I saw the headline and wondered if this was a repost. Nope. If I had a nickel for every time this guy has been arrested for ocean hamster wheel shenanigans, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t much, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I think you’re in luck, the article says he’s tried 3 similar voyages before, so if it’s his fourth your nickel fortune is going to double!
Damn, people really are desperate to get away from DeSantis.
Shhh… Don’t tell them about the existence of buses and trains.
Public transport is socialism tho. Can’t have that in Florida.
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Oh look at all these nice cars the rich people have, it’d be a shame if they go missing. 😏
Just be an immigrant and Desantis will use taxpayer money to illegally traffic you over state lines!
Why arrest the guy if he wants to drowned in a hamster wheel in the ocean that’s on him
I’m sorry! I thought this was AMERICA!?
Stop arresting him and he becomes Europes problem.
They think they’re all coming in boats? WRONG! Hamster wheels, son!
What is the legal justification for this?
The part where upon being stopped by the Coast Guard - he threatened to kill himself and that he had a bomb. Also his device is not seaworthy and they would be dispatched to find him anyway when he dissapears because that’s what they have to do.
I didn’t know you needed to have a seaworthy device to sail on open waters.
Hazard to other traffic. If you cant steer, dont have lights, dont have a radio, and dont have a beacon or radar reflector, you’re being a pain in the ass for everyone else on the high seas.
Just like how a car needs to have a minimum standard of roadworthiness to drive on public roads
Is he really a hazard to other traffic, or just himself?
Cargo ship owners dont want to scrape plastic and meat gunk out of their propellers
The guy made it 110km?! I mean, I’m still pretty impressed
What would florida man’s super power be?
Tenacity
Instead of raising money for the coast guard he could just… not waste their time needing rescued.
He has a Wikipedia page. Reza Baluchi
At this point, the guy should have already gathered some support to help him make the cross.
Crazier things have been done.
Lets him do what he wants with his life, stop being Nazis just arresting people for no reason
Yeah, cuz this is genocide!
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Florida man was arrested after trying to “run to London” across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade vessel resembling a hamster wheel.
The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August.
“Based on the condition of the vessel - which was afloat as a result of wiring and buoys - [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage,” the criminal complaint says.
On 1 September, he eventually surrendered and abandoned his vessel after being brought to a Coast Guard base in Miami.
In 2021, he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point.
According to previous interviews, Mr Baluchi said he was attempting the voyages to raise money for a variety of causes, including for the homeless and the Coast Guard.
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he was arrested after being rescued while trying to ride from Florida to New York after drifting 30 miles south of his departure point
How do we know education is failing in Florida?
New York is north of Florida, not south.
Right. And since he was heading north but drifting south the effort failed. Were you schooled in Florida?
I’m not an expert in maritime law, or any law for that matter, but why they had to help him?
If he wanted to be in danger he succeeded, provided he doesn’t request the coastal guard for assistance he is not hurting anything but himself. Is It because his hamster wheel might have been a hazard to other boats?
Article 98 UNCLOS, “Duty to render assistance”:
- Every State shall require the master of a ship flying its flag, in so far as he can do so without serious danger to the ship, the crew or the passengers:
a. to render assistance to any person found at sea in danger of being lost;
b. to proceed with all possible speed to the rescue of persons in distress, if informed of their need of assistance, in so far as such action may reasonably be expected of him;
c. after a collision, to render assistance to the other ship, its crew and its passengers and, where possible, to inform the other ship of the name of his own ship, its port of registry and the nearest port at which it will call.- Every coastal State shall promote the establishment, operation and maintenance of an adequate and effective search and rescue service regarding safety on and over the sea and, where circumstances so require, by way of mutual regional arrangements cooperate with neighbouring States for this purpose.
Thank you barsoap! So even if there is no assistance request is given if the person is clearly lost or soon to be in need of assistance you need to provide assistance.
