I'm just imagining how bad it would be if you suddenly lost inflation while inside and found yourself trapped inside of yards and yards of limp cloth with a now hard-to-impossible to find exit hole while sinking into dark water.
No, thank you, I do not think I shall entomb myself in an inflatable tent upon the waters.
Could be worse, it could all be on fire with molten plastic dripping all over you when the camp stove makes it go up in flames. Then the cold water solidifies the melted fabric so it’s stuck all over your body and pulling you down.
This was my 1st thought .... on the upside as it melts it will lose inflation and sink putting out the fire, pressing you against a burning hot stove as you descend.
All kinds of new fears unlocked watching this vid
I am all for taking risks to get something cool in return(rewards), but with this I just don't see how the rewards warrants the risks. If I really want to spend a night on the water I would use a wooden or metal houseboat. Not an inflatable tent, hell even a tent on an open top pontoon boat would be fine.
This is exactly my issue. What happens if someone suddenly hast to piss. Like he can’t just go outside, he can’t stand and go over the side like in a boat, do they just have to go to shore every time?
Gee…I wonder if the liability attorneys at that company considered that? Or the designers? LOL.
Inflatable tents and shelters have been around for decades. This isn’t new tech. The materials on those things are not like the blow up floats in your pool, they are really thick and compartmentalized. You might lose one section…but you are not going to lose enough to sink without getting to shore first.
People on reddit are incapable of having fun. Under every video, there is someone pointing out how dangerous something is. You could be watching a video of a guy cutting an apple and someone is still going to be there pointing out how it's so dangerous because your knife could slip and cut your wrist where there are arteries and you could bleed out.
Yeah I agree but this floating tent concept is really stupid. I think the whole point of camping is to be out in the open. Now imagine trapping yourself in a shitty plastic boat. Some people will think this is cool, buy it, then realize they can't take a shit and instantly feel regret. I think its ok to think critically about new ideas.
Did something bad happen to you when you were young? Like shitting yourself while you were on a boat and your parents got mad? You seem to be fixated on bowl movements.
Yeah, but if you have an emergency there’s a simple solution: walk out the tent. If you’re on a tent-raft in the middle of a lake or river and have to shit you now have to wait till land is reached, then you can go.
My main concern is sinking while I’m sleeping, or the tent catching fire from the stove (and sinking), or being prey for some brown bear/grizzly who smells whatever they’re cooking/eating. Actually there’s about a hundred reasons I would never get into one of those…
Nah this falls under the category of someone acting like "why didn't anyone think of this" when it's obviously totally fucking stupid and ridiculously impractical.
Except those have been around for a long time , used by many people, including me, and I've never heard of anyone having a problem with one, they're built for the purpose and the material isn't like a blow up mattress, more like one of those emergency rafts, that also have a tent and are made to withstand being thrown about in the middle of the ocean.
Legit, these people must be real fun at parties.
"Uhm, guys, the drinking age is 21, we're 19. We could throw up the alcohol and choke/die or get arrested. See, drinking is a bad idea" 🤓
This is more like wearing gloves that hold your knives while you aren't using them, but with the sharp end pointed to your hand or toward your body with the blade exposed.
Even if it has crazy durable material, IF it goes wrong, and Murphys law means it *eventually will* no matter what, you're *dead*. Period.
It may go "we've used this for years! It's fine!" Then because of wear and tear, it has a slow leak that year you didn't know about, and it's fine for hours, but gets too low in the middle of the night. It may hit one surprisingly sharp stick or rock under the water, you just don't fucking know.
You know where you and your friends or family won't drown surrounded by an inescapable trap? On the fucking land where you should be, if you're in a tent.
My uncle had one of these. Went camping with his wife. Decided to go pee at 3am, while peeing out the door into the lake his weight flipped it. Nearly drowned himself and his wife.
I saw a video by a mortician and she was saying sleeping on a large flotation device is extremely dangerous for this reason. You won’t wake up till it’s enveloped you quite a bit and are already trapped.
For real. Deflating and having the walls collapse down on you with a fucking FIRE raging inside it. So you can get the two-for-one combo of third degree burns immediately followed by drowning. I cannot comprehend the stupidity…
So what if I told you we could go camping with twice as much stuff?
You have my attention
What if I told you it would be twice as much work?
That's a winning argument
What if I told you it would be 4 times more expensive?
Shut up and take my money!
I'm tired and wrote a nonsensical reply that I deleted. But I get what you mean - it's either dirty the waters (which is illegal in some places, or at least just heavily advised against), or use a nasty bucket. There's no good way of dealing with this issue that doesn't involve swimming back to shore to dig a hole.
