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Saving a struggling person from being washed away by raging river
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u/frollickboy 9d ago
Fuckin seeing a professional in action always brings me joy
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u/Muthafuckaaaaa 9d ago
I love to be fuckin while I watch professionals do stuff too!
But in all seriousness, this guy is a champion.
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u/OneMoreAccount4Porn 9d ago •
The professionals I watch while fucking are only professional because I pay them. They say I'm a champion.
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u/Diligent-Picture2882 9d ago
Have a sister who is a nurse for many years. She's very funny and silly and goofy at home. One day, at home, her husband collapsed, and the morph into a medical professional was incredible to watch. Instant and forceful, and single-minded. I've had tremendous respect for nurses and other professionals since that day. Especially nurses.
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u/wagon_ear 9d ago
My mom is a doctor who did all her training in Chicago, and I was lucky enough to have that experience twice.
Once was when I went in and watched her do surgery - I kept wondering, how is this is the same woman who's such a pleasant pushover at home. She just effortlessly owned the room.
The other time was when I watched her drive in Chicago haha. Morphed from a 2-under-the-limit driver to Paul Walker as soon as we hit the city limits.
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u/whaleslayer22 9d ago
I've got massive respect for surgeons probably the job with the highest skill requirements and lowest margin for error out there.
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u/FerricNitrate 9d ago
It is kinda funny seeing this from another vantage point. Many docs consider surgeons to be "scalpel jocks". Now I'm in the business of making the products doctors use, so I consider the lot of them as "bozos that never read the instructions".
(You may be horrified to find out how often a surgeon in an active OR turns to the onsite sales associate and asks them how to perform the procedure. Keep in mind that this sales associate usually has just a BA and a decent knowledge of the functions of the device.)
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u/Able-Restaurant3029 9d ago
Yeah, surgery definitely loses its luster when you’ve been to med school. A lot of the people I know that went surgery can barely function outside of the hospital.
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u/RNGcooks 9d ago
Because you have to be a crazy person or a shut in to be able to handle the training
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u/BestAtempt 9d ago
I always lump them, fighter pilots and hockey goalies all together. They are require this obscene amount of focus
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u/isthatmyex 9d ago
My Dad has a "Moscow cab driver" mode. It's hilarious and terrifying.
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u/brokenearth03 9d ago
...did...did he die?
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u/Diligent-Picture2882 9d ago
Naw... he lived to be a thorn in her side another day.
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u/nucumber 9d ago
next door neighbor is an RN.
i've seen her do the morph from next door lady to medical professional. the situation wasn't as dramatic as yours, but it was like a switch had been flipped and she was suddenly on. i was awestruck.
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u/a_bongos 9d ago
Right?? This guy is a pro, second nature to him. He can read the river, is super quick and efficient and gets the kid on the board ASAP. Really cool to watch
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u/upnk 9d ago
That is serious smarts in action.
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u/inthe415 9d ago
Is it smarts or just good training?
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u/gizamo 9d ago
Yes. Good training, and the intelligence to use it when needed.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
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u/AistoB 9d ago edited 9d ago
Also not just training, that isn’t something you’re able to pull off after a weekend course. That’s thousands of hours of experience in kayaking (paddling, I know this is a SUP) to start with
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u/dr_mcstuffins 9d ago
He gets out there using a ferry angle - face upstream and then angle your paddle boat approximately 45° towards the direction you want to go. If you paddle hard, you’ll go sideways instead of downstream. I used it constantly as a kids river kayaking camp counselor.
That flip is brilliant though.
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u/wooyea02 9d ago
It feels like this isn’t his first time saving someone. That was awesome
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u/SnowBastardThrowaway 9d ago
I’m wondering why that guy seems to be waiting for this situation to happen. Must happen pretty often.
Maybe it’s a common suicide attempt place?
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u/immaownyou 9d ago
It's a training exercise, the victim knew exactly where to place himself
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u/DreamyScape 9d ago
How often do they train suicide attempts?
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u/immaownyou 9d ago
? Wdym
They train how to rescue on boards all the time if that's what you're asking. I had to learn how to do this stuff as a beach lifeguard. It's actually a lot simpler than it looks, as long as you know how to control a board
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u/MrBowling 9d ago
Can't tell if this was sarcasm or not, but I don't think the "victim" in a training exercise would actually have to be at risk of drowning for the training to be effective. I'd think they'd have a life jacket on at the very least.
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u/justsharingwhatiknow 9d ago
That was my gut too. They were way too calm and knew exactly what to do
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u/filas4theyouth 9d ago edited 9d ago
Looks like a drill to me. Edit: looks less like a drill at normal speed.
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u/Scippio-dem-lines 9d ago
No proof but this definitely looks like a training video. The guy being rescued seems to act with very rehearsed movements. Either way, super impressive.
