They should try that with faster cars.

They only need to go faster than the coast guard.

I doubt that the CG would open fire...well after 9/11 they proably will...still it's worth a shot.

I figure a supercharged ford truck engine or any Hemi could put out enough power to go much much faster.

I don't think so. Not with the drag that something like those floating trucks are going to have compared to the V hulls of the coastguard ships.

they would have made it easily in one of these:

http://i.timeinc.net/time/2003/inven.../invaquada.jpg
of course, they'd only be able to fit 5 or 6 immigrants, but they could make 2 trips in this little speeder
more on this

The only one they have left, have rust holes. :haha:

Faster than a speeding f-15/16/18 ?

f-15/16/18 isn't very good at stopping a small boat like that unless you want to bomb it

However, as someone once pointer out to me - you can't outrun a radio. The just radio ahead, and the cutter waits for you

I don't believe that they would have time to deply the jets at these short distances.

If the first BIG truck made it 40miles away from the shore at 8mph, think of what it could have done at 40?

You'll say "But 40 is fast for a boat.." Yeah but they can make it fast! They only need to cover ~200 miles on it, if even that. Supercharge it, water cool it, nitro it, rip off the muffler and the cats, floor it. Who cares if the engine only lasts the day? It's like the F1 engines which only last the race..

I would probably guess that they'd do better using a real speed boat though.

Oh and they just need to put up a big US flag and NOT look like Cubans to make it through. Like maybe not take the shortest route and not during the day?

Here is the magic formula:

Dark grey boat. No lights. Night.

The truck made it 40 miles because that's half way and they don't intercept before that. The US is watching ALL the time. Even the drug smugglers in high speed cigarette boats aren't fast enough.:)

This just screams "Condoreman"...

Quzah.

They finally made it! Not by sea, but through Costa Rica and Mexico. I still feel bad about the Chevy Truck. ;)

I've got a truck that needs some work. Welcome to America, Boys!

I've hardly been the environmentalist around here, but WTF is with them SINKING the two car/boats that this family had? They couldn't have just sent 'em to a junkyard for crying out loud? For some reason this really pisses me off. Oh, and welcome I guess to the family, if only most americans had that much willpower to get something done....

This thread just won't die!

They are back. This time with a modified taxi.MSNBC Story

If they'd had 70HP/Liter, they'd have made it that last 20 miles before the Coast Guard found them. :)

Why must it be bright blue

To match their house?

1. Hides better in the ocean.

2. In the communist worker's paradise, you paint things in the color that you have enough of. Sometimes not enough of.

Great plot for Gilligan's Island
 

What happened was they were just out for a 3 hour tour.... a 3 hour tour.

Skipper: "Holy crap little buddy, we're getting pulled over by the f***ing coast guard!!!"

Gilligan: "I knew we shouldn't have left the island... Skipperrrrrrrr!!!!!"

(my gawd, I seem to have lost my mind, hehehe...) -Bloozer-

Welcome to the Cellar Bloozer!

Nice way to begin your stay with us. :)

They'll never give up trying to escape the socialist utopia.

So I, try, kiss America, Hi,
Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was ...dry?
Them good ol' boys were dodging Castro and tides. Sinking?
This'll be the way that I die.
This'll be the way that I die...

damn
 

obviously you people don't live in Florida. I know this picture was taken a while ago, but immigration is becoming a real problem where i live. it is bringing in gangs, which grafitti everything, and now you can't walk into a gas station w/out worrying about getting shot. and now the neighborhoods are really bad because the cubans are too damn lazy to get jobs, and also because they are illegal. :mad2:

That's not unique to Florida, xiphos. When we attract illegals from countries where they are not happy, we're also going to attract illegals from countries where they are not wanted.... or should I say are wanted, by the law.
That's the bottom line with illegals, you don't know what you're getting.

Don't tell it to Radar, he is helping them come here.

I wonder if John Deere thought about sponsoring the '51 Chevy pickup guys for refugee status? With the color of the truck and accessory tarp, it should have been an advertising coup.

"Nothing floats like a Deere..."

I think even the most die-hard anti-immigration redneck would have wanted to see that.

Of course, now that he's in the US, you know what's going to happen. He's going to start a company selling car-boat conversion kits and lakes are going to be filled with floating Fords and Buicks.;)

yup, and then he'll explain how they don't have to pay income tax too.

Wow, a little late in answering your question LR, but they sink all kinds of things to create man-made reefs which support a great deal of sea life. I know up here there are a few that were sunk bout 10 - 15 years ago and they are great success stories about the marine life that is living in them and the fishing that goes on around them as well. Course they are all stripped of anything toxic..... but just sayin.

There is an argument that 'artificial reefs' only serve to collect fish so they're easier to catch rather than providing new environments for them to live in.

It's a contentious issue atm though. There seems to be equal evidence for both sides of the fence.

Ali, you really piqued my interest on this topic with your counter argument. I have volunteered with these projects several times and know people who work on them well. They all told me the same thing - fish numbers overall increase with the added artificial reef. I understand that they are potentially biased, but I did a little research today as well and the overwhelming evidence points to an increase in both fish populations and in fish species. There were several more that all concurred with this conclusion and only one that countered it.

This led me to wonder if it was different over there versus here?

Alabama's Artificial Reef Program

I know they have dumped a bunch of old NYC train cars off our coast in the past.

Hi Ali,

Pardon me for not responding sooner. I just wanted to say thanks for the welcome:)

woohoo... now I have 2 posts!!!

Not train, but subway cars as far as I know - found this link on it.

The question is, do the reefs increase the fish population or just cause them to gather in one spot, making them easier to catch, rather than being scattered and harder to catch?

The data suggests that initially it draws fish from other areas and over time, as the reefs take hold in the environment, the reefs increase the fish population by creating a new place for smaller organisms and species to live and breed. This works its way up the food chain to larger species and so on.
Personally, it has increased the places to fish in my area - the older spots are still productive, but there are new ones now as well. To me, that indicates increasing populations. Thats the only personal experience I can bring to the issue.

In the UK we have a motoring show called "Top Gear" presented by three lunatics, Jeremy Clarkson, James May & Richard Hammond. They all converted road vehicles into amphibious craft & were made to carry out a variety of tasks, including sailing from the south coast of England to France through the buseyest shipping lane in the world. Two out of the three sank. The Toyota got there.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._hammond_1.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ious_may_3.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._toybota_2.jpg