I jetskiied around manhattan

[03gade]

It was pretty epic. I usually hate when people promote videos in a thread, but this is different enough I wanted to share

jetskifacebook from Michael Bovin on Vimeo.

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[yelsel]

that's actually pretty awesome.

did you shower for days after? that water is beyond grimey

 

[first_rodeo]

IF the Hudson is PCB loaded in Albany

i cant imagine the poops per million and industrial south o' here

 

[TechnoPotamus]

that's a standardized unit of measurement correct?

 

[kingsskier]

Creative song choice...

Pretty crazy jestskiing in big shipping lanes. Too bad the camer he was using fogged up and made it pointless to watch 3/4 of it.

 

[marsh.]

Ppm is a lesser known unit of measurement. The poops per million ratio should equal the pees per million ratio as well.

 

[Errl]

However, it is known to be greater on occasion. Most typically in the days following May the fifth.

 

[Bateman]

i belive it is courics.

 

[Brenone]

I did the same thing a few years ago. It was pretty fun and I didn't suck any plastic bags into my jet ski.

Although when I got home the white part of the bottom of my jet ski had a yellowish tint on it for a while.

 

[kingsskier]

Win

 

[Ski_Alot]

I came expecting jetskiing in the streets, was only a little bit dissapointed...

 

[Randy_Quench]

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[Lemuel]

The hull ...

 

[SkiTheYeast]

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[daannnnieel]

I wouldn't dip my toe in that water let along jetski in it.

 

[03gade]

so yeah, when we launched the skis and i had to stand in the water, it was absolutely disgusting. But it was well worth it. And yeah idk why the freakin waterproof do anything be a hero go pro fogged up. wasn't happy about that at all.

 

[Lick]

That gave me completely different feel on the city for some reason, in a bad way. I realized that it's just like the city I live in, just bigger. Everytime I've been there it feels like a whole different world.

And yeah I wouldn't even get close to that water

 

[03gade]

the gopro doesn't do it justice, everything was twice as big irl, it was pretty cool. But I do get what you are saying, the east river side has nothing to look at at all...and alot of the main landmarks are in the middle of the city so there's not much of note actually on the water. Like you can't tell i show the empire state building mixed in, but it was cool seeing it in person from the water.

 

[deepfriedtwinkie]

The hudson river isnt that bad...you get used to the floating terds after awhile

 

[7-11_Slurpee]

Someone should have done this in Boulder...

 

[last_tango]

at least that doesn't sound as bad as the androscoggin. That river is full of paper mill waste and all the fish are mutated.

 

[DIPED_IN_SAUCE]

No No No. it's the while part of the bottom. That's the technical term.

 

[bigbromskier]

the new world trade center looks boss as hell from that side.

 

[marsh.]

Ok how bad is the water really? I've never been to New York so idk..

 

[yelsel]

bad

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[03gade]

of we wanna get technical, yes it is the pollution but its brown disgusting color comes from the riverbed, its this weird clay stuff that gets all mixed in, that's the real reason why the hudson was so slimey when i went in it

 

[TijmenDal]

The North Sea is one of the least transparent seas in the world, yet it's one of the cleanest. Just because it's grimy doens't mean it's dirty.