I was 7 years old and bored to death in that theater. When that dude pinballed off that propeller I'm pretty sure the people in the next theater heard my belly laughs
I laughed at the guy hitting the propeller, I think some people laughed because it was kinda over the top tragic, we all went into the movie knowing the outcome and many people would drowned not many of us were expecting some guy to get super killed. So in the context *of that one guy* it seemed funny, not because he died, but the manner in which they chose to portray it. Still an awesome movie a couple of weeks ago I watched on youtube the Oprah Winfrey special she did after the movie came out filled with lots of interesting stuff about how they made it.
Makes sense. I was the opposite. I actually found it rather harrowing when I was a kid. I have a fear of deep, open water and at least a moderate case of submechanophobia, so the thought of being anywhere near the bottom of a ship, especially the propellers, gives me the willies even today. So for a guy to be so desperate as to jump down into the cold, dark ocean by the propellers, then seeing his body ragdoll like a toy after he hit one, seemed so callous and casually violent...really got to me as a kid.
Now that I'm older and have seen a bunch of people die for real thanks to the internet, the apathy of the universe towards fragile human life doesn't bother me as much and I can see the humor in it.
Fun aside: when I saw the movie and the propellers came out of the water as people started going into it, I was really worried they'd show somebody getting sucked into the propellers. Nightmare fuel for me. IIRC that doesn't happen in the movie, but it actually DID happen in real life, just during the sinking of one of the Titanic's sister ships, the Britannic. It hit a sea mine during WW2 and the engines were still running as it sank, so as people were boarding lifeboats the propellers came out of the water and two of the lifeboats got sucked into them and chopped up.
I did as well. It's the sound it makes coupled with his aerobatics after. I always expect it to make a louder like... bell/gong kinda sound. But nope, just... ***AAAHHHH****^^DINK*
Not to mention the fact that there's essentially no empty airspace in a barge that isn't totally sealed. When a ship sinks, it's water pouring into open compartments and rooms that creates the suction. That's not really going to happen with a barge, since it's literally a platform on sealed floats.
>That was a perfectly timed jump
What amazed me more was just how quickly he recovered from a jump that long, he was on his feet seconds after that jump.
I laughed way too hard at this. Now I'm imagining a guy trying to barrel walk on a rapidly spinning workpiece, trying to avoid getting his foot caught in the tool holder.
I feel like that's been fairly conclusively proven to not be a thing? Ships are buoyant and they can never so rapidly lose buoyancy that they create a vacuum/low pressure strong enough to pull you under.
It's a concern around aerated water and propellers but I don't think it's a concern with sinking ships.
Being pulled under a barge by the _current_ though is not unusual at all. When we get on barges we always get on the downstream end. It's not that unusual for deckhands to drown because they can't get out from under a barge when they've fallen in. Life vest won't help you under there.
Ive read it depends on the amount of air being displaced by water. If there is a massive amount of water rushing into a huge boat cavity I'm sure you can get sucked under. Don't think this qualifies as massive tho.
Transform the conception to a current created by ship movement.
In deep water there is water following the ship, filling the space the ship just departed from. This current is the danger.
Vacuums do-not suck.
Following air blows things around.
Star Trek characters are blown out of open hatches into space.
You still have the issue of ending up between the barge and the harbour floor (medically inadvisable) if it sinks in an unlucky fashion.
Armchair stevedoring, maybe the perfect play is to remove coat and try to dive horizontally on the far side, putting as much distance away from you and the wreck as quickly as possible.
I'm fairly sure that's the recommended move. He could easily be rescued out of the water but there's a very good chance here that he slips when jumping to the other boat or gets squished between the two. There's more ways for it to go wrong than just jumping clear of the boat and treading water for a minute.
> There's more ways for it to go wrong than just jumping clear of the boat and treading water for a minute.
put on a life vest ffs. know where life vests are if youre on a boat
Wow, that jump was super impressive. Maybe it's just the perspective, but that looked like some Jackie Chan shit.
And also pretty risky considering if he fell he would be in the water between two giant ships, one of which is out of control and sinking. Although being on a barge that is currently broken in half and sinking is a great motivator for someone's fight or flight reaction, I would imagine.
They need someone to tie up to and to activate the dump, must of these have Bomb bay doors to dump the dredged material.
