This is How You Put Out a Boat Fire Like a Boss [VIDEO]

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If you see a boat on fire, do you:

  1. Stand by and film it with your phone?
  2. Put that s@#% out?

Filmed at Lake Lyndon in New Zealand.

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11 Responses to This is How You Put Out a Boat Fire Like a Boss [VIDEO]

  1. avatar Maureen J. Mills says:
    December 30, 2012 at 2:55 am

    seriously, what MORON films a mini-disaster like this, offers NO ASSISTANCE, and then POSTS it online? — there really is precious little humanity left in this world, even "down under".

  2. avatar Maureen J. Mills says:
    December 30, 2012 at 2:55 am

    seriously, what MORON films a mini-disaster like this, offers NO ASSISTANCE, and then POSTS it online? — there really is precious little humanity left in this world, even "down under".

  3. avatar Joseph Regner says:
    December 30, 2012 at 4:55 am

    WTF did you expect the people on land to do? First they're not firefighters and secondly who knows if they even had ANY equipment to do anything. Why potentially risk your life for a material object once you know nobody is in danger?

    If you have the will or ability then fine…. otherwise might as well stand back.

  4. avatar Joseph Regner says:
    December 30, 2012 at 5:07 am

    BTW, helps if people read the description:

    "The skipper of the boat tried to start it after it died in the middle of the lake. It caught fire, so he jumped ship and watched it burn slowly. The wind drifted the burning boat to shore. No one could really do anything about it as it had two big tanks of gas on board until a sprint boat SAVED THE DAY!"

  5. avatar Simon Snaith says:
    December 31, 2012 at 2:49 am

    It's one jet boat skipper helping another, the way of mariners of old. Unless equipped with a serious amount of fire fighting equipment, there would be very little the observers could do and they were probably better off staying out of harm's way. There's plenty of humanity left "Downunder"!

  6. avatar Daniel Stein says:
    January 2, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    Balls of steel!

  7. avatar Daniel Stein says:
    January 2, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    Balls of steel!

  8. avatar Joe Overcoat says:
    January 2, 2013 at 3:38 pm

    From here on out all my barbeques will be held right at the shoreline. Just in case, you know…fire safety and all that.

  9. avatar Tina Grosick says:
    January 6, 2013 at 3:59 am

    Well done. US fire departments, please take note.

  10. avatar Tina Grosick says:
    January 6, 2013 at 3:59 am

    Well done. US fire departments, please take note.

  11. avatar John Crill says:
    January 19, 2013 at 11:18 pm

    So speedboats can be popular after all!