They can just 3D print a new boat. I see that model everywhere. Just need to change the scale a bit.
I have no context on how this situation happened, but I’m going to guess there where a few signs the capsized boat captain ignored. Hope the whale wasn’t injured.
Nah surely the person recording just happened to capture the unprovoked incident
Didn’t they study this and the theory was they were juveniles just playing a game?
It’s like cow tipping but with boats.
In true New Hampshire fashion, the whales too became ungovernable.
I saw that that happened off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but this is saying Great Britain? That’s a Humpback, and I’ve seen them off the coast of NH
“I don’t need to wear my life jacket. I’m a strong swimmer.”
Everybody is a strong swimmer until they are:
- unconscious
- exhausted
- in cold water
- disorientated
- injured
- in strong current
- entangled
- trying to save another person
- intoxicated
- not a strong swimmer
Yeah, but other than that everybody is a strong swimmer.
Cold. The Sea is cold, It doesn’t matter where on Earth this happened the sea is cold it could happen in the Caribbean and the sea would still be cold.
The sea is not cold in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s like 85 degrees F.
That’s still colder than you are. I’m a skinny bitch, if it’s not close to boiling I’ll turn blue sooner or later.
Bro’s like “they’re dead, time to gtfo”
I mean…to be fair, thats probably the best thing he could have done/said. He realizes in that moment that he’s in the path of danger. Step 1…get the fuck out of there. Worry about step 2 when you’re safe.
So I’m not a boat person but I was under the impression that the law of the sea requires other boats to aide people in the water. Like I think it’s a requirement. I’m pretty sure it’s the reason why tankers and whatnot stop and help ships in distress. Could be just something I heard as a kid though.
If I’m in his shoes, I’m doing EXACTLY what he did. If questioned about it, I’d say “Theres no way I could have helped. My presence would not have helped them. It would have only capsized my boat too, and put my crew in danger.”
Of coarse, I’d never BE in his shoes. Because if someone asked me “Hey, do you want to go on a tiny boat, and look at whales?” My response would be “Fuck no! That sounds like a terrible idea.”
I once ran away from a person in trouble to save my own hide, and it haunts me to this day.
That’s a really tough thing to deal with, but that doesn’t mean what you did was wrong.
If you can safely do so. Nobody’s out there making a suicide pact.
Bro in the hoodie gonna skedaddle out of there.
Haha. Hope you can swim friend, gotta get my dad’s boat back.
I’m not sticking around to explain to the whales I’ve sided with them against the wealthy.
