Biggest Waves in the world today, wash out South Lighthouse - Fair Isle, Shetland.
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- Wild Weather! more info: fair-isle.blogs... - Fair Isle, Shetland, Scotland, the South Lighthouse received wave damage today Feb. 4, 2013. The south west corner wall was washed down onto the football pitch, window smashed in the NLB engine room, etc. World weather maps showed the largest waves in the world today are hitting us like never before.
Lighthouse keeper……..’Yup it’s a long sleeved T shirt kinda day’ 😁
What a beautiful place. Looks like a painting 💖💖
Those are some large waves and rough surf,but they are not even close to the largest waves or the roughest surfs in the world. Nazare,Portugal has some of the worlds largest waves and roughest surfs with the waves breaking near the coast sometimes exceeding 100 feet. There have been surfers both killed and quite a few of them injured severely after being caught by the waves they were trying to surf overtaking them. The North Shore in Hawaii also sees some huge waves and incredibly rough surfs.
That’s exactly what came to my mind as well when I read that.. those waves were really big, but it’s nothing compared to Nazare. It has unimaginably monstrous waves all the time due to the massive underwater cavern system that is directly under the break- the suction pulls the ocean water down deep and fast into the cavern, causing those huge wave systems. I freaking love watching the surfing tournaments there. They’re absolute animals..
I live here and people are saying 60ft waves. And they lived to see them and tell everyone? On a relatively flat island with no mountains? 60ft spray maybe 😂
Edit-this was today in 2022 I heard this, same made up bs, different da in Shetland 🤣
Don't let facts get in the way of a good story 😂
The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.
Is that a Titleist?
Hole in one! Only Seinfeld fans get this. 😆🐳🍲🏑🏌🏼♂️
Is anyone here a Marine Biologist??
@@mi2ube yeah we do!
George is gettin upset!!
On Sept15, 2012 my wife and I took the ferry to the Orkneys and it was so rough that the silverware, pots and pans got thrown all over the floor in the ferry's kitchen. The previous 2 days the ferry was shut down due to the high winds and waves. I thought that was bad, but what I see here is something I wouldn't want to be near! Thanks for sharing. I am from New Hampshire in the US.
I'm going to invent a camera with windshield wipers. Dang it, I gave it away. Beautiful footage you took there by the way.
I've already thought about that a long time ago. Lmao! I figured thousands of people have thought the same thing. And I'm right if you and I have thought about it. I'm sure someone is already on it maybe not a wiper blade but something much more advanced.
It’s called a self cleaning rotating lense. TV News uses them all the time.
@@Iwillnotbepushed Crap! Leave it to the professionals.
It's okay...the guy who invented the windshield wiper got ripped off too.
With a storm this strong it would be interesting to see what the Atlantic washed up on the beach from the depths
Aquaman...and Jimmy Hoffa.
Huge boulders (5m plus) are moved across the sea bed as marbles on tarmac and they are to be found on the north, north west and west coasts of Scotland and the islands.
@@barriereid9244 Thanks for letting us know. Always wondered what the ocean looks like under the surface.
The Stevensons knew how to build lighthouses back when this one was built.
That stone work is not for the faint of heart, place looks like it will stand to the end of time lol
Not like today where lighthouses go up willy-nilly.
boring
Fair Isle is one of the most beautiful places known to my mind, I've never seen this place yet I have a beautiful memory attached to it, this place represents so much of me as a person, in the future, I wish to visit this place every year of my life.
Shut
Maybe the biggest wave back then. The biggest ever recorded wave today would have towered over the lighthouse at 1,720 feet or 524 meters. 😮
Nazare' Portugal: Hold my beer!
@@billyboy1093 That's the one.
Even the sound of the wind makes my ears cold!
Beautiful but could be deadly
I was a fisherman for 15 years in the outer Hebrides and the fair isle gap is the only place I was terrified to be out at sea. Them waters are no joke!
It's a good thing it's not open to tourists... "Oh look somewher we can paddle around and swim in the shallows."
Looked like it was still standing firm to me. A wall washed out, the building seemed intact.
Those waves look bigger then the house itself...
one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen!
one of the most beautiful places I have ever been
Does anyone live there? “ I think we need the light on high tonight, love” Wonderful video.!!!
Not the biggest waves in the world, check out Nazaré, Portugal for that. But these are terrifying nonetheless.
