This Wave Happens Once in 10 000 years. Scientists Have Finally Captured it
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Until the late nineteenth century, approximately one ship was mysteriously lost at sea each and every day. Back then, pirates, mythical krakens, or even Poseidon could be blamed for ships' disappearance. With the development of shipping and the introduction of new technologies, that number has decreased, but even up to twenty oh five, at least two ships per week continued to suffer sudden wrecks, taking many lives to the bottom of the ocean. Who or what is responsible for those crimes? It all comes down to killers. Namely, killer waves. To this day, scientists have no idea how to anticipate them, much less how to escape them. In this video, you’ll get wind of: how do waves play life-or-death chess with ships? Why do thirty-meter breakers exist contrary to the mathematicians’ calculations? And above all, what’s the secret of the killer wave’s perfect crimes?
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It's pretty badass that people way back - despite believing in literal giant krakens and Poseidon - would venture out to sea in their small (when compared to what we have today) ships.
That's the 'oppressive patriarchy' and 'whiteness' those woke idiots are bumbling about. I hate woke good-for-nothings who revel in being the victim.
The humans before us were a different breed. I remember growing up how history was taught to us, like a wonder with a disconnect, like we were different, more advanced. I realized as a teen that wasn't the case. We were naive due to comfort and convinience and actually took a step back as a human being. We had forgotten what it meant to have certain costs for discovery. And most people paid the price! That we never saw. I could go on but you get the point. We forgot a part of what we are. And now we look back at it like looking back at an alien race unknown to us
@@asianboyyy117 just like the universe humanity has entered a degenerate era
Yeah, just imagine the vikings traveling frmo scnadinavia to the americas in their boats, crazy
@@asianboyyy117 lead poisoning has also changed us recently, just watched veritassiums video on led lol
I am a meteorologist/oceanographer for the Navy... rogue waves are not as much of a mystery as this video portrays; none the less, it is good info and displays how our understanding has progressed over time.
This chanel is absolute overblow clickbait
@@TheDuke4100 99% of the channels you like have probably clickbaited or are still clickbaiting
@@TheDuke4100 I don't think you understand the term clickbait...
@@awesomesauce8151 Au contraire. I think Jason is perfectly correct: "Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading." This video is the very epitome of the type of pseudo-educational, over sensationalised trash that abounds on CZcams. From the thumbnail of a wave with teeth to the fallacy of ascribing malign motivation to a natural phenomenon such as a wave, this is overblown nonsense.
yup and valcano and ggases can make ships loose there boiancy
In 2006 I took a cruise on the QE-2. The crew talked about a wave she encountered once in her career. 30 meters high and smashed the hell out of everything. Crew members who were on board has a special emblem, like a badge of honor.
I'm assuming that was the 98-foot wave she took on when battling Hurricane Luis in '95. True story, and all the passengers got a certificate. No I wasn't there: I just know all this because that's what I read about. Ironically, this took place only a few months after the New Year's wave which struck the Draupner oil rig and opened people's eyes to the fact that these waves exist.
@@Kaidhicksii Yep, anad 11 years later they were still talking about it.
@@billlawrence1899 dang
My parents moved to Chicago in 1968 from UK. I was born in 1969. In 1970, when I was 6 months old, they took a trip to back to UK on the QE2 with my two older sisters (2 and 4 years older than me). Unfortunately, the ship encountered bad weather with big waves the entire trip and all the photos show them and surrounding passengers dressed up in nice clothes and wearing life vests. Fortunately, we did not encounter any particularly large waves. Of course, I don't remember ANY of it...
you made great pickups
Way back in 1974 when I was a kid I emigrated from England to Australia with my parents. We sailed on a ship called the SS Britanis, and because there was a conflict in the Middle East at the time the Suez Canal was closed, so we had to go the long way - around the Cape of South Africa.
I will never forget that stretch of the voyage. Where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian is a death zone. The captain warned everyone not to go outside onto the promenade or upper decks and all the hatches were locked down while we were sailing around the Cape. The cabin stewards also came around to check we had secured all loose objects.
I remember looking out the porthole in our cabin and seeing waves the height of a block of flats that would rise in front of the ship, tilting us sternward by a good 30 degrees, then the porthole would be underwater for several seconds while the ship broke through the wave, then the ship would suddenly tilt bowwards by the same amount down the back of the wave. Each time there was a tremendous booming sound that went through the ship like thunder.
This went on for several hours, and then when we cleared the Cape and entered the Indian Ocean the waves just... stopped. There was one last wave, and then the sea suddenly became almost flat.
It's as if there's just that one zone off the Cape where the two oceans battle for supremacy. I can understand the terror of rounding the Cape that sailors historically have held, and why so many ships were lost in that stretch of water. It really is a truly terrifying experience.
My heart started pounding reading this....I don't know what would be my reaction
What a great story! This story will be told by your grandchildren, to their grandchildren. What an amazing beginning to your legacy in England!
Thank you for sharing this story
Wow that's a great story
My mum and her parents have a similar story. Came out here on the SS Australis in 1972, absolutely fantastic time, glassy smooth waters and clear skies, seeing Albatross fly.
