Man rescued from floating bubble (tries to go across ocean to Bermuda 1000 miles)

Imagine by some fluke he got blowed to the spot, everyone would have sung a different song.
 
Manie B said:
The guy is an idiot that knows that he will be rescued, that's the real problem.
Only in America will they throw such huge resources at an idiot. In Africa those resources don't even exist so he would have died in a very short time in the middle of nowhere. Here the locals would have waved him goodbye and then started to drink their corn beer. Life changes when you KNOW there is no safety net and you HAVE to take responsibility for your actions or die.
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That would be like people who want to travel across the Southern Indian Ocean in a 10' boat, then. With an EPIRB so that Australia or NZ has to go to the expense of throwing huge resources to rescue them, assuming they make it out of the SA SAR zone......

All depends on your POV, doesn't it?

PDW
 
Hardly the same thing
 
Fanie said:
Hardly the same thing
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Hmmm - maybe it is.

Purposefully using inadequate resources to challenge the oceans, not caring about the risks and expense to rescuers in case of the pretty inevitable emergency.

Its just a question of scale really.
 
Purposefully using inadequate resources to challenge the oceans
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Please indicate what precisely is adequate resources to challenge the oceans. I have seen many very large boats that got wrecked.

The 10 may be too small (in our opinion), it however does sail and may be uncomfortable, but not necessarily inadequate. If the weather is good it could be, if the weather turns on it's head then possibly few other boats will be.

Walking around to somewhere in a beach ball is something completely different...
 
Where there is a will, there is a way.


"When Larry Walters was 13 years old, he went to a local Army-Navy surplus store and saw the weather balloons hanging from the ceiling. It was then he knew that some day he would be carried aloft by such balloons. This obsession would be with him for the next 20 years. On July 2nd, 1982, Larry tied 42 helium-filled balloons to a Sears lawn chair in the backyard of his girlfriend's house in San Pedro, California. With the help of his ground crew, Larry then secured himself into the lawn chair which was anchored to the bumper of a friend's car by two nylon tethers. He took with him many supplies, including a BB gun to shoot out the balloons when he was ready to descend. His goal was to sail across the desert and hopefully make it to the Rocky Mountains in a few days. But things didn't quite work out for Larry. After his crew purposely cut the first tether, the second one also snapped which shot Larry into the LA sky at over 1,000 feet per minute. So fast was his ascent that he lost his glasses. He then climbed to over 16,000 feet. For several hours he drifted in the cold air near the LA and Long Beach airports. A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000! Larry started shooting out a few balloons to start his descent but had accidentally dropped the gun. He eventually landed in a Long Beach neighborhood. Although he was entangled in some power lines, he was uninjured."
 
Fanie said:
Please indicate what precisely is adequate resources to challenge the oceans. I have seen many very large boats that got wrecked.
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Exactly - the ocean is dangerous for even large boats

Fanie said:
The 10 may be too small (in our opinion), it however does sail and may be uncomfortable, but not necessarily inadequate. If the weather is good it could be, if the weather turns on it's head then possibly few other boats will be.
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Uncomfortable = Inadequate.

The safety of a boat is in the hands of the sole operator. Take Bourenon recently

"“Near the Sri Lankan seas I had fallen into a deep sleep. All of a sudden the yacht crashed onto a rock and I woke up only at that moment. I was thrown out and fell into the sea. "
http://dailymirror.lk/news/50446-swiss-man-swims-to-matara-beach-after-yacht-crashes

Then take the limited carrying capacity for water, fuel, food etc.
If circumstances change, your survival options are very limited.


Fanie said:
Walking around to somewhere in a beach ball is something completely different...
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Only in scale - at least he was much more 'transparent' in his regard for safety. ;)
 
Well yes Dinoa, but there is a problem. People did things in the old days, people don't any more. They have become dependent on money and there must be a law on something or they cannot do it. People don't think anymore either, that too is someone else's responsibility.

A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000!
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Today they'd shoot him down as a conspiracy theory ;)


I was thrown out and fell into the sea.
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I bet that woke him up !
 
dinoa said:
Where there is a will, there is a way.

"When Larry Walters was 13 years old...
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Can you imagine today how much trouble he would be in. He'll probably get life in prison for reckless endangering to attempted suicide to illegally owning a gun to flying without a pilot license - you name it.
 
dinoa said:
Where there is a will, there is a way.


"When Larry Walters was 13 years old, he went to a local Army-Navy surplus store and saw the weather balloons hanging from the ceiling. It was then he knew that some day he would be carried aloft by such balloons. This obsession would be with him for the next 20 years. On July 2nd, 1982, Larry tied 42 helium-filled balloons to a Sears lawn chair in the backyard of his girlfriend's house in San Pedro, California. With the help of his ground crew, Larry then secured himself into the lawn chair which was anchored to the bumper of a friend's car by two nylon tethers. He took with him many supplies, including a BB gun to shoot out the balloons when he was ready to descend. His goal was to sail across the desert and hopefully make it to the Rocky Mountains in a few days. But things didn't quite work out for Larry. After his crew purposely cut the first tether, the second one also snapped which shot Larry into the LA sky at over 1,000 feet per minute. So fast was his ascent that he lost his glasses. He then climbed to over 16,000 feet. For several hours he drifted in the cold air near the LA and Long Beach airports. A TWA pilot first spotted Larry and radioed the tower that he was passing a guy in a lawn chair at 16,000! Larry started shooting out a few balloons to start his descent but had accidentally dropped the gun. He eventually landed in a Long Beach neighborhood. Although he was entangled in some power lines, he was uninjured."
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Someday the Pentagon will realize how badly we need ICLCs and then it'll be on!
 
The Coast Guard released the cost today. $144,000. That comes out of your and my pocket.
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... making the Coast Guard look even sillier than the bloke they rescued. What would Sea Tow have charged? The Coast guard could have sent them. They could have put a RFB out on the local radio station and gotten somebody to go fetch him for $500. Of course they had two days to plan the rescue, so it was a good training exercise if nothing else.
 
Maybe he could have taken a can of Red Bull?

- It gives you wings? So he could have flown there (or back)

I'd always taken that to be a Metaphor,

BUT the latest loony lawsuit has seen drinkers of that 'energy drink' file a class suit over not growing a set of vestigial avian appendages.:D

If that doesn't have you rolling on the floor laughing, maybe the result will - They WON!:?::P:P:P:P:P:P:P

All of a sudden Mr Bubble looks a lot less like an idiot with amoeboid levels of decision making skill, and more like a mensa candidate in comparison;)
 
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