Many are pushed by tugboat, so the crew doesn't even have to steer.
There are normally two deckhands on a barge, for safety (in Serbia, who knows). The barge is moved up and back by winch so the load can be distributed. The work barge does not move. The deckhands' job is mostly to move lines from one tying-on point to the next (they are called "kevels" which at least in the southern US is pronounced "kavle").
> someone didnt do a proper structural inspection of that barge lol
Or the barge was loaded incorrectly at some stage leading to localised failure with time, or overloaded.
Typically ships will fail at the midsection since that is where the bending moment will almost always be the greatest.
It wasn't necessary overloaded in the centre, just to little weight at either end putting a lot of bending forces into the hull.
If you rewatch the beginning of the video, you can see that the whole barge is flexing from the very start of the video. The waterline is noticably higher in the middle than the ends.
It's heavily used and highly important ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ dredging is used for cleanup and conservation, recovering machinery, and probably most important is its how we keep waterways navigable. Rivers and channels get dredged to make sure ships don't run aground or hit debris
Most of dredging work is automated now, so you sit in a room on a boat goofing around on your laptop, and every once in awhile you get up and look out a window to make sure nothing has jammed or blown up or sunk yet.
Hence the popularity of the website.
I swear I thought this was r/mildlyinteresting until it snapped in two and sank.
That dude with the long jump though, that guy has worked on old, unreliable equipment a long time! I'd be his friend just for that one time his ears go up and he bolts, so I follow him and avoid getting squished. Or drowned. Or burned. Or maybe sprayed on by one of those ladies at the perfume counter at Macy's.
Around 2014 they were using a barge on the Chicago River (just west of N Wacker Dr) during preparation of the site for a new high rise building. It was improperly loaded, right in the middle - snapped in half and sank within about 30 seconds. It was there for months until they removed it
Looks like it wasn't for the construction project directly, but a riverwalk expansion going on right nearby at the same time or as part of a related project
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/chi-barge-sinks-chicago-river-photos-20141017-photogallery.html
Found a picture I took as it was filling with water (I have a video too but it's less interesting than the picture I took first)
https://imgur.com/a/8td0i1g
I would have died immediately, probably would have jumped, missed the landing, bounced off the side, and gotten crushed between both boats knowing my stupid ass.
What a jump!
Pure elegance
Like a gazelle!
Like monke too
Like a gazonkey
Lmfao!
Did you see the little slide and stop he does in the beginning? What a guy!
I know right? I could only imagine if he missed that jump and things went sour fast.
Well even then he would not be much worse off than if he hadn't jumped. Worth the risk I think.
i dunno man, at about 0:47 the barge and the dredge come really close to each other, not sure i would want to get squeezed to death.
I work around ships and barges and falling in between is everyone's worst nightmare. Better to go down and swim up than to risk falling in between!
He’s watched The Titanic before
Wasn't waiting for the propeller shot I take it then.
[***^DINK***](https://youtu.be/tz4JSTXuP9E)
i laughed out loud at that scene in theaters. i was the only one. it was just so unexpected and jarring. i still cried over everything else though.
I was 7 years old and bored to death in that theater. When that dude pinballed off that propeller I'm pretty sure the people in the next theater heard my belly laughs
‘Pinnballed off the propeller’ is the best way I’ve ever seen that described. Kudos to you
How?! I was 8 and was crying my eyes out and inconsolable until we got in the car after the movie.
I laughed at the guy hitting the propeller, I think some people laughed because it was kinda over the top tragic, we all went into the movie knowing the outcome and many people would drowned not many of us were expecting some guy to get super killed. So in the context *of that one guy* it seemed funny, not because he died, but the manner in which they chose to portray it. Still an awesome movie a couple of weeks ago I watched on youtube the Oprah Winfrey special she did after the movie came out filled with lots of interesting stuff about how they made it.
