Imagine turning on the news about a tsunami in Washington, and seeing an orange ball being thrown around at violent speeds and seeing her screaming inside. “Oh shit, there goes Jeanie!” 😩🤚🏼🟠🌊
Yeah Im so straight lol, fk that I ant gettn stuck!!! I’d freak tf out!!! Claustrophobic from just watching this 😅🤣 id need that 10 man one all to myself lol, bruh cud you imagine being in one with 10 other people, a tsunami hits and takes you out you to the ocean a bunch of debris from the 🌊 comes crashing and pulls your pod underwater. Then all 10 of you are stuck in there till you run out of air. I’ll pass!!! I’m just thinking of all the horrible ways this could go wrong.
It does float upright but thats in still waters with waves and currents the ball when be spinning all around and banging against stuff. The dog would more than likely die from being tossed around because if a tsunami hit that ball she aint gonna be able to hold onto that dog while she is on that rollercoaster ride. Also they spoke nothing about air supply and it being an airtight pod so idk how you would open it to let fresh air in during an emergency
@@slayer_reworked0000 do you think she has enough food and water for the dog? 40 liters is hardly 40 days unless she plans on being found severely dehydrated by day 25. Still I don't get the negative comments here, sure there's a chance that thing can get blocked under water or the door get stuck or simply the thing get absolutely crushed due to the sheer force of a tsunami... but you know what? she got better ods then most people not even prepared for ANY disaster. say a major even happens and food supplies to that part of the country gets tight, guess what? she got that neat little investment. What if the water cuts out for the county due to some issue (improbable but not impossible) guess what? SHE READY. The odds are stacked in her favor no matter what, she might have lost a couple dollars now, and it might not ever get used or offer 100% safety, but at least she is in the mind sett of "what if"
Ikr! I got hit twice on a motorcycle and I was just the passenger. Both times it was the other drivers fault for not seeing us RIGHT THERE. 1st time I was lucky but the 2nd nsm, there will not be a 3rd.
@@faithgarden2955 lmao, NO. Both mc drivers had the right of way. The first being in free flowing traffic with a drunk driver just released from jail at noon for an OWI. Guy left the scene and was caught down the rd dragging the back end of his truck. He pulled out in front of us. The second, ran a red light making a left hand turn, while we had a green light BEING the right of way. He was also intoxicated and left us for DEAD and was caught after ditching the vehicle. Nice try tho Also- the 2nd accident was exceptionally weird for us bc 1 of our bike riding partners got hit the very next night the same way (someone pulled out in front of him) (except the guy didn't leave the scene) and while our bones were broken on our right side, his bones broke on his left side. None of us could write for months, we were right handed, he was a leftie. Go figure, all we could do was laugh about it bc we were all miserable at the same time due to others carelessness😉
This needs comments from motorcyclists, I have ridden 30+ years, never been hit, many many close calls but a responsible motorcyclist is probably the safest driver on the road. I see moto crash vids on YT all the time and in most cases the rider is travelling to fast to react to whichever grandma is backing out of her driveway. I ride like I am invisible and assume everybody is a bone head when it comes to making decisions in traffic. End rant/
@@boostedlss6450 yeah, and how many years have you or anyone youve known been a victim of a tsunami. I think you missed the point a little bit, hes saying you are significantly more likely to get into a motorcycle accident than get hit by a tsunami, and this crazy lazy will ride a motorcycle, which is inherently dangerous and hundreds of times more likely to die doing than a tsunami hitting
Genie can see a wave that is only very small but still get your dog and then Kaboom nothing happens enter friends like jeans and come out it's been like 17 days
@1Rod1ReelFishing yes you can have WiFi installed you can also have a phone for emergencies and a tv if you want, also if you want it done up better just get in touch with pimpmypod.
damn that was the last thing I thought about. There's enough water for weeks but than you have to pee and po. i'd rather drown and get killed by a wave than in my own shit and urine.
Ringo Star The Guinea Pig Well no, if you believe you will be safe in that thing, you don't understand the force behind tsunamis. Entire buildings, bridges, giant rock boulders gets thrown around as if they are in a giant blender. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can survive a tsunamis head on.
but the capsule will accelerate up to the speed of the tsunami wave. The only thing that would kill the occupants would be if it slammed into something hard, which could happen, but having the capsule is better than nothing. Still have better chance of survival
If only it were that easy. The housing market in Washington is a dumpster fire rn. Well, not just Washington, the West Coast as a whole. She'd have an super easy time selling her house, but buying one is another story.
