Hey, wait a minute...that's not a real drink!

Before going out make sure everyone has flotation vests, and Boobies your itinerary with the coast guard if you are going into a danger area, or you can just flounder like these guys.

jaylectricity: Hey, wait a minute...that's not a real drink!

Tell that to my bartender. He claims he can make anything except rent (which sucks because he's my roommate).

anyone who doesn't learn how to swim is buying a one way ticket out of the gene pool.

+1 subby, i lol'd

Abstruse: jaylectricity: Hey, wait a minute...that's not a real drink!

Tell that to my bartender. He claims he can make anything except rent (which sucks because he's my roommate).

Heh

Pribar: Before going out make sure everyone has flotation vests, and Boobies your itinerary with the coast guard if you are going into a danger area, or you can just flounder like these guys.

Boobies are always a great itinerary.

Pribar: Before going out make sure everyone has flotation vests, and Boobies your itinerary with the coast guard if you are going into a danger area, or you can just flounder like these guys.

I dont think the coast guard much cares about the delta.

I liked the photo of the lake water, nice touch there.

WTFZIT?

... serves 14; shouldn't it be 6?

/ 10 - 4 that don't come out...
// or are zombies involved?

MentalMoment: ... serves 14; shouldn't it be 6?

/ 10 - 4 that don't come out...
// or are zombies involved?

That boat aint done killin yet.

Neff says the incident is another reminder of the importance of having flotation devices on board whenever you go out on the water.

Neff said

That twenty-to-an-apartment, ten-to-a-car lifestyle does not work well with boats.

The Perfect Screwdriver?

Lee Bruns: I liked the photo of the lake water, nice touch there.

yeah, it was nice wasn't it? i would've photoshopped a couple of bubbles in it though.

Ten men on a 14 foot skiff? Sounds a little crowded ... and gay.

Sounds almost like a similar story on Sydney Harbour a few weeks ago, cept our boatload of drunken idiots managed to kill 6 of em.

The sea was angry that day my friend.

berylman Quote 2008-06-22 11:02:11 PM
Ten men on a 14 foot skiff? Sounds a little crowded ... and gay.

Yeah not really possible, even with midgets. Shenanigans.

Gaa no one reads my posts until I filtown myself.

Well, if they'd used good old American conservative Alcohol instead of that liberal pinko commie alcohol, they'd all still be fine. right Bubba?

who. the. fark. goes. out. on. a. boat. without. knowing. how. to. swim?

After reading the headline I realized I could go for a root beer float. I haven't had one in ages. Thanks subby.

As someone who used have to go and find the bodies of these type of people all I can say is please have a vest for all on board, an EPIRB and learn to swim. Glad I got out of the divers, still have friends in there and not one of them likes their job, especially when it's an avoidable tragedy like the story here.

AmericanMensan: who. the. fark. goes. out. on. a. boat. without. knowing. how. to. swim?

dumbasses?

Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I want to go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And its gone right to my head
Where ever I may roam
On land or sea or foam
You will always hear me singing this song
Show me the way to go home

AmericanMensan: who. the. fark. goes. out. on. a. boat. without. knowing. how. to. swim?

I was on a class V whitewater raft run once with a gal who couldn't swim. Fortunately for her with the big lifejacket she could float.

/funny when the guide asked the question jokingly, never expecting a serious 'yes' answer.

berylman: Ten men on a 14 foot skiff? Sounds a little crowded ... and gay.

Damn mexicans.

"I get it - that's a great joke!"

/hotlinked w. no shame

/
We're gonna need a bigger boat!!!


/Obligatory

Pribar: Gaa no one reads my posts until I filtown myself.

Nah, they just don't respond to them.

berylman: Ten men on a 14 foot skiff? Sounds a little crowded ... and gay.

I just hafta do this...

Ten men on a 14' skiff...
yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

/ yes, I'll go sit over there...

blick: anyone who doesn't learn how to swim is buying a one way ticket out of the gene pool.

