A wonderfully executed hoax, or....? :-)

[haithar]

if that's the people walk over a sea video (has been removed): it's a hoax. i watched a 15 minute viral marketing video about it on a show a few days ago. they put a wood plank under the water.
then again you could always calculate it and see that a man won't be fast enough to make it.

[Pirate88179]

I got a gadget as a gift once, a ball that bounces on water. Special urethane texture, density and flexibility. Stupid me managed to misplace it before I got to use it.

Still, it would be interesting if someone managed to calculate how hard one would need to kick the water, to keep a grown man from going under.

Well, consider this:  A man of average weight can water ski barefoot at 60 mph.  A little less than that and he will sink.  So, for his weight and the surface area of his feet, the magic number of about 60 mph seems to work.

Of course, that is for planning, running is probably another set of circumstance entirely.

Bill