Alex Thomson is Totally Boss

After photos of British round-the-worlder Alex Thomson performing a ‘keel walk’ were released in 2009, skeptics called foul, insisting that the suited sailor had been Photoshopped onto the keel of his IMOCA Open 60 Hugo Boss. To prove his derring do, Thomson invited a film crew to document his latest attempt at a keel walk this week.

As you can imagine, conditions on the Solent had to be absolutely perfect — 18 knots of breeze with flat seas — for the stunt. Thomson was sewn into a specially made and super-reinforced suit, then zipped over to the keel on a Jet Ski, while Ross Daniel did a masterful job of keeping the boat at a 45-degree heel. The rest is just pure, unadulterated bad-assedness. If you haven’t seen this video yet, settle in — we bet you can’t watch it just once.