It’s truly astounding how even such rudimentary graphics can still force such a physical reaction. Just seeing the wave come up, crest high enough enough on the screen and rise higher then the buoy, shook me to the pit of stomach.
@@Gamingniqqa Well, from a philosophical/neurological perspective, there’s definitely intelligence behind their curiosity and awareness of the fact that they can ‘viscerally feel’, or imagine/empathize with an intense experience based off of a simple graphical representation. It was just an observation they made, and for many it is an interesting topic or passion that sparked entire fields of study that have yielded amazing insights and progress for humanity. I’m probably extending a bit beyond what they intended to convey, but if you actually observe and ask yourself why you experience [any specific thing] the way you do, you’ll find that tens of millions of people found that question interesting enough to pursue academically/professionally; from human behavior and evolutionary biology, to philosophy and theories of mind, hormonology and bio-chemistry. It’s pretty boring and narrow-minded to dismiss them with the “No, you’re just dumb”. Like, it is such an empty comment that at best, literally does nothing at all: probably doesn’t bother the person you responded to, and most people who read it will be reflectively dismissive of it; but at worst it drags someone else down. That’s a net negative contribution to the world imo and the internet is rife with meaninglessly negative banter lmao C’mon, life can be more fun when you actually engage with ambiguous questions or observations, and you can proudly learn a lot in the process of meaningfully entertaining things lol. Instead of throwing barely applicable internet-troll style comments around ‘just because’
@@Gamingniqqa To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
Canadian Coast guard couldnt figure out what was destroying the wave bouys... turns out they were getting tumbled inside the wave and getting wrapped in their own anchor chains. Periodic rogue waves were well beyond the size previously thought possible.
The scariest thing about rogue waves is that for most of history nobody believed they were possible. Then humanity developed steel double-hulled ships and reports of rogue waves skyrocketed. This means that for almost the entirety of humanity’s history on the seas, whoever saw a rogue wave didn’t make it back to talk about it.
@@UCFFAN407ever been in a boat in turbulent seas? It isn’t fun. It is scary. It’s even scarier when you’re surrounded by 8-12 foot seas and a wall of water 70 feet plus comes out of nowhere. You can play it cool here on YT. But I know damn well you’d shit yourself on board.
@@UCFFAN407 Hundreds of thousands of sailors around the world care about being able to detect rogue waves before they kill them. This is part of dicovering how to detect them. That's why many people "care".
@@UCFFAN407 Rogue waves are a concern for boaters and people working on drilling platforms. There's a vast amount of shipping on the seas bringing us products of every kind but it's not really a concern for land lovers.
@@UCFFAN407people have experienced rogue waves for hundreds of years but they were only measured with scientific instruments recently. Its not as wild as recently having believable footage of big foot or aliens but it's pretty up there
A rogue wave is defined as twice the height of the waves surrounding it. What made this wave truly terrifying is, compared to the regular waves around it, it was three times their height.
@@thefourshowflip isnt also the fact that most of the pull back isnt seen? like regular waves you see the change in the water but to my understanding rogue waves build up entirely under thew surface
58 feet for this monster. It's not the tallest on record but it's the most prominent so far, being 3 times taller than subsequent waves instead of the usual 2x.
Old friend of mine who was on the Murmansk convoy run, Navy escorting freighters, once told me, son, never, never go in to the Atlantic in anything smaller than a cruiser. Of course this was before the smart people actually believed in Rogue Waves, he did though, he lived through more than one of them. And when you think one nearly sunk the QM1 with 16,000 men on board in the 1940’s and another one nearly took out the QE2 in the early eighties. Those are two big ships, 80,000 tonnes, no one wonder my old friend reckoned nothing smaller than a cruiser, and he didnt seem to sure about that.
@@thegamesuniverse308 That I could not tell you, he reckoned the whole thing was a disaster I think. Like most of those old blokes he didnt want to talk about it much, he just said he saw some horrible things. He was tough as teak that fella, but he didnt want to remember or dwell on it over much. Pity really, if you could have recorded what a lot of those returned servicemen did and saw, maybe those today would appreciate their service a bit more, but probably not a selfish and unappreciative lot we are.
My brother crossed the Atlantic from Cape Verde to the Caribbean in a small sail boat. He didn't encounter anything like this during his 20 days of journey
I always love how calm, yet dangerous it looks right after the peak intensity. Like the rogue wave robbed the surrounding water of most of its energy, leaving it to froth and churn
Saw something like this happen at night on a beach in Rio once. You hear the waves crashing as you're walking down the sidewalk along the sand lit by street lights. Then all of a sudden it goes quiet, and you see this dark thing rising where there should be whitecaps and then it crashes with a roar. We were well away from it and no one was in the water, but man that was creepy.
Crossing the Gulf of Alaska on September 14th 1999, about 1am we were hit by a series of escalating waves, with the largest wave dropping us down the backside with a bit of levitation. The VHF exploded a few minutes after we encountered it with a cargo ship south of us stating "it was at least a 100 footer". I know one boat out of another group north of us got their batteries swamped and lost power. In my 30 years in commercial fishing I have never felt a bigger rise and fall, and for a good 5 seconds we levatated on the way down. I've always been curious as to just how big that wave was. Largest I've ever ridden.
