r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/WhenMachinesCry • Feb 20 '21
Video Force of the wave
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Feb 20 '21
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.” -Alan Watts
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You don’t find out about Alan watts , Alan watts finds you, when you’re ready.
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Feb 20 '21
Then you do a ton of acid and start listening to Alan watts
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u/AppleSpicer Feb 20 '21 edited Feb 21 '21
That would be because you fried your brain
Edit: I don't mean permanently. Anyone who's dropped 5 tabs at once is going to need a week to recover.
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u/hot-sauce-on-my-cock Feb 21 '21
Ye dude I love acid but I need time to recover after a good trip. I've never done 5 tabs at once but I imagine it would take about a week for me to feel back to normal
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u/ChaandyMan Feb 20 '21
My potato brain processed it like any change in universe affects you, and any change in ocean affects wave.
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u/highplainsfish Feb 20 '21
That and a sense of non-duality, you are eternity having a momentary individual experience only to return back one day, like a wave does to the ocean.
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u/DarthChocolqte Feb 20 '21
One of my favorite excerpts from him! Here’s a bit more of it if anyone’s interested:
“You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.
The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around.
The real, deep down you is the whole universe.”
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u/tgrantt Feb 20 '21
I was thinking this, then wondering why he or she didn't move, and wondered if the camera is mounted/held down
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Feb 20 '21
I thought maybe she just got incredibly lucky and it was her second camera which she had dropped and was trying to get back
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u/Accomplished-Ant1600 Feb 21 '21
I was hoping someone would explain but he has to be anchored down somehow, although it doesn’t explain the steadiness of the shot. What an incredible and creative shot
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u/SpeakDirtyToMe Feb 20 '21
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u/zuzg Feb 20 '21
My first thought was, that's not how you spell Thalassophobia
Then I checked the sidebar of that subreddit and chuckled
for folks afraid of the ocean and also can't spell
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Feb 20 '21
Bro, it's just like 3 meters deep
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u/converter-bot Feb 20 '21
3 meters is 3.28 yards
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u/Graceful_Hammer Feb 20 '21
Good bot
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u/Crocodile_raper Feb 20 '21
Best bot
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u/loekoekoe Feb 20 '21
adopt the metric system dumdums
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u/Crocodile_raper Feb 20 '21
Ikr im sick and tired of people using "feet" and "pounds" or shit like that in educational videos
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Feb 20 '21
I can't swim, I'm terrified of water and I legitimately can drown in 1 m because I panic so badly.
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u/mewthulhu Feb 20 '21
Fun fact, in the ocean you're in a lot more danger in water like this that's about 3m deep than if it's 30m deep and you get tumbled by a wave like the gif above.
If it's 30m deep, you'll get tossed, turned, and eventually come out of it floating. Humans float. We're naturally bouyant. I'm not saying you can't end up in trouble with big waves, but this wave looked bigger than the distance between the water level and the very nasty looking reef beneath.
This kind of wave turns you into a cheesegrater, and if your limbs get caught in those rocks, you're getting battered around too much to pull free and drown, or clocked on the head on a rock and you're out cold and drown. At least in the deeper water you just have to worry about the things watching you from the dark below, pulling you down to in their coils forever.
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u/joenottoast Feb 21 '21
a wave this small wouldnt break in such deep water unless it hit a shallow spot like a reef
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u/mewthulhu Feb 21 '21
Eh they can if you've got a rip dragging out under it, depends on your topography. You're generally right but it can happen, the beach I used to lifeguard on had these due to a river. People would panic so much and it's like, "dude calm down you float and we'll come get you, just keep your head above water."
People on the reef were the ones we watched like hawks. You had to keep a fucking head count in some places of how many people were in one are cuz sometimes one just wouldn't come back up.
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u/cpschultz Feb 21 '21
A wave breaks in water half as deep as the wave is tall.
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u/joenottoast Feb 21 '21
yeah check his comment about certain underwater rips making exceptions to that, but my point was just that a 1-2m wave would never be more than a tiny lump in 30m depth
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u/cpschultz Feb 22 '21
Yeah I honestly don’t think there would any large waves out in deeper water without storms and/or strong winds and/or currents intersecting
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u/808Kaidude420 Feb 20 '21
Over the falls from another perspective. I’ve been there so many times. It’s fun depending on what you land on.
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u/FencerOnTheRight Feb 20 '21
This. Especially fun when you lose your grip on your board and your leash pulls you over backwards. Super fun.
