Yeah, I dunno. It looks to me like the danger to fun ratio is a bit too high to be worth it. I suppose you can always just let go, so at least it's not terminally dangerous, but being dragged through a coral reef by a speedboat probably hurts.

Those assholes in the boats need to be more careful. Speedboat engine rotors chop up everything in the sea.

I'm sorry but this video has only reinforced my intention to one day offer a sloth a speedboat ride.

>> ^CreamK:

What a load of bull... All thou he is right on one thing: we would see only carly-rae-rihanna-gaga-shit on that channel that we already are been forcefed. The reason they went for reality route is money, specifically advertisement value of "original programming" is way higher than any bunch of short 3-5 minute video clips, cost of doing one minute of reality show is hundreds of times cheaper than one minute of a music video.
It certainly is not because we steal music, it ain't about us wanting to hear Nirvana, that all is just pure lying. It's cost per minute vs revenue per minute.
Music videos are more important than ever, when you go to youtube and search for that one song you want to hear, you expect to see a music video. Even if it's one of the "b-side" songs you still expect it to have a visual part of the story..
The problem isn't our generation but the 14 year old girls, they get all the attention since they are most willing to spend money on fabricated dreams. Our generation, the 80-90s kids grew up seeing really ground breaking good music and wish to see more real art from the next generation. i would love to scream at MTV "too much dubstep", "kids these days are crazy, i don't understand this"... Now the music i see from youngsters is "this is incredibly stupid, monotonous, no substance crap" as we undertand very well what that Nicki Minaj crap is about.


It's not "pure lying". There's been a massive drop in what was a lucrative CD market. It made sense to push music videos when the tv screen was the only one you had access to.

With both those changes you can hardly expect to attract advertisers with music programming. Piracy has been a factor and while it serves certain interests to overstate it, the switch from physical media to downloads meant huge revenue drops.

Are videos still important? Yes but as he says the budget for these things has plummeted. And probably for the better. The more memorable videos of recent years have probably not suffered for the lack of speedboats and explosions.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^DerHasisttot:
One can on certain few lengths of autobahn, not everywhere.

Another dream gone.


On this stretch you sure can drive as fast as you like with your speedboat =)

Reminds me of a mediocre book I've read roughly 15 years ago, "San Andreas" by Alistair MacLean. It's based during World War 2 and in it, the hero manages to ram a German U-boat with a damaged Navy hospital ship. The German captain simply was too eager and too much of an idiot.

Same here: if you're in a 45kts speedboat and get your bow rammed off by a bloody whaler, you're an overly eager idiot.

But maybe it'll escalate to the next level and they'll finally arm their Batmarine with mini-torpedoes.

From NYT website:

The video above shows the collision of the $1.5-million dollar speedboat deployed by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society this year to dog the Japanese whaling fleet with a Japanese security vessel. The video was provided by the Japanese Institute for Cetacean Research.

Sea Shepherd’s leader, Paul Watson, has labeled the incident a deliberate attack by Japan, but Japan’s whaling institute, which claims the whale hunt is scientific research, blamed the conservation group for what it called “illegal harassment and terrorism.”

I'm guessing the affect has been zero. This is not about saving whales. It's a big power trip for Captain Fatass and a thrill ride for his cabal of hippies.

I'm not taking sides on the whole 'whaling' issue. I can see both perspectives on this. I do believe that if you're serious about stopping whaling you're not going to waste your time acting out pirate fantasies in the antarctic.

BTW, isn't that a multi-million dollar boat? What could possibly be the advantage of that thing over a semi-rigid speedboat? Apparently being on the Discovery channel is allowing these guys to fully realize all their teenage fantasys.

i wonder if you could find something to ride down it on... but the angle is not designed.... to avoid an impact compression..

maybe a huge piece of foam/inflatable..? but you would probably get hurt more when the force transferred through the device... I think you would need.. something with such a large surface area and angled shape... that you would risk taking flight on the way down!

one of those manta ray things people fly on behind speedboats would be really crazy to watch on this thing!! if you made it, you would probably just totally pop it.. but it could lessen the impact... for one person for one ride...



if you insisted on using this 'slide'...starting at a lower height would seem the easiest way to avoid everlasting spine/hip/back trauma.

ooh, what about those crazy huge inflatable balls



but again you would probably do worse at the end if you were unrestrained inside... need to do it with a custom foam layer all around you... i think we may have a solution minus the potential to pop it! that would require a really well made zorb...

so: Kevlar Zorb with Memory Foam Encapsulation Module + Canal + team to remove you before you drown = WIN!

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In case you were wondering why this gun is important and useful, take a look at the targets they used - the main usage for this gun is defensive - the threats it was designed to take out are incoming missiles (2:35) or an incoming explosive laden speedboat (Remember the USS Cole?).
This is called "active defenses" and helps save lives.

Fox: Sadam has the bomb! You're not a true American unless you want to bomb Iraq! Whats that you say? He didn't have the bomb?

Fox: The speedboats have a bomb! You're not a true American unless you want to bomb the speedboats! Whats that you say? He didn't have a bomb?

He promises that he will stop when the bear count reaches 10,000. This morning he told me a little girl on a Sunday tour said she wanted to have collection just like him. He said to her “No you don’t; it’s exhausting.”


My uncle (no deceased) blew smoke rings for a photo. He became Captain Puff. His speedboat became “Puff.” Then he and his family bought ceramic dragons at a pottery place in North Carolina. Their den is now covered with dragon objects all because of a family joke.

Are you fucking kidding me? You don't think that that little fucking speedboat is at fault here? I'm just going to assume that you are joking so I don't have to think so little of you people. How fucking hard is it to see a big ass Coast Guard boat and pull back on the throttle? It's not hard! Conversely the pilot of the Coast Guard boat probably didn't have nearly as good of a view as the completely open view of the speedboat.

But whatever. I'm drunk. You think what you have to think.

Seriously... are we to take from this video that the speedboaters are entirely at fault? Any logical person might have assumed they were looking at the party boat... that's what people at sea do. Fucking idiot coast guard!