---
title: "See a Man Dangle From Drone to Literally “Fly” Fish"
description: "An Australian man has uploaded a video of himself hanging from a drone while fishing — and the whole stunt appears to have gone surprisingly well."
date: "2019-08-30"
modified: "2019-08-30"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/see-man-dangle-drone-fishing"
categories:
  - "Drones"
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "drone"
  - "fishing"
  - "the digest"
---

# See a Man Dangle From Drone to Literally “Fly” Fish

![An Australian man has uploaded a video of himself hanging from a drone while fishing — and the whole stunt appears to have gone surprisingly well.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/see-man-dangle-drone-fishing.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: UAV Me via Facebook\</em\>*

## Drone Fishing

An Australian man uploaded video of himself fishing, from a chair, suspended over a lake, by a drone — and the whole stunt (somehow) appears to have gone surprisingly well.

According to a [story](<https://www.rt.com/news/467558-fishing-chair-drone-video-australia/>) from *RT*, Kyneton, Victoria, fisherman Sam Foreman and his friends spent AUS$20,000 (US$13,460) building the drone, which features 12 motors, 25 batteries, and six 27-inch propellers.

They then uploaded a video of Foreman using the rig to successfully catch a fish in the Upper Coliban Reservoir to the [UAV Me Facebook page](<https://www.facebook.com/UAVMe/>).

## Not Amused

Of course, deepfake technology has made it hard to believe any videos on the internet today — see: these convincing clips of [Tom Cruise](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepfaked-tom-cruise-american-psycho-sex>) and [Keanu Reeves](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepfake-keanu-reeves-sesame-street>) — but that isn't stopping officials from taking the drone fishing video at face value.

Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is [investigating the video](<https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/footage-of-man-fishing-from-drone-being-investigated-by-casa/11460604>), and if they decide Foreman and his cohorts violated aviation safety rules, they could force the group to pay upwards of $10,000 in fines.

"This is a first for Australia, to have a large homemade drone being used to lift someone off the ground," CASA spokesman Peter Gibson [told *ABC News*](<https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/footage-of-man-fishing-from-drone-being-investigated-by-casa/11460604>). "It's really not a sensible thing to do in any way, shape or form; there's lots of things that could have gone wrong, someone could have been seriously injured."

**READ MORE:** [Video of man fishing while dangling from drone under investigation by CASA](<https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/footage-of-man-fishing-from-drone-being-investigated-by-casa/11460604>) \[*ABC News*\]

**More on deepfakes:** *[Someone Deepfaked Tom Cruise Into the “American Psycho” Sex Scene](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepfaked-tom-cruise-american-psycho-sex>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)