A Bit Too Close!

[mikesyam]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYFMZ_wuqXI&feature=related

 

[ulyden]

These guys are quite crazy! They practise in small shallow water between small islands. Sometimes it’s two or tree boats! The first is removing the water so the last is damaging the propellers’! Running a boat like this can go wrong. Once they killed a cow!

 

[SteveE]

Awsome helming, but I see they did have a guy ready with fenders just in case.....

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Awsome helming, but I see they did have a guy ready with fenders just in case.....

I noticed him, but I am not sure I would want to be near them when they burst.

 

[oGaryo]

the whole military is crazy.. I can recall going on tour on exchange at one of the airbases.. ok not Navy but blimey, they threw their F16's about and knew how to party at night... need to be a bit crazy to put up with their weather.. been a couple of weeks of snow and I'm going stir crazy already

 

[nonitoo]

the whole military is crazy.. (

They would have to be to do what is asked of them by the politicos (i.e.us).

Tom

p.s. in the clip, a classic example of speed induced hull interaction between the vessels too !!

 

[Merlyn]

These guys are quite crazy!................ Once they killed a cow!

 

[PilotWolf]

I noticed him, but I am not sure I would want to be near them when they burst.

Or trying to hold it!

W.

 

[Major Catastrophe]

p.s. in the clip, a classic example of speed induced hull interaction between the vessels too !!

Thanks. In my previous post I was going to say that the distance between the boats at the beginning, is not as close as the exit, but didn't know how to say "speed induced hull interaction."

 

[AndieMac]

Has anyone got the contact details for the 'fly-by' skipper.............

I know where there is just the job for him at the moment....

Deep in the Southern Ocean....

 

[Divemaster1]

Standard Ops ....any Norwegian living near the sea is taught to perform this manouver at the age of 16 ... we keep on practicing over here with the slower moving boats, such as yachts etc.... they seem to enjoy it as well as they keep on waving to us as we pass...

 

[AndieMac]

Standard Ops ....any Norwegian living near the sea is taught to perform this manouver at the age of 16 ... we keep on practicing over here with the slower moving boats, such as yachts etc.... they seem to enjoy it as well as they keep on waving to us as we pass...

You're not confusing waving with obscene gestures are you Alf....

 

[Major Catastrophe]

Standard Ops ....any Norwegian living near the sea is taught to perform this manouver at the age of 16

Why?

(Major Catastrophe's confidential report: This officer tends to question military doctrine)

 

[Divemaster1]

Major:

1) Standard interception protocol..

or

2) Good when waterskiing ... depositing skier onto second boat / raft / jetty without getting wet (it's cold over there you know)... and without inducing a turn, which makes it easier for the skier to judge the speed, which increases a lot in turns as you know..