I got sucked against one of those grates as a kid once, after dangling off the edge as the wave machine was getting started, I’ve never been so scared in my life. Luckily spat me out pretty quick
I got sucked under by a wave machine too. It just pulled my feet right out from under me and sucked me down. Luckily I managed to get back up as the machine released, and I got far enough away to avoid it happening again. Horrible experience tho, I never went near the grates again.
Oh my God, that's terrifying! It's my worst nightmare. I'm TERRIFIED of the back of wave pools. I'm glad you're okay, but soo sorry you experienced that 😣
well this mechanism is basically a giant piston, but because air and water have different densities there is no need of a big metal piece to separate them
It’s not a vacuum pulling the water in, it’s air being blown into the chamber that forces water out. A butterfly valve opens and closes in the ducting which allows air from a blower to enter the chamber momentarily.
Me too. They are so eerie to be around and it creeps me out. I dont have submechanophobia and i calm around things underwater but any pool drains, jet lines, pool filters, i stray away from i hate them so much
One day I went with my father to a pool like that but I thought that the waves appeared from some tubes that ejected water 😂 continuing, when I got to the end of the pool to try to see where these tubes were when I saw a big and scary grid, at that moment I swam with my life because I thought that that one grill would suck me in and I would die there😳
Same here! I thought the water was sucked in via huge pipes and then pushed back out again but it turns out it’s all done by air pressure. I was terrified of wave machines as a kid because I got pulled under by one once.
Same for me! I went to a wave pool when I was younger and I really wanted to know how they made the waves so I swam to the end of the pool to look for something that made the waves. I saw about 3 massive black wall looking things and me being curious I swam closer. At the exact same moment that I was just about to touch the black wall they turned the waves on and the walls began to move. This pool used a similar system to the one in the video except instead of vertical suction and push it was horizontal. Think like a large hand pushing the water from the bottom to just above the surface. And because I was right in front of the pushing wall things I got sucked into it and then pushed out with great force! This wave pool had 3 settings medium, large, and extreme waves. And of course I got unlucky enough that they put it on the extreme setting when I was right next to the wave walls. After I got pushed away from the wave walls I tried to swim back to the shallow end but the waves were really strong and big so I was struggling quite a lot and even ended up going underwater a couple times because a new wave would wash straight over my head! It felt like hours until I finally got out of the pool at the shallow end but it was only 1-2 minutes until I actually got out. And after that incident I never went close to the far end of a wave pool ever again and never will in the future. The worst thing was that I was just 10 years old when this happened. And barely able to swim on my own. I shouldn’t even have been in the pool because they actually had rules that said that if they are using the large or extreme waves you have to be I think it was 13 or 15 to even be allowed in the pool. 12 for the medium waves and anyone if the waves were off. The thing was that nobody actually cared. Not the people in the pool or the people that worked at this place. Even the lifeguards didn’t care. In fact a lot of the rules in that place where routinely broken and nobody cared at all! I’m actually shocked that they didn’t get shut down because of there complete lack of enforcement of the rules. I’m almost positive that someone has gotten seriously hurt there and if not it would be a miracle. My parents were on the other side of the building. ( this place had like 4 pools and like 6 slides. It was like a big indoor water park ) so they didn’t even know what happened. I was always running around from pool to pool and going on each slide like 500 times so my parents decided that they would just sit by the ice cream/snack shop and wait for me there because trying to keep track of me was probably one of the hardest things that any human could ever accomplish. I was safe in the end though and I soon forgot about it and enjoyed the water slides for probably the 125th time that day!
@@ananonymoushen4339they should have alarms or some type of warning when the waves are abt to start, I dip my head under water to hear the machine and it sounds really good js when the low pressure waves come in this metal slacking sound just ruins it all 🤦♂️
Some does work like that, ones in my country are pneumatic wave machines which will pressurise the chambers to push the water out through the bars and release air to allow the water to flow in.
Hello, just a minor correction: It’s not a negative pressure vacuum conventionally that occurs in those air chambers, there are high powered centrifugal blowers normally three phase, the high pressure air is sent through to manifolds that contain valves, the valves are controlled by pneumatic cylinders, but keeping it simple, when the valves open and the air is allowed to rush into the space above those grates, a positive pressure is generated inside the space and pushes the water out the grates via communicating vessels phenomenon. The water has a natural tendency to return back to it’s original place, but this is where the clever physics phenomenon occurs, the valves shut as the water flows up inside the air chamber, then momentum naturally pushes the water back out and the valves open up at that time, and amplify the wave momentum, making the.. waves.