But if you look at the shape too. The problem with a Rogue Wave is it drains the surrounding waves of their energy in order to pile up to astonishing heights. So sailor's refer to the trough just before it as a hole in the sea, like a cliff that the ship literally falls into & buries the bow into the wave before the Ship has even lifted up again. Ship's take damage from the freefall because it can be 10 meters deep & damage the bow, then the wave causes alot more damage. Because it's an oversized breaking wave traveling at a unusually high speed, the wave is highly unstable & just breaks over the Ship with a force that the Ship is not designed to handle.
Imagine ancient people witnessing a freak wave whilst out at sea; it must have felt like they were witnessing the wrath of Poseidon himself. Makes me wonder what thoughts must've been running through their mind...
That is NOT the most extreme rogue wave on record. In fact, it is not even close. The paper 'Oceanic rogue waves' (1) by Dysthe, Krogstad and Muller reports on an event in the Black Sea which was far more extreme than the Ucluelet wave. The Ucluelet wave surpassed the significant wave height by a factor of 2.93. The Datawell Waverider buoy reported a wave which was 3.91 times the significant wave height, as detailed in the paper. Inspection of the buoy after the recording revealed no malfunction (2). According to the authors assessing that data, the wave was 'anomalous', which is indeed correct, as that is the *real* most extreme wave recorded with a high-precision instrument. The paper also reports even more extreme waves from a different source, but these were possibly overestimated, as assessed by the data's own authors. Furthermore, the paper 'Rogue waves in 2006-2010' (3) by I.Nikolkina and I. Didenkulova also reveals waves more extreme than the Ucluelet wave. From the paper, we infer that in 2006 a 21-meter wave appeared in a sea with a significant wave height of 3.9 meters. The factor difference is 5.38, *almost twice that of the Ucluelet wave*! The paper also reveals the MV Pont-Aven incident as marginally more extreme than the Ucluelet event. The paper also assesses a report of an 11m wave in a significant wave height of 1.9 meters, but casts doubt on that claim. Finally, perhaps the most extreme rogue wave event ever recorded (but not by a high-precision instrument), is revealed by Craig B. Smith's paper 'Extreme waves and ship design' (4). The incident saw a 30-meter wall of water arise in 'calm seas'. To conclude, I accept that the Ucluelet wave was interesting, but you should have checked your facts before citing that news, as many other papers reveal that the claim made by the Ucluelet wave researchers is completely wrong. (1) www.researchgate.net/publication/234151195_Oceanic_Rogue_Waves (2) www.researchgate.net/publication/292873547_A_freak_wave_in_the_Black_Sea_Observations_and_simulation (3) nhess.copernicus.org/articles/11/2913/2011/ (4) www.researchgate.net/publication/242199940_Extreme_Waves_and_Ship_Design
Looked this up because neither the video nor the description give any indication of how big the damn wave was. “On 17 November 2020, a buoy moored in 45 metres (148 ft) of water on Amphitrite Bank in the Pacific Ocean 7 kilometres (4.3 mi; 3.8 nmi) off Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, at 48.9°N 125.6°W recorded a lone 17.6-metre (58 ft) tall wave among surrounding waves about 6 metres (20 ft) in height. “
There have been taller waves recorded including one monstrous wave almost 100 feet high but this rogue wave was the most prominent, sticking out 3 times higher than the average wave in the surrounding sea. It already looks like a wall of water in the simulation. In real life, it would have been terrifying to witness.
Exactly! Contrary to popular belief, t's not the sharks that scare me about the ocean. It's the chaotic and merciless forces that govern its surface, and the crushing dark abyss that awaits you beneath.
Stop pretending you're special because you're "afraid of the ocean". You aren't. It's completely normal to be afraid of danger and the unknown, all humans are.
Booo lol I live near the ocean and try and see it as much as I can. I surf so I practically live on the beach. The ocean isn’t for everyone and it can be unforgiving if it isn’t respected. It’s better that some stay out of the water.
There's no reason to fear the ocean as a whole. I live on a coastal town and it's incredibly enjoyable, but we certainly have a lot of non-locals that genuinely should just think of water as lava at this point because rip current deaths are constantly being reported. No one listens. No one respects her at all. So she takes many people every year. We're never suprised, but it's always tough to hear because it's a small town nonetheless. Although we do our best to warn people, especially about the piers. But people always think "that'll never happen to me!" until you know, it does.
@@futurepainthemaking9821 True story: when I was a child, I was watching the waves with my family in a small, rough beach near our hometown. The waves were strong and it was popular with surfers. We were at a "safe" distance, behind the railing in the beach's access ramp, until suddenly two consecutive waves piled up and created a double wave that picked up speed as it swept along the narrow beach, and by the time we realised it had reached the ramp. It knocked off and dragged my mum and my younger brother before anyone could react. My mum was able to stand up on her own, but my brother was semi unconscious from the hit and was dragged back to the sea. Luckily a surfer was close and rescued him before it was too late. Goddamn scary shit, I've never underestimated the sea since then. One moment you think you are safe, the next moment the sea has claimed your life for himself. Guys please be careful
@@BillionairesArentYourFriends I saved someone who got pulled out by the riptide. I let him get up on my surfboard and swam and tugged him back. When we got near the beach, in 1 foot high water, he was in shock and still wouldn't let go of the board. It took 3 of his friends to wrench his arms off of it. I heard about people drowning trying to save others, so I am glad that didn't happen to me. I don't know what made me decide to give him my surfboard to climb on it, but I just though to do it when I got close. I'd like to say he was some intelligent scientist or something, but he was just some Asian gangbanger, covered with tattoos. They are common where I live.