Actually a pretty good idea especially for the elderly. A Tsunami hit my country in 2009 and it killed my friend. He managed to carry his 4 year old and one year old to high ground and tried to run back to get his elderly mom sadly it was too late and the wave killed him and his mom
@BitterVoid You pee over the side or in a bottle just like in a life raft/boat. And she did have a locator beacon and a radio, so it would be really easy to find her. Also I think you thinking of a flood more than a tsunami, as that pushes things inward more than out again to sea, as the moment of the wave is greater than the water it caries most of time, so the undercurrent it makes isn't as great after some time going over land.
I think I’d rather die than cram myself in that thing. Imagine being tossed around for a few days in the ocean before finally being lost at sea or suffocating death while being violently tossed around
@gamekid bunny7 I think I’d rather grab a surfboard and take my chances. I realize that would be zero chance, but that thing is something out of my nightmares.
@Rustless Loki Not if you are claustrophobic, or have anxiety about being out of control, or fear of being alone, fear being swept away into the ocean, or get motion sick on a treadmill and pass out (🙋🏼♀️ that would be me). I respect the reason for developing this, and if it’s for you, go for it. It’s a great idea. But, for some people, it’s impractical.
@@kittybennett9004 Now you made me remember that one time when a dude in Florida did exactly that(of course it's florida, what'd you expect-that's a joke.) Then come a few years later I see me dad on the news and we just see a bloke in me own country surfing during a typhoon. Like, there was a massive flood(as always), trash, trees, debris and everything, and the dude's topless, surfing on the flood as if he's on friggin vacation. _To be fair tho, we have done dumber. Including me._
Hopefully all the stuff inside is secured very tightly if she actually needs to use this. In a tsunami event this thing is gonna be flipping around like a gyroscope
No more like trapping the person in. Imagine the person gets something stuck in that handle and can't reach anyone to let them out. Unless once inside the handle become loose to spin freely than it won't matter. Since you can open it from the inside. Regardless of any blockage
Yeah, so people who live in cold areas shouldn't isolate their houses because they could just move somewhere hotter and people who live in noisy cities shouldn't either because they could just move somewhere quieter. This logic doesn't make sense.
This feels like a story by The Onion. It will keep her safe for the first half hour to an hour. After that either she will be swept out into open ocean, or she will suffocate via the air tight compartment.
@@msalemi11 I don’t but chances are she’s not going to underwater for hours. The thing is made to float so she’ll be on the surface pretty soon anyway.
Honestly that would be an incredible marketing play if the owner of the company went over Niagra Falls to prove how safe the capsule is. Either he proves it's safe or gets his ass split open 😂
just look at the fotage from japan 2011, that little ball, will be destroyed or buried under tons of material, for not to mention the ride inside would be like infinite car crashed, this is a total ripoff and murder when it strikes
For those wondering about oxygen, further research says the capsule has an air tank that'll last an hour if you're underwater... that being said this is still a dumb idea
My thoughts exactly. she has supplies for 40 days but I highly doubt that pod would hold enough oxygen for even a full 24 hours. This thing is just an overpriced coffin.
@@thetexasgerman190 There was an oxygen tank in the video but then the next question is how to depressurize the cabin when you use the tank. And yes, it's probably at most a couple hours of oxygen.
This whole comment thread is filled with negatrons 🤣🤣 the pod is obviously fitted with ventilation🤦 Do you not think designers would have thought about this before going to market?
I think her odds of survival would be greater if she headed for the hills as soon as she heard a tsunami warning, rather than jumping into her giant Tide pod. Watch some of those Sendai quake tsunami videos. Trying to ride that out seems suicidal.
Maybe for some tsunamis, but when the eathquake happens on the Cascadia fault line, the tsunami will hit Washington 4 minutes after the earthquake. I doubt she will be able to get high enough to survive in just 4 minutes.
brsk, True, but then again earthquake prediction is a very complicated thing and if it did take 4 or even 30 minutes to reach her, she probably wouldn´t be notified in time anyway.