@@ToHimWeWillBeReturned Not quite. It uses resonance, just like pushing someone on a swing. First the air inlet valves open, blowing air above the water in the chambers, pushing the water out into the pool. Then the valves switch; the inlet closes and the exhaust opens, letting the water rush back into the chambers. Every time this happens, the water gets slightly higher as more energy is added into the system. You can see the machine room in action here: ua-cam.com/video/TxOmU5FYzS0/v-deo.html Listen out for the pneumatic valves opening and closing.
same. we used to dare each other to see who would stay underwater closest to the bars for the longest. i still dislike wave pools to this day as a result.
It’s absolutely insane to think primitive man was able to build such massive ones to cause waves in every ocean on Earth. And even more crazy is that they’re usable still to this day. Man’s ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.
Surprised no one's mentioned dirt. Like, yeah, it's weird that we forgot how to make Damascus steel and Roman concrete, but who figured out how to make all the dirt that our planet is pretty much made out of? I bet the volcano designers were involved.
That's actually a really good way to do it. I've only ever been almost sucked into one wave pool and it was one of those the ones with the two tubes at the bottom middle of the pool. And if you got sucked into those you'd be shot probably 15 into the engine room. Flung into a pitch-black room that will fill and sweep with water dragging you along.
@@MattH-wg7ou pressure wave pools have inlets either on the back middle or sides. It pumps water through pressure to a room behind the pools in a huge room that fills up and then pushes out. You can get trapped in that room, that's why they have to put an access and ladders and catwalk in them
those bars in wave pools used to always freak me out as a kid I was always scared of getting too close to them incase I got sucked inside or something ..anyone else?
@@Sssssssslf I’m used to it now. I know there are bars there because of the amount of times I’ve stubbed my toe on them at the sandcastle water park in blackpool uk. I can’t judge how near my foot the chambers are. Oh and the dog is called Buddy and he’s a 9 year old west highland white terrier.
The moment when the BIG wave came was always so awesome! everyone waiting in a normal talking voice, then everyone saw the red light or heard it starting and the sound of everybody in the pool starting to scream as the big wave began was so much fun.
Seeing as the only wave pool I'm really familiar with is the one at Typhoon Lagoon, the fact you can get THAT close to the wavemakers is insane to me. In Typhoon Lagoon's wave pool, you're not allowed to get within like TWENTY FEET of the wave machine at the back end of the pool.
its less vacuum pulling in the water, but rather air displacing the water from the chamber, the sudden release of the air then causes the water to push into the chamber. the beauty about those pneumatic wave machines is that there is pretty much very little suction from the wave machine. Usually, you have the fans sit in between chambers, and swinging back and forth between the chamber on the left and the right, creating a continuous, smooth wave with similar sizes. Source: I work at a wave pool, though its about 40 years old and only has 3 chambers and 2 fans, with the difference that we also lower the entire pools water level before starting the waves by about 60 centimeters. its an impressive piece of tech and I highly recommend checking it out.
You know, sometimes these random topics I am interested in and click on... they'll take 30 minutes to explain something this simple. Thanks for being concise. I'd give the video two thumbs up if I could.
theres also a wave pool thats circular and has a bunch of "pushy thingies" around the edges. its used to test miniature replicas of boats. I'm also pretty sure the slow mo guys made a video about it
Bro we really all the same out here 😂 I was and still am scared shitless of drains and like underwater things, thalasaphobia and submechanaphobia are present for me no doubt
I actually once got to look at such a machine because i was interested and the manager of the pool aproved it. It was pretty cool, pretty huge machines and they where controlled by a plc and had loud pumps under the ground
The wave pools all had height requirements where people who were too short were forced to wear a life jacket, i was way shorter than most people my age so there were literally 7 year olds who were allowed to go jacketless when i was 11 and still forced to wear a jacket and i felt that was a massive ass scam since age probably was a better determinant on swimming ability than height. So i would just go in with the life jacket and just take it off the moment i was in the middle of the pool, not like they'd notice. Call it reckless but i was a strong swimmer
This wave pool by my local pool had a small exit near the front and my grandma greeted me from there to ask me what I want to eat. I had to swim closer to her and was practically on the ladder, when she left I pushed myself off the ladder into the middle of the pool and it started sucking in, long before I knew I was dragged under water and laid flat with my back, evenly laid out, against the grate while water pushed me against it. I thought it was over and all of a sudden it flung me back into the middle of the pool. That was the last time I ever entered one atleast a decade ago.
