Balloon lands in Charlestown street | Newcastle Herald, May 10, 2024 - video Dailymotion

The Sea Shepherd balloon landed in a suburban street. Video by Jessica Brown

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00:00 Well we've had the Sea Shepherd balloon for around about five to six years now.

00:12 We got commissioned by Sea Shepherd around about five or six years ago and we've just

00:17 been flying the balloon all over in Australia or Newcastle but all over the world and we

00:22 haven't flown it for a while.

00:23 We did a flight in Newcastle probably about three years ago and so we were like perfect

00:28 weather this morning, we got a lovely little drift on the lower winds to get us out into

00:32 the ocean and then a good easterly wind to punch us back inland so that's a perfect flight

00:37 for us.

00:38 So we actually circled back over the beach a couple of times, everyone was loving it

00:42 and then we sort of flew inland and landed at Charlestown.

00:44 And was the plan to land in a suburban street in Charlestown?

00:47 Look this is such a small balloon you need a footprint of about 20 metres by about 20

00:53 metres and that's all you need to land the balloon especially when it's that calm like

00:56 this.

00:57 If it's windier you'd never land in a street but if the balloons are sort of coming straight

01:01 down you can pretty much just place it anywhere.

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