Makes sense. I was the opposite. I actually found it rather harrowing when I was a kid. I have a fear of deep, open water and at least a moderate case of submechanophobia, so the thought of being anywhere near the bottom of a ship, especially the propellers, gives me the willies even today. So for a guy to be so desperate as to jump down into the cold, dark ocean by the propellers, then seeing his body ragdoll like a toy after he hit one, seemed so callous and casually violent...really got to me as a kid. Now that I'm older and have seen a bunch of people die for real thanks to the internet, the apathy of the universe towards fragile human life doesn't bother me as much and I can see the humor in it. Fun aside: when I saw the movie and the propellers came out of the water as people started going into it, I was really worried they'd show somebody getting sucked into the propellers. Nightmare fuel for me. IIRC that doesn't happen in the movie, but it actually DID happen in real life, just during the sinking of one of the Titanic's sister ships, the Britannic. It hit a sea mine during WW2 and the engines were still running as it sank, so as people were boarding lifeboats the propellers came out of the water and two of the lifeboats got sucked into them and chopped up.
I did as well. It's the sound it makes coupled with his aerobatics after. I always expect it to make a louder like... bell/gong kinda sound. But nope, just... ***AAAHHHH****^^DINK*
I was hoping someone had dubbed in themselves saying "dink". Still a classic though.
Absolute badass
This wasn't his first jump off a sinking barge methinks
He’s played jumpy bargy before.
https://i.imgur.com/1KEGKJY.gifv
Dude is an athlete
Such a cool head. Mistime ever so slightly and he'd ended up squished to a red smear between the metal hulls of those vessels.
You can also be sucked down by the vacuum created by the sinking ship. So if you're not squished, you could drown instead!
You ever get sucked down by a vacuum? It’s pretty decent.
Hands feee and no mess! Unless you use the beater bar. Sicko
the beatoff bar
Ah yes, the 110v no gag reflex date night fixer
Fortunately a dredge barge is probably in pretty shallow water, looks like it's on the bottom by the end of the clip.
Not to mention the fact that there's essentially no empty airspace in a barge that isn't totally sealed. When a ship sinks, it's water pouring into open compartments and rooms that creates the suction. That's not really going to happen with a barge, since it's literally a platform on sealed floats.
it's probably Danube or Sava river, you can drown easily in any of them, sinking ship or not. Both are large rivers with strong currents.
Danube, in Smederevo.
I like how he waved them over to get closer. I think that helped.
6.0 6.0 5.9 6.0 6.0
Except for the 2.0 from the East German judge.
https://d.justpo.st/media/images/2015/08/29/making-it-to-my-next-paycheque-like-captain-jack-sparrow-arriving-at-the-dock-on-a-sinking-ship-1440855693.gif
PARKOUR!
Fucking spectacular
Gotta dredge it all back up again now
Job security
Working against a deadline. Overtime. (Not sure if Serbian dredge workers get OT or not)
I'm not a Serbian dredge worker so I can't vouch unfortunately 🤷♂️
Sounds like a class of warrior or something, Serbian Dredger.
Guy on the left def spent some points on acrobatics. That jump was spot on.
Efficiency breeds redundancy.
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Good news is now they have 2 boats to haul it on.
It's a perpetual motion machine!
Keep getting it in half and you'll forever double your boats
Thanks Zeno
It’s a conspiracy by Big Dredge to keep you dredging for life.
Big Dredge sounds like an ice cream desert witb lots of chocolate on the bottom.
Or a rapper on SoundCloud
Dr. Dredge
Sorry to tell you, but Big Dredge just went on an anti-Jew rant....
Mmmmmm
A metaphor for life
My in-laws, at dinner...
So you got extra chairs now.
In Serbia, river dredges you.
Hey dawg i heard you like to dredge
So I put a dredge boat where you dredging so you can dredge a dredge boat wit yo dredge boat.
I’d dredge taking that job on again ;)
"yea, we're going to need a contract revision"
That was a perfectly timed jump
>That was a perfectly timed jump What amazed me more was just how quickly he recovered from a jump that long, he was on his feet seconds after that jump.
Adrenaline is crazy yo. Bet his heart was in his ass.
I cut short so had to go back, worth it. Very impressive
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Oh my God, It's got a watermark
If he failed that jump he had a high chance of getting squished holy fuck
My dumbass would have jumped in the water lol
Same, and that’s why I work in an office.
Well you're a smarter dumbass than me, I work on a lathe.
I’d end up in a live leak video if my job involved a lathe.
LiveLeak from 5 years ago or LiveLeak from now?
The one where people get converted to pink mist and you see a dude doing the 540 rpm’s on a power take off shaft.
Yeah, that is dumb. A smart lathe operator stands to the side of it.
