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US Coast Guard jumps onto a runaway boat and safely stops it in Maryland
by /u/AustraliaOutback | 109 comments | 2026-06-16T03:27:31+00:00 Central
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| /u/TheDosWiththeMost That was actually really impressive |
| /u/ders89 Smooth af like they gotta do it daily |
| /u/Turbulent_Lobster_57 At least no armed drug runners on that boat |
| /u/hobojoesrevenge That would've been easier- Predator drone |
| /u/WZAWZDB13 Coastguard getting ready for work; https://giphy.com/gifs/Rd7pEbE7rjZz8vySuU |
| /u/_RedditIsLikeCrack_ https://giphy.com/gifs/P3ng2C1t8QCJ2 |
| /u/MrStarrrr https://giphy.com/gifs/fUQ4rhUZJYiQsas6WD Something to do! |
| /u/FloopsFooglies Wouldve been blown up by hegseth already if that was the case |
| /u/10110011100021 That dipshit would do it to a boat full of innocent civilians and do another rail before blaming the pope |
| /u/Brilliant-Bad-284 https://giphy.com/gifs/6p7GL2kj9Pl0k |
| /u/Ski0612 Luckily the coast guard isn't part of the department of defense or war or whatever the fuck we are calling this week. |
| /u/greenonetwo ALTO SU BARCO!!! ALTO SU BARCO!!! |
| /u/Blah-B7ah_Bloop I need to go to bed as I read this as drug runners without any arms, driving the boat with their feet. And I'm pulling down the sleep mask. |
| /u/3BlindMice1 They practice a lot, and some of those guys board vessels with hostile drug smugglers aboard. Granted, they almost never put up a real struggle considering that would just mean getting mowed down by a browning 50 cal, but still |
| /u/Trifang420 My Homie was in the Coast Guard, whatever their boarding swat teams are called. After 9/11 he did the same job internationally for the Navy, but still in the Coast Guard somehow. He has some stories. |
| /u/Wholesome_Stalker May have been part of TACLET, their Tactical Law Enforcement Team. Since the Coast Guard has law enforcement authority and the Navy doesn't, they often ride on Navy ships and conduct boardings in international waters and waters where the foreign nation allows them to be in to enforce international laws. The "Alto su barco" video was a TACLET team. |
| /u/MicrotracS3500 I've seen a lot of "Coast Guard boarding vessel" videos, and it's pretty rare to board a ship that's at full throttle like this. They basically always get the people to surrender before boarding, because you really don't want to hop on a tiny boat at full speed with enemies that are actively hostile to you. |
| /u/ChymChymX That coast isn't guarding itself. |
| /u/NecessaryZucchini69 I bet person who did that jump felt bad ass afterwards https://giphy.com/gifs/i6TQUuiT5hjSU |
| /u/onewordmemory ikr, when law enforcement does what law enforcement is supposed to do, they can look kinda badass |
| /u/AustraliaOutback Can't imagine what went through his head at that moment. |
| /u/Alter_Alias_Alien "IN A WORLD, WHERE THERE ARE RUNAWAY BOATS, ONE MAN ...." |
| /u/Alter_Alias_Alien https://giphy.com/gifs/mhnoqgsiLFWnu |
| /u/Gramage I'd honestly watch every single one of the movies from those fake trailers lmao I've been a bad, bad boy father... |
| /u/onlyhere4laffs Satan's Alley? If I'm right about that, it's confirmed. My brain only retains stuff I have no use for in the real world. |
| /u/DazzlingRutabega So close that you fooled me at first. Satan's Abbey. |
| /u/onlyhere4laffs Still think my brain's mush haha |
| /u/teddy5 99% chance it's either Don LaFontaine or Redd Pepper in your head. |
| /u/omfgitsjeff I..AM.....B O A T M A N jumps |
| /u/Spacemanspalds Calling all Michael Jan Vincents.... |
| /u/Alter_Alias_Alien So many quadrants .... |
| /u/RealCommercial9788 Once again it is time to Michael down your Vincents... |
| /u/DazzlingRutabega "i'm not the one wearing hockey pads." |
| /u/Valogrid "ALONE. BETRAYED BY THE COUNTRY HE LOVES, MUST NOW PUT HIS LIFE ON THE LINE TO STOP THAT BOAT." |
| /u/rabid_spidermonkey DONT FUCK IT UP DONT FUCK IT UP |
| /u/Party-Ring445 Call you up in the middle of the of night, Drifting where there are no lights. Compass spinning, sails all torn, Woke to find the harbor gone. Runaway boat, never slowing down, Riding every swell around. Runaway boat, carried by the tide, With nobody left to steer or guide |
| /u/owlzitty What's going through his head? The propeller, if he slips. |
| /u/Crafty-Help-4633 I'm wondering where the boats pilot is, since it was a runaway boat seemingly at full chat. 😬 |
