This is the reason everyone needed life jackets on! You also can’t help someone if you can help yourself. Glad to see one of them put a life jacket on.
I guess I missed something, either the video was edited or i really missed something all I saw was the guy on the bow of the boat throw one life jacket to 4 people in the water, not sure why they didn't take the people in the water on board there boat ?
OMG. What a CF. So glad you were there and willing to help. I have saved a number of lives over the years for cruising on my sailboat. A law of the sea. WE MUST always help each other. Man, you can’t fool with Mother Nature.
Looked like had the motor running and there was a lot of people on that sailboat are just couple things that don't make sense to me glad everything ended up okay
I meant to say bait boat maybe they didn't have a motor was just towed to the spot hard to tell then I realize the empty boat was where all the people came from either way there was bad decisions made glad it all turned out alright
For the uninitiated - that was a dynamic situation where they were time-limited by safety of people and desire to save the boat from hitting the shore on those nasty waves - and I'm sure other factors I'm not aware of. The textbook says always approach swimmers from downwind so your boat isn't pushed onto them. If throwing the PFD is too hard with the wind, put it on a line, drag it behind you, and circle the swimmers until they can grab the line and the PFD. Which would have been textbook correct, but the situation required individual judgment for those who were actually there. But if you want the textbook answer for when you encounter this situation, remember this. (Which is what you see the POV do, MOSTLY).
I have trained many powerboat users in rescue techniques over the years, and depending on the conditions, you can use either upwind and downwind approaches. The most important thing is people 1st equipment 2nd.
Well done gents!!! Amazing to me how little respect people have for water. Doesn’t matter whether it’s lakes or ocean. I’ve seen so much in the last twenty years….sad really. Just a little common sense would avert so much misery. Congrats guys. Especially the rescuers. How did you break the window??!!!!!!
I was once fishing a windy lake with my GF for walleye when out of nowhere we heard a loud splash, and then the sounds of panicked screaming. We looked over, and saw two old men struggling to hold the arms of another old man, clinging onto the side of a jon boat. He rolled backwards into the water, didn't have a life jacket, and couldn't pull himself up. The crew was in a tough spot. I will never forget the feeling of hearing his screams and immediately jumping into action. Long story short, we got him back on the boat... and he was ANGRY and wet and we heard him bitching his friends out the whole way back to the ramp... but he was okay lol... You reminded me of that day... and that in the chaos of modern life we often forget that there is truly a higher duty and call in life sometimes... and you just have to be able to hear it. God bless you
Big big props to everyone including the captain that mfer knows how to handle a boat in horrible conditions. Love to know what kind of boat they were on! Heroes for sure!!
Saved a few lives in my years on and around the ocean. Everytime it was right place right time. All of our technology and advancements as a human race and mother nature just had an extra windy day, or extra strong current or whatever it is and we are almost powerless. Glad you were there to help.
Well thank you for doing your best to rescue the people. But your boat handling needs much improvement. I just wanna add an idea how I am practicing for these kind of events: First of all I don’t go boating only when it’s calm and sunny. Then, EACH time I am boating i have someone with me and before we leave the slip I give one of the passengers a life vest and instruct him to throw it over board at any time while the boat is not stopped. He then should wait 3 seconds and shout MOB. From that moment on I put everyone on board into the loop and advise them what to do while I navigate the boat and approach the life vest according to current and wind / wave direction. The mission is successful when the life vest is back on board. I am a test pilot and we do practice abnormal procedures regularly. One every flight. It helps you to keep yourself organized under stress.
yes this was almost a lot worse, very brave of him but they always came in from the wrong direction. He almost went in himself. Just needs more hours on the water and to practice in not so good weather
Navigating beach break in an open boat very difficult. Job well done. Shit can go south very fast on the water. I have said "better put on the life jackets" too many times. Fortunately we survived them all and didn't loose the boat. Blew out a main sail seam once.
Tough situation but kinda a typical day on SF Bay. In that situation you setup up wind of MOB and let the wind and waves push you down to them. Get them on board and go. Fishing boat guys don’t carry tow lines, or anchor rode so doubt they had anything longer than a 6ft dock painter to drag behind the boat for a water ski style pickup.
trying watching American atv videos ,,, not a helmet in site .... dudes racing powerful atv two strokes to max speed on bitumen ,,, helmet not req apparently.....
@@JohnBraman413 Actually, nobody drowned in this incident. All four people in the houseboat were rescued. In an incident, nearby, on the same day, though, two people did drown, when a double-decker rental pontoon boat flipped over, throwing all nine people into the water. All were tourists who got the boat from a rental company. “Accident that occurred in Bay County on Grand Lagoon, near Deepwater Point, the United States Coast Guard and FWC both responded to the scene and it was determined that a 26-foot pontoon vessel hasaidd overturned,” FWC public information officer Travis Basford .
Well done boys, good job. Remember when approaching that other boat you need to be down wind of it, so you power up to it, into the seas. Boats go better forward than astern and handle the sea better. Just saying, great effort though.
@@randaltotten9358 You come up behind them and grab under there arms. The worst is women. They panic more and will grab you with long nails. Hence, grab under they're arms from behind. Then side stroke.
Supposed to have a throwable cushion or ring so when you get close enough you can toss one to them and or tie a rope to it drive past them let them grab it then you can pull them in the boat or give them ride to shore
This was in Panama City FL a few months ago.. Now I read the caption 😂. There was actually two that day and the toon by the pass flipped also involving death. All of these people made it.
Awesome work. The look on everyone's eyes is horrible... a little easier to just put the life jacket on before stepping on a boat. Don't want to do it for yourself, do it for your kids to make sure they have a parent after the boat trip. Or do it for your parents, so they don't have to put up with the grief of burying their kid.
Houseboat is used a little loosely. It’s really a house raft. Has no place in open water. Great job by other boater. You gotta stop to help vessels in distress, maritime law.
Well done for willing to help but you are really amateurs about the way you approaching people at sea, you should setup up wind of your boat and let the wind and waves push you down to them. Get them on board if this is possible and go, otherwise stay in close to them, try to put a life jacket on and inform authorities about the incident, etc.
As you were told in the description, they decided it was safer for the party to swim to shore nearby, with the wind behind them, than to put a bouncing boat near their skulls. I would have done the same. What would you have done?
All those people should have their life jackets on before they went in the water. That's for sure, it's not like getting that plenty of warning. What fools
To be clear, that is not a houseboat. That is a literal floating house. Idiots got what they deserve. Regardless of what type of watercraft you have, it's common sense to stay aware of incoming weather conditions, DAILY.
Glad to see fellow boaters helping people out. But don't you have a throw cushion and a piece of rope that you could tie to it and throw it to the people in the water. Trying to throw or hand off one of them cheep pfd's is awfully hard to do in a storm like that.
Glad everyone was ok but i was shouting at my screen "turn the bloody camera so we can see", not clickbait but i wanted to see it capsize, we all like a good disaster when its not us involved. Thats why everyone else came here.
