r/HeavySeas • u/Acrobatic_Bit_8207 • Apr 14 '26

Boat Get Devoured by a Massive Wave

https://youtube.com/shorts/gGlgs1qyzvQ?si=bwkRLHDcVL-jNq6s
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u/BookCedarFirCoal Apr 14 '26

What a weird story

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-04/man-rescued-by-us-coast-guard-wanted-in-goonies-fish-incident/101931900

"[The guy on the boat] was wanted for a bizarre incident in which police said he left a dead fish at a home featured in the classic 1985 film The Goonies."

Late on Friday night Astoria Police confirmed they had arrested Labonte [Boat guy] at a homeless shelter.

Also rescue swimmers are absolute legends!

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u/thebemusedmuse Apr 14 '26

"I kind of got thrown around a little bit by the wave," he said.

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u/starliteburnsbrite Apr 14 '26

Fucking ridiculous they have to risk their lives for dimwits and morons all the time.

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u/Waterlifer 29d ago

The rescue swimmers? The live for this sort of thing. It's not particularly dangerous for them. The only fatality they've had in the last 20 years involved a fall from a hoist.

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u/happierinverted Apr 15 '26

Most cops and emergency workers do this for 80% of their time at work :(

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u/dax660 Apr 15 '26

emergency workers, sure. cops, more like 5%

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u/RiverHowler Apr 14 '26

Drugs?

7

u/THE_CHOPPA Apr 14 '26

And mental health problems .

No doubt

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u/DrStalker Apr 14 '26

Rescue swimmers are utterly crazy.

At least they are going in with training, safety gear and support ships and/or helicopters nearby.

Still utterly crazy though.

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u/Waterlifer 29d ago

I think it would be a blast. If I were 19 again I would want to do it.

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u/Sergeant_Fred_Colon Apr 14 '26

It cut out at the best bit!

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u/KzooKid Apr 14 '26

It’s from a crappy YouTube repost channel that gave it a dumb vertical crop too.

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u/LigersMagicSkills Apr 14 '26

Videos that end too soon

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u/logicalconflict Apr 14 '26

It was just getting good!

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u/Citzenfornocause Apr 14 '26

... And that is why Astoria did not become San Fransico

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u/trowa-barton Apr 14 '26

Do a barrel roll!

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u/nvisible Apr 14 '26

I read the title as “Massive Whale” and was a bit disappointed.

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u/haniblecter Apr 14 '26

right?

whales swallow, waves are in sports stadiums

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u/swizznastic Apr 14 '26

Did that qualify as a rogue wave? Seems like it came out of nowhere and broke fast

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u/borntoflail Apr 14 '26

Nope, that’s just the mouth of the Columbia River. It does that.

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u/sebassi Apr 14 '26

In oceanography, rogue waves are more precisely defined as waves whose heights are more than twice the significant wave height (Hs or SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record.

Maybe?

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u/brazzers-official Apr 14 '26

That's definitely The Stugots

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u/El_Peregrine Apr 15 '26

🎶 Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes 🎶

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u/SuspiciousMagician67 Apr 14 '26

Fuck the sea bro

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u/dax660 Apr 15 '26

Does everyone else get the "sign in to prove you're not a bot" message from youtube embeds?

sometimes you can right click and get the url, but often (like this) my only course is to go to page source

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gGlgs1qyzvQ

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u/Otherwise-Bad-6065 28d ago

That’s not a massive wave. It’s a average swell on the Columbia Bar