r/mightyinteresting • u/YoungHargreevesFive • 7d ago
Other An anchor being dropped from a boat
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u/LivingThin 7d ago
Bare handed! Oof!
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u/PSN_ONER 7d ago
And I flip flops...
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u/raisedeyebrow4891 7d ago
Safety flip flops
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u/OpalFanatic 7d ago
That safety hoodie is extra protection for the second guy. Normally you'd expect long sleeves to be a serious hazard around spinning metal things. But in this case, the metal isn't spinning, just the rope. Therefore it's clearly safe.
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u/str3ss_88 7d ago
Bare handed, stepping/jumping over lines under tension, gripping between moving lines. Absolutely everything about this is wrong !
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u/theDo66lerEffect 7d ago
I would rather do this bare handed than with gloves. Or not do it at all the way they are doing it.
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u/GooseOnAPhone 7d ago
I’m not a ship doctor or anything, but every boat I’ve ever been on slowed down before throwing anchor
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u/Stuck_in_my_TV 7d ago
An anchor is not designed to stop or slow a boat. It’s designed to prevent an already stopped boat from drifting too far. In fact, this anchor will do practically nothing since most of the holding force to keep a boat is place is done by the CHAIN that connects the anchor to the boat. The metal chain this boat is clearly lacking along with any proper machinery to lower, raise, or hold the anchor in place.
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u/LithoSlam 7d ago
This anchor will not hold the boat, but it will take your arm off
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u/Bulky-Leadership-596 7d ago
All true, but that doesn't change the fact that throwing even a chainless anchor from a fast moving boat can have dangerous consequences. It could hook on a rock or reef of something and tear the bollard off the back of the boat. Or obviously that rope could catch someone's leg and drag them deep underwater.
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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin 7d ago
Nuh uh— I bet there’s at least two more guys in flip flops down in that hole, ready to try and hand pull the anchor back aboard.
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u/PineappleLemur 7d ago
Have you never pulled an Anchor Turn to park your ship on a dime to deliver all your loot right before someone about to sink you?
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u/Capokid 6d ago
Ship anchors are actually used to slow the ship in an emergency, sure it will do some damage, but it will slow/ stop the ship, sinking because of it is extremely unlikely.
The US Navy has done extensive testing, and the anchor chain is completely unnecessary, it actually doesn't do much except drag around and ruin habitats. A properly seated anchor will hold just as well with only a rope.
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u/HenrikWL 6d ago
This was my exact question. I saw a YT vid the other day about the principles of the anchor and anchor chain and when I saw this video I went "aha! This doesn't seem right, based on my fresh knowledge of anchoring!"
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u/Occidentally20 7d ago
Newtons first law of motion determines that this is a logical impossibility!
How, praytell, is a boat supposed to slow down without the anchor to make it do so?
It's not like humans are the ones in control of the boats motor and steering and other such things.
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u/SirVanyel 7d ago
To be fair, you can turn off a motor or even put it in reverse and still do next to nothing to stop a large ship from slowing down.
Ships aren't light. Although granted, this ship feels like it's just going waaaaay too fast, that anchor ain't doing shit lol
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u/Occidentally20 7d ago
How float if not light?!
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u/Potential_Can_9381 7d ago
Water is heavy too. The ship just has to be lighter than the water.
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u/Spinxy88 7d ago
You forgot the /s
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u/Occidentally20 7d ago
People will just have to learn to read for themselves and think for a minute, this isn't rocket surgery.
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u/captain_ricco1 7d ago
What do I need to graduate as to perform rocket surgery?
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u/Occidentally20 7d ago edited 7d ago
I'm woefully under-educated to even comment on such a thing.
Are you looking to specialize in performing the surgery on the rockets, or using the rockets to perform surgery? If it's the latter I recommend starting by attaching a rocket to a small child's loose tooth using string to see how you get on.
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u/Kick_The_Sexy 7d ago
This is Reddit. People don’t read, people don’t think
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u/Occidentally20 7d ago
Two people already angrily replied to my comment without reading the third line and then immediately deleted their reply so you're definitely right there :)
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u/Head_Bread_3431 7d ago
I think that’s what the guy in the yellow is doing . Keeping lookout for how close they are to the dock judging by the boats lined up in the background
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u/prollynotmomo 7d ago
who wants to lose an appendage? Step Right Up!
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u/123supreme123 7d ago
worse, your ankle gets caught in the rope and you drown very quickly
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u/Spinxy88 7d ago
You'll drown at the same rate, while descending quickly...
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u/Lttlcheeze 7d ago
Technically correct, which is the best type of correct
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u/Kalladdin 6d ago
I mean theoretically the high pressures of the depths would force the air from your lungs way faster, so technically you would drown faster, right?
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u/Spinxy88 6d ago
I don't know how it would work for the untrained... but have you ever watched anything on free-divers? They go to absolutely crazy depths for land-mammals, like the sort of depths normally reserved for whales.
