What the Tsunami looked like out at sea. (Not an April Fool)
 

Really wild to see what the Tsunami looked like out to sea. Considering that they are in deep water, this is very intense and powerful stuff.

This is NOT an April Fools thing.

Caught that footage on NOVA this week as well. They were 2 to 3 miles out they say. Quite a ride!

They must of been scared for the people onshore.

Yeah. Vino and I have already discussed that If we hear that there is a Tsunami coming to Florida, and we have an 30 or 40 minute warning, (if it is coming from a long way away), I'm grabbing my wife and our "bugout bag" of food and water, jumping in our boat, and hauling ass for the deep water 10 miles off shore. Florida has no hills at all. A Tsunami would roll right across from one side to the other. We would just ride it out at sea, wait for a day or so, and then come back in.



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old but still fascinating

Looking at that, I'm surprised we haven't seen more dramatic footage when it hit the shore.

When they are going over the wave it sounds like they are all gagging

surfs up dude

Same thing my son and I discussed. Get on the boat and head straight out.

amazing video...

That's amazing. Reminds you that we are just little ants on this planet.

think it rolls 160 clicks an hour

Cool vid!

it's odd how you can be 30 minutes out at sea and a tsunami, which is endlessly destructive to the land, is nothing more than a ripple when you are in a boat. In contrast a rogue wave can knock over a huge boat but cause no harm on the land...

thats a lot of moving water there

That wave looks about like the same thing as the Killer Waves they see from time to time.

Saw a special on them on Discovery where they were able to finally prove they existed and caught one on video.

Sample Road and the turnpike the landfill is more than a hundred feet high.

There is no way that a huge wave could roll across the whole sate other then at the keys and the very southern tip. It would have to be hundreds of feet high at shore to do that.

There's a lot to be said about floating nuclear power plants. Imagine if Fukushima was just offshore instead, there'd be no damage to it from the earthquake or the tsunami.

A tsunami is a powerful weather effect.

wave that big in the open water is much bigger on the shore...

That's scary!

Were they scared, or having orgasms? "Ohhh... ooohhhh... ooooohhhhhhh..."

holy crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*p!

think there is a lot to be said for 'disaster planning'

for example. some 'nuclear scientist'.. huck huck.. decided that the 'emergency back up system' just be installed..

wait right there. some genius decided that the generators were already installed were 'in danger of disaster', so they decided to build a bunch of 'back up generators' who are susceptible to the same disaster? 6 cans of earthquake proof boxes packed with generators/cables would have fixed this, easy.

You would be better off going up, in a concrete and steel building, like a large hotel or building down town. If you were off the coast and went up 2-3 stories in sturdy building you would be fine. Unless you live on the boat, by the time you round up everyone and drive to the boat, push off and get far enough off shore you would run out of time. Not to mention getting back would be a nightmare.

I would get in the car, drive away from the coast and find an elevated parking garage, drive up, ride it out there.

There is no driving to the boat. The boat is docked right in back, and at just a 25 MPH cruising speed, I can be out the inlet and in the ocean in about 3.5 minutes, (this presumes that I wouldn't pay attention to the no wake zones, which in this situation, I wouldn't!). If I was really hammering it at about 40 MPH top speed, I could be in the ocean in 2 minutes and I could be 10 miles offshore in another 7 minutes. It would be a rough ride, and totally illegal at that speed, but I certainly wouldn't care, not would my wife.

The problem with trying to drive ANYWHERE would be that EVERYONE ELSE WOULD BE DOING THE SAME THING. Roads would be totally jammed, all intersections snarled, etc.... If there was any public warning, it would be pointless to try to drive away from the coast.



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wow crazy

You have described everyday Tampa perfectly. In an emergency I think I would just try for one last piece of ass.


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They are two completely different kinds of wave.

In the case of a rogue wave at sea, which is created by the random combining of several large, wind-created waves, you end up with a wave that has a very high amplitude, (wave height), but a very short wave-length. In the ocean it will smash a boat or roll it over, since the extreme height combined with the short length makes it have a very steep front and back. When it hits land, the short wavelength means that it simply collapses on the shore and draws back

In the case of a Tsunami, the wave has a more moderate amplitude, compared to it's VERY long wave length, sometimes hundreds of meters. In effect, the wave becomes almost a "step up" in the water. In front of the wave the water is X deep, and after it the water is X + the amplitude deep.
In deep water the long wave length means that the wave front is relatively gradual, so ships can ride over it easily, but when it reaches land, the shoaling water makes the wave pile up, steepening the front, and when it hits the shoreline itself, the long wave length means that it doesn't really collapse, it simply keeps on rolling further and further inland.



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wow that is scary!

it just a normal small waves, nothing scary for me

the good news is these sorts of videos will go a long way toward understanding tsunamis better.

that is not a tsunami, that is just a large "rogue" wave.

Like I said before

Wow! Crazy!

If you spend a lot of time on a boat in the ocean, the pattern of small waves, contrasted with these waves in a line extending to the horizons, coupled with the fact that although they have a face, they don't have much of a back (the "step up" in the water that I describe in my description of what makes a Tsunami different), would make it VERY unsettling. Not for what it does to you, out at sea, but to know what it would do to the land behind you.


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another way to look at it:

wind generated waves consist of water moving/energy on the surface, a tsunami has water moving/energy from the sea floor all the way up to and including the surface.

Just don't get caught with your boat sitting sideways to the wave...

a tsunami has inertial energy, not like a wind wave.

btw, i didnt hear the word tsunami even once in the video, thought it was of japanese origin??

thanks for sharing this one btw.

I'd be grabbing some firearms as well if you want to keep that boat. People get unpredictable when their survival is at stake.

Geez, the guy surfing that wave is CRAZY

Dude, I ALWAYS have firearms.




Wanna go to the range sometime here in Miami? I have some fun toys along with the "working" stuff.






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damn some high waves

that thing is powerful

Well if you live in Miami you're either going out Haulover Inlet or Government Cut and if you can make it out to the Atlantic from your dock in under four minutes at any speed you must be living in a very nice place. Congrats :thumbsup

Ain't that the truth...

We live in Keystone Point, just the other side of the island across from Haulover inlet. Do you live here in Miami? You should come out on the boat sometime!


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My family lived in Coral Gables from 67 to 72 and then we moved to the gulf coast. When I got old enough to hit the bars I would drive back over to Miami / Ft. Lauderdale for good times.
Back in the late 70s Haulover pier was THEE place to hang out and had more girls per square inch of sand than any other beach in FL at that time. South Beach was still undeveloped and had nothing but retirees sitting out on the front porch. I've watched it all change, some for the better but mostly for the worse.

I don't get back there much any more unless there is some big event or the surf is going off down at South Beach. If I ever do maybe I'll take you up on your offer :)

Yeah I thought about this, I would hop on my motorcycle and lane split and red light it all the way.

I think the Japan tsunami was way worse than the 2004 indonesian tsunami.