How Dangerous Can Ocean Waves Get? Wave Comparison

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  • čas přidán 21. 03. 2019
  • Rogue Waves - In this episode we will cover the most elusive of all waves and explain where they come from and how dangerous they can be.
    Sources:
    www.waveworkshop.org/13thWaves...
    www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/1...
    www.researchgate.net/publicat...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draupne...
    www.shipstructure.org/pdf/2007...
    www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fullt...
    pdfs.semanticscholar.org/69b8...
    journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1...
    todayinhistory.blog/tag/rogue...
    www.weather.gov/jetstream/gen...
    www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fullt...
    www.researchgate.net/publicat...
    agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
    www.sciencedaily.com/releases...
    Thanks for watching

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  • @factsinmotion3978
    @factsinmotion3978  Před 5 lety +4385

    A couple of editorial notes:
    4:10 - A few people seem to miss that 0m is the mean water level and not the base of the wave. the wave goes from -7,5m to 18,5m making it 26m tall.
    13:00 ish: While they used quantum mechanical equations and principles and applied them to water waves the resulting model that describes the nonlinear formation of rogue waves through the mentioned modulational instabilities is not a quantum mechanical model in itself but classical mechanics. I think my wording was slightly inaccurate there. I have only a basic understanding of physics and I didnt really feel confortable talking about it in greater detail.
    4:54 - I used the wrong model for that scene. Used the Queen Mary 2 instead of the QE2. Just too many ships in one video :P My bad.
    11:31 - There is a one frame picture of the bridge scene from earlier (and later). I honestly dont know how that got in there given it wasnt even the next or prior scene.
    ____
    Yes, that the video came out right as the Viking Sky cruise ship got into trouble during a heavy storm is just a "lucky" accident (if you want to call it that). The ship lost engine power because of extreme weather and waves and passengers had to be evacuated. So far, however, I haven't heard anything about a rogue wave tho.
    ____
    I also forgot to add the BBC documentary "Freak Wave" to the list of sources. It probably should be there as I watched it around 2 months ago and it was what inspired me to make this video (cant change the description now tho as that would reset the ranking of the video and its currently getting quite a lot of views - So I will do that after the storm (ba dum tss))
    Cheers.

    • @Shadeem
      @Shadeem Před 5 lety +56

      The BBC doc is legit, but this is a nice concise sum up!

    • @eden1738
      @eden1738 Před 5 lety +9

      Glad i was part of the storm, fantastic video!

    • @mikedehooghblackflagracephotos
      @mikedehooghblackflagracephotos Před 5 lety +16

      Nicely done. Subbed.

    • @isladurrant7895
      @isladurrant7895 Před 5 lety +3

      Yes the BBC documentary is good. Have you done microbursts?

    • @ScottLilja
      @ScottLilja Před 5 lety +53

      @Facts in Motion I came down here to the comment section to make a self-righteous asshole comment about the quantum mechanics bit. But I read YOUR comment first, and instead of making a self-righteous asshole comment, I subscribed.

  • @arandomperson8343
    @arandomperson8343 Před 4 lety +9686

    “This ship was considered to be unsinkable”
    Ocean: how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!

  • @useazebra
    @useazebra Před 3 lety +4958

    Alternate title: "How to turn your irrational fear of the ocean into a completely rational terror"

    • @Britishhick
      @Britishhick Před 3 lety +66

      Thalassophobia? Me too!

    • @jimvarnier7931
      @jimvarnier7931 Před 3 lety +30

      I was 10 when the first Jaws movie came out....Now an even greater threat the Rogue wave...We are doomed if sharks somehow use this phenomenal kinetic energy to prey mercilessly on us hapless humans....Be well and cheers, Jim Varnier

    • @armorx8045
      @armorx8045 Před 3 lety +11

      @RikkiTikkiTavi I believe that maybe back then one of my ancestors saw a relative just get swept away and it was like welp Oceans are terrifying.

    • @soakupthesunman
      @soakupthesunman Před 3 lety +11

      Any time you are near the open sea, you can be taken by it. I mean facing a thousand miles or more from the opposite shore. Being on the beach is not safe. Believe it.

    • @beenaplumber8379
      @beenaplumber8379 Před 3 lety +12

      @@soakupthesunman Yeah, like, there was actually an American fatality from the 2011 tsunami in Japan. I think he was standing on a dock trying to take a picture of it when the water reached up and yanked him under.
      (Do you think he'll make a video to help with my irrational fear of flying?)

  • @7GL6
    @7GL6 Před 3 lety +2111

    “Unsinkable” = the ship is sinkable
    “Sinkable” = still sinkable but you’re not being cocky

    • @juniorsigala5028
      @juniorsigala5028 Před 3 lety +15

      So without being cocky your practically making it unsinkable

    • @lf198
      @lf198 Před 3 lety +2

      @@juniorsigala5028 no dumb dumb

    • @davehart7943
      @davehart7943 Před 3 lety

      LMAO

    • @cadennorth8539
      @cadennorth8539 Před 3 lety +16

      "Sinkable" = not as sinkable as "unsinkable" ships

    • @r011ing_thunder6
      @r011ing_thunder6 Před 2 lety +5

      Sinkable ships are more unsinkable than unsinkable ships. But unsinkable ships are sinkable 😳

  • @alexanderadavar6439
    @alexanderadavar6439 Před 3 lety +947

    Rogue Holes is a genuinely terrifying concept. Not being hit by a huge wall of water, just the sea opening a huge hole in the water and swallowing a ship.

    • @Jermain-cz4bh
      @Jermain-cz4bh Před 2 lety +58

      would be worse if you see a gaping maw at the bottom as its growing

    • @Corvus4ID
      @Corvus4ID Před 2 lety +3

      @@Jermain-cz4bh thanks satan

    • @a8495turtle
      @a8495turtle Před 2 lety +71

      imagine being in one; 1 second you’re in a boat, the next you’ve been swallowed by the sea.
      terrifying.

    • @namjoonie936
      @namjoonie936 Před 2 lety +35

      in gulliver travels the guys boat gets swallowed up like that and he end ups waking up on a island and everyone is the size of an ant

    • @jjbarajas5341
      @jjbarajas5341 Před rokem +9

      It's what happens when you anger Poseidon

  • @richardjohnson4696
    @richardjohnson4696 Před 4 lety +4051

    "We are sinking. I repeat.. We are sinking" German Coast Guard.. "What are you sinking about?"

  • @Makingnewnamesisdumb
    @Makingnewnamesisdumb Před 5 lety +8461

    I feel like if you build a ship, regardless of how robust it is, the last thing you should do is declare it is unsinkable. That's just asking for trouble.

    • @this_is_japes7409
      @this_is_japes7409 Před 5 lety +646

      the ocean is like: "am I a joke to you?"

    • @leeboy26
      @leeboy26 Před 5 lety +247

      Great, I just finished completion on HMS Unsinkable.

    • @mattmatt516
      @mattmatt516 Před 5 lety +380

      My new ship's name will be the "SS Totally Sinkable"

    • @seraphina985
      @seraphina985 Před 5 lety +137

      @@this_is_japes7409 Ocean is like "Hold my beer arrogant humans need taking down a peg again"

    • @Auriam
      @Auriam Před 5 lety +70

      @General Bismarck it was too late, the jinxing had already been done

  • @garywray7998
    @garywray7998 Před 3 lety +1262

    I feel like every time a ship is called “unsinkable” it sinks quite quickly

    • @Yatagurusu
      @Yatagurusu Před 3 lety +66

      TBF you only hear about the ones that sink

    • @Tyreker
      @Tyreker Před 3 lety +22

      To be fair it probably was unsinkable if rogue waves didn’t exist like science suggested at the time

    • @AndyHappyGuy
      @AndyHappyGuy Před 3 lety +8

      Olympic is disappointed

    • @TheMaikoFan
      @TheMaikoFan Před rokem +3

      Titanic would agree with you XD

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Před rokem +3

      Don't get me started on "absolutely fireproof." (Iroquis fire that killed 602)

  •  Před 3 lety +2114

    Now imagine crossing the ocean on a ship built with the 1400's technology.

    • @StofStuiver
      @StofStuiver Před 3 lety +9

      Doesnt matter much.

    • @denzelsmashsymptom4264
      @denzelsmashsymptom4264 Před 3 lety +234

      That's why they used to send a fleet and only two or three ships make it, with half their crews dead of course !

    • @billythekid9821
      @billythekid9821 Před 3 lety +218

      We did it all the time, in fact, the world you live in today was built of their shoulders. Thats actually the impressive part.

