Drone crashes into famed hot spring at Yellowstone National Park

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A tourist seeking to take pictures of Yellowstone National Park crashed a camera-equipped drone into its largest hot spring, possibly damaging the prized geothermal feature, a park official said on Wednesday.

The National Park Service in June announced a ban on so-called unmanned aerial vehicles, but officials say premier national parks in the U.S. West are reporting a sharp rise in the number of drones buzzing bison and boaters.

It was not clear if the drone that crashed Grand Prismatic Spring on Saturday and sank into its depths would damage the geothermal feature, park spokesman Al Nash said, and officials were still trying to decide whether to remove it.

The incident follows the crash earlier this summer of a drone into a marina at Yellowstone Lake and a string of radio-controlled aircraft violations at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.


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[eppur_se_muova]

1. Like you can't buy photos at the souvenir shop ... no no no, gotta have my own drone shot ... nt

[NYC_SKP]

2. I hope the NPS has the funding and resources to enforce rules, arrest idiots.

It just gets worse and worse, people are SO FUCKING SELFISH!!!

I used to go boating a lot, but where I am more and more people have installed super-loud sound systems and tool around with crappy music blaring, clueless as to the effect this has on other boaters' experience.

So, I don't need to go to a Yosemite or Yellowstone or anywhere else to hear buzzing drones or see Johnny or Jane Q Asshole playing with their tows.

There needs to be a special circle of hell for such people.

Give me the peace and quite that society used to demand of all people.

And get off my lawn.

[mopinko]

4. but, but it's all about ME!!

ya know. i have something to prove!!

yeah, kids these days. get off my lawn indeed.

[woodsprite]

3. Are these things bigger than the old RC planes used to be?

I remember my Dad taking me to RC fields, but those planes barely had a 3' wingspan. I thought some of the National Parks were banning RC flight vehicles altogether.

My husband likes to fly his kite with a camera attached, so it's not RC. We make sure we fly it when nobody is around, and not over any houses, yards, etc. -- on the beach, taking pics of the coastline. For every 200 pics you take about 20 or so turn out clear enough that you could frame them or put them in a scrapbook.