Actually amazing how well it held up, not the sheet metal building part but the pontoon base. Very stable and basically unsinkable esp. for what looks like a 1970s model lol.
Capt Sirl Shit, that old boat took a beating. I'd say it could hang with the best of them!! A new one would have been over and done with in 90 seconds!
Well, the dam has a considerable amount of water going over it that acts as a buffer and keeps the boat from slamming into the concrete of the dam itself. I would think that with enough ice hits over hours or days, it would eventually punch a hole in a pontoon.
+merkin22 I think it depends on where in the world you live. I've always been taught it's a low head dam, and it's referred to as such in boater safety courses. However, yes, a quick look at google defines it as a weir. I think it's like a trunk or a "boot"
No kidding, I'd never be standing on that cement outcropping either like that group is doing taking pictures. All it takes is one mis-step to the right, and its all over.
Seems like a difficult way to wash your boat but look at the bright side. It will be squeaky clean "No dust or dirt in the corners" and ready for a fresh rebuild.
I can see the Craiglist ad now: *JUST WENT THROUGH A MAJOR TEARDOWN AND INSPECTION. READY FOR YOUR NEXT PROJECT BUILD. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT WITH YOUR IMAGINATION ON THIS VERSATILE, OPEN PLATFORM!*
Hey everybody scroll down the comments and catch a glimpse of all the armchair superheroes putting down the spectators for not risking their lives swimming thru chunks of ice with the magic hook and rope that they all carry at all times so they can save the heavy ass pontoon.
If anyone tried to save the boat they would have died. They would have gotten caught in the same recirculating submerged hydraulic jump that was keeping the boat pinned against the dam, until they drowned.
Your only chance to get out of hole like that would be to ball up and try to let the curtain push you down deep where you would come up at the boil line downstream. But it still might just pull you back.
If you were on the boat, you'd want to try to keep it lined up down river if possible, that exposes less of the boat to the water going over the dam. Definitely stay away from the dam, there's literally tons of force going over it every second, and it wouldn't take much to knock you off. Some of those ice chunks were probably 500 lbs. or more.
Had the same thing happen here in Iowa....except the owner and his grandkids were on board. They had to come rescue them, and the video was featured on "Rescue 911" back in the early 90's.
Ah, no reason for that, zooming in too much is just a common thing at youtube. But then again you win at keeping the cam steady :-), the other common problem.
you cant tear those dams out they are there for a reason, to keep the water levels high enough for water intake valves for water town ans city water supplys as well for sewage treatment plants, plus for navigation.
Obviously you wouldn't want to be on that boat to begin with, but see how it eventually veers over to the side at 6:06. You could literally jump off from the boat into the shallow/quiet water beside it separated by the concrete. Sure, it would be freezing cold, but it looks like a better option than trying to grab onto that wall and falling directly into the dam. You'd certainly have to time the jump right with all of that movement on the boat, as well. It looks like 3-4 seconds max after each jerk of the boat in between the time where it hits the water going over. You'd have to recover quickly from the jerk, stand on the outside of that railing and jump as far away as you can into that still water. Those pontoons might stand up for hours, though...as long as they don't get a hole in them. The main thing is having the strength to hang onto the boat for that long, which makes jumping the only option if you were stuck on it. We have to remember that everything that goes over the dam gets kept there for hours or days. At some point a tree trunk come come down and that would cause it to flip the boat when both mashed against the dam.
Its highly unlikely that you make the jump at 6:06. Your best bet is to hold on the railing until a helicopter arrives. A few years ago we had a rescue at a local hydro power station which was under construction so the low head damn was only approx 10 meters wide und 1,5 meter high. 4 students passed it with a rubber dinghy and got trapped in the boil. they were incredibly lucky that the boat didnt flip over but it was possible any moment. We secured the boat from the weirs wall with poles and ropes, dropping them life vests. Because of heavy rain in the area for several days the currents were extremely strong and we couldnt reach the boat with our 200 hp rescue boat, the downstream was too massive. Roping down from the weirs walls was considered to dangerous so we had to call at another dam which was approx 2 km upstream to reduce the waterflow and radioed for a rescue helicopter. We rescued all 4, one by one with the helicopters winch. All 4 survived with nothing but hypothermia and the scare of their life. Still, what an incredibly stupid idea crossing a low head dam on a flooded river with nothing but a 20 dollar inflatable boat....
