Coast Guard Berates ‘Bubble Man’ After Second Ridiculous Rescue At Sea

[Elessar]

This should have been declared a Manifestly Unsafe Voyage!

That is pretty much a declaration from the District Commander
supported by District Legal and a Marine Inspector's Office.

Plus, a declaration of that nature is supported by Federal Law:
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/coast-guard-rescues-bubble-man_us_571fb008e4b0f309baeedbfb?amp%3Bir=WorldPost&utm_hp_ref=world

[Bilgerat]

Had a guy try to "sail" across to England

IN A BATHTUB


Sweet Dying Jeebus, why is the world filled up with folk that are more fracked up than a football bat?

[Elessar]

Had a guy try to "sail" across to England

IN A BATHTUB

Sweet Dying Jeebus, why is the world filled up with folk that are more fracked up than a football bat?

When I was at Sector Los Angeles - Long Beach, I got a strange 'voyage' stopped pronto.
An alert Sheriff's Sgt. at Marina Del Rey spotted a guy on the beach wearing a wetsuit,
two ski-like pontoons on his feet, a kayak paddle, and towing a sled full of provisions.
He told the Sgt. that he "Was going to WALK to Hawaii"!

The Sheriffs detained him while I got a Marine Inspector to arrive, evaluate it, and
send it Up The Chain. Declared Manifestly Unsafe in a matter of hours. The Sheriffs
put him in the looney bin for 72 hours observation:laugh:

[Kathianne]

I seriously hope he is fined the $40k.

[jimnyc]

They should have pulled up along side him and popped that thing and kept on going.

[Elessar]

I seriously hope he is fined the $40k.

..and publicize the whole court proceeding on all national media.

[Elessar]

They should have pulled up along side him and popped that thing and kept on going.

Sometimes one might be tempted to do that, but the repercussions would be severe!:laugh:

[Gunny]

When I was at Sector Los Angeles - Long Beach, I got a strange 'voyage' stopped pronto.
An alert Sheriff's Sgt. at Marina Del Rey spotted a guy on the beach wearing a wetsuit,
two ski-like pontoons on his feet, a kayak paddle, and towing a sled full of provisions.
He told the Sgt. that he "Was going to WALK to Hawaii"!

The Sheriffs detained him while I got a Marine Inspector to arrive, evaluate it, and
send it Up The Chain. Declared Manifestly Unsafe in a matter of hours. The Sheriffs
put him in the looney bin for 72 hours observation:laugh:

Where do people come up with this crap? Geez. "Let's see ... what's the dumbest sh*t I can think of?"

[Elessar]

As it turns out, it was declared to be Manifestly Unsafe previously.

Here are a few clips of this:

https://twitter.com/USCGSoutheast/status/724313123386216448

http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/inflatable-ball-rescue/#lqzrzDPW25qL

Here are two clips demonstrating the Law, might have to sort through them:

http://www.uscg.mil/d1/prevention/navinfo/navinfo/documents/enforcement.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/177.07

[Gunny]

As it turns out, it was declared to be Manifestly Unsafe previously.

Here are a few clips of this:

https://twitter.com/USCGSoutheast/status/724313123386216448

http://mashable.com/2016/04/26/inflatable-ball-rescue/#lqzrzDPW25qL

Here are two clips demonstrating the Law, might have to sort through them:

http://www.uscg.mil/d1/prevention/navinfo/navinfo/documents/enforcement.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/33/177.07

I wonder if genius boy bothered to look up the Arctic Flow. Those are some of the roughest seas between the West Coast and Hawaii I've been in. I used to LMAO about. The ship would be deserted because everyone was in the rack with green faces. :laugh:

[Elessar]

I wonder if genius boy bothered to look up the Arctic Flow. Those are some of the roughest seas between the West Coast and Hawaii I've been in. I used to LMAO about. The ship would be deserted because everyone was in the rack with green faces. :laugh:

I am quite familiar with that - the winds and currents coming down out of the
Gulf of Alaska. We sometimes during the winter get seas in excess of 35
feet. Alongshore, it does not get better, either. There is very little extended
continental shelf as there is on the East and Gulf Coasts. On the East off Long
Island it can be as far as 50 miles. Here in some places it is barely 1/4 mile.
There is nothing to spread out those huge waves here.

Then during hurricane season, we will get 20 foot seas pushed up from off
Mexico.

It can be pretty rough off these coasts up here.

[Gunny]

I am quite familiar with that - the winds and currents coming down out of the
Gulf of Alaska. We sometimes during the winter get seas in excess of 35
feet. Alongshore, it does not get better, either. There is very little extended
continental shelf as there is on the East and Gulf Coasts. On the East off Long
Island it can be as far as 50 miles. Here in some places it is barely 1/4 mile.
There is nothing to spread out those huge waves here.

Then during hurricane season, we will get 20 foot seas pushed up from off
Mexico.

It can be pretty rough off these coasts up here.

Preaching to the choir, bubba. We have 3 10 day workups prior to each deployment and it's nothing but a combat box. The only time we get further out than 10 miles is when they do the trash run at the end.

What always amazed me was the pollution you could see on the I-5 corridor from out at sea. I lived in that crap.

[Elessar]

Preaching to the choir, bubba. We have 3 10 day workups prior to each deployment and it's nothing but a combat box. The only time we get further out than 10 miles is when they do the trash run at the end.

What always amazed me was the pollution you could see on the I-5 corridor from out at sea. I lived in that crap.

