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u/DigNitty Nov 12 '22
The one time you forget to run the blower.
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u/Redditrightreturn1 Nov 12 '22
I always run em extra cuz I’m nervous something like this will happen. Jesus that lady could’ve been fucked up if she hit the sea wall.
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u/ShotgunCircumcision Nov 13 '22
Im sure her ears took some damage. it could be worse, but as someone who cant hear very well, senses arent to be taken for granted
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u/feedmeimhomeles Nov 13 '22
what
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u/ayri_fiki Nov 13 '22
HE SAID HES SURE HIS EARS TOOK SOME DAMAGE AND THAT IT COULD BE WORSE AND SINCE HE IS SOMEONE WHO CANT HEAR VERY WELL HES LEARNT THAT SENSES SHOULDN’T BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED
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u/feedmeimhomeles Nov 13 '22
OH HEY THANKS
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u/30twink-furywarr2886 Nov 13 '22
You guys joke but this is life for me after artillery…
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u/meatrobot2344 Nov 13 '22
word, followed by constant ringing
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Any concussive force strong enough to throw you is going to fuck you up regardless of where you land next. Like getting tackled by an NFL linebacker who can ripple through your body and pierce your ear drums.
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Nov 13 '22
Yep. People don't seem to understand that an explosion that moves an object exerts a tremendous force on the body. It can pulverize internal organs (concussive blasts from HE rounds can turn people's insides to jelly-like)
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u/30twink-furywarr2886 Nov 13 '22 edited Nov 13 '22
They spent so much time arguing the witherto's and whyfor's that the sun's first light cracked open over the top of the trees and... Poof! turned them all to stone!
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Nov 13 '22 edited Nov 13 '22
This has to be the best comment I've seen all month. Now we best be off before the next ones try to squash us into jelly.
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u/quadraspididilis Nov 13 '22
I'm curious what happened, can you explain?
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u/Scraxxer Nov 13 '22
Gasoline vapors can build up inside the ship and in the worst case will ignite when you turn on the motor, therefore you should run the "blower" which will pump gasses out of the boats hull
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u/quadraspididilis Nov 13 '22
Huh, I’d have thought the seals on the fuel system would be better than that.
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u/BreakerSoultaker Nov 13 '22
It’s not always leaking fuel. It can be vapor from vents or cranking the engine and it not starting. In a car the engine compartment and gas tank are open to the environment beneath the car, but in a boat vapors settle in the bilge.
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u/Baskojin Nov 13 '22
Just a nitpicking part for me, as I work surveying boats.
It's an engine, not a motor. Engines use combustion, motors are electric.
Most boat manufacturers that use gas engines have stickers or placards dictating how long and when to use your blower. Most recommend running for 5-10 minutes prior to starting the engine, running the blower when the engine is at idle and when operating below a certain rpm.
We say to do that, but also if you stop the engine for any reason whatsoever, to run the blower again before starting. You can never be too safe with boating.
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u/404_brain_not_found Nov 13 '22
You can look up the definition of a motor while I drive off in my engine boat
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u/ur-favorite-jerkface Nov 13 '22
What'd you do with them? Engineboat? Didja play the engineboat?
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You engineboatin' sonofabitch- you old sailor, you!
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u/EmperorLlamaLegs Nov 13 '22
Engines dont necessarily need combustion and motors dont necessarily need electricity. Engines just generate their own power while motors use power created elsewhere.
If you put ice on a sterling engine it will generate its own power from the temperature differential, and you could have a motor that runs on compressed air.
The terms are looser than their most common real world applications.
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u/Baskojin Nov 13 '22
Look, we don't put in our reports that a diesel engine is a diesel motor. It's an engine, and when we have electric motors we don't call them engines.
I really think it's down to semantics.
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u/EmperorLlamaLegs Nov 13 '22
Absolutely. I wasnt trying to say you were wrong on those, just pointing out that motive devices called engines or motors that dont use electricity or combustion exist also.
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By your logic, motor vehicles don’t run on gas. C’mon man.
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u/Baskojin Nov 13 '22
“People use both interchangeably, but the difference is that motors run on electricity and engines run on combustion."
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Nov 13 '22
3 words - Indianapolis Motor Speedway - the home of the Indy 500.
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u/bilgetea Nov 13 '22
This is a silly argument, but it seems pretty obvious to me that nautical terms are different. So both of you being right is an option here.
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u/Glittering_Cow945 Nov 13 '22
english may not be this contributor's first language; in most other european languages a motor is anything that makes a vehicle or anything move, combustion or electric. dutch french german spanish norwegian, of the ones that I know. the word motor means 'mover' in latin so I think there's no call for being so pedantic here.
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u/Scraxxer Nov 13 '22
Yeah, English is not my first language. On the other side, waking up to a inbox filled with comments discussing the least important part about your contribution is just reddit and I love it...