It seems like 80% of the comments are "but where is the aaaaaiiiirrr????" so here you go, copied from their website! "Standard Features: Air Ventilation Vents, Air Supply Tanks (one for each occupant)"
Nick Figures he is talking about the fact she said "it's worth lesser than my Harley-Davidson and more than a golf cart". Talk optimism at a new scale.
@aceous99 a tsunami may last a couple of hours, but the subsequent flooding may take weeks to subside (if no rescue teams can get to her) In the meantime she’s stuck in there with her & her dog’s faeces and urine 🤮
If she has time to get out obviously she is going to book it out of there. This is for when she doesn't have any warning and only has minutes to spare. And what part of it is suicide? It can resist collisions and water, and has enough food and water to last 40 days
@@imzackson Yeah except everyone is going to be doing the same thing. Traffic will be a nightmare. People will drown in their cars. That's not to say you shouldn't still try, but don't get your hopes up about driving away
I dont think she realizes that after the water comes in it will go back out and she might go back out with it. With all the debris in the water I dought she we would be found for a long time that's if that thing even floats. She might just be sitting on the ocean floor till she runs out of oxygen.
The capsule is meant for surviving the Tsunami which would only last for a few hours, after that she would just float above the water somewhere, that’s when she can open the door to breathe oxygen and wait for help to arrive. I think she bought it, just so she would have something cool in her collection. I don’t think she actually plans on using it.
@@egalva1 It does float. There’s other videos on RU-vid where they threw it down a waterfall and it was floating. Any ball shaped object with a hollow inside will float on water 😅, actually it doesn’t even need to be ball shaped. Bodies float when someone’s dead too.
@@Hjernespreng Last resort? In 2019 you would need to not go on the phone, tv, radio, talk to other people to be oblivious about a tsunami coming. She lives on the east coast, where the terrain varies a lot, she could get to high ground probably within a mile or two easy. This product is dangerous.
What about for people that leave their phones alone for hours at a time? If I lived in a coastal area (which I would never because I’m afraid of tsunamis lol), And I was wealthy, I would purchase this for my vacation home just in case.
Alternatively, someone could just you know, choose not to live on a "low sand spit". I mean, that's what I would avoid if I was terrified of dying in a tsunami.
Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong, but from watching the videos of the tsunami it sure seemed like way more people were buried under the water mixed with rubble and cars and buildings and drowned to death trapped underneath tons of debris than were swept out to sea and drown in the open ocean.
First, its as likely to be found as a lifeboat due to its color, not keeping the fact that it has a gps which just solves that entirely. The only problem would be the hatch that isnt on the top of the pod and nothing to keep your head safe from moving at and well oxygen which ive heard it has 1 hour of oxygen normally, and rescue should arrive quickly with a gps.
Grenherb in a few years when all the other claims have been adjusted and all the fights with the insurance company are over. Not to mention the premiums you are expected to pay after the fact? No thanks.
Till she uses them and the pressure builds inside making it unable for her to open the door, then if she does her ear drums explode from dramatic pressure change
Kewl Kann you did notice the door opens out? No build up of pressure is going to keep her from opening it. All she has to do is wait for things to settle and she can open it for fresh air. Or possibly some other vent not submerged.
I think I'd rather face swift and certain death by tsunami than the prospect of all the nightmarish things that could go wrong with being trapped inside that laundry ball for an unspecified amount of time.
a tsunami doesnt guarantee a swift death. maybe if the water is high enough and it crashes down on you then maybe otherwise you'd be pushed around till you hit something too hard or maybe get impaled on something
You have enough air in this thing to wait out for the tsunami to recede and if you washed out into the ocean you would be floating on top with GPS line of site and a radio. You would be far better than your neighbors.
@@hgbugalou what about oxygen while in the ocean, does the hatch sit facing the sky? or will it sit "upright" like it does on its stand, because then the door will allow sea water in. thing is a scheme to play on people's fears.
I was kind of thinking the same thing, but I was thinking that it needs a couple escape hatches...one hatch doesn't seem like enough! Especially when it lands and gets wedged and hold the door shut...she, or anyone for that matter, isn't gonna be able to open the hatch then...and not so much worried about the amount of air in it but can you imagine how hot it'd get in there? You'd literally bake to death.
