Here we are in Edinburgh.
That's in Scotland, Dan.
- Well, thanks. - Yeah.
We're at the "FloWave Research Facility"
at the University of Edinburgh
in this giant wave pool.
It's about 82 feet across,
and it's got 168 individual little
wave pusher paddles.
Gav:
of different types of waves found in nature,
for various testing purposes.
But with the simultaneous activation
of all of the pushers, you can create
one giant spike wave right in the middle,
and that's what we're gonna get in slow-mo.
So we're here for the fun, silly wave?
- That's correct, yeah. - Okay, right.
Dan:
'cause apparently that's the best
to get the optimum large spike
because any sort of disturbance in the water
dissipates the energy slightly.
So really focusing it to the middle.
Got the Phantom set to 1,000 frames a second,
and we've also got some very bright lights
concentrated on the middle of the pool,
cause that's where the spike wave is gonna be.
I think we're ready.
- I think so. - Let's do it.
Dan: Oh, you can see the movement. Oh.
- Building up. - It's weird to just have perfect ripples.
- Building up. - Oh, look at that.
- Here we go. - Here it is.
- Whoa. Whoa! - Flippin' A.
- That was a really good one. - That was really good.
I liked how clear it was in the middle.
Gav:
Dan:
- Gav:
Gav:
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Whoa. That's satisfyingly clear.
Gav:
It looks like-- you know when you drop
one single droplet in water
and it just goes... ( imitates drop )
It looks like that on a massive scale.
Gav:
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on that part of the wall.
- Dan:
Gav:
- Gav:
( both imitating splash )
I'm ready for the skadoosh.
- Here we go. - ( gasps )
- ( imitating splash ) - Oh!
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- Gav:
You matched the speed pretty well there.
Gav:
Dan:
- Gav:
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Gav:
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Gav:
Dan:
Gav:
Nice.
Dan, have you ever done this before?
What? Sat in a giant wave pool with a thousand rubber ducks?
- Yeah. - Buried? No.
I haven't, actually. It's funny, that.
So, your job is to go out to the middle
and disperse them nicely.
Okay. Lovely.
All right, it looks like you're all set.
It's actually quite hard to row
when I'm covered in ducks.
- It looks like you're going off on a voyage. - Yeah.
- Looks-- this is fun. - So how are you gonna
get them out of the boat in the water?
Oh, I guess really slowly.
I'm not really sure what I'm looking at.
( Dan grunts )
Bath time.
Gav: That's a lot of ducks.
- Okay, I'm good. - It looks good.
- Done. - All right, duck close-up.
Dan:
My bet is on, uh, Steven.
- Dan:
Dan:
Bwosh! Whoa!
There's one-- one just landed.
One flew off over there.
That was amazing.
Dan:
Wow, they flew. You nailed the timing there.
Gav:
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what's happening, right?
It's raining ducks down.
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I like how you can see the ducks
on the other side of the spike as well.
If you look at it, you look through the water,
you can see through mid-air water,
into the base of other ducks.
Gav:
Dan:
Gav:
Dan:
so he got the secondary jet.
And now it's just raining ducks.
Gav:
Dan:
And I think Steven was the one who went the highest, so--
- Can we verify that? - No.
- Can we get-- no? - Don't think we can.
- How do you feel, right... - Yeah?
- about taking it right in the face? - Okay, all right.
I knew it was a matter of time before you asked me.
- Glad you asked, obviously. - Yeah. Yeah, obviously.
Um, I'd say not full beans.
- So, half beans? - Yeah.
- Medium beans? - Medium beans.
All right. We can deal with that.
- Okay. - All right, well, let's--
let's move the old gantry over
and lean over the edge of it.
Brilliant.
Okay, I'm ready!
Dan, are you nervous?
Uh, it's hard not to be. Ooh.
Oh. Oh!
- Directly up my nose. - Where are your goggles?
Oh, no! They just disappeared.
Gav:
Dan:
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Look at that, like, blade of water coming out. You see that?
Gav:
Dan:
What happened to my glasses? Rewind it, see if--
Gav:
Those glasses were almost pointless.
Dan:
- Gav:
and then they get, like, lifted off.
Dan:
to ever get splashed by this wave tank, really.
Gav:
Dan:
Well, Dan, this is a precarious position.
I can't say I've ever protected the camera with my face before.
So we got the camera looking down into the waves.
I feel that would be quite a surreal shot.
But we also don't want to blast the lens and camera,
so Dan has volunteered his face again
to take the brunt of the wave.
We've also got a nice optical flap over the lens to protect it,
and we've bagged it so it doesn't get wet.
Hopefully, this should be a very surreal
and cool looking shot, but we will get wet.
And hopefully we won't break the camera as well.
Let me know when it's gonna come,
cause I don't-- I can't really see anything.
Now it is. Here we go.
Both: Whoa!
Whoa.
Gav:
Because it's looking right over the grid,
it looks like it's warping space.
- Dan:
Dan:
and went, like, up my nose. Just like, "Ahh."
Gav:
Dan:
( chuckling )
Took it to the grid. Right in the grid hole.
Gav:
- I think we're good. - We need to save it.
Yeah.
- ( air whooshing ) - ( both shouting )
- Jeez. - The automatic airbag went off.
Oh, my God.
Well, Dan, that was some very surreal,
but very satisfying slow-mo footage.
It was. It was a varied day for me as well.
- Very fun. - Yeah, not your typical day.
I mean, I wasn't expecting to be
doing what I did today, to be honest.
- I don't think anyone was. - No.
And we sent some ducks to the moon, which is always a good thing.
Hopefully, you enjoyed that video.
Feel free to check out part two,
where we'll be learning more about waves,
in this place that's over here.
And you can subscribe, 'cause that would be lovely,
and you can come back whenever we make videos.
I've just realized we've left a thousand ducks in the pool.
Should we clean that up? We probably should.
Probably go back in there and clean that up, yeah.
Do you think they'd notice if we left them there?
- Gav: I think they would, yeah. - Dan: Oh.