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Which Way to Bermuda?
« on: October 05, 2014, 11:14:26 AM »
I'm kinda wishing the USCG would have youtubed the part where he stopped and asked for directions.  :laugh:

Props for his heart being in the right place, not so much for preps.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/deadline-miami/article2510698.html
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2014, 10:45:45 PM »
Just a guess but, I'm thinking he's a flippin' idiot!
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2014, 10:52:42 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on October 05, 2014, 10:45:45 PM
Just a guess but, I'm thinking he's a flippin' idiot!

Yup. I'm not familiar with prevailing winds over that path, but I'm thinking with the design of that bubble and all the surface area, they could turn 1000 miles into 3000 miles. It might be a good publicity stunt to Catalina Island, as outlined in the background (on a calm day, anyway), but the way the video showed him working inside the bubble, it looks like he's burning a couple thousand calories an hour. Super inefficient.
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2014, 11:13:10 PM »
Quote from: Ben on October 05, 2014, 10:52:42 PM
Yup. I'm not familiar with prevailing winds over that path, but I'm thinking with the design of that bubble and all the surface area, they could turn 1000 miles into 3000 miles. It might be a good publicity stunt to Catalina Island, as outlined in the background (on a calm day, anyway), but the way the video showed him working inside the bubble, it looks like he's burning a couple thousand calories an hour. Super inefficient.

Catalina Island is a 22 mile trip (IIRC) from the closest point (San Juan Capistrano (IIRC)). Thats a long walk even on land!
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2014, 11:23:42 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on October 05, 2014, 11:13:10 PM
Catalina Island is a 22 mile trip (IIRC) from the closest point (San Juan Capistrano (IIRC)). Thats a long walk even on land!


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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2014, 11:35:16 PM »
Quote from: Sergeant Bob on October 05, 2014, 11:13:10 PM
Catalina Island is a 22 mile trip (IIRC) from the closest point (San Juan Capistrano (IIRC)). Thats a long walk even on land!

"26 miles across the sea, Catalina Island is a waitin' for me" :)

I think he did it from Newport Harbor. On a really calm day, I think it would be doable even in that contraption. We have people swim it and row it every once in a while for one cause or another.
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2014, 12:25:39 AM »
I think the video said he took a 250-mile trip in the contraption. I think he would have made it to Bermuda, and back around the Triangle, in normal space. The problem is, you get out in those waters, and you end up in extra-dimensional space, traveling 3000 miles in some other dimension, and you've barely gone two yards in any dimension found on a map. What are ya gonna do?  =|
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2014, 01:16:48 AM »
Quote from: fistful on October 06, 2014, 12:25:39 AM
I think the video said he took a 250-mile trip in the contraption. I think he would have made it to Bermuda, and back around the Triangle, in normal space. The problem is, you get out in those waters, and you end up in extra-dimensional space, traveling 3000 miles in some other dimension, and you've barely gone two yards in any dimension found on a map. What are ya gonna do?  =|

Worse - you get back home to Florida and find that Columbus hasn't discovered America yet  :lol:
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Re: Which Way to Bermuda?
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2014, 11:30:33 AM »
Okay,  Flor-i-duh to Bermuda.  You've got the Gulf Stream pushing you along at a steady 1-2 kts.  However, getting from Bermuda to the Bahamas, you'd be fighting that same current.

And while his little pod thing works great in calm, sheltered waters.  The ocean ain't calm, sheltered waters.

I just have a hard time watching that and seeing all those guys there with him and not one told him. "This won't work.  You're being stupid."


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