It's fairly well known that waves in phase or out of phase augment or cancel each other. Notice just prior to "the big one" there is a significant surge over average preceeding wave height. It is followed by a deep trough and then the large 58 footer. The prior wave helped set it up like a volleyball team. I rather doubt all waves travel thru the water at the same speed, it's known that significant shock events (earthquakes) generate waves that propagate thru deep water at hundreds of miles per hour. The rogue wave is essentially the chance occurrence of numerous smaller waves peaking thru the same time and place. If the big wave in the sequence was in fact one wave and that prior one faster or slower, there would be an even bigger wave before or after this was recorded miles away. However, I'd think that unlikely, the waves in the ocean are criss crossing so the spike recorded by the buoy likely was not one unified wave but an intersection and more of a point slosh of enormous height, not smooth rolling breakers as depicted.
I was thinking the same thing. Makes perfect sense. I thought about it like jumping on a trampoline and how we never get really high on our own strength but if someone jumps close to us their weight propels us to the moon!!! Thus I believe the slosh of one wave dropping heavy in the trough pushes the big wave.
This is literally the textbook explanation for how rogue waves are generated. In fact, it's practically how all waves in the ocean work. The rogue waves are just the most extraordinary outliers. While I commend you for reasoning your own way to this conclusion, it's not exactly a groundbreaking proposition.
ive heard from a pal in the navy, that a helicopter picked it up to service the bouy, noticed they were running low on fuel, put the buoy back and went and refuelled, but, so obviously, the 100ft descrepancy can be explained. not a rogue wave. just lifted up by a helicopter and put back down.
Yes. Fluid dynamics of 343 quintillion gallons of water on the surface of a giant spheroid, paired with plate tectonics and lunar-gravity tidal distortion. The exact same thing happens in our atmosphere (gases obey the laws of fluid dynamics as well), and we call it "the weather", which also creates "freak" phenomenon (like this wave) in the form of hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. Absolutely *nothing* supernatural is happening here.
There are a number of theories about how these waves form. Most of them have to do with resonance from the standing waves creating waves 2x the significant wave height
So, what was the actual height from preceding trough to crest of the wave? I assigned 1 meter to each square. I counted off 23 meters about half-way up the advancing rogue. By rough estimate, that would make the wave 50 meters or 163 feet. The Icon of the Seas - the latest mega-cruise ship travesty - height is roughly 150 feet to the bridge deck. You do the math. Having been a merchant seaman for 11 years, we encountered rogues, but not like that one.
This record is relative to the waves around it. This wave was 2.9 times bigger than the average of the waves before and after it. This height isn't uncommon, but they're usually surrounded by similar sized waves. This one just came out of the blue - literally.
The reall terrifying thing is that the first wave is just the front. Behind that is the trough thats about a wave lower. That means when that wVe hits its not hitting the bow. it's hitting the whole deck
oh jeez yes that is the hole in the ocean that is insanely scary. remember how just 20 years ago we all thought that stuff like this happens once every 10.000 years? now we know we probably don't even have to way 24h for this stuff to appear somewhere. we need to measure more and collect interesting data about this thing we're living on xD the more we know the more we realize how much more there is that we don't know yet. amazing video, thanks for sharing!
Yes. 1st thing that popped into my head when I saw the large wave before the rouge. Like you said, something 'massive' came then the rouge wave followed. I was looking for this comment 🏆
Rogue waves are just faster waves that gobble up smaller waves, in this case, the rogue wave was after what seemed like another smaller rogue wave (about 9m high, the big one was 15m), or simply another wave that formed together
You can see the patterns in the waves change at the beginning.. They should put 8 buoys 100 to 300 feet apart from one and other in a circle to measure consistencies and or inconsistencies with wave patterns. We could predict them with that data by satellite and find every rouge wave to alert ships.
The sad thing is that there's really nothing stopping us, as a species, from mass producing $10 solar gliders to collect an overwhelming body of scientific data and understand our planet better. The terrifying thing is that there's nothing really stopping us, as a species, from mass producing $10 dollar solar gliders to mass collect surveillance data. Pleasant dreams.
In a roundabout manner. Nothing warms up uniformly, and the Earth is no exception. Uneven warming causes additional winds and storms as temperature always wants to equalise. Additional winds and storms cause more large waves. When there are more large waves, there are more large waves to overlap and cause more gigantic waves. When there's more gigantic waves, some of them will, by roll of the die, be extra gigantic.
I get that these are the result in multiple smaller waves, each with slightly different frequencies. Eventually, through random chance, they'll all align and "add up." But for the outlyers, crazy-tall waves that push the limits of believability, I wonder if a meteorite impact could supply one more source of wave that gets added in to reach the really crazy heights.
Calling that a wave is _extremely_ misleading. There isn't even enough water in that entire bay to form an actual half kilometre tall wave. The landslide slammed into the water with enough force that it washed up over a 500 metre tall obstacle. Still utterly terrifying. Perhaps morso because it's not readily disbelieved exaggeration.
