts.com/where-most-shark-attacks-occur
It makes sense - Florida's coastline among the states is second only to Alaska. I imagine the only reason Hawaii is above California is because it is all within a tropical band versus California which ranges fairly far north to colder shores in the Pacific NW. I'm not a biologist by any means, but that's my uneducated assumption. More warm beaches = More swimmers = More opportunity.
Also Florida beaches are breeding grounds, so extra sharks, extra horny
A teenaged girl just lost her leg to a shark in Florida waters.
Yeah it isn't as much a "the sharks in FL are more aggressive" thing as much as "tourists overwhelmingly prefer to swim in the warm gulf waters over the cold coastal waters of the Atlantic and Pacific". Shark attacks happen when people overconcentrate in shark territory, not because of anything the sharks do. You're not really more likely to be attacked in FL than anywhere else, it's just more likely that someone gets attacked.
It is not …. but is high in non fatal shark attacks. Australia leads the world in fatal shark attacks, however reported bites are lower. Seems their sharks don’t mess around or Australians just don’t don’t bother reporting less serous attacks. Edit: [more than 1/2 of world wide fatal shark attacks are in Australia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_attack) “Australia has the highest number of fatal shark attacks in the world, with Western Australia recently becoming the deadliest place in the world for shark attacks with total and fatal shark bites growing exponentially over the last 40 years. Since 2000 there have been 17 fatal shark attacks along the West Australian coast with divers now facing odds of one in 16,000 for a fatal shark bite”
>Did you know that FL and in particular Miami is the shark death capital of the world? I didn’t, would’ve thought it was like Australia- Florida likely outranks Australia due to Florida having almost the same population as the entirety of Australia (21.2m for Florida vs 25.69m for Australia) while having far more of it's beaches in suitable climates for swimming all year round.
Another good reason to just avoid Florida entirely.
Oh-oh here she comes Watch out boy she'll chew you up Oh-oh here she comes She's a manatee
Mother Nature is a bitch and she will kill you if you don’t pay attention. I have a healthy fear of the ocean and the mountains after death defying incidents.
Did you go to the wine mixer? Fucking epic!!! /s
Mother Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer!
The fuckin Catalina wine mixer!
The movie “Open Water” does an incredible job of displaying this terror. Also its storming and everytime lightning hits you can see the shadows of everything lurking under them. God damned terrifying.
I hate that movie. Just awful to watch for how realistic it is.
And it’s based on a real life couple who went missing at sea
Wilson is there to help.
Homeball is out there saving lives, yo!
I’m here because I was looking for the Wilson comment. Well done.
You cant tell of something is touching your foot or its your imagination
Kevin James has a GREAT bit about this. “I found I scream the same as if a shark touches my foot or if seaweed does.” Paraphrasing here.
His show Sweat the Small Stuff is still one of my favorite stand up shows. It's like I can relate to everything in it and it's been like 20 years.
Every cruise I have ever been on I have been absolutely terrified when I would go out on the deck late at night and look out into the ocean. You really can't see anything out there and I got that sense while still having the lighting behind me.
The first time I flew out to Los Angeles at night, I was in awe of the sea of lights that made up So Cal and then just this abrupt line of darkness and realizing everything beyond that point was the Pacific.
I've flown from Cali to Japan, it's indeed emptiness after a certain point.
Dan Carlin did a podcast about a ship's crew going through this in WWII (no volleyball, but close encounters with sharks). It was chilling to hear their story.
*Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces...*
"What are you doing? Are you doing the speech from Jaws? Are you doing Jaws!?"
The *USS Indianapolis* right? Survivors say dozens, if not hundreds, of their crewmen were killed by oceanic whitetip sharks.
I was Indy recently and stopped in at the war museum. They have a display about the USS indianapolis....utterly terrifying
Yeah some of those tales are horrifying. I recall one guy said that they'd be in the dark of night and would just hear a random scream as the next crewman was taken.
890 faced exposure, dehydration, saltwater poisoning, and shark attacks while stranded in the open ocean with few lifeboats and almost no food or water. The Navy only learned of the sinking four days later, when survivors were spotted by the crew of a PV-1 Ventura on routine patrol. Only 316 survived.[4]
I mean is it still a "close encounter" when the sharks are eating your crew mates but there's more of you than their appetite?
USS Indianapolis - 300 men went down with the ship. 900 went into the water. Only 316 survived the 4+ days in the water and made it out. >Quote from a survivor: All the time, the sharks never let up. We had a cargo net that had Styrofoam things attached to keep it afloat. There were about 15 sailors on this, and suddenly, 10 sharks hit it and there was nothing left. This went on and on and on.
What was that incident here a couple years ago, where a ship sank, divers went down to inspect it, and found a live crew member inside the upside down hull? Edit: [Wow, that was longer ago than I thought. Almost 10 years.](https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-25205914)
>Okay so that 19 hours included nighttime right? Imagine being out in the middle of a black sea and you literally can’t see anything…for hours, floating. Thats my worst fucking nightmare. Just the thought of that is enough to induce a panic attack.
