As a retired Coast Guardsman, I have seen plenty of bogus Mayday calls to try and get a free tow. This looks like one of them. Calling Mayday on the radio is what brought out all the first responders. I agree with the comments that he should get a hefty bill plus a fine.
@@BOATSNAPS he first responders ALL responded VERY fast to the EXACT LOCATION! What I found AMAZINg was the PROLINE boat was next to the walking reef with people on it fishing, the boat people if NEEDED could have swimmed right over! Watch when the Miami Dade fire boat goes out the CAMERA captures how close they are to the shore line LOL! The boat captain might be inexperienced as he did not have life jackets onboard (which is just ridiculous and a FINE! As a safety precaution I always have double the amount of life jackets, two, over baord roped to baot circles in red and two yellow unroped over boat circles flotation devices, quad triple GPS radios, phone, cell hone long range booster, AES radio, triple exterior night lighting, and TWO oversized automatic emergency life rafts carrying two AES portable radios each, enough food and water for one month for four people and a water proof IPAD along with heated electric 9 volt sheets,coats survival equipment, emergency floating beacon with lights!
No life jackets on board? What the hell. My dad carried almost double required number plus throwable cushions ropes flares, and radio. Before GPS and cell phones
In the ocean , and can't swim, with no life preservers, if he did drown it would be no ones fault but his own stupid self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets defund the police boats!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Do you have your insurance?” question helps the first responders to appropriately call either Sea Tow or BoatUS for the tow. If the boat happens to have one, that would be the preferred one.
Yet another example of a boater who doesn’t know what they’re doing freaking out over something minor. Hell, in that situation, he could’ve just called TowBoatUs, Sea Tow, or if he wanted a free tow, he could just hail the local harbor master or police/fire dept, instead of calling a mayday which got a MH-65 launched, 2 police boats diverted, a fire boat launched, and another few vessels to come.
I've seen loads of Haulover Inlet videos and the common factor is that everyone who goes out no one wears a life vest or crew-saver! So they look pretty cool, but from someone who knows, if you get swept over the side and hit your head on the way, its very difficult to swim when you are unconscious - so wear a life vest it will do exactly what its designed for - SAVE YOUR LIFE
wow... that boat did not look like it was "sinking"... maybe some minor water inside, and the two on the boats would not be drowning ... 2 police boats, 2 fire/rescue boats, 1 CG helicopter and a tow boat.... damn, I though a coast guard cutter was going to show up any minute! lol when the boat was being towed, didnt look like it had taken much water at all.... shame. Amazing response from first responders, thanks to all of them
all Emergencies are a matter of perception for each individual. The core tenet of first responding is ‘better safe than sorry’ it’s worth sending all resources in order to avoid a tragedy. Happy endings are always preferred.
Regardless of the lack of general boating skills and knowledge of the (sinking) boat operator, its a great response from all agencies and a fast one at that. While people complain about the number of assets on scene, what you have to realize is that you need to have as much coming as possible on the initial callout. You can always turn them around if they are not needed. If this went from taking on water to a fast sinking boat with victims in the water, quick search and rescue is imperative. What has always bothered me though is how some agencies respond a vessel with only 1 person on board.
The response of authorities was outstanding, some thing like that happened to me, I had to jump on a local fishermen’s boat, tu run to port for help, no one answered the radio,
@@gerardrodriguez6392 well I called from flamingo Florida with a small vhf radio and sector key west picked up and forwarded my mayday call to sector miami. Even then I denied a helicopter rescue and requested park rangers. Whole vid is on @floridareel yt channel
Amazing .. several rescue boats on the scene in seconds! ... where I sail the distance between ports are 300 miles, and if anything bad happens you´re on your own.
Pretty cool rescue respondents, I could never get anything like that in remote Alaska except the coast guard. pretty cool port to have such great rescue professionals.
After all those mayday calls, the rest of the communication was garbled to the point of it being unrecognizable. It puzzles me how most people can understand any of that. If I was the operator and I received a mayday call and the victim said “they were sinking”, I could just as easily mistaken what they said and replied back “what are you singing about”…
I suspect that this was a training exercise although it seems to stretch things a bit to then tow it in but that might be a part of the exercise as well-every part of the procedure covered. The “we are sinking, we are going to drown, we aren’t wearing life jackets” was a nice touch.”
@@BOATSNAPS I looked several more times and nowhere in this video is there any vessel at immediate risk of sinking, in particular the one that was towed in. Ive also read some of the comments and apparently im not to only one suspecting this is a bogus mayday call.
This feels more like a "PAN-PAN" situation, at best. No chill. Skipper: we gonna die! Responder: yeah, maybe in 30-40 years, if you stop making stupid decisions.
You know, I used to take my little flats boat out of Haulover sometimes, and never once thought of calling mayday on the radio because of my ignorance. There was a couple times where I almost sank, cause my bilge pumps couldn't keep up, but it never crossed my mind to call mayday. I know I can swim, the boat can be replaced and so can my fishing gear.