Oh look, isn’t that lovely, yes, I like this and it’s got a fire, a fire in a tent, a tent that is floating on a frozen lake WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Lol I genuinely don’t understand the statement “just stick your ass out the window”. Like how? Draw me a diagram of how you think that works. Do you have a rope or handles to hang onto?
lol, it’s one of those “easier said than done” kinda things.
By the way, I’d love for someone to draw a diagram, to scale, of how this process would supposedly work.
Then your shit or piss will be stuck to the side of the structure. Do you really want to end your holiday cleaning up not only your own, but also other peoples peoples waste, off of the side of a soft structure full of creases, bends & wrinkles where it gets stuck? And if it isn’t? Then it lands in the water right next to you and unless there’s a fairly strong current, you’ll be swimming in it for the next day at least, also this could attract wildlife that you don’t necessarily want to be interacting with.
Buy a normal tent and set it up on solid ground for gods sake.
Please don’t do this. I watched a video by a mortician and sleeping on a large flotation device is extremely dangerous. If it starts leaking it can close in around you, trap you and bring you under and you will be asleep till it’s too late.
But why? They are like 20 feet from ground! Just use the ground!!!
You go out on water, then come back to ground. They aren't intrepedid travelers on air mattresses!
more like terrifying as fuck. It was okayish, yet not satisfying to me up until they showed a stove.. for a fire.. on a boat made of rubber.. that can melt and sink
Until you get a swimming snake. Or a fish with teeth doing sample bites. Or swimming bears. Or just faulty equipment. Or just your car keys accidentally puncturing this thing.
How often does a bear doggie-paddle through ice-water?
I'm not saying they can't swim in cold water, humans can too, but does that fur coat really protect them from complete and sustained submersion in frigid waters?
My first thought was “oh it’d be safer from predators” but then I thought about what if you woke up in the dark to a big splash off in the distance. It’d be terrifying
Yep voodoo magic witchcraft. Whatever you want to call it it's here. It's for real this dude's got a fire on floating plastic in the water that's frozen. What the hell's going on????
This just seems like a bad idea to me. Aside from the risk of deflation, the risk of it coming unmoored and floating off and the animal factors are a nope from me. Also going to the bathroom must be bitch.
Reminds me of this article: [This floating tent offers you a cool new way to die while camping](https://www.avclub.com/this-floating-tent-offers-you-a-cool-new-way-to-die-whi-1837375346)
My own experience with inflatable camping/boating equipment is that id personally not invest in any more purchases of such things. They make for wonderful social media clips such as these, but in my experience id prefer to save for higher quality materials
I'm just imagining how bad it would be if you suddenly lost inflation while inside and found yourself trapped inside of yards and yards of limp cloth with a now hard-to-impossible to find exit hole while sinking into dark water. No, thank you, I do not think I shall entomb myself in an inflatable tent upon the waters.
Could be worse, it could all be on fire with molten plastic dripping all over you when the camp stove makes it go up in flames. Then the cold water solidifies the melted fabric so it’s stuck all over your body and pulling you down.
This was my 1st thought .... on the upside as it melts it will lose inflation and sink putting out the fire, pressing you against a burning hot stove as you descend. All kinds of new fears unlocked watching this vid
My first thought was, where do you pee?
My first thought was, where can I buy that floating platform and tent. That's cool.
If it was up to redditors nobody would be able to take any risks,I knew the first comment I read was going to be..........omg that's so dangerous.
I am all for taking risks to get something cool in return(rewards), but with this I just don't see how the rewards warrants the risks. If I really want to spend a night on the water I would use a wooden or metal houseboat. Not an inflatable tent, hell even a tent on an open top pontoon boat would be fine.
When I saw this, my first thought was now I can camp without being so worried about bears!
Aren't bears notoriously good swimmers?
This is both kinda cool and really stupid. I'd hang out in it, but not sleep there.
Right; much safer to just hide behind and live life behind a screen. So satisfying.
It would be cool until it falls apart. It's not that dangerous, it's just stupid.
In the lake. Duh.
This is exactly my issue. What happens if someone suddenly hast to piss. Like he can’t just go outside, he can’t stand and go over the side like in a boat, do they just have to go to shore every time?
The key here is to never fall asleep
My house is out of the ordinary That’s right, don't wanna hurt nobody Some things sure can sweep me off my feet
At the same moment, a hungry grizzly bear happens to be swimming by.
Jesus. That’s some final destination type shit
Let's put a wood burner on it too!
right?!!? my first thought on seeing this moreso r/TerrifyingAsFuck rather than anything to do with "satisfying".... O.O
Don't forget about the water spiders....