They stopped at Capetown for a day. Captain wanted to take a shortcut through the roaring forties off the cape to Perth. Didn't think anything of it, clear skies still. That night they were hit with a storm. My grandad talks about being thrown onto the roof and back onto the floor, walking on the walls to dinner and seeing all the cutlery, tables and chairs being thrown about. My mum talks about fracturing her back from being thrown onto stairs, and looking out her porthole and seeing what looked like moving black mountains, size of the rendezvous hotel, the ship being tossed around by them like a rubber ducky.
Apparently the props would come out the water every time they crested, causing the whole ship to shudder and make a horrible creaking noise. After the storm passed the ship was spewing out black smoke and was in dire need of repair.
My mum, her little sister, and my grandparents refuse to board any bluewater ship to this day because of their experiences. The ocean is too unpredictable for them. Seems that little stretch of water is ferocious.
from once every 10.000 years, to once every 2 days,
shit surely escalated quickly lol
I love that, for whatever reason, 'shit' wasn't censored.
hahaha Mephisto !!!
Climate change for ya
@@Azubrael you can use it as long as its not targeted against someone apparently. You can get away with others too.
🤣
I can attest the “group of three.”
In 1987, hurricane Gilbert was still off the Yucatán, and Florence was heading towards New Orleans. Near the Florida coast, we were getting 18 foot “square waves.”
They always produced three peaks that would shoot into the air and pop a stream straight up between 15 to 30 feet high, the middle one being the most powerful.
We got popped by a few of the small ones, no big deal. Later in the day, a set came up, and I saw where the three were headed (reading the sea, so to speak) and I yelled out for everyone to grab onto something.
We got slamdanced.
One guy got hurt, and we were in real danger of sinking for a bit, as the deck was totally flooded with water clean to the combing.
We had MAYBE three inches of freeboard left, and the scuppers were completely overwhelmed, with some clogged with equipment that was tossed around on the deck.
Good thing we didn’t get hit by another set of them, we would have been done.
As it was, it took the rest of the day to deal with the damage and get things shipshape.
BTW, when waves are measured, it from the level water line.
18 feet up, 18 feet down.
So, if we were on a crest, we might be looking down 40 to the trough!
Square waves are dangerous.. learned that as a kid. Never needed it, but never forgot.
And yeah, the "three sisters" are infamous..
I feel like I've finally read 'shipshape' in the most proper context
NERD
Jk
@@generalshy6791 lol!
As a surfer, rescue diver, & basic waterman I've always been fascinated by and love the ocean & her waves. People seem to forget a few things when trying to measure these monsters & their capacity to destroy. The first is finding something to use as scale when estimating the height. Comparing waves to mast height is deceptive as angles constantly shift as the wave moves. If you can get that covered (say a lighthouse or other fixed object) remember that a wave's height does not include the trough. The face of a wave is much larger than it's actual height as wave height is measured from the back of the wave.
Finally, it's the volume of water & speed with which it travels that gives you an idea of the power involved. I'd rather tackle a 30 footer off of Cape Hatteras, NC (East Coast US) than a 15 footer @ Shipstern's Bluff (Tasmania) or the Cortes Bank (Offshore San Diego, California). The speed, thickness, & way the latter spots collapse is much heavier than what I've faced on the East Coast of the USA. Mad respect to everyone who charges in our seas & oceans & even greater respect to Mother Ocean herself. The true cradle of humanity. Thanks for posting and raising awareness of the beauty & power of our beautiful oceans !! An enjoyable documentary, even for a seasoned waterman.
Finally, best way to avoid these monsters ?? Don't ever turn your back on Mother Nature. She's a jealous woman & will bitch-slap you into next Tuesday every time !!!
shipstern’s is the stuff of nightmares
Thank you John that was beautifully said. I am a logistician by trade and have great respect for merchant marine vessels. They brave the oceans every day to bring us goods from all over the world. It takes stamina and a brave heart to accomplish this task. ♥
Living on the coast of the Hudson Bay in my younger years, I used to watch the waves form, merge and then crash upon the shore. Some were predictable, but most weren't. The biggest wave I saw was a merge wave where there was one fast wave pushing the smaller ones causing them to merge into a 15 footer. Keep in mind that the Hudson Bay is a shallow inland sea. The wave formed in 6 feet of water.
This is so scary. I read that rogue waves out at sea could theoretically become 60m tall and have enough force to literally crush ships.
@@jimj2683 The best way to avoid those deadly waves is just not go to sea. That's impossible since the best and cheapest way to ship huge amounts of goods is to use a cargo ship. But with satellite tracking getting better, It'll probably be better to see and track those deadly waves. There fore everyone in the wave's area can eventually be notified.
The ocean is fascinating and terrifying in equal measure
Facts
So is this comment
No better way to say it
Agreed
I think that explains why the words "sea" and "she" are so similar...
I worked on repairing a ship that hit a rogue wave. It bent the hull plating in so you could count the support ribs and bent a 36" I-beam about 6" against its strongest profile. The ship was a car ferry with an opening bow and it pushed the whole bow visor over, opening a large gap between the hull and the visor. It was amazing the amount of damage done.
To top it off, many of the vehicles weren't tied down since it was supposed to be a smooth trip due to the stabilizers and mild seas, so they all slid forward, causing a lot of damage.