It may not be the most extreme rogue wave on record, but it sure was really interesting to see a computer simulation of what a rogue wave looks like. Until this video, other than being an extra large wave, I really didn't know what the exact definition of one was. Good video.
When the perspective tilted I knew I was in for some deep shit. Also - who knew buoys collected sea information remotely ?? What a great idea. Can’t believe I never clocked that
Question: How tall is the buoy, and what diameter? My guess is it's roughly the size of one of those pods astronauts use to land in the ocean from outer space.....so about 20ft diameter or something.
Wow as a sailor, I’d think ok, I can survive that big wave, turn in, hold on. My heart would sink as I crested the first and started falling down the back only to the see the second already peaked and closing in. No climbing that face.
I felt the drop in my belly just watching this
Same here!
+1 🌊
Immediately buy a kit and test it
Sempre quis saber o motivo dessa reação do corpo ao ver essas situações.
Same!
The whole surface of the ocean dropped right before it came. Makes sense, cool to see in action. Gotta love physics
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Not cool when you see it in person.
@user-fc8xw4fi5vNPC head ass
@user-fc8xw4fi5vI HATE that I laughed at this. Stop being so immature 😂😂😂😂😂
The trough
It’s truly astounding how even such rudimentary graphics can still force such a physical reaction. Just seeing the wave come up, crest high enough enough on the screen and rise higher then the buoy, shook me to the pit of stomach.
Same
@@Gamingniqqa Well, from a philosophical/neurological perspective, there’s definitely intelligence behind their curiosity and awareness of the fact that they can ‘viscerally feel’, or imagine/empathize with an intense experience based off of a simple graphical representation.
It was just an observation they made, and for many it is an interesting topic or passion that sparked entire fields of study that have yielded amazing insights and progress for humanity.
I’m probably extending a bit beyond what they intended to convey, but if you actually observe and ask yourself why you experience [any specific thing] the way you do, you’ll find that tens of millions of people found that question interesting enough to pursue academically/professionally; from human behavior and evolutionary biology, to philosophy and theories of mind, hormonology and bio-chemistry.
It’s pretty boring and narrow-minded to dismiss them with the “No, you’re just dumb”. Like, it is such an empty comment that at best, literally does nothing at all: probably doesn’t bother the person you responded to, and most people who read it will be reflectively dismissive of it; but at worst it drags someone else down.
That’s a net negative contribution to the world imo and the internet is rife with meaninglessly negative banter lmao
C’mon, life can be more fun when you actually engage with ambiguous questions or observations, and you can proudly learn a lot in the process of meaningfully entertaining things lol. Instead of throwing barely applicable internet-troll style comments around ‘just because’
No u @@Gamingniqqa
@@Gamingniqqa To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
Canadian Coast guard couldnt figure out what was destroying the wave bouys... turns out they were getting tumbled inside the wave and getting wrapped in their own anchor chains. Periodic rogue waves were well beyond the size previously thought possible.
The scariest thing about rogue waves is that for most of history nobody believed they were possible. Then humanity developed steel double-hulled ships and reports of rogue waves skyrocketed.
This means that for almost the entirety of humanity’s history on the seas, whoever saw a rogue wave didn’t make it back to talk about it.
or they were stories told in the pub.
I was shocked at the first big wave, thinking it was the one. Then right after the real one followed and I lost my shit. Scary
@@UCFFAN407ever been in a boat in turbulent seas? It isn’t fun. It is scary.
It’s even scarier when you’re surrounded by 8-12 foot seas and a wall of water 70 feet plus comes out of nowhere.
You can play it cool here on YT. But I know damn well you’d shit yourself on board.
@@UCFFAN407 Hundreds of thousands of sailors around the world care about being able to detect rogue waves before they kill them. This is part of dicovering how to detect them. That's why many people "care".
@@UCFFAN407 Rogue waves are a concern for boaters and people working on drilling platforms. There's a vast amount of shipping on the seas bringing us products of every kind but it's not really a concern for land lovers.
@@UCFFAN407people have experienced rogue waves for hundreds of years but they were only measured with scientific instruments recently. Its not as wild as recently having believable footage of big foot or aliens but it's pretty up there
They really tricked you didnt they
A rogue wave is defined as twice the height of the waves surrounding it. What made this wave truly terrifying is, compared to the regular waves around it, it was three times their height.
What makes them so terrifying isn’t the height it’s how narrow the peak is; look how steep it is
@@thefourshowflip isnt also the fact that most of the pull back isnt seen? like regular waves you see the change in the water but to my understanding rogue waves build up entirely under thew surface
Just for clarification: Twice as high as the significant wave height, or twice as high as the average of 1/3 of the highest waves.
They're called rogue waves not just because of their size, but because they also tend to move perpendicular to the surrounding waves.
@@gruntgamer4204this is not true. Rogue waves are created by convergence of waves at slightly different frequencies along the same parallel axis
the surface rising above my screen’s upper bound is crazy
I felt like I drowned in the simulation when that happened haha
It’s only a bunch of moving lines and it still makes me shudder.
according to string theory we're all just a bunch of moving lines. so... yeah. think about that i guess.
@@ASkepticalHumanOnUA-cam The string theory is still only a theory tho.
