r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ChargeEducational700 • 3h ago

WCGW speeding through the water while both captains are busy scrolling?

This is why captains exist, boys.

5.8k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

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u/SimpleMetricTon 3h ago

Sha la la la la la… … … Ugh.

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u/FreeWillyBird 2h ago

When doom scrolling becomes shark trolling.

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u/Malibucat48 1h ago

Now they need new phones.

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u/ChrisStoneGermany 2h ago

Reminds me of many many drivers on our highways

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u/nikeshades 1h ago

They found a successor to the other horrible background song. (Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no)

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u/user-the-name 8m ago

Literally nobody has used that song for like five fucking years, grandpa.

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u/Artistic-Budget4500 34m ago

Cherish?! 🤔

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u/Maple-Syrup-Bandit 3h ago

The boat folded, shook the boys straight, and scooted right on.

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u/Technical-Use-5561 3h ago

I want to know the manufacturer of this boat they did a good job. This video can be a good advertisement for them

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u/Mihsan 1h ago

You can can clearly see light through formed cracks. This boat is done, brobably sinked with the weight of the motor.

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u/Technical-Use-5561 56m ago

What matters is the boat didn't flip instantly after that impact. Slowly sinking is far better

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u/Icefox119 41m ago

they're dazed right now but they'll start panicking when it sinks in

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u/p8inKill3r 35m ago

Not when it is powered by AI. 4K suckers upvoting a fake video.

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u/Sorry-Joke-4325 30m ago

Aww, honey. You think all the upvotes on reddit are real people?

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u/PopularAd6391 3h ago

"Got rid of the trash, let's get going"

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u/Superamorti 3h ago

Now that your attention is back here, let's move on...

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u/Iron_Sight_Mark 2h ago

"See ya never, dumb fucks"

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u/MyvaJynaherz 1h ago

The outboards are pretty damn resilient.

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u/GoatStimulator_ 1h ago

AI will do that

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u/ThrA-X 3h ago

Dunno which is more impressive, the idiocy of the passengers or the resilience of that boat.

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u/ramnokri 3h ago

at some point, the boat learned to survive.

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u/ActionFigureCollects 3h ago

Everything will survive past man. We'll be the first to go at the current rate.

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u/throcorfe 2h ago

Sadly we are already far from the first to go, the world is several species down thanks to the efforts of humankind

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u/GottaUseEmAll 1h ago

Some extinctions are our fault, but many are not. Most extinctions on earth took place waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before we were even here.

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u/Lazy-Substance-5062 2h ago

The boat adjusted for them. Foldable yet sturdy

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u/kranker 30m ago

The front didn't fall off

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u/AltruisticRide1231 17m ago

how about the Messi pass that they were enjoying?

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u/GoatStimulator_ 1h ago

It's AI...

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u/AllDeathsAreCertain 3h ago

Yeah Buoy

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u/icaruza 2h ago

Or Yeah Boo-ee (in Americenglish)

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u/whooptheretis 1h ago

What, what…?
Americans say boo-ee‽‽
How do they pronounce buoyancy?
Boo-ee-ancy?

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u/xenogazer 50m ago

No it's just booey for the buoy. We're American, not even our football stadium full of grammar rules can make sense.

(Booey is also often a nickname used by kids out in the country)

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u/Bish_Bosh88 59m ago

I only learned this through watching the reality TV show Below Decks which follows a group of often annoying people working on a yacht.

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u/M8C 30m ago

How do you guys pronounce urine and urinal? because I seem to see a lot of the UK say You-rye-nal

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u/FadedVictor 1h ago

I say it in my head with the voice of John Witherspoon(Granddad from Boondocks), RIP.

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u/the-real-vuk 3h ago

Problem is that car drivers do the exact same, smashing into people.

4

u/delis876 2h ago

This time the people smashed into things.

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u/Broksaysreee 1h ago

Next time they're going to be smashing pumkins

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u/siazdghw 1h ago

This is why stuff like FSD is safer than the average driver.

The average person looks at their phone, toys with their radio or AC, rubbernecks, gets tired or emotional, or is a new driver or an elderly driver. A computer drives consistently safer than them.

Now of course everyone will say 'I drive better than a computer', and some of you will be right, but on average, I doubt it.

Of course this is decades away from fruition, not because the technology isn't already better than the average driver, but because it's essentially a middle class+ luxury for now, but probably by the 2030's some form of autonomous driving or at a minimum ADAS will become mandatory on new vehicles.

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u/Dudephish 3h ago

Front fell in.

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u/Captain_Blood17 2h ago

That's not very typical

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u/MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo 3h ago

Sometimes the price of stupidity is grueling pain.

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u/snakemane88 3h ago

that'll buff right out

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u/WrenchMonkey47 2h ago

Apparently it did. The end of the video shows the boat undamaged.

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u/UrethralExplorer 2h ago

Undamaged is a stretch. It probably sank within two minutes.

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u/arithmetic 3h ago

Thank you Newton

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u/deckbuilder69toni82 3h ago

Captains? More like morons.