I mean the information they got was a mayday for a sinking boat, multiple people with no life jackets so they dispatch all resources that are close by.. rather have them and it need them
Here in Australia you have two types of boat license: Enclosed waters and Open waters (open sea). For both you need life jackets for every person on board . Open waters you need the life jackets, plus a liferaft and have completed a SOLAS course. Part of that means you have to be able to swim. At school here, swimming is a compulsory sport, just like cricket, football and basketball. You have to do it.
Technik Meister what state is that? In VIC I’m pretty sure we only have boat or PWC. Or are you talking about commercial boats like chartered fishing trips?
1 boat n 1 tow rope. Problem solved. Plus fine this guy. Life jackets for everyone on the vessel plus flotation cushions. I have a 16 ft tracker. Bilge pumps, plus all life saving equipment
Boat in distress: "Hello , 911 , My Boat is taking on water and I would like to see a gross display of multi agency support please" Every single Agency in earshot: Comin right up !!!
Good thing I aint the one taking the call. Him "I dont have a lifejacket!" Me "Yet you still saw it fit to battle the ocean? May the odds be ever in your favor!"
Haulover my comment did not seem to post. This has nothing to do with being multicultural city ect. As a mariner this would have been very hard to translate if for instance was 15 miles off shore and my vessel was closest to the distressed vessel where minutes count! Not trying to argue with you please understand.
@@BOATSNAPS: Yes we all know Miami and many other Cities throughout the US are multicultural. However, just as learning to drive a car in foreign Countries we had to know the European traffic etc signs. On the water in the US, the boat captains (operators) should know the basic English language in calling for help or have the safety equipment onboard. As Mustangcircuit stated, if this guy was out of radio range, him and his passengers could be in a lot of hurt.
“I have no life jackets on board” well if that isn’t the recipe for a nice fat ticket when these blooming idiot gets back to safety. Hopefully FWC hooked them up according, maybe next time they go out on a boat, they will do there safety check. Gr8 job 1st Responders!!
Talk about panic, no life preservers no idea what they are doing, they need to be off the water and take some classes. Great job to first responders!!!!!
Think the other comment about this being an attempt to get a free tow is on point so I won't go through my list of problems with this but...yea. You're not wearing a life jacket? Perhaps try putting one on. I've seen boats that have taken on water before and that boat does not even appear to be sitting low in the water at all. Nice to know that the first responders are out there though. Definitely appreciate these people providing life saving services directly to citizens.
that's a lot of money in emergency personnel for what appears to be a routine tow in. I don't think I would let a person who cant swim in my boat. Ive talked to a lot of rescue personnel over the years. the common thread they conveyed is stupid people don't even consider ever investing in safety gear or have even done the slightest maintenance. most of these people escape real trouble by the skin of there teeth. if they had to pay the cost of what this rescue actually costs the taxpayer we might see less of this kind of foolishness. I will say this its nice to know the day I need help rescue is on the ready.
That's a lot of response boats for for one alleged mayday shout, So glad here in the UK we have the RNLI that would of probably sent out dependent on Sea state that is either an inshore Rib or the main response boat but generally one boat response is all that is needed.
A lot of these communities have tributaries with water patrol craft and thats not to mention possible FWC (Florida Wildlife Comission) County Sheriff & local cops , Coast Guard that might be handy and they have mutual support pacts and monitor common distress VHF channels so singularly theres like 2 men per boat to cover vast areas tending to other simultaneous duties (FWC are usually busy rounding up stray gators or poachers) but respond en-mass to distress calls as a force multiplier as they have other duties to tend to not just dummies with an overflowing crapper.
This reminds of the 10 (TEN) police cars arriving cuz ONE person is filming the streets!!! "We are drowning" talk about screaming "Wolf,Wolf" and its was a joke. Well, the rescue team cant know that this boat runners was/is totally uneducated and inexperienced!! GJ, thoo. :D Never seen so much of about SINKING!!!!
Prepare for May-ham. That means life jackets on board, Channel 16 available 24/7, take a safety boating course through USCG, proper insurance, boat U S towing service or it’s equivalent and of course proper boat maintenance. People helping each other saves lives.remember boaters keep radio on while on water. Enjoy the water but stay safe.
Danny T yes ,I understand. They just don’t think it’s going to happen to them. I live in California. I’m amazed that their are zero requirements to operate a boat. The basic Seaman’s Course with USCG is a great course for first time boaters or just a refresher course. This most recent boating accident in your area could have turned out a lot worst. I’m glad the people are safe thanks to First Responders and USCG. USCG are wonderful men and women. I’m grateful they are out on the water policing the water ways. My late father, Columbus Pierce was an officer in the USCG.
What an incredible waste of taxpayers money for his "WE WILL GO DOWN" CANDYASS!!!!! Any number of boats going by could/would have given his candyass a tow back to the dock and saved time and money!!!! The boy who cried wolf!!!!!
