Is a rib flipable?

[captainalex]

Maybe this quicktime link will answer the question:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/whitslb/video.mov

 

[Nick_H]

Scary. Have turned back in a rib before now cos I was concerned that the wind was blowing so hard on the nose off the peak of each wave that exactly the same would happen

 

[cjrvernon]

simple answer is yes

 

[JKay]

Zapcat's even flyable with a 50 /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

might see you Friday 4 a beer Christian???

cheers Joe

 

[Planty]

Is it me or is there something wrong with the continuity in this clip, in the frame before the "flipping" wave the foreground is different is it two pieces spliced or doctored?? Hard situation to get out of once underway though, even so P

 

[AJW]

Nahh, I think its genuine. Whistable lifeboat a few years ago if my memory serves.

 

[markdj]

The RNLI ribs have waer ballast in the front of them to stop this happening. I can only assume that either the water had been dumped or the ballast tank was empty. Of course, even with ballast it is possible to flip a RIB but it did look light in the front end.


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[ShipsWoofy]

Would have liked to see the rest of the event. The rear air bag should have deployed flipping the boat back over.

I guess the crew managed to recover and continue the rescue or head back, any one know the details.

Strange how the final wave prior to the pitch pole seemed like an explosion, it must have been quite a surprise to the cox when he lost it!

 

[captainalex]

From what i've heard from the rib.net forum, the crew were all washed away from the boat apart from the cox. The crew washed up on the beach and the cox managed to right the boat but failed to get back in and ended up on the beach with the boat.

 

[Howardnp]

Whitstable lifeboat "British Diver", 3 Jan 1999. Explanation of the event is given on the Whitstable lifeboat web site at www.whitstablelifeboat.org.uk