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u/kadaka80 3h ago

Inertia:

https://giphy.com/gifs/zOlog7jgIIFfq

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u/iRVKmNa8hTJsB7 1h ago

is a property of matter

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u/the_fez_45 26m ago

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!

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u/DantheDutchGuy 3h ago

Unmovable object meets a ship of fools….

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u/deanrihpee 3h ago

amazing, especially in the place where it should be significantly harder to hit anything stationary lmao

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u/nomeutentenuovo 3h ago

They didn’t wear their seabelts

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u/DuePotential6602 3h ago

I FOLDED THIS BOAT IN HALF

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u/BuckRusty 1h ago

Minor point: a ship should only have one commanding officer referred to as Captain, and this individual will hold ultimate authority over and responsibility for the vessel, the crew, and the mission - even if that mission is to be a bunch of fuckups who wrecked the vessel against a giant yellow buoy…

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u/CaineBK 20m ago

So... Mission Accomplished?

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u/gfeep 3h ago

Is it a rubber boat? That’s r/unexpected

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u/MrT735 2h ago

Plastic rather than fibreglass I guess.

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u/MySisterPegsMe 3h ago

No that's why those barriers exist

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u/MancDude1979 3h ago

It's an anchorage buoy, not a barrier...

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u/CaineBK 21m ago

It's a barrier when you travel directly at it.

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u/MySisterPegsMe 2h ago

The barriers attached to the buoy you silly goose

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u/MancDude1979 2h ago

? There aren't any, just the buoy... a barrier is something that prevents you from entering / hitting somewhere, everything you see here is just the buoy... concrete core with floatation aids...

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u/MySisterPegsMe 2h ago

Ok nerd. The big yellow floatation devices can act as floats and a barrier. This is a dumb argument lmao

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u/GottaUseEmAll 1h ago

It's not a particularly important argument, in the grand scheme of things, but the word "barrier" has a meaning. That meaning is "something which bars passage", i.e. something that prevents someone getting through and continuing onwards.

The floats that surround the anchorage are there to protect the side of boats that are attached from bumping against the concrete. They are not barriers in the real sense of the definition, although I guess one could argue that they are barring passage to the concrete.

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u/RecklessOtter 1h ago

Actually, sharks are smooth in all directions.

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u/FancyJesse 1h ago

You're the one that is turning it into an argument because you can't phantom being wrong.

Be better.

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u/Friendly-Example-701 3h ago

Most likely chip their front teeth and or broke their nose.

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u/Labpro_49 3h ago

Goodbye insurance claim.

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u/Not_my_Name464 3h ago

Oh Captain, my Captain! 🤣

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u/Yesitshismom 3h ago

For a moment I thought they crashed into one of those inflatable rescue boats full of people. Thought we had a catastrophe²

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u/Raz0rking 3h ago

OOof. That is a lot of damage.

(Btw, that minimum length is annoying)

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u/Snoo-83028 2h ago

Playing Pokemon GO?

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u/BonerOfTheLake 2h ago

"the ocean is vast... but these guy still crashed on something. remember... no phone while driving"

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u/Random-Username-345 1h ago

This post made me look up and take the steering wheel again.

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u/Tirinoth 3h ago

I loved seeing the boat throw that panel thing back and bounce it off the dumbasses.

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u/knuP84 3h ago

natural selection in the experimental stage

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u/SixNineWithTheAfro 3h ago

So the front did NOT fall off. Clearly no cardboard or cardboard derivatives involved

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u/GM_Nate 3h ago

Also, they had a minimum crew of 2.

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u/the_fez_45 23m ago

Obviously it was built to rigorous maritime standards

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u/meneldur119 2h ago

Some of them are built so that the front doesn't fall off at all.

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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 3h ago

Not like they could really see over the bow anyways but yeah, would have been safer to be holding a beer lol

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u/Enclave_td 3h ago

Put some flextape on the boat and is good as new

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u/danit0ba94 3h ago

Nothing went wrong, far as im concerned.

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u/Ego5687 3h ago

Hopefully they learned a lesson

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u/Lil_SanTv 3h ago

They were reading the news about the Great Recession in 2008.

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u/LocoDuuuke 3h ago

Bonk! Ahm double-Bonk!

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u/brandi_Iove 3h ago

meta victims

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u/RudeOrganization550 2h ago

That was actually quite a small difficult to hit target, nailed it.

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u/throcorfe 2h ago

And it’s bright yellow so they would have seen it had they looked up at any point in the last 5-10mins

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u/Unver1f1eduser 2h ago

No airbags??

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u/Dannybuoy77 2h ago

Doom sailing

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u/cryptotraderisme 2h ago

Plot twist...they were watching videos of boat crashes

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u/pnkgtr 2h ago

The rare dual scorpion.

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u/hades_here 2h ago

Ngl cracked so hard! 🤣

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u/[deleted] 2h ago

Didn't even have the kill switch toggle on. Incompetence always seems to function in extremes.

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u/hereforinfoyo 2h ago

Oooh yeaaaah .... buoy!!

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u/Frequent_Goat7634 2h ago

Idk man...they stuck the landing pretty well, boat came out...

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u/WotTheFook 2h ago

You had one job... All of that open water and they had to hit that buoy.