Last time I towed a boat back, it was to that very expensive CC north end of the keys because he forgot to fill his third fuel tank - it cost me over 4 hrs and over 40 Gals of fuel, snapped a prop blade and had to replace both to keep them matched at over $200.00 (around 1985) - I was not given a penny in return, he said ,Oh, I forgot me wallet - whenever I needed help over the years no one would stop to help - I did make it back on my own once in reverse for over 10 miles - caused it to overheat and blow a plug setting outboard on fire (only one engine on that boat) - good thing I carried more then one fire extinguisher - still got home on three cylinders leaving the cowling off venting the fumes into the air - boating in South Florida is a real joy at times - yearly 80's
How that guy reacted on the radio and didn't have any lifejackets fits perfectly with the type of boat he was on. You can tell a lot about the boater by the brand boat he owns. A proline isn't much different than a bayliner and any real boater especially on the ocean knows what type of people own boats like that and that's 95 percent of them shouldn't own a boat especially on the ocean
I am a professional mariner (100 ton captain, ult 3rd mate, retired Navy), and proudly have a Bayliner (my 4th). Not as nice and shiny, but gets the job done in Chesapeake Bay. We do have all our gear (including a towing hawser and portable submersible pump). Don’t equate someone’s ability to spend foolish amounts of $ on a boat with their training or abilities. We have pulled some really nice BW and GW back to the pier when they swamped or ran out of fuel.
@@dbow3784 first off thank you for your service and you are right not everyone who owns a bayliner are clueless boaters and I should have written that. Because I have seen idiots on big cruisers as well. But from my many years on the ocean the majority of people who shouldn't be operating a John boat tend to own your cheaper brand boats and that is just reality. But a inexperienced boater can own any brand boat. Hell I have even seen experienced captains with 30 plus years experience run a sport fisherman out of fuel and let it drift on a sandbar and sink the boat. But I think everyone who has watched the video can all say the guy running that boat was a complete moron that I am surprised is still alive.
@@seamosserchin9024 i like chevy trucks but I am ford man but have owned quite a few chevy trucks. The only American made truck i hate is a dodge truck except for the cummins in them but everything else around that engine is junk
Many people have insurance that covers marine towing and recovery(of the boat) through 1 of several marine towing agencies. If they know which one to send to you it could save you a massive bill. Saving the people is free of charge, saving the property is never free.
Illegal in my country to not have life jackets, flares, radio the list goes on when boating. But then I do live in the greatest country. Anyway, the rescue was overkill.
As a retired submariner, I'm here to tell you that if there was a submarine, you wouldn't know about it. They dont call us the silent service for nothing.
@@BOATSNAPS lol ! Just stupid people. Our boat ( that has plenty of built in floatation ) is sinking. ( because we opened the holding tank and dumped the sewage into the ocean) we have no life jackets and we are going to drowned...... but the short wave radio works ( that we didnt get a lisence for ) glad it all worked out safely but come on , really !
CAPTAIN SALTY: It’s not that simple. Rescue and narcotics interdiction have completely different sources of money. The resources of the counter-narcotics community put the rescue assets to shame. It’s like comparing the resources of your state’s department of fish and game to the resources of the USN.
@@muonneutrino2909 IN THE LATE 70S I DID A LITTLE HAY HAULING. FUN WHILE IT LASTED. GOT POPPED OFF LAUDERDALE. BY THE HOLLYWOOD POLICE. THEY WHERE ON TO THE GUYS I WORKED FOR. PICKED UP AT MARSH HARBOUR. TWO YEARS PROBATION NO JAIL TIME AS LONG AS I STAYED CLEAN.I DID. GREAT EXPERIENCE. SUN , FISHING, SEAFOOD, PRITTY GIRLS, MONEY, LARGE YATCHS. LEARNED MY LESSON.
As someone from The UK, several things shocked me about this video. One was that one of the first questions the responders asked was about their insurance! In the UK the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, (RNLI), turn out to offer aid and assistant to any sized craft in need of help, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and they do it for nothing! No fees, no credit cards or insurance. Also our coastguard, including Royal Navy ships and helicopters also turn out for free. No one has to pay anyone. Some rescues/recoveries can last for over 24 hours and happen up to 150 miles out to sea and cost isn't thought about. The RNLI is a charity and it's all paid by public donations. Obviously the CG and RN are govt owned, but still no charges are made. Secondly that no other boats responded to help. It's very much held as a "law of the sea" that any other mariner turns to help a MayDay call. Even fishing boats and commercial ships will respond. The boat concerned didn't have any safety equipment on board, or didn't use it!
@@BOATSNAPS Thank you for the prompt reply. It might be of interest if you, and your viewers put RNLI into the TH-cam search bar. There are some amazing stories on there.
If I counted correctly (doubtful), there were three small Police boats, one larger Police boat, two Fire boats (one red and a greenish one) and a tow boat (I'll not count the jet-ski or helicopter). With all that "help" how long did it take to tow the boat in? Too Long! ;-)
I can't believe that people would go out on a boat and 1st, basically know nothing about boats 2nd, don't have life jackets, and can't swim 3rd, taking on water, and just riding around and not heading back into the inlet....., people never cease to amaze me!!!!!!!!
No life jackets, no bilge pump, no flare gun, can't swim, dude you should start playing baseball instead of boating.
mambaracing 😂😂😂
don't you need a hat to that.
@@191246mann1 And a bat.