The boat survived fine. The crap he built on it fell apart. Throw a line to it and use a pickup to haul it out of there. Put on a new rail and rebuild the top correctly.
I'm really surprised it didn't roll over, but I guess that's because of it being a pontoon with open deck design. A johnboat or any other boat with gunwales would have filled up like a bathtub, then rolled over.
That boat was stuck in circulating water rather than water being translated. As I viewed all this I could not help thinking that this situation is so related to the wing of a plane when landing with flaps and stalls where the streamlnes on the upper surface of the wing will circulate above the trailing edge. This circulation rather than translation of fluid occurs in many situations and I am surprised that some people who design floodwater channels unintensially create a lot of zones with circulation rather than translation of water.
Kinda anticlimactic if you ask me. Thanks for posting, I enjoyed it. I was just hoping for some closure. As it is in my mind right now, the boat is just stuck there forever. What finally happened?
It is a shame that someone lost their boat. Many laugh it is only worth $50 or so, but not everyone has $20,000 for a boat. Now a question for all you experienced boaters. If someone had been on the boat, and it been under power, could they have run straight off and managed to jump past the recirculating area of the dam? It looks like since it was sideways, it is only in water that is moving upstream. If it had been going off straight, would it have been able to move past that and gotten into water running downstream again?
Interesting and unexpected to see the boat permanently trapped in the turbulence right at the base of the dam that way. Presumably, unless it got pulled out, it would've stayed there till the water level decreased and the turbulence subsided. Of course by then it probably would've been even more busted up into fragments.
It's a low headwall damn. Those things are super dangerous and are drowning machines. If you look you can see exactly the seperation point where the water flows back toward the damn or down river.
@@CLCox-ur9ux I've seen how dangerous such dams are when they're small, and they look innocent and unimportant. If you have the misfortune to go over one in a canoe or (worse) a one-person kayak, you get caught and if you get flipped over in a kayak, you drown immediately.
You'd be pretty screwed, your best chance is to wait in the top left corner clinging onto the railing as much as you can, trying to stay away from everything getting washed overboard and either wait there until help comes or if in this exact situation wait until the boat is close enough to the wall and try to jump for it, if you don't make it, well you're pretty fucked.
Boglenight .... That sucks ... You do see things go down stream, I wonder if you swam down under the back current if maybe you could get out of it... Just a thought... Your idea sounds like the odds would be better...
funkyflights Those things have a high buoyancy, humans are 70% water and have a significantly higher density, you would most likely drown, not to mention your head has a high risk of getting smacked by something in the water, have you ever been sucked down by a wave? Imagine that but instead of just having one board to look out for, it's several, and the wave doesn't pass.
Boglenight ... Scary thought... Yeah I've been smacked by waves and had no idea which way was up or down once... Those dams are scary the way the water just keeps going around and around in a circle, probably like being stuck in a washing machine...
funkyflights Exactly, but this washing machine is huge, more powerful and doesn't have clothes in it, instead it has bits of wood, bits of metal, some of those bits are sharp enough to lodge deep into your body and head.... sounds fun, right?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
The boat goes over the dam at 1:42
“It don’t go down”
-Robert 2020
glad no one was on it. lowhead dams are extremely dangerous
Amtrak Fan #164 Not as dangerous as high head dams.
Actually amazing how well it held up, not the sheet metal building part but the pontoon base. Very stable and basically unsinkable esp. for what looks like a 1970s model lol.
Turn to the LORD and have all before it’s to late
*too
@@carsonfarist8590what does that have to do with anything
WOW what a loss. The owner must have lost 80 or 90 dollars
lol
at least!
Now this is just funny!
He can even salvage the floaty bits from downstream.
Capt Sirl Shit, that old boat took a beating. I'd say it could hang with the best of them!! A new one would have been over and done with in 90 seconds!
note to self pontoon boats are boss at floating
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that was amazing to see the endurance of the pontoons great observation
not many boats can beat the 'boil'....so yeh, pretty awesome....
Pontoons can basically float through anything unless the load is too heavy and unremovable or the pontoons are punctured and fill with water.
Well, the dam has a considerable amount of water going over it that acts as a buffer and keeps the boat from slamming into the concrete of the dam itself. I would think that with enough ice hits over hours or days, it would eventually punch a hole in a pontoon.
If you think you can jump in that water and swim out or hell even be pulled back out. Pass around what you're smoking!
It could have been saved before it went over.
