Double sneaker wave close call!! 4K 

The logs only weigh up to a ton. Nothing to be worried about. Just kick it back if it comes towards you. 😏

@@rocketraccoon1976 And watch your thigh bone come out your rear end. Seriously, these logs are barely visible when underwater and they pack a ton of force if they slam into you. F=ma is a nasty equation when the mass is so huge.

Great comment about the odd-positioned logs!!

thank you for the knowledge Sir!

My Christmases are already all ruined. Does that mean I should malinger by logs waiting for a sneaker wave? 🤪

I'm yellin" "sneaker wave" a minute before he moves on that second wave.

Where is that?

Lol

I was today years old when I learned about sneaker waves and today years old when I crapped my pants.

Yep...that's what the ocean does. Kind of cool feeling though, as that sand is washed out from under you. Just got to make sure you are paying attention to those waves. They do what they do...what they've done for eons. Ocean is so cool.

Yeah, about the ocean... "It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever".

These sneaker waves almost seem more similar to a tsunami than a huge wave like everyone imagines them as, just a fraction of the size obviously. I've never seen or been hit by a sneaker wave before, but I'd imagine they behave like tsunamis, and just keep pushing and pushing inland with incredible force. It only looks like a few inches of fast moving water, but it has the power of the entire ocean behind it. I'm sure even a smaller sneaker wave would still have the potential to sweep people off their feet, and pull them back out into the ocean if they didn't react quick enough when the water started to recede...

Aside from the fact that a lot of people who died due to sneaker waves could have survived the wave itself but they were crushed by logs or other large floating debris. Some people have been pulled from ledges and jetties. Even if it just knocks you over there are rocks all over.

It's way more calm in north coast beaches of Brazil where I live. Want to know?

Irresponsible dog owners. I've seen video of a small dog on a leash almost getting washed away/drowned because of its stupid owner. She didn't even bother to scoop it up in her arms when the wave came.

@@rocketraccoon1976 oh I think I saw the same Video. Yeah, that was even shittier

And if the sea doesn't get the dogs...there's always the birds who try.

I fear for dogs as well, although with four legs to paddle with, they are capable of keeping themselves alive. But they shouldn't be exposed to this at all.

They will be perfectly fine. And the video you seen, the dog was fine

Lol I've been looking for a explanation on how sneaker waves form and I can't find anything on Google. I did read an article on sneaker waves and they said not even scientist know why they form. It's just funny to see somebody in the RU-vid comments explaining how they form like they really know it for a fact when not even scientists who study the ocean knows 🤣🤦‍♂️

Nice try tho jason

@@jonn40853 you don't have to be a scientist to work out how something operates. He(Nick) could be a surfer, spending every day at the beach giving him enough time to observe regular sets and waves that don't conform to the trend. He could be a fisherman, who knows, he might just be somebody that is at the beach every day,. What he said makes perfect sense and by the sound of it, he is far more intelligent than you.....your comment makes you look 10 years old.

They are called rogue or sneakrr waves because of the unpredictability. Just because they can be explained doesn't mean warnings will be anle to be sent out about them...

Excellent explanation. We figured that when we were kids sporting around on the beach: Those top waves can really travel, and they'll get ya' if you're not careful.

Me same. I live in nothern coast of Brazil how about you?

@@ciroheadbanger2008 same here*

Sneaky to him.

But that's not what a sneaker wave is. It's an unpredictably large wave. If you can predict it it's not a sneaker wave, it's just the tide coming in

@@no_peace Or one that sneaks up when you least expect it. My friend and I both learned that the hard way. Didn't keep our eyes on the waves and while turned toward shore, the big one came and knocked me right on my ass. lol!! Same with my friend...of course, it was her first time at the ocean. She knew, after that, to keep those eyes on the waves. You never know when that big one is going to hit. I remember one time, I got knocked down in simply 3feet of water, but lost my balance, couldn't get up, could not regain my balance, couldn't get a deep breath before another wave came and knocked me down again. Thankfully, my friend's daughter was nearby and recognized the problem and began warning me when a wave was coming up on my backside. I finally got the breathing 'rhythm' working and got my balance enough to stand up again. Mind you...this was in shallow water (and I was well used to being in the ocean). Those waves will kick your ass easily if you aren't ready for them. Got to always watch for the unexpected wave.

I’m literally at the bottom of the road lol

If you subscribe I won’t do it ever again ok

plenty of trees right along the coast up here in the Pacific Northwest plus there's rivers that carry log debris from inland

I personally have seen large conifers which have fallen onto shorelines / beaches in drives in Washington state, and I realized that's how driftwood can even get all the way to Hawaii. Which it does.

You can’t tell by the wave but you can tell when you see the water hurling at you way further than it normally does. Notice how the water filled up the entire beach

Yes - but he didn't see the second wave coming. Probably because he was distracted by talking to the other people there.

