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Hey guys, I'm Brent Rose,

rider and writer of sharks.

Summer is here

and yeah you could do all the typical things

like barbecue, water ski,

or you could ride a jet-powered dolphin

that's shaped like a super car.

Today, I'm going to attempt to ride

two of the craziest watercrafts out there,

the Seabreacher--

[Rob] It's just like a roller coaster

designed to scare you silly.

[Brent] And the Jetovator.

[Rob] This thing will blow your mind.

You can fly this thing 50 feet high,

dive it 30 feet deep.

So I'm gonna die.

There's a good chance you're gonna die.

Great. Good chance.

[Brent] So the first thing we're trying out

is the Seabreacher.

The Seabreacher comes in all sorts of flavors.

There's dolphins, there's killer whales.

There's all kinds of sharks.

There's even a manatee for some reason.

So they're all custom-built.

Most of the boats we build

we designed to look like marine creatures.

This is Rob Innes, the mad man who builds these things.

How did you get into this?

I'm from New Zealand originally,

the country known for sort of backyard engineering.

It started as just as a hobby.

This is the very first Seabreacher we built.

I started this in 1999.

We've come a long away.

I mean, that thing was a death trap.

This thing is ridiculous.

It's sort of a hybrid

submarine, boat, jet ski.

It can go under the surface of the water,

it can jump, it can barrel roll,

it can go up to 60 miles an hour.

It weighs about 1400 pounds.

It can do all kinds of really dangerous-looking stuff

that I am really excited to try.

What's the biggest challenge you think,

when people try something like this for the first time?

If they're not trained pilots

they just have to think in three axes,

like a jet ski you just turn left and right.

This, you have to separate your pitch roll

and you have to think in a three dimensional environment.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Rob] And so you're gonna close the canopy.

[Brent] Okay.

[Rob] Up and over, yeah.

Latch by the sides.

And then your pedals left and right.

You push the right pedal, it's gonna turn you right.

Push your left pedal, that's gonna turn you left.

Point your toes forward,

the nose is gonna go down.

If you point your toes back,

the nose is gonna go up.

Because there's only one air in take off

a snorkel for the cabin and the engine,

when you really give it some gas,

your ears are gonna pop a little bit.

There's a little bit of a vacuum

and you really really feel that a lot

when you dive down and you're gassing it.

The first time you go underwater,

you kinda feel a sense of panic

because it doesn't look right.

You feel like you're driving a car

and cars are not meant to be submerged in the water.

[Rob] Okay, now we're gonna talk about roll.

So your left control stick controls the left wing,

your right control stick controls the right wing.

Okay, so in theory if you push this one forward

and this one back,

you are gonna roll to the left.

You do the opposite, you're gonna roll to the right.

This is way more high adrenaline

than my last driver's ed experience.

Last driver's ed experience,

I had a creepy guy next to me

who would always poke my leg.

And now I've got a creepy guy behind me

who just taps my shoulder.

Oh yeah.

The first big trick is learning how to dive and then jump.

To do that,

you wanna be going about five to seven miles an hour.

You're gonna pull back on your toes a little bit

and then slam them forward

and that breaks the surface tension

and gets your nose into the water

and as soon as your nose is down,

you gas the hell out of it.

(bleep)

Sorry!

If you're in the middle of a dive and you get scared,

you're gonna wanna pull back.

Don't do that because then you're gonna stall out

and you're just gonna come out ass first.

As soon as you're underneath the water

you wanna go toes back up

and you'll breach through.

And generally slam down pretty hard if you do it right.

The newest model is the Super-Car

which we're trying out today.

They put a ton of R and D into it

to reshape the nose cone and everything

and really really trick it out to make it look like

a certain super car whose name we dare not mention.

So the Super-Car is based off Seabreacher's Model Z

which has a retractable snorkel.

That means it can barrel roll

and that was definitely my most ambitious trick in it.

To barrel roll you have to get up

to about 20, 25 miles an hour

which feels pretty fast

and then you just jam both hand levers

in the opposite directions.

That'll dig one fin in and lift the other one

and you just spin.

Riding in the Seabreacher is absolutely thrilling.

It feels like you're going Mach One

and went dive in

and the water's streaming off the windshield,

it looks like you're going to ludicrous speed

in your Winnebago.

I would say these are for the water sports enthusiasts

who are kinda over their jet skis.

They start at the low low price of $80,000.

Now that's a very expensive toy for most people,

luckily you can certainly do rental times

and cruise around the lake or even in the ocean.

It's a very expensive business to get into.

I mean, that's what people know.

People think, Why are they so expensive?

And it's just, they don't understand,

just the sheer number of hours

that goes into building each and every one of these.

This is for people that want something completely different.

You did good though. Thank you.

You didn't destroy my boat,

so I appreciate that. Yeah, cool.

Let's try the Jetovator.

Let's do it.

What this is is a water-propelled flying bike.

You hook it up to your existing jet ski.

And it reroutes the water coming out of the jet pump

up a fire hose

and then you can manipulate the angle of these jets

to fly up in the sky,

do spins, back flips, rolls, dives.

Yeah, I'm slightly nervous but here goes.

Getting up and riding is a somewhat tricky balancing act.

So to start off,

you really need to push those levers way way forward

'til you slowly take off at an incline

and then you wanna just more like lean back.

The impulse is always to pull back

and then you'll rear up and back flop.

Before you get the hang of it,

you will be crashing over and over

and over and over again.

So once you're up and riding,

you're really just trying to master

going forward and steering

while not going over the back.

To turn you can either lean

kind of like you're on a bike

or you can start using the thrusters a little bit.

If you push forward on one,

you'll start turning more in that direction,

push forward in the other,

you'll start turning more in that direction.

Now the first trick that I tried to learn

was the spiral

and basically that's you wanna go straight up

and spin 360 degrees.

And it was way way harder than it looks.

Essentially you have to start going straight up

and rear back to the point where you feel like

you're about to go over backwards

and you're almost hugging the thing to your chest

and then you crank the levers in opposite directions,

kinda like doing a barrel roll in the Seabreacher.

Basically you do a quick spin and then you try to recover.

So from there I actually did some porpoising

which is where you dive into the water

and break the surface

and dive into the water and break the surface.

And that was super super fun and not nearly as difficult

as I thought it was gonna be.

I kind of expected a way bigger impact in the water

and you can really streamline your body

so it's not so bad.

My last trick and the thing I'm probably proudest of today

was a barrel roll.

It took a few tries and you actually do it

from a sitting position.

You have to go up a lot higher than you think you do

which is scary because when you fall,

you know you're falling from higher,

but when I was able to turn it around

and catch myself before I hit the water

it felt like a massive massive win

before crashing again.

I was really really glad I had that helmet on

'cause it shook me up a little bit

but overall the thing is amazing.

The basic Jetovator kit costs about nine grand

which is a lot cheaper than the Seabreacher

but it isn't exactly cheap

especially when you consider

you need your own personal watercraft too.

That said, there are more and more places

where you can rent these,

get lessons and try them out for yourself.

So what did we learn here today?

Well when you Doctor Moreau together

a boat, a submarine, and a jet ski

or a bike and a fire hose,

you end up with something pretty damn awesome.

This isn't your grandpa's motorboat.

Oh, there's an image.

These are setting the stage

for the weird wild future of water sports

and I'm here for it.

Well, what do you think?

Is this something you'd wanna do yourself?

Let us know in the comments below.

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With all that being said,

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