Careful which ones you go to though. Changing the water is expensive and time consuming, and most park visitors won't notice the difference at the time, so some places will literally just leave the same water in the wave pool all summer. Nobody notices during the day when the park is open and the wave machine is running, but the lifeguards sure notice the trash and layer of oil floating on the surface after they shut it off. Not every place does that, but plenty do, and it's super easy for them to get away with since, as said, most guests won't notice at the time
Usually it's a fan a strong on at taht, behind that wall is a few strong fans taht go into the back part of the chamber where only air is, and there's a pipe with a little open close thing that when it's open, air passes through and out, when closed the air is forced to the water making a wave
I usually am not affraid of anything, even my fear for spiders I fought and now I think they are actually cute, but damn... I have never gotten so scared in my life. I'm complitely terrified about what I saw in this video. I don't know what it is, but I'm very much affraid of all of this
Wave pools brings back terrifying and fun experiences HAHAH in my childhood . When i was 6 years old I thought i was going to get eaten by those grids if i got closer. 18 years old and still terrified if i i ever get to a wave pool
It´s so sad in public pools they only choose a medium setting. No, I want to see what it does on full power once. Set the power to maximum, release all chambers at the same time and get the mop ready.
wow this brough back child hood memories of jumping just to keep my head above water and getting so much water in my lungs and accidently dringing mouth fulls of water because it would shoot down my throat so quick. but when the waves were off it was nice
Sorry for replying to an old comment, but you are correct. There are different types of wave machines and one of them works similarly to your description.
The biggest wave you can get is that where you drop all at the same time, it wouldnt make it bigger by alternating cuz then you would have waves in different directions and not bigger waves
I work at a waterpark,and it gets HOT in the pump room while the wave pool is active. It's like a freaking sauna,plus it's loud too so hearing protection is needed. If anyone's curious as to how it sounds,think of whale songs.
One of my first swimming experiences was in this kind of pool, I remember one time I was not prepared for the waves and we had had strawberries on pancakes for breakfast that morning. I threw up strawberries into the pool because of the wave machine. Great times, great times
Omg I would have been afraid to film this. Even though the pumps are not on I would be afraid that they forgot I was under there and turn them on. OMG Final destination scene.
Suction Chambers, A ha' ok a blinding flash of the obvious. I first encountered one of these things over 60 years ago in Vienna, but until I watched this video I really just didn't know how the waves were made. Thank you for posting :)
Some wave machines blow air in what makes the water level lower and then when released the water preassure makes the water level go up and air is allowed back in and the air preassure makes the water go down
My local amusement park has a huge wave pool and a kid in my camp who was in my group (I went there with my camp) was in the deepest area now he is like 5 foot tall and the waves started and he almost drowned but a lifeguard jumped into the pool and got him, they made a 11 year old child sign a form and fill out a paper for him almost drowning!
There was a Waterpark I use too go too the wave pool had five settings throughout the operation the waves would keep getting bigger until you herd a siren then that’s when the biggest waves were made. This would go on all day every 15-20 minutes the waves would come on then after 5-10 minutes of gentle waves the big ones would come then it go back too no waves for 15-20 minutes
Actually there is a large fan or blower motor used however it's in a room behind the wave-making chambers. On the ceiling of those chambers you have the end of a pipe that will blow air over the surface the water, making waves this way.
i thought it was large moving plates or something.. but no this does make a lot of sense and also explaines the mistery of siam park's wavepool that just makes one 2 meter tall wave every couple minutes or so.. just vacuum a lot and drop it all at the same time
Wow this has to be in Europe. It wouldn't pass inspection in the US unless the swimmers were kept much further away from the grates. The lawsuits would be pouring in.
Here in France (Europe) they also put ropes to keep people away from the grates. So I don't think we have that lax of a safety regulation about wave pools.
It doesn't create a vacuum it creates pressure. There's blowers that create pressure and a pneumatic door opens which allows the air into the chamber pushing down on the water which creates the wave
Actually there are quite large and deafeningly loud blower motors inside a mechanical room just behind the wave-making chambers. They blow air over the surface of the water at the top of the chamber to make the waves and need dozens of kilowatts to accomplish that.
yo if your 6 or 7 or under 130 pounds the vacuum used when pulling the water in those chambers will literally have your ass pulled against those gates underwater at terrifying strength
Ooh...I know this! _"How does a wave pool work?"_ Like a toilet, essentially. There's an elevated cistern, and it takes time to fill...but once it does, you dump the water, and...waves! (That's why you have periodic "wave sessions" and "calm sessions" and why all wave pools have an raised wall at the deep end, where they pump and store water during calm session.)
Ive seen stickers on pool lockers where it says "if you hear a loud horn or whistle get out of the pool and lean on the walls. I think it has to something with wave malfunction or a flood. i do not know but i want to know what that means and what would happen to make the whistle/ horn go off. Is it wave malfunction or a flood or something else? There is waves but there is a bzeer not a hor or whistle. plus no one gets out of the pool when the waves coe on so what does the sticker mean??