You'd be shocked how many fishermen and lobstermen can't swim. Of course, 80% of the time they are working, in northern waters, it doesn't matter if they can swim - they've either got a survival suit on or their muscles seize up before they can swim back to the boat. But still.

That's not funny, a friend of mine died this way...

Liberal alcohol?

What is that, weed?

candiru.fish: That's not funny, a friend of mine died this way...

Welcome to Fark. We make fun of things that suck for some people. If I died in a moronic, hilarious, or at all public and unusual way, my non-existent spirit would not be surprised to see it getting laughed at on Fark. That's the point.

candiru.fish: That's not funny, a friend of mine died this way...

I'm actually getting a kick out of these replies, 'cause I'm bartending right now on a 12' skiff with fourteen people on board... just a minute... 'Quit elbowin' me for a minute will ya, I'm talkin' here...'

Anyway, they told me we ought to lay low on the ol' ETOH, and put on some floatation devices, but I just say to 'em, I sez "Hey...." (blub blub blub...)



/First day on Fark?

So four of them were black?

/yeah I went there

Took a swim-and-survial course in a get your kids outta your hair scout camp one summer.

Get tossed into the pool. First thing you do is kick off your shoes, then take off your pants. Tie a knot in the legs. Blow enough air into the legs so they look like pontoons. Position under arms to use as very temporary flotation device.

/ of course, being able to tread water for 15 minutes didn't hurt either...
// this was where the fat kids had it all over the skinny ones if they weren't 'afraid of water'. Higher BMI= you float easier.

berylman: Ten men on a 14 foot skiff? Sounds a little crowded ... and gay.

15 men fit on a dead man's chest...

Doesn't sound like any kind of 'float' to me.

FTFA: Neff says the incident is another reminder of the importance of having flotation devices on board whenever you go out on the water.

Don't dead people float?

TrixieDelite: FTFA: Neff says the incident is another reminder of the importance of having flotation devices on board whenever you go out on the water.

Don't dead people float?

most of the time, especially if clothed, no.

FuIru: Doesn't sound like any kind of 'float' to me.

Yeah. I want my root beer and ice cream.

Wow, I just saw a news promo talking about this less than a minute ago. This is a sad story, but not surprising. This still doesn't top the dumbest thing I've ever heard happen on the water.

I used to go water skiing in a lake about 40 miles from where this happened, and one day while camping we start seeing all these rescue boats and a search helicopter out on the lake. We had no clue what was going on, but about 4 hours later we find out a man drowned less than a half mile from where we were camping after he jumped out of one of those little paddle boats to retrieve his hat that blew off his head. The dumbass couldn't swim and still jumped in and drowned before the other person the the boat could reach him. Surprisingly enough I didn't feel like going swimming the rest of the day. It may have been because they were still looking for the body. It was a true Darwin Award Winning death.

Name of the boat: "Hey, y'all, check this out!"
Registered out of Panama City, FLORIDA

syzygy whizz

I ain't gonna lie, I float like a buoy. For the obvious reason, but I just think of it as the world's greatest flotation device... that I want to get rid of

Disgod: Wow, I just saw a news promo talking about this less than a minute ago. This is a sad story, but not surprising. This still doesn't top the dumbest thing I've ever heard happen on the water.

I used to go water skiing in a lake about 40 miles from where this happened, and one day while camping we start seeing all these rescue boats and a search helicopter out on the lake. We had no clue what was going on, but about 4 hours later we find out a man drowned less than a half mile from where we were camping after he jumped out of one of those little paddle boats to retrieve his hat that blew off his head. The dumbass couldn't swim and still jumped in and drowned before the other person the the boat could reach him. Surprisingly enough I didn't feel like going swimming the rest of the day. It may have been because they were still looking for the body. It was a true Darwin Award Winning death.

But did he get his hat back?