Sunk Outboard Engine Recovery in 100 Feet of Water ! (Fluid 10m Accident)
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2024
- I was doing a sea trial on one of the best boats I've sea trialed "Black Betty" We were pushing the boat hard in pretty rough conditions and the rib lost an engine going full speed.The boat violently turned and luckily that boat console had seat belts if not we would have been ejected.The Shockwave ice 3 console is fully suspended and really has to be experienced to realize how good it is.
We lost the engine so Boyd from Sirocco Marine had asked me to retrieve the engine.I hired Deep Contact Diving Inc. and we were able to locate and bring up the engine.After doing the recovery i'm even more certain we made the decision that day.
Special thanks to South Florida Marine Center for supplying parts i needed and an outboard dolly. Those guys are clutch and always bail me out of any outboard engine questions that i need. True techs that know their stuff 305 258-5005
0:00 Intro
0:02- Fluid 10 M Black Betty With Shockwave Console
0:13- Mercury Verado 300Hp detaches from transom
0:49- Alfred Montaner Goes back on "La Bestia" to retrieve sunk outboard
4:47- Scuba Diver Locates Sunk Mecury Verado 300hp
6:23- Divers with Go Pro's go down to Sunk Mercury Verado 300Hp (100Ft)
7:54- Invasive lion fish on Sunk Mercury 300hp Verado
12:08- Underwater footage of Sunk Mercury Verado 300 Hp Rising
12:41- Surface view of Sunk Mercury 300hp Verado Exploding above water
18:47- Arriving back to boat ramp with Sunk motor
19:40- Sunk Mercury Verado 300Hp at Boat Ramp
23:13- Divers and Rodolfo being thanked by Alfred Montaner
24:24- South Florida Marine Center (Supplying Outboard Stand and parts)
28:08- (1 A.M) Alfred Montaner and Rodolfo the Mechanic working on Verado Outboard
29:13- Saltwater coming out of engine
31:28 Removing water with Starter while cranking
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Cooling system recently washed . . .
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Only used in salt water twice
The “hardest part right there” is listening to this guy talk.
Lol, for real..I fast forward it so many times because of that lmao.
His Spanish sounds Cuban and Cubans like to talk a lot and repeat over and over. Awesome recovery though.
The type you wouldnt want to have a beer with lol
Fuck yeah. You can say that again. You can say that again. You can say that again......This would be a 5 minute video with no repeats.
Yeah in the initial vid I almost committed suicide when he kept saying ,, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, “mark da spot”, when the motor fell off the boat!
Damn!!!!!!
Great video! I’m a diver myself and have done several recovery’s so I know how difficult these things can be. I live in Nebraska and have done a lot of drift diving on the Missouri River with low visibility and hard currents, that being said I know these men are professional upstanding safe people. Just a great job all around!
Solution: Always put a life jacket around your motor. You never know when they will fall off your boat. :-) Enjoyed the video.
He would have to tow it back anyway. No way to lift a 300 lb engine into the boat.
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Your comentary drove 90 percent of us crazy!!
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jeezus! Tie the knot already!
Alfred is the guy you wanna have around when things go sideways. Positive, calm, and logical. A+ Really good job man proud of you grace under pressure. You need merch that says MARK THAT SPOT!!!!
Man I was getting tired of that guy's narration - finally turned the sound off.
This guy just talks about nothing the whole time....
Might be a chick
Talks non stop nonsense like a chick
It got so bad that I subscribed to the channel just so I could unsubscribe. 😂
You all are a bunch of ignorant idiots, get a like and don't come back or I will tune you up. Cheers! Great video by the way!
He's like that asshole that kept yelling OMG while fishing under a bridge in another video.
He said thanks to both of you that left positive comments.
That was kind of nice I thought! Awww
The narrator makes me think of the guy that bolted the engine on. Underwater footage...soooo peacefull
lmfao best comment
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I appreciate all the hard work you and your friends did to get this motor, thanks much.
Three questions.
Depth of water at recovery.
What actually failed bolts/ or nuts vibrate lose?
We're you allowed to talk at the table as a kid?
Keith Tomczyk motor said 90 ft
Keith Tomczyk The bolts snapped off because they only used 4 bolts to hold the engine
@@ollemauleonwolter848 All the outboards I've ever owned had 4 mounting bolts. The issue is no one made sure to recheck them. I checked mine several times a year, never had an issue.