Wouldn't you need a "pair of balls" or atleast one to play ⚾... 🤪
If his only safety was a ship to shore radio, he is just stupid...bet he received a fistful of fines
Was this a drill because that was the most floaty sinking boat ive ever seen.
Yeah, looked like a rapid response training activity to me.
It was ok once he put the plug in it
Two very important thing's in boating.... life preserver and a drainplug.
R N they are Cuban a drama people
I think is not drill, they hurry up there, because ya not know, how fast the boat can sink, great response and all good on the end. THX to the guys
Must have been a slow day to have so many boats on the scene. I was waiting for a destroyer from the Navy to show up.
Aircraft carrier by my thinking lol
And a nuclear sub.
HA HA HA HA HA. MAYBE A SUBMARINE , AS WELL !!!!
Typical cops takes a show of force to escort boat to docks. They all heros, LMAO
I was expecting the mothership from Independence Day at the end. Sheesh.
As a retired Coast Guardsman, I have seen plenty of bogus Mayday calls to try and get a free tow. This looks like one of them. Calling Mayday on the radio is what brought out all the first responders. I agree with the comments that he should get a hefty bill plus a fine.
Jerry Lentz It really highlights the massive goodwill and resources of our first responders.
@@BOATSNAPS he first responders ALL responded VERY fast to the EXACT LOCATION! What I found AMAZINg was the PROLINE boat was next to the walking reef with people on it fishing, the boat people if NEEDED could have swimmed right over! Watch when the Miami Dade fire boat goes out the CAMERA captures how close they are to the shore line LOL! The boat captain might be inexperienced as he did not have life jackets onboard (which is just ridiculous and a FINE! As a safety precaution I always have double the amount of life jackets, two, over baord roped to baot circles in red and two yellow unroped over boat circles flotation devices, quad triple GPS radios, phone, cell hone long range booster, AES radio, triple exterior night lighting, and TWO oversized automatic emergency life rafts carrying two AES portable radios each, enough food and water for one month for four people and a water proof IPAD along with heated electric 9 volt sheets,coats survival equipment, emergency floating beacon with lights!
Michael Smith It was farther than it looks. No walking possible.
No life jackets on board? What the hell. My dad carried almost double required number plus throwable cushions ropes flares, and radio. Before GPS and cell phones
@@mountainman5025 do you think that response was free? Fuel and maintenance on the chopper alone is measure in the thousands an hour.
For a boat that was sinking it managed very well!
grown man about to cry - “WE’RE GONNA DROWN”
response team - “do you have your insurance?”
Most american thing i've ever heard
In the ocean , and can't swim, with no life preservers, if he did drown it would be no ones fault but his own stupid self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets defund the police boats!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Do you have your insurance?” question helps the first responders to appropriately call either Sea Tow or BoatUS for the tow. If the boat happens to have one, that would be the preferred one.
Insurance? Like a collision on the ocean? 😂😂😂😂😂
LOL!! ikr!!
Yet another example of a boater who doesn’t know what they’re doing freaking out over something minor. Hell, in that situation, he could’ve just called TowBoatUs, Sea Tow, or if he wanted a free tow, he could just hail the local harbor master or police/fire dept, instead of calling a mayday which got a MH-65 launched, 2 police boats diverted, a fire boat launched, and another few vessels to come.
Now fine them for not having life jackets on board!
Rusty Climber shut up
@Rusty Climber What are you rambling on about?
@Rusty Climber if you hate it here so much leave. If you lack the funds (and suspect you do start a go fund me).
💯
Idiots no life preserver....
No life jackets but I bet they had a cooler full of beer and illegal fish though
aprtuned75 Beer 🍺 😜😜😜
I've seen loads of Haulover Inlet videos and the common factor is that everyone who goes out no one wears a life vest or crew-saver! So they look pretty cool, but from someone who knows, if you get swept over the side and hit your head on the way, its very difficult to swim when you are unconscious - so wear a life vest it will do exactly what its designed for - SAVE YOUR LIFE
Of course no life jackets, he should retire from boating
John Rehner 😜😜😜
Dane Ta Tua Tonka 👍🏼👍🏼
His wife had an insurance policy on him so she left it in the truck lol $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ richhhhhhhhhhhhh hehehehe
wow... that boat did not look like it was "sinking"... maybe some minor water inside, and the two on the boats would not be drowning ... 2 police boats, 2 fire/rescue boats, 1 CG helicopter and a tow boat.... damn, I though a coast guard cutter was going to show up any minute! lol when the boat was being towed, didnt look like it had taken much water at all.... shame. Amazing response from first responders, thanks to all of them
"We're taking on water!" Response: "No sir your toilet over flowed. Calm down."
Ok sir. Well after adding everything up including the helicopter fly by you are looking at $35,000 cash or credit?
all It’s already paid for. Taxes 💪🏼
For a real emergency. I think it could be argued that a mayday wasn’t necessary or this situation.
all Emergencies are a matter of perception for each individual. The core tenet of first responding is ‘better safe than sorry’ it’s worth sending all resources in order to avoid a tragedy. Happy endings are always preferred.
