Hmm. I don't think CG... maybe editing out the water jet? Or tether? Or wires? It's not as bad as that bear video, haha... a little tougher to call... I'm not ready to call it fake... though it is significantly smaller than the hulking jetpack engines we've seen.

Everyone should aspire to own one of those advanced Japanese toilets with the water jets and stuff.

Interesting. First time I've seen a water jet turn into a mushroom cloud!

What are the water jets near the end for?

so maybe its easier to make a holodeck experience with a submerged user? using fluid dynamics and sensory feedback using water jets and other things

What? No string? No mudflaps? Do I at least get to stick a paperclip up one of my water jets?

>> ^harlequinn:

Does the water jets it is using make any difference to the wake?

Yes it does, but as it's the only economical (by defense standards anyway) way to get that hulk up to those speeds, the foam of the wake really doesn't factor in. The impressive part is the bow waves though, or lack thereof. The pontoons (I don't believe they have engines, otherwise they'd be nacelles) seem to catch the bow waves, possibly re-using the force to retrieve some lost kinetic energy. That last part might be coming out of my ass though.

>> ^Payback:

You know, getting back to the video, it has remarkably small bow waves for such a large ship. The wake is a churning mess that goes on for miles, but it looks like it could pass a 18ft sailboat at flank speed without causing much harm.


Wikipedia says it can reach 47 knots (87 km/h; 54 mph). I don't know much about ships but I know that's fast for a 115 m long ship. Does the water jets it is using make any difference to the wake?

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>> ^budzos:

Quite hilarious. Did the reporter's arm knock the guy's thumb off the trigger for a critical tenth of a second?


Actually, it looks like one of the supply hoses from the engine/pump pod got caught on the dock.

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(Setting, Beach, young families, regular day)
Alarm, Alarm!
Shark Alarm, Get out of the water!
-->(Dramatic pause - change frame to jet-skis - Shark is racing after them)
Shark Alarm!
-->(People mildly scream in background while everyone else on camera ignore him)
Black flag, hurry up, the black flag, Shark Alarm!
-->(Show shark {prop} being towed behind jet-ski)
-->(people stat to get out of water in calm and easy formation)
Shark Alarm! Shark Alarm! Shark Alarm! Shark Alarm! Hurry!
Shark Alarm! Get out of the water! Shark Alarm!
I said get out of the water!
-->(Jet-skis stop to watch people getting out of the water - "the shark also stops")
Shark Alarm! Hurry! Shark Alarm! Shark Alarm! Shark Alarm!
-->(The sharks doesn't follow because he sees the have helmets on and are heading for shore!)