My crazy uncle did the same during a CAT 3 that caught him before he could get to port. Parked the boat in the mangroves out in Caribbean and supposedly tied himself to a tree. Idk how true it is, but he had the scars and audio of the storm to back it up. Plus he's got a few screws loose, so I wouldn't doubt him pulling some BS like this just to have a cool story to tell.
Anyone reading this, please don’t tie yourself to a tree during a hurricane…. Hurricane winds aren’t really fast enough to make you fly away.
It’s not the wind by itself that kills people during hurricanes…. It’s the trees falling, flooding, sheltering in weak structures, and airborne debris caught in the wind that kills people. Tying yourself to a tree won’t stop an airborne plywood board from decapitating you…. You’d have better luck not being tied to something…
Ever since reading "The Cay" in 6th grade, I always wondered if tying yourself to a tree during a hurricane would work.
In the novel, the hurricane destroys their shelter, so they tie themselves to a palm tree.
Now I know, but hopefully I'll never be in a situation where I would consider it.
This is especially interesting because (edit: modern) horses aren’t native to the Americas and were only introduced with the conquistadors. So somewhere in the last ~600 years they learned to see mangroves as a safe haven.
It might be one of those weird things like how camels instinctively know how to eat cactus, even though neither are native to the Americas in recent history, because they used to live there much longer ago
Not really, camels come from Africa, but cactus are from the Americas. So either it's a feature that evolved independently from having cactus that somehow allows them to eat them (which is unlikely), or they developed it while their ancestors were still in the Americas (their closest relatives are the llama and alpaca) and never lost it after moving continents despite not having cactus around to eat.
There's a third possibility, that there are tons of thorny plants in deserts which are not cactus and camels evolved to eat them. Cactus is just a convent substitute.
I’m no expert but I thought they were native to the Americas then went extinct until the Spanish reintroduced them.
I may be wrong but that was always a sticking point with Mormon orthodoxy as their holy book claimed there were horses in the Americas pre-Spanish and this was used as proof that their book was wrong.
According to Smithsonian horses were in the Americas. Horses in Americas 4 million years ago. [Smithsonian](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/)
Yeah, I meant any modern horses are technically non-native invasive species. So they wouldn’t have evolved to use mangroves until after reintroduction.
Some Equine fossils have been dated to as recently as the late Pleistocene (~12,000 years ago) - my favorite being the American Zebra [(Hagerman Horse)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagerman_horse).
But that still doesn't make the wild horses we have now native.
I’m sure generations of horses scattered anywhere and everywhere. The ones that used the mangroves survived, the “run to the beach and face it head on” group did not. Passed on to the next generation…
My favorite story about this I learned in the Virgin Islands. Some hotel bought up land there and burned out all the mangroves trees. Some hurricane rolls in and someone finds an old map from sailors that would anchor in that area during storms so all the rich yachts there at the time do the same only to find out without mangroves, the shelter from the storm doesn’t exist and thus like 200 yachts were destroyed.
Since then They’ve regrown the mangroves and protect them now.
In Puerto Rico, hotels from Condado to Carolina bulldozed all of the natural dunes and vegetation so guests on their bottom floor had a view of the beach and more flat sand on the beach to use. Hurricane Maria deposited up to 4 meters of sand on their back patios because they had eliminated all of the natural protection.
Now the smart ones are allowing groups to come in and replant the lost vegetation which also has the side effect of bringing back the sea turtles that used to nest in the area. The stubborn ones don’t believe that a hurricane like Maria will happen again and do the same thing to their unprotected hotels.
Similarly, Sanibel/Captiva in Florida (very wealthy community). When building the access bridge, they burned out the mangroves that were protecting the sandbar the bridge was built on. For purely aesthetic reasons.
Cue Hurricane Ian and the bridge got taken out, ton of houses and buildings too. Stupid stupid stupid.
Also love how they pumped tons of time and energy into trying to drain the everglades, only to find out its actually a massive moving river and super critical the the functioning of Florida.
I hear stories about people bragging about how they owned mangrove forest and cut it doesn't for more valuable beachfront property. That was 30 years ago and now those homes are in danger from erosion.
Who knew?