Beautiful seascape, love it.
That's one angry sea
Angry, yet beautiful.
Mother Nature will always exceed the power of man. Awesomeness
Just watched you and Ben Fogle on the telly, Tommy, keep living the dream mate! :)
Biggest waves in the 🌎 are at Nazare´ and in the North Sea. These were certainly big though
M Heb and piXie23 I believe you have misread the description as I did when first read. I grew up on Oahu in the 70s and I have seen bigger waves at Wameia but I have never seen rougher surf than this and the power behind these waves off Fair Isle is staggering ! The description is not they were the largest waves ever in the world, it is
They were the largest in the world on that particular day. As it reads - World weather maps showed the largest waves in the world TODAY are hitting us like never before.
Think I saw the Grim Reaper out there surfing that stuff...
I was just about to type where’s this big wave … impressive!!
I saw you on Ben fogles show. natural power and what a beautiful place. watched it and thought what a nice genuine fella as well ;)
Wow the sea looks so angry glad you were at a safe distance
On an island, in the middle of stormy atlantic 😁 No, I do not think that he was safe anywhere on that island.
Great,video so,beautiful and very, breathtaking, so,peaceful! Love,it😍🤩😎😎🙄😘🤣😁
Hello Tommy! from here in Saratoga Springs NY from Tom Garrett. Spotted this on you tube, then saw your Tommy icon and knew it was really you. Hope all is well.
PS Spotted your art clock in uncommon grounds, surprised it's still up and working
"Biggest waves in the world" ?? Mate . . you need to take a look at the size of the waves they SURF in Portugal. I believe the record was 100 feet high.
Wow that is a beautiful video. Thanks for sharing.
I was at Eshaness that day. Biggest waves I've ever seen!
Them waves would be impressive to watch. But scary at the same time. It's amazing that a lot of people underestimate the power of water.
I don't think I saw this vid before, but in my dreams I've been to this place.
In my nightmares!
a wave estimated to be 46 feet high hit the cliffs at Eashness in Shetland that day.
In Nazare, Portugal 46 feet waves are the norm
@@usmcforever7630 46 feet is Nazare on a quiet day lol, locals consider it flat.
Its not wise to underestimate Mother Nature, especially if she is in a bad mood.
My wife and i was in Florida. Locals said a tropical storm made it to land. Not a couple waves. All day the Atlantic Ocean pounded on our hotel. Roof from another hotel landed in our paking lot. It was scary
sissy
No, you and your wife were in Florida.
@@davidj8658 Okay Mrs. Kingston. I say this in a good way. If a student was struggling. Mrs. Kingston would never give up. I'm almost 50 and shedding a tear writing this.
Great videos Tommy. Used to live in Shetland on trondra across from scalloway in the early 80's. My first memories are from there though we left when I was 3. Still planning on returning with my wife some day. :)
Lord Rob UK Have you made it back yet????? If not, why not????? We just got back 9 days ago. Spent 1 month, a full 30 days there. This time, this trip we spent 3 months in Scotland / Shetland Islands. In Glasgow we stay at some of the oldest B&B in town. Both of us are die hard history buffs. And absolutely love our AMERICAN/U.K. WW2 History. Etc. We have traveled quite extensively. All 50 States, every province of Canada, every “ every Country in “Eastern & Western Europe. And been to South Africa and 11 African Countries, and down under and New Zealand. But out of all, we simply never get tired of traveling Europe.
We absolutely despise to see what the leaders of several countries have allowed to be done to there own countrymen!!!! By allowing in so many damn sorry ass pieces of garbage Muslims!!! I admit we are so blessed $$$$$$$ Here at home in Montana to have Oil&Gas wells. It has allowed us to spend our entire 30 year marriage traveling/living where ever we want, as long as we like. Now that the both of us are 60, We are going to buy a place in the Shetlands/Germany/Scottish Highlands/Norway/England /most defiantly Hungary or Poland!!
Lord Rob UK Lord Rob if you ever plan on being back do keep our name here.
No structure can stand up to the immense power of the ocean. Amazing footage.
pawndominance1 So true traveled there 8 times and it is a rugged bleak beautiful country,with warm friendly people!!! absolutely gorgeous
I always wondered who the famous Fair Isle sweaters were. You're really dripping on the lens there mate.