Wow that's alot of force.
Proof?
@@patricktate4782 lol, he's not claiming space aliens abducted him, he is claiming a huge wave damaged a ship! Sheesh.
@@stevenwilson5556 he should have some photos of the damage he can upload to his channel
@@patricktate4782 gona wager a bet that they're not lying, no need to fabricate a story we are all here to learn and share
I only recently discovered that I'm terrified of the ocean, and then my parents decided they wanted to go on a cruise and I had to come. I had worked up the courage and was prepared to go... and then I saw this video. Thanks a lot man.
see, now you can resign yourself to your fear and just enjoy the cruise. Don't fret over what you cannot control.
I too am thalassophobic and have a bit of submechanophobia as well. Seeing this I got more terrified
Surely it has to be better going by sea than by air. At least if the ship is going to sink you have some control over your situation (grab something to keep ufloat, etc). In the air, if something goes wrong with the plane, you are completely powerless.
@@bobbypukes605 Well, that's not actually the problem, I'm a great swimmer. I'm terrified of what's IN the ocean...
@@-stev0brlne-602
I respect everyone is different, but what scenario would you rather be in. A plane hurtling towards the ground at hundreds of miles per hour or floating in the sea on a bit of wood. Which scenario would give you a shred of hope of staying alive? I know which one I'd chose. Tell you what, you can go on the plane that's nosediving towards the earth, and I'll take the piece of wood that's floating in the ocean. Good luck.
Square waves are terrifying. I had a first hand experience with them while I was on a school trip back in college. I was playing around with a friend a few meters off the shore line. The water was pretty shallow, about 4ft or so. But all of a sudden, there was no more sand under me and my friend and we were slowly getting pulled further and further away from the shoreline and under. It was fking terrifying considering me and my friend weren't good swimmers. Thankfully, a local noticed and rushed to pull us back to the shoreline.
it is impossible that the current was pulling you under.
@@jimj2683 it wasnt pulling us under. But rather, it felt like the sand from under our feet which we were previously standing on was “running out”. So either the sand under us was being moved or we were getting pulled farther from the shore, or both.
It’s trippy to experience, but similar had happened to me as well
I think a similar thing happened to my dad when he was a kid, there was a large rock in the sea that caught my dad and his friends so they were able to wait for the wave to stop and escape.
The "Norwegian Dream" collided with the "Ever Decent" four miles southeast of the Falls Head Buoy. You can literally see containers from the ship caught on the bow of the "Norwegian Dream". They weren't put there by a wave.
yes they put false image and facts
There seems to be a lot of things that scientist don't believe that can happen, but it does.
Yeah scientist only work on micro. But were you working on a scale of the earth everything has to be exponentially increased. When they said once every 10,000 years to one every two days. Try ten per day. Scientists are smart I give them that but in reality they're really freaking stupid.
Like my father coming back
Like we have known about rogue waves for a long damn time now
Do you even understand the scientific method?
Yeah it's called theorizing. Scientists don't go around assuming their assumptions are correct.
The fact that there is so much in depth information readily available to everyone with a phone still blows my mind to this day. Technology truly is amazing
The volcano Krakatoa exploded in the 1883. On a passenger ship the passenger thought that the captain lost it as he turned the ship around and headed towards the volcanic island. The ship hit the waves bow first and was able to survive because the encounter was so brief. The island of Stromboli has the remains of what was left of a lighthouse, its basement .
Yes. The tsunami wrecked havoc. It's one of the highest ever recorded waves
I would trust a sailor that has been out there for years and have experienced this firsthand before I would trust scientists that has never been out in the middle of an ocean
Did you not watch the whole video? They said science _confirms_ the existence of rogue waves, and that they are far more common than once every ten thousand years. More like once every two days.
This either/or perspective is false, and foolish.
Ship owners asked the scientists to see if these rouge waves were more common than a bridge sighting. The answer was yes but only in certain locations and in specific sea conditions and only relevant in certain shipping lane locations. For example, there were many seen in the roaring 20's where there is almost no shipping and where wind and waves and no land can keep a wave from being weakened and collapsing. Some are generated from sea floor collapses. Many of these scientists are marine meteorologists so they know the sea (and are often doing tests in challenging seas as well.
I would trust a person who's lived most of their life out on the water, as well but to completely cover my booty I take into consideration what scientists jibber jabber about as well? Tbh, I've always been the type of person who feels more comfortable getting my information from a person who's lived thru a lot like even when choosing a Pediatric doctor.....they had to be a woman who's had children? No disrespect to doctors without kids, but I needed a mom who's battled baby mucus, etc., up close and personal?
Not a good instinct. The world is full of old wives tales and folk wisdom, and a huge amount of it is nonsense or even works opposite to folk beliefs. A widely believed anecdote is still just an anecdote, and most people are full of ... well ... something ...
My submarine hit a large wave while on the surface during a mid level sea state outside Nova Scotia. There were 2 men on the bridge and the bridge hatch was open to control.
The boat dipped underwater and went nearly 200ft down before they were able to regain control and re surface.
We.took on over 1m lbs of water and lost all electronics in control.