Yeah an air tank for her. What about her dog? That dog will be long gone by the time the tsunami is over. Even then, her air tank is enough for, what, an hour or 2? If that tsunami is still going, she’s done.
@@danielschmaderer Well hopefully there is an air vent she can activate when not completely submersed but just floating. considerably more difficult to survive if the tsunami drags her back out to sea afterwards other wise I think an hour air supply would be sufficient to survive a tsunami but i am no expert.
@@DavidJohnson-iv9bb my thought exactly. Since tsunamis pull everything back out, she might be adrift out in the ocean for quite some time. I’m guessing there would be a vent of some sort.
It reminds me of the man in Texas who people thought was extremely cautious for having his house surrounded with an inflatable dam. He saved his house and family with it. "To each his/her own."
that was smart. but in this case, who knows if she would reach the pod in time, and i seriously doubt the Coast guard would find her. there would other people to get to first, hospitals, people who are wealthy/politically connected.
@Stardust Alteisen only if it gets water inside , the air will keep it up , also looks like the enginer though of that in the Disigh... cool stuff... and you get extra air bottles... however if you gona use it , better be in Good body shape/ mental and some survival skills... if you know how to dive, you can always change into diving gear and leave the pod behind... but all depends on location and how deep you are , afcourse... adventure 4 sure ....
There are so many people who just can't understand the basics of any of this in the comments, I'd feel bad for their lack of knowledge but they're so smug about it I just can't.
Well, you may like the area but you never know when a tsunami will come, even I get a little anxious when at the beach about a tsunami since I live in California, an area known for earthquakes
look, im okay with this woman buying a 13.5k capsule , but she says she has food for 40 days and they didn't talk about the poop. where are you planning to store 40 days of poo and pee. of a human and a dog the poop coffin
I live 600ft above sea level on top of a plateau, so no worries here. I'll have front row seats to the swell and devastation to the valley below me though.
Matt Fotheringham 8230 ft Shaboom Also, for some reason, my house came with 'tsunami shielding' - basically the house has supports which move on an axial so the house won't get destroyed.
Except this would actually be useful in an emergency. Yeah it's a low-odds event, yeah the media uplays the risk, but this actually *could* save a life one day. The modern-day analogues to snake oil are conspiracy theory books, alternative medicines, and pointless gadgets.
I feel like this is that one meteor episode of the Simpsons in which Ned has a bomb shelter but it ends up being the one place that gets completely destroyed. This might make her feel safe but that doesn't mean it will actually keep her safe
@@greymagician1 I don’t think you’re gonna be in there that long. It’s not a nuclear fallout shelter, where you need to hole up for weeks, it’s designed to protect you from the initial impact of the tsunami and the debris being tossed about. Time in the suck: 20 min, an hour tops. And if you’ve ever seen one of those spacecamp gyroscopes at the mall, I have a suspicion most people are going to be pissing and puking and shitting themselves as they’re tossed and rolled and jarred inside a big orange buoy. It would be hard to use facilities strapped in and rolling on the ocean anyway.
Is this pod fitered with a counter weight so when its drifting in water it will remain upright? Where is the air supply or oxcygen tanks? The pod could become trapped by debris and pushed under water?
Great idea. One problem. You figure some one survives, how long do you expect them to be in there if it's stuck, buried or washed out to sea with no room to stretch, much less take a shit.
david sanchez These are safety systems designed with tracking devices. These things are designed to get you safely through a tsunami, there is access to oxygen. Would you rather die while getting thrown around and mangled while being crushed between debree and drown to death? Or would you rather have a survival pod? Think about that for a bit.
By the time all the disaster is fixed, she wouldnt be in open ocean, she`ll be somewhat close to populated ocean areas. Its a fucking ball that does not move on its own, not a freaking ship going 500km per hour. She`ll be fine.
Jake Mitch it probably doesnt.... why would it need so much air? Tsunamis dont last 40 days lol... you can surely open a hatch once things calm down. The 40 days of resources is incase you are stranded somewhere. Id hope those pods have GPS on them for rescue otherwise its just stupid in my opinion. That womans more likely to die on her Harley then by a tsunami.
I mean it's possible just get a metal which is very dense and with a fucking fucking very high melting point include enough life support for 3 weeks and ensure its lead lined to stop radiation coming through and might work
But being ready isn't always bad. Think about it I'm a Dad. I when out there to get first aid certified and always keep a first aid kit in my home because you never know what can happen especially with kids.