When I was younger i used to pretend believe there was a shark behind the bars, I never believed it, but I definitely pretended too hard and convinced myself for a few seconds
Did anyone used to do this in the bath? I used to grab onto the sides, pull myself forward to push all the water, and then slide back to be hit with a giant wave
also exists, those are mechanical wave machines. not as great as these pneumatic ones though, more moving parts means more risk of problems, and more parts exposed to water means higher risk of rust and seizing.
No water is su ked, instead it's a big blower motor that blows huge quantities of air over the surface of the water inside the chambers. There is a pipe coming from a mechanical room behind the chambers and sitting a few feet above the water. The power usage is at least a few dozen kilowatts and one of the reasons wave pools don't run continously is that power consumption as it would end up in a (even more) tremendous power bill for the water park owner at the end of the day.
I recall California Adventure has a wave machine adjacent to the California Screamin roller coaster that creates waves in the water.The last several times I have been there, there were no waves. I often wondered if it no longer works . I enjoyed the waves as it was so realistic and peaceful. It made the area more realistic, like a surf.
Only if you take the grate off then deliberately swim inside the chamber. And only if the machine is running, otherwise you would be able to swim right out.
I got sucked against one of those grates as a kid once, after dangling off the edge as the wave machine was getting started, I’ve never been so scared in my life. Luckily spat me out pretty quick
I got sucked under by a wave machine too. It just pulled my feet right out from under me and sucked me down. Luckily I managed to get back up as the machine released, and I got far enough away to avoid it happening again. Horrible experience tho, I never went near the grates again.
@@ananonymoushen4339 im scared of that happening to me
Wow
*New fear unlocked
Oh my God, that's terrifying! It's my worst nightmare. I'm TERRIFIED of the back of wave pools. I'm glad you're okay, but soo sorry you experienced that 😣
Who else thought it was just terrifying massive fans that will chop you up if you get near it 😅
They are massive fans in the back room. This is not a vacuum system
Ikr
I did
I thought it was just me. I was always so scared to go into the deep end
Me
As a kid I always thought there were giant pistons that pushed the water. And of cours the big wave was all the pistons going off at once.
Actually there are different mechanisms used in wave pool, and pistons with giant metal plates is one of them. ;)
I thought the same exact thing
in some wave pools thats how it works
@@KingRCT3yes :D
well this mechanism is basically a giant piston, but because air and water have different densities there is no need of a big metal piece to separate them
It’s not a vacuum pulling the water in, it’s air being blown into the chamber that forces water out. A butterfly valve opens and closes in the ducting which allows air from a blower to enter the chamber momentarily.
it depends on the design as some are different
@@misostreams232 The one depicted in this video is pneumatic.
Either way it's just a pressure difference moving the water around
i didn't know i could make turbo edits out of wave pools.
@@MartinNeep a vacuum is a form of pneumatics
I was terrified of drains and wave machines in a pool..(I still am).
Me too. They are so eerie to be around and it creeps me out. I dont have submechanophobia and i calm around things underwater but any pool drains, jet lines, pool filters, i stray away from i hate them so much
Same here
im literally terrified of pool jets
@@nahnah8668 I love pool jets 😏
Your pfp looks we’ll bent so I ain’t surprised G
One day I went with my father to a pool like that but I thought that the waves appeared from some tubes that ejected water 😂 continuing, when I got to the end of the pool to try to see where these tubes were when I saw a big and scary grid, at that moment I swam with my life because I thought that that one grill would suck me in and I would die there😳
Same here! I thought the water was sucked in via huge pipes and then pushed back out again but it turns out it’s all done by air pressure. I was terrified of wave machines as a kid because I got pulled under by one once.
Same for me!
I went to a wave pool when I was younger and I really wanted to know how they made the waves so I swam to the end of the pool to look for something that made the waves. I saw about 3 massive black wall looking things and me being curious I swam closer. At the exact same moment that I was just about to touch the black wall they turned the waves on and the walls began to move.
This pool used a similar system to the one in the video except instead of vertical suction and push it was horizontal. Think like a large hand pushing the water from the bottom to just above the surface.
And because I was right in front of the pushing wall things I got sucked into it and then pushed out with great force!
This wave pool had 3 settings medium, large, and extreme waves. And of course I got unlucky enough that they put it on the extreme setting when I was right next to the wave walls.
After I got pushed away from the wave walls I tried to swim back to the shallow end but the waves were really strong and big so I was struggling quite a lot and even ended up going underwater a couple times because a new wave would wash straight over my head!
It felt like hours until I finally got out of the pool at the shallow end but it was only 1-2 minutes until I actually got out.
And after that incident I never went close to the far end of a wave pool ever again and never will in the future.
The worst thing was that I was just 10 years old when this happened. And barely able to swim on my own. I shouldn’t even have been in the pool because they actually had rules that said that if they are using the large or extreme waves you have to be I think it was 13 or 15 to even be allowed in the pool. 12 for the medium waves and anyone if the waves were off.
