Disaster at sea; Racing across the ocean in the SUPER Fountain competing in Gateway Marathon 2024
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Full video of Raymarine sponsoered SUPER Fountain competing in the 2024 Ocean Cup Gateway Marathon 2024. Watch as the boat traveling over 100mph on its way to the Bahamas attempting to break the world record when disaster strikes and the boat suffers near total loss when it strike debris nearly sinking the boat. Both men were able to save themselves and the boat in a last ditch effort to get home. A must watch
Update: First I would like to thank everyone for the calls, texts, and messages. Cody and I are safe and sound but the boat suffered a major hit from debris in the water. It appears something hit under the throttle seat near the end of the first step and the bottom continued to peal towards the bow. I could feel the drag after the first impact but was hopeful it would remain intact. A minute or two after the first hit we crossed a small set of waves when a hole broke through and the boat immediately started taking in water. As you can hear from the live stream video I instructed Cody to turn around and head towards Florida. After the initial assessment we pulled the life raft because we would soon lose the boat taking in that amount of water. We were approximately 32 miles from Florida at the time. I did put out a distress call through the Raymarine USA raymic but the boat lost all power soon after. By a stroke of luck the turbomeca turbines stayed running because the were above the water that was sunk by the boat. About five minutes after we lost power the port engine began to surge and eventually shut itself off. At that point the coast guard was now hovering above us asking if we needed the hoist. I gave them a thumbs up because we were still under power with the starboard engine. By a second stroke of luck we noticed the driveshaft was spinning the water up to the exhaust and the exhaust was pushing out the water boat as fast as the hole was letting it in, so I realized we might be able to save the boat from sinking if the engine would stay running. The entire time Nikole was hovering over us in our helicopter and helped us navigate towards Florida using hand signals. We had no way to communicate with anyone but both of us had hope we would make it back to land. The first plan of action was to beach it on peanut Island to prevent losing the boat. When we finally got close enough for cell service I began texting Nikole and the team about our plan. The teams quick response got the trailer to the ramp and the police fire and EMS shut down the ramp to dedicate for our arrival and gave us the option to shoot for the trailer instead of beaching on a public beach. About a mile away from the inlet the starboard engine started surging and losing power but luckily sea tow had begun to stay parallel in case we lost power. Seconds after the engine shut down they had secured us to a tow rope and threw us pumps to keep the water pumping out of the boat. Sea tow got us through the inlet and landed us on our awaiting trailer. As our crew chief (Torey Dorell) pulled the boat out, the full extent of the damage revealed itself and the entire starboard side bottom was missing. It will take weeks to fully assess the damage and determine what the next step is. I would like to personally thank everyone for all of the support and this is only another chapter in our life of racing. I hope to see you all soon. Nikole and I are on the way to the airport to head back to OKC but I will connect with you all soon. Thank you.
Andy Copeland 
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Somewhere midway through the video, flying through the swells and what looks like you are driving the boat to the edge, I hear whew-hew and laughter…now that is living your best life.
Glad you guys made it back safe.
Cody is a good friend and I am so glad that he and Andy are safe and sound.
It’s mind blowing I’m just now finding out this race boat exists. There’s so many out there that participate in other events. Wish we can get more boats for offshore racing. So tired of seeing the same ones every season
It just looks like he wasn’t set at all. He was fighting his helmet, oxygen line, etc the entire time.
@20:19 you can clearly see something passing near the starboard side of the boat at the exact moment things went south.
Glad y’all made it back
Good save Gentlemen. Continued Success. Great team effort!
Used one many times. This one just didn't fit well
Proving Once Again... The Sea could care less how Much Money and Technology you have... Dwight, Good Seamaritan Rescue since 1958 👍👍👍
Wow, that was intense! Glad you made it back ok.
Andy, I'm really hoping for your kidneys sake you have a suspension seat? LoL. Great job anyway & thank you for going to great lengths to share this experience with us mere mortals.
No worries
A proper fitting helmet should be the first thing on your list.
Not negotiable.
Incredible video it was like watching the space shuttle tear through the skies as it reached for the stars....as to what you may of hit....is it possible it was a large fish....and if I may make a suggestion going forward have an addition helicopter fly ahead looking for possible submerged problems
crazy bad luck , i'll call u next week see how ur doin
Ouch
The main thing is you guys We're not. hurt. The boat could always be repaired Or replaced. but not your Lives, just saying.
That helmet is a huge distraction…
Never used a helmet before?
I blame this on the APBA. A few weeks ago the new APBA rules came out and they ruled to no longer allow the helmets with the solid mic booms to be used in canopy race boats. All of our smaller helmets had the solid mic booms and were not allowed to be used for this race. Cody had not choice but to use a helmet that wasn't the perfect fit. Just another instance where safety rules cause a more unsafe condition than the rule was designed to correct.
@andycopeland thank you for your positive response.
Thanks for clearing that up Andy
@@AndyCopeland Thank you, it just looked out of place...
"WHAT A RUSH ! [wish i could do this} FANTASTIC - BLOG!
NONE of that looked fun or comfortable to me. Glad you're both safe to try again.
its an adrenaline fix. thank you!