Somehow both men on the bridge survived. One nearly drowned, the other had a raincoat on that held a pocket of air enough for him to take a breath.
My 1st deployment was on board the Enterprise. During that cruise, we skirted several typhoons which created waves that broke over the flight deck. Some of them would hit us from the side even when the majority of the waves were at the bow.
I was on the Stennis and sailing off the coast of Oregon to San Diego was NO JOKE. The swells were unreal when you hit them. 60% or more of the crew were sick.
The reports from the British fleet chasing the Bismarck in WWII say the same - one aircraft carrier almost 'disappeared' when was hit by a wave, and emerged with much of the forward flight deck "bent back like a sail'.
@@pnklysmooth9888 Should have used the See-Level VR goggles. Apparently they cure seasickness.
The 30 years old and still living with your parents one smacked me right in my rotting face. Talent and intelligence doesn't get you anywhere if you are stuck in a poverty vacuum.
I live in Hawaii. I was born here. I've fished the shores of these islands my whole life and "killer" waves is something we all know is fact. I was almost the victim of one about twenty years ago. We call them obake waves. We have a large asian population here and obake means ghost or spirit in Japanese. Hence, ghost wave. One of the things we do here when shore fishing along cliff area's is check the area for debris. If there is a good amount of debris your fairly safe from waves coming up to that area so that place is probably safer than places where it's clean of stuff. With that being said we always, always say here in Hawaii "never turn your back on the ocean." That's out of respect, reverence, and safety for and from our ocean.
A friend and myself set up our poles to fish and i went to check my line to secure it when out of calm water I noticed an unusual water build up and I
knew instantly at that point it was an obake wave! I called out to my friend who also saw it and I ran to the cliff area to get hold of the cliff wall. My friend was able to run into a niche. Then the wave hit us. I held on for my life. I felt water rushing over me as I held on as tight as I could and it was over as soon as it began. When i think back on it, even if it pulled us in, other than a few scratches and bruises we would've survived...maybe. if it was bigger we'd probably be dead. When i looked up the cliff after the water line of the wave was about ten or twelve feet up the wall. Our equipment was floating in the water, that which didn't sink, and our cooler was floating about twenty or thirty yards from the cliff shore. The area was now clean of any debris. We jumped in the water, got our floating stuff and left counting our blessings. Yes! we jumped of the rocks into the water to get our stuff. Like a said earlier, the area was fairly calm. We occasionally jump off the rocks to cool off from the heat and just climb back up. Respect the ocean, don't fear it. Well, maybe now i got a bit of fear. 😁 Rogue waves are real. We have tons of stories of them from shoremen to boatmen. It's amazing how "science" can make you ignorant. I'm glad it's coming around. Aloha!
That's a fascinating story! Why do you guys call these waves by a Japanese word?
@@weareallbornmad410 Hawai'i has a large Asian population, many being Japanese. As such, lots of local Hawai'ian culture is of Japanese origin
@@weareallbornmad410 Not sure why historically but i guess, like a think i mentioned we have a large number of Japanese people here in the islands. Even some of the local Hawaiians call it that. This is the cultural melting pot of the pacific here. We have many words describing many different objects and happenings here using several languages. I grew up using Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese Portuguese words and slangs. It's just how we spoke. It was second nature for me. My Grandma spoke only two languages to me growing up. Okinawan and Hawaiian. My Grandpa passed when i was very young so i don't remember much of him. Anyway, she spoke very little english. They came here only speaking Okinawan but had to learn Hawaiian cause the paniolo's (Hawaiian cowboys) only spoke Hawaiian and they needed to communicate with them to navigate the community at the time. So i thought many of the Japanese/Okinawan words she used were Japanese only later to find out it was the Hawaiian language. 🤣 Thanks for asking. Aloha!
@@chompooser I never knew there were so many Asian people in Hawaii. Or that there were Hawaii cowboys. Can you tell me more about Okinawan language? Or Hawaiian language, for that matter?
Here i am thinking the sub 10ft wave i got with in high school was bad. Glad you could get some of your gear back.
My grandfather in WW2 was in the north atlantic and the ship he was on, was struct by a wave at least 100ft high, (the wave crested the tallest part of the ship), it very nearly overturned the ship (causing it to tilt 46 degrees before it righted itself)
Cap
LoL that's queen Mary ship shit
I believe if we did a comprehensive analysis of waves and the effects of lunar and solar gravitational forces, we might find a probability of these rogue waves, at least in one body of water. On the other hand, it might just be the random summation of wave forces that hit a certain resonance and express that excess energy in said rogue wave.
There is a lot of study on rogue waves. Most rogue waves occur in already rough seas, typically caused by a storm. The intense wind of the storm can alter the natural ocean wave frequency, and waves can merge or become irregular. Sometimes 2-3 waves can merge and create one wave substantially bigger than those near it.
Machine learning is perfect for this.
I wonder what in life i would do with this much random CZcams knowledge
We are gonna save world
It will do you more good than the school knowglede
I am on the same boat as you... But still we watch... 😁
Lol we r on the same page dude🤣🤣
I wonder that and no one is interested in such knowledge unless they’re like us with these mini documentaries
finally! after scientists’ last failed attempt at capturing it 10,000 years ago, they succeeded this time!
