PWC Fail

Is this real or staged? I've seen it floating around the net the past week.
 
Might be staged (or not). You can never really tell these days, I did have to watch it a couple of times though..... Regardless. The message is still the same. In the immortal words of Sergeant Phil Esterhaus "Hey, let's be careful out there.":thumbsup:
 
not knowing what to expect I kept waiting for the hot blonde to turn around. She had a nice caboose on her. Wild video to say the least. Not sure why it would be staged but then again why was this guy driving that close to the beach anyway?
 
That's right. I'd being doing the same...... :wow:
 
No idea if it's staged or not...like said above, you really cant tell anymore - and people make up stupid crap, just to make it up.

I will say this however, I remember very well my first time on a jet ski years and years ago, and your instincts are ALL WRONG. If you're pointed at something and going to fast straight at it, your experience tells you "cut the throttle and turn hard" - for anyone who's ridden a jet boat, it's utter panic when you do just that and DON'T turn even a little.

If it's this drivers first 5 minutes on the jet ski, it's plausible. But it did kind of look like one of the instructors driving. Dunno, I've seen worse from so-called "experienced" individuals

I'm going with the hot blonde story, that's a winner
 
Friends of ours got run over in Jamaica same accident. With head injuries. Buddy in work has a SeaDoo rated at 72mph. Says it's too fast to hold on.
 
At seconds 8,9,and 10 everyone's eyes are on the incoming ski. At 10 the driver of the incoming ski is fixated on the ski on the beach (or the blonde) his arms are wrapped under the wheel hooked at the elbows. He never makes any movement moving the wheel away, he heads straight towards the ski on the beach. Also, a girl taking photos of her friend on the ski, sure but a guy taking video of a girl taking photos of her friend on a ski?

Looks like a stunt gone bad

Now back to the blonde... Nice suit!
 
dwna1a said:
At seconds 8,9,and 10 everyone's eyes are on the incoming ski. At 10 the driver of the incoming ski is fixated on the ski on the beach (or the blonde) his arms are wrapped under the wheel hooked at the elbows. He never makes any movement moving the wheel away, he heads straight towards the ski on the beach. Also, a girl taking photos of her friend on the ski, sure but a guy taking video of a girl taking photos of her friend on a ski?

Looks like a stunt gone bad

Now back to the blonde... Nice suit!
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Are you watching the same video I am?

At seconds 8, 9, and 10, the camera is on the brunette and the water--we don't see any other bystanders' eyes to know their points of focus. The brunette does a double take to look more closely over the handlebars of the PWC before she moves off it, at which point the camera person shifts focus to the left and catches the incoming ski.

The driver's arms aren't locked under the wheel. His right hand is holding the handlebar and his arm collapses/folds as his body and the PWC meet each other. Then his arm returns to a slightly flexed position, but eventually extends fully--hand still on handlebars--until his and the passenger's motion pulls them both off the PWC. That's one of two things--a classic death grip reflex to try NOT to come off the ski, or a person who thinks he can still stick a landing of some sort.

As far as whether he took any evasive measures, to me it's hard to tell with minimal footage between the PWC entering the frame and the impact--it looked like it was bobbling already before it hit.

I could agree that it might have been the driver trying to do something he thought would look cool, or be exciting for his passenger, but that he misjudged distance/speed and/or how the PWC would perform in shallow water or while sucking sand.

I sincerely hope it wasn't staged, though--that's a lot of human life to be risking, and those look like pretty nice PWCs, to boot.

What amuses me, though, is that you find it difficult to believe a guy would be taking video of two girls on a beach. Why not? I'm guessing some of the gentlemen who have commented so favorably on the blond's features would be doing exactly the same thing if presented with similar circumstances.
 
I stand corrected, I used a larger screen and brought it down to frame by frame.
 
I have had a PWC up to about 55 MPH and its damn scary on a lake at 55. I cannot imagine 70 MPH on one of these things or jumping swells on an ocean at high speeds.

I am going to weigh in on this being staged. The girl original on the ski looks way too calm after she moves off for it to be real. She should be freaking out, and she is not.
 
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