The thing was that nobody actually cared. Not the people in the pool or the people that worked at this place. Even the lifeguards didn’t care. In fact a lot of the rules in that place where routinely broken and nobody cared at all! I’m actually shocked that they didn’t get shut down because of there complete lack of enforcement of the rules. I’m almost positive that someone has gotten seriously hurt there and if not it would be a miracle.
My parents were on the other side of the building. ( this place had like 4 pools and like 6 slides. It was like a big indoor water park ) so they didn’t even know what happened. I was always running around from pool to pool and going on each slide like 500 times so my parents decided that they would just sit by the ice cream/snack shop and wait for me there because trying to keep track of me was probably one of the hardest things that any human could ever accomplish.
I was safe in the end though and I soon forgot about it and enjoyed the water slides for probably the 125th time that day!
@@The_hot_blue_fire_guyman this story made my anxiety spike like crazy.
@@ananonymoushen4339 oh god……l
@@ananonymoushen4339they should have alarms or some type of warning when the waves are abt to start, I dip my head under water to hear the machine and it sounds really good js when the low pressure waves come in this metal slacking sound just ruins it all 🤦♂️
He is answering one of the top 20 questions humanity struggle to find the answer to , respect +
When I was little, I thought wave machines worked with pistons that put pressure on the water inside of the chamber.
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@@adamshaikh8856 u mean that
Some does work like that, ones in my country are pneumatic wave machines which will pressurise the chambers to push the water out through the bars and release air to allow the water to flow in.
Hello, just a minor correction: It’s not a negative pressure vacuum conventionally that occurs in those air chambers, there are high powered centrifugal blowers normally three phase, the high pressure air is sent through to manifolds that contain valves, the valves are controlled by pneumatic cylinders, but keeping it simple, when the valves open and the air is allowed to rush into the space above those grates, a positive pressure is generated inside the space and pushes the water out the grates via communicating vessels phenomenon.
The water has a natural tendency to return back to it’s original place, but this is where the clever physics phenomenon occurs, the valves shut as the water flows up inside the air chamber, then momentum naturally pushes the water back out and the valves open up at that time, and amplify the wave momentum, making the.. waves.
It it like a siphon effect?
@@ToHimWeWillBeReturned Not quite. It uses resonance, just like pushing someone on a swing. First the air inlet valves open, blowing air above the water in the chambers, pushing the water out into the pool. Then the valves switch; the inlet closes and the exhaust opens, letting the water rush back into the chambers. Every time this happens, the water gets slightly higher as more energy is added into the system. You can see the machine room in action here: ua-cam.com/video/TxOmU5FYzS0/v-deo.html Listen out for the pneumatic valves opening and closing.
I wonder why 0:56 is the most replayed section of the video 😂
I think you know why
Ayooo
As a kid i was terrified of the gates at the wave pool. I thought you could get your leg stuck in a machine.
Pretty positive those gates were the start of my submechanophobia...
Same
same. we used to dare each other to see who would stay underwater closest to the bars for the longest. i still dislike wave pools to this day as a result.
@@alexdunhill4271 At least you didn't try to go inside there. Kids used to remove bars in my old pool and swim inside them.
@@mrunixman1579 wtf 0_0
It’s absolutely insane to think primitive man was able to build such massive ones to cause waves in every ocean on Earth. And even more crazy is that they’re usable still to this day.
Man’s ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.
Those Atlantians were something else
Same with the windmills that create the Earth's wind! Mindblowing
What surprises me more is how they built massive lava pools and shot the lava out of volcanoes, now they’re unstable and go off at random times
@@Isopod-my4wm One of life’s many mysteries, friend. 🤔
Surprised no one's mentioned dirt. Like, yeah, it's weird that we forgot how to make Damascus steel and Roman concrete, but who figured out how to make all the dirt that our planet is pretty much made out of? I bet the volcano designers were involved.
That's actually a really good way to do it. I've only ever been almost sucked into one wave pool and it was one of those the ones with the two tubes at the bottom middle of the pool. And if you got sucked into those you'd be shot probably 15 into the engine room. Flung into a pitch-black room that will fill and sweep with water dragging you along.
That is terrifying
What?
@@MattH-wg7ou pressure wave pools have inlets either on the back middle or sides. It pumps water through pressure to a room behind the pools in a huge room that fills up and then pushes out. You can get trapped in that room, that's why they have to put an access and ladders and catwalk in them
My anxiety after reading this…….
literally my worst nightmare
those bars in wave pools used to always freak me out as a kid I was always scared of getting too close to them incase I got sucked inside or something ..anyone else?
yep
@@speedz3420 😆👍
Even worse for me. Only having 2 meters blurred tunnel vision I can see the bars. All I can see is a huge black hole.
