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Post by JStokes on Oct 12, 2016 18:05:22 GMT -5
This thread had nearly jumped the shark but then Stokes came through with the incident story... Bravo. I may be a dick but I'm not an idiot. I'm still waiting on GoPro shots from my brother. And when my roommate's wife releases her photos GTFO. She's been in National Geographic. She has the ultimate photo. _ _
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Post by JStokes on Oct 12, 2016 18:57:03 GMT -5
Btw, nothing on the drone video? How crazy was that?
One more addendum to the story, just to show what a complete dick I am. Well, me and my crew.
So the kid with the drone, no joke a kid maybe 28, single diver (there were a few of them, kind of weird going on a 6 day epic trip alone to the edge of the world) had his drone up the first morning and we were watching the video stream on his iPad. Very cool and super clear video.
So me and my crew gave knicknames to everyone on the boat, Captain Obvious (he approached my roommate filming the shark wrangling and asked, in all seriousness, "taking pictures of sharks?" And my roommate deadpanned "no, just getting some mountain shots"-- he actually started out as Captain Asperger because we thought he was on the spectrum) Squints, Pinky Tuscadero, Zeke (he had a really small head like his mother had the Zika virus), Olaf (he was a 7 foot Russian guy that looked like an Olaf) and the drone kid we called Jimmy Neutron.
To his face because he liked us. His name was actually Jimmy. We taunted him often with cries of Jimmmaaaaaay!!
So I jump out of the cage and grab my tequila and I see Jimmy Neutron and I yell "Jimmy, get the drone up" to film the histrionics. He dutifully complied and within 3 minutes the drone is buzzing above the shark rescue scene.
He didn't have it calibrated perfectly -he was trying to keep it at 30 feet but every time it went above 24 feet it dropped down to 15 feet- right at the level of the action.
Drones have an incredibly annoying hum especially when you are trying to save the lives of divers, your dive masters and a shark, all whilst controlling a boat filled with 24 customers.
The calm cool collected Captain lost his cool momentarily when he yelled "GET THE DRONE OUT OF HERE!"
Jimmy had just gotten the drone so he wasn't fully adept at controlling it so he attempted to bring it in but it kept dropping in on the rescue.
The Captain yells again "GET RID IF THE DRONE!!" and Jimmy relies "I'm trying! "
And again it descends down on the rescue and the Captain kept yelling and he kept trying to reign it in but imagine how embarrassed he was.
Drinking great tequila at this point.
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Post by Big L on Oct 12, 2016 20:52:51 GMT -5
Good times, good times...
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Post by jay57 on Oct 12, 2016 20:57:22 GMT -5
Wait, that drone shot was the shark rescue? It looked like a guy feeding a shark to me.
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Post by JStokes on Oct 12, 2016 21:03:31 GMT -5
Wait, that drone shot was the shark rescue? It looked like a guy feeding a shark to me. No that was the morning of day 1. Just to get a sense of the boat and cages. He never got video of the shark rescue. There is at least 1 video of it that my roommate took and I have but I can't post it. _
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Post by shakin on Oct 12, 2016 21:07:40 GMT -5
zeke
lol
shakin would fit right in with your crew. but i'm 6'2" so i'd step carefully
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Post by JStokes on Oct 12, 2016 21:09:57 GMT -5
zeke lol shakin would fit right in with your crew. but i'm 6'2" so i'd step carefully Do you drink a lot and make fun of strangers? _
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Post by Jets Things on Oct 12, 2016 21:25:55 GMT -5
Fantastic stuff, shakin. Eh, stokes. No way I'd ever voluntarily find myself in a shark cage.
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Post by shakin on Oct 12, 2016 22:00:30 GMT -5
zeke lol shakin would fit right in with your crew. but i'm 6'2" so i'd step carefully Do you drink a lot and make fun of strangers? _ um, what else is there? serious question
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Post by 32Green on Oct 12, 2016 22:25:41 GMT -5
zeke lol shakin would fit right in with your crew. but i'm 6'2" so i'd step carefully Do you drink a lot and make fun of strangers? _ That's Christmas Dinner in my home.
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Post by Mond the Bagnificient on Oct 14, 2016 6:30:35 GMT -5
Stokes. No joke but I think your video is about to be played on foxnews. Turn it on if you read this.
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Post by Big L on Oct 14, 2016 7:53:24 GMT -5
Stokes. No joke but I think your video is about to be played on foxnews. Turn it on if you read this. Saw a lead-in on NBC. Not sure if it was Stokes, but looked similar to his sitcheeayshun.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Oct 14, 2016 7:56:42 GMT -5
Stokes. No joke but I think your video is about to be played on foxnews. Turn it on if you read this. Saw a lead-in on NBC. Not sure if it was Stokes, but looked similar to his sitcheeayshun. I posted this gif today in the Funny Picture Thread, so it's probably trending. Seems like a different situation to what Stokes described. Still makes you wonder how often these types of incidents happens, yikes. i.imgur.com/VULmqgv.gif
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Post by Big L on Oct 14, 2016 7:59:02 GMT -5
Saw a lead-in on NBC. Not sure if it was Stokes, but looked similar to his sitcheeayshun. I posted this gif today in the Funny Picture Thread, so it's probably trending. Seems like a different situation to what Stokes described. Still makes you wonder how often these types of incidents happens, yikes. i.imgur.com/VULmqgv.gifI didn't see a rope around its tail like Stokes said they used to pull it out.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Oct 14, 2016 8:01:14 GMT -5
I posted this gif today in the Funny Picture Thread, so it's probably trending. Seems like a different situation to what Stokes described. Still makes you wonder how often these types of incidents happens, yikes. i.imgur.com/VULmqgv.gifI didn't see a rope around its tail like Stokes said they used to pull it out. And he said it was catatonic.
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