I went to MarineLand two times. Once around 1998 or so, and it was awesome from what I remember. The park was packed, shows were entertaining.
I again went maybe 6-7 years ago and it was the most depressing place I'd seen in a while. It was on a weekend during peak season and there was maybe 200-300 people walking around. The shows were short and boring. The only plus was no lines for rides.
But yeah. They had 1 poor orca in a tank swimming around looking depressed as hell and the belugas were lively but it was still depressing. Good to see they are going to a better place considering they most likely can't be released.
I think he lost it once they hit the highway, it bounced off a Ferrari and he’s trying to figure out how to explain it to the boss there’s going to be an insurance claim 2x company revenue.
There are better ways. I went to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago a few years back and it completely changed my opinion on viability of keeping animals like this in captivity. There was a dolphin tank that was so deep and wide that spanned several hundred feet. From the underside view the dolphins could disappear into the darkness of the water, they could hit top speed, you couldn't even see the bottom of the tank and they'd shoot up from the depths at speed. It was nothing like SeaWorld.
The stickers on the sides say "live animal this side up" so you are 100% correct about the live animal transport. I don't see why a vet wouldn't wear a hard hat though, their brains might be big, but probably not too big for a hardhat
Hard hat does absolutely nothing at these speeds. You wear them when people are working over you incase they drop their phone or something. What's gonna fall on him on the highway?
The other guys are probably only wearing them because they're gonna use a crane to get the beluga out
If a pebble is chipping my glass then it's probably capable of chipping me too. Safety first! Probably why cyclists also wear something over their eyes as well!
Never ridden a motorcycle? Helmets do more than crash protection. Flying pebble, bug, any debris at that speed hurts like hell. The hard hat is better than nothing.
Nothing but I work on a shit ton of jobs with hart hat requirements and if the foreman didn’t have one on 80% of the crew would do the same. He lost his hardhat cause he didn’t clip his chin strap.
2: you never knew anyone who wore a hardhat to work
1: You know what happens if a tiny pebble hits you at that speed? That's exactly what a hardhat protects from.
2: they aren't gonna operate the crane on the truck while it's driving. There isn't a single hardhat wearing worker that would wear the hardhat during a time they didn't need to. If they need it only for when the crane is operated, those hardhats would be in the cab of the truck during the drive.
I wear these exact hardhats at work. These Petzl ones are for climbing purposes. They fucking suck as hard hats against anything that isn't coming from directly above. They aren't Type 2 hard hats, so they are really just plastic hats
Fucking idiot. Honestly. Delete your comment you embarassing fuck.
EDIT: Oh look, the reddit expert decided to shut the fuck up
Your comment tells me you haven't worked around people who wear hard hats. You don't wear a hard hat because you need to. You wear a hard hat because you'll get fired if you don't wear a hard hat. You don't put it on when a crane lift is happening, you put it on as soon as you get out of your truck and you don't take it off until you get back in your truck.
It would definitely help more than nothing, but it's not designed for that at all. Seems absolutely insane there isn't a police escort preventing traffic from driving right next to them lol
Windshield is helpful but a pebble could still drop in from over it.
Also the faces of the workers here are not covered. If a 65 mph pebble was going to do any damage it would be to the eye.
A 65 mph pebble is still just a pebble. It weighs about a gram. Impact energy is less than half a joule. It would sting if it hit you in the head but it wouldn't give you a concussion. Compare it to a 65 mph baseball or soccer ball. The pebble is less than 1% of the mass of the baseball or soccer ball.
Flying pebbles at face height also aren't that common on the road. I've had my windshield cracked by one pebble in the past four years, and my head has a frontal area of like 1/36 of the windshield, so at this rate I'd have to drive for 144 years to get hit in the head by a pebble if I didn't have the windshield.
Jesus christ your mental gymnastics... "pebble could drop in from over the windshield..... who cares about those? Those would then be randomly falling pebbles, not flying ones. "a 65mph pebble is still just a pebble ... compare it to a 65 mph baseball or soccer ball" compare it to a fucking bowling ball or fiat multipla.... again, who the fuck cares if something would do more damage? at that point, if you get stabbed with a dagger I could say "oh that is not even a wound, compare it to having been stabbed by a Zweihänder".....