@@Sparks2490
" *according* to string theory"
"Oh that wasnt so bad, just went up and down a li-- WHAT THE FUCK?!"
Exactly what I did haha
☝️ this was all of us
**squints** There she is…..
58 feet for this monster. It's not the tallest on record but it's the most prominent so far, being 3 times taller than subsequent waves instead of the usual 2x.
Would it make noise ?
Could you even hear it approaching ?
Why did I feel like I was drowning when the big one came 😂
Because the "camera" was underwater.
it definitely sank something scary shit
That’s what she said…
@@THEL05 that makes literally no sense.
That ghastly abyss which cannot be unseen.
Old friend of mine who was on the Murmansk convoy run, Navy escorting freighters, once told me, son, never, never go in to the Atlantic in anything smaller than a cruiser. Of course this was before the smart people actually believed in Rogue Waves, he did though, he lived through more than one of them. And when you think one nearly sunk the QM1 with 16,000 men on board in the 1940’s and another one nearly took out the QE2 in the early eighties. Those are two big ships, 80,000 tonnes, no one wonder my old friend reckoned nothing smaller than a cruiser, and he didnt seem to sure about that.
Woa
Was the Murmansk convoy run after or before the PQ12/17 Arctic convoy desasters?
@@thegamesuniverse308 That I could not tell you, he reckoned the whole thing was a disaster I think. Like most of those old blokes he didnt want to talk about it much, he just said he saw some horrible things. He was tough as teak that fella, but he didnt want to remember or dwell on it over much. Pity really, if you could have recorded what a lot of those returned servicemen did and saw, maybe those today would appreciate their service a bit more, but probably not a selfish and unappreciative lot we are.
My brother crossed the Atlantic from Cape Verde to the Caribbean in a small sail boat. He didn't encounter anything like this during his 20 days of journey
@@dalane5196Until modern history, everyone was a veteran lol
I always love how calm, yet dangerous it looks right after the peak intensity. Like the rogue wave robbed the surrounding water of most of its energy, leaving it to froth and churn
Saw something like this happen at night on a beach in Rio once. You hear the waves crashing as you're walking down the sidewalk along the sand lit by street lights. Then all of a sudden it goes quiet, and you see this dark thing rising where there should be whitecaps and then it crashes with a roar. We were well away from it and no one was in the water, but man that was creepy.
Stop lying. Rogue waves do not happen near the shores.
You can see some of the power in how it pushes the buoy cable around despite the small surface area.
Crossing the Gulf of Alaska on September 14th 1999, about 1am we were hit by a series of escalating waves, with the largest wave dropping us down the backside with a bit of levitation. The VHF exploded a few minutes after we encountered it with a cargo ship south of us stating "it was at least a 100 footer". I know one boat out of another group north of us got their batteries swamped and lost power.
In my 30 years in commercial fishing I have never felt a bigger rise and fall, and for a good 5 seconds we levatated on the way down.
I've always been curious as to just how big that wave was. Largest I've ever ridden.
In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).
You got that from a news report which brought you here
wtf that's insane
But if you look at the shape too.
The problem with a Rogue Wave is it drains the surrounding waves of their energy in order to pile up to astonishing heights.
So sailor's refer to the trough just before it as a hole in the sea, like a cliff that the ship literally falls into & buries the bow into the wave before the Ship has even lifted up again.
Ship's take damage from the freefall because it can be 10 meters deep & damage the bow, then the wave causes alot more damage.
Because it's an oversized breaking wave traveling at a unusually high speed, the wave is highly unstable & just breaks over the Ship with a force that the Ship is not designed to handle.
@@brantleyfoster021isn’t that how the mv Derbyshire sank?
@@cranksetwrench
Yes I think this may have been the case, but not certain.
It's still a mystery how that Ship sank.
"Don't worry, the game isn't that hard."
The learning curve: 0:38
what is this, Warframe?
Sekiro.
DEFINITELY Hell Let Loose 😂
I think Path of Exile fits that description almost, except that noone would tell you its not that hard!
It brought us down underneath with it.
Imagine ancient people witnessing a freak wave whilst out at sea; it must have felt like they were witnessing the wrath of Poseidon himself. Makes me wonder what thoughts must've been running through their mind...
Uhhh
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I wouldn’t blame em if they became superstitious due to events like these
"HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT I'M GONNA DIE HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT I DON'T WANT TO DIE HOLY SHIT HOLY"
Something like that.
*hears the comic book guy from Simpsons* "oh I wasted my life"
At 0:30 I was "damn, that's a bit big"... and shortly after I was shocked.
That is NOT the most extreme rogue wave on record. In fact, it is not even close.
The paper 'Oceanic rogue waves' (1) by Dysthe, Krogstad and Muller reports on an event in the Black Sea which was far more extreme than the Ucluelet wave. The Ucluelet wave surpassed the significant wave height by a factor of 2.93. The Datawell Waverider buoy reported a wave which was 3.91 times the significant wave height, as detailed in the paper. Inspection of the buoy after the recording revealed no malfunction (2).
According to the authors assessing that data, the wave was 'anomalous', which is indeed correct, as that is the *real* most extreme wave recorded with a high-precision instrument.
The paper also reports even more extreme waves from a different source, but these were possibly overestimated, as assessed by the data's own authors.
