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re: Kayak fisherman run over by 182 ton Navy hovercraft

Posted on 5/5/15 at 10:40 am to
Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
169988 posts
Posted on 5/5/15 at 10:40 am to
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to point at the big noisy thing bearing down on you?


yeah cause that big boat at 35 miles an hour can stop on a dime when it realized at 30 yards it was gonna roll him
Posted by Bleeding purple
Athens, Texas
Member since Sep 2007
25321 posts
Posted on 5/5/15 at 10:42 am to
I would assume the glow of 1000 lumens and the noise of that massive thing would both reach beyond 30 yards.
Posted by BoogaBear
Member since Jul 2013
5944 posts
Posted on 5/5/15 at 12:36 pm to
I keep looking at the picture and the hover skirt and imagine it feeling like getting demolished by this.

Posted by BoatSchoolTiger
Houston, TX
Member since May 2013
659 posts
Posted on 5/5/15 at 4:25 pm to
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35 miles an hour can stop on a dime


Actually a hover craft can stop with the quickness. Increase resistance is it's brakes.



I am very curious as to if the Navy put out messages saying conducting amphibious testing in the vicinity of... This is normally protocol, so did this fisherman take his trip at his own risk?

I have seen fishermen ignore safety squawks while doing weapons tests in the Atlantic.
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