    • @junekatana78
      @junekatana78 Před 3 lety +43

      Paddy how many Vikings lost their lives at sea? I couldn't get any kind of number but shit it would be alot

    • @junekatana78
      @junekatana78 Před 3 lety +11

      @Paddy le Blanc that's what I'm talking about mate. 🤣🤣

  • @patriciocantu5587
    @patriciocantu5587 Před 5 lety +3136

    Rogue holes sound 1000x more horrific than rogue waves that animation sent chills down my spine.

    • @Kitkat915e
      @Kitkat915e Před 5 lety +322

      Like sinkholes but you drown instead of instantly dying on impact

    • @callanc3925
      @callanc3925 Před 5 lety +532

      And thats fucking saying something because rogue waves still sound fucking terrifying

    • @jayeisenhardt1337
      @jayeisenhardt1337 Před 5 lety +136

      Somebody saw a huge one and said they saw the edge of the map. Maybe fog so it looks like a waterfall?

    • @ivanm2225
      @ivanm2225 Před 5 lety +403

      Jay Eisenhardt I can see how this scenario turned into sailors saying they saw the edge of the world

    • @ivanm2225
      @ivanm2225 Před 5 lety +86

      Jay Eisenhardt I mean imagine a broken telephone game, but its sailor talking about a rogue hole

  • @thiccdaddycuckerburg277
    @thiccdaddycuckerburg277 Před 4 lety +4205

    “Widely considered to be unsinkable” welp into the depths it goes!

    • @potatopants4691
      @potatopants4691 Před 4 lety +358

      I'm marketing my ship as "the most sinkable thing in the world" hopefully the ocean understands reverse psychology.

    • @dacymark1688
      @dacymark1688 Před 4 lety +97

      Because people still can't get the fact that there's nothing such as unsinkable or indestructible

    • @thiccdaddycuckerburg277
      @thiccdaddycuckerburg277 Před 4 lety +66

      Humans are generally very selfish creatures so of course we think we can outsmart nature

    • @davidliu2243
      @davidliu2243 Před 4 lety +8

      XD

    • @thisoldboat7393
      @thisoldboat7393 Před 4 lety +25

      Good thing my boat is easily sinkable! D:

  • @littlepeeteir3190
    @littlepeeteir3190 Před 3 lety +587

    Imagine being a pirate and you survived the waves, you tell everyone you know but you get called a liar
    Imagine you died from one of these waves and scientists tell everyone that it was human error and you as a captain get shamed

    • @pooroldman5089
      @pooroldman5089 Před 3 lety +4

      Wtf

    • @Kushpatel9047
      @Kushpatel9047 Před 3 lety +8

      sCiENCE

    • @kelleybutler9720
      @kelleybutler9720 Před 3 lety +15

      Littlepeetier I’ve thought about that for years, even before the Jan, 1995 oil platform wave 🌊 that made the scientists and ship 🚢 specialists concede and admit they’re completely wrong!!!!!! Even when ships 🚢 that would limp into back into the shipping yards with huge sections completely sheered away they would blame the Captain and totally dismiss all the eye witnesses on the ship 🚢 (until 1/1/95!!!!! It’s sad 😢 that some Captains that actually lived through rogue waves 🌊 but lost their jobs and then died before the scientists, ship 🚢 specialists and actual owners of the fleet could restore their honor, image and usually completely destroyed their lives!!!!! Classical mathematicians don’t like it when you dare say they don’t know ever thing, I imagine quantum physics will solve many other areas of high strangeness or phenomena!!!!! We as human being need to stop being so arrogant and ignorant regarding many things, it’s always better (especially for a scientist) to have a open mind!!!!!! Look 👀 at how many animal species have been discovered or determined not to be extinct as thought in the last 10 - 15 years!!!!! Then there’s the two hominid species found in excavation in the last 20 years, not to mention the tribes discovered still living untouched by modern humans and they should stay that way because of just the diseases we could give them!!!!!! I know I’ve gone on and on but I’m glad someone else has thought about how blaming someone with a lot evidence to the contrary is truly a horrible thing!!!!!!
      P.S. Please forgive me in advance for any/all grammatical errors because as usual I couldn’t find my reading/writing glasses 👓, honestly I need a new prescription pair (OR TWO 😂) 👓 👓!!!!!!!!!

    • @pooroldman5089
      @pooroldman5089 Před 3 lety +14

      @@kelleybutler9720 wtf?

    • @tornadomash00
      @tornadomash00 Před 3 lety

      @@kelleybutler9720 wtf

  • @davidotness6199
    @davidotness6199 Před 3 lety +652

    I had over 50 years at sea, particularly on the North Pacific (Gulf of Alaska,) Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. I can attest that rogue waves are for real and very scary.

    • @josepetersen7112
      @josepetersen7112 Před 3 lety +84

      That we ought to listen to our older folks more often seems to be one of the most common scientific discoveries. Still, “rogue holes” sound even worse.

    • @mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520
      @mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520 Před 3 lety +55

      Was in the navy years ago going from NZ to Australia got hit by a big southern storm
      Rogue wave hit us real hard felt like the ship was going to snap in half it happened in my off watch I remember it waking me and remember the sounds of the ship and the vibration of it too when the aft end was what felt like was airborne as the prop made the whole ship shake

    • @LiterallyWho1917
      @LiterallyWho1917 Před 3 lety +39

      My grandpa was in the coast guard in the 70s and saw one when he was out off Nova Scotia I believe and when I showed him this video he immediately knew what this was and told me about it. He was a tugboat captain for a while after that (or during at that point I don't remember) and I'd imagine he was much happier not having to go that far out to sea as much.

    • @TheRealEraser
      @TheRealEraser Před 3 lety +43

      Yep they are very scary. Also how fast it all happens.
      I worked on a passenger ferry that was hit by a rogue wave, The sea was around 3.5m at the time of sailing and this rogue wave must have been 8-9m at least.
      Ship was out of action for a good few months, Captain even showed us the damage caused.
      The bow of the ship had a hole the size of a standard living room and some support beams were fractured, while other broken and one just gone.

    • @tornadomash00
      @tornadomash00 Před 3 lety +4

      have you ever experienced a rogue hole?

  • @logantaylor440
    @logantaylor440 Před 4 lety +850

    "And was widely considered to be unsinkable"
    *Hey, I've seen this one! Its a classic!*

    • @swiftbiscuit8624
      @swiftbiscuit8624 Před 4 lety +1

      Noooo

    • @frindjinny6
      @frindjinny6 Před 4 lety +5

      Titanic chillin on the ocean floor: welcome to the cool kids club, yeah we don’t last long.

    • @jadeasereht4638
      @jadeasereht4638 Před 3 lety

      CharlieRobloxKerbal
      Done

    • @albino_o7645
      @albino_o7645 Před 3 lety

      The term unsinkable is cursed ever since the 15:th off April 1912 at 02:20 in the morning

  • @timeshark8727
    @timeshark8727 Před 5 lety +1123

    _"Widely considered to be unsinkable"_
    ^ major ship death flag

    • @ro4eva
      @ro4eva Před 4 lety +9

      @@hamster-wh3ws -- I would think you're correct if not for your last sentence, but, I sincerely mean you no harm.

  • @stacymirba1433
    @stacymirba1433 Před 3 lety +196

    For some reason I think it is fascinating that there were reports for rogue waves for centuries but not believed until it was proven in 1995. The automobile has only been around for 100 years, the train for maybe 200 years but boats have been in water for thousands of years and we are literally learning in my lifetime something that appears to be quite common. Really makes you think what other common things we have yet to figure out.

    • @MainTopmastStaysail
      @MainTopmastStaysail Před rokem +17

      Sailors have also reported flying ships and mermaids for centuries. There's a scientific basis for those too (fata morgana and desperately horny men, respectively) but you can see why scientists had a lot of scepticism.

    • @simmytu
      @simmytu Před 9 měsíci

      Also consider the fact that the wooden ships of yesteryear sunk without any survivors and evidence, so people assumed it must be the work of a storm or an angry deity.

  • @Oddity2994
    @Oddity2994 Před 3 lety +175

    How to murder someone and not get caught:
    "I'm going on (ship)"
    "I heard it's unsinkable"

  • @skkiiipppp
    @skkiiipppp Před 5 lety +481

    “Was widely considered to be unsinkable”
    Atlantic: you asked for it

    • @s0me1i62
      @s0me1i62 Před 5 lety +27

      Ship crew: yeah we are unsinkable up yours ocean we gonna own you
      Ocean:hmm I think 90ft should be enough

    • @glenmcgillivray4707
      @glenmcgillivray4707 Před 5 lety +3

      to be fair: every sailor knows that to call a ship unsinkable is just asking for trouble.
      What the landlubbers who ordered the ship constructed say about their new boat is in no way the fault of the poor sailors out there risking their lives.
      Frankly the only unsinkable boat would be built of polystyrene.
      The boat won't sink: no guarantees it will ever reach it's destination however.