@@BOATSNAPS a happy ending would be if this guy was fined or he was not on the water with responsible boaters anymore
If he can't pay use hi s boat for target practice or fire boat practice.
I think the first rescue boat must have seen some cute girls on that yacht out there to completely bypass the boat in "distress". LOL
I was expecting the US sixth fleet to arrive and 2 Disney ships.
I do not understand why a boat owner has no life vests in his boat.
why that would be Captain Dumbass
2:04 can't understand if its not a law especially when your on the Boat
Regardless of the lack of general boating skills and knowledge of the (sinking) boat operator, its a great response from all agencies and a fast one at that. While people complain about the number of assets on scene, what you have to realize is that you need to have as much coming as possible on the initial callout. You can always turn them around if they are not needed. If this went from taking on water to a fast sinking boat with victims in the water, quick search and rescue is imperative. What has always bothered me though is how some agencies respond a vessel with only 1 person on board.
Finally.... somebody that gets it.
The response of authorities was outstanding, some thing like that happened to me, I had to jump on a local fishermen’s boat, tu run to port for help, no one answered the radio,
Gerard rodriguez These guys are top notch.
Bob Delano yep, I triple checked everything
@@gerardrodriguez6392 well I called from flamingo Florida with a small vhf radio and sector key west picked up and forwarded my mayday call to sector miami. Even then I denied a helicopter rescue and requested park rangers. Whole vid is on @floridareel yt channel
im a 911 operator for miami dade police, we get this calls all the time on holidays especially, I like how all agencies come together
balsero17 intercostal ?
@@BOATSNAPS i take calls for all of Miami dade but yes most incidents occur at the intracoastal waterway, especially haulover inlet
Surprised the hot dog seller and the “cappuccino-ahoy” boat didn’t head out. It was the biggest gathering on the coast.
So if he was stupid enough not to have any lifejackets on board how did he know how to use a VHF radio?
Thankfully loss of life was avoided.
5 rescue boats a helicopter jet ski because of no life jackets and a faulty craper,make the fucers swim back
steve austin Lotta bull sharks 😃
David Hague Please, not the place for arguments.
I was waiting for the ice cream boat to show up !
Amazing .. several rescue boats on the scene in seconds! ... where I sail the distance between ports are 300 miles, and if anything bad happens you´re on your own.
Pretty cool rescue respondents, I could never get anything like that in remote Alaska except the coast guard. pretty cool port to have such great rescue professionals.
After all those mayday calls, the rest of the communication was garbled to the point of it being unrecognizable. It puzzles me how most people can understand any of that. If I was the operator and I received a mayday call and the victim said “they were sinking”, I could just as easily mistaken what they said and replied back “what are you singing about”…
Isn't life a hoot when you have a significant hearing loss?
I suspect that this was a training exercise although it seems to stretch things a bit to then tow it in but that might be a part of the exercise as well-every part of the procedure covered.
The “we are sinking, we are going to drown, we aren’t wearing life jackets” was a nice touch.”
I think they would have drowned if it was real.
Pretty sure you can see them wearing life jackets in the video, even before the responders arrive. I think this was an exercise or drill.
Land or Sea. It’s nice to see someone is always there to help.
Don't think the yanks will get that sarcasm somehow!
Perhaps I wasn't paying close enough attention but somehow I missed the sinking boat this video is supposed to be about...….
dave keenan Look again
@@BOATSNAPS I looked several more times and nowhere in this video is there any vessel at immediate risk of sinking, in particular the one that was towed in. Ive also read some of the comments and apparently im not to only one suspecting this is a bogus mayday call.
I hope he got enough tickets to learn about life jackets.
This feels more like a "PAN-PAN" situation, at best. No chill.
Skipper: we gonna die!
Responder: yeah, maybe in 30-40 years, if you stop making stupid decisions.
now that was a hell of a response, nice work to the first responders!
You know, I used to take my little flats boat out of Haulover sometimes, and never once thought of calling mayday on the radio because of my ignorance. There was a couple times where I almost sank, cause my bilge pumps couldn't keep up, but it never crossed my mind to call mayday. I know I can swim, the boat can be replaced and so can my fishing gear.
We’re glad everybody was ok.
Your life flashes in your mind until you know you are safe thanks for being so committed to keeping us safe to all involved !
Overkill response fellas
Rod 🏆🏆
I mean the information they got was a mayday for a sinking boat, multiple people with no life jackets so they dispatch all resources that are close by.. rather have them and it need them
I'm crying from the music
No way I could've contained myself from screaming " hey a-hole " where's your life jackets !!
They had them on. bright orange. maybe they found them after all.
New way to smuggle drugs, call a mayday right before you enter the pass and get the cops to tow you into port.
Glad there were no injuries. Love to hear the whine of that Eurocopter Dauphin!
Mayday help my bathroom is flooded! Sir is the shitter plugged?
I bet it was blue water!
OOOHHH, the drama!!! (love the music) Almost a tragedy!! Someone left the faucet on in the head!
Always best to wear a life jacket. Especially when you forget to put the plug in before you launch boat and head out to ocean.