He only noticed when it was close to the other people and still advancing rapidly. Same with himself. That's part of the danger of these things; it's hard to tell them from other waves while they're still out where you expect the water to be.

I get that point of view. I know this beach well spent alot of time here. The problem is the breaking waves would never approach the high beach for many sets or say maybe 20 minutes to an hour . Would be breaking over 200 yards out giving the false illusion of safety. But yes, also wet sand is a warning sign too.

It seems like the same phenomenon, just different scales (some will be bigger than others). I don't think there could be a hard and fast dividing line drawn if the proposed mechanism I've read about is the cause (either particularly long-period waves, or two waves happening to stack up perfectly atop each other), only a gradient.

Souther Oregon, Whiskey Run beach

I've also heard the 7th set idea. It's pretty accurate on some days. Especially when storms arrive. The waves start stacking.

It's a combination of features and events. Example this day very shallow beach and I recently found out that there was a 6.7 earthquake that pushed down from Canada that likely contributed to these sneakers. This stretch of beach is very dangerous.

Yep driftwood is definitely a warning sign and likely what will injure or kill a person if they are unlucky enough to be caught.

Exactly

Southern Oregon coast USA!

@@Goldhunter7769 Thanks for your kind reply ! Place looks amazing !

Southern Saskatoon

Is that the same as standing sideways (prependicular to the wave)?

@@solideomusical no one is standing sideways and one is standing on one leg. Same principle but. Reduce drag.

@@anarchistangler That could be useful for surf fishing but don't you also have less balance on one leg?

The sea floor and how it makes the waves underwater act

It isn't the water that will hurt you, it's the 20' log the wave is hiding inside that will smack you in the shins, likely breaking bones and knocking you down, the undertow is fierce too, but all the wood debris in the water is the stuff to be afraid of.

SW Oregon

Whiskey Run beach

You'd literally die. That's the talk of people that end up dead every year on these beaches...

@@ILoveBluePeople amen

This video isn't showing the waves before and after this clip; they weren't getting nearly this far up the beach, and it was a while since they had. Long enough for unaware visitors to make it a lot further from safety than they should get. And yeah, the wet sand should be a clue, but people aren't born with the innate knowledge of how quickly beach sand does or does not dry off. So you either learn this lesson about the ocean from friend/family, or you learn from videos like this, or you learn from a close call... or a not-so-close call.

@@karlaskitties 👍

Oh but I do, it’s on my other videos about beach mining gold and platinum.

@@Goldhunter7769 lucky you, we don't have sand like that in south wales :) I wil take a look at your videos

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That's the thing; most of the other waves aren't coming up that far. It's long enough between that people who don't know any better can wander out to places they shouldn't be, and then one of these comes along and can sweep them away, or roll gigantic drift logs over them. And the water's fairly cold, too, 11c or lower even in summer. Low enough to notably shorten your survival time should you get swept back out.

Nope, southern Oregon whiskey run beach

Yes, there are signs in the parking lot at every beach access I’ve been to. They say to beware sneaker waves, which are unusually large waves (and you can’t tell them from the normal waves). The signs talk about staying off logs, and how these huge logs roll and crush people when a sneaker wave comes up. Never turn your back on the ocean. People are swept out to sea every year. Waters off Oregon and Washington coast are extremely cold. Hypothermia sets in quickly.

A lady climbed TWO fences in Alaska to see a polar bear in a zoo. People stupid.

Just copy pasted this Nobody is sure how exactly sneaker waves form, but it's generally thought that they develop as many waves travelling at the same speed come together, overlapping and combining to create a single wave that crests taller and travels much farther ashore than normal.

Whiskey run beach southern Oregon. I will update the description thanks

That's funny but true. Not paying attention basically the same thing. Very deceiving flat shallow beach. You can barely see th surf out a good 200 yards so you don't Care then suddenly its on you.

@@Goldhunter7769 gold hunter you are absolutely right 💯.

The reason they're dangerous is they're unpredictable, and at infrequent intervals. Long enough for people to wander or explore out where they shouldn't be, if they don't know to be aware. And you can't tell just how high it'll be. Search for a video titled "Sneeker wave Oregon coast deadliest wave". Sure, one that big may not have been likely in this case, but it also doesn't take all that much fast-flowing water to knock a person down, especially on sand.

That rapid outflow can de-stabilize the sand under your feet and knock you down. So, why take chances?

Yeah, I would absolutely LOVE to see you try to stay standing in two feet of water flowing fast over a sandy beach. I'd also like to see you deal with the driftwood said fast-flowing water is dragging along, some weighing more than you do.

This is more a case of, people being unfamiliar with the fact that sometimes a bigger wave will come out of nowhere and sweep up the wide, expansive beaches along the northwest coast, sometimes a hundred meters further than others. It's not very intuitive.