    • @ichaukan
      @ichaukan Před 5 lety

      My first thought as well.

    • @DKrueger1994
      @DKrueger1994 Před 4 lety

      or "I took the Titanic down, I don't mind taking another ship that they claimed to be 'unsinkable.'"

    • @Blox117
      @Blox117 Před 4 lety +2

      humans: *throws plastic into the ocean*
      ocean: oh godamnit

  • @andrewince8824
    @andrewince8824 Před 4 lety +434

    I've figured out how we'll create a truly unsinkable ship. We simply name it the Sinky McSinkingFace. Reverse psychology for the win.

    • @maksymilians931
      @maksymilians931 Před 4 lety +1

      Is this a borderlands reference?

    • @NobodyNowhereKnowhow
      @NobodyNowhereKnowhow Před 4 lety +13

      Yeah, but then the board would overrule it and just name some little autonomous vehicle that instead and then that boat would sink, but in an ironic twist the autonomous vehicle wouldn't.

    • @battalionstallion3894
      @battalionstallion3894 Před 3 lety +2

      *the ocean* well now im sinking it

    • @abramo7700
      @abramo7700 Před 3 lety +3

      "...Quite possibly the most dangerous ship in the world. It is expected to be sunk after only 3 miles..."

  • @skiyu
    @skiyu Před 3 lety +353

    Just don’t say your ship is unsinkable, you’re just jinxing it

  • @kennethmurphy6621
    @kennethmurphy6621 Před 3 lety +101

    While in the USN in the 80s we were taking on stores, via vertrep (helos dropping pallets on our stern helo station [not a flight deck]). During a break in the all hands working party to pass stores from the helo station to storerooms/refrigerators below, we were hanging out on deck. My buddy calls out "Oh my God!" (or something similar) I turn to look and saw a wall of water heading right for the ship. The sea state was high already as there had been a gale force winter storm in the area (we were in the Med in between Italy & Corsica), so the waves were in the teens in height but not breaking on deck. This wave was at least in mid twenties to thirty ft by guess. I quickly turned and saw about twenty guys rush the midships door, so that was not an option. A bunch of others were scrambling to climb up to the 01 level (the next deck up), I didn't have anything to climb up near me to even try this. So I just grabbed to superstucture hand rail (for clipping safety lines to in heavy seas), took a deep breath, and squared down slightly to give my body/legs more ability to take the blow (bracing for shock as the Navy trained us). When the wave hit I was underwater for a good few seconds, but then it was done. I looked around to see the aftermath, we had several guys down on the deck trying to get their breath & coughing up water. With three of these men hung up on the lifelines, one on the outboard side. Myself and a couple of others shipmates rush to this man quickly to grab him and get him over the lifelines and on deck. Some of the guys who had tried climbing to the 01 level had made it and some hadn't. They and the ones who didn't hear the warning or see the wave were among the dozen or so down on the deck, or in the lifelines. For the twenty guys trying to get in the midships door they got pushed into the ship by the wave through the open water tight door, with some of the getting knocked into inside walls (bulkheads). We got lucky nobody was lost overboard, and about a dozen guys with minor injuries that the ship's corpsman was able to treat. We always thought of this as a rouge wave, it was easily twice the height rest of the waves in the sea state we were in.

    • @mcspankey4810
      @mcspankey4810 Před 3 lety +5

      Sounds like a gnarly story, glad no one was seriously injured

    • @ro4eva
      @ro4eva Před rokem +4

      It frustrates me that scientists are seemingly so quick to brush off such firsthand accounts. "Oh that's impossible because our model says so." Your model is crap.

    • @glendamcgee1779
      @glendamcgee1779 Před rokem

      @@ro4eva All models are fiction - and the pride invested in them is madness. AKA models that Gore used for global warming - his ocean front property should be lone gone.

    • @mnxs
      @mnxs Před rokem

      @@ro4eva I think doubt in the model had been there for a long time. The problem is that throwing the existing models out altogether and starting over from scratch... Well, that requires proof to be necessary. Sailors have always told fantastical stories, so they're not necessarily that reliable. It just wasn't before the Draupner wave that we had incontrovertible evidence of rogue waves' existence.

  • @jennyneedsmeds
    @jennyneedsmeds Před 4 lety +879

    i would NEVER claim any boat to be "unsinkable."
    that's giving the ocean the option to say: "hold my beer."

    • @gorkyd7912
      @gorkyd7912 Před 4 lety +38

      Sea: hold me salty brine ya land lubbin lung breathers

    • @stje233
      @stje233 Před 3 lety +8

      *LAUGHS IN BISMARK AND TITANIC*

    • @C.J.80
      @C.J.80 Před 3 lety +2

      @@gorkyd7912 😂😂😂

    • @RaJeshSinGh-rs8nb
      @RaJeshSinGh-rs8nb Před 3 lety +12

      more like "hold my wave"

    • @mstr-rptr
      @mstr-rptr Před 3 lety +2

      I wonder how many actual beers the ocean is holding right now?

  • @haydenschaefer9202
    @haydenschaefer9202 Před 4 lety +1417

    Going on a cruise soon, this was not what I wanted to see in my recommended...

  • @Sturnburn772
    @Sturnburn772 Před 3 lety +113

    Fascinating, though I find "rogue holes' far more terrifying than rogue waves. At least with a wave, you have a chance of riding out the impact and most likely, you will be above water. But with a hole, after you fall in, the ocean closes up on you. That is terrifying.

  • @funnelvortex7722
    @funnelvortex7722 Před 2 lety +162

    Rogue waves happen on the Great Lakes too, the Edmund Fitzgerald likely sank because a rogue wave forced the bow under and then it hit the bottom of the lake causing the ship to break in half from the structural shock. There are also different types of Rogue Waves, the waves on the Great Lakes were of the "three sisters" variety while the video mostly covers the "wall of water" variety.
    I've also seen rogue waves on smaller lakes, I was sailing on a local lake last month and the winds and waves were general one-footers and then I heard a sudden gushing sound and I saw a line of breaking 2 footers off the port side, and there were no speedboaters nearby making wakes and it came out of nowhere. They can happen on any body of water I'm convinced at this point, you could probably make a rogue wave happen in a bathtub if you could figure out how.

    • @Jermain-cz4bh
      @Jermain-cz4bh Před 2 lety +18

      by adding a fan and a few rocks and pebbles on the bottom of it you might be able to

    • @jimj2683
      @jimj2683 Před 2 lety +19

      I read that scientists had calculated that these waves could actually get up to 60 meters in height. Enough to sink pretty much anything.

    • @pieterveenders9793
      @pieterveenders9793 Před rokem +1

      In the case of lakes, they might be seiches instead of rogue waves? An overlap of resonance and earth tremors, coupled with the sloshing effect of water in a bath tub.

    • @pieterveenders9793
      @pieterveenders9793 Před rokem +18

      @@jimj2683 They've been measured as much as 40 meters high or even slightly over if I'm not mistaken, but I wouldn't be surprised if in very rare and extreme circumstances they could be as much as 60 meters high. In which case as you said pretty much any ship on earth would sink, even the very biggest ones. Nightmare stuff...

    • @samuelmanalili2303
      @samuelmanalili2303 Před 11 měsíci

      You could make a rouge wave in the kitchen sink...busy housewives know about it

  • @Joseph_yy
    @Joseph_yy Před 5 lety +2929

    Human:This ship is consider unsinkable 🚢
    Mother Nature:I’m gonna end this mans whole career

    • @turloughbeast5157
      @turloughbeast5157 Před 5 lety +26

      Yen the smiling dinosaur you should of said Mother Nature: Hold my beer

    • @naushaadnazir897
      @naushaadnazir897 Před 5 lety +5

      Or say mother nature: I'll sink this human males career

    • @asneecrabbier3900
      @asneecrabbier3900 Před 5 lety +16

      _is it me or is the ship getting shorter_

    • @lekroc
      @lekroc Před 5 lety +2

      considered*

    • @leeeastwood6368
      @leeeastwood6368 Před 5 lety +1

      Turlough, Beast, mother nature would be drinking Bacardi Breezer!