Wow!!!! Dangerously beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing!
Biggest waves in the world on that day... the day I posted... look at the world wave charts on the link I provided in the original information. it's true!
These are not the biggest waves.. And not even surfed! :D
Seriously, thses waves are not very big at all let alone the largest waves in the world. It wouldn't be hard proving otherwise.
+Tommy H. Hyndman It doesn't matter if they are the biggest or not. It's all wonderfully scary, I wish I can witness something like this one day. Good job.
Alan are you blind or just simple?
RifleManAlex Biggest in the world. . Come on Alex
What a place for a bit of footy!
I'm surmising that my definition of washed out is different then the author of this video.
I feel freezing cold watching and listening to that video. It sounds bonechillingly cold
I’d love to visit this lighthouse.
Fine with me.
I am a lighthouse,
Borne by the weather and the waaaaves,
I keep my lamp lit,
To earn the sailor's on their waaaay!
And the waves crashing 'round me!
The sun slips out to sea,
And the winds that blow reminds me,
Of what has been,
And what can never be!
sailor is?
Blucifer : Don’t give up the day job
I think the lens on your camera got more washed out than the light house.
Beautiful shots.
I would've loved to have seen that. It's the sort of thing i could watch all day
Love Shetland.
waves fall slowly .... probably 10 meters. A little more. It was necessary to approach the wave of beauty. Can be installed by cutting a video camera from wiping
Impressive
Nice cleaning of the camera, pesky weather eh ?
Looks like a bleak and beautiful place
Cool waves
Amazing footage ...that's some tripod you have there must be fixed into the earths core :)
@0:43, when painters used to paint such depictions, I didn't believe it could exist.
Amazing! All that power...!
Soooo, where did the lighthouse get wiped out???
That first finger wipe freaked me out
Maybe the storm didn't like football ... & I have to say I agree with the storm on this occasion lol ;-)
How about a before picture we can compare it to...?
Awesome................... but why is it in my recommended a whole eight years after it happened?
This is just a breeze for Scottish people and tee shirt weather!
This place and the weather is my type. I should be there
Imagine how many years that stood there, was hit by waves and still stood until this time😢
the lighthouse is clearly still there at the end, did we see a different video?
@@wcgebn there is a big chunk of the wall gone
That caption had me dreading the annihilation of that poor lighthouse!
Nowhere near the biggest waves in the world
I'll fishing on the other side to get 200 meter casts. Not sure if fish are out in that kind of weather.
You never take mother nature lightly especially when she's angry
Love to visit the isle this year. Wonder if it is possible
Anyone know the swell forecast that day?
So, how high are the cliffs that the waves are washing up on?
In ST Nazare Portugal they are much bigger
Imagine not knowing one of those waves are a tsunami and you just there recording.
It’s hard to swim, but i still would enjoy to live there
Just beautiful.
There’s nothing beautiful in a Terrible storm. Believe me I have been in a few. Ex seaman.
No waves hit that lighthouse, that's stupid, at least they didn't hit in the video.....
not surprising with Antarctica melting. Google earth wont even show what it really looks like now. January 2021
Just a little bit closer
Why such a large building for a lighthouse.
Look at all the sneaker waves!!
Wind speed ?
GOOD FOOTAGE!! Hope Ur camera is water-proof!! ;-P
Who else thought that wave will touch the top most part of light house 💡🏠?
Get the general idea, but the camera work didn’t help.
Did anyone else try to wipe water off the screen while watching this????? No me either...
No Cape Horn Rollers today?
whr is biggest?
Спасибо , это было здорово )))
Beautiful. Wow
Wow. Great video.
So basically don't plant any rose gardens down in that area.
"The sea was angry that day my friends"
Love to holiday in that lighthouse. What a view of the sea you’d get from there!!
And what a view of the lighthouse you would get from the sea!
That building looks vulnerable ! Awesome video.
Concrete is cheap.build it thicker,and ad crystal loc to it.thats what they put in dams to make it triple strong.
Looks like a good location for a scary movie.
I have no clue what he said, or meaning to what i did read.
I guess you have to have visited or live near, but HEY, KUDOS ON KEEPING LENS CLEAN!😉
And just when one thought that it was 'high enough' above sea level.
Biggest waves in the world. 😂😂😂. Go to Nazare, Portugal. Waves are 100 ft That's what you call big waves.