Ouch

i have zero interest in going that fast on the water on a bass boat! OUCH is right.
 
While I've seen this before, I still wonder why he was unconscious in the water for 10 minute with the other boat right there? And why if he was, is he just laying on the back of that boat like a just landed fish instead of on his way to the dock and a hospital?

This has Darwin's theory written all over it.
 
I agree Woody. That is just plane stupid!

I knew a woman who got killed when the boat hit a wake going too fast. She was thrown up into the air and then dropped back into the boat. Her face hit the upper rim of the windshield. Not a pretty sight.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-R4Zk3j6IE&feature=player_embedded
 
Looked like a crash test dummy in slo-mo.
 
Kind of funny how the moral of the story is to always wear a PFD and have have your killswitch attached, but nothing about driving like a maniac. A PFD and killswitch will not save your from possible paralysis or death by trauma to the head.
 
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Originally posted by Tim R

Kind of funny how the moral of the story is to always wear a PFD and have have your killswitch attached, but nothing about driving like a maniac. A PFD and killswitch will not save your from possible paralysis or death by trauma to the head.

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I agree, I am getting downright ticked off lately since every time you see something like this is says to wear your life jacket. What about dont ride around like a Jack A*& !!!! If you were going to try and see how fast you can go on a boat dont you think you might want a little more than a life jacket on? How about the people in the other boat? At what point did they not notice the wobble on the boat when only the last 1 ft of centerline is actually in the water. Wouldnt you mention to your friend that this might not be the best day or conditions to try this? Who's stupid idea was it to cross the wake?
 
Well at least it gets some of them out of the gene pool.
 
Tim that was my thought exactly. These idiots probably think this stunt was a pretty cool idea and demonstrates good boating practices by wearing proper a pfd and kill switch lanyard attached.
 
Makes as much sense as seat belt laws saving lives. Thie best way to survive an accident is to stay out of it. Learn to drive and seat belts are less essential, boat like you have a little sense and pfds are less necessary. Not un-necessary but less so. Just my $.02.
 
Exactly, this thing looked might unstable on several of the passes before the wipeout. The message was clear, no one was listening. He was lucky when he was doing the passes that close to the poles. Hit one of those, life jackets don't help.
 
That boat was not stable before it hit the wake, do you notice the chine walk in all the other shots and just before he parallels the wake? His piloting skills are not the best, he is moving that wheel, left, right, left, right. Very poor control. Wear your PFD and use the kill switch.
 
lk those style of hulls are often built unstable... hes working the wheel to drive thru chine walk the biggest cause of chine walk is the engines rubber motor mounts when trimmed and running the prop shaft very high the prop is surfacing the top blade is not canceling the props torque (trying to run across the surface at about a 45 degree angle) so the motor twist sideways in the mounts causing the letter S handling if everything is set up correct you can drive thru it and get up on the pad till a tiny ripple upsets it! interesting handling vessel to say the least
 
L. Keith...that's what I said...look at the chine walk. He's got no control. Going over a wake with a boat that's all engine...
 
Even with solid mounts you'll get a bit of chine walk. It's a characteristic of that type of boat and no big deal if you know how to drive it and have at least 3 brain cells to rub together. That is generally enough brain matter to allow a little common sense to enter into the picture and slow down when required. Most of those runs the boat looked totally under control. Just that lat run and then the stupid, 1 brain cell only, wake jump was a little squirrely until he hit the wake. Bass boats are not skis or wake boards.
 
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I see idiots like this every weekend.

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Yeah. But you see them AFTER the show. That's no fun.
 
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