All-terrain Utility Carrier Faster Than Boats in 2025 Floods?

When the 2025 summer deluge turned medieval towns into islands, Europe’s rescue TikTok filled with the same split-screen: a bright-orange inflatable bobbing helplessly against a current while a squat, tracked pod simply drove out of the water with six pensioners on its roof. The hashtag #AmphibiousRescue has racked up 42 million views, and the star is not the venerable rubber boat but the All-terrain Utility Carrier.
A new flood reality
Climate scientists call it “flash-slow” flooding: days of drizzle capped by a cloudburst, leaving streets under two metres of opaque water littered with cars, fencing and farmland debris. Traditional trucks stall; boats must be towed, launched, then protected from puncture. The result is a widening “last two kilometres” gap between the launch ramp and the actual victim.
Head-to-head speed audit
Bay Search & Rescue in Morecambe Bay logged every second of a July 12 call-out. Task: reach a stranded walker 1.8 km across a flooded estuary.
Rubber-boat team: 5 min to trailer, 4 min to inflate, 8 min to tow, 7 min to row in—total 24 min door-to-victim.
All-terrain Utility Carrier team: 1 min start-up, 14 min straight line through water, reeds and silt—total 15 min.

Even though the carrier’s water speed is only 6 km h⁻¹ to the boat’s 11 km h⁻¹, the elimination of transfer stages cut the mission time by 38 %.
Terrain that sinks boats
Europe’s floods rarely deliver pristine lakes. Beneath the brown surface lie wire fences, road studs and displaced hay bales. During the same exercise the RIB suffered two minor lacerations that required on-scene patching; the tracked vehicle’s 0.19 kg cm⁻² ground pressure let it roll over obstacles and even break free when it dropped into a hidden drainage ditch.
Budget arithmetic
A 4-metre RIB, 30-hp outboard and 4×4 tow vehicle together cost €42,000 and must be replaced every seven years on average. A single All-terrain Utility Carrier lists at €118,000 but carries a twenty-year hull warranty and replaces all three legacy assets. Over a decade a county fire brigade saves roughly €35,000 in depreciation, fuel and maintenance.
The coming referendum
With EU civil-protection funds frozen until 2026, brigades are crowdsourcing kit on Facebook. Posts asking “Boat or tracked pod?” routinely hit 10,000 comments. Early adopters insist the carrier is not a luxury but a hedge against the next record flood.
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