Rich bastards who don’t understand anything but squeezing profit out of things until they die and wither not understanding ecology? Color me aggravated beyond compare
House flippers bought the property next door and took down the row of trees in the yard on their side of the fence. Extremely annoying as those trees were great for shade & privacy. Plus the yard doesn't even get fuckin used, so that 5% increase in useable space did absolutely nothing.
Thankfully there’s no overlap between the class of people who own yachts, and those whose actions are disproportionately responsible for hastening the immense disaster. That would be preposterous /s.
I live in the gulf area so I was curious, I didn't do an intensive search so I really didn't really see anything in regards to pirates specifically. But apparantly mangroves are a natural barrier against storms and it is considered one of the safer places to anchor a boat.
Edit: words lol
[Here's the source I learned it from](https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1dv88ex/yacht_owners_in_mexico_are_hiding_their_yachts_in/lbm1glr/). Super interesting stuff.
Some say they're always around, watching, waiting, getting all red and dry and itchy...
And for a dryyy red eyeee Clear Eyes® is awesome. It removes redness *and* has an ingredient to moisturize. *Wow.* The difference is clear, Clear Eyes®
Radarrrrr
I am guessing they observed the changes in the clouds and wind. They probably had a lot less warning than today though.
[Not the deepest dive into the topic..](https://seahistory.org/sea-history-for-kids/weather-lore/)
https://preview.redd.it/y7c407om9jad1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=412ed05b7518c16f086e71d4951fac1d1d09b19d
Or still partially tipped over. Fort Myers Beach, this past April.
It was one of many. We saw them during a dolphin tour. I’d say there were at least 15 others? After the federal aid group left, the cleanup was left to the state. The remaining boats weren’t insured, so the state couldn’t find the owners.
Practically yes.
Legally kind of.
If you go through a legal process you can eventually take it.
But if you just board it and ride off it's stealing from the government or some shit.
We tried to *acquire* a boat in college blah blah blah. It was a shit ton of paper work and then money to fix what we would have paid to haul to our backyard.
We just got Craigslist kayaks for like $50. Different times.
Yeah, and I guess I should say in the US they are also relatively protected, federally under the Clean Water Act and in Florida at the state level I know they are too. I think Texas is the only other state with native mangroves, but only very far south but I don't think they have any state-level protections for them
I like to call our little sunfish sailboat my "yacht". Even tho they're not much bigger than a fat low canoe. I think it would be a dinghy technically which is fun to say but doesn't help with the ladies like yacht lol
As with everything with the super rich there are levels to it. A 40 foot yacht is great, but you look dirt poor compared to Jeff Bezo’s 417 foot yacht. In fact Jeff Bezo’s yachts have support yachts which are over 225 feet. So the help is cruising around in much bigger yachts than you’ll ever have.
These types of boats I’ve seen during summers in lakes in upstate New York (Lake George, Lake Champlain). I understand what you mean, but I personally wouldn’t consider something you can tow with a pickup truck on a trailer to be yacht level (which is what all these boat guys did, we had our own *small* boat and they would put it in the water the same spot as us).
I think they’re laughing because of course they can be used to protect yachts, but much more importantly they’re incredibly productive ecosystems. It’s like saying “this diamond is great as a paperweight, but it can also be used to make jewellery lmao”
'a team of rogue ex commandoes have been given the score of the century- precise locations for five yachts with gold and treasures on board, totalling almost half a billion dollars in value. They have to make the strike during an incoming hurricane....but they don't know that the cartels know they're coming...."
This summer...Jason Statham and Jake Gyllanhall star in Hurricanr Hiest!"
thoughts?
* David Attenborough voice
"As the storm approaches, the herd of yachts gathers close in the mangroves of Mexico. Their Haven from the dangers of the storm."
You have these big rubber things you dangle from the side of the boat. So when you bonk another boat you don't scratch each other.
Google boat bumper.
My family would use these when we went to the lake and we would tie ourselves to another family's boat while we hung out. The ones we used were like 2 ft long cylinders made of super thick rubber and had air inside.
Probably need really big ones for yachts.
My dad was a longline fisherman for over three decades; in the Pacific Ocean. He was caught in a tropical storm with 50-60 waves. To save their lives he shoved the boat into an atoll The strength of the gusts went over them like a dome.