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u/Hour-Passenger-8513 2h ago

Scrolling is as bad as alcohol. 

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u/Tan_Summer4531 2h ago

There is that!!!!

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u/AngryTrunkMonkey 2h ago

Iranian Navy?

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u/Romanitedomun 2h ago

Pretty enjoyable.

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u/Harry_Isthatyou 2h ago

Buy suckers I'm off to Cuba

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u/DonatedEyeballs 2h ago

The one guy looks like he’s wearing a hot dog costume.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7Eipor01ypMm3LeG4v

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u/bojangler69420 2h ago

I can’t believe neither of them died from this.

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u/koolaidismything 2h ago

That did zero damage to the bouy. No idea why that surprised me but it did.

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u/pichael289 2h ago

Looks like the boat is fine, it's leaving without them unless they are down in the bottom somewhere

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u/StryngzAndWyngz 2h ago

Buoy, oh buoy!

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u/DirtyKen 2h ago

Small dent

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u/ChosenOfTheMoon_GR 1h ago

The entire sea in 360 degrees is open and these two found a way to get to the tiny point where there was 1 obstacle, and i repeat, it's 2 of them, like when was either of them expected to stop anyway?

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u/Mekazabiht-Rusti 1h ago

Good job all appears to be well, and they are continuing their journey. #blessed

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u/HomerStillSippen 1h ago

It never ceases to amaze me with the massive size of the ocean and the sky that people still find a way to crash into things or each other.

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u/Unhappy-Quiet-8091 1h ago

The front fell off.

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u/IdahoDuncan 1h ago

Momentum is a harsh mistress

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u/1nstantHuman 1h ago

Are they dead? If they weren’t brain dead before, they are now. 

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u/Quiet-Original-5368 1h ago

We're overlooking the real issue here: both captains weren't even getting paid overtime for this catastrophe.

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u/albus181 1h ago

Looks like they kept scrolling on their phones after the crash.

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u/Aggressive_Candy5297 1h ago

TIL boats have crumple zones just like cars...

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u/Woodie100 1h ago

Cant even see over the bow.

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u/momentomoriwrath 1h ago

gotta love inertia

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u/Quiet-Original-5368 1h ago

You're not gonna believe what happened the other day – we were on a speedboat tour of the lake and the captain's phone died... and we had to rely on one of the guys on the speed record attempt team to navigate the entire lake blindfolded. Guess who didn't know there was a rock in the middle.

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u/PlasticPegasus 1h ago

Damn thing folded up like a pretzel.

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u/Taykeshi 1h ago

Break neck speed

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u/Umutuku 1h ago

Should have brought a Designated Diver.

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u/VrsoviceBlues 1h ago

Mister Somers, what the devil do you mean with this slovenly negligence sir?! What in the name of Hell are you playing at?! No- do not speak! The meanest intelligence could see that this is a ship calling for an attentive hand and an active mind, sir, not for a parcel of landsmen more fit for the Margate hoy!

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u/brenkosaur 1h ago

Imagine having a boat to drive around it and youd rather be on your phone. They got what they deserved.

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u/wonkey_monkey 1h ago

Got to get the money shot in the first 1/4 of a second otherwise no-one's gonna watch 🙄

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u/desertoutlaw86 1h ago

Had a coworker do this while drinking in the middle of the night. Only reason they survived was because some one witnesses the crash and came to give them a hand. Lucky it wasn’t the coasties.

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u/psy_lent 57m ago

"tis but a flesh wound" - that boat probably

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u/thenomadishere 55m ago

Surprisingly, the front didn't fall off

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u/Neverbetoohyped 53m ago

Putting repetitions like it’s a football goal killed me hahahah

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u/Orpheus31 51m ago

But did you die?

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u/freshalien51 47m ago

Definitely AI.

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u/PuzzleheadedDig9893 40m ago

Sha la la la..... Shi..... t!

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u/Same_Bill8776 32m ago

Anyone know this song? Its just the sort of nonsense I need more of

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u/UnhappyGreen 24m ago

I was expecting an American missile to hit them

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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 24m ago

Driving without due care and attention.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 24m ago

whatever the other buoy thingy is ...it didn't give a fuck.

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u/Wanderlustfull 23m ago

It was a 25 second gif. Did we really need to see the end at the beginning before the content lest we get bored half way though? Jesus Christ.

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u/GoatStimulator_ 1h ago

Why were they being filmed? Smells like ai

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u/panic_attack_999 1h ago

This comment smells like ai.

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u/WiseSorcerer2159 3h ago

Damn. The one place you don’t think you’ll run into something.

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u/tylerbarnacles 2h ago

It's totally unnecessary for this crash. Simple forward watch keeping could have easily avoided the whole ridiculous accident.

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u/PsyAsylum 3h ago

No seatbelts huh? lol

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u/Technical-Use-5561 3h ago

Boats do not have seatbelts Smartypants. That's why they give you a life jacket

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 1h ago

A lot of boats have seatbelts. 

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u/panic_attack_999 1h ago

Very few boats have seatbelts. See if you can figure out why.

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 1h ago

A lot of them have seatbelts. Particularly ones that do important stuff.