@@nightlightabcd it was too far out and too risky for 90$
looks like a low head dam. those are very dangerous. if you fall in there you may never get out.
+Joseph Saeteurn Helluva recirculating current there. Wow.
+Joseph Saeteurn Technically it's a weir.
+Joseph Saeteurn Minus the "may". The boil line is waaay downstream.
+merkin22 I think it depends on where in the world you live. I've always been taught it's a low head dam, and it's referred to as such in boater safety courses. However, yes, a quick look at google defines it as a weir. I think it's like a trunk or a "boot"
No kidding, I'd never be standing on that cement outcropping either like that group is doing taking pictures. All it takes is one mis-step to the right, and its all over.
It goes down
It dont go down
AHH SHII IT GO DOWN !!!
that video was the starting point of how I got here haha
+jarred wallace same 😂😂😂😂
+jarred wallace same here lol
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They should have made the Titanic out of pontoon boats
Seems like a difficult way to wash your boat but look at the bright side. It will be squeaky clean "No dust or dirt in the corners" and ready for a fresh rebuild.
I can see the Craiglist ad now:
*JUST WENT THROUGH A MAJOR TEARDOWN AND INSPECTION. READY FOR YOUR NEXT PROJECT BUILD. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT WITH YOUR IMAGINATION ON THIS VERSATILE, OPEN PLATFORM!*
1:35 is when things start getting crazy
Some say it is still being recirculated to this very day.
I like how the boat actually DOESN`T get destroyed.
Not much to do for excitement around them parts, eh? I hear theres paint still dryin' on the Johnson's barn.
Hey everybody scroll down the comments and catch a glimpse of all the armchair superheroes putting down the spectators for not risking their lives swimming thru chunks of ice with the magic hook and rope that they all carry at all times so they can save the heavy ass pontoon.
Col. Angus It is comical
Col angus.....that pontoon held up well.
If anyone tried to save the boat they would have died. They would have gotten caught in the same recirculating submerged hydraulic jump that was keeping the boat pinned against the dam, until they drowned.
"Robert, it do go down!"
I was waiting for a big ice burg to land in top of it...lol
Damn! Well built pontoon. V Hull would have been dead long ago.
I like the one lonely fire extinguisher, standing ready to help. You know, just in case a raging fire breaks out on this waterlogged boat.
That boat will need some minor repairs lol
I can't believe I watched the whole thing!
Pa Mil Thank you.
I learned something today.....I had to watch this to the end. lol
Your only chance to get out of hole like that would be to ball up and try to let the curtain push you down deep where you would come up at the boil line downstream. But it still might just pull you back.
I don't know why but whilst I was watching this I was working through what I'd do in this situation, like if I was on that boat.
If you were on the boat, you'd want to try to keep it lined up down river if possible, that exposes less of the boat to the water going over the dam. Definitely stay away from the dam, there's literally tons of force going over it every second, and it wouldn't take much to knock you off. Some of those ice chunks were probably 500 lbs. or more.
um maybe start the motor and take it up stream.
Looks like a 30' boat with a 3 horse motor!
I’m the guy sitting down with the beer.
Lotta haters on here. GL
Im more concerned with the massive amounts of those old oil drums bouncing around, did it flood out TOXIE'S house too?
The end was the most suspense, RED FORD BLOCKIN THE ROAD, they cant hear you down there Sheryl
Cascadia Vacation Home Services LLC Thank you. Lol
Pennsylvania's finest citizens right here folks. Eagles jersey and all.
did you guys collect the insurance check? did it cover the fine? lots of people outside of pa would have paid plenty for those tubes!!
What was a safe doing on the boat ?
Had the same thing happen here in Iowa....except the owner and his grandkids were on board. They had to come rescue them, and the video was featured on "Rescue 911" back in the early 90's.
If I’m ever stupid enough to get caught in a low head dam, I want to be on this boat.
Dude, where's my boat?
well that 1950's Pontoon boat looks like it was worth all of $50. dollars
worth more than your shitass Iphone 7
who's boat is that?
That pontoon boat had a very solid frame. The cabin not so hot.
That's what'll happen when you have a hydraulic jump of that severity.
Freaking Keeper currents. Nightmare fuel right there.
Boat actually held up fairly well should see what happens to a 12-16 fishing boat
Cool clip. If you only had zoomed out, even just for a short moment, so that we others also could see the place ;-)
+StormSim Sorry. Wasn't thinking.
