This is why i love the internet

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmyUb_Ohu0A/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1xmrtj9m8pgi7

[B_S]

Drinkings's bad for you, mmmkay?

[Weappa]

You could get flat chested taking those poundings.

[MISkier]

Many things wrong there.

 

Knees not together.

Drinking.

No life jacket or barefoot suit.

Not all that calm.

Boat seems to be going faster than necessary.

 

I’d even be surprised if that bikini top stayed on through that fall.

 

Ah, youth.

 

[DaveD]

A good candidate for the Darwin Awards.

[B_S]

Hey @Horton why do you dislike South Park references?

[MNshortliner]

I bet she was black and blue all over

[h2onhk]

party foul

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmrsbu8AdjN/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=rlxazy04623l

[ski6jones]

You could see that coming a mile away!

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BndxUkDggJZ/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=5glop45to6sg

[j2nh]

Holy crap did he hit something?

[DavidN]

Looks like a roller.

That must have hurt! :#

[Andre]

Pre release ?

In any case,ouch!

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjoqygA2rH/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=n3gxqpurqfbg

[fu_man]

No fin?

[RichardDoane]

https://www.facebook.com/young.barry.7/videos/10156842336762262/

[j2nh]

What the heck happened? Catch a cable? That is insane!

[BraceMaker]

Something is off from the beginning there, driver is all over then wham.. maybe a rope trailing? Bouy should tear away and the cable should be deeper.

[MarkSAU]

@RichardDoane not showing my wife that one, she will be too scared to take me through the course again... wow!

[Killer]

Wild. From the comments they say the course is undamaged and it's an anchored course, not cable. Just a buoy cut.

 

My guess is the inexperienced driver felt the buoy snag and chopped the throttle into reverse.

[MISkier]

@RichardDoane, what is the backstory on that? Did the steering cable break in the boat or was it just horrid driving? Was the submarining the result of the snag or something else? Any injuries? Looked quite violent.

[swc5150]

It looks like the driver slammed it in reverse. A couple local buddies did that in an MC when I was a kid, with the same result...submarined the thing. @j2nh you must remember when Gary and Steve did that in the windshield-less '84 Gary had? Water up to the gunwales!

[BraceMaker]

@swc5150 - do you think you'd do that with a skier in tow? I'm usually cruise engaged well before that and focused on boat path.

 

I'm still thinking there was maybe a rope dragging from the bow, drivers off on the LT boat guide line and starts turning back in and wraps it in the shaft. WHAM.

 

 

[swc5150]

@BraceMaker you very well could be right? The driver looked pretty confused, so a reverse slam was my first thought. Being that the driver didn't bank his face off the windshield, it seems like a he may have braced for a planned maneuver? Would love to hear his story.

[sunvalleylaw]

Huh. Looks like that big tower is making it hard to drive straight. ;-)

[Horton]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BnlfykuHHd7/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=byfhasgx5nk5

[Tom351]

reminds me of this one: (I think I first saw this here at BOS...years ago)

[swc5150]

Looking at in slow-mo, the spray under the port side of the bow/hull makes me think it's related to the cause. Almost like something is already attached and dragging? I change my vote that he hit reverse.

[ToddF]

does anyone know what actually happened?

It looks like the skier knew something was up, as they let go of the rope

[Bruce_Butterfield]

That stop was waay too abrupt to be caused by slamming in reverse. It had to be the prop catching on the anchor line as the stop was immediate and the boat stayed right at the anchor point even after it bobbed back up. I wonder if they use screw anchors and steel cables to tie the buoys on.

[Wish]

@Bruce_Butterfield seems if that was the case, the front would not have dove that much. Especially being pulled from the back of the boat and in a down angle direction. There's gotta be more to this story.

[Lars]

@Horton beat me to it! that video was going around the office this morning. Almost is worthy of it's own thread...

[skier2788]

From what I have heard which is third hand so who knows how accurate. No injuries some boat damage. Anchor and anchor line still in place only shock cord and boat guide ruined.

[Not_The_Pug]

I got info from one of the members at Broadside Harbor. The boat is in the shop trying to figure out what happened. No damage to the course other then the guide buoy. Line that was hit is 1/4' poly so that wouldn't stop the boat. There is speculation that the motor may have seized up (or is the issue from taking all that water). But they won't know until the shop gets the diagnosis.

[j2nh]

swc5150, I do remember when they buried it. A couple of clowns.

 

Got your Prostar broken in yet? 130 hours so far on mine.

 

After watching it a couple of times I am pretty sure he was dragging an anchor from the bow port cleat. Assuming he was a competent driver you could see how much he was struggling to keep the boat lined up, anchor hooked on something and bam. They were super lucky that the boat didn't roll.

[swc5150]

Only 27 hours it Jim. Lowest hour 2015 PS on the planet I'd venture to guess (sadly). Still looks brand new though!

[sunvalleylaw]

I do really honestly feel bad for that driver. I hope it was not a spouse, or if it was, the person was not traumatized beyond ever driving again for the other spouse or family member.

[UWSkier]

Man, that thing stopped faster than an F-18 catching an arresting cable.

[Horton]

so the crazy crash from Broadside was a motor blowing up. Believe it or not it did not hit anything on the lake.

[keithh2oskier]

@Horton What kind of boat?

[Bill22]

It’s hard to believe that could be caused by a engine locking up. Even if the prop stops instantly, I would never in my wildest dream, thought a DD would do that. Very odd..

[Wish]

Wow!

 

Would a motor blowing up possibly send it into reverse?? Seems if the motor blew and the prop just stops turning, the boat would just glide along coming to a stop. It looks an awful lot like the vid of the MC submerging.

[Tom351]

Also, the motor blowing up or seizing does not explain the boat path before the dive- unless there were such crazy sounds coming from the engine that the driver was looking elsewhere.

[bhs]

I shared this video with a friend who used to be involved in boat racing and his response was, it looks like the motor seized. He said that is exactly what a race boat does when a motor seizes and the prop stops abruptly. Still... that was some bad driving and my guess would have been they ran over buoys/cables and that is what caused the accident.

[Bruce_Butterfield]

@ Horton a rather odd coincidence that the motor blows up at the exact point where the prop runs over the buoy anchor line. I don’t buy it.

 

“Maybe” if the anchor line wrapped around the shaft tight enough to stop the shaft turning I could see that “blowing” the engine.

 

Even if the prop froze instantaneously, I have a hard time believing it could stop the boat that quickly.

[bishop8950]

Wedge malfunction?

[Mateo_Vargas]

I did the ole MC submarine in a 197. Skier popped the handle and put a loop of rope over my head. I put the boat in neutral to get my arms up between the rope and my neck before it strangled me. The rope got all the way in front of the throttle and when it tightened it put the boat in full reverse. The sudden change in speed put the nose under water and about a foot of water came over the windshield. An air pocket in the motor box protected the engine and the boat was running a day later after drying out.

 

Use those shock tubes!

[Horton]

The engine threw a rod and the engine stopped. The course does not have any cables and there was no marks on any of the underwater brass. As weird as it seems this was just the propeller stopping.

 

@Bruce_Butterfield dude after all these years you must know if I didn't have good information I wouldn't state that I actually knew what happened.

[Andre]

Bad driving can blow an engine? :smiley: