Both engines dead...

Rye Harbour Lifeboat B727, in rough sea at harbour entrance when both engines stall

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• RNLI
• Rye
• Rough
• Sea
• Stalled
• Engine
• Drogue
• Anchor
• Lifeboat

[seanroberts86]

whats a drogue?

[harbourbu0y]

A drogue - also known as a sea anchor, works in the water like a parachute in the air. The drogue was used in this instance to keep the bow (head) of the lifeboat heading to sea.

Once the engine(s) had been restarted, the droque line was cut and the lifeboat returned to sation

[dmatty06]

So any idea what happened?? did the tilt switches cut in or what? Just shows how good the drogues are!

[harbourbu0y]

The engine revs were too low, causing hydraulicing in the exhaust - thus stalling the engines.

[alderaforall]

my couch never looked so awesome.

[spamstoper3]

Wow

[whysunshyn]

Guys, pay no attention to the mindless gumps who write stupid things about their betters because of jealousy, I suppose. Anyway please keep doing what you're doing and God bless you for it.

[gowernorth]

A great piece of footage and a testament to the training these guys do,with reference to some of the comments about these boys not being experienced. Your missing the point, these guys are training in these conditions precisely to improve their skills for if the real thing happens and are volunteers who would do this in the dark if necessary to help someone they don't know get to safety.

[unsinkable300]

These Life Boat Guys are FANTASTIC. Keep it up, it takes practice....

The Life Boat Guys offered us rescue, we did not need it but I am grateful for them.

Ralph

[MsPsycho29]

Screwing around in a tussel like that is a good way to put yourself under.

[vivitar45]

you need a set of ors so you can row the boat back to shore but that boat is way to small for them waves

[SkyyCaptainn]

Yeah engines don't like water being ingested. I have had similar thing happened when breaking wave submerged engine of a small motor boat I was riding. Luckily water was shallow an I was able to jump in and push the boat back to shore.

[teapotwasp]

Drouge K.M.A. Try ancor. Notice rapid change of orintation to sea bottom and not the weather, not to mention the total lack of drift. Those clowns were lucky they didn't take the transom off the boat. It could have been a very expensive lesson on small boat handling. If they had known what they were doing, the coxsain would have given hard rudder just prior to the wave's peak and still been able to maintain energy. Great and fast thinking after the Awh Sh-t moment.

[lifeboatmike]

I bet the beer tasted good after that?

[ejspop1]

Brilliant. Great use of the sea anchor. If you go to see in these conditions this is one to watch.

[lifeboatman1972]

Training kicked in. Brilliant work boys

[spinaway]

Every Credit to these lads, All volunteers Unpaid Risking there lives for the likes of me and you, Some of the comments on here are uncalled for. Plain ignorant.

[devonsurf]

lol one more youtube armchir expert...

[thenoobzors]

wtf

[minnimerc]

the drogue looked like it did exactly what it was supposed to do, very impressive how quickly it spun to boat round, also getting the engines restarted so quickly after drowning them proves how well serviced and maintained the boats are, good job. new underwear ?.

[Rovergbjy]

Bad boat handling will always require some apology.

THESE TWATS LIVED.

[ninja2kernow]

i think it went well ,you presume the engine will start again,no it didn,t ok got to get drogue out of storage and deploy,all went well ,then when the wave picked them up at 1.40 you sea the sea carry them broad side then you sea the bow suddenly come round to the surf .that is when the under water drogue opened up fully and stopped the boat from possible capsize,so as a seaman not RNLI .i thought it was all very proffesonel,hope they are round if i ever need them ,good video

[renenkel]

I wonder why they don't design boats like this to have the air intakes to the engines run up the mast instead of sucking air right at engine level. That might help avoid engine drownings in rough conditions.

[yourshitjusthitmyfan]

right on brother . . best comment ive seen in a while .

[gerryjc]

Granted they should have gotten the sea anchor out a lot quicker after the initial stall but to call them incompentent is pretty harsh.

I'll admit that being RNLI crew I'm biased in my opinion, but I still think your comment is in poor taste.

Whether you needed towed in or not, someone reported that you were in difficulty and a group of volunteers dropped what they were doing to help you. You come across as an ungrateful know-it-all, and I could guess your profession.

[kitthecrab]

Getting the drogue over aside, pretty incompenent stuff on balance - but not unusual. Tell these guys they're marvellous and all too soon they think they are. Remember once towing an RNLI RIB back home after it unnecessarily launched to escort me ashore. On its badly judged run in, it bottomed out on rock in a big way which screwed up both engines. Wished I had a camera for that one!

[mistletoe3429]

Very cool to watch. Impressive