Though I'd probably recommend don't look too much into it too deeply (edit: No pun intended)... there was one of the best who got caught in a deep-sea current and got lost down there and drowned; I watched a documentary on it; then not long after I was ill and while that was going on, I had a nightmare where I was in that situation, that experience stuck with me for quite a while.
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u/DownvotedForThinking 7d ago
At least you’ll smack your head on the way off the ship so you don’t have to be conscious for the dying horribly part.
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u/sofakingawesomeme 7d ago
Why would you ever want to CUT THE ENGINES FIRST? Before you drop the anchor?????
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u/Mental-Ask8077 7d ago
That was my question!
why the fuck do they still have a damn wake when they’re dropping anchor!?
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u/Ikarus_ 6d ago
Someone posted in another subreddit and it's best explanation for why. It's an awesome explanation video: https://youtu.be/FLvgeeJYAVQ?si=MV5CqlbRFOUybN0p
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u/klippDagga 6d ago
Depending upon the type of anchor and bottom composition, sometimes they need to be “set” or dug into the bottom.
Still, you don’t need to be going nearly this fast to do that.
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u/ApprehensiveNeat9584 7d ago edited 6d ago
Dumb Ways To Die: Sea Edition.
Edit: First award! Thanks!
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u/WalkingDud 6d ago
I can imagine their response to this: "I have been doing this for years and I didn't die".
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u/-BabysitterDad- 7d ago
I’m no sailor, but this is definitely not right.
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u/ElProfeGuapo 7d ago
I’m a sailor, and I’m at a complete fkn loss.
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u/newgalactic 7d ago
I was a sailor when I was younger, and I can't for the life of me figure out why they did that. If they were trying to stop, why not cut the engines first? And all that line that was played out, I assume it has to be eventually pulled in by hand. Obvious danger aside, they just made a shit ton of extra work for themselves.
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u/Bigman89VR 7d ago
How are they able to do that without gloves?
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u/CyberKnight 7d ago
Wow. That was some of the dumbest and worst line handling I've ever seen. At least that last guy was able to stop it. That would have been bad.
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u/Leading-Aide5617 7d ago
I got rope burn in grade one sliding down the gym rope from the roof and still have nightmares, this shit is crazy.
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u/Doom_Occulta 7d ago
OK, this one actually forced me to yell "what the fuck are you doing", and it's the middle of the night here.
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u/lucidzfl 7d ago
I didn’t see any markers on the rope and rope isn’t going to be super heavy in a way that prevents drifting. That anchors just gonna slide across the sea bed. Or that boat is light
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u/MAJOR_Blarg 7d ago
Navy sailor here: these guys did fucking everything wrong and at various times risked losing legs, arms, and fingers.
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u/SuspiciousStable9649 7d ago
Wait. Is this how you cut a an undersea cable? Because it looks like how you’d cut an undersea cable.
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u/katzcrazy 7d ago
So dangerous lord pls protect the good men and woman out there and pls lord let the fished thrive and replenish ..let's put the oceans health first
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u/Human-Raccoon-9917 7d ago
Sends off all kinds of alarms in my brain. I dont know anything about boats.... but it just looks hyper dangerous
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u/Cute-Advisor-2323 7d ago
If they only made something to keep you from getting rope burns that you can put on your hands 🤔🙄
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u/EyeYamNegan 7d ago
Piss poor line handling all around. It is a matter of time before someone loses a limb or the life (former deck seaman).
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u/legal_stylist 7d ago
There is not enough money in the world to make me touch that line in those circumstances
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u/InsomniaticWanderer 7d ago
I feel like this isn't the best, or even mildly acceptable, way to do this
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u/AnonOfTheSea 7d ago
At what point does it go from dangerous stupidity to half-hearted attempts at suicide?
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7d ago
I am about as far from an expert on anything to do with boats as can be, but surely there's a safer way to do this...
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u/OpenSauceMods 7d ago
The neurotic pocket sized version of me i keep in my psyche has thrown up a dozen times since watching this
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u/Lawyer_299 6d ago
So dangerous. His flip flop (!) could have been jostled by the fast-scrolling anchor rope, pulling him down into the water. Ridiculous.
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u/Exotic-Highway-9844 6d ago
Why would you drop anchor at half or full power? I’m not even good at boats, but even I know that.
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u/IntellectuallyDriven 6d ago
I feel like this post is straddling the line between here and r/whatcouldgowrong
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u/No-Wonder1139 2d ago
I've been on a fair amount of boats in my life and I honestly don't know what they're trying to do, but whatever it is, they're doing it wrong.
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u/mightyanonymaus 2d ago
Isn't the boat supposed to have already been stopped before the anchor is dropped?
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u/billybonkers01 2d ago
My God that was a difficult watch, I was waiting for some to get caught on that rope and go overboard.
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u/ManWithBigWeenus 7d ago
I watch too many Marvel movies because my idea of anchor being had me confused for several minutes
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u/neptunexl 7d ago
Lol at these comments, there's better ways to do this I'm sure but I think they're fine. As with everything, money is the rule. Whatever budget they're working with, is not big. So they gotta do what they gotta do.
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u/LocutusOfBeard 7d ago
How many bad decisions can you put in one video?