No life jackets? Amazing people will still take their and the passengers lives for granted by not having PFD’s
The video is great, the comments are priceless. Keep up the great work!
Here in Australia you have two types of boat license: Enclosed waters and Open waters (open sea). For both you need life jackets for every person on board . Open waters you need the life jackets, plus a liferaft and have completed a SOLAS course. Part of that means you have to be able to swim. At school here, swimming is a compulsory sport, just like cricket, football and basketball. You have to do it.
Technik Meister what state is that? In VIC I’m pretty sure we only have boat or PWC. Or are you talking about commercial boats like chartered fishing trips?
LOL I'm from South Africa. So that's why Aussies are good at cricket - it's bloody compulsory at school LOL
Does it have a subsection for Arseholes. This twat should have been arrested
Mariner"Bathroom almost full of water" coast guard "pull the plug and let it out"
I really enjoy watching these fun boat videos. They are fun to watch
Fire boat blasting that siren in order to clear the nonexistent boat traffic. LOL
imagine owning a boat, sailing the boat into the ocean, only to not be able to swim in said ocean XD
1 boat n 1 tow rope. Problem solved. Plus fine this guy. Life jackets for everyone on the vessel plus flotation cushions. I have a 16 ft tracker. Bilge pumps, plus all life saving equipment
Boat in distress: "Hello , 911 , My Boat is taking on water and I would like to see a gross display of multi agency support please"
Every single Agency in earshot: Comin right up !!!
Good thing I aint the one taking the call.
Him "I dont have a lifejacket!"
Me "Yet you still saw it fit to battle the ocean? May the odds be ever in your favor!"
If it was taking on water, it would have sank by the time they started the tow.
Could've had a leaking cooling system!
The boat operator should be financially charged for the emergency services and inspected completely.
michael burke 😛😛😛
How about speaking English too?
mustangcircut Miami is a multicultural city Spanish and other languages make this place awesome. Try saying Hola 👋 you might make a friend.
Haulover my comment did not seem to post. This has nothing to do with being multicultural city ect. As a mariner this would have been very hard to translate if for instance was 15 miles off shore and my vessel was closest to the distressed vessel where minutes count! Not trying to argue with you please understand.
@@BOATSNAPS: Yes we all know Miami and many other Cities throughout the US are multicultural. However, just as learning to drive a car in foreign Countries we had to know the European traffic etc signs. On the water in the US, the boat captains (operators) should know the basic English language in calling for help or have the safety equipment onboard. As Mustangcircuit stated, if this guy was out of radio range, him and his passengers could be in a lot of hurt.
Now that is a world class rescue response.....dummy should have had his life jacket on......glad he's ok
“I have no life jackets on board” well if that isn’t the recipe for a nice fat ticket when these blooming idiot gets back to safety. Hopefully FWC hooked them up according, maybe next time they go out on a boat, they will do there safety check. Gr8 job 1st Responders!!
Wait, those boats have bilge pumps. Plus he's floating high on the water. Lol
Almost sinks. That piece of crap cork of a boat is still floating too high in the water.
Talk about panic, no life preservers no idea what they are doing, they need to be off the water and take some classes. Great job to first responders!!!!!
Crownline 250CR, 1996-1998 version, have the same one. Single screw, sometimes counter-rotating props.
Get enough boats out there and they will be able to walk ashore.
This reminds me of the response by police in the Blues Brothers movie.
Chris Bradbury These guys don’t play around.
The freeboard on the boat never changed, training exercize.
You think ?
@@AndrexT Jarvis was the guy that towed the boat in (the guy you were replying to)
Jarvis Nelson Osorio so is that now your boat?
Think the other comment about this being an attempt to get a free tow is on point so I won't go through my list of problems with this but...yea. You're not wearing a life jacket? Perhaps try putting one on. I've seen boats that have taken on water before and that boat does not even appear to be sitting low in the water at all.
Nice to know that the first responders are out there though. Definitely appreciate these people providing life saving services directly to citizens.
12 POP UPS and 3 VIDEOS before halfway point of video. GREAT JOB!! Who had more? Rescue boats or your adverts???
Thomas Harries The window for free stuff is by the men’s room. Have a great day!
that's a lot of money in emergency personnel for what appears to be a routine tow in. I don't think I would let a person who cant swim in my boat. Ive talked to a lot of rescue personnel over the years. the common thread they conveyed is stupid people don't even consider ever investing in safety gear or have even done the slightest maintenance. most of these people escape real trouble by the skin of there teeth. if they had to pay the cost of what this rescue actually costs the taxpayer we might see less of this kind of foolishness. I will say this its nice to know the day I need help rescue is on the ready.
Aron Boyles it is very nice that we have such overwhelming resources.
Spend the money on high priced fishing gear, big motor, beer; but who needs safety gear?
People really need to learn to not eat the vhf microphone. Only one you can understand is the coast guard.
Brett Knutsen True
That's a lot of response boats for for one alleged mayday shout, So glad here in the UK we have the RNLI that would of probably sent out dependent on Sea state that is either an inshore Rib or the main response boat but generally one boat response is all that is needed.