| /u/jimmycarr1 I'm guessing in the water or on the dockside |
| /u/AlbertaAcreageBoy Those hot wings last night were delicious. |
| /u/ChrisFromAldi Probably "if this goes wrong , my wife's gonna kill me if i aint dead already" |
| /u/throwaway098764567 "tomorrow is going to be so boring after this" |
| /u/ScreamingVoid14 Better than jumping out of a helicopter into a stormy ocean. |
| /u/Anynamethatworks How about the surge of bad-assery in his veins once he pulled it off? For both the driver and the jumper. I would've been high as balls from a boost of awesomeness like that. Can you imagine the weight behind the high-fives that took place after this? |
| /u/bigtigerbigtiger Tough crowd...! Not a single cheer or clap |
| /u/jondubb The rich are soulless tightasses. |
| /u/KeithWorks That little pocket of Chesapeake Bay is probably about the worst. If they could own slaves they would. |
| /u/HilmDave The US Coast Guard are spectacular. I encourage anyone that hasn't to look up videos of some of the incredible sea rescues they've conducted. I've gotten to see them in action and it was really something. |
| /u/Dapper_Schedule_7997 Yeah Coast Guard rescue swimmers are not human. Incredible things they are able to do. Plus the rescue craft operators are ice cold and talented as hell as well. |
| /u/HilmDave Best helicopter pilots in the world hands down as well. |
| /u/voxadam You could even call it r/nextfuckinglevel. |
| /u/B_A_Peach How do boats like this not have a safety switch to prevent them from going all Maximum Overdrive on the population? |
| /u/QuittingToLive Drivers on these boats are supposed to wear a wrist strap which has a short bungee rope connected to a pin which will kill the engine if removed (like if the captain is thrown overboard) |
| /u/bastrdsnbroknthings Driver probably wasn't wearing a kill switch because stupid. |
| /u/judgehood Looks like he took a hit too? Even if not, way to bring order to a situation of chaos. He doesn't get paid enough for that. I salute that dude and wonder what happened to the boat driver. Is he ok? Later, I will wonder what rich drunk boat driver allowed this to happen, or if it was unscrupulous business practices that led to a hapless renter and then what happened to that guy. I hope everyone's ok. |
| /u/Electronic-While1972 https://giphy.com/gifs/l0ExbnGIX9sMFS7PG |
| /u/bdubwilliams22 Yeah, my first thought was: ok, yeah - that's badass |
| /u/AustraliaOutback He has balls of steel, that's for sure |
| /u/FS_Slacker Driver of the boat too...to speed up and match while turning and not completely crashing into it. Such a fine balance of aggression and precision. |
| /u/Throwable-Halo I am sure that he did crash into it, or rather bump up against it. Holding the two vessels together creates the most stability for the guy who has to jump across. |
| /u/scurvy1984 Sorry to brag but coast guard boatswains mates are really good boat drivers. Can be immeasurable dicks more often but some rip at boat driving |
| /u/ifyoulovesatan I dunno, I haven't met one yet who wouldn't let me measure his their dick. But yes, impressive nonetheless |
| /u/SIrPsychoNotSexy Perfect example of "shouldering", a tactic used for forcing non-compliant vessels where you want them to go (or in this case, non-captained). |
| /u/freredesalpes Yeah man on the water we call that aggcision |
| /u/Slight_Advertising_9 Heroic and skillfully executed. Very impressive. |
| /u/constant-hunger Surprised he didn't sink either of the boats with those steel gonads. |
| /u/Nack3r Hell yeah that is some action hero shit right there. Super cool |
| /u/dj92wa Bond's name the James. Call the bondulence. |
| /u/paulcaar James bonk is having a stronk |
| /u/Possible-Put8922 "There goes my hero" |
| /u/AustraliaOutback https://giphy.com/gifs/vWku8YNwyy5vq |
| /u/vinylzoid Is that Liam Neesons?? |
| /u/AustraliaOutback No, that's his brother from another mother, Bondanathan Jameson. |
| /u/teahugger Holy Shit, is that the professor of AARon? |
| /u/AustraliaOutback https://giphy.com/gifs/Udrd4SLNWwlCU |
| /u/greenonetwo https://giphy.com/gifs/Z0rjhXots9HFe |
| /u/teahugger I couldn't even pronounce this weird name tbh |
| /u/kk074 Churlish, and insubordinate. |
| /u/Stergeary Are you outside of your mind? |
| /u/CautiousPenguin4592 I'd like to know the lead up to this moment. |
| /u/lncredulousBastard The inevitable answer will be incompetence. |
