LEARN???? TV is for entertainment. And wasn't it entertaining how they went back and forth with the pictures! So exciting! And I liked that one guy, how he croaked his words.
A lady I worked with told me that every 7th wave is the one to watch out for she and her family lived near the ocean in their earlier years. I wasn't counting when we visited Seaside, but my husband and I got hit with a wave up to our knees.. moving water is powerful.. Beware when you go to experience the beauty.. God bless..
Waves come from many different sources around the Pacific basin. Wind events like a hurricane off of Mexico, or a major Arctic gale off of Alaska, or even a typhoon far across the basin in the Western Pacific will generate waves that will arrive on our coast. Waves coming from different sources will have different speeds, different wave lengths, and different heights, and will cross with other wave sets, sometimes cancelling each other out, other times synergistically combining to create more powerful waves. If a wave that is traveling faster overtakes a slower wave it will absorb the slower wave and incorporate all of that energy into a “bigger, faster, stronger new and improved wave,” perhaps doubling the energy of either individual waves. These enhanced waves will occur with erratic frequency depending on what differently sourced waves are interacting at the beach. If the tide is low the waves may break further from the beach, dissipating the wave energy in more turbulence. As the tide rises the waves will break closer to shore and higher on the beach bringing more of the energy higher onto the shore. There are sand bars off shore that will affect how and where the wave breaks depending on the tide level. Waves that are dissipated breaking over the sandbar at low tide may travel right over the bar at high tide and break closer to the beach. If you have a set of waves with height of “1” , two “1’s” may combine to give you a “2” wave, which could combine with another “1” wave to give you a “3” wave, which could combine with another “3” wave to give you a “6” wave, so if you were measuring each wave you could get a string like so: 1,1,1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 6, 4, 1, 1, 1, ...etc.. The pattern may never repeat. If you are playing with a bunch of “2” or “3” waves, and a couple of “6”s combine for a “12” you are going to get smashed on the rocks, rolled by a log, and maybe washed along the beach into a rip channel the sucks you out into the heavy surf. The beach is dynamic and changes day to day, and even hour to hour as waves and tides interact to rearrange the sand bars and rip channels, so you can never visit the same beach twice. That calm and quiet beach on Friday may turn into a raging monster on Saturday as waves from across the ocean end at your feet. Call them “rogue waves” or “sneaker waves” they are basically waves that have absorbed the energy of other waves that they have overtaken and deliver all of the energy in one surge. So, when you are at the beach never turn your back on the ocean, never venture out onto rocks that are awash, heed the warning signs that have been placed by the agencies that have dragged too many drowning victims out of the surf, and have given up on ever finding some victims. Does this give a better understanding of “what a sneaker wave really is?”
@@nymia1977 Attractive news readers can only read what some “journalist” writes for them off of the teleprompter. “Journalists” go to “J” school because the are weak in areas required for STEM fields. Journalism today consists of “Googling” something, reading a couple of non-peer-reviewed articles, and regurgitating something written at the 5th grade comprehension level.
Thank you, Charles, for your very in-depth explanation. Having lived around and in Oceans in different locations for pretty much my whole life (primarily the Pacific), I have a very deep respect for them. I have lived through an explosion of monster tidal waves on Midway Island caused by Alaska's devastating earthquake in '64/'65 (not sure which year it was). It was very very scary. Bottom line: people need to respect the Oceans because they never give you a second chance...I almost drowned while living on Midway Island and probably would have if not for my swim instructor being close by and literally jumping in off the dock and rescuing me and these were "small" waves, nothing out of the ordinary, but when a wave has a hold on you, it doesn't let go. God Bless.
@@brendafoster4712 The Alaska Earthquake was Good Friday in 1964. Made a big impression on me as we had just moved to the. Bay Area from Chicago at age 10, and earthquakes were of interest to me. I can relate to getting into trouble in water. I have never been a strong swimmer and have had a couple of close calls.
*slow clap*👏👏👏 and tilt of the hat 🎩 in gratitude for your very educational comment 🎓. Man, if more people could share comments like these for those of us who like to learn, what an amazing world we could live in. Greatly appreciate it. Helps to be just that more aware of the great ocean that deserves our respect 🌊🌊🌊🙏 and it also helps make up for this sad video that still exists for us to find 4 years (2021 at the time of this comment) later.
I'm from Fl &grew up at the beach &have never heard of the term, but was curious after seeing the story in Sonoma where a father &2kids were just killed by one. Needless to say, this video told me nothing. 🙄
First time I saw the Pacific was a sunny day in So Cal. Instant impression was this is big water. Flat beaches, water travels up at a much greater average depth than east coast.
I'm sorry to say... That did not help :/ I still don't know exactly what a sneaker wave is from this news piece. I have a pretty good idea about it from other online videos, but I was hoping for a little more professional info. Next time.
@@shaggybreeks Very salty reply on my part, but I think I was frustrated and getting zero information on what a 'sneaker wave' actually is, even though that's the title of the video. But yeah... that editing tho... XD
Didn't know anything about these. Would have been the idiots from PA that went on vacation and died. The entire families last words would have been "OH SHIT!!"
Sneaker Wave definition: an act of nature that, like many things west coast, is overrated in terms of of severity and impact (see Atmospheric Rivers for similar examples); a heightened natural event used to campaign for Federal funding, due to the state being deeply in the red
