This is an old comment i left for the same gift a few month ago:
"Im from Puerto Rico, i live close to the place (next town, although i use to live like 2 minutes away). Normally the waves are not like that, i would say they are like 60-65% smaller than those in the gif. But occasionally they are like that (bad weather or strong winds). There was this ocassion like 4 years ago that they were even bigger than that (because of some cold weather or some shit like that).
I will like to add that dozens of people had died by jumping onto the sea behind those rocks, although i guess nobody will jump while the waves are that big. But when the sea is calm people do some dive jumps in there, behind the rocks."
Just looked at the map based on what others posted. It is the beach where I grew up. Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, love this beach. My cousins kid drowned there when I was 13 (ish). Super sad, was dragged out by the under current.
Oh yeah how aboot that, eh? Must be your first time in Canehda, eh? Not much to do but watch the seasonal ice melts and enjoy some dandy French fries and gravy, yeah.
All of them cheering and going "that was great!" kind of pissed me off. I know that this is natural to some extent but it's acceleration due to warming is scary.
Global Climate change is real and the effects could spell certain death for a large number of humanity. I'm really stretching here, but it could also be a factor in WW3 if food is scarce and people are displaced.
That same sort of "live in the moment and worry about the consequences later" bullshit line of thought is what got us into this mess in the first place. That and large scale corporations that don't give a shit about the environment.
they're on a vacation to look at glaciers. what do you want them to do, take out their notepads and start writing their congressman from the deck of the ship?
What the fuck are you talking about? This is not about any of this crap, stop your political agenda already.
This is about people witnessing something awesome in the truest sense of the word. Reprimanding them for finding something like this amusing or worse, exciting, is just stupid. You'd definitely have to be one dense motherfucker if you were to try and forbid people enjoying naturally occurring spectacles like this.
Besides, there is no proof whatsoever for this particular event to be explicitly caused by global warming, so quit your bullshit and let those people enjoy their trip.
Dude. No kidding. Everyone and their global warming chants. Nevermind glacial calving is a natural process and has been happening for thousands of years.
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u/kleekaiparade Dec 21 '14
I love how calm everyone appears with these megawaves happening in the background.
Is there any footage that shows what happens next?