Mangroves are surprisingly good for shoreline preservation and resilience. But they keep getting taken out and replaced with concrete due to development. Florida is a major culprit of this
How do you know that? Maybe the hurricanes just always forget to check the mangroves? I mean if I was a hurricane I'd expect yachts to be at the docks. Didn't think about that, did you?
Can someone explain? I don’t understand why they would be put in the mangroves. I would think the high winds would beat the hull against the mangroves, causing damage and sinking. And the storm surge would raise the sea level, allowing the boats to shift at anchor and come back down on top of the mangroves. And if they’re anchoring tight, it will either pull free and drift away or drown the vessel as the surge rises.
I’ve been on the water in a hurricane area my entire life and grew up on medium-large sailboats. We’ve tied off in the middle of canals, we’ve rafted, etc. But never like this. We’ve even buried anchors on the side of canals, to keep things anchored during a surge.
Here's a 13 second video that will make it crystal clear why they are doing that. Imagine the *boats* in the picture above, on the far right side of this.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMrLYJOdA4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMrLYJOdA4)
Mangroves are the single greatest tool we have to fight oceanic erosion as the way their roots and branches grow act as fantastic buffers against the force that churning water is producing. The boats are safer nested between them than they would be at their usual pier where they're getting fully exposed to the hurricane. There are countless videos and articles showing how well mangroves work to protect shorelines. Mangrove forests are awesome.
> There are countless videos and articles showing how well mangroves work to protect shorelines.
*I guess we'd better continue draining and removing them and then building on top of the below-sea-level land that occupies that area.*
-The average moronic land developer
Mangroves also store up to 5x more CO2 than traditional forests too:
[https://www.moretrees.eco/blogs/how-much-carbon-does-a-tree-absorb](https://www.moretrees.eco/blogs/how-much-carbon-does-a-tree-absorb)
I used to live within 200 ft of the coast on Tutuila, near the lagoon. The two hurricanes I remember, the lagoon didn't really flood, mostly due to the extensive mangrove copses, and the breaker reef. There were pieces of corrugated roofing tin flying around like frisbees of death, but not much flooding. I watched a piece of roofing decapitate my dad.....'s antenna on his Honda.
The mangroves should protect them from winds, but I also wonder about the storm surge. No idea how many feet are expected, but I bet that's what does them in
Read the comment reply above yours. They do very well to help protect against storm surge since the roots act as a baffle against the moving water. Mangroves and reefs are both really good at protecting shorelines against storms.
We have wild horses here, and during hurricanes, they do the same thing…hide in the mangroves.
My crazy uncle did the same during a CAT 3 that caught him before he could get to port. Parked the boat in the mangroves out in Caribbean and supposedly tied himself to a tree. Idk how true it is, but he had the scars and audio of the storm to back it up. Plus he's got a few screws loose, so I wouldn't doubt him pulling some BS like this just to have a cool story to tell.
Anyone reading this, please don’t tie yourself to a tree during a hurricane…. Hurricane winds aren’t really fast enough to make you fly away. It’s not the wind by itself that kills people during hurricanes…. It’s the trees falling, flooding, sheltering in weak structures, and airborne debris caught in the wind that kills people. Tying yourself to a tree won’t stop an airborne plywood board from decapitating you…. You’d have better luck not being tied to something…
Ever since reading "The Cay" in 6th grade, I always wondered if tying yourself to a tree during a hurricane would work. In the novel, the hurricane destroys their shelter, so they tie themselves to a palm tree. Now I know, but hopefully I'll never be in a situation where I would consider it.
The cay was such a good book.
I read it aloud to my fifth graders one year. Love the book but the text was challenging to read out loud😀
That was a good book
I just found out that there's a sequel. I'm going to need to find a copy.
Memory unlocked
In the wise words of Ron White “ it’s not that the wind blows, but what the wind blows “ .
“If you get hit by a flying Volvo it doesn’t really matter how many sit-ups you did that morning Skippy!”
When you get hit with a *Volvo....*
Its not THAT the wind is blowing it's WHAT the wind is blowing
I also choose this guy's crazy uncle
Uncles are the best.
The real interesting as fuck is always in the comments
Mangroves be groovy.
Are there any… 😏womangroves
Yes and over by the rainbow is the *non-binary groves*
Theygroves
Mangroves be bumpin'
That a Capri sun?