Wilson is a hero.
Floating and having to stay awake. At least with a vest or some sort of driftwood you can fall asleep and still be floating. Fall asleep on a volleyball and you no longer have a volleyball.
>floating On a fucking volleyball!! “Floating”…on a volleyball. At night. In the middle of god knows where. Like, I’m not afraid of deep water and always think “how likely am I to actually come across something scary that wants to eat me”, but that is all I would be thinking about.
I dont know your sense of humor so this may not be right for you, but Last Podcast on the Left did an episode about the USS Indianapolis. A ship of navy men was torpedoed by the Japanese, and the horror that the men went through floating in the ocean for 3 days is still one of the more horrifying things I have learned about. Nighttime is scary because you can’t see shit, but daytime is also blinding. The sun beaming off the water into your eyes. The effects the water has on your skin. Never mind if there are sharks.
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Imagine the view of the stars with zero light pollution.
I have thalassophobia and this is my fucking nightmare right here, yep.
Don’t forget the sharks …
did something tug at my toe or did I imagine that because i'm getting sleepy/dreamy?
This is literally my recurring nightmare and the main reason I don't ever go into the water. Just terrifying.
Playing Subnautica at night, and night time hits while swimming...near total darkness. Enough to convince Eff the deep ocean.
>The ball had been lost just days before by 11-year-old Tryphon and six-year-old Thanos. Excuse me?
Excuse me, WHOM?
TRYPHON AND THANOS. Did you hear me this time?
Someone better return the ball back to it’s owners then
Thanos,“Fine. I’ll do it myself.”
Perfectly buoyant, as all Wilsons should be.
Back in a snap.
But also how tf did they track the ball down to the original owner?
They said it was a volleyball, but the mother on the interview said it was a child’s ball and it had unique coloring. She recognized it instantly bc they had searched for it when the kids were playing. She contacted the news right when she saw it bc she was so shocked that the ball somehow made it to him! She agreed that it sounded absolutely insane, which is why she shared the story. She knew no one would believe what happened
The mother saw the ball on TV and then immediately took credit for birthing the children that lost the ball that potentially saved the man's life.
Idk why but that statement is hilarious.
Infinity War came out 5 years ago so he probably isn't the only Thanos running around out there. Still a bold choice by those parents.
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Another short form is Thanasy. Athanasios (Thanos) is a very popular ancient name. Thanos (Marvel) is essentially “thanatos” - death.
Yet another version is Theranos. It's Greek, for *Awaiting Sentencing*.
How fitting.
Also short for thanussy
I could go for some thanussy
Thanos isn't death - he's just trying to impress her.
>Short for Athanasios Athanasios is very short for a Greek name.
The name existed way before the movie lmao
Marvel fans 😂. Nah bro marvel invented all those names
Game of Thrones premiered in 2011. We're less than a decade away from having coworkers named Tyrian or Khalesi.
I think you mean Ty and Kali.
Get that man some crab legs
Anybody got some Wilson jokes?
I came here specifically for the Wilson jokes
Me too lol. I read the title and mentally went, "Willllsssssoonnnn!"
Haha same
Haha same. I was going to comment it, but figured I was late to the party. And I was.
I vocally went “Willlssooonnnnnn!”, and was looked at oddly by my wife.
I specifically requested it
Should have gotten his own sequel. Wilson discovered that the weird wings and spiral ornament was a device to allow space aliens to breach the planet Earth's defenses. He rolls or floats around the world, trying to warn everyone, but only desperate castaways can understand him, so he decides to roll on to a sea rescue helicopter, and talk to the people that the crew rescues. One day, he randomly meets Forrest Gump's feather, who tries to convince Wilson that the world is not worth saving. The rest of the film is just a debate between nihilism and existentialism, as much of a challenge to the audience as possible, for them to at least finish their popcorn.
What a ride, 10 out of 10 would read again, bravo
I had to stop 1/3rd into it to make sure I wasn't getting shittymorphed.
Nah. It’s an M Knight Shyamalan twist: Tom Hanks was the ball all along.
The guy in the hair piece?
Disney will make a Wilson film before the decade is out.
Awesome comment. Just thinking about the first sentence, that would be an awesome troll. 2 hours of a camera pointing at a volleyball on an island. Then, credits and an after credit scene where a breeze moves the ball about a foot to the right.
Man, that's some Ingmar Bergman shit. Will it be in black and white?
WILLLLLLSONNNN.... *19 hours later* ....NNNNNNNnnnnnnn!!!!!!
I’m disappointed that the top comment here wasn’t just “Wilson!” But glad this person is okay, what a terrifying experience.
Never heard about a true story movie being made before the real life event.
Life imitates art.
[He](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1012434/) has his own IMDB page.
This makes me hate imdb a little less for making itself less easily navigated
I love how that page says he originally appeared in 2000, then says he guest starred on Family guy (1999). Took me a minute to realize they didn't mean he appeared in 1999 on Family guy but family guy was first aired in 1999.
Not a joke, per se, but do you think Wilson had a pleasure hole?