Furthermore, the paper 'Rogue waves in 2006-2010' (3) by I.Nikolkina and I. Didenkulova also reveals waves more extreme than the Ucluelet wave.
From the paper, we infer that in 2006 a 21-meter wave appeared in a sea with a significant wave height of 3.9 meters. The factor difference is 5.38, *almost twice that of the Ucluelet wave*!
The paper also reveals the MV Pont-Aven incident as marginally more extreme than the Ucluelet event. The paper also assesses a report of an 11m wave in a significant wave height of 1.9 meters, but casts doubt on that claim.
Finally, perhaps the most extreme rogue wave event ever recorded (but not by a high-precision instrument), is revealed by Craig B. Smith's paper 'Extreme waves and ship design' (4). The incident saw a 30-meter wall of water arise in 'calm seas'.
To conclude, I accept that the Ucluelet wave was interesting, but you should have checked your facts before citing that news, as many other papers reveal that the claim made by the Ucluelet wave researchers is completely wrong.
(1) www.researchgate.net/publication/234151195_Oceanic_Rogue_Waves
(2) www.researchgate.net/publication/292873547_A_freak_wave_in_the_Black_Sea_Observations_and_simulation
(3) nhess.copernicus.org/articles/11/2913/2011/
(4) www.researchgate.net/publication/242199940_Extreme_Waves_and_Ship_Design
Bravo!
Sir this is a Wendy's
This deserves more likes and a pin to the top
@@JungleLarryclassic
I thought the Draupner wave was the highest.
My uncle told me that at some point in the 1980s his ship got caught in one that was around 15 meters. He said it was not a fun ride.
Seeing this, it's easy to imagine many ships throughout history being lost to such gargantuan waves.
Looked this up because neither the video nor the description give any indication of how big the damn wave was.
“On 17 November 2020, a buoy moored in 45 metres (148 ft) of water on Amphitrite Bank in the Pacific Ocean 7 kilometres (4.3 mi; 3.8 nmi) off Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, at 48.9°N 125.6°W recorded a lone 17.6-metre (58 ft) tall wave among surrounding waves about 6 metres (20 ft) in height. “
There have been taller waves recorded including one monstrous wave almost 100 feet high but this rogue wave was the most prominent, sticking out 3 times higher than the average wave in the surrounding sea. It already looks like a wall of water in the simulation. In real life, it would have been terrifying to witness.
Thank you!!! The so-called 'creator' of this video need only upload a description. Lazy bugger.
People think I’m afraid of the ocean because of the creatures that lurk in the deep. But nope! They’d be a welcome sight if this is the comparison.
Everything in the ocean becomes much scarier because we know so little compared to things we know about land
Exactly! Contrary to popular belief, t's not the sharks that scare me about the ocean. It's the chaotic and merciless forces that govern its surface, and the crushing dark abyss that awaits you beneath.
Stop pretending you're special because you're "afraid of the ocean". You aren't. It's completely normal to be afraid of danger and the unknown, all humans are.
@@osasunaitor There are popular beliefs about what scares you ?
@@nephastgweiz1022 no but there are popular beliefs about what's the scariest thing in the sea
Im not terrified because of how big it is.. Im terrified because of how fast that b came up outta nowhere.
Thats what she said.
Sometimes I am glad I don't spend much time in the ocean.
Booo lol I live near the ocean and try and see it as much as I can. I surf so I practically live on the beach. The ocean isn’t for everyone and it can be unforgiving if it isn’t respected. It’s better that some stay out of the water.
@@futurepainthemaking9821 Chill out soyface
There's no reason to fear the ocean as a whole. I live on a coastal town and it's incredibly enjoyable, but we certainly have a lot of non-locals that genuinely should just think of water as lava at this point because rip current deaths are constantly being reported. No one listens. No one respects her at all. So she takes many people every year. We're never suprised, but it's always tough to hear because it's a small town nonetheless. Although we do our best to warn people, especially about the piers. But people always think "that'll never happen to me!" until you know, it does.
@@futurepainthemaking9821 True story: when I was a child, I was watching the waves with my family in a small, rough beach near our hometown. The waves were strong and it was popular with surfers. We were at a "safe" distance, behind the railing in the beach's access ramp, until suddenly two consecutive waves piled up and created a double wave that picked up speed as it swept along the narrow beach, and by the time we realised it had reached the ramp. It knocked off and dragged my mum and my younger brother before anyone could react. My mum was able to stand up on her own, but my brother was semi unconscious from the hit and was dragged back to the sea. Luckily a surfer was close and rescued him before it was too late.
Goddamn scary shit, I've never underestimated the sea since then. One moment you think you are safe, the next moment the sea has claimed your life for himself. Guys please be careful
@@BillionairesArentYourFriends I saved someone who got pulled out by the riptide. I let him get up on my surfboard and swam and tugged him back. When we got near the beach, in 1 foot high water, he was in shock and still wouldn't let go of the board. It took 3 of his friends to wrench his arms off of it. I heard about people drowning trying to save others, so I am glad that didn't happen to me. I don't know what made me decide to give him my surfboard to climb on it, but I just though to do it when I got close. I'd like to say he was some intelligent scientist or something, but he was just some Asian gangbanger, covered with tattoos. They are common where I live.
That poor buoy.