Those scientists 10,000 years ago were… out of their depth ;)
Lmao
Yeah the cameras back then were pretty bad. Running off steam
"bUt eArTh iS oNly 6000 yEArs olD"
It took Earth facing weather sats to show these waves did exist. and not just in extreme storms. Most weather sats just looked at wind/cloud radar and sea temps.Few recorded wave heights
I was aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier in the north pacific. We got hit by a wave higher than the flight deck, it removed 4 aircraft on the bow, and some equipment. The collision alarms, and general quarters alarm were set off automatically, the fire suppression system was also set off in the hanger bay flooding the cockpits of several planes. Was not a pleasant experience.
Lots of other damage done to the ship also.
Rogue waves are quite common. While crew on a 145ft. sailing vessel heading to San Francisco our vessel encountered one. The seas were consistently 15-18 ft in height, wind 40-45 knots but while I was on the helm I could see a very large wave form ahead which was much larger than all the previous. The vessel dropped into the trough ahead of the wave and the bow thrust into it's face, with green water coming over the bow and down the 90 foot deck until arriving at the raised quarterdeck where it sent white water flying high above our heads and flooding the cockpit. We estimated that the wave was 35 feet in height. After that wave we did not encounter another throughout the 9 hours the storm lasted. We determined that the wave was a combination of two waves, one traveling faster which caught the slower wave amplifying their height, we just happened to be in the wrong place.
Went on my first cruise ten years ago. As we left port we were hit with a wave that knocked the ship to about a thirty degree slant. Lots of damage to the shops. Especially the liquor store. People were knocked off bar stools etc. Not sure if I’ll go “cruising” again. The storm didn’t let up for three of the seven days we were out.
It really was just unfortunate. In twenty years of cruising I have only been in a single storm I’d call interesting. It was in the Mediterranean, in August, off Barcelona!
I’d say give it another shot. What port is the nearest to you?
@@englishruraldoggynerd well, I’m in Minnesota. Which is land locked by about 1000 miles from The ocean in any direction. About as far as I can get. But, under the right conditions, ( you know, someone asking me,) I would probably try again. Hopefully with slightly different results.
@@jeanmartin6410 Seeing as you're most likely descended from a Norwegian family, the ocean is in your blood so you should definately try it again ;)
But to be serious, you had bad luck. Most cruises are comfortable and calm seas.
@@Totto87 I will eventually try again. Yes Northern European, but, no Norwegian or Swedish. German and Irish on dad’s side, Heinz 57 on mom’s. Apparently, though, some of her ancestors DID come over on the May flower, or at least with that expedition. Interestingly, she NEVER got sea sick. Just dad and me. 😭😭😭
Scientists may have captured it, but the engineers who built the jar to hold a rogue wave deserve all the credit.
Why does the ocean become more and more terrifying everytime I learn something new about it?
The picture of the damaged Norwegian Dream wasnt taken after a monsterwave. The picture was taken at Dover, England in august of 1999 after the ship had a collission with the containervessel Ever Decent which was powerless after a fire. That's also why you see the containers on her bow.
I got a tiny version of group of three. I was swimming in sand bank at the middle of an sea bay not far from shore. Water was almost completely still and only a bit over my waist. The suddenly three waves high enough that I got completely submerged hit me. After that again nothing. I looked around and saw nothing that could have made such waves. I know it is tiny compared to what is talked in this video, but it was similar phenomenon, just in smaller scale.
I think I've experienced either that or the hole. I used to live by the ocean and we would occasionally get some storm surge. Nothing crazy, 6-8 feet at most (a lot for that area but still). My buddy and I were in the water messing with a boogie board and we noticed that sometimes the wave was less of a crest and more like a wedge of water being pushed, and as dumb teens, we called them power waves, because they hit hard.
We were maybe 20 feet from shore, probably less, when a wave rolled in. I went to dive through it and my buddy with the board went over the top. I couldn't pull out of the wave, it was hard to surface, and when I finally did, there was just a wall of water in front of me and I was slammed into the ground and dragged. It wasn't anything morbid, I mostly bounced, but I came out waterlogged with cuts on my arms and back. It took my buddy another ten seconds (maybe more or less, I was spooked) to get out of the water. Apparently the same wave knocked him off the board, but its made to float and the wrist strap kept him from sinking like I did, and another wave held him underwater until the board and waves pulled him close enough to shore. He didn't have the cuts all over but had a pretty mean burn from the strap on his wrist and was a few shades paler than normal.
Tldr: me too man, the ocean is a scary wild card sometimes.
Did you die
And my friends still don’t understand why the ocean freaks me out.