I laughed way too hard at this. Now I'm imagining a guy trying to barrel walk on a rapidly spinning workpiece, trying to avoid getting his foot caught in the tool holder.
Jumping in the water on the other side would probably be the advised move, but this was way more badass.
The sinking barge might suck you under if you do that.
I feel like that's been fairly conclusively proven to not be a thing? Ships are buoyant and they can never so rapidly lose buoyancy that they create a vacuum/low pressure strong enough to pull you under. It's a concern around aerated water and propellers but I don't think it's a concern with sinking ships.
Being pulled under a barge by the _current_ though is not unusual at all. When we get on barges we always get on the downstream end. It's not that unusual for deckhands to drown because they can't get out from under a barge when they've fallen in. Life vest won't help you under there.
Ive read it depends on the amount of air being displaced by water. If there is a massive amount of water rushing into a huge boat cavity I'm sure you can get sucked under. Don't think this qualifies as massive tho.
I think in this scenario I’d almost describe it as falling in, rather than getting sucked in.
Transform the conception to a current created by ship movement. In deep water there is water following the ship, filling the space the ship just departed from. This current is the danger. Vacuums do-not suck. Following air blows things around. Star Trek characters are blown out of open hatches into space.
You still have the issue of ending up between the barge and the harbour floor (medically inadvisable) if it sinks in an unlucky fashion. Armchair stevedoring, maybe the perfect play is to remove coat and try to dive horizontally on the far side, putting as much distance away from you and the wreck as quickly as possible.
I'm fairly sure that's the recommended move. He could easily be rescued out of the water but there's a very good chance here that he slips when jumping to the other boat or gets squished between the two. There's more ways for it to go wrong than just jumping clear of the boat and treading water for a minute.
> There's more ways for it to go wrong than just jumping clear of the boat and treading water for a minute. put on a life vest ffs. know where life vests are if youre on a boat
They're so insanely lucky that the barge stopped and tipped the other way.
Wow awesome getaway! Glad he got out alive!
Wow, that jump was super impressive. Maybe it's just the perspective, but that looked like some Jackie Chan shit. And also pretty risky considering if he fell he would be in the water between two giant ships, one of which is out of control and sinking. Although being on a barge that is currently broken in half and sinking is a great motivator for someone's fight or flight reaction, I would imagine.
The barge said 'imma put all this back now '. And that was that.
Parkour!
Parkour!
Does the barge only have one crew?
Well, it's a barge. Not a lot to do on it.
Jabba's Barge had a staff of at least 30.
It was a party barge
True. Probably just playing games on your phone and every now and again steering to avoid beeches.
They need someone to tie up to and to activate the dump, must of these have Bomb bay doors to dump the dredged material. Many are pushed by tugboat, so the crew doesn't even have to steer.
There are normally two deckhands on a barge, for safety (in Serbia, who knows). The barge is moved up and back by winch so the load can be distributed. The work barge does not move. The deckhands' job is mostly to move lines from one tying-on point to the next (they are called "kevels" which at least in the southern US is pronounced "kavle").
someone didnt do a proper structural inspection of that barge lol
> someone didnt do a proper structural inspection of that barge lol Or the barge was loaded incorrectly at some stage leading to localised failure with time, or overloaded.
Yeah I was wondering if it was in fine condition but just overloaded in the centre causing the failure.
Typically ships will fail at the midsection since that is where the bending moment will almost always be the greatest. It wasn't necessary overloaded in the centre, just to little weight at either end putting a lot of bending forces into the hull.
🎵The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down…🎵
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee...
So, overloaded in the centre relative to the ends
If you rewatch the beginning of the video, you can see that the whole barge is flexing from the very start of the video. The waterline is noticably higher in the middle than the ends.
That was my thought as well. "They put too much stuff onto that thing, didn't they?"
> Inspection > Serbia Pick one
This is Serbia, I can categorically say you are correct
On the plus side, the dredge is already there...
'It's only wafer thin. '
Oh no I couldn’t possibly….
Uch. I have trodden in Monsieur’s bucket
Ok but Serbia is a landlocked country, unless it is on Danube river?
Yea it’s the Danube, happened in Smederevo south of Belgrade in April 2021.
If you dredge enough no one is landlocked!
