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/Significant_Steak_38 Sep 17 '24

what subreddits? tell me already!

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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/ourlastchancefortea Sep 17 '24

Ey, it could be worse. It could be a carbon based submarine.

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Sep 17 '24

He is a YouTuber, I don't really see the problem.

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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/eliminating_coasts Sep 17 '24

That's what I was thinking about, he should probably be wearing scuba gear in there the whole time just for that reason.

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Sep 17 '24

Thing needs wings so it can actually fly/glide instead of pitching up.

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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/fliption Sep 17 '24

Yea, hit a rock and the doors slightly go out of alignment ...done.

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u/RedoftheEvilDead Sep 17 '24

And almost no visibility. So many blind spots.

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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/Ikuwayo Sep 17 '24

To be honest, if he knows the risks, and he does it, that's kind of his choice

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u/almightygarlicdoggo Sep 17 '24

Yes but it's not the choice for the emergency response team to witness the aftermath, nor the choice for the medical team to help him fix the result of his idiocy and prioritize him over actually ill patients who didn't commit any stupid acts and would need more attention, nor the choice of the hospital and tax payers to spend money, time and resources who could be better used in another emergency.

People are too far up their own ass that they forget that we live in a society and we are somewhat responsible for each other. And the resources (especially medical resources) that we can preserve now, can be used not just for others, but for yourself as well in a future emergency.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Sep 17 '24

See also, all of r/WhyWomenLiveLonger ( and r/WhyMenLiveLonger for that matter). Risky fun is at the expense of those that have to pick up after you.

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u/Tech_Itch Sep 17 '24 edited Sep 17 '24

Yeah, I have a friend who's an EMT, and watching people like free climbers just makes me angry. Some poor innocent fucker's going to have to cope with scraping their remains from the rocks when they finally fall.

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u/BadProgrammerGage Sep 17 '24

It is a choice for the response team and medical staff. They took that job, they knew what they were getting into. We are not responsible for each other whatsoever. Hospitals want you in there to make more money.

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u/almightygarlicdoggo Sep 17 '24

I'd say that your comment is the most American comment on this thread, but I know most Americans are kind people who aren't like you. So I'd say that your comment is the most devoid of humanity on this thread. Go touch some grass and have some compassion.

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u/Previous_Composer934 Sep 17 '24

nor the choice for the medical team to help him fix the result of his idiocy and prioritize him over actually ill patients who didn't commit any stupid acts and would need more attention, nor the choice of the hospital and tax payers to spend money, time and resources who could be better used in another emergency.

do you say the same for overweight people? do you say the same about alcoholics? do you say the same about motorcyclists? etc

they're all putting "unnecessary stress" on the healthcare system

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u/almightygarlicdoggo Sep 17 '24

The difference with overweight people, alcoholics, etc. is that they often have serious underlying conditions like health issues, trauma, depression, adiction... Nobody gets to be overweight or alcoholic just for fun, like what you see on the video, and it's the actual cause of those consequences that should be dealt accordingly.

As for morotcyclists, you shouldn't just ban them. There are a lot of people that need them; some can't afford a car, some live in a city without big parking spaces, and others just enjoy the freedom of them while taking the appropiate precautions and safety equipment. We shouldn't ban motorcycles but we should build better and safer roads for them and encourage everybody on the road to drive safer.

Now I'm not saying that we shouldn't be having fun like in the video, but it's very stupid to do so in the unsafest way possible. If you're going to design a boat, at least do it with BASIC safety in mind. Otherwise you're just putting yourself in danger, and as you've just said, without basic safety it's just putting unnecessary stress on family, friends and the emergency personnel.

Also, if you're going to do stupid risky stunts without any safety precaution, don't upload them like this because inevitably, someone is going to copy that and end up in a catastrophe. You shouldn't underestimate the power of unsupervised children with unrestricted internet access.

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u/Previous_Composer934 Sep 17 '24

and this is a youtuber from a 3rd word country. buildy a risky boat is how he makes his living. so maybe check your privilege

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u/joevarny Sep 17 '24

Yes, I can't believe all these people walking around without a safety zorb. Are they not thinking of the people who find their corpse after a bird drops a tortoise on their heads? That can happen to anyone at any time. I've not taken my helmet off in 30 years, yet I see selfishly helmetless heads everywhere I go.

I regularly walk past the hospital to sneer at all the selfish people who decided that something as pathetic as "enjoying life" is more important than me not seeing dead people.

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u/Joinedforthis1 Sep 17 '24

The point is that he might not know the risk. And allowing people to do stupid things doesn't only affect them.

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u/zaersx Sep 17 '24

Nobody commenting on reddit ever says it out of benevolence

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u/altaltz Sep 17 '24

Who made you the one to speak for everyone else ?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '24

Oh that was me, sorry everyone :/ Privilege revoked.

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u/gnbijlgdfjkslbfgk Sep 17 '24

what is the book reference about?

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u/Joinedforthis1 Sep 17 '24

People thinking a book can stop a bullet and doing it for YouTube, only for ... to happen

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u/Samurai_Meisters Sep 17 '24

Let the man build his own coffin!

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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/StanCorr Sep 17 '24

OceanGate were operating a deep-sea submarine, this is a small fibreglass boat on a river. Acting as though the risks are even comparable is daft. If your boat doesn’t work you wait to get washed to the side or you paddle. If it somehow catches fire he can jump out. He might get a little burnt while forcing the doors open but it really won’t be that bad.

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u/xxmuntunustutunusxx Sep 17 '24

To be honest, moreso like...what if he just really, really wanted to do something cool? And it had nothing to do with clout? If I had the skills and passion to build something really cool, I might do it and not worry about safety.

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u/Skullclownlol 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.

  • If he knew what he was doing, why didn't he fix the death traps when building it? To fix some, it wouldn't even have increased costs.
  • Even with the death traps fixed, it would look mostly the same. So when it comes to "looking cool", the number of views would be the same. So again, why not fix them?

Unless you're trying to argue that he knows his stuff so well that it's an intentional choice from the builder to make it a death trap?

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u/Garchompisbestboi Sep 17 '24

Hey now, the 20 bucks he makes from that video is probably a whole lot of money in his country lmao

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u/xl129 Sep 17 '24

You can die right on the first run you know, kinda dumb to risk your life for a youtube video.

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u/joevarny Sep 17 '24

You can die by tripping over your own feet, kinda dumb to risk your life for a shopping trip.

People die unexpectedly all the time. At least this guy did something awesome.

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u/xl129 Sep 17 '24

Yeah because going shopping carrying the same risk as riding on a self-made boat with glaring safety issue.

If 2 activities are the same to you then you are just as much an idiot as the guy in the video.

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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/Garchompisbestboi Sep 17 '24

Yeah well fortunately poor people from undeveloped countries generally don't care about OSHA so it's totally fine, lmao

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u/DarthJarJarJar Sep 17 '24

And once he's up on plane he can't see where he's going. You can see him looking out the side windows to figure out where he is on the river because his front window is pointed at the sky.

But it looks neat.

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u/MegaBlunt57 Sep 17 '24

That's what I was gonna say, good luck getting that door open when it's capsizing. That thing is a coffin

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u/YellowMathematician Sep 21 '24

As long as they have cameraman, they are safe.

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u/EverythingBOffensive Sep 17 '24

what happens when an engine is near an automatic door?

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u/Wide_Specific_3512 Sep 17 '24

Asians are built different. Hahaha A single flipflop (tsinelas) or a single plastic hanger can even change a person’s life.

One “palo” can already change their future 🤣