Six Friends Jumped Into The Ocean and Forgot to Lower the Yacht Ladder, Will They Survive? 

This happened to my friend and his mom once. His mom wanted to celebrate having got the yacht in her divorce. My friend jumped in to the water, and his mom saw and see wanted to join him. She didn't realize that the back part of the ship where there was supposed to be a ladder; the ladder had actually been uninstalled. The good thing was that they weren't to far out, and they were able swim to shore. It took them about an hour or so to get there but they had life jackets and got there sunburnt, tired, but alive.

When I was an active yachtsman, one of the swimming rules I enforced on board was that the first time you enter the water you do so by climbing down the ladder.

Just two safety golden rules: 1. One person ALWAYS stays on board. 2. You NEVER get down before checking the ladder is installed.

The unspoken rule of the sea is to always have at least one person on board if you go for a swim, regardless of ladders. The currents can take you or your boat away, you might not be fast enough to swim after it, and you will only have about a minute of giving it all until you get very tired. It's easy for me to say cause I grew up on the sea, but is just common sense. It's like going for a space walk outside of your space shuttle while having no cables connecting you to a shuttle and nobody inside the shuttle at the same time. It's just ridiculous, and I have a hard time believing that people would actually do something like that, but unfortunately it happens.

Having been in this situation before with my friends (how we forgot to put down the ladder is anyone's guess, I'm sure our alcohol intake was super high) when nobody could grab the top of the boat, we decided to create a raft of our bodies with our legs connected like scissors while we floated on our back, we had the lightest person climb on top of us and jump on the boat... It worked after a few tries and we all survived....

So instead of having the lighter female try to climb the clothing rope ladder, they have the heaviest guy and then act surprised when it rips

1:44 he swam to the bottom of the ocean in open water and got a seashell. Very impressive.

This is why having a mom or dad friend of the group is essential. Perhaps even a grumpy friend that doesn’t participate.

Always hate people that surprise someone who has phobia to directly confront their phobia like that would help them to get instantly cured

The fact that he tried to look for a knife in the ocean, by looking down when they cant even see the bottom. How do ppl write such a BS? xD

After the woman jumped in the water to save the guy towards the end of the movie, I expected to hear somthng like: "She suddenly realizes, that she forgot to lower the ladder again" 😂

The concept of the movie is great, and it's 65% psychological. This was a perfectly winnable situation, but it was their personalities that got in the way.

Had a mate who went fishing by himself in open ocean, hooked up a fish while trawling. It pulled the fishing rod from the holder so without thinking he jumped in after it, he then realised his boat was driving away from him and he was in the middle of nowhere at least a couple kilometres off shore. He survived because he realised the boat was moving in a large circle and managed to intercept the boat on its course, he said he was lucky because if he missed it he didn’t think he’d be able to keep swimming to intercept it again... he lost the fishing rod as well. Moral of the story think first :D

I watched the movie and yelled in frustration at the screen how dumb they acted. I had to walk away several times lol Everyone acted so damn dramatic, yelling at each other, trying to snatch the phone away from each other, especially the dudes acting super aggressive for no damn reason. They literally could have done the clothes thing to hold on, stabilize and let the women climb up but nooo they went all cuckoo and everyone wanted to be the leader

Golden rule on a boat is you never "jump" into the water! You use the ladder and only the ladder to access the water!

The phone call: "We've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty."

i will never understand the joy of swimming in the deep ocean, a fools life i tell ya.

So she was telling him she has a phobia of water.. and his idea is to pick her up and jump in the water with her??? That's like.. the worst decision he could have made lol

The baby was the best actor in this!!!

This is the story of those who forgot to be honest with themselves, so life forced them to remember it. Nicely told. 😊

This is actually very terrifying if you imagine being pushed into the ocean only to find there is no ladder especially if you're hydrophobic.

Alternate movie title: Dumb people in boats

i laughed so hard when he stops him from stabbing the boat and gets cut

I remember first watching this film and couldn’t help but acknowledge the fact that three people died because one person forgot to lower the ladder of the boat.

This gives the same feeling as claustrophobia. But instead you have so much space, yet no where to go.