@@danielledewitt1 oh yikes! that sounds terrifying!
@@Sssssssslf I’m used to it now. I know there are bars there because of the amount of times I’ve stubbed my toe on them at the sandcastle water park in blackpool uk. I can’t judge how near my foot the chambers are. Oh and the dog is called Buddy and he’s a 9 year old west highland white terrier.
The moment when the BIG wave came was always so awesome! everyone waiting in a normal talking voice, then everyone saw the red light or heard it starting and the sound of everybody in the pool starting to scream as the big wave began was so much fun.
Short, informative, to the point without a lot of fluff. Very good video.
I used to hold onto those bars underwater while the wave pool was on and get sucked in and pushed out by the force of the water.
Wow !
Wasn't it kinda scary ?
And wasn't that part of the pool roped off ?
They usually do that at least nowadays but maybe not at every pool.
@@psirvent8out of 4 wave pools i know, 1 of them says you arent allowed to do that. All of them are in germany
*sees the top comment*
One man's horror is another man's fun
I always swam up the the floating barrier that "prevented" people from getting close but I was terrified I'd get sucked in or something.
Seeing as the only wave pool I'm really familiar with is the one at Typhoon Lagoon, the fact you can get THAT close to the wavemakers is insane to me. In Typhoon Lagoon's wave pool, you're not allowed to get within like TWENTY FEET of the wave machine at the back end of the pool.
Typhoon Lagoon has a fooking massive wave pool though compared to this. Scared the hell out of me when I went, no way was I going to the deep end.
its less vacuum pulling in the water, but rather air displacing the water from the chamber, the sudden release of the air then causes the water to push into the chamber. the beauty about those pneumatic wave machines is that there is pretty much very little suction from the wave machine. Usually, you have the fans sit in between chambers, and swinging back and forth between the chamber on the left and the right, creating a continuous, smooth wave with similar sizes.
Source: I work at a wave pool, though its about 40 years old and only has 3 chambers and 2 fans, with the difference that we also lower the entire pools water level before starting the waves by about 60 centimeters. its an impressive piece of tech and I highly recommend checking it out.
You know, sometimes these random topics I am interested in and click on... they'll take 30 minutes to explain something this simple. Thanks for being concise. I'd give the video two thumbs up if I could.
That guy has balls of titanium! Wave chambers are most horrifying thing on this planet!!
theres also a wave pool thats circular and has a bunch of "pushy thingies" around the edges. its used to test miniature replicas of boats. I'm also pretty sure the slow mo guys made a video about it
I’ve been terrified of wave machines since I can remember. I’m 37 now and I still can’t go near the under water bars.
We always went under water and hold onto the grates when the waves came. The openings between the rails were about twice as narrow though
You were kinda lucky it wasn't roped off.
0:27 It's looks like an Underwater Prison/Jail.
Prisoners would drown
Bro we really all the same out here 😂 I was and still am scared shitless of drains and like underwater things, thalasaphobia and submechanaphobia are present for me no doubt
I always thought that there are walls that move forwards and backwards. Thanks for explaining it to me 👍
That fact that we all typed “wave pool” on UA-cam in search in some form and we all found this video .
Luv it 🌊
I actually once got to look at such a machine because i was interested and the manager of the pool aproved it. It was pretty cool, pretty huge machines and they where controlled by a plc and had loud pumps under the ground
Oh so that’s how it works I used to think those were underwater dungeons
They are.
It’s the nights that are the hardest.
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The wave pools all had height requirements where people who were too short were forced to wear a life jacket, i was way shorter than most people my age so there were literally 7 year olds who were allowed to go jacketless when i was 11 and still forced to wear a jacket and i felt that was a massive ass scam since age probably was a better determinant on swimming ability than height. So i would just go in with the life jacket and just take it off the moment i was in the middle of the pool, not like they'd notice. Call it reckless but i was a strong swimmer
This wave pool by my local pool had a small exit near the front and my grandma greeted me from there to ask me what I want to eat. I had to swim closer to her and was practically on the ladder, when she left I pushed myself off the ladder into the middle of the pool and it started sucking in, long before I knew I was dragged under water and laid flat with my back, evenly laid out, against the grate while water pushed me against it. I thought it was over and all of a sudden it flung me back into the middle of the pool. That was the last time I ever entered one atleast a decade ago.
Didn't know there are sea-like pools with waves. Awesome!
Really? They’re quite common in North America :)
@@sopwithhannah2401 Ooh, interesting. Thanks for letting me know
Careful which ones you go to though. Changing the water is expensive and time consuming, and most park visitors won't notice the difference at the time, so some places will literally just leave the same water in the wave pool all summer. Nobody notices during the day when the park is open and the wave machine is running, but the lifeguards sure notice the trash and layer of oil floating on the surface after they shut it off.