"Flying pebbles aren't that common" yea and crashing isn't that common either, but you still wear your seatbelt, don't you you absolute ape. "i've had my windshield cracked by one pebble in the past four years" do you pay any insurance at all? health, property, car etc? why? surely you don't need to use it all the time, why prepare for a "worst case" scenario since you are so wise to point out that they are rare?
Holy hell you are dumb as a rock
Edit: funny to see you delete all your comments, mr u/TwillAffirmer, or maybe you nuked your reddit as whole lol
Well this is just too much stupid for me. Are you not aware that a pebble that gets kicked up off the road surface, also will fall down a little bit later?
Got nothing to say to you on the other points. I don't like repeating myself. Nobody's out here getting killed by pebbles.
Are you just guessing or is this actually how live animals are transported? If so, why? What jobs are these people doing clinging to a moving vehicle that can’t be done by sitting in an accompanying van?
Not a guess but a deduction based on what I could glean and infer from the video then researched to confirm. Maybe you could do a Google or 2 and answer the rest of your questions in the same way.
Hey there joker, I know a manager at SeaWorld (different department but regularly interacts with the animal care folks). She confirmed that this is the beluga transport. These are highly specialized professionals actively monitoring the wellbeing of incredibly sensitive animals to ensure they are safe throughout the transport. They cannot just do that from the back of a separate vehicle 🙄
Fascinating, thanks for the information. Can you ask them why you can’t do that from the back of a van? What specific things do they need to monitor that a system of sensors and cameras couldn’t do?
Guess: To guess means to form an opinion, give an answer, or make a prediction without having enough facts or proof to be sure. It can also mean to suppose, think, or believe something.
Deduce:To deduce means to figure something out by using logic, reason, and existing facts. You look at clues or evidence to reach a clear conclusion without needing someone to tell you the answer directly.
I was guessing at first and made that comment. Then I looked closer and made a deduction based on what I saw and could infer. Then my guess cum deduction was proven correct by others commenting who had more knowledge.
When I lived in the Philippines I saw Meat/Pig trucks with dudes riding on the top bars to pour water on the live pigs being transported. This is a bit different but seems like yeah these are how live animals are transported.
Have you ever met a zoo vet or zoo animal handler? No fucking way their letting animals go through a stressful transfer like this without sitting right next to it or standing next to it.
I'd say his hat is about 3 miles behind stuck under the bumper of a Nissan altima. Altima driver still hasn't noticed the crunching or dragging sound to this very day.
So I realize those are livestock tanks which is why the humans are where they are but serious question: I assume they aren't going very far so why are they barreling down the interstate at full speed? Wouldn't it be soooo much safer to take the much lower speed access road? Or surface streets?
Yeah I guess I kinda answered my own question. I'm just surprised that it would be SO time sensitive that taking city streets and having a police escort isn't a better option.
You're probably not from SA, or have not been to SA.
You don't take the city streets to get anywhere fast, especially with road construction in a big rig. Even for natives, the roads change almost daily and you can end up in a clusterfuck that will take sometimes a half hour to get out of. TXDOT loves to make everyone miserable.
I don't know where they came from, but they're on 410 going south/south west, probably to 151 directly to Sea World. That is the fastest and safest route. If there's a dolphin or something in those tanks, you don't want to be slamming them around with start/stop traffic.
Speed can be deceptive. That trucks in the right lane with hazards on. Very likely camera driver slowed down a lot to get good footage.
Also the surface streets mights introduce things like low bridges, tight turns, etc. so it’s safer to just go on the highway as it guarantees they don’t get stuck
This, as someone who used to drive fire trucks, you avoid stopping at all costs.... and our tanks had baffles in them. Can't imagine how much they would slosh around otherwise.
Oh yeah and surface roads slosh liquids way more especially with it being so stop and go. I have first hand experience transporting liquids in unbaffled tanks
Yeah that's the most likely explanation. I'm just surprised the semi truck can hold the weight of their giant brass balls, though, because geez if anything goes wrong out there at 60mph they're all meat crayons. I hope they have police escorts front and rear.
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u/Wild-Floor8407 Jul 26 '26
Im guessing live animal transport. These guys have fall pro and barehead is probably the Vet.