Glad you got it back bud and fingers crossed for you the engine is still good 🤞
I expected you guys to somehow use that lift or another lift , to get it out. But you just dragged 20mph thru the ocean and I am flabbergasted
WoW, I'd already given up on the video and retreated to the comedy of the comments, but yours made me go back and watch just to behold the insanity of this plan.
@@M3rVsT4H More money than brain....
Totally happy you all went back to recover out of the water...
Nice work Alfred! Search and rescue!
From 6:24 till 12:35 almost all is quiet, no drama, just the divers working.
Not true. Watching them tie that motor off extremely stressful.
35 grand of motor held on by 3$ bolts from lowes
I was thinking to myself please tie a rope around the motor so you don't loose it and it doesn't go under!
Pound stupid and penny smart 😂
@@DC-si8xw Yeah, they were just all kinds of stupid dropping the engine.
And only 4 bolts at that. Really?? Stay on dry land.
Soon to be sold as a low hour take off ( owner wanted to repower)
Glad to see you guys were able to recover the motor. Great job!
Great video! I’ll be checking the bolts on my 300 Verado just to make sure.
Bravo on the recovery! I had my doubts, but you proved me wrong. Good work!
$35K motor held on with 4 bolts they bought from DollarTree. Lemme guess, the installer boat-builder knew everything & how to do everything right.
Wayne Bolton that’s really a $35k motor ?
@@adamnorvell more like 25-30, but yes, verado outboards are expensive
looks like they could have been a couple bolts short also ...And don't forget the plug
A new 300 hp O/B motor is 19000-22000 dollars not including labor.
lucky to have guys like them to find and recover that engine
I adore you for the work done very well by the team for the union that you have. This rescue was to fill the eyes. Recovering such an engine is priceless. Especially when it works again. I'm buying a 115 hp engine and I know how difficult it is to have reliable equipment. This rescue, in my opinion, was a treasure trove. Congratulations to all of you.
100% safe he says I disagree strongly. Nearly textbook 90% wrong. You were lucky it didn’t come up uncontrolled under your boat, spill all its air and come back down on their heads.
Your the type of guy who will sue Starbucks cause your coffee is to hot. Snowflake grow a pair
Alfred, I am the type of guy that recovers the bodies after poorly planned and executed adventures like this go wrong. Be safe.
Just to get ahead of your next insult, I am a coxswain grade II Irish Coast Guard SAR, a PADI instructor, I have worked as a commercial diver where the biggest thing I was tasked to recover was a 30 ft truck, I have over 10,000 nautical cruise miles logged and I am currently employed as a Paramedic. And I doubt I scrape the bottom of the barrel qualification wise of some of the people who have urged you be more cautious with your engineering and seamanship skills. Take the hint and don’t glorify the risk taking. The only positive thing about your adventures should be how you have learned not to make the same mistakes again. But that would require a level of critical thinking way past your current level. I cannot comment on your level experience but again I urge you not to glorify risk taking and foolhardiness. Be safe. I wont be answering your next insult.
@@COM70 Mate, that was beautiful! PADI Divemaster 1979, EMT, have raised a few boats (one was 60ft. Motor Yacht). Most intervening years as a safety diver working on the prevention end of things but called up here & there working the sad end enough to know yours are "words of iron" (Outlaw Josey Wales). The movie popped into my head just now perhaps because the same holds true: Calculated confidence & high capability come thru extensive training & experience. It does NOT suffer fools. Enjoying the company of a small circle of active & retired SF friends since '79 in San Diego, who's influence drives home this precision point of survival in any dangerous endeavor. This guy rejecting even professional criticism/advice out-of-hand as "haters" is the height of careless foolishness. Perhaps made worse by the "Florida Man" phenomenon. Hope he and those he gathers around survive the experience. His is the exact same attitude that caused the decapitation of a school mate on a beach in Mexico in 1976. The guy was "slingshot" yanking a stuck 4x4 out of a beach bog using a 30m military surplus nylon air cargo strap. Two YFD family friends got in a heated argument with him demanding he give time to get the huge crowd moved back. Told them to FO, "I know what I'm doing!" You gather the result. The young teenage girl didn't know what hit her. Her best friend beside her was propelled 15ft in the air suffering bone deep lacerations across shoulder & chest. I do not like fools & posers. Unfortunately our present GoPro, selfie, YT world has seen an exponential rise in their number.
j alspach , I fully agree, makes my skin crawl. I think a lot of this may be down to the Kruger Dunning effect as an over arching cause, but certainly amplified by GoPro sensationalism.
I like the underwater shots... cause the camera man can't be heard.