Not every place does that, but plenty do, and it's super easy for them to get away with since, as said, most guests won't notice at the time
@@michealdrake3421 Ooof. Thanks for educating us, that's nasty
0:37 dream core
Usually it's a fan a strong on at taht, behind that wall is a few strong fans taht go into the back part of the chamber where only air is, and there's a pipe with a little open close thing that when it's open, air passes through and out, when closed the air is forced to the water making a wave
I usually am not affraid of anything, even my fear for spiders I fought and now I think they are actually cute, but damn... I have never gotten so scared in my life. I'm complitely terrified about what I saw in this video. I don't know what it is, but I'm very much affraid of all of this
In 2005, I got sucked underwater into one of these and nearly drowned. It was pretty awesome.
Wave pools brings back terrifying and fun experiences HAHAH in my childhood . When i was 6 years old I thought i was going to get eaten by those grids if i got closer. 18 years old and still terrified if i i ever get to a wave pool
The most straight to the point video i have seen in a long time..thank you
It´s so sad in public pools they only choose a medium setting.
No, I want to see what it does on full power once. Set the power to maximum, release all chambers at the same time and get the mop ready.
There’s ton of conjecture about the physics of waves. Love it.
wow this brough back child hood memories of jumping just to keep my head above water and getting so much water in my lungs and accidently dringing mouth fulls of water because it would shoot down my throat so quick. but when the waves were off it was nice
Never been to wave pool b4. But this is awesome to know
Oh I've always thought it was like a huge piston pushing the water like how we use our palms to push water
Sorry for replying to an old comment, but you are correct. There are different types of wave machines and one of them works similarly to your description.
Nice! So... If, HYPOTHETICALLY speaking, I would find myself near such a control panel, that is unsupervised.... Could i make, megawaves?
The biggest wave you can get is that where you drop all at the same time, it wouldnt make it bigger by alternating cuz then you would have waves in different directions and not bigger waves
I work at a waterpark,and it gets HOT in the pump room while the wave pool is active.
It's like a freaking sauna,plus it's loud too so hearing protection is needed.
If anyone's curious as to how it sounds,think of whale songs.
Straight to the point. Thank you.
One of my first swimming experiences was in this kind of pool, I remember one time I was not prepared for the waves and we had had strawberries on pancakes for breakfast that morning. I threw up strawberries into the pool because of the wave machine. Great times, great times
Wow, this is actually really simple! I've always overthought this! Thanks!
The question we all had, thank you
I have never been in wave pool and I'm glad. That sucking machine and those chambers with bars scares the 💩 out of me.
0:28 why does it look like a prison?
Its just aset of large vents
so dumb humans cant swim up it
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Yeah. You couldn’t pay me to swim anywhere near those grates in the back of the wave pool
Omg I would have been afraid to film this. Even though the pumps are not on I would be afraid that they forgot I was under there and turn them on. OMG Final destination scene.
Its so fun! I even drank like 1 gallon of water after drowning because the resort has too big waves on the kids section
Suction Chambers, A ha' ok a blinding flash of the obvious. I first encountered one of these things over 60 years ago in Vienna, but until I watched this video I really just didn't know how the waves were made. Thank you for posting :)
Some wave machines blow air in what makes the water level lower and then when released the water preassure makes the water level go up and air is allowed back in and the air preassure makes the water go down
I was close to the end of a wave pool once. I have a fear of them now
My local amusement park has a huge wave pool and a kid in my camp who was in my group (I went there with my camp) was in the deepest area now he is like 5 foot tall and the waves started and he almost drowned but a lifeguard jumped into the pool and got him, they made a 11 year old child sign a form and fill out a paper for him almost drowning!
I am so glad to be able in my home 0:06
I don’t think so because they don’t know 0:06
There was a Waterpark I use too go too the wave pool had five settings throughout the operation the waves would keep getting bigger until you herd a siren then that’s when the biggest waves were made. This would go on all day every 15-20 minutes the waves would come on then after 5-10 minutes of gentle waves the big ones would come then it go back too no waves for 15-20 minutes
I didn't know that was how they worked. That's so interesting!
i always thought there were some kind of fans inside these "gates". Interesting technology but simple
Actually there is a large fan or blower motor used however it's in a room behind the wave-making chambers.
On the ceiling of those chambers you have the end of a pipe that will blow air over the surface the water, making waves this way.
i thought it was large moving plates or something.. but no this does make a lot of sense and also explaines the mistery of siam park's wavepool that just makes one 2 meter tall wave every couple minutes or so.. just vacuum a lot and drop it all at the same time
Thanks for letting me know, since I’ve been to typhoon lagoon in Disney world (the waves are HUGE) I’ve wondered how they worked.