I agree... people don't understand about waves and how sets of waves work!! Another typical tourist at the beach after listening to the media about "sneaker waves". I wish all these people posting about "sneaker waves" would just die!!!! They know nothing about the ocean and rely only on local TV news channels. Please, TV, stop relaying false information and causing panic among tourists. You, media, need to report on the realities of the ocean. 1. Waves, sets, and timing of sets. 2. Tides 3. Looking at the sand and how wet it is where you are standing. 4. No sneaker waves, just the ignorance of humans and the media. 5. F u all!! 6. I've posted this on numerous videos about "sneaker waves " In the end.... it's all about Darwin. If you rely on POS news channels about the ocean, you deserve to die. Please: Humans, stop listening to the media about this shit. Use Google and learn about how the ocean works. The media can go F themselves. My rant has been posted on many other channels. I'm trying to inform all inlanders about how the real world works. Again, the media is GREATLY INFORMING THE WORLD.

@@surf101- Buddy, you need to calm down and stop obsessing over this. There are well-documented "sneaker waves", that is, waves that travel much further up the beach than others. This is not sets, this is not tides. It may be confluence of particularly large waves, it may be small tsunamis, but whatever the cause, it does happen along this area of coast, it is dangerous, and it's _not_ intuitive. "Be wary of travelling far out onto an unfamiliar beach" is wise and useful advice either way, that people are not born with. "F u all" betrays how unreasonable you're being.

A tide is different. The tide is something more steady and is when a large parte of the ocean retreat for a few hours. A sneaker wave is not steady at all. But I can be wrong, please look it up for more information ☺️

Yes, a tide is caused by the moon's gravitational pull, and you get two high and low tides per day. A sneaker wave is more irregular and random, and not related to the moon.

@@TheNeilsolaris thanks for the info!

Nah, you're missing the point. It's less-frequent waves that sweep much farther up the beach than most of the others, not the tide coming in as a whole. It may not be uncommon, but it's not "just the tides".

You're incorrect. As istas said, it's not just the tides. Go look up sneaker waves oregon and you'll see.

Never been caught in one, eh?

@@MindyTunnell I've never been tumbled by water going over my toes.

They may be due to the same phenomenon, but it's not well studied yet. These are specifically called that because of how they can sneak up on unaware beachgoers given the long period of time between when they happen, and how far a single wave can go given how shallow the beaches are. You could potentially be walking a hundred meters from safety when the water comes up unexpectedly and sweeps you off your feet, rolling you along with all the debris on the beach, some logs being big enough to crush you.

I'd love to see you try to keep on your feet in 60cm of fast-flowing water. Especially when there's 200kg driftwood logs potentially being rolled along by that same flow.

OK, tough guy. Feel free to walk out into that insignificant moving water.

@@hebneh yup, 'that place is no joke man'. You might get your shoes wet. Oooh. You city guys are pretty funny. Lol oooh, moving water.....big sneaker wave...lol

Congratulations, you've shown you don't know what you're talking about. You can't tell how big these things are going to be until they've stopped advancing, and it's also sweeping along all the big driftwood logs sitting on the beach. Search for the video titled "Sneeker wave Oregon coast deadliest wave" to know how fast these things can scale up unexpectedly. And it doesn't need to be nearly that big to knock someone down.

@@IstasPumaNevada it's definitely moving some sticks around.

It doesn't take very much depth of rushing water to knock you off your feet, and all those logs and wood can tangle you up underwater or just plain pulverize you. Two children just died from these waves and their dad nearly did just recently. One child found, but the other probably never will be. The Oregon coast is known to be dangerous, and people die there every year. I live on the Southern New England coast, and we don't have these waves, though we do get dangerous rip currents. Your beaches are not Oregon's beaches, so to speak.

@@diannelavoie5385 i guess you have a good point. all my experiences has been on east coast beaches and the caribbean.

Search for the video "Sneeker wave Oregon coast deadliest wave". This one wasn't that big obviously, but it shows why you need to be very careful in that area of the coastline.

Not pushing around 100 pound logs you haven’t.

Don't even think that a mound of sand will protect you. Have witnessed a bank/mound "dissolve, crumble under large sneakers. Luckily the people realized what was happening, made it to higher solid ground.

Bruh

Me too lmao, my sister just told me about it and I looked ome up. Scary things man

Ok

Exactly. All that sand moves off shore during winter so the big waves really can run up. Most people don't know that.

Welcome to Oregon californie

Sleeper waves?!? 🤣😭 it's sneaker waves

aye, thats' why god made tide tables don'tcha know...

Absolutely right! The beach here is to long and FLAT. All might seem well on a nice day with the waves 100s of yards out and then suddenly a 1 ft wave is rushing at your feet. Anyone that knows how serious that is!