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Someone still trying to blurble. Haaaaa
Wow, Amazing, Thank You for sharing this, Incredible Video as always, ty, ty.
Glad you guys we're able to retrieve the outboard. Crazy situation that could have ended up much worse. Glad everyone turned out okay. Might as well throw the Verado in the trash, but that's the least of the worries. Good work guys!
You guys don't carry rope on boats? That merc could have been tied up before it broke off.
Mike on my boat I have heaps of rope people these days are retards
I was thinkin the same damn thing.
Exactly what i thought! and I know nothing about boats, but i do know what engine cost :-D
Less time videoing and having a competition to see if they could break the Guiness Book of Records, current record for saying "Holy S***" the most times, would have provided plenty of time to thrown a line around the motor.
Exactly !!! stupid is as stupid does
Dude I love your videos. Great job. I am a diver and I appreciate you getting it out of the Ocean. Hope you get it running.
Great recovery guys 👍
good to see that you recovered the motor
Congratulations on the recovery of the outboard, all involved did a excellent job. You are a good man.
HAhaha How do you know he's a good man lol? one of the funniest post ever!!
Alfred - great work.
You were the only one that was truly focused in recovering that motor.
You were the one that emphasized marking the spot on GPS when it went down.
You were the one that coordinated the op to retrieve it.
You were the one that went above and beyond to protect the marine environment.
Again, great work.
Protect the environment???? This guy wanted a free motor. Give me a break.
Still epic tho
Lol, so he managed to recover an engine in less than 100ft of warm water with excellent visibility? Wow, what an achievement...lol! Try working in 200ft+of cold water with zero visibility and replace a 6000# pipeline valve!
@@johnadams-xe8yj most rich fucks would just leave it......that's DOTW's point.
You were the only one that didn't check the boat before you gave it a thrashing!
@Defender of the Weak - He was the only one who pays the credit card that the motor was purchased on. ;)
Man that sucks. Congrats on the successful recovery.
Nice job Alfred!
Imagine his stress level during a real emergency...
Makes my head hurt watching that bag get tied on. ten ways to do it and thats what yall came up with. Yep its floating is all can be said.
Michael Teeple like he said there is no substitute for experience.
Clearly they don’t have much of it lol
If you can’t tie a knot tie a lot.
My anxiety was through the roof watching that shit, much respect, but that's supposed to wrap around the motor or connect more than one point, a bowline
Exactly. I said the same thing and was called a 'hater' because questioned their technique, or lack there of, they tied it up and then damaged the motor in the harbor. Rule number one. Plan your Dive; Dive your Plan or Don't dive at all. They had no plan.
The plan was to go get an engine and bring it home.The outcome was we have an engine and we took it. Yes you still are a hater. AND A MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK 😁
Look like I said before cool heads working together can accomplish anything... you went back and retrieved the motor and that's got my respect. Brother you cant please everyone do what's best for you and so long as nobody is negatively affected by what your doing it's all good. Congrats on that recovery!
👍👍 good luck man, can't wait to see it running.
Hope to see a follow up on repairs and total cost
@Mike Lyons top end is gone due to hydrolock
@Mike Lyons how do you know that
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@@whyettjensen3292 it was running under the water
Eric my boy hes a great guy and one of the best mechanics .
That's beast! Great job guys!
Wow glad you got it back nice job
Whoever rigged that boat should pay for the repair, recovery along with pain and suffering
Exactly, 4 bolts the size used for these motors just don't break, something was definitely wrong with the installation.
Awesome job bro 👍🏾
Good job on the recovery!
You guys are amazing!
An engine that size going flat out one second and hydro locked the next second = YIKES !
Hydro locked? The motor fell off the transom from the beating it was taking, it didn’t lock up due to water in the cylinders.
@@bhoff82 Exactly, it was running flat out and it fell off the transom into the WATER. Chances are pretty good it ingested some water.
pyrobooby smith No doubt it filled the cylinders with water. Easily fixed by pulling the plugs and flushing with fresh water.
@@bhoff82 are you really that stupid. It's not a 9.9 evinrude. The electronics alone are a massive amount of money.
When an engine takes a gulp of water especially running at wfo it generally bends the connecting rod or causes some time of bottom end damage water is not compressible like air is
They dropped the engine cover on the way back. Not a good enough job.
At least it was recovered! Love your content!
Glad to see you retrieved the motor and I wish you the best in restoring it. Since there seems to be so much disagreement with anyone's ability to really bring this motor back "from the dead", a someone else said previously, it would be interesting to see another video of the "restoration" process and what was needed to put it back in service and some idea of the cost of doing so.....
