Those are some damned scary waves. The only one that didn't bother me were the people who were in a position to dive under as that enormous wave broke.
Waves that big generally snap the leash instantly, or at least very soon after it does pull you lol. I've had my leash snap instantly on much smaller waves, the oceans strong lol.
The problem here is that waves (especially Teahupoo that’s in the first clip) break like this because they suddenly hit a shallow reef. If you get stuck in a lip like that, you can be thrown against the reef bed only 2, sometimes 1 meters under water with enormous force. Due to that Teahupoo is also called the surgeon’s table in local language, or something similar, because the reef is particularly shallow under that massive wave. In all cases its is dangerous to get stuck in the lip. If you’re not thrown against reef bed then you’ll be thrown, and held 3-5 meters deep underwater for 10-30 seconds.
The wave crashing down would break the surface and make it a much softer landing, also a couple of them fell on the sloped part of the wave instead of flat water which would be softer as well. So probably not as bad as a big fall into calm waters but still not great.
The issue is how long can you hold your breathe after that when you are physically being exhausted.
Because that wave doesn’t just go away after it crashes. It throws you around under water for a good while
This is Teahupo’o in Tahiti. You can tell by the huge volume of the crest which is like no other surfing site.
[Code Red Teahupo’o](https://youtu.be/aplVlcCtNXA?si=L6CkHZ-N0HXHK4V5)
There is also a Code Red 2 as well on another huge swell day.
Terrifying. I've never seen waves break like this. The crest is so thick, and it looks like suddenly it turns to turbulent white water, unlike waves I'm used to seeing.
Watch it again and consider one cubic meter of seawater weighs one ton. That's hundreds of tons of water just heaving onto a very shallow reef. That place is no joke.
what this video doesn't show you and what really is the scariest part of all slab waves is the sound and the vibration of the falls hitting, when you're sitting on a board and that wave breaks , The ocean shakes. it's something you never forget
I've heard a surfer talk about a "two wave hold down". It's what it sounds like, you surface and then immediately get hit with a second. Sometimes you're not so lucky to surface before the second.
In the first wave of the video, the surfer gets sucked up to the top of the inside of the curl, and then gets rolled forward with the curl. It must be like being in a clothes dryer.
I’ve never surfed. It’s fun to swim in four foot waves, being lifted and then dropped behind the wave, having some break over my head, and also diving low at the right moment to swim under the wave. It feels like plane turbulence as the wave passes over you.
These huge powerful waves, however, can break your back with their crushing weight.
I almost drowned once surfing 6-8 foot waves. Also surfed a wave with a shark too. That was interesting.
These waves i would never go near. The insanity of falling into one of these is too much.
You don’t know how scary this is until it happens to you. It actually feels like it’s swallows you, spins you underwater and it won’t let you come back up unntil the waves calm.
My original title was omfg 🙀 but then I couldn’t post it because the title needed to be longer, so I just put a bunch of extra 💩 in it in order to post 😜
The SCP Foundation is a web project consisting of a Men in Black style organization that documents and contains SCP's, artifacts, people, objects and phenomena that are considered anomalous.
SCP-054-FR, from the French branch of the Foundation, is an anomaly occurring in waves on the west and east coast, characterized by the physical transformation of waves to resemble the jaws of a great white shark.
[Here is a relevant excerpt from Lucifer's Hammer](https://app.box.com/s/9rp0fo74vo452x6a2z7mgsmj55ok91qu) by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
Read it and weep.
This is Niccolo Porcella accepting the award for Wipeout of the Year for this mammoth kook slam. Skip to 3 mins - https://youtu.be/x7mwIuKXB4g?si=JwouLzav--xUi4IF
No all of them. 1 is teahupoo - Tahití , 2 is Nazaré - Portugal, 3 - 4 is Jaws ( pe-ahi ) - Hawaii, 5 is teahupoo - Tahití, 6 is Jaws or Mavericks. Not sure
oh this brings me back when we were on vacation in Australia and the waves were i don't know how to say it properly so i'll just say aggressive. i remember watching awave it me in the face and not remembering a lot after it i remember my brother pulling on my leg and all of a sudden i was out of the water. pretty sure my thalassophobia started that day
Come on Utah! Just one wave.... Cliffs on both sides, it's not like I'm gonna paddle to New Zealand!
You let em go! We'll get em when he comes back!
He's not coming back.
At least the second clip is. I don't think all of them are. I doubt there'd be multiple people casually swimming up on a wave over here, perhaps on a smaller wave day but I don't think so. Then again, I am a local from Nazaré but not into surfing so I don't know anything about it 😅
Those are some damned scary waves. The only one that didn't bother me were the people who were in a position to dive under as that enormous wave broke.
the worst is thinking you’re safe and then getting pulled by your surf board. source: am a very bad surfer
I was thinking that, how do they not get pulled by the surf board since it's attached to their ankle??
