The Biggest Wave Ever Recorded  

I’m going to be honest, if I saw this shit coming towards me, I’d just close my eyes and accept my fate.

The fact that this wave happened at night makes it even scarier.

Florida man: I can surf that.

There was a man and his son on a boat that ended up riding that wave over top of a nearby mountain and ended up in a whole different bay. Someone was seriously watching out for them that day.

1720 ft. For reference, the Empire State Building is 1454 ft to the tip. I don't think running was an option.

Cooper: "Those aren't mountains... they're waves."

Standing in the city looking at the wave towering over skyscrapers would be mind destroying

Y'all miss the point ; it happened at night,pitch black and in super cold seas. That's the true nightmare

"Those are not mountains, those are waves." - Owright Owrigh Owrih, 2014

He said “300 feet” and I was like, wow! And then he said “1,748”!! 😱😱😱

Have been hearing about this ever since moving to Alaska decades ago. My brother and others have fished in the area, and say it's an eerie place.... ...

Chicxulub Tsunami: AM I A JOKE TO YOU? HUH??

I remember reading that a boat was picked up by the wave, and carried to the ocean with no major damage (although two other boats were sunk). I cant even imagine being on a boat being carried by a wave hundreds of feet in the air.

A father and son amazingly survived this wave in a small boat. They were washed over a small island and out to sea. Imagine seeing this on a relaxing fishing trip.

1750 feet!!! Oh my goodness. Tsunamis are terrifying.

Lat's not forget. A tsunami is not a wave but basically a raised mesa of water that could be a mile long or more.

Meanwhile, every surfer: omg I can't believe I lost that wave

Imagine if a wave like that were to be caught on camera. That would be utterly terrifying.

Surfers be salivating at waves this size

This is basically Tidal wave buffed

"The biggest wave ever recorded.." me waiting for the recorded video footage of the wave like🥤🥤🥤😶

Fun fact - there are actually 2 survivors who made it out alive from that wave. Dunno if they're still alive today but they were about 20 years ago when the son gave his testimony. Long story short it was a father and his son who were on their fishing boat in the middle of that bay and they were lucky in that the 1000 foot wave - yes you heard that right, their little boat was lifted up close to 1000 feet above sea level. Luckily they were deep enough in the Bay where the waved lifted them and travelled underneath them sparing their life. Imagine how trippy an experience like that must have been being lifted up that high on a boat.

Wave: 😊😊💀💀 Us: accept it..

600 meters high. 12 Olympic pools end on end. Speed 700 km per hour. 200 meters per second.

Just imagine the wave from interstellar coming directly towards you 😵‍💫

That wouldn't even kill me I'd die from a heart attack well before it got to me

I was 7yrs old then, but remember the news of that tragedy.

The earthquake that caused that tsunami shook for about 10 minutes! That is a freaking long-ass time when the earth is shaking! Californian here. Most earthquakes are less than a minute or two long.

Christopher Nolan is out there on a raft with his IMAX camera

That would be like looking up at the top of the Empire State Building, and seeing a wave 300 feet above it

The guy on the boat its Zoink

we be verifying tsunami wave with this one🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

It's events like this that make us realize who's in control and how powerless we truly are.

My neighbor back the 90’s was in that earthquake. She was a teacher in Alaska at the time. She said the thing she will never forget is the noise the earth made. Like a freight train going through your bedroom

"Nah , Ain't no way they can Fool me , It was Godzilla"

Zoink is the only known survivor

A fishing boat captain and his seven-year-old son, were struck by the wave and lifted hundreds of feet into the air by the swell. Remarkably, both survived with minimal injuries. Now thats one helluva ride!

1700ft is roughly 518m for those of us needing the conversion. 👍

1950: we’re gonna die 2024: NAAH THATS POSEIDON ADVENTURE

That’s up there with my cousin Larry’s bellyflop at the red roof inn Orlando in ‘96

"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza

Crowd member: So uh any of y’all got Moses’ staff?

Bro remade tidal wave

It’s hard to imagine a wave being that big.. it’s absolutely incredible what the planet is capable of.

A man and his son rode it out. Amazing survival story.

If i'm not mistaken this dude & his son survived on the boat they were on by riding the crazy wave. True story!! I really do think that it's the same wave, story.. 👍

I think it is referred to as a "harbour wave" because it relies on the land form within which it occurs.

I went on a cruise in ‘06 and seen this spot. You could see where the trees up the sides of the mountains were took out. It was amazing.

I remember seeing an interview of a father and a son who were in a boat on the coast of Alaska and the wave gave them a raid over the forest, over the treetops and returned them back to the ocean in the same way; incredibly nothing happened to them, neither to them nor to the boat, and they commented that there were two other boats that disappeared😥… It must have been a terrifying experience!😱

What a nice level. I sure hope zoink verifies it

Aint no way zonk verified it while and earthquake was happening

A fisherman and his son witnessed this first hand and survived that incredible catastrophe. While fishing on their boat, they heard a thundering boom towards the mountain, which was part of the mountain collapsing into the lake, seconds later all they saw was a massive wall of water heading towards their boat. Next thing they knew, they were picked up by the crest and started to head out to sea. They were so high, the anchor chain snapped off. Would've been awesome had they caught this event on film?

Could you imagine standing there seeing a wave that big coming straight at you!? 😩💀

That, must have been scary

Well a massive tidal wave caused the extinction of dinosaurs, so you know....

Alaskan here. My grandma was a little girl when this earthquake happened. She lived nowhere near Lituya Bay, but still experienced the brunt of the actual earthquake. Alaska is extremely susceptible to natural disasters, people. Take it seriously!