I for one thought you did a fine job. Wasn't shot vertical or nothin!
+harlequindemon666 Thank you.
Ah, no reason for that, zooming in too much is just a common thing at youtube. But then again you win at keeping the cam steady :-), the other common problem.
thanks for the video the comments are hilarious some valid points thou
Amazing sturdy boat, water didn't get it, hope it can be saved and rebuilt.
you cant tear those dams out they are there for a reason, to keep the water levels high enough for water intake valves for water town ans city water supplys as well for sewage treatment plants, plus for navigation.
Is it still there?
Well, I'll be DAMned!
(Seinfeld theme plays)
They don't dry dock before winter there?
Desert Mountain Preppers They're supposed to...
Washing machines of death indeed.
This is one of these videos where it is so cool you check that it has some length and you find there is 2/3's left...whoopie!
Some say that boat is still swirling there.
Obviously you wouldn't want to be on that boat to begin with, but see how it eventually veers over to the side at 6:06. You could literally jump off from the boat into the shallow/quiet water beside it separated by the concrete. Sure, it would be freezing cold, but it looks like a better option than trying to grab onto that wall and falling directly into the dam. You'd certainly have to time the jump right with all of that movement on the boat, as well. It looks like 3-4 seconds max after each jerk of the boat in between the time where it hits the water going over. You'd have to recover quickly from the jerk, stand on the outside of that railing and jump as far away as you can into that still water. Those pontoons might stand up for hours, though...as long as they don't get a hole in them. The main thing is having the strength to hang onto the boat for that long, which makes jumping the only option if you were stuck on it. We have to remember that everything that goes over the dam gets kept there for hours or days. At some point a tree trunk come come down and that would cause it to flip the boat when both mashed against the dam.
Its highly unlikely that you make the jump at 6:06. Your best bet is to hold on the railing until a helicopter arrives.
A few years ago we had a rescue at a local hydro power station which was under construction so the low head damn was only approx 10 meters wide und 1,5 meter high. 4 students passed it with a rubber dinghy and got trapped in the boil. they were incredibly lucky that the boat didnt flip over but it was possible any moment. We secured the boat from the weirs wall with poles and ropes, dropping them life vests.
Because of heavy rain in the area for several days the currents were extremely strong and we couldnt reach the boat with our 200 hp rescue boat, the downstream was too massive. Roping down from the weirs walls was considered to dangerous so we had to call at another dam which was approx 2 km upstream to reduce the waterflow and radioed for a rescue helicopter. We rescued all 4, one by one with the helicopters winch.
All 4 survived with nothing but hypothermia and the scare of their life. Still, what an incredibly stupid idea crossing a low head dam on a flooded river with nothing but a 20 dollar inflatable boat....
Wow! They were very lucky! Great work!
that's a tough boat....
Das savn der Outburd motorn?
That is a super awesome trash collection system!
The boat survived fine. The crap he built on it fell apart. Throw a line to it and use a pickup to haul it out of there. Put on a new rail and rebuild the top correctly.
Now it's ready for the Bering Sea Gold show !!!
What is that dam for?
4:44, destruction!
These low head dams are dangerous to swimmers and kayakers as well. Avoid them to avoid drowning
I'm really surprised it didn't roll over, but I guess that's because of it being a pontoon with open deck design. A johnboat or any other boat with gunwales would have filled up like a bathtub, then rolled over.
well I'd try and save that motor,😁
Same! 😂
Prolly still bouncing around around out there ..
You could jump a jet ski over that dam lol
The picture showed people on board! It was a nice houseboat. Too bad it was destroyed!! No one with a boat even tried to save it?
If you are ever caught in backwash like this the trick to getting out is dive under to catch the outward flow.
wow that boat was a champion. probably could cross the 7 seas no problem.
low overhead Dam's are a killing machine..........
most entertaining thing these eagles fans have seen in a while
That boat was stuck in circulating water rather than water being translated. As I viewed all this I could not help thinking that this situation is so related to the wing of a plane when landing with flaps and stalls where the streamlnes on the upper surface of the wing will circulate above the trailing edge. This circulation rather than translation of fluid occurs in many situations and I am surprised that some people who design floodwater channels unintensially create a lot of zones with circulation rather than translation of water.
Low-Head Dams have earned themselves the title of "Drowning Machine" in a few places.