A poor buoy is a sandwich in New Orleans
Hes just a poor buoy from a poor family
That's terrifying
Makes the movie The Perfect Storm feel a little more real
Every time I watch this video I think the wave has come, then it just dips. That would have been some sight to behold
*I thought it was yesterday, but this is from 2020. Very NEW news*
That's what you get for thinking 😂
It's fairly well known that waves in phase or out of phase augment or cancel each other. Notice just prior to "the big one" there is a significant surge over average preceeding wave height. It is followed by a deep trough and then the large 58 footer. The prior wave helped set it up like a volleyball team.
I rather doubt all waves travel thru the water at the same speed, it's known that significant shock events (earthquakes) generate waves that propagate thru deep water at hundreds of miles per hour. The rogue wave is essentially the chance occurrence of numerous smaller waves peaking thru the same time and place. If the big wave in the sequence was in fact one wave and that prior one faster or slower, there would be an even bigger wave before or after this was recorded miles away. However, I'd think that unlikely, the waves in the ocean are criss crossing so the spike recorded by the buoy likely was not one unified wave but an intersection and more of a point slosh of enormous height, not smooth rolling breakers as depicted.
How can you speculate all this, are you some kind of wave expert?
This pretty much exactly what I was thinking.
@@jaaameslee basic high-school physics
I was thinking the same thing. Makes perfect sense. I thought about it like jumping on a trampoline and how we never get really high on our own strength but if someone jumps close to us their weight propels us to the moon!!! Thus I believe the slosh of one wave dropping heavy in the trough pushes the big wave.
This is literally the textbook explanation for how rogue waves are generated. In fact, it's practically how all waves in the ocean work. The rogue waves are just the most extraordinary outliers. While I commend you for reasoning your own way to this conclusion, it's not exactly a groundbreaking proposition.
The wave was so big it went outside of the camera's point of view. That's insane
The fun the yellow detector thing is having weeeeeeee
I want to be it in my next life
I was not affected emotionally by this animated clip
I, too found myself underwhelmed.
Y’all are real ones
I was. I'm about to go outside and hug my lawn.
@onebigadvocado6376 it's gonna be okay, we're here for you.
ive heard from a pal in the navy, that a helicopter picked it up to service the bouy, noticed they were running low on fuel, put the buoy back and went and refuelled, but, so obviously, the 100ft descrepancy can be explained. not a rogue wave. just lifted up by a helicopter and put back down.
Dude I was like "wow that's a big wave" and it wasn't even the big one. 💀
Imagine the sailors during the Age of Sail who came up against these, so scary
Everything has a cause, something must've caused this.
Yes. Fluid dynamics of 343 quintillion gallons of water on the surface of a giant spheroid, paired with plate tectonics and lunar-gravity tidal distortion. The exact same thing happens in our atmosphere (gases obey the laws of fluid dynamics as well), and we call it "the weather", which also creates "freak" phenomenon (like this wave) in the form of hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.
Absolutely *nothing* supernatural is happening here.
A simple google search of "rogue waves" explains the obvious that "something must have caused this".
There are a number of theories about how these waves form. Most of them have to do with resonance from the standing waves creating waves 2x the significant wave height
Quantum mechanics doesn’t need a cause. Just matter.
"Let's put the 'camera' 50 feet high."
-Some scientists, missing their 'camera'
That is pretty damn insane! Cheers for posting, really cool video.
Hard to belive a moving graph like this can actually be scary
That’s crazy!!! Never seen such a big wave like that before. It’s huge! 🌊
My favorite part of the simulation was the part where zero data was given.
yea I have no idea how big anything in this video is...
yeh reading the comments make me think lots of people just have a fear of water because nothing about this is scary
The peak of the wave was seven million billion metres above the surface of the moon
each square is 1m sq.
Sorry I’m 10 inches
I was in a rogue wave and died
I'm not exactly sure how a simple 3d primitive and a moving grid made my hair stand on end, but, well done. This is why I stay off the ocean.
I feel like this should be accompanied by a jump scare sting.
É apenas um gráfico 📈 e eu fiquei com um frio na barriga só de assistir ao vídeo. Moro a poucos metros da praia.😮
So, what was the actual height from preceding trough to crest of the wave? I assigned 1 meter to each square. I counted off 23 meters about half-way up the advancing rogue. By rough estimate, that would make the wave 50 meters or 163 feet. The Icon of the Seas - the latest mega-cruise ship travesty - height is roughly 150 feet to the bridge deck. You do the math. Having been a merchant seaman for 11 years, we encountered rogues, but not like that one.
My stomach dropped when I saw that first big one wasn't the biggest
I remember a hurricane in the Atlantic caused an 80 foot wave at a station which is crazy that the air can do that
Holy Cow That Is A Big Wave 🌊
“Those aren’t mountains…”
And things below the water are just chillin but anything on the surface is about to take a wild ride.
I wonder what altitude the perspective of the camera was at. Knowing that would truly give the wave height perspective.
I thought that waves nearing a hundred feet were recorded before in open ocean?
This record is relative to the waves around it. This wave was 2.9 times bigger than the average of the waves before and after it. This height isn't uncommon, but they're usually surrounded by similar sized waves. This one just came out of the blue - literally.
Why not have buoys in tight 2x2 groups so you could have more data than just one-dimensional velocity and amplitude?
imagine seeing a wave like that in the waters after you've gone overboard.