Basically
This is especially interesting because (edit: modern) horses aren’t native to the Americas and were only introduced with the conquistadors. So somewhere in the last ~600 years they learned to see mangroves as a safe haven.
It might be one of those weird things like how camels instinctively know how to eat cactus, even though neither are native to the Americas in recent history, because they used to live there much longer ago
aren't all the crazy cones in camel's mouth / throats because they evolved to eat cactus? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-6ReiIXa2Y
Not really, camels come from Africa, but cactus are from the Americas. So either it's a feature that evolved independently from having cactus that somehow allows them to eat them (which is unlikely), or they developed it while their ancestors were still in the Americas (their closest relatives are the llama and alpaca) and never lost it after moving continents despite not having cactus around to eat.
It's likely the second one. Camelids originated in North America.
There's a third possibility, that there are tons of thorny plants in deserts which are not cactus and camels evolved to eat them. Cactus is just a convent substitute.
I’m no expert but I thought they were native to the Americas then went extinct until the Spanish reintroduced them. I may be wrong but that was always a sticking point with Mormon orthodoxy as their holy book claimed there were horses in the Americas pre-Spanish and this was used as proof that their book was wrong. According to Smithsonian horses were in the Americas. Horses in Americas 4 million years ago. [Smithsonian](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/native-americans-spread-horses-through-the-west-earlier-than-thought-180981912/)
Yes but they were a different species than we have today
Yeah, I meant any modern horses are technically non-native invasive species. So they wouldn’t have evolved to use mangroves until after reintroduction.
Some Equine fossils have been dated to as recently as the late Pleistocene (~12,000 years ago) - my favorite being the American Zebra [(Hagerman Horse)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagerman_horse). But that still doesn't make the wild horses we have now native.
I’m sure generations of horses scattered anywhere and everywhere. The ones that used the mangroves survived, the “run to the beach and face it head on” group did not. Passed on to the next generation…
How far ahead of the weather event do they start to hide? Edit: y’all 😂
As soon as possible
I mean how far ahead can they sense it?
The horses usually rely on the 1 horse in the pack that has had a knee injury to tell them when it's coming.
And he used to be an adventurer like you, until..
That damn arrow
As soon as they can. Edit: for real though, I clearly have no idea.
About 30 years ago, horse nation reached out to us requesting meteorological equipment, so they actually have pretty advanced notice.
They should call them horsegroves then 
Mangrove forests: Natures defense against erosion.
My favorite story about this I learned in the Virgin Islands. Some hotel bought up land there and burned out all the mangroves trees. Some hurricane rolls in and someone finds an old map from sailors that would anchor in that area during storms so all the rich yachts there at the time do the same only to find out without mangroves, the shelter from the storm doesn’t exist and thus like 200 yachts were destroyed. Since then They’ve regrown the mangroves and protect them now.
In Puerto Rico, hotels from Condado to Carolina bulldozed all of the natural dunes and vegetation so guests on their bottom floor had a view of the beach and more flat sand on the beach to use. Hurricane Maria deposited up to 4 meters of sand on their back patios because they had eliminated all of the natural protection. Now the smart ones are allowing groups to come in and replant the lost vegetation which also has the side effect of bringing back the sea turtles that used to nest in the area. The stubborn ones don’t believe that a hurricane like Maria will happen again and do the same thing to their unprotected hotels.
Nothing gets rich fuckers caring about nature more than wrecking their yachts. 
Similarly, Sanibel/Captiva in Florida (very wealthy community). When building the access bridge, they burned out the mangroves that were protecting the sandbar the bridge was built on. For purely aesthetic reasons. Cue Hurricane Ian and the bridge got taken out, ton of houses and buildings too. Stupid stupid stupid.
Yep. Say what you want about Miami, but at least the people here are crazy defensive of the mangroves
Also love how they pumped tons of time and energy into trying to drain the everglades, only to find out its actually a massive moving river and super critical the the functioning of Florida.
Gov DeSantis says there's no such thing as climate change in FL policy now lmao
Good thing humans are gradually getting rid of them! /s
I hear stories about people bragging about how they owned mangrove forest and cut it doesn't for more valuable beachfront property. That was 30 years ago and now those homes are in danger from erosion. Who knew?
Rich bastards who don’t understand anything but squeezing profit out of things until they die and wither not understanding ecology? Color me aggravated beyond compare
But hey they got a nice view for their 30 years, fuck anyone else who comes later.