  • @aaronliu9945
    @aaronliu9945 Před 5 lety +2479

    Me: "Nah this video must just be exaggerating for views"
    Me: *does some quick googling and reading*
    Me: "Hmmmm, yes I see"
    Me: *cancels planned cruise trip*

    • @chispychisp1690
      @chispychisp1690 Před 5 lety +84

      Me: *plans next cruise trip*

    • @femmefuntime
      @femmefuntime Před 5 lety +56

      My grandparents went on over 50 cruises through their lives and never encountered rogue waves. While they’re not that rare, them hitting ships is fairly uncommon. Just think about how big the ocean is and how tiny the ship and waves are relative to it, now think that your ship and that wave have to be in the same place at the same time to cause an issue.

    • @aaronliu9945
      @aaronliu9945 Před 5 lety +105

      @@femmefuntime sis it was a joke I can't afford to go on a cruise anyways

    • @femmefuntime
      @femmefuntime Před 5 lety +8

      Aaron Liu if you can, save some money and go on one. They’re really enjoyable

    • @mickeypopa
      @mickeypopa Před 5 lety +38

      If you want to cancel a cruise trip for whatever reason, it should be the crime on high seas rather than rogue waves.
      People often disappear from cruise ships in international waters and apparently nobody cares to find out what happened because it's nobody's jurisdiction. Quite a scary statistic when you think about it.

  • @craigrobertson909
    @craigrobertson909 Před 3 lety +184

    "Widely considered to be unsinkable"
    Rogue wave " so i took that personally"

  • @remote24
    @remote24 Před 3 lety +138

    note to myself: in order to avoid super waves avoid traveling on ships that named after german cities.

    • @dale5497
      @dale5497 Před 3 lety +1

      Norway, not Germany.

    • @cdbtheclaw
      @cdbtheclaw Před 3 lety +37

      @@dale5497 The last time I checked München and Bremen haven't been annexed by Norway.

    • @dale5497
      @dale5497 Před 3 lety +1

      @@cdbtheclaw Roger. Wrote when I hadn’t watched that far!

    • @226nick2
      @226nick2 Před 3 lety +1

      Same with airships. Just look up "Hindenburg disaster".

    • @Max-qx7ym
      @Max-qx7ym Před 3 lety +2

      @@cdbtheclaw Grüß dich 😂

  • @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4
    @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 Před 5 lety +726

    Well.. thank you for solidifying my fear of the ocean even more.

    • @gammafoxlore2981
      @gammafoxlore2981 Před 5 lety +5

      @Hannah Ridgeway ASMR = mental instability

    • @raincloud5259
      @raincloud5259 Před 5 lety +2

      Wow! What a nice topic!😀 I am now graduating maritime technology!😀 Thank you for this!😂😂

    • @lackofboringstuf2347
      @lackofboringstuf2347 Před 5 lety +1

      Im terrified of oceans

    • @vikingraven4758
      @vikingraven4758 Před 5 lety +3

      @@lackofboringstuf2347
      I have sailed in these up to 20 meter(60 foot) high. Sure they can crack open the large tincan ships, but if you have a well built sailboat and good crew it's more like a very long roller coaster. When they start getting above 8 meters you just have to follow the waves.

    • @lackofboringstuf2347
      @lackofboringstuf2347 Před 5 lety +6

      @@vikingraven4758 holy fucking shit. 20 meters? I'd shit my self. Jeez man sailors are brave men. Good night brother

  • @psyffee3755
    @psyffee3755 Před 4 lety +418

    Make sure whenever you're on a ship you say "wow this ship sure is sinkable"

  • @djaktube
    @djaktube Před 3 lety +48

    11:35 The portuguese, back in 1488 during the Discoveries Age, were the first to cross that area by boat. They called it "Cape of Storms". It was considered a mythological place, that scared sailors to death. When they first crossed it an the King was informed, he renamed it to "Cape of Good Hope".

  • @Urugami45
    @Urugami45 Před 3 lety +36

    Once upon a time, I worked for a Southern US shipping company. After they downsized me, I went to work for the marine comms company who was providing their email service. I made a service call to one of the ships, and the Captain told me a story something like what was in the video. Rogue Wave came along, blew out most of the windows on the bridge, shorted out most of the gear there, including all the ship's radios. Our gear was in a different space from the bridge, up off the deck, so it was the only piece of comms gear that survived, and they relied on it from the Norther Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. It was very strange seeing a flood line on the walls of a deck that was about 80 feet above the waterline of the ship. I've seen some scary conditions from my own days at sea, but I'm glad I wasn't on that ship on that crossing.

  • @factsinmotion3978
    @factsinmotion3978  Před 5 lety +795

    After lots of lovely comments after the last video I decided to continue with the new graphic style.
    If you spot any issues or mistakes let me know.
    Have a nice weekend everyone!

    • @miguwaoganga4595
      @miguwaoganga4595 Před 5 lety +14

      You’re awesome ❤️

    • @matttucker3
      @matttucker3 Před 5 lety +4

      Facts in Motion everything looks good too me you have a good one too!

    • @c.g.silver8782
      @c.g.silver8782 Před 5 lety +3

      amazing as always!

    • @cleanerben9636
      @cleanerben9636 Před 5 lety +4

      you too facts!

    • @noahdacheese839
      @noahdacheese839 Před 5 lety +16

      11:30 - 11:35 very minor layering glitch, causing the animation to spark a different scene for a few milliseconds. I don't think it requires a full re-upload but something to watch for in future animations. You're the best Facts in Motion!

  • @BeezOne84
    @BeezOne84 Před 5 lety +899

    Roguewave sounds like an obscure genre of electronic music

    • @Phangzor98
      @Phangzor98 Před 4 lety +20

      BeezOne84
      Low-fi music in the beginning but instead of a nice drum-drop, it just suddenly transforms into the heaviest death metal music.
      Rouge-Wave music.
      Hell yes haha

    • @DavidSmith-eh7rs
      @DavidSmith-eh7rs Před 4 lety +5

      You're not too far off. Check it out...
      czcams.com/video/DlOl9LOUQ0g/video.html

    • @ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge
      @ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge Před 4 lety +3

      yah man, Roguewave is just the right wavelength for Drum n Bass of the likes of Infected Mushroom ;)

    • @damirock98
      @damirock98 Před 4 lety +4

      If you want a really disturbing EDM genre, you should hear Extratone.
      Here's an example (skip to 1:24 and be aware of *extreme* ear rape):
      czcams.com/video/8RAYlykjQrw/video.html

    • @7Lace77
      @7Lace77 Před 4 lety +3

      Naimad czcams.com/video/kE0tYUkh2qI/video.html
      I like that one, Frenchcore is better though.

  • @LogieT2K
    @LogieT2K Před 3 lety +58

    Some engineer: “This ship unsinkable”
    The ocean: “look what you made me do”

  • @williammanier6074
    @williammanier6074 Před 3 lety +94

    "Just like giant sea monsters" *Kraken sized squids have been found* Ya know maybe the sailors haven't been telling just wild stories

    • @plantinapot9169
      @plantinapot9169 Před 3 lety +2

      Are you just talking about giant squids or am I missing something?

    • @gingermcgingin1733
      @gingermcgingin1733 Před 3 lety +8

      @@plantinapot9169 giant squid, colossal squid (two completely different species, to be clear), & giant octopus (TBF these are nowhere near the size of their aforementioned squid relatives) are all things.

  • @jayphil2563
    @jayphil2563 Před 5 lety +204

    We had a rogue wave hit the Aircraft Carrier I was on during my last deployment. It blew out portholes and came onto the flight deck. It physically shook the ship and if you know how massive a Nimitz class carrier is then you'll understand.

    • @Rollermonkey1
      @Rollermonkey1 Před 5 lety +58

      I was on an LHA that got hit by a rogue wave off the west coast of Australia in the mid-90's. Cracked a window on the bridge, which was 100 feet above the waterline and snapped holdown chains on several of the aircraft slashed forward of the superstructure. It also blasted in one of the linehandling hatches in the foc'sle. I'm just glad that it's the only one I saw in my 20 years.

    • @jayphil2563
      @jayphil2563 Před 5 lety +8

      @@Rollermonkey1 it was a fun storm with those swells. They had the plat pointed towards the bow and it would go from nothing but sky to nothing but water on the screen. We hooked up a tennis ball on a string and had the people who got sea sick watch it until they puked. I can only imagine how much a LHA moves or even a small boy.

    • @jayphil2563
      @jayphil2563 Před 4 lety +8

      @jimmy matho it's approximately 55 feet from waterline to flight deck.