| /u/Ragnarotico https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohfFhG5VDtDTzQv2o |
| /u/SecreteMoistMucus Redditor discovers the word "and" |
| /u/SeaToTheBass Did someone mention Kevin O'Leary? |
| /u/javoss88 Yeah where are the people on this boat without the deadman switch |
| /u/throwaway098764567 the people are not on this boat |
| /u/-malcolm-tucker Yep. You can tell they're not on it by how empty it is. |
| /u/14Pleiadians "this strap is so annoying, anyone got some scissors?" |
| /u/AidanGe I can imagine heat stroke might also cause something like this, which isn't necessarily incompetence |
| /u/lncredulousBastard As a cyclists who enjoys riding my bicycle for several hours at a time in extreme conditions, and has absolutely experienced variations on heat stroke, I can tell you that it only happens due to lack of planning with water and electrolytes. But I've never been in a situation where I was at such risk that I was in lasting danger from it. I was more prepared than that. Did you ever hear the horrific stories about a family going out hiking with their kids in the desert, only to watch their kids die of heat stroke? That's heartbreaking incompetence. Nothing else is to blame in that situation except incompetence. They simply didn't prepare. The heat didn't cause the stroke. Not being prepared caused the stroke. |
| /u/shapoopy723 Apparently the guy was making waves for his son on his jet ski and hit his own wake in an absolute dumb way, knocking himself off without an engine cutoff switch. Absolutely avoidable in every sense of the word. |
| /u/Head_Audience2014 When i got my boating licence, the very first thing they drilled into us was always attach the kill switch lanyard to yourself. |
| /u/cyberslick18888 Other than during licensing classes, I don't believe I have ever seen a single lanyard / kill switch ever being used in my lifetime on the water. I don't say that as a good thing, just that pretty much no one uses them on proper boats. Jet skis and power sports type stuff yeah you see them more often. |
| /u/LoserBustanyama Yeah I wasn't aware bigger boats even have kill switches. Been on a lot of boats |
| /u/Head_Audience2014 Depends what you consider big. The ones in the video 100% have them. |
| /u/FlipZip69 If a feature is not used, and I agree with you I have not seen a single use in my life, then that feature is not designed well. It needs to be removed and a better way designed. |
| /u/MistahJasonPortman I wonder what many other shitty decisions that guy's made |
| /u/protonecromagnon2 Almost all boats have a bracelet attached to the throttle so if the captain gets knocked over or knocked out the engine cuts off and almost no one uses them. This is the result |
| /u/FadedReef Not true, my family has owned 4 or 5 different boats and I've only ever seen a kill strap on a jetski. |
| /u/aruisdante My family has also owned 4-5 boats and they all had the kill switch. It's possible your family was just removing them. They're long and "ugly" being safety orange, and if they didn't think they'd ever use them, they might have just taken them off. |
| /u/Tobbbb Isn't the fact that this can even happen a major design flaw??? Imagine cars would work like this. |
| /u/the_inebriati What do you think happens in a car if the driver loses consciousness? |
| /u/Tobbbb the car explodes obviously. |
| /u/aruisdante Boats are designed with throttles which stay in a fixed position rather than returning to neutral like a gas/brake pedal because boats often hit rough patches of sea that would make it very difficult to apply steady throttle position, and unsteady throttle is very likely to cause injury to the boaters. Instead, most small pleasure craft like this have a kill switch strap you're supposed to put around your wrist which has a tether running to the ignition system that if pulled will turn off the engine(s), exactly to prevent a situation like this where the helmsman being tossed from the boat or otherwise incapacitated causes a runaway. Unfortunately a lot of people don't wear them for... reasons? And this is the inevitable result. |
| /u/turbo_dude "MEN, FIRE THE GRAPPLING HOOK!" "we never bought it sir, instead we er we spent the money on new lutes and wenches" |
| /u/Kalorama_Master Porn is usually the answer on Reddit... |
| /u/Mug_85 They are trying way to hard with these new porn intros. |
| /u/NickdoesnthaveReddit These Waymos are going too far |
| /u/loanmagic24 Those houses are huge in the background. Geez |