I wish I had the money to dump an outboard. I have brains instead.
Ya the commentary and the talking kills it for me.
Unfreekin believable . And it started. I'm floored
nice work guys
“The motor broke off” thanks little guy we would’ve never figured it out. I thought we left the slip with only 1 motor
Right like he's the only that heard it fall off lol
Best use for a heavy ass verado is a boat anchor haha!
Just stumbled on to this channel. Great job and extremely entertaining. Awesome!!
Check out the entire playlist of this situation it's pretty entertaining
@@AlfredMontaner What a story! Looking forward to seeing that thing run again. Good luck!
Nice. ....Alfred 👍👍
Your behaviour leaves a lot to be desired. There is no need for all the hollering and excellartion .sometimes during the video i had to fast forward.maybe you thought you were being cool but you talked too much.alfred
Agreed.
I must agree along with all the self congratulating
dave7200 yes that is so damn annoying!!!!
Amen. All the patting yourself on the back and acting so dramatic could definitely plant a migraine seed. It’s not that big of a deal to the experienced guys that did everything. You had the numbers and paid a diver just chill
Hell yes I agree I had fast forward through the non-sense too. Just trying to get to the point of the video
Great work bro. I do salvage diving in NY. I wouldnt have done anything different. Get that engined pickled asap. And you will be good. All of those electric ports are pater proof. You should be good.
Most of the black boxes are probably ok because they are potted. The issue is the wiring harness, and boxes that has wires going directly into it and not using solid pins for connectors. Water, especially at 100 ft/40 PSI for this long, will force it's way into every single inch of wire under the insulation, and fill them with saltwater. The "problem" is that they would work perfectly fine for many months to come, but the wires will eventually corrode away and create all kinds of electrical issues if not the entire harness is replaced.
If you wouldn't have done anything different, I'm glad you don't work where I live... There's an eyelet on top of the motor, anyone who's ever actually looked at an outboard would know that. Tying an anchor rope to the foot of the engine loosely is the farthest thing from safe. And what idiot opens the air tank completely when filling an airbag? He could have killed everyone on the surface. The way that bag breached from 90' woulda been the equivalent of a bomb going off had it hit the boat
And that engine is shot. He was full throttle when it injested water. Water won't compress. It snapped every rod in that engine
Hay I have been stuck on your channel since I found it .your hard working and humorous. And lots of chit wich keep s us entertained
Great work you guys , I dived for 30 yrs it’s all about team work .👍
Hey Graham!
Did you really lose the engine cowling on the way back, wow. Do you know the price of that one?
No the cowling came off during the original incident. The diver said before he went down that there was no cowling.
8:06 shows a cowling still attached with decals visible and at the boat ramp it was missing ............
@@zerofox7347 8:06 shows a cowling still attached with decals visible and at the boat ramp it was missing ............
--Before disconnecting it from the boat, I would have strap-tied everything flotation to the tossed motor and towed it back.
I dont think any of them are commercial divers.
@@MessianicJudaism -- me as well but that would be my move.
Good Job... It will run after rehab... Thanks
Awesome job 👏
The motors been there a week and there's already 2 lionfish living on it! Jeez
They are bad down here no predators and very invasive
@@2dogmanshawn They wouldn't take the hint to scram would they
@@2dogmanshawn Thats what i've been hearing... they sell the crap out of em here in NY at the local shops.
They sell em At local restaurant's here
What are they getting for them?
Without all the hate and insurance asking for the engine, would they have gone back? 17:55 who told him to go try to recover it?
Rodolfo is quite the man obviously lots of mileage you are very lucky man to be hanging around Rodolfo You will remember this for the rest of your life
Sincerely good job guys ,in my 50 years of boating and my 30 plus year building and repairing some of the fastest boats on lake Erie I can say there is always a story at the end of the day good or bad but always a story .....Happy boating fellas piece
Hey, I got a question for you, what would cause me to have no compression whatsoever, it's a 3.8 omc, has 0 compression on all 6 cylinders
I just spoke with the people at Garmin, and they love the idea to have a OBO button next to MOB button just for you guys, the also said most likely anything that has a supercharger and it hits saltwater at 5800 rpm is junk, you can get a brand new power head from Mercury, just use your excellent Mercury warranty, nobody will say anything, just give it a good rinse and blow dry, they'll never know!!!! Hahahahahah
It was a dive buoy not an anchor, it lets other boats know there are divers in the water.