Being in the water is probably safer (as long as you are a good swimmer) than being on a boat. A boat can break and sink from these waves
I'd die
I got second hand motion sickness watching this, even though I wasn't there. I can't imagine what that would feel like on a boat!
I was thinking I might be wasting my time on this video. I wasn’t disappointed.
Since they form from regular waves overlapping and temporarily combining, Rogue waves in the middle of storms are probably insane.
The reall terrifying thing is that the first wave is just the front. Behind that is the trough thats about a wave lower. That means when that wVe hits its not hitting the bow. it's hitting the whole deck
oh jeez yes that is the hole in the ocean that is insanely scary. remember how just 20 years ago we all thought that stuff like this happens once every 10.000 years? now we know we probably don't even have to way 24h for this stuff to appear somewhere. we need to measure more and collect interesting data about this thing we're living on xD the more we know the more we realize how much more there is that we don't know yet. amazing video, thanks for sharing!
It is as if something very massive took or gave that space to the stretching medium much like gravity itself.
Yes. 1st thing that popped into my head when I saw the large wave before the rouge. Like you said, something 'massive' came then the rouge wave followed. I was looking for this comment 🏆
Rogue waves are just faster waves that gobble up smaller waves, in this case, the rogue wave was after what seemed like another smaller rogue wave (about 9m high, the big one was 15m), or simply another wave that formed together
Whilst I was watching this I was remembering Assassin's creed Black flag NPC's shouting "ROUGE WAVE FACE INTO THE WAVE"
You can see the patterns in the waves change at the beginning.. They should put 8 buoys 100 to 300 feet apart from one and other in a circle to measure consistencies and or inconsistencies with wave patterns. We could predict them with that data by satellite and find every rouge wave to alert ships.
The sad thing is that there's really nothing stopping us, as a species, from mass producing $10 solar gliders to collect an overwhelming body of scientific data and understand our planet better.
The terrifying thing is that there's nothing really stopping us, as a species, from mass producing $10 dollar solar gliders to mass collect surveillance data.
Pleasant dreams.
That made me nervous 😵💫
Are these things going to become more common as the Oceans warm up?
In a roundabout manner.
Nothing warms up uniformly, and the Earth is no exception. Uneven warming causes additional winds and storms as temperature always wants to equalise. Additional winds and storms cause more large waves. When there are more large waves, there are more large waves to overlap and cause more gigantic waves.
When there's more gigantic waves, some of them will, by roll of the die, be extra gigantic.
When the POV is underwater itself, you know things are going to be bad
It was so big that graphics left the screen
The buouy: I dont get paid enough for this 💩
That finally
Wave got me fired up
The file download size was 200 bits.
I get that these are the result in multiple smaller waves, each with slightly different frequencies. Eventually, through random chance, they'll all align and "add up." But for the outlyers, crazy-tall waves that push the limits of believability, I wonder if a meteorite impact could supply one more source of wave that gets added in to reach the really crazy heights.
I dont understand anything abt waves but cool. Once agaim the algorithm brings us together
It's just a bunch of squares, how is this so terrifying?
Tallest wave ever recorded was like 500 m tall in alaska 1958. Now put that into perspective
That was caused by a completely different circumstance but still terrifying
That wasn’t a wave but a runup. There is an enormous difference.
Calling that a wave is _extremely_ misleading.
There isn't even enough water in that entire bay to form an actual half kilometre tall wave.
The landslide slammed into the water with enough force that it washed up over a 500 metre tall obstacle.
Still utterly terrifying. Perhaps morso because it's not readily disbelieved exaggeration.
I literally have no clue wtf is going on...
0:31 damn that really is a big wave. And then the next one comes. 😱
"She's not gonna let us out."
No!
- bobby
Should have the measurements of the wave heights playing on the screen!
Adding together is more than double surely?
First time an animation that scares people.
0:34 On the port bow--I don't know, I-I never saw anything like it! An enormous wall of water coming towards us!
well that was terrifying even as a 3d graph visual
It may not be the most extreme rogue wave on record, but it sure was really interesting to see a computer simulation of what a rogue wave looks like. Until this video, other than being an extra large wave, I really didn't know what the exact definition of one was. Good video.
this is just a visualization with no metrics. does anyone know the *actual* height in feet/meters?
When the perspective tilted I knew I was in for some deep shit. Also - who knew buoys collected sea information remotely ?? What a great idea. Can’t believe I never clocked that
This look like the giant wave that smashed Andrea Gail in The Perfect Storm.
Lol wtf am I on. That second wave came through and I literally gasped. Crazy stuff
I was like...wheres it goin....holy crap
These are not mountains, they are waves!
Yeah imma turn down my application into the marinas
They're not mountains...They're waves!
Question: How tall is the buoy, and what diameter? My guess is it's roughly the size of one of those pods astronauts use to land in the ocean from outer space.....so about 20ft diameter or something.
absolutely terrifying.
The drop before the wave is like '...uh oh'
Wow as a sailor, I’d think ok, I can survive that big wave, turn in, hold on. My heart would sink as I crested the first and started falling down the back only to the see the second already peaked and closing in. No climbing that face.
I cant be the only one who felt my stomach twist 😅
Thats insane
I expected the face of it to be steeper.