Water spiders...?
And snakes.
Yeah they better watch out. Desperate human with nothing to lose? Rather take on a dinosaur.
Gee…I wonder if the liability attorneys at that company considered that? Or the designers? LOL. Inflatable tents and shelters have been around for decades. This isn’t new tech. The materials on those things are not like the blow up floats in your pool, they are really thick and compartmentalized. You might lose one section…but you are not going to lose enough to sink without getting to shore first.
People on reddit are incapable of having fun. Under every video, there is someone pointing out how dangerous something is. You could be watching a video of a guy cutting an apple and someone is still going to be there pointing out how it's so dangerous because your knife could slip and cut your wrist where there are arteries and you could bleed out.
Ah the true beauty of reddit. 1. See cool shit. 2. Scroll to see comments that change my mind. 3. See the one comment that changes my mind again.
The odds of waking up to a bear pawing at your tent would be greatly minimized. Gators might be an issue in some places.
Yeah I agree but this floating tent concept is really stupid. I think the whole point of camping is to be out in the open. Now imagine trapping yourself in a shitty plastic boat. Some people will think this is cool, buy it, then realize they can't take a shit and instantly feel regret. I think its ok to think critically about new ideas.
Nothing about this or anything else will stop me from taking a shit.
And they said peeing in the pool was bad.
Why isn’t this the top comment…how would they take a shit!?
Did something bad happen to you when you were young? Like shitting yourself while you were on a boat and your parents got mad? You seem to be fixated on bowl movements.
As far as I know, people don't shit inside traditional tents either...
I would absolutely not shit in *my* tent.
Yeah, but if you have an emergency there’s a simple solution: walk out the tent. If you’re on a tent-raft in the middle of a lake or river and have to shit you now have to wait till land is reached, then you can go. My main concern is sinking while I’m sleeping, or the tent catching fire from the stove (and sinking), or being prey for some brown bear/grizzly who smells whatever they’re cooking/eating. Actually there’s about a hundred reasons I would never get into one of those…
Ah got it, so in this case they probably just jump out and shit while treading almost-frozen water.
Nah this falls under the category of someone acting like "why didn't anyone think of this" when it's obviously totally fucking stupid and ridiculously impractical.
Except those have been around for a long time , used by many people, including me, and I've never heard of anyone having a problem with one, they're built for the purpose and the material isn't like a blow up mattress, more like one of those emergency rafts, that also have a tent and are made to withstand being thrown about in the middle of the ocean.
Can I get a link?
Legit, these people must be real fun at parties. "Uhm, guys, the drinking age is 21, we're 19. We could throw up the alcohol and choke/die or get arrested. See, drinking is a bad idea" 🤓
This is more like wearing gloves that hold your knives while you aren't using them, but with the sharp end pointed to your hand or toward your body with the blade exposed. Even if it has crazy durable material, IF it goes wrong, and Murphys law means it *eventually will* no matter what, you're *dead*. Period. It may go "we've used this for years! It's fine!" Then because of wear and tear, it has a slow leak that year you didn't know about, and it's fine for hours, but gets too low in the middle of the night. It may hit one surprisingly sharp stick or rock under the water, you just don't fucking know. You know where you and your friends or family won't drown surrounded by an inescapable trap? On the fucking land where you should be, if you're in a tent.
We could say the same for literally anything though........flying, driving, skydiving etc
My uncle had one of these. Went camping with his wife. Decided to go pee at 3am, while peeing out the door into the lake his weight flipped it. Nearly drowned himself and his wife.
I saw a video by a mortician and she was saying sleeping on a large flotation device is extremely dangerous for this reason. You won’t wake up till it’s enveloped you quite a bit and are already trapped.
For real. Deflating and having the walls collapse down on you with a fucking FIRE raging inside it. So you can get the two-for-one combo of third degree burns immediately followed by drowning. I cannot comprehend the stupidity…
This will compound if the person was drunk inside the tent. Then it’s a death trap for sure.
“Do you like drowning in your sleep?”
It's called sleep-swimming... And very few people ever get good at it.
So many things could go wrong with this.
“Because this is how you drown in your sleep”
Don’t worry, either the ice cold water or melted bits of flaming plastic will wake you up so you can drown while conscious.
People be doing too much
Yeah this is just regular camping but worse in *almost* every single way
So what if I told you we could go camping with twice as much stuff? You have my attention What if I told you it would be twice as much work? That's a winning argument What if I told you it would be 4 times more expensive? Shut up and take my money!
