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Sargasso seaweed in the North Sound Cayman Islands
A mat of Sargasso weed made its way into the north sound and has clumped together along the coast.
Sargasso weed blooms have been exploding in the Atlantic the past 10 years. 2018 set records. This year has blown those records away. Cause of the blooms is Nutrients/Fertilizers being flushed out of the Amazon River and warmer water in the tropical Atlantic.
Also when these huge mats blow into shore lines like this and start to decompose they give of Hydrogen Sulfide and Ammonia gasses which not only smell bad it is toxic. Another victim to the decomposition is the wildlife under the mat. As it decomposes it sucks the oxygen out of the water and kills everything under it.
Sargasso weed blooms have been exploding in the Atlantic the past 10 years. 2018 set records. This year has blown those records away. Cause of the blooms is Nutrients/Fertilizers being flushed out of the Amazon River and warmer water in the tropical Atlantic.
Also when these huge mats blow into shore lines like this and start to decompose they give of Hydrogen Sulfide and Ammonia gasses which not only smell bad it is toxic. Another victim to the decomposition is the wildlife under the mat. As it decomposes it sucks the oxygen out of the water and kills everything under it.
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FIFISH RoV night dive
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Went to check out the diversity of the marine nightlife under our dock at night. Used the FIFISH V6 RoV to film.
Waterspout over the North Sound in Grand Cayman by drone.
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Quick vid of a waterspout by drone.
Thunderstorm Timelapse
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Quick TL of a thunderstorm that popped up this evening
Lightning Timelapse
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Quick trial lightning timelapse. Needed to get out earlier to capture more frames of the stars with lightning on the horizon.
Stingray City Sandbar Cayman Islands
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Short drone flight around Stingray City Sandbar Cayman Islands
Subtropical storm Alberto wind and rain 2018
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rain from subtropical storm Alberto 2018 Cayman Islands
Tropical Storm Philippe Cayman Islands
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Tropical Storm Philippe Cayman Islands
East End Cayman Islands
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Drone flight East End of Grand Cayman. First time using go pro quik.
Hurricane Irma Upper level outflow sunset Timelapse
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The outflow of Hurricane Irma seen from the Cayman Islands at Sunset.
DTH 49.5lb MAHI
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49.5 lb mahi on DTH Cayman Islands International fishing Tournament 2017
Clouds rolling in meteor watching fail :(
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Clouds rolling in meteor watching fail :(
There was zero skill involved in the recovery from this incident. Only pure luck
Stupid to suggest a boat destroyed... sure could become, but he finally saved her boat. This one she is a long keel... damage are less normally.
Very nice boat. Very stubit skiper.
Bientôt les bateaux pourront ne plus tanguer !
Some people are not supposed to have a boat!
Caribbean nations should band together. Figure out a way to capture this mass out at sea every season. Capture it & use it commercially. Your tourism amongst other things is dying.
Salty.....it seems that so many of our Caribbean islands are feeling the pinch of it! (Are you the Salty that I "knew" from WeatherUnderground?) If so, cheers!! -Lindy (STT)
Thats Me :)
Sargassum seaweed from the Sargasso Sea. Just saying
No it's not from the Sargasso sea.. A new area in front of the Amazonian river basin has started propagating Sargasso seaweed, it all started in 2011. this new area of Sargasso is being fed by pollution from billions of gallons of raw sewage, farm fertilizer and slash and burn nutrient run off annually entering the Ocean from Brazil and neighboring countries.. The Sargasso sea is in the middle of the Atlantic the currents do not come from that direction.. If you stand at point Udall on ST Croix you can see the Sargasso patches coming from the direction of Brazil, Not from the North Atlantic
This looks totally biblical. Excellent video conveying the magnitude of the situation.
Somebody needs to explain this to me
Sargasso weed blooms have been exploding in the Atlantic the past 10 years. 2018 set records. This year has blown those records away. Cause of the blooms is Nutrients/Fertilizers being flushed out of the Amazon River and warmer water in the tropical Atlantic.
Also when these huge mats blow into shore lines like this and start to decompose they give of Hydrogen Sulfide and Ammonia gasses which not only smell bad it is toxic. Another victem to the decomposition is the wildlife under the mat. As it decomposes it sucks the oxygen out of the water and kills everything under it.
@@saltydogbwi3 the main cause is lawn fertilizer. Golf course nearby?
High fives all around after that save..
Anyone who sails has had they're own near misses, me included, and we all play it back in our minds a thousand times to make sure we get the full benefit of the education out of the incident. The takeaways here are probably (not knowing the full story): 1. When in doubt, get out.... and don't wait to see if it gets worse. 2. Don't wait to start the engine when your mooring gets dicey. If you don't end up needing it, then it was an opportune time to charge up the batteries with the alternator. 3. Close to shore moorings are fun right up until they're not. Doubly true when that shore is a carnivorous boat eating type rather than a sandy shore. Good job pulling out out in the clutch skipper.
