Wow i want one of these

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It would be awesome to wait until the dude is like 40 feet up and then kink his intake hose. Actually that looks like something Wile E. Coyote would come up with.
 
that isn't what proves this as fake. instead its newtonian mechanics, the whole equal and opposite reactions thing. for this to work the upward force from the jets has to be greater than the downward pull of gravity and the downward pull from that massive fucking hose sucking up water. you might have seen on mythbusters or somewhere else that a car was lifted using fire hoses which would lead you to believe that this is plausible. the difference in that scenario is that the pressure is being supplied from fire trucks pumping the water into the hoses as opposed to the water being sucked through the hoses. there is a very important difference.
 
Im not sure it's fake - was in the "News" in the Elevator yesterday at work - 1800 bucks apparently...

(actually that's a number i randomly remembered - it may have been more, but there was deffo a price associated with it in the article... )

 
It could be plausible. There is a height limit. It gets it's lift from the jet pushing off the stagnant ocean. Just like a helicopter receiving extra lift when it is 1.5 blade lengths from the ground. It's called ground effect. And did you see the pump? It's on it's own rather large boat. Plus if you know anything about pumps a mark 3 is capable of producing 250 psi of pressure, plus it only weighs around 30 pounds. Combine 3 pumps in series and it is very possible. It would be noisier then shit though
 
the water isn't being sucked through the hoses.

To achieve a dramatic improvement in this ratio, we remove the propulsion system and support it on a separate boat unit, and generate thrusts by nozzle reaction force by delivering low pressure, high flow water to the jetpack through a supply hose.

it's sold by the same company that sells the seabreacher, i'm gonna go ahead and say it's legit.

 
I'm sure someone could easily hurt themselves with this thing, if you read the comments on the youtube video people say that they watched test "pilots" do uncontrollable flips as well as accidentally dive under water for 30 to 40 seconds because they couldn't figure out how to shut it off, no one said its safe, but its obviously not fake
 
they won't even let you touch one unless you're thoroughly certified and trained first. also, the creator now owns a world record. i don't really know what more proof you want, do you want someone to give you one?
 
ok, ok, that makes sense, too bad they didn't happen to show that little nugget of information in the video. kind of a buzz kill that you have to be followed around by a pump boat though don't you think?
 
I remember seeing things about this when it was first being developed. I haven't seen them get it going real well and have that much fun with it though! That was an awesome little edit with it. Looks really fun.
 
This.

A fire hose barely moves a man, and those things are fucking brutal. A jet of water that narrow that could lift a man would break limbs. And that's ignoring the weight of the jetpack and hose.
 
Looks legit to me, just limited. And fucking retarded. Its not like free flight or anything, and thats what a jetpack is all about, your attached to a boat by an enormous hose, you cant go all that high, and you have to stay over the water.
 
Q: Can the water jets hurt my arms and legs?

A: The pressure in the nozzles could reach 60 psi (only slightly higher than municipal pressures), but because of high flow rates, it may cause low-level pain and bruising in the arms, so one should not place hands or arms in the jets. Unlike pressure washers which operate between 1,800 to over 3,000 psi, our jets are far from being strong enough to be effective as an exfoliation or hair removal tool. By the time it has traveled 30 feet or 8.5 m, the water stream has broken up into droplets and slowed down substantially and have little impact force.
 
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