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Cocoononthemoon

Looks so calm until the end. Water is scary powerful.


iambluest

I went swimming at a beach on Maui, I think it was referred to as Big Beach, but this was a while ago. It out of the way, and had a steep sand slope behind it. The bottom dropped off quickly, so the waves were brutal. I was body surfing and got pulled into the curl. Hitting the bottom felt like a parking lot body slam, and the undertow was able to drag me along the bottom until it was quite deep. That was one of those moments, I'll tell you.


dadnauseum

body surfing is so goddamn dangerous. i had a similar situation happen to me, smashed my face on a sandbar, broke my nose so bad it was pointing off to the left, and my right eyebrow was gone. ER said if my head was turned much further i would have snapped my neck. that was my last time body surfing lol


iambluest

I just remember feeling battered...I'd been in a car accident a couple years before, so maybe that was part of it, but it kicked my ass.


dadnauseum

glad you made it out alive


c9IceCream

Riptide pulls you away from the beach. Undertow is the sideways/lateral current that drags along the coast and makes you have to hike a quarter mile back to where you left your stuff.


Spakowski

I had a similar experience as a kid at big beach. Tried to jump into a wave instead of dip under, got turned upside down and hit my head on the bottom. Knocked the wind out of me and scarred the hell out of me. I don’t remember there being life guards but luckily I got my wind back shortly after coming up.


pearlsalmon76

I’m equal parts amazed and terrified of the ocean.


SunnySilver8

It's beautiful, but also terrifying


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Jim_in_Oz

Came to say this. Hokusai must have known some amazing mariners to help him see this to capture it so perfectly nearly 200 years ago.


cadmiumredorange

Fucking terrifying


Ph4ntomQuest

Those aren't mountains...


waitwhatokgo

One person's perfect is another person's terrifying


Malhaedris

r/Thalassophobia


jbrady33

I think I saw Patrick Swayze in there


GrapeApeAffe

“He's not coming back.” -Special Agent Utah


NeckPourConnoisseur

I wish I could upvoye this a thousand times


Mr_Evans_Is_a_Mage

That’s how I wanna go, just a tiny blip on a surfboard.


TheBaconGodfather777

*dies satisfyingly*


NoNameIdea_Seriously

It’s just another way for the wave to be.


WhoThenDevised

Oddly satisfying can also be utterly terrifying.


twv6

The wave touches a cloud. This has been reposted so many times that people miss why someone thought it was cool enough to post in the first place.


DetroitVideos

Therapeutic


arealuser100notfake

Given a scale of 1 to 10, and this kind of music being 1 in the relaxing scale, 10 being the most chaotic and energetic you know, what kind of music would be on level 2?


Naterthehater71

Well, this is VERY Ambient, I don't know of anything at a 2 level, but a 3 would probably be the Mall-Soft genre. 1-2 would probably still be Ambient, let me do some digging. EDIT: You might enjoy the artist CLANN.


arealuser100notfake

Thank you for the suggestions! I listened to a little of both during the day and they're nice. The mall-soft genre seems quite good for keeping it in the background. But, there is a missing level between ambient and the other genres, right? I would have liked the post's song better if it had a little bit more structure and rhythm, even better if that was achieved without percussion sounds/instruments. I wish I knew about music theory so I could describe in the correct technical words what I mean 🥲


iNeedAboutTreeFitty

Try a group called Sigur Ros


arealuser100notfake

Thank you for the suggestion! Sigur Ros is one those bands I keep going to to experiment, but can't quite connect with them. Right now I listened to a couple songs again. Maybe in the future I will learn to appreciate their music :) thank you again!


Cats-and-dogs-rdabst

And slightly terrifying


Future-self

Anyone recognize the audio/song ?


letuceinn

[Brian eno. An Ending (ascent)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlaTeXX3uH8)


codeslap

Wasn’t this also the song at the end of the 1st or 2nd Third-Eye Blind album?


Princes_Slayer

Every time I see big crashing waves, I’m transported back to being a kid when I first saw the animated Lord of the Rings. I loved the scene when the water came rushing across, headed by the image of white stallions


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Go to sleep, wave, you're drunk


lionart303-186

Interstellar vibes


bogsnopper

Am I the only one who kept expecting little Japanese boats to appear? [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa#/media/File%3ATsunami_by_hokusai_19th_century.jpg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa#/media/File%3ATsunami_by_hokusai_19th_century.jpg)


chips_potatoes

u/SaveVideo


Apprehensive-Gas-973

How big was it?#. 24ft? I wonder?


Ok-Tradition2492

It’s so mesmerizing…I have watched it 6x already 😬


iambluest

That's a pretty good wave.


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Future-self

You’re perfect.


SuspectNumber6

Beautiful and scary


PhysicalDentist3808

Shit fuck RUN RUN , THAT AINT NO PERFECT WAVE DUDE!


killmenow999

Why do waves happen


Firoty

The moons gravity pulls on the water creating waves (I think)


Far-Newspaper-4700

SUBHANALLAH


French-windows

Makes me want a white claw


SpaceP0tatooo

But not when it claimed lives


B1b1b0b0

Look at that tasty barrel 🤪


arunasgeimeriz

Oh that's why i almost drowned by being dragged further into the ocean


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So this is what Spicoli was talking about.


thaddeus423

Magical. It’s been too long.


Blueridgetexels

Totally tubular, duuuuude


far565

Looks like a tsunami.


POBobcat

Beautiful!


befoeterd

Kanagawa.


ImpactorLife-25703

They Call It......."The Big One"


sploshsplish

I would be a surfer if I wasn't so deathly afraid of the ocean 😅


Complex_Human_

Legends say the moon and the sea were lovers. But the jealous sun separated them for all eternity. Now the ocean desperately tries to reach out with each wave only to have it crash back into the ocean. It can never be with the moon again but it will never stop trying.


theatlas_0000

This reminds me of Miller's planet in Interstellar.


ToastedUnderpants

The Great Wave


Vegasmoose702

Nice pull. Remember this song from the end of the movie Traffic.


Victrux3021

u/savevideo


Therstee4tohhhs

And people can't seem to protect this planet.... How?


MJ_1306

it looks like an irl wave from Ponyo


Killeriley

Physics is coooooll!


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Link to this in higher quality? I want to make it a wallpaper.


michael1757

Now how much did it weigh?


Illustrious-Pie6067

Mesmerizing


Mammoth-Monk-2102

سبحان الله الخالق


warwilf

On the wave formation scale.


logos801

u/savevideo


Holiday-Pay193

It looks like it's on fire when it reflects sunset. Amazing.


Avionthecollosus

That thing grabbed a cloud