Well done he got that nose into the wind and powered out,close call,
miracle
I’m 61 been sailing since 5 I have a lot of knowledge and experience from what I see this guy don’t I would have unfurled my staysail as well as start the engine. And the diesel had enough power to move the boat as you saw at the end of the video All it takes is money to buy the boat Takes brains to operate it safely
Exactly what I thought.
Imagine what the skipper’s heart rate would have been 😳
The salvage guy's must have been gutted if they were watching ..how the hell did that get away from us ..it's just cost us thousands and thousands of easy dollars....
There's no way I would have put a foot on that boat.
Япона мама! Чего так близко к берегу в шторм стояли?!
Change your drugs!
Heavy winds and seas on a lee shore with rocks, and no purchase on the ground. Every skipper's nightmare.
things were bad from the beginning. The boat shouldn't been there with waves and strong wind from the open sea. Thought in the beginning that there was nobody onboard and therefore the boat in this misfortune. But surprise, surprise, suddenly the came out from the bunk.
Чудо шкипердяи, пока о камни не ё...о или не могли проснуться, или двигатель завести... ? :(
How did they manage to sleep all that time while the boat was doing 180s in the wash.
Island Packets are the nokias to the sailing world.
what do you mean by that ?
I wanna know why he waited until that point to start the engine. Would the engine not start?
Glad they made it . I was looking at the flow of water coming out the exhaust it didn't appear that he was on the throttle . He must have been having engine problems ?
that mooring rope was last inspected after this happened
My heart was beating in my trhoat....happy for the sauvage of this nice boat.
What material would be best for surviving a reef grounding if weight is important and money is no object? I was thinking carbon fiber construction of most of the vessel with a sacrificial bottom plating of either aluminum or UHMWPE or both.
Aluminum
Aluminum hulls like Ovni or a Garci. Although you can't touch a decent one for less than 100k
I suspect carbon fiber is too rigid and brittle. It has excellent strength to weight, but typical carbon fiber hulls don't deform very far before failing. Aluminum or steel or maybe titanium if money is no object seem better able to have elastic deformation to absorb energy without total failure.
Il faut être plus rapide pour démarrer le moteur😂😂👈
TH HAT WAS NOT LUCK. JESUS.
Looks like they were cranking the engine trying to get it to fire the whole time. I kept watching for the water coming out the exhaust and there never is a solid stream. Once he finally got the motor fired he made some steam getting the hell out of there!
I'm not so sure......the starter panel is to the rightof the helm looking forward, I saw nobody at the helmet area until they hit the rock's. The exhaust had pulses of water flowing for a good while before they hit the rock's which showed to me the engine was at least at idle. It took a long time for someone to actually get to the helm, the chap that did grab the helm only came up from the saloon when they hot the rock's........I wonder if he was trying to make safe something below not realising the predicament they were in.
Wow! One lucky sailor.
Eu... Yatchts e motos que os tiver, boa sorte. admiro vê-los na estrada velejando ou na estrada, mas invejá-los Jamais. Nao os quero nem para mim nem para os meus queridos
Lee shore nightmare
You just gotta keep trying!!! Awesome.
I guess we could call that a lucky escape. He cleaned off a few barnacles!!!!!!
Feel bad for the owner. I would have her pulled out and looked over after that rudder hitting like that. Great job getting her back out!!
No need to, it had probably only couple of scratches. Keel is more than an inch thick, this boat is pretty solid build. It has even reinforced frame.
The_Touring Jedi Do you know the make of this boat?
One hell of a way to get the barnacles off the bottom!
'Witch of Endor' was a ship in one of CS Forrester's 'Hornblower' books.
I bet his wife(or someone) slept in the v birth through all that. Honey we gotta go, never mind it’s gonna be a little bumpy, hold on to something. Snore snore. Snore What was the noise earlier. Oh nothing.
Absolutely amazing! No point in buying a lottery ticket... he’s used up all his luck
Lucky to get any prop fetch at all in that foam... man, that must have been one scary time!!
Not when you have more than an inch thick keel. This boat can take serious beating...
He was lucky he was able to get rounded up into the oncoming waves and that the rudder wasn't ripped out or began leaking. Probably should have anchored in deeper water. But guess that wasn't an option.
where is the key?
This an advantage of long keel sailboat.
If you've put yourself in a bad position I guess it would be difficult not to panic. It's easy to yell the right advice from the sidelines. Clearly they're at the mooring when they shouldn't be and that's the issue. Perhaps it's possible the stray mooring line fouled the prop, hence no engine until the end after I assume the prop was miraculously unfouled by the rocks. Just a guess.
A good example of how much windage roller furling has.
A good example of how much windage roller furling has.