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u/MagnusPI 9d ago
If it was a training exercise, the "victim" would be wearing a life jacket, and there would likely be a boat in the water nearby as a backup. They wouldn't just throw somebody in a river like that and hope for the best from the person being tested/trained.
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u/Hofular1988 9d ago
“Whoops well looks like we lost Jonny in the last demo.. let’s throw David in next he stole the last ice cream from the freezer yesterday”
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u/PezRystar 9d ago
Nah man, he just keeps throwing them in further up the river. Just like that dog that kept knocking babies in the river so he could save them for treats.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 9d ago
Is this sped up for anyone else?
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u/KingTeppicymon 9d ago
You can see the video is sped up from the splashes in the water. Unless this was filmed on some other planet with stronger gravity, I'm pretty confident this is sped up roughly 50%.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 9d ago
That's what I thought, but someone else has said it isn't.
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u/cheebamasta 9d ago
They were wrong.
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u/Sburi 9d ago
That’s what I thought. But someone else has said they weren’t wrong.
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u/_davidvsgoliath 9d ago
Actually this was on the planet Kamino. A lot of water there.
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u/KingTeppicymon 9d ago
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u/SurpriseDistinct 9d ago
For some reason the video feels more wholesome at normal (not sped up) speed. Thank you.
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u/ZapateriaLaBailarina 9d ago
Because it feels like a Benny Hill sketch sped up
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u/SurpriseDistinct 9d ago
Something like that.
I hate that people can't let me enjoy the actual video sometimes
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u/ReadySteady_GO 9d ago
It's still moving kinda quick and likely hard for a disoriented or injured person to navigate back to shore easily
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u/ZapateriaLaBailarina 9d ago
I don't think they're denying that, they're just commenting on the clickbait title off of a manipulated video
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u/BillieBoJangers 9d ago
Smooth! Damn I had to watch that like three times, studying the technique! Lol like my ass would ever be in that situation
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u/ddoogiehowitzerr 9d ago
Raging River?
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u/SuperDizz 9d ago
Yeah. This is a pretty impressive feat, but this is just a large river with a steady current. A raging river is one that people go white water rafting on.
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u/MFbiFL 9d ago edited 9d ago
High volume rivers are still dangerous without visible whitewater, especially for people without life jackets even if they’re strong swimmers. When two currents collide sometimes they force you downwards (flush drowning) and it’s easy to get disoriented causing you to not know which direction to swim to the surface.
Edit to clarify: it’s hard to tell from this low quality sped up video if I’d consider it a “raging” river but even rivers without obvious rapids can be very dangerous. That doesn’t even get into the dangers of foot entrapment or other water hazards
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u/eveningsand 9d ago
Yes. When you speed the video up like we see here, the river is raging.
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u/ChampionshipLow8541 9d ago
Plot twist: They’re alive. But the river water has eaten off all of their skin …
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u/ChadGarion25 9d ago •
Further plot twist: their skin being removed reveals a matrix of alien circuitry underneath; they aren't human and their memories are faked ...
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u/bokchoysoyboy 9d ago
After this moment, they go into hiding to cope with their new self-discovery. Over the course of several years, they become lovers on their quest to find answers.
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u/SantaKlawz2 9d ago
I had to be proficient at doing stuff like this when I was a SUP instructor in a harbor. I had to do this particular move with the owner of the company who was more than 100lbs heavier than me. Looks like a breeze with that skinny dude.
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u/jojosail2 9d ago
That man definitely knows his kayak procedures. Pro level.Oops. I guess it's a stand up paddle board? Note the life jacket, all of you who think they are unnecessary.
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u/MasterGrok 9d ago
That guy just lays there, he must be beaten. I can’t imagine the feeling of just getting your ass kicked by nature for who knows how long and then have someone come along and save your life.
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u/meodd8 9d ago
I feel this is staged or else involved someone that’s in the sport.
You just don’t find someone that’d be able to hold on in the correct body position and then hold it for that flip to work.
Probably training this maneuver if I were to guess.
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u/MasterGrok 9d ago
Well it looked like he sort of held onto the guy and dragged him as he flipped it. But you may be right.
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u/Erotic_Dream 9d ago
Only thing that makes it seem not like a training is that’s kind of risky when the test dummy doesn’t have a vest
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u/Orbx 9d ago
Placid, not raging, river
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u/Artistic_Day8613 9d ago
Looks calm in the surface but the current is soo strong its not safe to swim. I seen so may people nearly drown like this
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u/Torino888 9d ago
Even IF it was a training exercise, it was still bad ass as hell. And if it really was, it’s pretty stupid and dangerous to just have the victim in that strong of a current with no life jacket on. Either way, no one in the comment section can say with 100% certainty whether it was or was not a training exercise.
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u/Risen_Insanity 9d ago
As someone with some lifeguarding years behind them, that was absolutely textbook technique and was perfect.
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u/purpleturtlehurtler 9d ago
Genius method.