14 years with the U.S.Merchnt Marines and 10 years commercial fisherman I've been thru it all including about 10 big rogues and if your lucky enough that you or a crewmate sees it coming your soul just drops into your gut when you hear someone scream ROGUE !!!!!! Depending on how much time you got you turn into it full throttle and hold fast. A couple times we actually went inside the wave swell and were submerged for a few seconds. You have to have salt water in your veins or be a little psychotic to voluntarily be a mariner. I can't count all the bones I've broken or fires or any number of incidents such as the time I got swept overboard and drifted out to sea one moonless night for about 7 hours until a miracle of miracles happened and my ship found me. Your perspective changes after something like that. I miss it. 😢
I was underway on a coast guard cutter in 2006. We were transiting through the gulf of mexico to our operational area and we were on the edge of a tropical storm. Seas were a steady 6-7ft. Then around 3am, we took a broad side 14+ft wave that dropped the entire ship into the trough of the wave. People went airborne, equipment flew, and we lost about half of the contents of the fridge due to the doors being forced open and the ship being shoved to the side. We survived, but that was a confirmation of a rogue wave. Nothing else even came close to the size of that one. These are far more common than people think.
So a killer wave is smaller than a tsunami but larger than a normal wave? The biggest wave that washed over me was the grief of losing my grandmother just over 3 years ago.
A tsunami in most cases is defined by its width not height plus the debris it sweeps along its path. A killer wave on the other hand is mostly defined by its height at crest and impact, and is usually much smaller in width. In essence they are two different types of waves.
Sorry for your lost my friend
I know how hard grieving for a love one. My best friend Jack who was a dog was with me for more than 11 years but suddenly he died of old age
Sad story bro
I’m right there with ya
Take your begging for a pity party elsewhere
Dad did merchant ships during WW2 from UK to Canada and UK to Africa/India. After the war he did some ship work around the Southern Ocean when he settled in Australia and married my mum.
He was the navigator/first officer.
He told me stories of being on the bridge and literally surfing down waves and then looking upwards from the bottom of the trough at these walls towering above them. Then they would ride up with a prayer on the other side and gigantic wash.
He said the biggest one he ever experienced( pretty much the one I described) was in the Southern Ocean.
Brave brave men the merchant seamen ❤❤❤ , often overlooked in the history of WW2 and they suffered terrible losses and not even being able to fight back and defend themselves......
My dad served in the Royal Navy in WW2 he had the utmost respect for those Merchant seamen crossing the atlantic taking big losses every trip ......terrible way to die as well .....
I crossed the pacific in 1982 returning from a West Pac on a DDG. Two typhoons merged. We were taking waves over the bridge, only green water and bubbles outside the windows for some of the waves. Bridge is about 50ft above the water. Cracked our hull. We had a good reason to be there, Capt was racing some other ships to be the first back to the O club in Pearl. The other ships went south to avoid the storms.
I bet that was fun & scary
Very nice and interesting video! Keep up the good work Ridddle!
Why not believing the many sailors who claimed they lived it? I mean I get it, sailors have been seeing and telling weird things forever but a gigantic wave is not exactly something you can get confused or mistaken about. It's a wave and it hits you, it's not a shadow in the water
1st CZcams is more informative than school ever was for me💯
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Watching videos of wave generation machines are pretty sweet. They show how there can be resonance in waves and they will combine, doubling in height. That same phenomenon can happen in the reverse also and they can cancel eachother out. Fluid dynamics is wild.
Great finish in narration Brotha ! That was a nice touch .
I have work at sea as Capt of ships tramping all over the world n self experience such unbearable high waves many times n still wonder how we survive in such high waves both in Northern and Southern area self sailed above 66 degree North latitude it is so unbelievably weather that once due to gust of winds above 200m our Bridge chart room wind indicator needle parted into pieces, glade to see that you made a vedio on this high wave pattern phenomina in world Oceans n it differs in different parts n Latitude n oceans.
Wow
imagine what its like on other planets
@@grahammaxwell2112 have a few puffs on this bro.......youll feel what it's like to be on another planet 🤣🤣😉. But I also think most of the people on earth are from other planets. Like the Biden administration.....and those that can't decide wether they're male or female so become them they and.....😴😴😴😴
Seen this channel since 10K. So happy to see it grow this big and being entertaining and factual still, keep it up! 👍🏽
Factual? Like that time he said a nuke in the mariana trench would doom all of mankind? lol
Sure thing buddy I’ve been here since 100 subs
@@marcogarcia169 who?
That's a lie lol
They joined CZcams in 2013 you joined in 2014 by the time you joined they had 250k subs. Lmao why do kids lie for likes
Woah I’ve watched a lot of videos about rogue waves and have never heard anyone mention the 3 sisters. I grew up on Lake Erie and my uncle was fishing back in the 80’s. It was a semi choppy day waves 2-3 feet, and all of a sudden out of no where he sees a wave 6-8 feet high coming on him, as he was rising over it, there was 2 waves almost together already white capping and breaking on him, and totally just sunk him. Luckily there were other boaters out in the area
More than the wave which can happen at any magnitude since its a part of mother nature, I'm fascinated with the human engineering done with the ship that's not allowing the modern to ship to capsize when hit by such violent waves. Imagine a huge of metal floating over the seas being rammed constantly by waves with tons of force and size as same. Incredible piece of engineering 🙏
It's probably sometimes kinda difficult to really visualize in your head your actual place, position, and predicament way out and alone on the open sea.
Even aboard a behemoth of more than a thousand feet and ten stories high, -
it's still just a pebble.
The seeming comfort and security you possess upon that steel platform you're sitting atop the water in is very deceiving. You may feel like you are sitting right on a solid ground, but you're defiantly not. Miles of nothing lay between you and the floor.