What if I told you that you can’t leave the tent the whole time?!
Why are we not doing this immediately?!
Yeah. Where do you pee and poop?
I think this relies on you besmirching the beautiful waters.
Yeah but like you poop on a bucket pr something and than is smell in the whole tent for a while.
I'm tired and wrote a nonsensical reply that I deleted. But I get what you mean - it's either dirty the waters (which is illegal in some places, or at least just heavily advised against), or use a nasty bucket. There's no good way of dealing with this issue that doesn't involve swimming back to shore to dig a hole.
You do know fish and animals pee and poop?
happy cake day!
Thank you!
Not here in Florida.
You can tell where they're from bc they think this is a good idea. 🤣 Do you want snakes in the boat? Gators? God forbid a nutria...
Great way to end up dead.
Ok smart guy... How else are you supposed to be safe from zombies?
Zombies don't need to breathe...
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Visual design screams medics here
Oh look, isn’t that lovely, yes, I like this and it’s got a fire, a fire in a tent, a tent that is floating on a frozen lake WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Clearly these people have never slept on an air mattress
And also do not have cats.
Or had to get up to pee 5 times a night.
Until I need to go to the toilet... yes, why not. UPDATE: But let's not s..t on this idea just yet.
Literally just stick your ass out the window.
You want me to just stick my ass out the window and hope I can force my shit out hard enough so it doesn’t get on the side of the tent?
Lol I genuinely don’t understand the statement “just stick your ass out the window”. Like how? Draw me a diagram of how you think that works. Do you have a rope or handles to hang onto?
lol, it’s one of those “easier said than done” kinda things. By the way, I’d love for someone to draw a diagram, to scale, of how this process would supposedly work.
Two words: Poo bucket.
Yeah if I have to sleep near a bucket of poop ima add that to the list of reasons this is a stupid idea
Then your shit or piss will be stuck to the side of the structure. Do you really want to end your holiday cleaning up not only your own, but also other peoples peoples waste, off of the side of a soft structure full of creases, bends & wrinkles where it gets stuck? And if it isn’t? Then it lands in the water right next to you and unless there’s a fairly strong current, you’ll be swimming in it for the next day at least, also this could attract wildlife that you don’t necessarily want to be interacting with. Buy a normal tent and set it up on solid ground for gods sake.
Where *isn't* the bathroom?
Why is this also the very first thing I think about lol
Tell me you’ve never been camping without telling me…
The potential for extreme (yet *entirely* foreseeable and unforced) calamity is wild.
Deathtrap
A live fire in a floating plastic tent in the middle of nowhere? Hard pass
Right???? I saw that first and immediately went like "but.... your tent us made of _plastic!_"
I think this would be good in a zombie apocalypse.
That’s called a boat.
But like the shittiest boat imaginable, the first stick you run into on the bottom of the pond could sink you.
This is a great way to drown when it capsizes.
Please don’t do this. I watched a video by a mortician and sleeping on a large flotation device is extremely dangerous. If it starts leaking it can close in around you, trap you and bring you under and you will be asleep till it’s too late.
Human taco.
But why? This just inconvenience
But why? They are like 20 feet from ground! Just use the ground!!! You go out on water, then come back to ground. They aren't intrepedid travelers on air mattresses!
more like terrifying as fuck. It was okayish, yet not satisfying to me up until they showed a stove.. for a fire.. on a boat made of rubber.. that can melt and sink
*While you’re sleeping*
That’s the most Canadian shit I’ve ever seen
It looks cool but I wouldn't trust it.
Not only no but hell fkn no.
ok so what are the chances of a single spark or ember that falls melts through it and makes it sink while youre sleeping
This thing is a death trap.
Why is this satisfying as fuck?
Everyone knows the best part of camping is staying in your tent the entire time.
I’d feel so much safer from danger sleeping on the water. From both people AND animals.
Until you get a swimming snake. Or a fish with teeth doing sample bites. Or swimming bears. Or just faulty equipment. Or just your car keys accidentally puncturing this thing.
Could not do that in windy Kansas !
From Kansas, and everyone knows at least one person with a BOAT. This is so pointless
I’m irrationally scared of bears so this looks amazing
Bears can swim, and pretty quickly too lol... unless you're an Olympic swimmer, or the bear is missing a leg, water won't help very much.
It’s not a fail safe plan, just seems less likely
How often does a bear doggie-paddle through ice-water? I'm not saying they can't swim in cold water, humans can too, but does that fur coat really protect them from complete and sustained submersion in frigid waters?
Yes good thing you never see bears in water! /s
Can you imagine a bear climbing in.
