From Austria, Beautiful shots!

Texas

Coastal New England

from Denver, CO I've sailed I/O Haulover many times...

Australia,

And with NO life jackets being worn! That's reckless for your family.

The peoples of south Florida are stupid in a special way. Parents actually encourage their kids to not wear seatbelts here. I see it every day here on every road, kids hanging out the windows like pets.

Yep, I'd rent a family & A boat. ROLL TIDE!

Notice that the cops are wearing PFDs.

this is 'merikkka after all

Florida free dumb

Doesn’t appear to be a speed limit either 😳

Common sense goes out the window when on the water. They want to go as fast on the water as they go on land.

It is not even a process at all. If you are an adult you're allowed to operate a boat period Unfortunately they let any idiot do it

@@chadbreton4951 Yep.

Probably because he knows what he’s doing and not racing in!

And 15:17 boat driver too.

Yes, he just went right through those waves without a single bounce.

one of my high school buddies died in a riptide at 55 yers old. Helping an Asian lady.

What was he doing in a channel in the first place? 🤪🤔

The video says he was dragged from the beach by the current ​@@Stllno

@CarlCumby - If we weren't talking about actual human lives at risk I'd laugh.

how bout the pontoon boats

I have (once) and it’s absolutely miserable for everybody on board. Doesn’t matter the occasion, boat wouldn’t touch the water on a day like this.

@@bradi8548 I grew up driving small boats on popular lakes in Minnesota. If you did it wrong you could swamp it. Trim and power.

Trim, control of power and direction you mean.

@@alexcawthorne811 No, I'm not pointlessly pedantic.

​@@Vorgtothat's why you need to be on the ocean to learn how it works.

I couldn't believe my eyes. What is wrong with those people?

You referring to the JetSki or the larger blue and white boat?

3:30 min in.

7:12 min in two girls in water overturned jetski.

Today’s population is quite ignorant and selfish.

more money than brains !

Plenty of immigrants.....

I think the Jet Skiers are not at all an exception!!! I see VERY few sensible people in these vids….

I agree completely. It should be unlawful for any vessel to not render aid when a person(s) are in the water presumably alone without assistance and especially when the person is not wearing a personal flotation device. I’m shocked at the number of boats who saw the man in the water and didn’t stop to render aid. Pathetic!

@@b.hanson406it’s a bystander effect, it’s not anyone’s specific responsibility but someone should help. Thankfully this is as busy as a pleasure boat area gets and there are ample rescue and recovery resources there. Also I promise you these are edited lowlights. Thousands of competent captains go through this inlet. I love rescuing people when I’m out I’ve helped 4 or 5 boaters in need and received help a few times.

Nevermind the PWC'ers. The captain of the first boat is the bigger jerk.. Almost sinks the boat with all those people in it...

@@b.hanson406 As a matter of fact IT IS unlawful to NOT render assistence to those in need of help!!!! I think this law is already centuries old and counts worldwide!!!

Were you and your wife wearing life vests? And why did the boat just leave you in those kind of conditions?

I live on the Long Beach Peninsula at the very west coast of Washington state. Here we would NEVER go out in the Pacific ocean with small boats and waves and currents like that! It would be a death wish!!!!

It's Florida...full of dumb idiots with more money than sense.

New Americans?

Cant ever go wrong with a Midnight E

Not even close...the Seavee's are a much better hull and masters of the inlet. You see Midnights stuffed there quite often.

awesome!! any video?

It is not due to the seats only, they have a deep V bottom that soften the impacts.

Free dumb

Most larger deep V hulls have no problem though it's more about the captain having knowledge of how to handle rough water. Seavee's and Nortechs also handle the inlet easily when correct throttle control, trim and direction are used.

What's the game plan, is it go faster and on an angle, or straight through? Or can you make it going super slow? I see some speed looks good, but what if you don't want to take off five feet in the air, I need to know

Apparently trim bow up slightly and have enough speed to keep the bow raised. If you crest a big wave, turn slightly away from the direct line. Stay 5m from the break wall for minimum chop. That’s all I’ve learned watching these.

A deep V stiff hull handled such waters best, or a Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) which is what you'll see most emergency services use as they were specifically designed for use in such conditions. A great part, however, is also down to captain's competency. Many in these videos are totally incompetent and terrible examples of seamanship or SOLAS awareness. If they weren't so bad they wouldn't be on these videos right? Florida has a special relationship between stupidity and boating - where else globally do you see as many idiots as at Haulover and Boca inlets? A lot of (very dumb) people also say just use speed - well you can easily stuff a 40' Midnight or Viking that way. The correct way is use control of speed, trim (bow attitude) and steering. I've manufactured and sailed boats over 50 years from dinghies, 50'+ yachts to racing cats and there is nothing that's safe in the hands of a total idiot. Understand the ocean - treat it gently and leard how to co-exist. You will never beat it and it will cost you a lot if you don't respect it - not just in boat repairs but possibly your life.

these aren't big waves, at all, they are close together tho. What happens at the inlet, the ocean is "firing" right into the inlet, the waves pop up right AT the inlet, into the inlet, soooo.... you have to know.... is the water rushing OUT of the inlet or IN the inlet? Then which way am I headed? Seems juvenile I know, but a guy driving a boat is an automatic danger to himself, his passengers and everyone in the other boats around him. That statement seems weird BUT, the boat will not steer without throttle, things get sticky, boats get close togther and shyt will happen. The second you need to chop the throttle, collision avoidance or whatever, the boat no longer rides waves, steers, or does anything at all. It'll just HIT whatever it's pointed at. Collision avoidance. It won't do that. It won't turn away, it won't quickly back up especially if 3 nanoseconds before it was under power. It HAS NO BRAKES. IF IF IF you absolutely have to RIGHT NOW slam it outta Forward, into Reverse because DEATH IS NEAR, you've just knocked the props off (a bigger boat), regardless of size, it'll take, for full on-the-gas into full panic stp by reversing, it'll eat up 30-40 yards. It will hit whatever it's pointed at. Plus ALWAYS ASSUME every boat Captain is drunk, and his passengers too. It's 100000% true. Not many good decisions coming. The BEST thing to do when in a boat ...... keep the water OUT of the boat, keep the passenges IN the boat. No one wears a life jacket and no matter what you say, n one ever will. It's insane really. Take the fattest, no swimmingest grandma and she refuses to wear one, cause it ain't "cool". Soooo... THAT automatically means that ALL life preservers shall be stowed in a matter as to make them unusable. People have them, in a wad, under a seat, tangled up so tight it takes 10 minutes to get one out. As for the video, most guys are "tourist"ing around, they PLAN on dousing the kids down, part of the fun. A lot of these wave runner accidents, they are rentals, they let anyone get on. Being in the inlet is the most dangerous place on the whole water. No room for error. A boat without the throttle held down is just a log in the water, a painted upholstered log.

15:26 on.... no stress to him, his passenger, the boat....

It appeared there were many under the age of nineteen... 😉

Note the complete absence of any bilge pump tell tale.... there's a switch for that....

@@JohnSmith-pl2bk Most modern boats are equipped with bilge pumps that have an automatic float system that turns them on when water reaches a certain level in the bilge. If you look at 1:33 it appears the pump has been energized? I would suspect, with the way the boat was rolling the pump was cavitating, therefore, not a steady stream?