The record could have been crushed

[Dirk Pitt]

The DCB hit 175 in the video..............

didnt see it but it is outragous no doubt

[Dirk Pitt]

The DCB hit 175 in the video..............

yep that video is sick

[flabum1017]

yep that video is sick

At what point do they call it an airplane? Just amazing these boats still touch the water..........

[AZMIDLYF]

Have any videos of the Recovery run been posted?

[RobF]

what record are we talking about ??? if it's a production boat, this thing blows that away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec00p53HVoA

record around Long Island, not top speed

[mr fun]

record around Long Island, not top speed

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Oh, okay, I understand know. wow that's quite a distance

[BUZZIN' DOZEN]

https://www.facebook.com/HammerDownB...2472355468995/

[whipper]

Holly crap are they ever lucky!! To bad about the fog and glad there all fine. Those hulls must be tuff!!!

[Sea2jet]

what happened was they had a sea plane as as a spoter Recovery 2 , the plane disappeared in the fog bank a couple of minutes pior to the impact, other wize they had eyes in the sky throught the course... there was a helo with divers also but the helo couldnt keep up, so the seaplane was used directly overhead, with constant communications, there was no expence sparded for saftey, or anything else for that matter

Why didn't the seaplane pilot alert them to the fog bank ahead? From the air, it would have been easily seen.

[Dirk Pitt]

If you look carefully, joey is calling out Buey, Buey, Buey, also look at all the debris flying all around the cocpit

[Hot Shot Merc]

Im surprised to see two seasoned veterans running those speeds without helmets. Were they at least slowing down when they were in the fog? Glad nobody was hurt.

[Fast Shafts]

If you look carefully, joey is calling out Buey, Buey, Buey, also look at all the debris flying all around the cocpit

Its a good thing Joey didn't have to yell "Kids fishing".

[CUDA]

Im surprised to see two seasoned veterans running those speeds without helmets. Were they at least slowing down when they were in the fog? Glad nobody was hurt.

Yeah they slowed to 148mph

[activator22]

Here's a snap from the video - the bell buoy they hit was 1GI not can 3 , off the north east corner of Gardiners Island (about 1/5 down the course between Plum Gut and Montauk)


After watching the video a few times in slow-mo, it's difficult to think they were doing 140+ at that point. The sequence below shows where Joey has the throttle just prior to spotting the buoy, then he pulls all it way back, then during the turn/impact his hand comes off and something causes the stick to go forward again (further then prior to the impact)

[mjwalters]

The DCB. is impressive for sure. But there's a huge difference between running in a lake and running in the Atlantic Ocean. That said. I see they were able to pass a marker and not hit it