What's the use? As soon as you come out, you still have to deal with massive radiation, everything annihilated, no food, no water, no medical assistance, no transportation, no supplies to be had anywhere, no communication system, no roof over your head, nuclear winter, and other folks wanting any survival item you may have. Watch the movie "Threads" to see what it would be like. I believe it is here on RU-vid. Scariest movie I ever saw. As far as the tsunami goes, why put yourself where they occur in the first place?
@@amywalker7515 that’s the point. In the fallout universe they glorified nuclear energy in weird ways and those things were advertised to the public as being safe. every booth you open has skeletons and weird items inside of them.
Scenario: It’s 2am and you’re asleep. A Tsunami 🌊 hits and you’re up in your bedroom, whilst your tsunami pod is in the garage. You’ve been woken up by the noise of your house crumbling on top and around you. Do you honestly think 🤔 you’re going to have time to climb into the pod ? ( By the way that pod is now 8 blocks away from your house )
If that scenario happens exactly as you describe, you're dead. The idea is that you'd receive a warning and have a couple minutes to grab doggo and climb into the pod. It's not like tsunamis appear out of thin air, there's usually a warning system in place
@@Jomskylark Are there? I was wondering if she would have enough warning to get to the pod. I think its certainly her best bet if she can get a warning minutes before it happens, but I didn't find anything on tsunami warning systems. Maybe she has to jump whenever there is an earthquake (which can trigger)?
@@lrom5445 the threat from tsunamis is from earthquakes that occur elsewhere. Tsunami alerts go out in Japan when there's a major earthquake in California or somewhere else in the pacific.
I grew up on the Oregon Coast and worked on a few designs on paper for the exact same thing. I began to reflect on everything I had seen the ocean do and soon realized that this was a bad idea. These things are nothing more than a floating coffin. It would be like going over Niagra Falls in a barrel 100 times over. You better just Pray and ask the Lord for forgiveness.
People in this comment section really be like "I'd rather have me and my dog slowly and painfully crushed under a house for days, while being upside down, without food or water than be protected in a ball for a few days."
Im sure the coast guard will prioritize rescuing eejits who boarded pods and got swept out to sea.... especially after a huge disaster like a tsunami.... im being sarcastic.... why would they prioritize that "rescue mission"?
@@thetransmogrifer2522 Your comment implies you ARE living in fear..... and that is what this is all about. People living in fear are easy to control. Fear is a choice. You don't have to accept it.
+hey dad How long do you think the oxygen tank will last her? 4 hours? It seemed like a small one to me. So if she gets in it and the tsunami floods the house, and jams that ball door down and it gets jammed by some other shit in her garage. Do you think 4 hours is enough for the life guards to come get her out? Now if we were to rank who the most feeble minded person here, i would rank you as nr 1. If anyone bought this idiotic pod, i would call them gullible and plain retarded. If a person is that scared, why not move to another place that is higher up... But as stupid as they are to buy that pod, they probably are as stupid as you as to not even consider changing location. hehe stupid piece of dogshit... suits you better then mike b.
And don't talk about her getting trapped by debris and shit considering that the pod floats in unlikely she will be trapped. The pod contains a radio to call for help and a flare gun. an oxygen tank and food and water. if you really thin she will get trapped try going to the beach and getting a golf ball or a ping pong ball and placing it on top of the water. if you need more info google buoyancy
There's a lot of problems with this concept. Like being thrown into a building, and being wedged so the door is not longer accessible. There's only one way in and one way out.
damn you're so right you're right there's only one way in and one way out at least that's what they're showing I mean damn they wanted to go back to the drawing board they not thinking worth s*** really was thinking the same thing at the thing got wedged in between something or something failed on top of it like a truck that may or get stuck in between the bridge and between the debris you going to suffocate anyway and what signals going to be heard and with one way in and one way out unless there's something else yeah you're screwed
@@PD-yd3fr EPLB only lasts so long after initiated. Probably better off having a Garmin inreach. Or having it well attached to a underground cement anchor.
There’s no way that dog is secure enough to go tumbling around in a tsunami. He’s going to be strangled or cut in half by those skinny little loose belts with plastic buckles.