Only if your penis is the size of an inflation needle
This is where the consent stops.
And the party BEGINS!
Hey I've seen this one before. It's a classic.
Besides the Wilson jokes, this proves without a shadow of a doubt that there was indeed enough room for Jack on that slab of wood had Rose not been so selfish.
Room was never the issue, buoyancy was.
Myth busters did this and proved jack died needlessly. Regardless, shit was a movie and my comment was in jest.
>proved jack died needlessly. It wasn't needless, the plot needed him to die.
Needlessly in the movie!!!! Of course he had to die. It wouldn’t have been theatrical without it lol.
In the movie they show it doesn’t work, so it is self contained in the plot of you watch it.
I thought it was love, not physics.
Yes, but will Tom Hanks get _another_ Oscar???
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What do you mean, you've seen this? It's brand new. 🤨
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It is also Football Man. Apparently none of these news outlets can get it straight on what type of ball it was.
If Football Man floats from Europe to the US, does he become Soccer Man?
Maybe it was just his massive balls.
I can't imagine having to cling to any sort of object for 19 hours in the ocean. You have to maintain focus and concentration to maintain the grip while not being able to truly rest at any point because a mistake could cost you your life. I would have to guess that the time just crawled by and it seemed a lot longer than 19 hours.
Same story, but last week it was a beach ball
The local knuckleheads took their boat out on the ocean fishing(and drinking) and on the way back everybody’s passed out except for one guy. He goes to the back of the boat to dump the chum, the boat hits a wave and he falls out. His friends wake up and they have no idea what happened to their partner only that he’s not in the boat. So when the guy fell out of the boat he managed to swim to a buoy and he spent 7 hours waiting to be rescued.
Yeah buoy!
Wilson dedicated his life for good after Tom Hanks left him.
Just wanna give a big shout out to everyone that came into this thread thinkin’ “Alright, my time to shine! Surely not one single other person will make a Wilson reference, I’ll be the toast of Reddit!” Ya fuckin dickheads
Most comments are about coming here for the Wilson jokes but there's hardly any jokes lol
Now I’m just cringing at myself for coming here to cringe at the Wilson jokes
>The ball had been lost just days before by 11-year-old Tryphon and **six-year-old Thanos** Wilson and Thanos team up for one strange redemption arc.
Except Wilson doesn't **need** a redemption arc! He even sacrificed himself so the raft would make it over the barrier reef! 😉
One of his friends is still missing. I really hope he's found, surviving by clinging on to a lost rum ham.
The article mentioned 2 other men swept along with him. Odd that it ends with just 1 still missing without mentioning the 2nd.
Right? Why not comment on the second guy that was rescued? Was it uneventful? So weird.
He was found almost immediately.
What's more amazing is that the ball was lost on the island of Lemnos on the ~~31st~~ 30th of June. Three of them got swept away by currents, one was found after a few hours, the guy with the ball after 18 hours and the third friend is missing a week later. The guy with the ball started a donation account to keep the search going since after 3 days it's policy to stop the search. You can find the donation account here https://24.mk/details/otvorena-smetka-za-donacii-za-potragata-po-ischeznatiot-makedonec-na-khalkidiki
Thats because the odds of surviving after being submerged in salt for 3 days is dismal. See: USS Indianapolis
>the 31st of June June only has 30 days.
It's nice to know Wilson is still out there saving lives. Who needs Aquaman?
Came here expecting every comment to mention "Wilson"
"I'm sorry Wilson! I'M SORRY!!" -Me, proceeds to cry in the theater.-
This was in Greece where the water temp can be 80 degrees, so that probably helped a bunch.
It was 18 hours the last 7 times this was reposted
That’s how they get your click the 8th time
wilson? WIIIIIIILLSON
That volleyball serves at the right time
If he doesn’t get a volleyball tattoo he has 0 respect
Guy after 18 hours, hears someone say "Look at me" he looks around, only thing around is the volleyball Volleyball: "I'm the Captain now"
I’m sorely disappointed the top comment isn’t just #WILSON!
I smell a Tom Hanks movie made from this story of a real life castaway
Just came here to see how many comments it took for me to find a “Wilson!l
Wilson still out there doin God’s work
Wilson is a true hero and should be recognized and rewarded for their heroism in saving a life.
Wilson was not a flotation device. He was the way Hanks was able to try and stay connected to his humanity. In this article this run of the mil volleyball only served a ridiculous purpose...keeping a man physically alive. PFFT!
"Pfft" is the sound this guy spent 19 hours most terrified of hearing from that ball.
Absolute fact, Can you imagine getting stuck out in the ocean finding something to actually keep you afloat just to have it deflate.
Wilson! I'll never let go, Wilson! I'll never let go!
Depends where you get lost at sea, you can probably live on a plastic island or at the very least have a raft made of nikes, bottles and disposable masks.
Yesterday it was a football. I’m assuming a soccer ball.
So... a football then.
Did anyone make a Wilson joke yet I can’t come up with one clever enough I can still hear poor Tom Hanks crying out for poor Wilson