Looking for help to find a powerboat video

[jonnylarge]

Can anyone help? I'm trying to find a video and it features the following:
1. In cockpit footage of a powerboat, that is open-topped
2. The camera points towards the back of the boat and shows the driver and passenger, both wearing red or orange helmets
3. The driver pulls a hard turn and the passenger flies out

I know I've seen it on Have I Got News For You (accompanied by a Milliband brothers joke) and I'm pretty sure I've seen it in an email a while back.

Can anyone recall this vid, and where I might find it now?

Cheers,

Jon

[andyr30]

Here's some, I don't think it's what your looking for tho, can't seem to find it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihN6dNUP5Sc

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxcVugd8llg

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLkSTrAI4X4

I think I know the one you mean though, they don't actually fall out...very nearly though and he ends up getting back in and carrying on. Can't seem to find it though

[jonnylarge]

That's spot on Andy. I think you're right though, in the video I have in mind the driver stays seated and just the passenger gets chucked out.

[Sea-Doo]

http://boatmad.com/gallery/main.php

[MOTORVATOR]

jonnylarge said:

That's spot on Andy. I think you're right though, in the video I have in mind the driver stays seated and just the passenger gets chucked out.

You're probably thinking of Shelley Jory this year. One of two bad accidents within weeks of each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rijxx-vkewg

[speedtwelve]

Jesus T-F Christ at the above clip! Throttleman goes for impromptu spacewalk while driver Shelley ends up on wrong side of cockpit.

Edited by speedtwelve on Saturday 30th October 22:05

[jonnylarge]

That's the one Motorvator. Great find!

[ApexJimi]

Why are they not in a fixed bucket seat, with harness?

Or am I missing something here?

[BonzoG]

I think I'd rather fancy my chances being thrown for a (high-impact ) swim than trapped upside down underwater by a full harness.

[MOTORVATOR]

ApexJimi said:

Why are they not in a fixed bucket seat, with harness?

Or am I missing something here?

They do use harnesses in some classes but they will tend to be canopied boats and that opens up a whole load of other stuff.

They will need to have air supplies to keep them going and go through a dunk test procedure to show that they are capable of releasing themselves underwater.

If the boat is upside down and you are unconscious you need people (divers) on scene instantly and that is not always possible in offshore racing. The class 1 cats have a hatch in the floor specifically for the purpose of going in from the outside on an upturned boat.

There is also an argument that you are more likely to survive an accident if thrown clear rather than strapped within a boat that hits the water upside down just milliseconds after your exposed head.

So there's no definitive answer to which method is best and each class has it's own take on the solution hence some canopied and some not.

[ApexJimi]

Ah, I see.

That rationale is perfectly logical - the underwater issue didn't occur to me at the time.