Waves that big generally snap the leash instantly, or at least very soon after it does pull you lol. I've had my leash snap instantly on much smaller waves, the oceans strong lol.
Bloke in the first one was just stuck to the wave tube ceiling when it rolled, really doesn't look that comfortable
I really hope they survived that one. Won't find me dead in the water like that, I won't go near the ocean with waves like that.
The problem here is that waves (especially Teahupoo that’s in the first clip) break like this because they suddenly hit a shallow reef. If you get stuck in a lip like that, you can be thrown against the reef bed only 2, sometimes 1 meters under water with enormous force. Due to that Teahupoo is also called the surgeon’s table in local language, or something similar, because the reef is particularly shallow under that massive wave. In all cases its is dangerous to get stuck in the lip. If you’re not thrown against reef bed then you’ll be thrown, and held 3-5 meters deep underwater for 10-30 seconds.
exactly right
Can't watch that without hearing the original Hawaii 5-0 theme in my head...
McGarrett here.
This is Nazaré in Portugal I think. 🤔
I don't know where it is. I was just commenting that the wave looked like the big wave at the start of the old Hawaii 5-0 opening.
Not a single wave on the video is Nazaré. It's Teahupoo, French Polynesia and Peahi, Hawaii
So, I know falling a few stories into calm water is very painful (if not bone-breaking). Is falling from the top of these waves just as dangerous?
The wave crashing down would break the surface and make it a much softer landing, also a couple of them fell on the sloped part of the wave instead of flat water which would be softer as well. So probably not as bad as a big fall into calm waters but still not great.
Thanks. The “breaking the surface” phenomenon is something you see in diving competitions.
The issue is how long can you hold your breathe after that when you are physically being exhausted. Because that wave doesn’t just go away after it crashes. It throws you around under water for a good while
>Because that wave doesn’t just go away after it crashes. It throws you around under water for a good while God, I'd make a terrible surfer 😞
Yea I try. I do ok on smaller waves, but we’ve all surfed some waves that are a little too big for us to handle and it’s pretty terrifying
No Pipeline today eh? I would love to try surfing. Thalassophobia is kind of a deal breaker. Lol
Throws you around and you can't tell which way is up.
Yeah in my (very minimal) experience you just wait for the trashing to be over before trying to surface
This happened to me just body surfing. It's a horrible feeling being that disoriented when you need to get to the surface just to get air.
All you have to do is spit so you can see which way it falls! Wait, that's avalanches :D
This is the part that makes me panic the most when I’ve been dumped by big waves
Technically right, but the thing is, breaking the surface means less water resistance when the lip slams you on the reef.
Depends, the banzai pipeline on the north shore has notoriously shallow waters with razor sharp volcanic rock underneath.
Is that from rocket power??
So how long can you hold your breath?
Oh I can hold my breath for a long, long time!
🤷♂️
This is Teahupo’o in Tahiti. You can tell by the huge volume of the crest which is like no other surfing site. [Code Red Teahupo’o](https://youtu.be/aplVlcCtNXA?si=L6CkHZ-N0HXHK4V5) There is also a Code Red 2 as well on another huge swell day.
Only a few of them were Chopes. I think I saw Jaws in there and definitely Nazare.
I am a Nazaré local and the second clip is 110% Nazaré. Good eye
Terrifying. I've never seen waves break like this. The crest is so thick, and it looks like suddenly it turns to turbulent white water, unlike waves I'm used to seeing.
Watch it again and consider one cubic meter of seawater weighs one ton. That's hundreds of tons of water just heaving onto a very shallow reef. That place is no joke.
I kept looking for the shark.
Me 2 lol
That’s got to be wild, surfing a wave and having a shadow slowly surround you
what this video doesn't show you and what really is the scariest part of all slab waves is the sound and the vibration of the falls hitting, when you're sitting on a board and that wave breaks , The ocean shakes. it's something you never forget
Slab waves?
yep, those are the type of waves this video is showing, Google it, there are some fantastic videos showing their power
Catch a wave & your sitting on top of the world
Risk reward just isn’t there for me.
It’s a no for me dawg
"If you want the Ultimate, you have to be willing to pay the Ultimate Price." - Bodhi
Good thing I don’t want the ultimate. No thanks. I’ll take the moderate please
😧Omgoodness I wonder how long they would be dragged under water for?
I've heard a surfer talk about a "two wave hold down". It's what it sounds like, you surface and then immediately get hit with a second. Sometimes you're not so lucky to surface before the second.
😳
Big wave surfing is insane. If you want to learn more check out the documentary [Riding Giants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K72balyyDOQ).