Out at sea when nearing shore at night you can see the city lights.
It is called a loom.

Nearing the SoCal coast at night, we called it a gloom because of
the air pollution.

[Gunny]

Out at sea when nearing shore at night you can see the city lights.
It is called a loom.

Nearing the SoCal coast at night, we called it a gloom because of
the air pollution.

I was honestly amazed. Here I always thought it was fog. That Orange film along I-5 was eye opening. It just looked like a big orange turd to me. Gee, wonder why my run time went down. :laugh:

I honestly couldn't stand SoCal. For someone who spent years as a kid and half my career there, you'd think I'd have found another job. :laugh2:

[aboutime]

Had a guy try to "sail" across to England

IN A BATHTUB


Sweet Dying Jeebus, why is the world filled up with folk that are more fracked up than a football bat?


Bilgerat. That's really not so strange, to be honest with you. Before I retired. We spent about a month in the Florida straits rescuing Cuban refugee's who left Cuba in old automobile hoods, refrigerator boxes, welding old volkswagon buses that didn't sink, or leak. Some entire families nailed 8 or 10 wooden pallets together and made rafts that just kept them above water.

People in search of Freedom, or other things....will do almost anything.

By the way. We picked up more than 1000 of those people, and took them back to Gitmo. I spoke with a Cuban Mother, with a baby who was a Doctor in Cuba. She earned 30US Dollars a month before she was taken to Florida later.

[Elessar]

Bilgerat. That's really not so strange, to be honest with you. Before I retired. We spent about a month in the Florida straits rescuing Cuban refugee's who left Cuba in old automobile hoods, refrigerator boxes, welding old volkswagon buses that didn't sink, or leak. Some entire families nailed 8 or 10 wooden pallets together and made rafts that just kept them above water.
.

Mariel Boatlift?

That drove the CG, Navy, and Customs nuts!

[Elessar]

I was honestly amazed. Here I always thought it was fog. That Orange film along I-5 was eye opening. It just looked like a big orange turd to me. Gee, wonder why my run time went down. :laugh:

I honestly couldn't stand SoCal. For someone who spent years as a kid and half my career there, you'd think I'd have found another job. :laugh2:

My brother and I would go up to Big Bear Lake above the valley "Marine Layer".
Looking out over it from the elevation it was TAN, not white or grey!

[Gunny]

Bilgerat. That's really not so strange, to be honest with you. Before I retired. We spent about a month in the Florida straits rescuing Cuban refugee's who left Cuba in old automobile hoods, refrigerator boxes, welding old volkswagon buses that didn't sink, or leak. Some entire families nailed 8 or 10 wooden pallets together and made rafts that just kept them above water.

People in search of Freedom, or other things....will do almost anything.

By the way. We picked up more than 1000 of those people, and took them back to Gitmo. I spoke with a Cuban Mother, with a baby who was a Doctor in Cuba. She earned 30US Dollars a month before she was taken to Florida later.


My brother and I would go up to Big Bear Lake above the valley "Marine Layer".
Looking out over it from the elevation it was TAN, not white or grey!

Thanks a lot dirtbags. You should have shot holes in their damned bathtubs. We used to go to Tamiami Park in Miami and have picnics and play football and you f*ckers turned it into a refugee camp for Cuban criminals. We weren't even allowed to go there after the Cuban Boatlift.

I've been to Big Bear. Too pricey for me. Same with Palm Springs. When you're stationed in 29 Palms you're 50 to 100 miles from anywhere. And I spent my first 2 years there without a car. :hanging:

[Bilgerat]

Bilgerat. That's really not so strange, to be honest with you. Before I retired. We spent about a month in the Florida straits rescuing Cuban refugee's who left Cuba in old automobile hoods, refrigerator boxes, welding old volkswagon buses that didn't sink, or leak. Some entire families nailed 8 or 10 wooden pallets together and made rafts that just kept them above water.

People in search of Freedom, or other things....will do almost anything.

By the way. We picked up more than 1000 of those people, and took them back to Gitmo. I spoke with a Cuban Mother, with a baby who was a Doctor in Cuba. She earned 30US Dollars a month before she was taken to Florida later.


We've seen some crazy boats. Too bad these were sunk after the recovery of the passengers

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[jimnyc]

Sometimes one might be tempted to do that, but the repercussions would be severe!:laugh:

I didn't see anything :poke:

[Gunny]

We've seen some crazy boats. Too bad these were sunk after the recovery of the passengers

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The tough part about that is like having a dumb recruit that's hilarious and keeping a straight face. :laugh: You want to crack up and you can't. That was probably one of the hardest things I ever had to do as a drill instructor. You have to concentrate hard to just not bust out laughing. It's like WTF did your dumb ass have in mind? :laugh2:

[aboutime]

Mariel Boatlift?

That drove the CG, Navy, and Customs nuts!


Agreed. And strangely enough. Those people were actually being Fed better than we were in the crew. Our mess cooks had to carry trays, and trays of Chicken, and rice down to the well deck almost the entire time those people were onboard. We had to hide where we were on deck outside, if we wanted to smoke, or just get some air. The C.O. didn't want the people to see any of us, and we weren't allowed to take pictures. That was before cellphone camera's. But some of the press who came aboard in Gitmo, took pictures to show how those people were sleeping on the wood in the well-deck.
It was a sad time too! We also had to pick up those who Didn't survive, floating in their boxes, and old boatcar frames.
We did that for almost two months, back and forth to Gitmo, then the straits.