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Wearing a life jacket can greatly increase your chances of survival in the event of a disaster, but how dangerous is it if you drown without wearing a life jacket? A game-like movie ' Sortie en mer ' that you can see that it is released.Ĭlick the link above to start the movie automatically. The hot and humid summer is a pleasant season for swimming and marine sports, but every year many people lose their lives due to water accidents. There’s something about the simplicity of it that sucks you into the primal state of mind Julien enters when he finds himself struggling in the middle of the ocean.20:59:00 A movie that you can relive by scrolling how dangerous the sea without a life jacket is In that respect, it has to be one of the most effective interactive ads on the Internet. Whenever you go out to sea, wear your life jacket.” The simulator ends with a simple message: The ad is by CLM BBDO for the French nautical outfitters Guy Cotten, who sell, amongst other things, life jackets. Unfortunately, there’s no way out for Julien in “Sortie En Mer.” The game ends with a flashback to someone we can assume is Julien’s wife, and then you get a final POV view of the bottom of the ocean, where Julien lies dead.Īll in all it’s a terrible experience. The cold temperatures get to his fingers too his fingernails come off with ease in the freezing ocean water.Īs you continue to scroll and scroll, Julien begins to hallucinate rescue teams and Charles coming to his rescue. He takes his shoes off to swim better, which doesn’t work out well when his feet go numb. If you hold out for a few minutes, you see Julien struggling to stay afloat. In order to tread water, you have to continuously scroll up, but you drown at the end anyway. After you give Charles the rudder (mistake number one), a swinging boom knocks you off the boat and Charles, of course, can’t turn it around.Ĭharles’ second mistake was to not wear a life jacket.

The simulator puts you in the shoes of Julien, a French leisure sailor out for a sail with his extremely incompetent friend Charles. Ready to play a game that’s terrifying, impossible to win and no fun at all? Great! Check out “ Sortie En Mer.” If you have a fear of the open ocean, do not play this game.