    • @Anzomax2
      @Anzomax2 Před 4 lety +2

      Which CVN was it. I was 72 years ago yea I know how big they are

    • @Pilotsf
      @Pilotsf Před 4 lety +67

      In 1969 I was second mate on the SS President Jackson, a Mariner class cargo ship 563' long. The Mariner class ships were very heavily built cargo ships of high horsepower and quite modern for the time. We were in the North Atlantic west bound in a heavy storm attempting to get to the East Coast of the USA to beat a longshoremen's strike that was expected. The Captain had on engine turns for 18 knots and we were taking a terrible beating making only 6 knots of headway into huge head seas of about 35' height. I called the Captain when I came on watch and told him we should slow down as we'd just taken three breaking seas of green water aboard the ship all the way back to the amidships house in the space of ten minutes. He ordered me to maintain engine turns for 18 knots and the ship continued to battle her way into these huge seas and periodically take green water all the way back to the house when a wave would break aboard the ship. Each time the ship would slam into one of these huge walls of water she would seem to come to a complete stop. Then the powerful engines would start to increase headway until she'd repeat the process until she slammed into another huge wave. Just about daybreak, I saw a huge wave that was at least twice the height of the normal wave height of 35'. Our height of eye from the bridge was about 60' and I was looking up as this huge sea approached the ship so it must have been at least 75' or more in height. The speed with which something like this develops is hard to describe as there was literally nothing I could do. While I thought the wave would probably break onto the ship with dire consequences, the period of the sea was such that the ship dove down into the trough and then rose up over the wave. It literally looked like we were headed towards the moon and the entire forebody of this loaded ship came completely out of the water. Then the ship crashed back into the sea and spray rose up a couple of hundred feet on each side of the ship. The ship then started to flex violently much like you'd flex a hair pin trying to break it. It was something that happened over 50 years ago but I can see the entire event and this huge approaching rogue wave in my mind as I write this reply. Amazingly, there was minimal visible damage to the ship when we arrived at port. I can't help but feel there must have been structural damage to the ship that wasn't visible to the eye.

  • @Sniperdude1601
    @Sniperdude1601 Před 5 lety +483

    I got a cruise ship ad while watching this... bad timing

    • @glenmcgillivray4707
      @glenmcgillivray4707 Před 5 lety +4

      @@user-vq1op2zg6w Out of thousands of boats at sea: only a few meet such waves in a year.
      You'll be fine
      Just cancel if a storm brews around the time of your trip. Bigger the swell the bigger the rouge waves get.

    • @glenmcgillivray4707
      @glenmcgillivray4707 Před 5 lety

      @@user-vq1op2zg6w I can understand: hope you used the money for something else fun or perhaps productive ^_^

    • @ameyas7726
      @ameyas7726 Před 5 lety +1

      Well these waves only occur in deep oceans (with higher probability in very bad weather conditions)...most civilian cruise ships usually follow a standard (safe) route in good weather conditions....if you are paranoid, you can ask for the route your cruise will be taking, history of any accidents, expected weather conditions it'll be traveling under etc..

    • @glenmcgillivray4707
      @glenmcgillivray4707 Před 5 lety +1

      @@ameyas7726 sorry but the evidence states that rouge waves can form in any body of water large enough to stabilize a deep water wave. So not usually rivers (friction with shorelines). There is anectotal evidence that any body of water with large surface waves can form dangerous rouge waves, including the great lakes of north America.
      And rouge waves have been recorded at some hydro power plants now. But a 5 cm wave in a 1 cm swell is not as impressive as 50 m in 10 m swells.

    • @willww3554
      @willww3554 Před 4 lety

      I got one too

  • @ManiBalajiC
    @ManiBalajiC Před 3 lety +30

    Someone : ship is unsinkable.
    Ocean : And I took that personally.

  • @zukazealanee
    @zukazealanee Před 3 lety +65

    Jesus... Imagine being on a ship and falling into a rogue hole as described here. Truly terrifying.

    • @tylerstacostop
      @tylerstacostop Před 3 lety +15

      Agreed, I find that far more terrifying than a rogue wave

    • @andrevc85
      @andrevc85 Před 3 lety +1

      I believe unlike the big wave that can break the hull of a long ship by lifting it you wouldnt "fall into" the big hole if you were in a big ship. Probably your ship would hit the border at the other side of the hole and cross over it. maybe youd feel a hard bump .
      These things only happen in the open ocean and are rare, if you are with a small vessel there you proly know the risks and what youre doing

    • @ItsOnlyNiall
      @ItsOnlyNiall Před 3 lety +3

      In Sebastian Yungers book he says boats can accidently be driven nose down into the ocean

    • @Groveish
      @Groveish Před 3 lety +2

      It wouldn't really be a rogue hole, but more like a rogue trench.

  • @agnivash
    @agnivash Před 5 lety +542

    Wow. The amount of research done to publish this video. Hats Off..😯👏

    • @andresgamba1478
      @andresgamba1478 Před 5 lety +4

      Agni Firestorm it’s all on Wikipedia. Pretty much word for word, no cool visuals though.

    • @ro4eva
      @ro4eva Před 4 lety +22

      Apparently, the narrator also animates these videos by himself. I think that's worth some recognition.

    • @vsiegel
      @vsiegel Před 4 lety +21

      Andres Gamba - even if the text was already available word for word - to animate it, it needs to be understood. Not as in "I learned it, I can answer any question", but as in "I learned it and can teach it to others" - which is a big difference.

    • @bigblue8945
      @bigblue8945 Před 4 lety

      Andres Gamba na if u look at the several sources in the description only one of them is from wiki

    • @bigernkingpin
      @bigernkingpin Před rokem +1

      He pinched the majority of it from a BBC documentary made about 12 yrs ago. He re-hashed it as his own and added in some glaring errors for good measure. Quantum physics is applied in wave theory. Original was the BBC Horizon Freak Wave documentary.

  • @Blokksberg
    @Blokksberg Před 4 lety +415

    Cruise ship ad: *I'm gonna pretend i didn't see that*

    • @ChocManus
      @ChocManus Před 4 lety

      Hahahaha

    • @alexarias5717
      @alexarias5717 Před 4 lety +1

      Cruise ships dont cross oceans!

    • @colin.k6263
      @colin.k6263 Před 4 lety +10

      @@alexarias5717 how do you think cuise ships reach Hawaii? They cross open ocean and at least half the Pacific if departing from California

    • @alexarias5717
      @alexarias5717 Před 4 lety

      @@colin.k6263 shit didn't know there were cruise ships that far out in the ocean. Thought most were in the Caribbean

    • @colin.k6263
      @colin.k6263 Před 4 lety +4

      @@alexarias5717 people takes cruises from anywhere to anywhere, in the US cruise ship world tho, the most common are Caribbean( Florida to Caribbean's), Alaska(up the west coast of Canada), and Hawaii

  • @someoneinparticular6458
    @someoneinparticular6458 Před 3 lety +82

    Imagine being a captain of a ship then saw a wall of water coming straight at you

    • @koborkutya7338
      @koborkutya7338 Před 3 lety +3

      ...or imagine being anyone on that ship seeing that.

    • @candlestyx8517
      @candlestyx8517 Před 2 lety +1

      This is why im afraid of making a career in the maritime industry even though I have an intense interest in ships and the water.

  • @i_biscuit7140
    @i_biscuit7140 Před 3 lety +71

    "widely considered to be unsinkable"
    We've heard that one before

    • @rbvfeehfbudenrj
      @rbvfeehfbudenrj Před 3 lety +1

      That was a totally original comment

    • @i_biscuit7140
      @i_biscuit7140 Před 3 lety

      @@rbvfeehfbudenrj it's a bit hard to make a comment on a video which is a year old

  • @CultWhatever
    @CultWhatever Před 4 lety +2868

    Old Sailors: **claim they’ve seen rouge waves and giant squid**
    Scientists: Okay old man 😂😂😂
    **finds evidence of both**
    Also scientists: Wow I can’t believe we found these

    • @khymaaren
      @khymaaren Před 4 lety +222

      Science operates on evidence and testing. If scientists took eyewitness testimonies and anecdotes seriously they could just as well believe all the UFO sighting and abduction stories...

    • @majesticsideburns6682
      @majesticsideburns6682 Před 4 lety +93

      They all probably said okay boomer

    • @daniyarsharafutdinov820
      @daniyarsharafutdinov820 Před 4 lety +12

      Just saying, not squid; KRAKEN

    • @blacktimhoward4322
      @blacktimhoward4322 Před 4 lety +27

      I'll be damned if I hear anti-science talk from freaking Jesus

    • @khymaaren
      @khymaaren Před 4 lety +14

      @@blacktimhoward4322 Does a flat-earther from Spain named Jesús count?