That looks like a sick wave pool! Especially with the rock wall.
Wake forest University had one of them chambers on the floor of the pool and when I looked down it scared the hell out of me😊
Well it worked like i would have made one to work. The fun being an inventor for stuff that was already invented decades ago.😮💨
Dude. Your a fucking badass for being able to take those waves
Dude. Your a fucking badass for being able to take those waves
Dude. Your a fucklng badass for being able to take those waves
How dare u
A small parrot convention, how sweet!
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The kid jumping in the background got me laughing ngl 1:13
when i was a kid i thought the chambers was to keep monsters from coming out
Those grates are terrifying though
Wow this has to be in Europe. It wouldn't pass inspection in the US unless the swimmers were kept much further away from the grates. The lawsuits would be pouring in.
Here in France (Europe) they also put ropes to keep people away from the grates.
So I don't think we have that lax of a safety regulation about wave pools.
Husum ... best wave swimming hall ever!
It doesn't create a vacuum it creates pressure. There's blowers that create pressure and a pneumatic door opens which allows the air into the chamber pushing down on the water which creates the wave
I can taste the water forced down my throat already 😭
And feel the burn from it coming out my nose
Hey, that's Pirbadet in Trondheim!
Never thought I'd get footage from that place in my UA-cam recommended
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Awsome. I have long wondered. I have imagined all sorts of things. But the actual solution so simple and elegant. Thanks for the explanation!
1:22 what are those rectangular things at the side of the pool?
climbing rocks
@@Ruzzzz57an hour ago, jeez😂
Yaa
I for sure thought there were like mechanical things pushing the water to create a wave, how much energy does this use at full blast.
Actually there are quite large and deafeningly loud blower motors inside a mechanical room just behind the wave-making chambers.
They blow air over the surface of the water at the top of the chamber to make the waves and need dozens of kilowatts to accomplish that.
yo if your 6 or 7 or under 130 pounds the vacuum used when pulling the water in those chambers will literally have your ass pulled against those gates underwater at terrifying strength
Ooh...I know this!
_"How does a wave pool work?"_ Like a toilet, essentially. There's an elevated cistern, and it takes time to fill...but once it does, you dump the water, and...waves! (That's why you have periodic "wave sessions" and "calm sessions" and why all wave pools have an raised wall at the deep end, where they pump and store water during calm session.)
At west Edmonton mall the just have massive pistons pushing the water
Ive seen stickers on pool lockers where it says "if you hear a loud horn or whistle get out of the pool and lean on the walls. I think it has to something with wave malfunction or a flood. i do not know but i want to know what that means and what would happen to make the whistle/ horn go off. Is it wave malfunction or a flood or something else? There is waves but there is a bzeer not a hor or whistle. plus no one gets out of the pool when the waves coe on so what does the sticker mean??
When I was younger i used to pretend believe there was a shark behind the bars, I never believed it, but I definitely pretended too hard and convinced myself for a few seconds
You look like the type of person to be named Agent Smith
Did anyone used to do this in the bath? I used to grab onto the sides, pull myself forward to push all the water, and then slide back to be hit with a giant wave
He had agent smith vibes under the water 😂
I just wanted to check a random video on how the wave pool works, but I'm surprised to find its my local pool in Trondheim, Norway. Pirbadet!
Bro is a legend for going next to that
Very cool, thank you!
I actually thought it was big flaps that moved up and down, pushing the water in and out.
also exists, those are mechanical wave machines. not as great as these pneumatic ones though, more moving parts means more risk of problems, and more parts exposed to water means higher risk of rust and seizing.
I wonder how much power is required to stuck up all that water.
Or how big is the electric bill?
No water is su ked, instead it's a big blower motor that blows huge quantities of air over the surface of the water inside the chambers. There is a pipe coming from a mechanical room behind the chambers and sitting a few feet above the water.
The power usage is at least a few dozen kilowatts and one of the reasons wave pools don't run continously is that power consumption as it would end up in a (even more) tremendous power bill for the water park owner at the end of the day.
man I am jealous of that pool, it has a wavepool and rock climbing!
Thanks for teaching me something I didn't really need to know but am glad I now do lmao
I recall California Adventure has a wave machine adjacent to the California Screamin roller coaster that creates waves in the water.The last several times I have been there, there were no waves. I often wondered if it no longer works . I enjoyed the waves as it was so realistic and peaceful. It made the area more realistic, like a surf.
I always thought it was the staff with nets because every time the machine turned on the staff would be netting the pool
Can you get stuck in the wave machine???
No
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No that’s impossible.
Only if you take the grate off then deliberately swim inside the chamber. And only if the machine is running, otherwise you would be able to swim right out.
Bj penn got stuck in one