An ultra-marathoner’s attempt to “run” from Florida to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble was cut short when the Coast Guard towed him back to land – for the second time.
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/25/us/bubble-man-rescue/index.html
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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I see from his Wikipedia page that trying to run across the ocean in a bubble is kinda his thing, but seriously, the only "successful" trip he's apparently made so far is a 30 mile one from Newport Beach, CA to Catalina Island. He needs to island-hop from Florida to the Bahamas to the Antilles or something instead of trying to YOLO straight from a 30-mile trip to a 1,000-one. And he needs to quit skipping out on having a support boat.
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would you not just bake inside that thing?
The article quotes him saying it can get to 120F in that thing. No thank you.
That's 49° for the rest of us.
Or 322 kelvins for all the Kelvins out there
Or 560°R (Rankine, the Fahrenheit-based alternative to Kelvin).
0°R = 0K
But seriously though, who the Hell has ever used Rankine? The SI system of measurement is older than the discovery of absolute zero, so there was never a reason for that bastard unit of measurement to exist in the first place, except to be a contrarian asshole.
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The story didn’t mention him bringing edibles
It seems like it might be... implied? :-P
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coast guard should fine him for littering the sea with plastic garbage. If he wants to die in the ocean he should do it like everyone else
Sorry, how does everyone else die in the ocean?
Being seduced by sirens of course.
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Congratulations! You are being rescued. Please do not resist.
This sounds like it could be a fun experience for a day, weather permitting. More than that is insanity.
My first thought: chilling in the bubble ... "I need to shit. Oh, oh no. Oh fuck me, no."
does he shit inside it??
I imagine there must be an opening to let air in sometimes.
He probably shits out the hole he fishes through.
In all my years in the industry I’ve learned to follow this simple rule: never shit out the hole you fish through.
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He should do it again if he managed to raise $144k for charity!
I mean that's how much was spent on his rescue...
how on earth do you spend 144k to tow some air bubble back to the coast?
Salaries for the entire crew of a Coast Guard cutter (100+ people) for however long it took to find and retrieve him would be a big-ticket item. Plus all the fuel and other operational costs for the cutter, along with the same for a C-130 search plane, MH-60 rescue helicopter, and whatever other stuff they used.
Hiring a boat, a chopper or two and supporting a healthy military industrial complex.
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That hammock in the middle of that bubble... That sounds like an amazing nights sleep.
Let the boy run across the ocean in a bubble!
https://media.tenor.com/VAbJK26NHWoAAAAM/chrisfarley-chris.gif
Just leave them.
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