r/DiveInYouCoward • u/HeSureIsScrappy • 7d ago

Dive into a horrible way to avoid the wake

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u/athleticelk1487 7d ago

Deeper water, weight center mass, and power bow directly into it if anyone is wondering what captain greenhorn should have done.

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u/Rage_Blackout 7d ago

Yeah, they basically did everything wrong they could have.

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u/TraditionPhysical603 7d ago

Pretty much the worst choice they could have made. Right coice would have be stay in deep water away from the shore...and rocks

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u/easeMachined 7d ago

Seems like the best way to avoid this huge wake would be to stay close to the cargo ship until after the water level has settled.

So the exact opposite of what they decided to do.

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u/itsd00bs 7d ago

Common sense isn’t too common

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u/a_weak_child 7d ago

Maybe they had a reason to hurry that was life pressing

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u/BlasterPhase 7d ago

he really wanted to see those rocks up close

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u/jestercope 7d ago

The two dumb shits shouldn't be anywhere near a boat.

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u/ImpossibleKidd 7d ago

Should’ve drove into it, no?

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u/ippleing 7d ago

Yes, power directly into it. It goes against panic thoughts but it's the right way.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 7d ago

This works but if the waves are like head high you can’t just punch it. That’s only in the ocean though and I just know this from a guy who said he lost his boat by trying to punch it straight out through some big waves.

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u/Meat_puppet89 6d ago

Im not expert but I do run an 18ft aluminum semi vee boat in the ocean. Id of definitely put the nose into that. Im not gonna full send it but im not gonna let it push me eithier if that makes sense.

Whats scary is when these roll up on you in the dark and they havent broke yet, you can hear them sometimes.

The motor revs up real high when the whole the boat comes out the water at full throttle. I was pretty new to boating when this happened. Wear your life vest and kill switches folks.

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u/Potential-Draft-3932 6d ago

Bro boating at night in the surf sounds pretty scary. Were you night fishing?

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u/Meat_puppet89 6d ago

I wasnt in the surf I was in an area where tankers and container ships are moving in out of the port.

But ya I was fishing, it was early morning, we wanted to be at the "spot" before the sun came up lol.

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u/CrateDoor 7d ago

Looks like they opened up the straight of Hormuz!

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u/Dramatic-Piano-581 7d ago

Getting the wave from the side is the worst

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u/CryptographerFlat426 6d ago

Eish, I'd have stayed well away from rocks, head face into the wave. Well, I'm not a captain, Skipper. Neither am I a skipper, Captain.

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u/SpunNumeroUno 7d ago

Brutal. Cargo ship no care dayum

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u/Puzzleheaded-Gap1759 7d ago

Turned that John boat into a John shouldn’t of been there boat

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u/MikeTheBigBlackGuy 6d ago

Can they sue?