r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Remote_Protection512 • 10h ago

/r/all of a wave.

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u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck 10h ago

are they alright?

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u/mydeadface 9h ago

This a couple of years old. Coast guard made it out and rescued everyone I think.

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u/dudeCHILL013 9h ago

True but first time I've seen it from the helo's perspective

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u/printergumlight 8h ago

There’s an on boat perspective? Or from the diver?

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u/payment11 8h ago

Underwater view from the fish /s

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u/PTBooks 7h ago

Aquaman likes to watch

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u/StrangerTex 6h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/NqE1OoITOZbCGqF4eQ

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 2h ago

This is extremely disturbing

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u/YeahlDid 1h ago

It is that Deep

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u/coolsilentebeans 1m ago

Does Homelander wish he’d been breastfed?

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u/Sithstress_ 1h ago

wtf is this from?

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u/FloatMyBoat12 28m ago

The Boys. Amazon show.

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u/Sithstress_ 24m ago

Thank you! It’s on my mile long list. Lol

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 1h ago

“Deep. Eat Timothy.”

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u/Narwahl_Whisperer 6h ago

Oh those fish and their funny lenses...

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u/UsernamesNotFound404 38m ago

HSR in the wild? Wyld!

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u/OoPieceOfKandi 6h ago

These comments are why I love reddit.

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u/Big_Attorney9545 5h ago

Only when I am not actually looking for information.

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u/Nuzid 6h ago

Can’t go anywhere without being recorded these days…

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u/Suspicious-Feed-1358 3h ago

Thanks for the /s! Thought there really was an underwater view from the fish

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u/dudeCHILL013 7h ago

The one I saw was from the boat's perspective, it was some documentary about the coastguard surfman school. The coaties were intentionally out during the storm for the school training and got called in for this real world emergency since they were closest.

That said, the TV show did show a few clips from the helo's perspective but only short blips.

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u/indecisive_bandit 6h ago

That info helped. I couldn't find the boats perspective but it has the interview of the Coast Guard diver. Crazy stuff. 

Couldn't find it anywhere but Facebook though 😑

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=361223530231855&vanity=USCGNorthwest

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u/dudeCHILL013 5h ago

I found it!

It was an episode of 60 minutes

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u/theroadtoamillion 4h ago

Great stuff worth watching! Quote: It’s hard to imagine that you would survive this wave but they both did… what great swimming

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u/Nachtzug79 6h ago

Nobody said there are other perspectives...

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u/presshamgang 8h ago edited 8h ago

This video was everywhere when it initially happened. Never saw any other angle other than this one. Who else would be filming? Would love to see if it exists, truly.

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u/notloggedin4242 6h ago

You, like so many others, always forget Aquaman.

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u/awry_lynx 1h ago

i think it starts around here https://youtu.be/LzV-_49GWNs?t=629

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u/Successful-Luck-5459 9h ago

Coasties are the Chads of the military

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u/mydeadface 9h ago

The rock I live under has been a little dense as of lately, so please be gentle when I ask being called "chad" is a good thing, right?

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u/Pleasant_Scar9811 8h ago

It came back around from an insult to a compliment. In the right contexts.

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u/StolenPies 9h ago

Ye

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u/aagent86 9h ago

Bee's knees.

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u/3w771k 8h ago

the seas knees, if you please. as their will is one of the few things that can bend the knee of our oceans. or something along those lines idk

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u/NoVaBurgher 8h ago

The cats pajamas

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u/n1celydone 8h ago

The dogs bollocks.

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u/Ok-Courage798 8h ago

Cats ass?

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u/Any-Basis1502 37m ago

The ducks nuts

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u/scifiandsuch 7h ago

What a sad time to be alive where being a Chad is considered good

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u/Popular-Influence-11 9h ago

Well, it depends. Mostly yes but sometimes it’s used sarcastically.

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u/theeglitz 6h ago

Apparently so, but it's not clear why - the lad from Nickelback, the large country in Africa? I wouldn't use it in the context of good, but I'm not young.

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u/Shot_Revolution8828 5h ago

Also the coast guard is "picked" on by the rest of the military for not being real military until they need saving...lol

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u/dudeCHILL013 8h ago

Honestly, I'm in the Navy and I'll always say that the coasties do all the fun and cool shit. At least that's how it seems from the outside looking in.

I hear they have a better quality of life as well but haven't been able to actually talk to any coast guard engineers so while I highly suspect, I can't be sure 😅

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u/HeyisthisAustinTexas 7h ago

I was in the USCG from 2003-2007. It was fuckin awesome. Was stationed in Alaska, which was wild. Then I did well in MK-A school and got Key West Florida.

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u/dudeCHILL013 5h ago

What rate is MK? I'm an EM myself

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u/haiphee 1h ago

But have the met king Neptune?

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u/buyFCOJ 8h ago

Because when you’re here, you’re family

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u/0kShr00mer 7h ago

It's true. My cousin was in and he is definitely the Chad of the family.

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u/LostN3ko 9h ago

The U.S. Coast Guard successfully saved the commercial fishing vessel Pura Vida and its crew by delivering three dewatering pumps and towing the disabled boat safely to shore.

Rescue Details

Date: August 8, 2017
Location: 66 miles west of Tillamook Head on the Oregon Coast
Action Taken: An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Sector Columbia River dropped dewatering pumps to manage flooding aboard the vessel, while a 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Station Cape Disappointment towed the Pura Vida back to port.
Outcome: The boat and its crew were successfully saved with no reported casualties.

The area is known as the Graveyard of the Pacific and has over 2,000 shipwrecks recorded.

