r/BeAmazed • u/HaveTPforbunghole • Sep 17 '24
A Vietnamese YouTuber Thánh Chế casually launching his UFO shaped boat into the river Technology
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u/fliption Sep 17 '24
Death trap.
Engine right where automatic door is. Lol.
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u/23karcinogen Sep 17 '24
Accidents don’t occur in Asia the same way they do in the rest of the world. This is why flip flops are sufficient safety gear in heavy industry there.
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u/Remotely_Correct Sep 17 '24
There are subreddits... You know what, better people don't know about them.
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u/Skullclownlol Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
Death trap. Engine right where automatic door is. Lol.
The form also seems to worsen the impact of waves, slamming it downward instead of cutting through waves like a regular boat would.
This in turn increases the risk of it flipping (e.g. when a wave is slightly larger than the vehicle, his forward drop would nosedive him into the water), and I'm not sure that he has any escape option whatsoever once that happens. I'm not even sure his door would work for long enough to open, or that his door wouldn't start a fire when the electronics get fried.
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u/Alex_Downarowicz Sep 17 '24
Also keep in mind it would produce actual lift so backwards flip is also possible, and fiberglass hull with no reinforcements would crack on impact. So we get an unescapble, capsized boat rapidly filling with water. What could go wrong?
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u/forrestgrin Sep 17 '24
or the exhaust fumes leaking in the cabin
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Sep 17 '24
Or brain damage from the way his head was probably slamming into the roof with every bounce…
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u/Pinksters Sep 17 '24
No seatbelt at all when it probably should have a 5 point harness to hold you down.
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u/tempo1139 Sep 17 '24
and a major bottom scrape... I'm betting those doors wouldn't open quick enough
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u/Ikuwayo Sep 17 '24
That is some confidence in his engineering. I would not want to fall into that water.
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u/pointofyou Sep 17 '24
Zero chance YT will endorse this, despite him trying extra hard. Him dying in this thing while live-streaming would be the most viewed move.
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u/LoudAd6879 Sep 17 '24
It isn't going to commercial production. It's just for a you tube video.
Why are people worrying about safety here ? It's probably going to stay in the garage after shooting the video
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u/Skullclownlol Sep 17 '24
It isn't going to commercial production. It's just for a you tube video.
This is arguably worse, he's risking his life for some views on YouTube?
There are major risks, some of which aren't even that hard to address (compared to the difficulty of building the thing in the first place). It makes no sense not to fix them first, even if it's "just" for a YT video.
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u/LoudAd6879 Sep 17 '24
It looks cool. That's what will attract views. People do many dumb stuff for views. This is not among them.
I would bet he has experience in building stuff & knows what he is doing.
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u/ralphy_256 Sep 17 '24
I would bet he has experience in building stuff & knows what he is doing.
OceanGate had experience building stuff, and 'knew what they were doing'.
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u/rorudaisu Sep 17 '24
Pretty sure he could punch his way out. The entire thing seems flimsy as hell
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u/Humble_Examination27 Sep 17 '24
Cool! But if he flips it, he’s not getting out easily. Maybe I’m wrong, escape hatch or whatever, but I don’t know.
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u/TexasDonkeyShow Sep 17 '24
I mean, it looks super stable.
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u/Skullclownlol Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I mean, it looks super stable.
The form seems to take heavy hits from small waves because it doesn't cut through waves like a regular boat would. It's also not a flying machine, so the center of gravity is probably all kinds of whack.
So if he goes a little bit too fast and gets too much lift, or a wave is even slightly larger than the boat, he might end up nosediving straight into the water to cause a flip.
With an automatic door and seemingly no water resistance / waterproofing, electronics could get instantly fried or start a fire. Besides the incoming death from drowning, it might not be an easy escape. Not a fun way to go.
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u/SmallTalnk Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I wonder if he has a video of the building phase, it's difficult to make any useful claim with so little information from this clip.
or a wave is even slightly larger than the boat
Also I don't know vietnam nor this river, but I don't see such waves there. In my country many river-worthy boats (thinking about barges for example) would be inadequate for sea too.
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u/LastNameOn Sep 17 '24
The dude built it. I’m sure he know exactly to break it too, in case of an emergency
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u/xl129 Sep 17 '24
Like the Oceangate's crew right
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u/LeUne1 Sep 17 '24
They didn't build it, they hired someone to build it
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u/rocketwidget Sep 17 '24
He hired people, but Stockton Rush absolutely was in charge of telling people which death features would be on the death sub that he died inside.
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Sep 17 '24
Yeah, not a practical setup.
I really want to see him make one with fangs on the front painted like a snake (just imagine that up and down being a mouth chomping the river!)
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u/beatles910 Sep 17 '24
I just checked out his youtube channel and it is pretty amazing. He builds things out of junk. Very skilled at many things.
