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Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin
Ok so once again I see conjecture...with no FACTs to back it up. First of all I don't see the blue shirted photographer vomiting... I see him leaned over resting his head on the sundeck of the boat. the sundeck is not the transom. I have seen an interview with said photographer, who made reference to the fact that the driver of the boat made him uncomfortable during that event. However he was working and doing what his boss told him to do, which was ride and film that boat.
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"Working", but suffered bruised ribs, a broken leg, a ruptured disc and a broken wrist! He appears somewhat paler than at the beginning of the video.
Maybe he was "resting his head" but had suffered four+ injuries, and
vomiting can happen in traumatic events. I hadn't noticed earlier, but the gal in the white suit is behaving similarly.
It was left to the white-shirted "Fury-Racing" guy to shut the camera down.
The "driver" suffered [skull] damage to the orbits of his eyes.
Details from another powerboat forum:
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In addition to breaking a leg and a wrist, [photographer] Tintera says he ruptured a disc in his back and bruised some ribs. Among other injuries sustained by the passengers Tintera counts a broken back, a couple shattered eye sockets, and hips, feet, legs and arms all snapped as the boat shook violently back and forth before coming to a halt.
Tintera's footage has been seen over 3 million times at this point. He says Anderson Cooper invited him to appear on CNN, but he's too busted up to make the trip. The story also made Good Morning America, CBS News, the New York Post and a GIF made of the moment of impact appeared on Tosh.0's blog.
"Is it me or have Budweiser ads gotten kind of violent lately?" Tosh wrote.
Though Tintera understands the voyeuristic appeal of the footage, he's not exactly laughing. He considers himself lucky to be alive.
"If anyone would have been thrown out who knows what would have happened. Probably death," he says. "I'm very lucky to be talking and able to hobble around."
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More
eye-witness testimony...
The above participants in this seven-passenger "ocean-racer" were described as part of a Poker Run.
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Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin
I see no anchor being torn loose in this video, I do see the accident, the boat was in the ocean and hit some big waves, and they did wash over the bow of the boat, but I don't see a broken windshield and don't see an anchor flying around either.
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I've seen this video before, but on a much sharper monitor: watch at 5:48—the foredeck hatch flies open. Shortly, the anchor flies out—still attached with chain—strikes the windshield frame—and disappears into the spray.
The Internet carries dozens of videos of the earlier seven-passenger crash, but in addition to several other worthwhile "boating adventures", this one carries a
far better audio: (That is, if you like the sound of the engines followed by the clear sounds of multiple injuries.)
http://jukinvideo.com/videos/focus/C...VZhlu5ze5Cz74x
In addition to the Internet's many slow-motion segments, the GIF below is notable for fast-tracking the height of the action: watch the gal in yellow. Did she damage the windshield frame with her chin? Then bend the throttles with her ribs?
Her sunglasses go flying, do a "bank-shot" off the windshield frame, and end up back in the boat!
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