I’m no expert on boats or helicopters, but I imagine it’s difficult to operate them even under the best conditions. After all, if it were easy we would all be able to do it! Recently, though, the Royal Danish Air Force had a chance to show off just how skilled they are during a harrowing landing that could have gone very wrong. During a storm in the Atlantic Ocean, the pilot of a Seahawk MH-60R helicopter made the landing of a lifetime on a boat as both the ship and the helicopter were tossed around by wind and waves. This landing must have had the pilot and the boat captain on edge the whole time. Read More: Watching This Plane Trying To Land With Extreme Crosswinds Will Give You Anxiety Wow! They make it look easy, but I’m wishing them only clear skies from here on out. Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/helicopter-landing-storm/
Driving a boat is harder than it looks on TV or in the movies. Not only do you have to captain the vehicle, you also need to be paying attention to the radar and the radio so that you don’t crash into any nearby ships. You should be aware of the status of the mechanics, too, lest you stall out on the open sea. Crazy things can happen. When a small speedboat’s engine stalled off the New Jersey coast, the people on board found themselves right in the middle of a shipping lane with a humongous container ship bearing down on them. This is seriously tense. (via Reddit) Those people were literally inches from getting run over. The big man upstairs must have been smiling on them that day. Read more: http://www.viralnova.com/almost-crushed/