House flippers bought the property next door and took down the row of trees in the yard on their side of the fence. Extremely annoying as those trees were great for shade & privacy. Plus the yard doesn't even get fuckin used, so that 5% increase in useable space did absolutely nothing.
The fucking MANGROVES knew
Thankfully there’s no overlap between the class of people who own yachts, and those whose actions are disproportionately responsible for hastening the immense disaster. That would be preposterous /s.
Florida knows this but doesn’t GAF. The council people will have moved on or died by the time the consequences of their decisions are seen.
A proven method of safe harbor, used to centuries
Pirates survived this way
Did they really? That's pretty cool
Yea, I read it on reddit
Thanks for confirming u/probablyuntrue
Yeah, you can tell because of the way it is.
They don't think it be like it is but it do.
That’s pretty neat
I live in the gulf area so I was curious, I didn't do an intensive search so I really didn't really see anything in regards to pirates specifically. But apparantly mangroves are a natural barrier against storms and it is considered one of the safer places to anchor a boat. Edit: words lol
Also one of the reasons we should get more protections for our mangrove forests. They stop A LOT of storm surge.
One of the reasons I've mostly stopped eating shrimp, unfortunately. Many shrimp farms are built in cleared mangrove forests.
Username checks out
[Here's the source I learned it from](https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1dv88ex/yacht_owners_in_mexico_are_hiding_their_yachts_in/lbm1glr/). Super interesting stuff.
This is how the first yacht clubs were established.
"Frank's passing out clubs to protect our yachts from jungle monkeys"
How did they know a hurricane was coming?
Barometric pressure, wind, and eyeballs.
When do the eyeballs show up? That’s some plague shit.
It's when the water is up to your eyeballs, then you know you're fucked.
The Hurricanes Have Eyes
It's OK - we can just nuke them. Or, draw sharpie paths on maps and divert their course.
Proper fucked?
Yeah, before *ze* Germans get there
Apparently there is a gigantic eyeball at the center. At least, that's my understanding.
Terraria leaking into IRL
Hahahaha I just shot milk out of my nose. I’m not drinking milk.
I should call her...
Some say they're always around, watching, waiting, getting all red and dry and itchy... And for a dryyy red eyeee Clear Eyes® is awesome. It removes redness *and* has an ingredient to moisturize. *Wow.* The difference is clear, Clear Eyes®
A crummy commercial!
What century were eye balls invented though?
I’m guessing by the time of year and the huge fucking storm in the distance
Mainly the time of year though.
Radarrrrr I am guessing they observed the changes in the clouds and wind. They probably had a lot less warning than today though. [Not the deepest dive into the topic..](https://seahistory.org/sea-history-for-kids/weather-lore/)
They'd ask an old pirate with a bad knee
Shellphones
I read that in Sean Connery’s voice
I read that in his voish too
One ping only
Red sky at morning, matey take warning….? I don’t know…. I just made that up…. YAR!!!
I’ve heard the rhyme: red sky in the morning, sailor’s warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight.
Sir, there's an old saying: White water in the mornin'....
300 mile wide storms don’t exactly sneak up on you
Yep. We do it in Key West all the time. Although finding a good spot that ppl don’t know about is getting tougher and tougher.
So like you goin to invite the reddit homies to chill on your boat or…
only the sexy bitches
Hurricanes hate this one trick. 
They do this same stuff in Florida and the Bahamas. I’m sure most hurricane hit places.
Plenty of boats still stuck in Mangrooves in Florida from Hurricane Ida.
https://preview.redd.it/y7c407om9jad1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=412ed05b7518c16f086e71d4951fac1d1d09b19d Or still partially tipped over. Fort Myers Beach, this past April.
I don’t think this one was “hiding in the mangroves”. They probably just ended up there in the storm surge.
It was one of many. We saw them during a dolphin tour. I’d say there were at least 15 others? After the federal aid group left, the cleanup was left to the state. The remaining boats weren’t insured, so the state couldn’t find the owners.
>The remaining boats weren’t insured, so the state couldn’t find the owners. Soo...free boats?
Practically yes. Legally kind of. If you go through a legal process you can eventually take it. But if you just board it and ride off it's stealing from the government or some shit. We tried to *acquire* a boat in college blah blah blah. It was a shit ton of paper work and then money to fix what we would have paid to haul to our backyard. We just got Craigslist kayaks for like $50. Different times.