  • @cmano48
    @cmano48 Před 4 lety +168

    Imagine sailing in the middle of the ocean and nature's just like, "hey here's a *hole*

  • @prodbrn
    @prodbrn Před 3 lety +59

    I absolutely love this, this is such a well made video, great commentary along with great atmospheric music and SFX, not to mention the outstanding animations, well done.

  • @Zesty869
    @Zesty869 Před 3 lety +100

    Shipwright: "This vessel is unsinkable"
    The Ocean: "Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance!"
    *Releases rogue wave"
    The Ocean: "But not for me!"

  • @bondrewdthelordofdawn3893
    @bondrewdthelordofdawn3893 Před 5 lety +409

    Let's name every ship "Totally sinkable" they'll never sink...

    • @superandreanintendo
      @superandreanintendo Před 5 lety +2

      Even the Concordia lol

    • @mrmaniac3
      @mrmaniac3 Před 5 lety +33

      Ah, reverse psychology.
      Unfortunately, large bodies of water are not psychologically present.

    • @glenmcgillivray4707
      @glenmcgillivray4707 Před 5 lety +6

      Statistics would disagree with you.
      One ship will never sink
      Thousands Will.
      As they say: you make a ship idiot proof and some moron puts an even greater idiot in charge.

    • @ro4eva
      @ro4eva Před 4 lety

      @@glenmcgillivray4707 -- "You make a ship idiot-proof and some moron puts an even greater idiot in charge." --- Brilliant!

    • @optimusprimus89
      @optimusprimus89 Před 4 lety +1

      Reverse Psychology always works on women. Mother Nature will be baffled lol

  • @liquididentity101
    @liquididentity101 Před 3 lety +68

    The moral of the story: don't ever call a ship unsinkable. Mother Nature will accept that challenge just to keep us humans humble and reverent of her.

    • @raspberrybitch4299
      @raspberrybitch4299 Před 3 lety +2

      @@alienmagi Not in your opinion, but many people hold nature as an intelligent force.

    • @gingermcgingin1733
      @gingermcgingin1733 Před 3 lety +2

      @@alienmagi be as that may, that doesn't change the fact that disrespecting it is a great way to die horribly.

    • @henrywilliams3197
      @henrywilliams3197 Před 2 lety

      @@raspberrybitch4299 facts don’t care about your feeling though

    • @raspberrybitch4299
      @raspberrybitch4299 Před 2 lety

      @@henrywilliams3197 Yeah? Well show me the facts that say nature has no inherent intelligence. You can't. Just like I can't show you the facts that say nature does have inherent intelligence.
      It's a matter of opinion, not fact. Turd.

    • @bfure1
      @bfure1 Před 2 lety

      @@alienmagi late response, but to me that is why it's so scary, no thoughts, no care about us. Nature just does its own thing and if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, too bad.

  • @jmark50
    @jmark50 Před 3 lety +5

    Our U.S. Coast Guard ship was hit by three sisters in 1970 about a day out of Anchorage Alaska. After watching this video I learned about "Rogue Holes." That is how it felt, and I had never heard of those before. In the previous year, the ship had made 6+ trips from Punta Arenas Chile to Palmer Station Antarctica. ie Cape Horn. So we had seen plenty of Hurricane force winds and heavy seas. I was on the fantail working on equipment in probably 6 to 8 foot swells. All of a sudden it felt like the ship was falling. Completely different than the normal pitch and roll in heavy seas. I looked up and said, "Holy F*&k!" I jumped up and wrapped my arms around an oceanographic crane. There wasn't time to get inside. The wave hit straight abeam. When the first wave wave hit, I got wet to my shoulders even though I was a couple feet off the deck. The ship took a 55 degree roll, and shook and I really didn't know it was going to come back, or roll over. As the ship righted, I dropped down and made it inside before the next two waves hit. This was 50+ years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Your video is very good and that's why I wanted to tell my story. Never heard of "Rogue drops/holes" before, but that sure seemed to explain the three sisters that I experienced.
    Thanks for the video, and my story above is true and took place on the USCGC Glacier WAGB-4

  • @LASAGNA_LARRY
    @LASAGNA_LARRY Před 5 lety +491

    Assassin's Creed Black Flag taught me the dangers of Rogue Waves, lol.

    • @MrCODEmaster00
      @MrCODEmaster00 Před 5 lety +29

      Exactly why I know/knew not to take them broadside >.< ... was seriously happy when he brought up the whole "which of two evils" do you pick thing.

    • @aksmex2576
      @aksmex2576 Před 5 lety +1

      @@MrCODEmaster00
      He said it worse to take them head on as it might break your ship.

    • @mackbat332
      @mackbat332 Před 5 lety +25

      Intescy Avenger no he didn’t he said both were bad it’s a matter of what your ships capable of.

    • @yavin99
      @yavin99 Před 5 lety +1

      I know the first couple of waves all my crew didn't make it.

    • @nimbusws5946
      @nimbusws5946 Před 5 lety +16

      Basically if you don’t have a massively long ship, take’em head-on. If you have a ship that can take ~60* of leaning to one side... I have to ask who designed your ship.

  • @matttucker3
    @matttucker3 Před 5 lety +443

    Bro you really are one of the best channels on this site man, up there with kurzgesgat, scishow, vsause, life noggin, you deserve to be listed with the greats you really do fantastic work

  • @mofomo6209
    @mofomo6209 Před 3 lety +15

    “Rogue waves are commonly divided into three categories:” *ad plays* “Pizza or Salad. Which one do you think I’m having for dinner tonight?”
    Perfect timing

  • @benjaminheeter3831
    @benjaminheeter3831 Před 3 lety +41

    I’ll show this to my wife the next time she mentions going on a cruise lol

  • @Bamboozler2349
    @Bamboozler2349 Před 5 lety +204

    imagine just sailing on the ocean and then your ship starts to tilt downward, like a lot and then seeing the other side of the rouge hole coming to swallow your ship whole. scary thought

    • @f4llen489
      @f4llen489 Před 5 lety +37

      What if we don't know about the existence of rogue holes because literally nobody ever survived one or had the time to send a distress call to report them? Now that's a scary thought.

    • @milesoats4256
      @milesoats4256 Před 5 lety +27

      @@f4llen489 maybe they happen most often in a certain triangle named Bermuda

    • @f4llen489
      @f4llen489 Před 5 lety +6

      @@milesoats4256 I was thinking of that too. I believe I once heard about people speculating that currents might suck ships below water ,but rogue holes (even if they only exist in theory) might be another reasonable cause.

    • @andromeda6463
      @andromeda6463 Před 5 lety +23

      @@f4llen489 As a sailor I certainly believe in the existence of rogue holes despite how terrifying they sound. Whilst I usually sail on a river, I believe I've come into contact with smaller versions of the open ocean monsters. They don't happen often, only when strong winds and heavy powerboat traffic are present but they are really quite freaky. Last time we (my crew and I) encountered one we were reaching with the spinnaker and a hole just opened up in front of us and almost capsized us. We may have uttered a large number of expletives.
      An analogy would be like if you were drag racing in a car (one of those super fast nitro powered ones) and just as you hit your top speed the road in front of you just disappeared. There is nothing you can do - you're going too fast to make a sudden turn so you just fly over the edge and pray. Eventually, you hit the bottom with a clonk and the walls around you close in on top of you.

    • @f4llen489
      @f4llen489 Před 5 lety +4

      @@andromeda6463 That's exactly what I imagined it to be like. I sail myself, but only on lakes or near the coastline, and on really small boats. Falling into one with such a small vessel seems extremely horrific.

  • @awesomelyshorticles
    @awesomelyshorticles Před 5 lety +585

    Imagine getting knocked off board and immediately getting buried several stories underwater and the water pressure blows out your eardrums and crushes your ribs 😳
    The surface is so high... it's so dark down here... my body is broken and I'm so far from help....
    What a terrible way to die.

    • @joshsmit779
      @joshsmit779 Před 5 lety +27

      100ft or even 200ft underwater won't do that to you

    • @jackmoseley1628
      @jackmoseley1628 Před 5 lety +152

      @@joshsmit779 100ft at once will bust your eardrums. If you slowly go down, no, bu if it all happens within a second you ded son

    • @stevenkelby2169
      @stevenkelby2169 Před 5 lety +86

      That's not a fun fact!

    • @fredricknietzsche7316
      @fredricknietzsche7316 Před 5 lety +23

      but all things considered faster then the way most of us will go.