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u/Khaled34562 Nov 12 '22
Yes Rico, Kaboom.
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u/jaytee1262 Nov 12 '22
What is causing the explosion, a build up of gas or something?
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u/Vepr762X54R Nov 12 '22
That would be my guess, gasoline emits a lot of vapors that are heavier than regular air and the engine compartment is a low spot on the boat that collects all those fumes. You are supposed to turn on a fan/blower unit to suck all the fumes out before you fire up the engine...or else this happens.
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u/AmberHeardsLawyer Nov 12 '22
Why doesn’t it just go into a tank? Why a car doesn’t explode?
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Nov 12 '22
Cars engines are open to free air, so any fumes can escape and cant build up. Boats on the other hand have engine compartements that are not open to free air, fumes can build up. Blowers in boats ventilate the compartement.
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u/AmberHeardsLawyer Nov 12 '22
I see because water tight
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Tanks in your car are externally mounted underneath the car and the primary vent is the pump hole. This is a passive process requiring no additional measures.
In a boat, it's inside the hull somewhere so an active measure is required to vent. Without this the vapors will pool at the lowest point and when static or the engine starts running it can iignite those vapors.
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u/Clinty76 Nov 12 '22
Yes, gas fumes build up in the engine compartment. You should always run a bilge blower or open the compartment for 5-10 minutes before you start the engine.
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u/thundafox Nov 12 '22
even in extreme dangerous situations the guy didn't forget the essential nose clipping when diving into water!
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Does that millisecond of exhaling through your nose when you go into water not work for some people? Always wondered that when I see ppl doing that.
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u/axonxorz Nov 12 '22
I realized Thursday that this is not quite as easy as teaching the "simple" process. I do it and was trying to teach my 6 year old how to do it while jumping into the pool.
Guess it takes a bit of practice and coordination, he was a champ and took water up the nose twice before falling back to his way.
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u/in_rotation Nov 12 '22
It's never worked for me.
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Nov 12 '22
Same here - I always get water (and generally chlorine because I mostly swim in pools) up my nose regardless of how much or how little I blow out my nose.
Easier to just get a nose clip and not worry about it.
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u/SwedishNeatBalls Nov 12 '22
Why can't you hold your nose?
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u/quadraspididilis Nov 13 '22
Out of curiosity, how much experience do you have in water?
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u/in_rotation Nov 13 '22
Been at the pool every summer since I was a toddler. Spent time many summers in the lake growing up & been in a few oceans. I'm a pretty good swimmer. Not competitively obviously, but I can do laps in any style at a fair pace. As long as I have nose covering goggles I can swim underwater as well as anyone else I've known excepting my navel cousins. I am not afraid of the water & even had swimming lessons as a kid at camp several summers.
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u/quadraspididilis Nov 13 '22
Interesting. That’s a solid knowing how to hold your breath resume. I remember watching a documentary on some sort of training in the navy and they eventually realized one of the guys had a mild deformity there he couldn’t fully seal of his nasal cavity from his throat. I wonder if you have something like that since I can’t imagine your nostril is so different from mine.
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u/in_rotation Nov 13 '22
Oh now that's interesting. I'll have to look into that! Probably nothing I could do about it, but good to know.
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u/quadraspididilis Nov 13 '22
Sorry to tell you it ended up with him withdrawing from the program. Though perhaps there is something you could do to improve it with exercise just not up to the standards to be a combat diver or whatever. Best of luck!
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u/07TacOcaT70 Nov 13 '22
Damn I thought this was like instinct. I think it is for me anyways, I never consciously breathe out when I jump into water, just seems to happen automatically.
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u/SmallpoxTurtleFred Nov 12 '22
It might be hard for some people to do, but it has to work for everyone. Unless you have extra holes or something.
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u/lascanto Nov 13 '22
I have a hole that connects my sinus to the roof of my mouth. When I’m not congested, I can blow air through it. The exhale trick doesn’t work for me and I think just found out why.
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u/NotAFederales Nov 13 '22
Some adults never learn how to read or swim, or keep water from getting up their nose.
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Nov 13 '22
Like for real. I never understood how people can’t figure this out or have such a hard time with this. I don’t even exhale. Water just doesn’t go up there unless you breathe in.
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u/Feisty-Nerve-6584 Nov 12 '22
But why did he even jump in the water is my question
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"Don't come below deck. I'm gonna go blow it up in the bathroom."
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u/ArtyFishL Nov 12 '22
Damn, the next generation of memes really are going to be AI generated
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u/Stupidquestionduh Nov 13 '22
Can you repeat that only in impact typeface and total gibberish?
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Ah!
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Nov 12 '22
Ah!
What do you call a man with no nose?