I could be totally wrong, but, the couple times I've seen this movie, I interpreted the ending completely differently. I thought that the fact that the fishing boat didn't find anyone on board, but then you see them standing right there on the deck, was meant to insinuate that they didn't actually survive

The title made me laugh and brought me here. The recap was even better. 😂 I hate sitting through movies where the people are always doing dumb mess. Thanks, Lab!

good movie, very memorable, watched it few years ago, this is kind of movie that sticks with you

Thanks for making my fear of the ocean even more validated. It never even occurred to me this was a thing that could happen.

If you can dive to the bottom to retrieve a seashell, you ain't that far offshore. justsayin

I like watching these. You explain them so thoroughly, it feels like I watched these movies.

I’ve been in a similar situation. I learned quickly after buying my first sailboat and falling into the water to have some way to pull that ladder down. Luckily for me, someone was onboard to lower the ladder.

Two of the men couldn't give amy a boost out of the water? All they had to do was grab her feet and push her up the side of the boat.

Okay. Who’s bright idea was it, to design a boat that has no foot holding on its sides? Have a few concave foot steps for one person to climb up from the water.

Rule of thumb, there always needs to be at least one person to stay behind.

After the guy couldn't climb on the inflatable toy, they all could have grabbed onto each other in a ring around the floater. Then they'd be a fairly stable way for the lightest girl to climb up the anchor. Plus, all could hold their breath at the same time before she starts climbing. It'd make the human floatee even more buoyant, and let them stay together if they're pushed underwater. I jus hope if I'm in a crazy situation I'd have a good idea to fix it. But they say it's real hard when you're in the sh*t.

Amy thinks she sees a shark, Dan looks under and sees no one 😂😂😂

The toy dolphin and the fact Dan tried to climb it 😭😂

I don't know if this story entirely true, but it's very compelling, I'm overwhelmed. Thank you for posting this short story. A lot of good life lessons here.

tldr : "Six people compulsively sabotage every chance they have to survive a swim in the ocean until they almost all die"

I know the movie is serious and all but a movie about all of them jumping in the water and forgetting the ladder would make a pretty funny comedy.

This movie may have scared the shit out of me when I was a kid, but I can honestly say that I check to make sure there is a ladder every single time I get into the water. So I guess this movie was really a learning lesson. 😆

I like how the boat isn't moving whatsoever but the anchor isn't down. My first thought was climb the anchor but it wasn't down and the boat was still motionless. Makes no sense.

Poor women survived traumatising incidents twice with her late father and now with her baby. THIS IS BEYOND WORDS

imagine how much laughter the screenwriter engaged in when they managed to sell this idea. LOL