A lot of these communities have tributaries with water patrol craft and thats not to mention possible FWC (Florida Wildlife Comission) County Sheriff & local cops , Coast Guard that might be handy and they have mutual support pacts and monitor common distress VHF channels so singularly theres like 2 men per boat to cover vast areas tending to other simultaneous duties (FWC are usually busy rounding up stray gators or poachers) but respond en-mass to distress calls as a force multiplier as they have other duties to tend to not just dummies with an overflowing crapper.
This reminds of the 10 (TEN) police cars arriving cuz ONE person is filming the streets!!! "We are drowning" talk about screaming "Wolf,Wolf" and its was a joke. Well, the rescue team cant know that this boat runners was/is totally uneducated and inexperienced!! GJ, thoo. :D Never seen so much of about SINKING!!!!
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY! I AM GOING TO DROWN I HAVE NO LIFEJACKET! Say no more. We got you Fam! A whole Armada Of Rescue Craft show up. Nice!
Prepare for May-ham. That means life jackets on board, Channel 16 available 24/7, take a safety boating course through USCG, proper insurance, boat U S towing service or it’s equivalent and of course proper boat maintenance. People helping each other saves lives.remember boaters keep radio on while on water. Enjoy the water but stay safe.
Charles Pierce You are correct Sir 👍🏼
Danny T 😜😜👍🏼👍🏼
Danny T yes ,I understand. They just don’t think it’s going to happen to them. I live in California. I’m amazed that their are zero requirements to operate a boat. The basic Seaman’s Course with USCG is a great course for first time boaters or just a refresher course. This most recent boating accident in your area could have turned out a lot worst. I’m glad the people are safe thanks to First Responders and USCG. USCG are wonderful men and women. I’m grateful they are out on the water policing the water ways. My late father, Columbus Pierce was an officer in the USCG.
Charles Pierce 🧐🧐🧐
What an incredible waste of taxpayers money for his "WE WILL GO DOWN" CANDYASS!!!!! Any number of boats going by could/would have given his candyass a tow back to the dock and saved time and money!!!!
The boy who cried wolf!!!!!
Last time I towed a boat back, it was to that very expensive CC north end of the keys because he forgot to fill his third fuel tank - it cost me over 4 hrs and over 40 Gals of fuel, snapped a prop blade and had to replace both to keep them matched at over $200.00 (around 1985) - I was not given a penny in return, he said ,Oh, I forgot me wallet - whenever I needed help over the years no one would stop to help - I did make it back on my own once in reverse for over 10 miles - caused it to overheat and blow a plug setting outboard on fire (only one engine on that boat) - good thing I carried more then one fire extinguisher - still got home on three cylinders leaving the cowling off venting the fumes into the air - boating in South Florida is a real joy at times - yearly 80's
How that guy reacted on the radio and didn't have any lifejackets fits perfectly with the type of boat he was on. You can tell a lot about the boater by the brand boat he owns. A proline isn't much different than a bayliner and any real boater especially on the ocean knows what type of people own boats like that and that's 95 percent of them shouldn't own a boat especially on the ocean
brandon escoe Thanks for the input.
I am a professional mariner (100 ton captain, ult 3rd mate, retired Navy), and proudly have a Bayliner (my 4th). Not as nice and shiny, but gets the job done in Chesapeake Bay. We do have all our gear (including a towing hawser and portable submersible pump). Don’t equate someone’s ability to spend foolish amounts of $ on a boat with their training or abilities. We have pulled some really nice BW and GW back to the pier when they swamped or ran out of fuel.
@@dbow3784 first off thank you for your service and you are right not everyone who owns a bayliner are clueless boaters and I should have written that. Because I have seen idiots on big cruisers as well. But from my many years on the ocean the majority of people who shouldn't be operating a John boat tend to own your cheaper brand boats and that is just reality. But a inexperienced boater can own any brand boat. Hell I have even seen experienced captains with 30 plus years experience run a sport fisherman out of fuel and let it drift on a sandbar and sink the boat. But I think everyone who has watched the video can all say the guy running that boat was a complete moron that I am surprised is still alive.
What do you have to say about someone who drives a Chevy pickup?🤔
@@seamosserchin9024 i like chevy trucks but I am ford man but have owned quite a few chevy trucks. The only American made truck i hate is a dodge truck except for the cummins in them but everything else around that engine is junk
Good place if you get in trouble. Everyone comes to your rescue, after they have your details of course!
Very true!
While the boat is taking on water seems like an odd time to request insurance information...
Many people have insurance that covers marine towing and recovery(of the boat) through 1 of several marine towing agencies. If they know which one to send to you it could save you a massive bill.
Saving the people is free of charge, saving the property is never free.
Think they have enough help? Just need someone to jump on and pilot the boat in!
Not enough boats need more
Illegal in my country to not have life jackets, flares, radio the list goes on when boating. But then I do live in the greatest country. Anyway, the rescue was overkill.
Here too
@@BOATSNAPS OK so they were just stupid!
Must be australia
First responders get to hit the siren and go fast good training that Boat is not sinking
That should have been a Pan pan call.
WHAT NO AIRCRAFT CARRIERS OR SUBMARINES??
