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I'm watching the discovery channel - we get it in hd now so it's must see tv again. They are showing a program about hypothermia. I just don't understand how people think sometimes...

The first part of the show is about a quintet on a boat that went offshore in the Pacific NW w/o the right kit. Bilge pump failed and it started taking on water.

The people on the boat then did something totally inconceivable to me - the thing is about 1/2 full of water, and slowly going down, but they jumped off it into the sea and hung onto a float.

Why would you get off the boat until you have to? I always thought the rule was that you stepped up into the lifeboat...

Bad end - only two made it, but I just don't get why they did this. That said, I'm feeling like this a lot lately. I don't understand the thought processes of my fellow man sometimes. It's been one of those weeks...
 
Ditto. Stupid is as stupid does. I often wonder how some have made it to adulthood.
 
Well, without the proper gear it could be a case of foolishness from the jump. To further aid the foolishness and go from vessel to sea is evidence of poor survival instinct... Or a lack of training. Either way it's a bad end for half of 'em.


Simple suggestion would be: "Keep your head!"

...but who's to say.

I have the benefit of training.
 
alana said:
I'm watching the discovery channel - we get it in hd now so it's must see tv again.
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True that. Have a 70" HDTV in the 'theater' now and the HD channels are better than looking out the window. It's like a mini Imax with a screen that size. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif Planet Earth on Discover HD is breathtaking.

As far as the people in the boat. Just goes to show that a person can be smart, but people tend to be stupid. The larger the crowd, the lower the collective IQ.
 
That brings to mind the old quote about the intelligence of a mob.

"Take the IQ of the stupidest person and divide it by the number of people in the mob"
 
Sounds to me like they had a little tooooo much of that IQ lowering fluid. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/thirsty.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cheers.gif
 
vping said:
I often wonder how some have made it to adulthood.
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Dah, it's because the government is "protecting" them! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
< ...people tend to be stupid. The larger the crowd, the lower the collective IQ.

I have a sign in my office that reads,

"MEETINGS: Because none of us is as dumb as all of us together."

Don Neff
 
Nature's way of culling the herd, methinks!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
DrEntropy said:
Well, without the proper gear it could be a case of foolishness from the jump. To further aid the foolishness and go from vessel to sea is evidence of poor survival instinct... Or a lack of training. Either way it's a bad end for half of 'em.
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dock, a quintet contains five instruments actually only 40% perished and 60% survived, guess ya didnt play tuba in school. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
 
If you consider the first one to jump in the cold sea - out of a perfectly good boat - must have been dead from the shoulders up; he was halfway there; ergo 50%...
 
alana said:
The first part of the show is about a quintet on a boat that went offshore in the Pacific NW w/o the right kit. Bilge pump failed and it started taking on water.
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What did the show promote as the right kit?

Bruce
 
They didn't, but the right kit, on a charter boat 50 miles offshore, is not a big red styrofoam float and a cb radio in the wheelhouse, that's for sure.
 
mehheh.

When ya leave th' dock...

That's why LBC's are sooo much ~safer~!!

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alana said:
If you consider the first one to jump in the cold sea - out of a perfectly good boat - must have been dead from the shoulders up; he was halfway there; ergo 50%...
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I took a fellow up once in my Stearman who said he always wanted to jump out of one. He owned a jump school. So I did by taking him up and fliping it on it's back and dumping him out. He offered to pay me by taking me up in his jump plane and letting me parachute out. Even though I always wore a chute in the Stearman, I told him that anyone who purposely jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft is about three ears short of a bushel. I told him that I would only pull the rip chord when the wings fell off. Needless to say, I never had to. I know, I know, it's a fun sport,(so I've been told)! I just like to have more control, when possible, than a chute when I'm heading for the ground!
 
Anyone ever herd sheep? If one goes through the fence ..........
Must be a darwinian thing.

Faith brother Faith. {evolutionists have faith that the MISSING MAJORITY of the fossil record exists}

The boaters MUST have had faith that the water wasnt cold and there were NO large preditors nearby.

One thing IS certain, the boat WAS sinking, staying aboard was only a temporary solution at best.
 
PAUL161 said:
He offered to pay me by taking me up in his jump plane and letting me parachute out. Even though I always wore a chute in the Stearman, I told him that anyone who purposely jumps out of a perfectly good aircraft is about three ears short of a bushel.
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I used to work on jump planes. They are ridden hard and put away wet.

Believe me, none of our customers ever jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.
 
AweMan said:
Anyone ever herd sheep? If one goes through the fence ..........
Must be a darwinian thing.

Faith brother Faith. {evolutionists have faith that the MISSING MAJORITY of the fossil record exists}

The boaters MUST have had faith that the water wasnt cold and there were NO large preditors nearby.

One thing IS certain, the boat WAS sinking, staying aboard was only a temporary solution at best.
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aweman,you ever been in any body of water in the pacific north west that was warm at any time of year? and as you say staying in the boat was a temporary solution true but that extra 6-14 minutes might keep them alive just long enough to be rescued, having been to survival schools i can say that what they did from the time they got in that boat till the time they started dieing was wrong!
 
I like the egress method, Paul! Go inverted and DUMP the passenger. Simple, effective. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
 
anthony7777 said:
AweMan said:
Anyone ever herd sheep? If one goes through the fence ..........
Must be a darwinian thing.

Faith brother Faith. {evolutionists have faith that the MISSING MAJORITY of the fossil record exists}

The boaters MUST have had faith that the water wasnt cold and there were NO large preditors nearby.

One thing IS certain, the boat WAS sinking, staying aboard was only a temporary solution at best.
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aweman,you ever been in any body of water in the pacific north west that was warm at any time of year? and as you say staying in the boat was a temporary solution true but that extra 6-14 minutes might keep them alive just long enough to be rescued, having been to survival schools i can say that what they did from the time they got in that boat till the time they started dieing was wrong!
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Oh I totaly agree with you. I Myself would NOT jump off of the boat until the last possible seconds. I KNOW the waters of the Pacific North West ARE cold. AND cold just isnt my thing! Besides I would have been furiously looking for a floatie of some/any sort. {Not that it would have done any good to prevent hypothermia} I dont much like boating anyway for reasons I wont go into here. And yes I am a good swimmer, but I can walk much further than I can swim!
 
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