Low head dams, even with a 2 foot drop and trough will kill many people. That one would chew you up inside of a minute, easily.
Love the ice impacts
Looks like a boat house by the looks of it
Kinda anticlimactic if you ask me. Thanks for posting, I enjoyed it. I was just hoping for some closure. As it is in my mind right now, the boat is just stuck there forever. What finally happened?
+Les Mack I'm not sure Les. I left when I stopped recording. Wish I would have stayed longer.
That's okay, I still found this to be pretty amazing. I was hoping for some barrel rolls.
It is a shame that someone lost their boat. Many laugh it is only worth $50 or so, but not everyone has $20,000 for a boat. Now a question for all you experienced boaters. If someone had been on the boat, and it been under power, could they have run straight off and managed to jump past the recirculating area of the dam?
It looks like since it was sideways, it is only in water that is moving upstream. If it had been going off straight, would it have been able to move past that and gotten into water running downstream again?
not to mention there is a large sign on that wall saying "KEEP OFF"
what the crap, the guy in the red sneakers just pushes his way through there.
The fragile men cheer as the property is caught in the boil line. It isn't big to cheer it is sad.
Yes much pollution and wasted gear but I'd still give a little whooo!
Amen
Not amen to Danny but the loss of someone's property your all "off"
They probably didn’t realize it got caught like that
We are all just humans we love when things get destroyed
Can we get a sequel?
The Drowning machine
Looks like an episode of The Alaskan Bush People. Dadgumit.
Thats one tough fookin boat
She's pretty skookum
It do go down
the ending was just it laying in the water why did you record so much of it?
Darth Cameron Because you get paid more for longer videos.. Really I was just wanting something more to happen, it didn't.
The hell with Disneyland ,that is a cool ride
ElChafalote It would probably be the last one you'd ever take too.
Hi, I think I know the owner of that boat. Do you have any information on that boat? I would appreciate it thank you.
Yes. It is no longer seaworthy.
it do go down.
warning signs "KEEP OFF" "NO ... NO ... NO ..."
It’s like a hammer mill.
would love to see you try
Interesting and unexpected to see the boat permanently trapped in the turbulence right at the base of the dam that way. Presumably, unless it got pulled out, it would've stayed there till the water level decreased and the turbulence subsided. Of course by then it probably would've been even more busted up into fragments.
It's a low headwall damn. Those things are super dangerous and are drowning machines. If you look you can see exactly the seperation point where the water flows back toward the damn or down river.
@@CLCox-ur9ux I've seen how dangerous such dams are when they're small, and they look innocent and unimportant. If you have the misfortune to go over one in a canoe or (worse) a one-person kayak, you get caught and if you get flipped over in a kayak, you drown immediately.
Damn that was a nice boat too
Hold my beer!
Robert it goes down
Damm!!
Lowhead dams create hydro jumps and are extremely turbulent. To anyone unaware those things are extraordinarily dangerous
Looks pretty safe to me I would take a swim
the house part went to hell quick but the rest was well made.
"robert it dont go down"
Kinda Surprised the pontoon held on so well....
Seems like a nice spot to swim
How would you get out of that ? Let's say you were on the boat.... Can you get down stream or are you screwed ?
You'd be pretty screwed, your best chance is to wait in the top left corner clinging onto the railing as much as you can, trying to stay away from everything getting washed overboard and either wait there until help comes or if in this exact situation wait until the boat is close enough to the wall and try to jump for it, if you don't make it, well you're pretty fucked.
Boglenight .... That sucks ... You do see things go down stream, I wonder if you swam down under the back current if maybe you could get out of it... Just a thought... Your idea sounds like the odds would be better...
funkyflights
Those things have a high buoyancy, humans are 70% water and have a significantly higher density, you would most likely drown, not to mention your head has a high risk of getting smacked by something in the water, have you ever been sucked down by a wave? Imagine that but instead of just having one board to look out for, it's several, and the wave doesn't pass.
Boglenight ... Scary thought... Yeah I've been smacked by waves and had no idea which way was up or down once... Those dams are scary the way the water just keeps going around and around in a circle, probably like being stuck in a washing machine...
funkyflights
Exactly, but this washing machine is huge, more powerful and doesn't have clothes in it, instead it has bits of wood, bits of metal, some of those bits are sharp enough to lodge deep into your body and head.... sounds fun, right?
A lot of dislikes and a lot of would-be superheros in the comments, lol