    • @davecrupel2817
      @davecrupel2817 Před 5 lety +1

      :(

  • @ninagiosa3526
    @ninagiosa3526 Před 3 lety +4

    Fantastic overview! Love that this presents the real information without any exaggeration or embellishment but still manages to be quite interesting. Wonderful!

  • @immortalsofar5314
    @immortalsofar5314 Před rokem +7

    I lived in Maui for 18 months and Big Beach was a sheltered spot with virtually no waves - useless for surfing, for example. I saw a tourist go to the oceans edge to wash his sandals and he took his eyes off the ocean as he did so. A freak wave reared up over him out of nowhere, at least 8' high. I shouted out and he managed to spot it and leap clear just before it crashed down. It wouldn't have killed him (probably) but I've never seen anything like that before or since.

  • @thederogativeworld
    @thederogativeworld Před 5 lety +522

    Okay, so when are we going to learn about declaring trans-Atlantic ships unsinkable being a terrible idea?

    • @Elenrai
      @Elenrai Před 4 lety +25

      ......We should do it with submarines destined for the Atlantic and see if the opposite happen.

    • @americanpanzer4163
      @americanpanzer4163 Před 4 lety

      @@Elenrai
      Brilliant

    • @raptorcell6633
      @raptorcell6633 Před 4 lety +10

      @@Elenrai they will fly

    • @tijltrienen
      @tijltrienen Před 4 lety +1

      @@Elenrai unfloateble?

    • @raptorcell6633
      @raptorcell6633 Před 4 lety +1

      @Richard DeRosset no no no, not Styrofoam cups. Pool Noodles my guy

  • @ProUzer
    @ProUzer Před 5 lety +128

    Me: Im gonna be productive today
    Also me: *watches a video on waves*

  • @YouTube_user3333
    @YouTube_user3333 Před 3 lety +9

    Old fisherman from early 1900’s talked about rogue waves and whirlpools
    I believe whirlpools was just a term they used for rogue toughs. They generally talked about the tough being only half as deep as a rogue wave but were more feared than rogue waves. One guy I talked to was miles at sea when a low pressure developed on top of them. The captain wanted to retrieve the very expensive gear from the ocean, which would take around ten hours. By time they were 5 hours in it became too much. So the gear was left and they made hast to land. Around half way home (6hrs) hit what was thought to be a rogue wave but was in fact the uphill side of a huge trough which punched out a window and cracked others, washed gear off the deck and nearly had a man go overboard.
    When you go to sea, you are rolling a dice when it comes to rogues.

  • @thedodsonful
    @thedodsonful Před 2 lety +7

    The thought of rogue holes made me shiver, suddenly just falling downwards and the horizon blocked by walls of water just felt so eerie.

  • @svedrics
    @svedrics Před 5 lety +159

    Man these videos are National Geographic level documentaries

  • @karlleewhite610
    @karlleewhite610 Před 5 lety +353

    Those aren’t mountains.....
    They’re waves.

    • @haljetdvr
      @haljetdvr Před 4 lety +8

      Karl Lee White 6 months and know one caught your reference? Han must be turning in his grave!

    • @MuhammadDanish-xp8zo
      @MuhammadDanish-xp8zo Před 4 lety +17

      And that one isn't moving away from us..

    • @nicoherbst9674
      @nicoherbst9674 Před 4 lety +10

      a man of culture i see

    • @MikinessAnalog
      @MikinessAnalog Před 4 lety +6

      "You're the one that doesn't belong. Born 40 years too early or 40 years too late"

    • @shiningarmor2838
      @shiningarmor2838 Před 4 lety

      Philip Glass ripoff intensifies

  • @Ricardo-fv2qi
    @Ricardo-fv2qi Před 3 lety +14

    When I get to go on a cruise first thing I'm gonna say is "yep, this looks like it could definitely sink"

  • @simona7517
    @simona7517 Před rokem +12

    That is one of the highest-quality videos I've ever seen. Well done!! I'm amazed you create every part of it yourself. And I love the brisk pace - usually I watch videos sped up, but this one was perfect as-is.

    • @lucyarmstrong4213
      @lucyarmstrong4213 Před rokem

      I wish I had your processing power! I had to keep pausing the video to digest the information, or rewatch to ensure understanding... I've always been a slow processer, despite being intelligent, and I wish I knew more about what makes people like you and me function so differently - I would appreciate if he could make a video on that!

  • @freyahaglund816
    @freyahaglund816 Před 5 lety +51

    for some weird reason i'm completely facinated by waves. it's been really hard finding information on rogue waves, as its such a new topic, but this was even more than i had hoped for. Thanks!

    • @raptonsoul2557
      @raptonsoul2557 Před 5 lety

      You know this goes back hundred of year, and only science for some reason believe there real now, it's mostly stories but you can fine many go tails

    • @marksapollo
      @marksapollo Před 5 lety

      Freya Haglund Their are a few good documentaries out there, just got to look for them. As man has only recently discovered they got it totally wrong! It’s been a hot topic in the science community.

    • @amandamorgan2802
      @amandamorgan2802 Před rokem

      Imagine a wave of 50 meters.I would like to see it..must be quite a sight.That would be new.

  • @MrROTD
    @MrROTD Před 5 lety +88

    I've been out on the ocean in a fishing boat during a storm it's terrifying you go from deep valleys of water to huge peaks

    • @dperry19661
      @dperry19661 Před 5 lety +3

      and when you crest a wave the prop and stern come out of the water, you go down that valley and your bow scoops up water bam like a gunshot the water hits the glass.

    • @incognitotorpedo42
      @incognitotorpedo42 Před 5 lety +6

      The whole concept of sailing seems insane.

    • @dperry19661
      @dperry19661 Před 5 lety +1

      @@incognitotorpedo42 Powered isnt so bad..but wind power is kinda insane. Places in the Pacific where you have to get out the rowboat and oars and tow your sailboat.

    • @MrJuhs91
      @MrJuhs91 Před 4 lety

      we used to call that hammering in poles.
      It is like if you wanna hit a hammer on a pole to get it in the ground, instead of a hammer you think of the front of the ship as the hammer head. When you hit the wave it give a huge smash, but when you go over it and down again when the water level raises again you will hammer a massive pole again, depends on the steepness of the wave, if the wave is very steep the front of the ship will hit the water with huge force pointing downwards, hitting a new upcoming wave.

  • @pandemik0
    @pandemik0 Před 3 lety +13

    I've been in a passenger ferry that was hit by one, you could see the wave coming for quite a long time, and it was lead by a deep trough. The ship didn't seem to tip into the trough but was nose up when it hit the wave. There was green water over the bow, scary, but not a problem. Was an amazing experience.

  • @cassandraheale2136
    @cassandraheale2136 Před 3 lety +11

    8:43 "miraculously, she managed to right herself" im so proud of her

    • @MrMiD.Life.Crisis
      @MrMiD.Life.Crisis Před 3 lety

      I enjoyed it when she 'rightened' herself?
      (i realise English is not his primary language!).
      Eye-opening video.
      Hope you're good.

    • @LiterallyWho1917
      @LiterallyWho1917 Před 3 lety

      @@MrMiD.Life.Crisis It's cool how you always refer to a vehicle as feminine in English as normally it's an ungendered language and it just makes you feel a lot closer to an inanimate object when you can humanize it a little like that.

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum Před 3 lety

      And there she is, still sitting in Long Beach harbor after all that and a world war! She needs extensive repairs tough

  • @rxquestgordo
    @rxquestgordo Před 5 lety +2089

    I wonder if the oceans only salty because the land never waves back

    • @slinkerdeer
      @slinkerdeer Před 5 lety +61

      😂 Wtf lol this is so underrated comment can i get some likes for this right here

    • @rjdalchow
      @rjdalchow Před 5 lety +29

      That's...brilliant. Thanks for the best laugh of the day.

    • @MrTubeYouTheif
      @MrTubeYouTheif Před 5 lety +11

      haha dude.. this killed me!

    • @xynzlollie
      @xynzlollie Před 5 lety +10

      That's gold

    • @thatoneguyc8312
      @thatoneguyc8312 Před 5 lety +13

      Get this man an Oscar!

  • @BrainlessHaya
    @BrainlessHaya Před 11 měsíci +2

    Thanks for this immense effort that you are putting in your videos. The outcome (narration, but even more the drawings and animations) is outstanding. Alles Gute für dich und deinen Channel! :))

  • @frmrchristian303
    @frmrchristian303 Před 3 lety

    Fascinating video, Man! So glad you took the time to create it! You earned my sub for sure!

  • @maryudomah4387
    @maryudomah4387 Před 5 lety +817

    What did the ocean say to the shore?
    Nothing, it just waved.

