Törmäys valaaseen

Toimiva linkki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r8E4H3Nnnqg

Pitkäkölisellä matka olisi jatkunut ongelmitta.

Miksi ihmeessä ajoivat tahallaan (valas näkyy selvästi) päin?

1500nm rannasta ajetaan autopilotilla. Se ihmetyttää enemmän, että miksi siellä sattuu olemaan kamera päällä?

"Venäjällä samaa tekniikkaa jotkut käyttävät GoPro ökyautojen kojelaudalla"

Venäjällä kamera on lähes jokaisessa autossa, ei vain ökyautoissa.

Hyvä että oli törmäyksen jälkeeni aikaa pelastaa kamera...

Cruiser's Forumilta löytyneen uutisen mukaan veneessä oli kahden hengen miehistö, 46-vuotias sokea kippari Mitsuhiro Iwamoto ja 57-vuotias reportteri Jiro Shimbo, joka oli dokumentoimassa purjehdusta. Kipparilla oli kokemusta useista näkövammaisten avomeripurjehduskisoista Japanista ja ulkomailta. Vene oli lähtenyt viikkoa aikaisemmin Japanin Iwakista ja oli matkalla Tyynen Meren yli Kaliforniaan, San Diegoon. Japanin merivartiosto käytti lentovenettä pelstuslautassa odottavien miesten noutamiseen.

Alkupeärisen uutisen teksti:
"SENDAI (Kyodo) -- Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force on Friday rescued a blind sailor and his supporter in the Pacific off northeastern Japan after their small yacht was flooded with seawater, the Japan Coast Guard said.

Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, 46, and his supporter, 57-year-old newscaster Jiro Shimbo, were rescued at around 6:15 p.m. in waters around 1,200 kilometers southeast of Kinkasan Island in Miyagi Prefecture, the coast guard said.

They were taken to the MSDF's Atsugi Base in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo, the coast guard said, adding they were not injured and looked healthy.

Iwamoto, who has actively participated in yacht races for the visually impaired in and out of Japan, and Shimbo left Onahama port in the city of Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan, last Sunday in a bid to cross the Pacific to San Diego, California.

Earlier Friday, an MSDF search-and-rescue amphibious aircraft tried to rescue the pair after their office sought help from the Japan Coast Guard in the morning, saying the 6-ton yacht, about 13 meters long and 3 meters wide, was flooded with seawater.

But stormy conditions prevented the aircraft from rescuing the two sailors, who were waiting to be rescued aboard a lifeboat.

The MSDF sent another amphibious aircraft to the area to replace the first plane, which had to turn back due to a shortage of fuel after attempting to rescue the pair for around an hour.

Iwamoto and Shimbo left Osaka on June 8 and called at Iwaki, where they presented two training yachts to a local high school and other clubs that lost their yachts in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, their office said.

Iwamoto and Shimbo had planned to arrive in San Diego in August. "

Sokea kippari??? Voi dziisus... Tavallaan on hienoa, että ihminen yrittää elää täysillä tuollaisesta rajoitteesta huolimatta, mutta silti jotain rajaa.