IM DEPLORABLE 🤣🤣🤣
As a retired submariner, I'm here to tell you that if there was a submarine, you wouldn't know about it. They dont call us the silent service for nothing.
There was a heli dispatched. It was in the video.
PFD'S are required per boat inspection, heavily fine this boating bozo!
Meanwhile. As all the local assets were busy....several boatloads of drugs were transported....
Walter Davis Walter you’re a ray of sunshine bud 😂😂😂 why are you mad ? We love you 😘
@@BOATSNAPS lol ! Just stupid people. Our boat ( that has plenty of built in floatation ) is sinking. ( because we opened the holding tank and dumped the sewage into the ocean) we have no life jackets and we are going to drowned...... but the short wave radio works ( that we didnt get a lisence for ) glad it all worked out safely but come on , really !
Where in the hell is the first boat going the police boat???? Smh
I hope they get a hell of a fine for this BS distress call!!! Some people's kids!!!!
They were apparently looking for a actual boat in distress lol
MAYDAY WAS TO GET ALL THE AUTHORITIES BUSY WITH THE SO CALLED STINKING BOAT. MEANWHILE 100MILLION $ IN COKE SLIPS IN UNDER THE RADAR.
CAPTAIN SALTY: It’s not that simple. Rescue and narcotics interdiction have completely different sources of money. The resources of the counter-narcotics community put the rescue assets to shame. It’s like comparing the resources of your state’s department of fish and game to the resources of the USN.
@@muonneutrino2909 IN THE LATE 70S I DID A LITTLE HAY HAULING. FUN WHILE IT LASTED. GOT POPPED OFF LAUDERDALE. BY THE HOLLYWOOD POLICE. THEY WHERE ON TO THE GUYS I WORKED FOR. PICKED UP AT MARSH HARBOUR. TWO YEARS PROBATION NO JAIL TIME AS LONG AS I STAYED CLEAN.I DID. GREAT EXPERIENCE. SUN , FISHING, SEAFOOD, PRITTY GIRLS, MONEY, LARGE YATCHS. LEARNED MY LESSON.
3:18 Florida Fish & Game boat didn't see that boat as in danger of sinking. That boat owner should be made to pay big time.
Not to bash the people who help but 6 safety vessels responding seems like theres a lot of bored safety folks. I do thank them for all they do.
Taking on a little water does call for a mayday / i'm gonna drown. Geeezus dude, calm down. lol
As someone from The UK, several things shocked me about this video.
One was that one of the first questions the responders asked was about their insurance! In the UK the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, (RNLI), turn out to offer aid and assistant to any sized craft in need of help, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and they do it for nothing! No fees, no credit cards or insurance. Also our coastguard, including Royal Navy ships and helicopters also turn out for free. No one has to pay anyone. Some rescues/recoveries can last for over 24 hours and happen up to 150 miles out to sea and cost isn't thought about. The RNLI is a charity and it's all paid by public donations. Obviously the CG and RN are govt owned, but still no charges are made.
Secondly that no other boats responded to help. It's very much held as a "law of the sea" that any other mariner turns to help a MayDay call. Even fishing boats and commercial ships will respond.
The boat concerned didn't have any safety equipment on board, or didn't use it!
The assistance here is free as well, however the tow of the boat is charged to the owner. Boat insurance is relatively inexpensive.
@@BOATSNAPS Thank you for the prompt reply. It might be of interest if you, and your viewers put RNLI into the TH-cam search bar. There are some amazing stories on there.
If I counted correctly (doubtful), there were three small Police boats, one larger Police boat, two Fire boats (one red and a greenish one) and a tow boat (I'll not count the jet-ski or helicopter).
With all that "help" how long did it take to tow the boat in? Too Long! ;-)
Why not call sea tow! What a waste of money and resources. I hope they bill this person for his cry wolf mayday .
I can't believe that people would go out on a boat and 1st, basically know nothing about boats 2nd, don't have life jackets, and can't swim 3rd, taking on water, and just riding around and not heading back into the inlet....., people never cease to amaze me!!!!!!!!
He sounds like Dominic Barber on the Howard Stern show. Mayday mayday mayday mayda the boat is on fire the boat is on fire
john Handfield 😂😂
That was a bunch of bullshit he didnt need rescuing
Scott Weymer Ray of sunshine ☀️
He actually screams:
“I’m on fire! I’m on fire!”
I think.
Bloody idiots , where are your life saving jackets . !!!! ????
And people this some of the reason why you wear a life jacket.
Alicia Wright 😜😜👍🏼👍🏼
With all the boats that go in and out of Haulover and not one was near this craft or heard his mayday, no one came to help.... c'mon!!
Tony J Not all have vhf on.
They should!!!
No life jackets ? Really ??
Warren Phillips 😜😜😜
Rent life jacket , check safety requirements
Fireboat came out since they had nothing better to do.
Hardie Johnson Mariners know and depend on the fire boat a lot. It’s good to have them on the water.
101327 Yes
I didnt see them pumping the boat out. if he was really taking on that much water I'd think you would have seen it being pumped out during the tow.
Lol