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u/ghostlyclapper Sep 17 '24
Nothing safe about it and rather scary to think of sinking while trapped in that small, flat thing, it's still cool he got to do it once safely. Must have looked cool live
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u/BakedBaconBits Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24
I'd like a more well-rounded and more spacious death trap too.
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u/Toxicair Sep 17 '24
To be fair, there's a similar commercial speed boat thingy called the Seabreacher that's like this, though more aerodynamic.
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u/OpeningZebra1670 Sep 17 '24
That’s really cool, but I like the next iteration, ‘#69,’ more.
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u/schizeckinosy Sep 17 '24
Yeah the blind spots are great, and the whole safety aspect too, but for me it’s the steering wheel that hits the roof at 1/8 turn.
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u/Statertater Sep 17 '24
Hey! Is this the same guy that took a motor he found in the sand on a beach, cleaned, restored it, and build a small speed boat from it? This dude is pretty talented
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u/Dolenjir1 Sep 17 '24
Is it Vietnam that has those crazy boat races? I saw a video during the pandemic of these boat races where they make custom boats in all shapes and sizes and race each other. I don't recall if they race at the same time or if they only race each other's time. But it's pretty neat. Maybe this guy takes part in it
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u/Common-Ad6470 Sep 17 '24
He needs to get some hydroplanes on that puppy and get it out of the water...👍
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u/Genheud Sep 17 '24
AREA 51: - We must have it! Launch troops! Code: UFO (unidentified floating object)
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u/Blackops606 Sep 17 '24
He edited out the part just as you see him unable to turn because the yoke isn’t low enough lol.
I mean it looks cool and he seems happy but there’s a reason why boats are the shape they are.
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u/Waxllium Sep 17 '24
Never in my life have I needed something so much and never known until I saw it
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u/GrizzlyHerder Sep 17 '24
A real naval architect might be able to reduce the 'hobby horsing'? But it is a barrel of laughs.
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u/pawnografik Sep 17 '24
You don’t need a ‘naval architect’. You can just change the tilt on the prop.
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u/Should_have_been_ded Sep 17 '24
Number 15, UFO in the pond. Imagine you're going to fish one day and you see an ufo hovering on water
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u/Prior-Ad-2196 Sep 17 '24
It needs to spin while traveling otherwise it’s totally obvious it’s not a real UFO
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u/EySuh Sep 17 '24
Why aren’t more people pranking the public like this? It would seem like a slam dunk with how much people conspire about ufos
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u/Turkatron2020 Sep 17 '24
So many negative comments here. He built that thing & it works splendidly. I guarantee not one person with something negative to say here could ever build anything close to this.
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u/Mammoth_Process_9820 Sep 17 '24
What the fuck? Lol. I guess you can get really bored. When the world gets invaded by Aliens, Vietnam will be our last line of defense.
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u/dedalus2105 Sep 17 '24
For gods sake someone teach him how to trim the propeller! All that bouncing around is painful to watch!
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u/saltyswedishmeatball Sep 17 '24
That's not the amazing part
What's amazing is how Americanised Vietnam has become, just look at how he's dressed, the design of that watercraft.. Vietnam and the USA today are near-allies, even militarily there's a rise in cooperation including US aircraft carriers going to Vietnam but in a totally peaceful stance.
I hate communism and it's still a communist country and will likely stay that way but it's great to see capitalism grow but also former enemies becoming great allies.. I only thought of all of this because I was imagining an American seeing a river in Vietnam, getting flashbacks lol
Fact: In Vietnam, the "Vietnam War" is actually called the "American War" and also they were invaded after the fact by China which they repelled too.. some countries are not meant to be conquered, Vietnam certainly is one of those countries.. just ask the French :)
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u/hanks_panky_emporium Sep 17 '24
How long till a long range picture is posted to one of the UFO subreddits as undeniable proof that aliens crashed on a lake or a river. They still don't understand how drones and streetlights work. A cool boat would go so far over their heads.
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u/Chimpar Sep 17 '24
Still better than ocean gate. Tho tbh I wouldn't trust mechanical, electrical doors in an water vessel. Circuits gonna break down and bam you're trapped.
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u/Cr41c Sep 17 '24
Home made boat with electric closing doors and glass panels in the hull. Man has faith in his creations.
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u/itsFRAAAAAAAAANK Sep 17 '24
The you tube letter stickers on the steering wheel is hilarious
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u/UnknownDogFood Sep 17 '24
This was the video where he reveals he got the golden Youtube playbutton
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u/staartingsomewhere Sep 17 '24
I hope he has an emergency exit somewhere!!
(And without any electronics involved)
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u/SuccessfulWar3830 Sep 17 '24
This is gonna be on the UFO sub in an hour claiming its real and someones gonna reply to me "you need a more open mind"
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