You are at the whim and mercy of trillions of tons beneath and all about you.
A gargantuan wave - or a towering wall of water at over a hundred feet high, -
or perhaps a cavernous trough created by two successive waves where even the tallest mast is swallowed into oblivion
must really be super sobering for any sailor.
Try doing this on a small boat!
Being out there with hurricane generated waves is not a cup of tea, either!
@@dangeary2134 When you look at the scale of the oceans and compare the size of an aircraft carrier to a 25 foot sailboat, or even to an 8 foot rubber dingy, the difference in size of these three examples is absolutely negligible. A kayak might be the safest vessel!! I swear, there is an awful lot of luck involved in any vessel at sea in rough weather. Just watching waves on youtube scares the bejezzuz out of this fella. This certainly is a dynamic planet.
@@dwaynerobertson383 I know! I saw the larger vessels getting tossed around.
Not as bad as we were because of their size, but even those “small” waves were having an effect!
You are right, though. The smaller the vessel, like a kayak, might get thrown around, but they won’t be breaking in half!
This dudes voice is gold
This gives me serious anxiety, until I remember I live in a desert.
Great video. Ending is awesome. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Fact, watching coastal waves from the beach, every seventh wave is bigger than 6 in front of it.
If the Norwegian Dream hit a wave, why are there smashed shipping containers on it and a nose with a 90* crunch zone? I suspect it hit a freighter, not a wave.
I would die of a heart attack before any rouge wave could kill me!! How do these guys live through this kind of wave ride? I just know I could never do it. I have always wanted to go out a big ship too, but not a cruise ship, that is just a nasty thought. Much respect for all of you that work on these ships to make a living!!
Really. Oceans are one of the scariest places to be on
Can't blame you
I am a Newfoundlander and I watch your videos all the time buddy, keep up the good work
All this did was reinforce my fear of the ocean.
Never going into the ocean again, leave it to the fish lmao.
Worst storm I ever saw was outside Hong Kong when I was in the Navy.
The ship was being rocked port to starboard with about a 30 degree tilt, which is pretty intense.
If you lost your footing you could slide pretty hard into a bulkhead.
There wasn't any chance of the ship sinking, it was just an interesting experience.
@@donmiller2908 HEY DON… stop commenting, will ya?!
@@Rs_-Wars Don't swim in freshwater either, there's this deadly brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri. You should watch this Kurzgesagt video about the amoeba.
My English in high school used to love talking about how he survived a wave around 30m high while sailing in the ocean.
I always thought he was nuts, I stand corrected now.
Interesting video, subscribed! 👍
I did not expect that ending my guy
Such a weird ending. WTH?
The best technology for avoiding killer waves is to sit on a chair, on land.
Enter Tsunami
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@@rickstorm4198 😂
Unless the waters circulates an eon of depth under an ancient volcano in your vicinity. Lol
It's always good to know that we've been having some strange weather everywhere since the beginning of time.Its just gotten worse!
A friend i work with in a trawler (big one 90 meters)
He told me in an other boat they where hit by a wake so massive that it smashed the windows on styrbord side. Also bent the hull a bit. The strange thing is that this was on a relatively otherwise calm day. I have Also experienced some pretty bad one, but nothing like he describe
Science: no such wave exist
Nature: Hold my beer.
Hold my salt water.
@@alphaghost9672 that a good one XD
Well didn't know I'd be personally attacked at the end of this! Great and terrifying video though. The ocean is just filled with death.
What a great episode to watch just before my cruise 😅😅
@ 0:21 Him saying 2005 as 20-05 really bothers me..
Ikr
Who else found these facts channels better then school and watches them daily?
The grief of losing my beloved Dad 30 years ago this Aug 8
The last part hit harder than the titanic running into an iceberg
Did he say twenty o five 😂love this channel
Could these knowledge videos coming at regular intervals suddenly create a killer video causing our minds to explode?
Maybe yours. 🙄
Nice try
More like naegleria fowleri eating your braincells.
You call this a knowledge video? 🤔🤣😂👏👏
@@markpaterson6024 mhm, maybe you dont like space
As a sailor myself on a small destroyer this is something in the back of my head, but I suppose it’s fine since we stay in small seas and not the middle of the huge Pacific and Atlantic.
What destroyer?
@MUMMYLIPS never know, alot of navy workers in Aus are allowed on their phone if they attend church supposedly. Probably not true but a fair few people have sworn on it I've met at seperate times that work for the navy 😂
@MUMMYLIPS I was adding to the bullshit
Unbelievable what Humanity achieved in like 200 years of constantly evolving. It shows that humanity doesn't fear anything. Even when they think that the earth is flat, and that the sea is inhabited by sea monsters, sailors still venture out there, showing everyone the Reality, learning. Humans r adventurous, curious, they wanna discover and develop new thinks, so those Killer waves won't stop them..
Almost none of the ocean is explored, but that might change in the next Century. I'll keep an eye out on the Humans.