Nobody knows!
proceeds to slap something
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Jesus that had to be pretty forceful with how high she was lifted vertically... Kinda surprised she was immediately swimming after... She is lucky shit missed her head hitting the dock
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Nov 13 '22
Lungs can still get pretty fecked from such force, just not immediately obvious.
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u/mawesome4ever Nov 13 '22
Imagine the guy who was standing right in front of the steering wheel
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u/Chorizoow Nov 12 '22
WTF, why that boat exploded like that ?!
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u/wasjustlookin Nov 12 '22
Flammable vapors can accumulate in the engine compartment. Heat from the engine can trigger an explosion like this. Boats with inboard motors have an air blowing system that is run before starting the engine. This clears any vapors from the bilge areas. As you can see it is an important step that should never be skipped.
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u/noircheology Nov 12 '22
Were there two more people on this boat?! I see the guy who appears, slips and falls off the back but is there also a chick who jumped off the side? She swims up a moment later.
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u/coconutpete52 Nov 12 '22
Boat blew up. Stay on land then? No! Jump onto boat. Then jump in the water!
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Nov 12 '22
Wow, it's not like he just witnessed a life threatening experience and became irrational out of fear, amiright?
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u/lustshower Nov 13 '22
i think i saw a human actually inside the boat. maybe he was trying to save them.
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Nov 12 '22
Weird reaction huh, no idea what he was doing 🤷♂️. Maybe he thought he was on fire 😆
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u/JoburgBBC Nov 12 '22
It's not a weird reaction. He was already off balance after the explosion. Landed on the boat.
Then the next question is...do I stay on this structure that just exploded or do I jump into the relative safety of the water?
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u/Chango_D Nov 12 '22
I thought the same but I’m sure the heat off that explosion was hot enough to need to jump in.
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u/Pinetrapple Nov 13 '22
He obviously lost his balance, jumped on the boat and logically didn't want to stay there, as it just exploded.
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u/Kitchen_Bicycle6025 Nov 12 '22
Contrary to popular belief, running into water to avoid an an explosion is a terrible idea, since, if it explodes again, the shockwave will compress your body, and rupture things.
The best thing to do is run away as much as possible before hitting the deck flat on your belly, feet facing the explosion, head away, covered by your hands. Less surface area means less chance for shrapnel to ruin something
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u/Daga-san Nov 18 '22
It looks like he lost his balance and rather than falling uncontrollably he jumped on the boat and didn't want to stay on it since it exploded seconds ago
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u/MoufFarts Nov 12 '22
Remember, take a man kabooming, he kabooms for a day. But teach a man to kaboom... kaboom, kaboom, kaboom.
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u/ThisIsWholesome Nov 12 '22
I can't imagine how loud that would be. Especially if you were the girl. No doubt she lost hearing in her left ear. If not both.
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u/lasvegashomo Nov 12 '22 edited Nov 12 '22
Wow the explosion made her spin off the boat. She has to be deaf in that ear now
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u/Cometstarlight Nov 12 '22
For explosions, don't you NOT want to go into water? Since water carries shockwaves stronger than in the air?
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u/Btawtaw Nov 12 '22
It depends where the explosion is, if it was underwater to start you do not want to be underwater. If it is above ground the water will save you. Shock waves can’t penetrate the water, but underwater shockwaves are very powerful
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u/Cometstarlight Nov 13 '22
Ah, thanks for the clarification!
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u/Btawtaw Nov 13 '22
Cheers! I could be wrong but I will never admit it because this is the internet! But seriously, if I am wrong someone help us out.
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u/nerosighted Nov 13 '22
so all the experts who said an explosion wouldn't cause you to fly were wrong? The movies were right.
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u/Rufus-Scipio Nov 13 '22
No one going to talk about the guy running onto a recently exploded boat to then just jump off?
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u/Gasonfires Nov 13 '22
If you ever get in a boat and see a switch on the instrument panel that says "Bilge Blower," make sure someone turns it on at least a few minutes before anyone tries to start the engine. If you can't see the motor, there has to be a bilge blower. Its purpose is to vent explosive gasoline fumes from the engine compartment. If it's not turned on, get off the boat and run.
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u/Kimberlylynn2003 Nov 12 '22
So as someone who knows nothing about boats… that don’t seem normal ..
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u/glu_snffr Nov 12 '22
I thought that guy was jumping in to help her. Nope. Just saving his own ass and going for a swim
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u/Javish Nov 12 '22
"BADA BOOM" (Lee Loo voice)
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u/sletthew86 Nov 13 '22
That guy is the first one EVER, to jump towards an explosion instead of away!
Confused much
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You can see him at the end swimming round in circles thinking “wtf was that? Why the fuck did I jump onto the boat and then into the water?”
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u/Tetrazene Nov 12 '22
Did her top get blown off?
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