Who knew that traveling the open sea in a giant inflatable bubble could cause so much trouble?
Pretty much everyone, apparently, but that didn’t stop Reza Baluchi from trying it anyway. On Sunday, U.S. Coast Guard officials were forced to rescue Baluchi after discovering that his hamster wheel — sorry, HydroPod as it’s known — was “manifestly unsafe.”
This isn’t the first time Baluchi had to be rescued from his HydroPod. In 2014, the Coast Guard saved Baluchi after discovering him dazed near the coast of Miami, asking for directions to Bermuda. Read more…
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