Ever heard of a crash test for boats?
Together with the state owned laboratory Research Institutes of Sweden RISE in Borås, we rigged a leisure boat on the crash sled at the laboratory, asked a dummy family of four to take a seat in the boat and crashed it at different speeds to simulate hitting a rock under water.
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The results were shockingly eye-opening - even at a moderate speed of 20 knots, which most sportboats in Scandinavia can reach, the potential injuries were severe.
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All results were filmed with high speed cameras and edited to the 2021 summer safety campaign in Norway.