Y'all, stay safe, and remember that there is always the possibility that YOU might be the one saving us all
Over 30 years ago when I was in the US Navy I saw huge waves off the coast of Australia, what makes it so crazy is I wasn't on a smaller ship but an aircraft carrier. They knew we were going to hit rough seas so flight ops were cancelled and they put as many aircraft in the hanger bay as they could and shut all weather deck doors. There were three SH-3 helos left on the flight deck and all were secured to the pad eyes with double tie down chains and chocks. There were waves crashing over the bow of this carrier, that's a long drop from the bow to the waterline. All of the helos got soaked.
2:39 ain’t no way you can tell that’s 30M from that angle
Our 450’ Destroyer ship was unable to return to Naples, Italy due to high seas that resulted in our sailing head on into waves that were 100’ tall and broke like the tv show Hawaii 5-0. WoW! The violence of these waves ripped off the radio antennas on the bow of our ship.
I’ve gone down the rabbit hole of “weather compilations” and “caving gone wrong” videos 😂
My husband was a commercial crab fisherman up in the Bering Sea. He didn't tell me the most frightening things he saw , and lived through, until he retired. Good thing. He had some pretty scary stories!
4:37 Do cruise ships often carry cargo containers on their bows? It looks like the Norwegian Dream struck a cargo ship, not got hit by a ghost wave. I did some research and it appears the Norwegian Dawn was the ship described in this video. This error makes me question the veracity of the entire video.
this guy apparently just clickbaits over and over
this channel is very clickbait-y and exaggerates things for views it had me questioning some of the facts presented in this video too.
Science : such wave never exist
Nature : hold my salty water
I cant believe this has been a mystery for so long... kind of sad it took so long to figure out
I like the thumbnail. Really helps ppl who are scared of the ocean.
6:21 can't we just make all ships into submarine/ships which are ships at normal times and at times of killer waves and thunder storms it goes underwater...
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@@custardgamer1 huh? Ur confused or feeling that my point is good???
@@suryakamalnd9888 I am felling how pointless ur point is
@@custardgamer1 lamo 🤣🤣🤣 "How pointless your point is" lamo
Still didn't see the biggest killer wave, is it still coming in 10,000 years time or 2 days from now
One of my biggest fears is sinking to the bottom of the deep ocean.
I feel like it would be an honorable death! Like if I fall into the ocean, ik I'm dead unless someone saves me. So to be claimed by something as powerful & beautiful as the ocean & be part of it feels like a satisfying way to go. Better than being shot or stabbed by some greedy lowlife human who's broken into my home to steal things I worked hard for & disrespect my life
thanks bro you made me never wanna go on a boat so u saved my life
This is Exciting!!!!
That gives me such an anxiety..... nothing compares to the waves 'power.
If it really bothers you that much, you can always move to a place that's hundreds of miles from a coast.
And don't go on a cruise. 😃
@@donmiller2908: indeed, I have never traveled by boat in my life!
Try surfing Maui north shore ... The only way to absolve a fear is by taking it head on .. If you like see try watch Jaws Reef here on u tube
@@jonathanturek5846 : I'm in Europe, lol, no way I could travel to Hawaii, too expensive. But I'm sure it's a dream there...
Thanks for the video.
Thanks for telling me how to escape a killer wave.
The largest wave so far on record was in Latua Bay Alaska! Very interesting. The Captain lived to tell the story.
That wasn't a rogue wave, like in the video. It was a Tsunami caused by an earthquake and a landslide.
Absolutely terrifing.....the ocean is immensely powerful......makes me think twice about taking a cruise 🛳
Idk me and a few thousand people did a killer wave at Yankee Stadium few years back. It was epic, you had to be there....
I've never seen anything this big, but I've been through some pretty big ones on ferries growing up in southeast Alaska. Only saw a couple big ones, but they came over the bow and splashed the front lounge windows pretty good. I still don't like traveling in the winter lol!
Sorry in advance if it’s been asked already, but who made the thumbnail for this video? It’s gorgeously edited 😍
Damn nature, you scary.
Don't mess with mother nature
From every 10k yrs to every 2 day. What a development.👍. Advantage of science in discovery
I read a book on chaos theory one summer after college. It is amazing how small interactions compound to create completely unpredictable outcomes.
Funny thing is the book completely disintegrated in the rear window of my car, which seemed appropriate.
Oddly enough the younger dryas was closer to around 12,000 years ago, but supposedly caused the biblical Flood, which actually nearly every single one of the original ancient cultures talk about it in their texts.
@Account NumberEight oh yeah, reference nearly every other ancient culture from the time all over the world, and all of the geological evidence. to say it didn't happen is just lazy. i am not viewing it from the context of noah, it's just the easiest for people to know what i am talking about. it did happen, as far as we know. why and how, we're still not completely sure of.
@Account NumberEight Such absolute certainty deserves an explanation
@Account NumberEight Sorry but there was a very large meter impact approx 12000 years ago that hit Greenland that would have melted all of the ice on Greenland and a portion of the Arctic that could have caused a flood. There’s more evidence for it than against it.
@Account NumberEight no actually that information came out recently that a large impact crater exists on the west coast of Greenland due to new technology called Lidar. You might want to go back to high school Einstein.
@Account NumberEight change your monicker to Account number zero Karen. Go look up what a massive meteor does when it impacts a large area covered with ice. There’s a flood.