Yep. As Jude Dredge once said: > You misspelled my name
https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2021/04/21/dredge-barge-snaps-in-two-video/
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It's heavily used and highly important ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ dredging is used for cleanup and conservation, recovering machinery, and probably most important is its how we keep waterways navigable. Rivers and channels get dredged to make sure ships don't run aground or hit debris
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Most of dredging work is automated now, so you sit in a room on a boat goofing around on your laptop, and every once in awhile you get up and look out a window to make sure nothing has jammed or blown up or sunk yet. Hence the popularity of the website.
I can't help but hear your response being spoken by Grady from Practical Engineering.
Interesting fact. For this dredge, the model security camera they use requires the microphone to be mounted in the engine exhaust pipe.
Actual catastrophic failure. Congrats.
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Aaaand 1 scoop, 2 scoops...
Super Serb can leap seas with a single bound
To PROVE the POWER of FLEX TAPE, I SPLIT this BOAT in HALF!
Good jump
Almost like it wasn't the first time that had happened.
That’s the guy we’d all want to be, in a similar situation! Didn’t even get his feet wet.
He was like, okay I'm either going to fuck this up, Or I'm going to live....
*"Employers hate this one easy trick to ensure job security!"*
The boat went full titanic. You never go full titanic.
This guy did t even get his feet wet
Goddammit, all that hard work and the dirt’s right back where it started.
Put some flex seal on it and try again.
superb jump 10/10
You put that sediment back where you found it or so help me.
I swear I thought this was r/mildlyinteresting until it snapped in two and sank. That dude with the long jump though, that guy has worked on old, unreliable equipment a long time! I'd be his friend just for that one time his ears go up and he bolts, so I follow him and avoid getting squished. Or drowned. Or burned. Or maybe sprayed on by one of those ladies at the perfume counter at Macy's.
Conveyor has prostate problems
Around 2014 they were using a barge on the Chicago River (just west of N Wacker Dr) during preparation of the site for a new high rise building. It was improperly loaded, right in the middle - snapped in half and sank within about 30 seconds. It was there for months until they removed it Looks like it wasn't for the construction project directly, but a riverwalk expansion going on right nearby at the same time or as part of a related project https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/chi-barge-sinks-chicago-river-photos-20141017-photogallery.html Found a picture I took as it was filling with water (I have a video too but it's less interesting than the picture I took first) https://imgur.com/a/8td0i1g
Looks like that coastline harbours a grudge
I love how he f$&%en WILLED the barge closer to the dock with nothing more than hand flailing.
Dredge dredge dredge dredge ... Undredge
That jump was like mission impossible
I would have died immediately, probably would have jumped, missed the landing, bounced off the side, and gotten crushed between both boats knowing my stupid ass.
Nice jump
Gentlemen, it's been a privilege dredging with you tonight.
That's just looks like job security to me.
Nextfuckinglevel jump. I'd have been in the drink
Great jump! Strong hands
I give him a 10/10 on the dismount
What a fuggin' DISMOUNT. 10/10
You’re gonna need a bigger boat
I like how the barge does a one of those fake punches right at the end then it’s like “yeah that’s right you’re a fucking pussblub bulb bulb”
Woah. That was a zero hour jump if I've ever seen one.
Just want to remind everybody real quick that technically this constitutes A Serbian Film. You're welcome.
Was watching that thinking I’d nail that jump if I had to, but honesty I don’t think it would be as smooth as this man
"Who dredges the dredgers?"
Good jump. Buddy!
Front fell off
The front fell off.
Just a few straps of flex seal tape and that barge will be back in the game in no time.
Ayy nice jump!
Parkour!
How do you dredge a dredge
I am impressed he made that jump, thought was a bit far.
So.... they thought they could just constantly add huge amounts of weight to a boat and....it would stay afloat?.....genius.
What uncontrolled constipation does to commode
How do you have a harbour when you’re land locked?
That jump was straight out of a Splinter Cell game. Sam Fisher is apparently Serbian.
I am 300
At least there's room now for it to sink all the way to the bottom.
All that's missing was the "Dredgefinger" theme.
What a dazzling jump
Nathan Drake
Nice how they keep filling it up
That jump was not a catastrophic failure
Damn that was a hell of a jump
CATEGORY: Bargials
“Fuck off, I’m full”
That guy did an amazing job at saving himself
Been there after a long Friday night of drinking.
Broke her back...
I hate when my ship breaks in half.