Sailing drone captures unbelievable video of ocean from inside a hurricane

11Alive Meteorologist Melissa Nord explains how it worked.

[cristit]

Imagine the balls it took to be an explorer in a wooden ship from centuries ago

[JSabh]

Been in hurricanes on the ocean while serving in the US Navy. It's amazing and terrifying. The ocean is.... more than anyone could fully understand. I have seen the same waters smooth like glass for as far as the eye can see, like a perfect reflection of heaven.

[AustralianHistorySeeker-usiu]

Imagine how quick the boat would lose sight of you if you fell overboard.

[Lighttanguitar]

That looks exactly like the place I don’t want to be.

[_Chromia]

It would be cool if saildrone uploaded the unedited full footage of it's ocean journey.

[reidflemingworldstoughestm]

Video AND footage!? Wowee, what a day to be alive.

[duaneehmen]

The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man returning soup at a deli.

[ganbramor]

“We have video… and footage” You have both of those different things, huh?

[elementneon]

would be neat to adapt a level gauge to show a digital overlay of the horizon to get a better feel for the size of, and amplitude of, the waves it's riding.

[TheLowest]

I think no one can argue, this is certainly incredicle footage and video

[mtlicq]

The ocean is the biggest monster on the planet.

[entropybentwhistle]

“Stay strong, Sailor Drone!”

- Chibi Drone

[alkaholic]

Need 2 drones - another one to give us perspective.

For what you can see in this vid it could be a 10000x magnified inside of a toilet flush.

[plokplok]

why do they always cut the video.. every media should at least put the link where we can watch the full video

[StLProgressive]

Fascinating that YouTube’s algorithm has apparently dumped this video in a lot of feeds now, lol. I’m glad it did. That is flipping terrifying and awesome. The ocean is so powerful.

[superpig]

“50 foot waves and 100 mph winds”
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[jimthompson]

Without any visual context, these waves might as well be 8 feet high.

[DisgustedGenXr]

Pictures of waves are useless without a known object in the picture. Could be 5 feet could be 100 ft. I spent alot of years offshore and I can def tell by the spray and tracking on the surface it is definitely hummin. I took many pictures if waves that make you say. Uh oh! But when I developed them, yeah, not so much

[herbertcumberbatch]

Looks like my home in Kendall, FL during the late summer of '92

[JSS]

This looks terrifying. My grandfather served in the north Atlantic during WWII - I wonder if he ever saw seas like these.