I once found myself in the identical circumstance when sailing solo around the world, only in my case it was mid-winter in the Southern Ocean with the nearest ice shelf a good 80 nautical miles distant. Damned fool that I was, thought I'd take a bracing little dip off the portside to shake off the effects of three casks of rum the night before. Be that as it may, after about three weeks of trying to claw back up onto deck - with only the occasional sardine for sustenance and thirsty as heck (believe me, sea water can be pretty salty) - I started to have flashbacks to my time as a marine biologist tutoring a young Jacques Cousteau, and how back then I had developed a modified dolphin dialect that could be picked up in sub-aqua sonic wavelengths with a trans-oceanic reach. So, that very night, in the teeth of a sudden and furious tempest, I made a supreme effort to recall the Dolphinese equivalent for the SOS distress signal (to be honest, I was indeed beginning to feel somewhat distressed by then). Well, the appropriate phrase came back to me during a snatch of sleep, and resolving to transmit it without further delay, I dived down some 600 metres or thereabouts, the level at which most dolphin species go about their business, when what should happen but the flagship submarine of the Mongolian navy passed below within a few fathoms of me. Its periscope turned and peeped at me, but for some reason - crew perhaps thought I was just a night shift pearl diver, which I have been, by the way - the submarine just cruised on by. Frustrating it was, I can tell you. Running a tad short of breath, I tried out my rusty Dolphinese, struggled a little to strike the correct pitch, but eventually put out the call and swam back to the surface (dreadful case of the bends on the way up), where I waited for the critters to respond. And respond they did. Great Scott! A pod of at least two hundred of the blighters showed up; what's more, all of 'em the famed snorkel-snouted species, supposedly extinct! They circled me with timid curiosity at first, then overcoming our mutual modesty and shyness, we indulged in some nautical banter and sang sea shanties for a while, one of the young 'uns even making a salty comment on my fishy Dolphinese vowels: "Something dodgy about your ohs and ays", says he, if you please! By and by towards daybreak the tempest slackened off, enough at least to allow an attempt to get me back aboard my yacht. The wizened old patriarch of the tribe - born five hundred years ago, knew Moby Dick personally - he turned to me and said: "Krrrrrrk chptaataachoo, gzgzeefaa!" (Ahoy there, we'll see you out of this frightful pickle, don't you worry about that old chap, after all we are kindred souls of the salty swell, and I'll vouch by the code of the North Star there is no higher fellowship than that!) He bid me mount his back as one would a horse, which I duly did, then with a casual flick of his tailfin we were clear of the water and aloft over my yacht. Cries he out: "Pffabachoolaw kssskreenoo vlobbodzhinaaka dndndnshleeff yuhlamaanee orzollo!" (Jump!) I did as he advised, so landing slap on the poop deck, dripping wet I was, as well. After the dolphins and I had exchanged solemn farewells and sworn never to forget our briny encounter, they plunged as one into the unfathomable deep, leaving but a few stray bubbles as evidence of their existence. Quite overcome and in sentimental mood, I wandered over to the starboard of the poop deck, where lo! There I beheld the yacht's ladder, insolently draped into the water.

I’m surprised that they didn’t think to climb on each other too began and why did the men keep trying to climb duh they’d be too heavy

It’d be hilarious if they found out the ladder is actually at the back of the boat lmao

That is a surprisingly brutal story.

This movie has convinced me that boats should have an emergency ladder that is built into the boat. Like little grooves in the side of the boat that people can use if they're in this situation.

The fact that he fell off a cliff😭😭😭

What a simple yet terrifying plot. And to read initially from this videos comments to Google, jumping off a boat into water forgetting the ladder is lowered and being in peril because of it is a thing. Holy smokes. Luckily I have no yacht, boat or friends……now I’m sad

We always had the rule of first person in the water go down the ladder. The majority of the time someone always remained onboard.

I blame the people who designed the yacht to not have a way for you to get back on board, because you could be fully aware of there being no ladder, yet somehow fall into the water for some reason anyway.

As the introvert who'd have rather stayed onboard playing games on my laptop or just read books, I'd have totally saved everyone in such a situation. 👀 Edit: to the people saying introverts wouldnt have been invited to these sorts of social events... well... idk what bullshit your society is feeding you (says a lot about where you live i guess), but introverts do get invited. Whether it's a simple night out drinking or getting some food, or even more expensive and longer events like trips or vacays, we get invited too. I can at least vouch for southeast asia on this. Whoever you are tho, considering your comments, please accept my condolences.

Didn't see the film but with that many people it seems easily escapable by stacking on top of each other in a totem pole and pushing one guy up enough to grab the railing.

This happened on King of the Hill. Loved that show ❤

Deep Ocean: hello mortals, any of you smartasses up for a challenge with me?

So many levels of stupidity that if it were real life one would not feel sorry for them. There is always that one a-hole who pushes(throws) a scared person into the water against their will. 100% psychopath behavior. Also if you are stupid enough to drink while performing dangerous acts then at least have a designated sober person who does not participate in the dangerous behavior so that they could look after the others while having a clear mind.

Seems like a stressful movie, also that bleeding guy would have to get the F away from me, I don’t want sharks around too

lol this literally became a king of the hill episode

Lol the boat going by them “Yea alright party!”

Zach big ass breaking everything. Send the thin 90 lbs ladies first 🤣

Saw this movie late one night.. wow how something that could be so easily overlooked and forgotten could be your worst nightmare..

All the Synchronised Swimming ladies: Pfft! Here, hold my swimming cap.