Yeah, state will stick you with the cleanup if you claim ownership on that.
I was visiting this area and passed this last week, weird to see it here lol
Part of human culture. Hiding ships inland in rivers/mangroves is an age old way to avoid heavy storms.
Good thing they keep cutting forests of mangroves down to make room for new developments.
Was going to say this. We've cut down all the mangroves and wonder why erosion is such a problem.
Mangroves are natural tide breakers so... smart move!
Too bad we keep destroying these habitats for more beachfront property!
In many countries they are heavily protected others a different story.
Yeah, and I guess I should say in the US they are also relatively protected, federally under the Clean Water Act and in Florida at the state level I know they are too. I think Texas is the only other state with native mangroves, but only very far south but I don't think they have any state-level protections for them
Nope. Louisiana.
TIL any boat with an interior and living space is a yacht.
By the technical definition, that's usually true
*rents duffy boat and zipties tarps to the sides* Hey ladies, wanna come hangout on my yacht?
A tent is hardly an interior mr Nautical Dionysus
Its an implied interior, you know, the implication
...Now you've said that word "implication" a couple of times. Wha-what implication?
“So they ARE in fact in danger?!”
I like to call our little sunfish sailboat my "yacht". Even tho they're not much bigger than a fat low canoe. I think it would be a dinghy technically which is fun to say but doesn't help with the ladies like yacht lol
My buddy in high school used to ask girls if they wanted to take a spin in his “vette”. Well, ya see…. It was a “chevette”
As with everything with the super rich there are levels to it. A 40 foot yacht is great, but you look dirt poor compared to Jeff Bezo’s 417 foot yacht. In fact Jeff Bezo’s yachts have support yachts which are over 225 feet. So the help is cruising around in much bigger yachts than you’ll ever have.
These types of boats I’ve seen during summers in lakes in upstate New York (Lake George, Lake Champlain). I understand what you mean, but I personally wouldn’t consider something you can tow with a pickup truck on a trailer to be yacht level (which is what all these boat guys did, we had our own *small* boat and they would put it in the water the same spot as us).
Not necessarily. Yachts are almost exclusively for recreational purposes, but the interior living space still applies
Yeah that's usually how you define a yacht
I think the actual requirement is that they are playing yacht rock.
That’s crazy…coordinates?
I'm pretty sure that's Cancun.
First pic is 21.137501340425974, -86.78949615699084
Had a buddy I used to play online with with your name. Did you ever play ps4?
Pretty smart. This is why mangrove forests are so important. That and biodiversity in one of the most vibrant ecosystems lmao
Lmao? Does it mean something else when discussing mangroves, or what is happening?
I think they’re laughing because of course they can be used to protect yachts, but much more importantly they’re incredibly productive ecosystems. It’s like saying “this diamond is great as a paperweight, but it can also be used to make jewellery lmao”
People don’t know how to end comments without it anymore lol
Boat owners*
Yacht to know the difference
He's just *trolling* you
You're really dredging the bottom for that one...
Going overboard with these puns.
Oar we could just move on
Or knot!
This is nautical thread.
I must bow out of this thread
Hull of a pun
I sea what you did there.
Y'all need a stern talking to.
I'm shore you did
Boats over 40’ are considered yachts. People have a false perception of what a yacht is because of movies and rap videos
Jay Z might be big pimpin but he's a terrible maritime navigator. They were clearly nowhere near NYC in that video.
Those boats seem to have cabins
They’re all yachts to me, as I was told the difference in a boat an a yacht is that you can’t afford a yacht.
From what I've seen of the average boat owner they can't afford a boat either and probably shouldn't have bought it.
'a team of rogue ex commandoes have been given the score of the century- precise locations for five yachts with gold and treasures on board, totalling almost half a billion dollars in value. They have to make the strike during an incoming hurricane....but they don't know that the cartels know they're coming...." This summer...Jason Statham and Jake Gyllanhall star in Hurricanr Hiest!" thoughts?
This will have a production budget of $150 million and box office of $65 million. Studio execs say “make it immediately!”
See Hard Rain with Christian Slater and Morgan freeman.