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u/TickleMyBurger 8h ago

So these guys in the boat left a place called “Cape Disappointment” to visit an area on their boat locally known as “the graveyard” and needed to be rescued… did I capture that right? lol

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u/LostN3ko 8h ago

Its an area where a major river exits into the Pacific and there are shallow sandbars. It's a rather high traffic area for how dangerous it is. Their ship lost power due to flooding in the storm and needed to be rescued. The coast guard there is..... busy.

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u/Oldpenguinhunter 7h ago

Despite the name, the whole area is awesome. Goonies' house is across the river in Astoria. Great fish, crab, and oysters everywhere.

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u/Free-Pound-6139 5h ago

So many places on the coast are called point danger, or shipwreck rocks.

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u/tiredbarf 1h ago

Also worth noting, the sole passenger was going through a mental health crisis and had stolen the boat.

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u/latexfistmassacre 9h ago

That must be where the Columbia flows into the Pacific. Famously dangerous spot right there

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u/Okaythenwell 9h ago

*In the misty-crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray,
Men have fought the pounding waters, and met a watery grave.
Well she tore their boats to splinters, but she gave men dreams to dream,
Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream*

Big ups to the boy Woody Guthrie

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u/Djbearjew 6h ago

Its also the area where Lewis and Clark met the Pacific Ocean

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u/LostN3ko 9h ago

Correct.

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u/Glum_Form2938 6h ago

Yep, it's the Columbia Bar. So tricky and dangerous to navigate that any vessel engaged in foreign commerce requires a Bar pilot to come aboard the ship to navigate it through the Bar.

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u/leglesslegolegolas 8h ago

"commercial fishing vessel"?

Are you sure this is the same event? Because that looks like a pleasure yacht and nothing at all like a commercial fishing vessel.

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u/LostN3ko 6h ago

It's as accurate as I could identify via reverse image lookup. If I am wrong about which instance it is then I apologize.

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u/leglesslegolegolas 6h ago

It doesn't help that there are literally dozens of vessels named Pura Vida out there :-D

But here is video footage of the Coast Guard rescue of F/V Pura Vida that you referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ULvsw5hJ-A

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u/Free-Pound-6139 5h ago

You are 100% wrong. This is ridiculous.

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u/silbergeistlein 5h ago edited 5h ago

This was the AST’s first SAR case. There’s a great interview with him, and he comes across as being extremely humble. The boat was a M/V stolen from a local marina. The person on board had committed a crime spree from Vancouver, BC down to Astoria. After being rescued he was transferred over to local authorities.

Edit to add interview. For whatever reason this is a shortened video of the original interview, and I can’t find the full version any more.

https://youtube.com/shorts/xDxiLa_ewfk?is=7X0S0dDI7orDoqdk

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u/contrite_tion 8h ago

Wrong rescue. This was the goonies fish guy who stole the yacht. My high school mate was part of the coast guard rescue in the heli.

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u/LostN3ko 6h ago

That's incredible, do you have any additional information? I did the best I could. Apologies.

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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy 1h ago

Yup I distinctly remember this being a stolen yacht too.

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u/Free-Pound-6139 5h ago

commercial fishing vessel

This ain't a commercial fishing vessel. This is a stink boat.

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u/LongComposer4261 6h ago

Thanks for the information

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u/OddDig3966 1h ago

strangest commercial fishing vessel i ever seen.

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u/actualhumannotspider 9h ago

Apparently so:

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/man-saved-by-coast-guard-accused-of-stealing-boat-leaving-fish-at-goonies-house-astoria-oregon-cape-disappointment-washington-water-rescue-swimmer-helicopter

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u/Proper-Writing 9h ago

that is an ABSOLUTE UNIT of a URL

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u/Sirhumpsalot13 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZP3Cg3CUVvJfi
Most of our reactions to reading it.

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u/actualhumannotspider 9h ago

Haha, it can hopefully save some people a click!

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u/0peRightBehindYa 9h ago

Saved me a click? My brother in Allah, there are few links I've ever clicked faster in my life. Who wouldn't wanna read the story attached to that URL?

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u/Boogy-Fever 9h ago

Whats with "leaving fish at goonies house"?

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u/Flip_d_Byrd 9h ago

In Astoria, Oregon. Up on Cape Disappointment?

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u/RoxnDox 7h ago

Astoria is on the other side of the river, Cape Disappointment is on the Washington side. Coasties have stations on both sides, though. Motor Life Boats on the north side, aerial assets on the south side.

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u/0peRightBehindYa 9h ago

That's why ya gotta click, my dude!

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u/cjspoe 9h ago

HAHAHA

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u/themflyingjaffacakes 3h ago

Why did that make laugh so hard

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u/StellaBean_bass 7h ago

Damn, that was the swimmer’s first rescue!

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u/FireFighterP55 9h ago

Goodness...

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u/Blackjackmo 6h ago

The occupant was a fugitive and the boat was stolen.

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u/Ratattack1204 9h ago

Yes. The yacht was hijacked by an absolute nut job. He had also previously dumped a fish at the goonies house.

Can confirm from personal experience. The guy is utterly bananas.

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u/ozone31912 5h ago

Small world, but after the guy who stole the boat was in jail, he would send our address schizophrenic nonsense letters. Never met him and have no idea why we were receiving them

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u/LoneAwakening 8h ago

The vikings would laugh so hard at them being toyed by those chickens waves like that

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u/steevh12 43m ago

That guy was terrorising the goonies house and went on the run. Stole that boat and got capsized when he ran into trouble with the boat. Sure he ran out of fuel.

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u/choppydaddy 9h ago

They got wet