hey guys tory here from overlook horizon
yesterday spacex
landed their crew dragon capsule for the
first time in the gulf of mexico
with astronauts bob behnken and doug
hurley on board after what appeared to
be
a nominal entry and splashdown under
parachute spacex experienced some
unexpected visitors
in the form of recreational boaters now
in a minute i'm going to show you the
clip from yesterday along with my
reaction in real time from our live
stream
but i do want to point out that this is
dangerous and although it seems like
everything was fine
in this circumstance it could have been
disastrous
one of the main reasons is because the
crew dragon capsule uses hypergolic
fuels in the form of nitrogen tetroxide
and monomethylhydrazine these are both
very toxic to humans and these boaters
could have been exposed to it
if the capsule was leaking in addition
to that there are other reasons why this
could have been a problem
wakes stirred up by the boats could have
rocked the capsule around
they could have impeded recovery crews
from getting to the capsule in a medical
emergency
there were parachutes that were in the
water that recovery crews needed to
recover
and one of these boaters could have run
over the parachutes plus even little
things like just getting in the way of
the camera
means that personnel back at mission
control can't see what's happening to
the capsule
people sometimes forget that these
cameras are fun to watch but they are an
important
engineering tool for mission control and
engineers that aren't
at the recovery sites they need to be
able to see the capsule
and what's going on all right that's
enough of my rant i'm going to let you
see
how it went down yesterday and what my
reaction was you guys let me know in the
comments down below
what you guys thought here it is oh look
it we got some other
get some other ships coming in the area
i don't know what i don't know what
these support ships are there's a lot
more support ships than they normally
have
got some some spacex fans that were uh
just in the area no i don't think these
are spacex fans but
wouldn't that be interesting if like
some some guy was out on a pontoon boat
with like a
you know just having a picnic out at the
recovery area like hey guys
we're we're just watching here five
minutes later you are seeing a few more
boats
than expected um the team's currently
working
uh with a few private vessels
in the area get out of here did they get
out of there
get out of here it really is those are
private vessels
oh my god those are i was joking
i was totally joking that i thought that
those were gonna those are private
those are really private vessels that
are violating the notmar
restrictions oh my
god that's so crazy they have private
vessels
violating their space right now that are
trying
they are trying to get out of the way
people just driving by with cameras and
stuff oh i was totally joking about that
but that's
that's for real
i knew when i was watching that i was
like there are a lot of ships out there
that's not what they did before spacex fast
boats moving in
i can't believe there are so many
private sh that they're
private ship their private boats ships
boats i don't know what the proper
terminology is but
they're people out there getting selfies
with the crew dragon in the water
that's insane so we are being advised
that
uh the recovery team is radioing out to
the vessels in the water
near crew dragon to vacate the area uh
so that we're able to
extract bob and doug safely you know
also for the safety
of those folks in the area as well not
just bob and doug
yeah this is this is obviously a dynamic
operation
one of the first things we do is make
sure there aren't
essentially poisonous fumes around the
capsule so
uh something like this just
really can endanger the whole thing
endanger the crew members and endanger
themselves so
the spacex team's moving in to try and
get them away
so they can safely recover the dragon
capsule and get bob and doug
on deck and safely inside their medical
quarters so
we can see them they're getting a lot
closer we expect
about 10 minutes or so until they should
be in position
all the rigging has been affixed on the
dragon capsule
and once they arrive they'll be able to
use that hydraulic lift
to get dragon up and out of the water
that is so crazy like i
i was so joking that it was some that
there was just some random guy
navigator is getting closer and closer
to
dragon endeavour
as it awaits
its recovery as it awaits to be hoisted
out of
the gulf of mexico again we landed just
off the coast of florida
near pensacola
maybe next time we shouldn't announce
our landing zone
oh there we got a shot from our wb-57
plane it looks like that area has
cleared out significantly
so that is good to see i can't believe
how many private boats were in that area
that is insane that's so crazy like
and we're honestly hearing out that all
of the parachutes
on them so also good news uh as the
recovery process continues
for spacex demo 2 a few minutes later
you can see the main recovery vessel in
the top right there that's the helipad
with the big spacex on top it's now
backing up towards the capsule
certainly not to be confused with one of
our
uh landing drone ships
look at oh my goodness look at all the
boats of
dragon all those water in the background
along with many onlookers certainly from
a safer
oh my goodness this is a live shot
coming from
go navigator as you could tell i was
clearly
not a big fan of this i do think though
that the coast guard
probably needs a bigger presence for
next time around the coast guard did put
out a statement
that said that the coast guard worked
closely with nasa and spacex to plan the
recovery of the dragon crew
in a way that prioritized the safety of
the boating public and those involved in
the recovery mariners were alerted to
the pending hazardous operations
within a specified boundary by a
broadcast notice to mariners
it was issued on july 29th the
establishment of an official safety zone
that authorizes the coast guard to hold
legal authority over boaters in
violation of entering an area
was not available due to the targeted
splashdown location being
outside of the navigable waterways of
the united states
which in most cases is limited to 12
nautical miles from shore now in their
statement they go on to say that they do
have the legal authority to board
vessels
and enforce laws even beyond the 12
nautical mile range
but one of the problems was they just
didn't have enough resources or
personnel
at the recovery site to do that for all
those boats so i think next time they
might need a bigger presence there
in order to enforce a tighter security
perimeter let me know what you guys
think in the comments down below
and i'll see you in the next video.  goodbye.
goodbye
you