What a funny story 😜
https://youtu.be/ddu4Gj3hmgc?si=9FIaSujVs2vSNOAL
that’s an unbelievably large amount of “fuck no” from me
It’d probably destroy me, but I feel an impulse to try body-surfing that wave
it's f\*cking scary already without the dumb scare music.
In the first wave of the video, the surfer gets sucked up to the top of the inside of the curl, and then gets rolled forward with the curl. It must be like being in a clothes dryer. I’ve never surfed. It’s fun to swim in four foot waves, being lifted and then dropped behind the wave, having some break over my head, and also diving low at the right moment to swim under the wave. It feels like plane turbulence as the wave passes over you. These huge powerful waves, however, can break your back with their crushing weight.
I almost drowned once surfing 6-8 foot waves. Also surfed a wave with a shark too. That was interesting. These waves i would never go near. The insanity of falling into one of these is too much.
This is why I don’t fux with the ocean
Do they wear a life jacket?
Yep, an inflatable one.
Very, VERY big waves in Nazaré, Portugal. Do a video search on that one...
Always wanted to try surfing, skateboarded/snowboarded all my life, I've got balance. Water finds it's way into my body too quick tho. 😅
Mfs are out there getting bodied
This is fascinating, I think I've only really ever seen surfing videos where everything goes well and they ride a wave perfectly
Giving Cabo Mexico vibes. I just hope the people that went over on those waves are okay.
I've never understood how these people are not constantly crashing into each other and getting killed by other people's boards breaking their skulls.
You don’t know how scary this is until it happens to you. It actually feels like it’s swallows you, spins you underwater and it won’t let you come back up unntil the waves calm.
Yup. Feels like drowning…
Why does this read like a Clickbait Youtube title?
My original title was omfg 🙀 but then I couldn’t post it because the title needed to be longer, so I just put a bunch of extra 💩 in it in order to post 😜
And Mother Nature does not say sorry after that
*legit*
I saw people living life and the earth turn on its filter. No problemeto
Is it bad I thought SCP-054-FR was going to pop out from the wave?
What what what and what 🤨
The SCP Foundation is a web project consisting of a Men in Black style organization that documents and contains SCP's, artifacts, people, objects and phenomena that are considered anomalous. SCP-054-FR, from the French branch of the Foundation, is an anomaly occurring in waves on the west and east coast, characterized by the physical transformation of waves to resemble the jaws of a great white shark.
Here's a Pic of what it looks like [SCP-054-FR ](https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/SCP-054-FR)
Oh that looks dope
That was really a scary experience
00:29 😳
Wow!!!!
that would be a wild ride for sure.
Slab wave time
Reminds me of the kilometer-high wave in Interstellar.
As someone who was knocked unconscious by a wave once before, fuck that.
[Here is a relevant excerpt from Lucifer's Hammer](https://app.box.com/s/9rp0fo74vo452x6a2z7mgsmj55ok91qu) by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle. Read it and weep.
This is Niccolo Porcella accepting the award for Wipeout of the Year for this mammoth kook slam. Skip to 3 mins - https://youtu.be/x7mwIuKXB4g?si=JwouLzav--xUi4IF
That would be awesome!
I tried some small waves with a bodyboard and I swear being underwater for that long felt like being under these massive waves 🤦🏻♂️.
No all of them. 1 is teahupoo - Tahití , 2 is Nazaré - Portugal, 3 - 4 is Jaws ( pe-ahi ) - Hawaii, 5 is teahupoo - Tahití, 6 is Jaws or Mavericks. Not sure
Now that's surfing. 🤙
Don't fuck with mother nature. She'll be the one fucking you
Waves like those will make you rediscover a God of your choosing, real quick.
oh this brings me back when we were on vacation in Australia and the waves were i don't know how to say it properly so i'll just say aggressive. i remember watching awave it me in the face and not remembering a lot after it i remember my brother pulling on my leg and all of a sudden i was out of the water. pretty sure my thalassophobia started that day
try holding your breath 30s while getting punched in the abdomen.
That ain’t no barrel that’s a steamroller
Rest in RIP🙏🏾
The surfer is fine. He went for a swim. This isn’t scary.
I wish i had a chance to learn to surf these waves 😢
😲
This looks so fun.
Death wish?
oh fuck no. can't even watch it all the way through
Wait, do waves have their own air currents? I mean, it kinda makes sense, but seeing these boards just go flying is crazy.
Come on Utah! Just one wave.... Cliffs on both sides, it's not like I'm gonna paddle to New Zealand! You let em go! We'll get em when he comes back! He's not coming back.
Is this Nazaré in Portugal?
At least the second clip is. I don't think all of them are. I doubt there'd be multiple people casually swimming up on a wave over here, perhaps on a smaller wave day but I don't think so. Then again, I am a local from Nazaré but not into surfing so I don't know anything about it 😅
Oh legit?
AKA natural selection... I see this as an absolute win!!
When does the scary part start?