Riding on a ski jet pretty much resembles riding a motorcycle. Body position, controls, and even the danger are similar. So you should better take care of that last part, or you could get it just as this guy in the video here.
You’d think that with all the water and open space around it’s hard to hit something or hurt yourself on a ski jet. Well, if you’re dumb enough, you have high chances of successfully drowning yourself by mistake.
And I’m not necessarily talking about riding waves in a wrong way that can destabilize your machine and send you into the water. I’m referring to doing stupid stuff like trying to go high-five a huge cargo ship.
That’s right, this guy here probably has no clue about hydrodynamics and the forces generated near such a container ship. Far from the distance, you’d think the large vessel is just another ocean gentle giant and is almost inviting you to get a closer look.
Which the guy totally falls in for, pointing his ski jet towards the behemoth’s belly and giving it gas. But as soon as he is close enough, the backwash of the boat pulls him in up to the point where he loses control of the ski jet and collides with the metal wall of the ship.
The guy falls into the water and naturally detaches the safety switch wire, stopping the jet ski. He barely manages to not get sucked under the water, desperately trying to reattach the safety switch and ride away.
People like him simply don’t realize what kind of wake comes off those large boats. He was incredibly lucky he didn’t end up under the ship as the rear propellers would have turned him into sushi in an instant.
I think people should go through a mandatory training before getting on one of these machines too. It’s not that safe if you’re a brain dead junky in search of adrenaline.
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