  • @conradmcdougall3629
    @conradmcdougall3629 Před 5 lety +81

    I love the absolute randomness of your topics.
    It shows that everything is interesting.

  • @Ally-Oop
    @Ally-Oop Před 3 lety +2

    How utterly fascinating! I really did not expect quantum physics to get involved. This was a beautifully compiled, animated, and narrated video!

  • @C1Ansy
    @C1Ansy Před 3 lety +2

    So many views and you highly deserve all of them 🙏🏻

  • @Blackwolffe097
    @Blackwolffe097 Před 3 lety +105

    I was on a Disney Cruise back in 08 when we got smash into by a rouge wave around 2am.
    Got thrown off the bed. When we docked in Hawaii the next day, we learned that a bunch of people on board were injured. Luckily no deaths

  • @kennandunn7533
    @kennandunn7533 Před 5 lety +206

    Widely considered unsinkable,
    NOW WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE?!?!

    • @ayeitzdj
      @ayeitzdj Před 5 lety

      Kennan Dunn ships are unsinkable

    • @Saylx
      @Saylx Před 4 lety

      @@ayeitzdj I'm waiting for someone to reply to you so I can r/whoosh them lol🤣

    • @ryana.7070
      @ryana.7070 Před 4 lety

      χσνєятιмєχ that’s what the titanic said,guess where it is now🤔

    • @phuongvu527
      @phuongvu527 Před 4 lety +3

      "Jack,you jump,i jump..."

    • @mateuszmattias
      @mateuszmattias Před 4 lety +2

      @@ryana.7070 Actually neither the Harland & Wolff Shipyard who built the Titanic, nor the White Star Line who ordered it ever claimed the Titanic to be unsinkable. People in the press and/or the general public may have said so but that's nothing the people in charge can be held responsible for.

  • @stupirruccello
    @stupirruccello Před rokem +1

    instant subscribe! ur imagery and storytelling is very enthralling :]

  • @strela1
    @strela1 Před 3 lety

    Amazing work! Very well explained and the imagery is stunning!

  • @isleschild
    @isleschild Před 4 lety +107

    Also, like the ending:
    "It's statistically probable that every cargo ship will encounter at least one rogue wave in it's time at sea, and it definately won't be equipped to withstand it." ... ... ... *seagulls*

    • @areyoufriendly
      @areyoufriendly Před 3 lety +1

      Mee too. It was a well done ending, but also very refreshing to not be told to like/subscribe blah blah blah.

  • @stanraye6723
    @stanraye6723 Před 5 lety +465

    Human: This ship is unsinkable
    Ship: *sinks*
    Human: Surprised pikachu

    • @tomfoolery4490
      @tomfoolery4490 Před 5 lety +3

      It's not just ships, it's oil platforms, too. Remember the Ocean Ranger?

    • @theworldoverheavan560
      @theworldoverheavan560 Před 5 lety

      lol

    • @grufgoinHAHAHA
      @grufgoinHAHAHA Před 5 lety +1

      more like:
      Human: This ship is unsinkable
      Ship: sinks
      Human: dead

    • @jonny4987
      @jonny4987 Před 5 lety +1

      more like: Human: This ship is unsinkable
      Wave: i'm about to end this man's whole career

    • @RU-zm7wj
      @RU-zm7wj Před 5 lety +2

      Read More.
      Read More.

  • @memomorph5375
    @memomorph5375 Před 3 lety +4

    This is such an interesting topic, so much has been learned just in the last decades :-) thanks for the video!

  • @zrebbesh
    @zrebbesh Před 3 lety +3

    A local cruiser has a boat named the "unsinkable II". A rogue wave is what happened to the "unsinkable I." The boat literally broke in half when it got hit. It tore the captain and the dinghy loose, separately. But he managed to surface, get in the capsized rowboat, bail it, and survive to put a down payment on another boat.

  • @ChocManus
    @ChocManus Před 4 lety +158

    "blah blah blah...unsinkable"
    Atlantic Ocean: hold my water

    • @luckfidd6463
      @luckfidd6463 Před 3 lety +3

      lmao best part about this comment is that the ships obviously can’t hold the atlantic’s water

  • @neki0playz12
    @neki0playz12 Před 5 lety +152

    And thats why people
    You dont consider a ship unsinkable

    • @wcstevens7
      @wcstevens7 Před 5 lety +4

      neki0 playz ..It is akin to declaring. "I am going to live forever " .

  • @sandie157
    @sandie157 Před 3 lety

    This was really interesting. I appreciated the matter of fact delivery. Lots of technical information but at a level that a non specialist can follow. Thanks 💐 Decided to subscribe

  • @speteydog2260
    @speteydog2260 Před 3 lety +4

    Thanks for this video. It really does impress the significance of the ocean. Did not realize rogue waves were so prevalent. With hurricanes out there too, I can see why maybe they are so frequent.

  • @CursiveDragon
    @CursiveDragon Před 5 lety +86

    I'm going to build a 🚢 and name it Doomed. It'll never sink.

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon Před 5 lety +40

      Except by saying it'll never sink you've just negated your entire strategy.

    • @Toomuchbullshitt
      @Toomuchbullshitt Před 5 lety +2

      Titanic II

    • @xaenon
      @xaenon Před 5 lety +2

      ​@Hamdon Nut Aw, don't be like that.... we're just havin a little fun, is all...

    • @equarg
      @equarg Před 5 lety +1

      Cursivedragon
      Word of advice don’t.
      A few centuries ago, (still is) it was considered bad luck to lay down a bow of a new ship on Friday.
      A rich man was “tired” of all of these “silly” superstitions and went out of his way to prove them wrong. He had the bow of a ship laid out on a Friday, named the ship “Friday”, and deliberately went against every superstition there was. Even down to the Captain he hired.
      He then had the ship loaded with riches and sent off.........
      😓😰The Ship apparently sank on it’s maiden voyage.
      I am not a superstitious person. But then again I don’t go out of my way go against those kinds of “rules”.

  • @lundqvjrl9359
    @lundqvjrl9359 Před 5 lety +43

    That so interesting! 'Cancels trip with Royal Carabian simultaniously..

  • @Butchcavalier
    @Butchcavalier Před 2 měsíci

    Thank you very much for this video! A lot of videos covering rogue waves take a turn for the sensationalised but this one was to the point, well explained and still very engaging!

  • @cmarano
    @cmarano Před 3 lety

    Wonderful presentation. Best job of explaining rouge waves I've seen.

  • @DavenDebQuay
    @DavenDebQuay Před 4 lety +70

    Nice. The guys German accent had me believing I could get hit by a rouge wave right now. And I'm in upstate N.Y.

    • @matildamarmaduke1096
      @matildamarmaduke1096 Před 3 lety +2

      I'm from upstate NY also how's the weather up there

    • @DavenDebQuay
      @DavenDebQuay Před 3 lety +2

      @@matildamarmaduke1096 It's been nice the last ten days or so.... Mid 70s or low 80s for the most part. This is a great time of year for weather... You know I'm sure.... But winter is coming..... ugh.

    • @lsudx479
      @lsudx479 Před 3 lety +4

      A rouge wave, huh? Oh, you meant rogue wave. A rouge wave would be weird though...all red and whatnot.

  • @torcheddreadnought899
    @torcheddreadnought899 Před 4 lety +95

    Its amazing that this wasn't scientific fact until the mid 90s...Ive lived my entire life thinking that rogue waves were as scientifically accepted as gravity.

  • @redpower6956
    @redpower6956 Před 3 lety

    Amazing video as usual! Keep up the good work! You deserve millions of subscribers.

  • @someboiwhogivesadamn
    @someboiwhogivesadamn Před 3 lety +16

    Humans: *say ship is completely sinkable*
    Ocean: well now I'm not doing it.

  • @screamingcat142
    @screamingcat142 Před 5 lety +271

    number one rule when you make a ship *NEVER* call it unsinkable

    • @fulcrum2951
      @fulcrum2951 Před 5 lety +6

      Hms unsinkable sinkable

    • @hamstsorkxxor
      @hamstsorkxxor Před 5 lety +3

      This ship is unsinkable, further we're going home from this war before Christmas...

    • @AaronShenghao
      @AaronShenghao Před 5 lety +5

      Or have the media declare it is unsinkable... (The builder of RMS Titanic never said it is unsinkable, it was the media said it first.)

    • @joeschembrie9450
      @joeschembrie9450 Před 5 lety +1

      @@fulcrum2951 I'll call and raise you the USS Unsinkable McUnsinkface.

    • @sharonbraselton4302
      @sharonbraselton4302 Před rokem

      nit uñles boasten whakrr