Randy Carlisle a dive buoy connected to an anchor.... d’Oh!
it was tied to a line that had an anchor on it
@@DOUBLEDEFENSE lol alot of times it's just a 5-15 pound plastic drop marker... But they did drop a engine so close to shore lmfao
Bro your half right the anchor is dropped at the gps mark and the diver can pull himself to the point and use less energy and air by swimming the whole way trying to hit a mark. Why waste when you can pull yourself while alerting other boats there's a diver. Also you normally use a dive flag on the boat not a buoy bro...
you did go get it that is good thanks for not trashing up the place
Awesome job guys!
2nd comment, You might want to inspect the bolts for shear, I just noticed the damage to the nose of the gear case, it definitely had an impact with something serious. You possibly hit something that ripped that motor off of the boat. Give us a follow up on transom and motor damage. Great video BTW
Good catch. You may be on the right track with that
Man, that would be rough! Dropping a motor worth as much as a car...that would not be a good day at all. Especially on a trial run 😳
The guy prob had it covered by insurance.
@Sammy Ymmas pretty sure marine salvage laws say anyone can collect it. In any case the PO said he could have the motor if he got it
@@timmeh1234 isn't it trash after 2 weeks in salt water LMAO
THe object of the exercise has been accomplished with no blood or too much fuss. Good job and keep safe.
Very nice recovery
I think would have been best to inflate a raft under rather than drag it through the water
Its also really funny how people magically come out of nowhere nd all a sudden there experts in boating and boating safety and they know what there talking about.
Well said, Comradski.
Well done!!
Nicely done!!
Wait a second......... how was there “that’s the hardest part right there”... 2 times????? Will spend many many days thinking which was really the hardest one ☝️ hahaha
What are you asking? How did he find the exact spot to search? Im sure he dropped a pin on his smart phone when the engine dropped. So he can go back to the exact spot within about 10 yards even in the dark.
If you had not cut the engine loose in the first place, you would not have had to go diving for it
Dude, but that was a whole new exciting youtube video for his channel $$$$$$$. Don't forget to subscribe and smash that like button Bro.
its not like it weighed 300lbs or something. Closer to 600lb, you could hardly budge it much less move it out of the way of the other motor.
@@ssijon its not like they werent close to shore!! securing it out of the way and idling back would have been ok
Except he suggested that, and the boat owner was the one who cut it loose.
Yeah lets leave the outboard hanging from the back and start heading for land! Let it twist and turn and it drags in the water and risk hitting the other outboard prop, good idea
Good job guys.
Great recovery job well done 👍👍🦅🇺🇸🦅
Ive never understood why they cut it loose instead of tying some ropes to hold it up, and disabling the engine.. Then pulling it back to dock.
Probally because its realy heavy and it wassent save to do that
Because it weighs over 600 lbs
And it rocking back and forth would have torn up the other engine
@@peytondardenne6242 Not if tied securely. Right behind. It was already fixed with other wiring harness etc. if that harness and other stuff held up that heavy of an engine.. U could of secured it with a rope...around the round portion of it... then slowly went to the dock which u can see is very close. Just what I woulda done.
The problem is you are applying logic and common sense all of which seem to be sadly lacking in every aspect of this "drama" from the moment someone made a pigs ear of mounting the motor in the first place.
When you guys brought it up it still had the engine cover, did you lose it on the way back? still, good job those engines ain't cheap!
Oh yeah, dragging it in from what a mile or two out , at ten knots!!?
Or the damage from dragging it over the rocks in harbor!?!!
Obvious not same motor hoax for views
Well done. Worked well.🍻
Your 3 guys. Bring it on the boat!
"Listen, Listen, Listen"... YOU TALK TOO MUCH
LINDA, LINDA, LINDA!!! YOURE NOT LISTENING LINDA!!!
If they weren't cheap or educated they would have used rolled bolts which are specifically designed for boats and aircraft so this doesn't happen. But I guess when you lose an engine, it's a form of education.
Can you tell me why a rolled bolt would be better to use in this application? Are the two choices rolled and cut? Thanks
great job guys,job well don!
Jennifer stick around i need a bunch of ladies on the channel to put all these guys in Check !
well done Al...!!!!
The guys underwater communicated more clearly than you.
Those bolts look kinda small. And they we striped locktite would not have helped
bingo my friend, they should have used much bigger bolts!!!!!
True that. Guess they should re-drill it for a 8 or 10 hole bolt pattern. Or open the holes up for larger bolts.
Alfred is the only guy that gets tired and short of breath while other people are doing the work LMAO. Great video though.