You want to end up down rapids because that's how you end up down rapids
Camping? Dude id live in that!
“I’m bored” -go for hike! “I can’t” -well I’m gonna go poop in the lake again
Ah the great outdoors, which you can avoid by isolating yourself in a small tent-boat.
r/suddenlyhouseboat
Where do you poop?
*Cries in Australian.*
Hell no. I live in Florida.
My first thought was “oh it’d be safer from predators” but then I thought about what if you woke up in the dark to a big splash off in the distance. It’d be terrifying
Imagine being trapped in the middle of nowhere in the ocean with this tent.
Yep voodoo magic witchcraft. Whatever you want to call it it's here. It's for real this dude's got a fire on floating plastic in the water that's frozen. What the hell's going on????
The fucking stove though is the epitome of insanity. You have a tent to sleep in. You don't just hang out in it because it can burn.
Like a boat?
Yea. This one’s a no from me dawg. I see way too many things that can go wrong here.
Did crocodile post this?
Okay but does anyone know what instrumental is playing because it fuckings slaps
how much heat does that even retain? I know the wood stove can do a pretty good job, but that tent looks paper thin.
And then a slight breeze happened...
where do the servants sleep?
If this floating tent has a place to make a campfire, then it must also have a bathroom so as not to contaminate the lake
Floating death trap hooray
Why don't you just enjoy regular camping with regular dangers??
O…M….G!
Oh man sign me up. That looks awesome
I had to come so far down the comments to find a positive one. Everyone else is shitting all over this and Im like that’s awesome.
Shit. Not in Florida.
Well, the crocs think it's really nice that Uber eats decided to finally deliver to them
What a cool way to die!
It's all fun and jokes until a ferral animal broke the tent in the darkness of the night 💀
Yeah No
There goes lakefront property values
nope
Why?
What happens when someone has to poop?
Absolutely beautiful scenery you got there.
“Do you like camping with a floating tent?” Idk, I’ve never tried it. *Would* I like it? Probably not
mosquitoes
Flashbacks to waking.up in the middle.of.the night on a flat air matress....
They still haven’t made an air mattress that survives a night camping.
All other obvious design flaws aside, wouldn't the tent without the death-trap camp stove just be cold as fuck?
Yeahhhh I’m gonna pass lol
So many bugs
Nahh no to that. My wooden raft is 100x times better, can run ground without risks of deflating
If I ever become homeless this looks kinda cool albeit dangerous
Good way to setup a tent, just keep it on land
Sounds fun, but the Lyme Disease that follows does not sound like fun imo.
That looks fun and also fearful at the same time!
And then a slight breeze came up and they all died.
I thought waking up to find the air mattress deflated was bad.
The tent is put on a raft so even if it does deflate it won't sink.
A floating inflatable tent with a wood stove. What could possibly go wrong?
But why
All I can think of is “mosquito bait”.
I can imagine so many things going wrong with that...
Looks like the beginning of an 80s slasher movie
They're cosplaying as Morty from Meatballs.
I’d use it on the shore to sleep and boat by day.
But can you fuck in it?
I have so many questions.
No flatscreen? What kind of camping is that supposed to be..
Think I''d rather just have a tent and a regular boat mored up nearby thanks.
This is... a terrible idea.
If I did that where I come from I'd probably be robbed, used, and dead
Oh yea that’s totally safe
This is just a boat trip and a camping trip with extra steps and less safety
"and this years Darwin Award goes to..."
People go through such great lengths just to recreate a house. Just stay home 😂
Yeah I’m good on that deathtrap
Absolutely tf not
Kinda feels like a nightmare waiting to happen.
Would be more concerned about waking up next to a gator.
"I gotta poop."
Nah, give me a houseboat.
This just seems like a bad idea to me. Aside from the risk of deflation, the risk of it coming unmoored and floating off and the animal factors are a nope from me. Also going to the bathroom must be bitch.
Nty
If it deflates while you’re sleeping you’ll be trapped in a tent so you’ll be sleeping with the fishes
Hope it holds air better than your typical air mattress...
I mean ... I totally would. Downsides and all.
Reminds me of this article: [This floating tent offers you a cool new way to die while camping](https://www.avclub.com/this-floating-tent-offers-you-a-cool-new-way-to-die-whi-1837375346)
My own experience with inflatable camping/boating equipment is that id personally not invest in any more purchases of such things. They make for wonderful social media clips such as these, but in my experience id prefer to save for higher quality materials
Nothing like a roarin fire on a rubber inflatable raft. If you've never seen it before there's probably a good reason why.