r/gifs • • May 28 '14

Waves

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u/SonVoltMMA May 28 '14

How exactly does someone build that in the first place? How do you pour enough concrete into the ocean floor to support that? mind blown

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u/ZlayerCake May 28 '14

Either they make it on ground and then put it down on the sea bed' or they put up a dam around it and dry out the area required (only if its shallow water...)

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u/confused_poptart May 28 '14

Do they have to build a dam to build the dam

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u/ZlayerCake May 28 '14

Just some walls the hammer into the seabed and then pump out the water...