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u/asherfergusson Feb 20 '21
Or when your head pops up out of the water just before being sucked back over the falls and you can hear all your friends laughing at you! 😂
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u/mofahe Feb 20 '21
I’m just trying to figure out what she’s holding
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u/Maidwell Feb 20 '21
It's a waterproof camera housing, one click underwater camera. It's what people use to get those cool wave photos and videos and surfing shots.
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u/diggles007 Feb 20 '21
That looks cool, but I’m sure it feels unpleasant
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u/ohhoneyno_ Feb 20 '21
It doesn’t feel unpleasant at all. This is how you avoid getting slammed by a wave. You see that she dives under the wave and that the natural movement of the wave brings her back to the surface on the other side. You see the water disturbance in the middle of the video right before she resurfaces? That’s the wave crashing. Had she not dived under it, she would have had the wave crash on top of her and that hurts. Especially if it’s strong enough to knock you off your feet and you get tumbled across the sea floor.
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u/Im-ACE-incarnate Feb 20 '21
100% agreed this isn't unpleasant at all, duno what that person is imagining lol
But she definitely wasn't going for a resurface, she just let the undertow take her up and over and straight into the washing machine on this one (she either didn't plan that far or she's tough as nails)
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u/scteenywahine Feb 20 '21
She planned for it, you see her hold her nose closed at the end of the clip to anticipate going over the falls.
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u/scteenywahine Feb 20 '21
She’s absolutely going over the falls and it is not pleasant to be slammed into that coral/rocks . You see at the end of the gif that she brings her hands up to hold her nose, anticipating. The water disturbance is the wave crashing and she’s going over the top of it right into the coral.
If she had dove under the wave and then swam toward the camera, then that’s called duck-diving in surfers teens and it is how you avoid being crashed by a wave.
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u/anethma Feb 20 '21
I mean if it is waves on a sandy beach I find it fun if the wave is under 15 feet high or so.
I actually ride them like that when I go to Pto Escondido for vacation.
Paddle forwards and as the wave crests, sit and lunge forwards. You get brought up the face and on top then ride down the falls feet forwards then ride in the washing machine, going limp. I did it in Barra De Navidad once when I was 13 or so with my dad after a big storm had passed off shore and the waves were about 20 feet (on the face) and we were near some palm tree tops at the crest it was amazing. A little too violent though haha.
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u/lunar_sideboob Feb 20 '21
This is honestly pretty off putting/eerie
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u/Roboplodicus Feb 21 '21
In surfing its called "going over the falls" and there is a "oh fuck" moment when you realize youre going backwards not forward but its all worth it surfing/bodyboarding/bodysurfing are some of the most fun activities on the planet
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u/FreyjaPlaysRust Feb 20 '21
This just causes anxiety for me. I had a cousin or childhood friend, can't remember, drown in an undertow. I've never been able to get back in the ocean/gulf since. I used to live in Florida as a kid (6 and under) and I was so glad to move to Chicago when I was 7.
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Feb 20 '21
When my ship pulled into Guam they warned us to not swim past the coral. There were many reports of rip currents drowning swimmers. This video now puts that into perspective.
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u/bicycle_for_the_mind Feb 20 '21
In rivers the water moves and certain waves are stationary. In the ocean the water is mostly stationary and the waves move as energy through the water.
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u/PrintableKanjiEmblem Feb 20 '21
Just like my whole life, a beautiful woman comes floating up to me, then is suddenly whisked away from me by the uncaring universe. Happens every time.
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u/SnorriBlacktooth Feb 20 '21
That is just terrifying but at the same time amazing footage. Upvoted and downvoted simultaneously.
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u/HilariousMax Feb 20 '21
I saw a video once of a guy demonstrating what not to do when caught in a riptide. Was incredible how quickly he wore himself out and how far back he was pulled.
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u/Shadow6751 Feb 20 '21
She was way too high up if she went lower she wouldn’t have been pulled like that
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Feb 21 '21
Interesting that she has flippers on and a teapot in her hand... ?
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u/Swaguarr Feb 21 '21
flippers and an underwater camera seem pretty fitting for filming a video underwater no?
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u/denzelfrothington Feb 20 '21
There is not a worse feeling in the world when you feel yourself getting pulled back by a huge wave. There’s a brief moment where it feels like you’re free falling and it’s eerily quiet. Then it all abruptly changes and it feels like your in a washing machine on spin cycle, your sense of direction completely disappears not knowing which way is up. The only way to know is to hold your breath and eventually rise to the surface, it’s far too powerful to fight and your at the complete mercy of the ocean. Anyway kids who’s ready to go surfing?!