This was the experience training for 6 seasons of being Captain Tom Chandler of USS NATHAN JAMES in the last ship 😂

Its kinda funny they die in just a few hours when we heard story ppl survive longer than that in real world.

It happened to me and my family once in Spain, we jumped off the boat and forgot the ladder and we shouted like crazy for my 7 years old brother who had stayed on board ,to put the ladder 😅

Wow, that's a hell of a story!

Here's what I want to know - how do you signal to somebody on a boat speeding past that you need help instead of just waving? Because if you just wave, they will just wave back.

"Dan dives underwater but find no one there." I'm not even gonna...

One of the first lessons in boating is if people are going to be leisure swimming off of the deck, then the captain of the vessel stays aboard.

This would be terrifying especially at night when you can't see what's coming at you plus imagine a hungry shark coming at you with nowhere to go 😱😱😱

Saw this. GREAT. MOVIE.

This movie is traumatic for no reason so many things could have been done to save everyone.

Moral of the story: make sure that installing handles to the side of the boat is available just in case this happens

FYI, you can't have hydrophobia if you don't have rabies. To be afraid of swimming is called Aquaphobia. I personally have it, too, and have never swam in a pool after I turned 12 (especially since my reluctance caused me to be a bit aggressive towards any swim instructor. I even had my parents make my PE teacher exempt me from swimming in high school).

Thank god this could never happen to me, jumping in the ocean without a second thought? Nope.

This was SUCH an awesome movie!! I loved all ten minutes of it!!

I remember this movie when I was little kid but didn’t watch the full thing now I can watch the full plot in a short period of time

This never happened to me, but when I was a kid and in a sailing boat with another kid, we lost the rudder, and just went straight out into the sea after having been told to stick near the harbor...scary experience lol...especially since we almost collided with larger vessels.

One of the BEST!❤

Amazing job on this video 👏🏼 I appreciate what you do I have a short attention span and can't sit still to watch movies and finding this channel was a game changer for me!! You are appreciated

Omg, you explained it very simply! It's really easy to understand. Thank you so much! I've always wanted to learn these.

Ain't no way my 5 friends and I couldn't find a way on the boat 😂

I was hoping to read someone message that has great knowledge of this boat or ships in general. Thinking how easily this could happen to group of people..if your a nice boss with a yacht don’t let your errands boy barrow the boat for some clap time..

Imagine being Amy after getting home and being the only survivor trying to tell people what happened. Pretty sure they either didn't believe Amy and she was charged for murder or the community shunned her after the investigation. Either way she would NOT have an easy time.

always bring a "field book" with you when going out in the woods or on the water it can just be things you write down for a check list.

I feel bad for the girl that died from pure exhaustion, like damn ya'll couldn't share the life jacket and let everyone rebuild their strength? She was so greedy with it. Girl died because she just couldn't keep treading water and Amy couldn't let her use it for even a few minutes. Geez. A senseless death.

I absolutely hate the ocean and the water… so not only would I probably not jump in unless peer pressure, but i damn well wouldn’t jump in without the confirmation of a ladder 😭

Actually terrifying scenario because of how realistic this is or how easily we can make similar fatal mistakes without realizing it

They sound like a nice bunch. I was totally rooting for their survival

One bone headed move after the next! What a stupid way to kill your friends!

I've seen this movie , what a gem and I'm already a cautious person and I always think about the worst possible outcomes before I do anything ... so it stressed me out that nobody thought of bringing out the ladder

Wow! They should’ve played chicken and got on each other’s shoulders and climbed towards the lowest part of the boat.

I want to see an experiment with the same boat if its really possible to climb on the boat or not.

lmao "im sorry i was such a jerk in the past" then proceeds to put her in the water without her consent. gee i wonder why she left him

The director must’ve watched the King of the Hill episode “Hank's on Board” and decided to make a movie based on that.

This shows how short our lives are.. Death can come very unexpectedly..

Wow... You know you never know what you got inside of you until your placed in a position to be strong as you can possibly be. I know it's a movie but all they had to do is one person hold on to the little thing on the side of the boat that they are all holding onto throughout the movie lol. Just like the piece of glass they could have just walked each other up. But then there's no movie.