He didn’t mention the father and son that were fishing in the bay when it happened. They rode the wave all the way over the crest past 1700 feet. Luckily they both lived and you can watch their interview.

nah zoink needs to verify this

When you activated "I pay bills" mode for tidal wave:

"...everything was destroyed. If you liked this video and would like more..." Bro that ending had me dying 😂

“Those aren’t mountains… Those are waves.” Cooper in Interstellar.

1720 ft is over half a kilometer! Unimaginable!

What a huge- >>>>>TIDAL>>>

Don't forget that in 1964 Alaska also had the 2nd largest earthquake in recorded history at 9.2 magnitude. It destroyed practically everything within the state and caused massive tsunamis not only all over every coastal region of alaska but also went as far as japan and caused tsunamis and seismic aftershocks all over Alaska and Japan for quite some time. I was born and raised up there and knew personally many people who experienced both of these natural disasters. I couldn't imagine how I would react to being in such a situation myself

whats even crazier is that people survived this too

Noah: ALRIGHT, BOYS HERE WE GO AGAIN!

Imagine sailing on your boat and all of the sudden you see this big shadow

Our vulnerability in face of natural disasters is so incredibly terrifying.

The Wave smashing onto you would feel like Lizzo jumping out of a Plane and Landing straight on top of you

That wave part was hard.

I was there in 1984, and the damage was still obvious. I think it was 1500 ft though as you could see clearly where the trees had fallen.

The fact that you can say "those aren't mountains, they're waves" moment

tidal wave reference

If bro played the creepy sea shanty song, that would've made it more creepy.

Geologist here. Actually, this post is not accurate. The WAVE was not 1700 ft high; the run-up on the side of the canyon wall was 1700 ft. When the bay got shallow, the water sloshed inland much higher than the actual wave height. Try it in your bath tub.

I had read about this previously and was somewhat familiar with the details. However, I just picked up on the fact that this insanely scary event happened at NIGHT. Man, that had to be utterly terrifying to those near the epicenter.

I will like this when the quantities are expressed in comprehensive mathematical units 😂

The coolest thing was a guy in his kid brought a boat and rode that wave out and live the tail the tail. Never give up. You never know you might make it.

Was SO stoked up to see your reaction for John meeting the strange man and when he tells you about your past with Dutch n the gang.

After seeing millennium force at cedar point. A 300 ft wave would be terrifying. Over 1700 would’ve shocked me to death before it killed me 😂

Apparently a dad and his son were out fishing in the bay on their boat and they survived.

I searched tidal wave and this comes up

That is 50 stories high… that would wipe out my entire province…

And 64 years later, the scars left by the wave on the hills either side of the bay are still visible.

I used to live in AK, and took a boat trip thru that inlet. You can still see the line of death way up on the mountains where nothing ever grew again. The dimensions are mind-blowing.

This is the wave Kai Lenny is trying to surf

This is the only where even a cameraman can't survive

I saw a father and son interviewed that rode out the wave and their boat ended up above the tree line. Another boat disappeared.

That's pretty insane. I go hiking really often in a canyon that is about 700' deep at the most. It seems daunting at first. I could only imagine waves more than twice as tall as the walls of the canyon on my way back up. Literally, a mountain of water.

I would start filming it as the cameraman never dies lol 😂

thanks for the exact info. I'm inventing a personal time travel device soon. I just told myself very this moment from myself going back to see historical events. I was my first stop on the time tour, I'll bring pics/vids back. #SurfsUp!

Reminds me of the interstellar wave

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This Tusnami : exists Disaster movie writers : 👌

Just imagine what a bunch of meteors hitting the ocean would do.

You can still see the damage in the bay… above the wave solid pine trees and below ground stripped to the rocks and not any trees… a very humbling site.

That tidal wave was as tall as the freedom Tower in NYC.

TRULY TIDAL WAVE MOMENT

Ooooooo.. I've wanted to do somethin like this. As i write, i wanna also put it into vid/audio form.. Lookin forward to a good nights binge of ya vids haha

Interstellar was the last movie I've seen at a theater. Cancer and several other incidents left me with what I assume is a kind of PTSD. Can't tolerate crowds, closed spaces, and panic attacks from nowhere. I used to think people were just exaggerating or needed just to get ahold of themselves. I can usually minimize it but when that cold terror overtakes and you pour sweet from head to toe. It just has to pass. I'm a 6 foot 1, over 200 lbs and fear was never a problem but this isn't fear, it's an irrational physical assault. This has nothing to do with the subject of tidal waves, the reference to the movie "INTERSTELLAR" reminded me of the last time I was able to see a movie. It helps to write it down. I didn't like Interstellar at all by the way. I understand that time is not always linear and most probably is a function of mass and gravity as Einstein theorized. Einstein said the universe is not just strange but stranger than we can imagine (paraphrased).The movie must have been totally confusing to most of the public. It just annoyed me with all the doors of possibility. It was like a night with no floor or walls to stand on or find your way out of. I'm an old man with a degree in science and a life long science fiction fascination. RU-vid is a great place to keep your mind active especially when your old. Most people aren't intellectually curios so there's few if any to converse with. This allows me to talk to myself forming a narrative. I've always required little sleep and can work for long periods of time. I recently read there is a genetic cause for this. Like right now it's 3pm and I'll probably get a few hours sleep eventually and do it again. My wife of 40 years is not bothered by this to much, thankfully. I don't really care if anyone reads this or comments. Keeps a person focused. Nighty, night.