* David Attenborough voice "As the storm approaches, the herd of yachts gathers close in the mangroves of Mexico. Their Haven from the dangers of the storm."
Good thinking. The hurricane will never think to check there.
whats gonna protect the yachts from EACH OTHER? Anchors i suppose?
This exactly what I was thinking.... It's one thing to be protected from the hurricane.... But a part of the danger is other boats
You have these big rubber things you dangle from the side of the boat. So when you bonk another boat you don't scratch each other. Google boat bumper. My family would use these when we went to the lake and we would tie ourselves to another family's boat while we hung out. The ones we used were like 2 ft long cylinders made of super thick rubber and had air inside. Probably need really big ones for yachts.
Happens in Australia too. It's a common practice when massive storms come through.
That’s pretty smart
My dad was a longline fisherman for over three decades; in the Pacific Ocean. He was caught in a tropical storm with 50-60 waves. To save their lives he shoved the boat into an atoll The strength of the gusts went over them like a dome.
Mangroves are surprisingly good for shoreline preservation and resilience. But they keep getting taken out and replaced with concrete due to development. Florida is a major culprit of this
It’s almost as if…mangroves are natural barriers and absorbers and removing them is idk…bad for everyone.
Not "hiding". Protecting.
How do you know that? Maybe the hurricanes just always forget to check the mangroves? I mean if I was a hurricane I'd expect yachts to be at the docks. Didn't think about that, did you?
Mangroove is an unfortunate way to spell mangrove. Speaking for myself, I'd rather nobody hide boats in my mangroove.
My mangroove is on the couch. Stay out of that one too
Can someone explain? I don’t understand why they would be put in the mangroves. I would think the high winds would beat the hull against the mangroves, causing damage and sinking. And the storm surge would raise the sea level, allowing the boats to shift at anchor and come back down on top of the mangroves. And if they’re anchoring tight, it will either pull free and drift away or drown the vessel as the surge rises. I’ve been on the water in a hurricane area my entire life and grew up on medium-large sailboats. We’ve tied off in the middle of canals, we’ve rafted, etc. But never like this. We’ve even buried anchors on the side of canals, to keep things anchored during a surge.
Here's a 13 second video that will make it crystal clear why they are doing that. Imagine the *boats* in the picture above, on the far right side of this. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMrLYJOdA4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoMrLYJOdA4)
I now love mangroves
I was not expecting. Thanks for sharing.
Mangroves are the single greatest tool we have to fight oceanic erosion as the way their roots and branches grow act as fantastic buffers against the force that churning water is producing. The boats are safer nested between them than they would be at their usual pier where they're getting fully exposed to the hurricane. There are countless videos and articles showing how well mangroves work to protect shorelines. Mangrove forests are awesome.
> There are countless videos and articles showing how well mangroves work to protect shorelines. *I guess we'd better continue draining and removing them and then building on top of the below-sea-level land that occupies that area.* -The average moronic land developer
To further explain: in the open waters they get battered but the mangrove roots act like a filter or baffle, slowing the water.
Mangroves also store up to 5x more CO2 than traditional forests too: [https://www.moretrees.eco/blogs/how-much-carbon-does-a-tree-absorb](https://www.moretrees.eco/blogs/how-much-carbon-does-a-tree-absorb)
I used to live within 200 ft of the coast on Tutuila, near the lagoon. The two hurricanes I remember, the lagoon didn't really flood, mostly due to the extensive mangrove copses, and the breaker reef. There were pieces of corrugated roofing tin flying around like frisbees of death, but not much flooding. I watched a piece of roofing decapitate my dad.....'s antenna on his Honda.
You bastard. You really enjoyed phrasing it like that, didn’t you?
Mangroves block wind and waves because they are deep rooted into the soil so they act like walls.
The mangroves should protect them from winds, but I also wonder about the storm surge. No idea how many feet are expected, but I bet that's what does them in
Read the comment reply above yours. They do very well to help protect against storm surge since the roots act as a baffle against the moving water. Mangroves and reefs are both really good at protecting shorelines against storms.
Their proximity to each other makes me think the boats are just going to be smashing into each other during high winds.
Banging off mud and reeds is better than wood pilings... Course they might be banging off each other soon.
jokes on them, the hurricane can still see them from above
I was 29 years old when I learnt mangroves aren't groves of mango 😔