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Natural disasters aren’t something we think about often.
Earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, whatever they may be, only make our daily thoughts
when they’re on the news.
This could be why it’s so easy to forget, until we’re right in front of it, that nature
can kill us in the blink of an eye.
Today, we’re showing you 10 Massive Waves Caught on Tape and in many of these cases,
people didn’t know just how powerful mother nature could be until it was too late.
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10.
What is he doing?
When tropical storms hit, people are often told to stay inside until they’re told whether
they will have to evacuate.
There’s really no point in sticking around outside to try and see something that might
actually kill you.
This guy clearly didn’t get the memo because he is sitting on a bench watching a storm
throw large waves at him.
A woman crossing the street near him is running out of the water’s way, as any normal person
would.
Meantime, he’s sitting there like he’s watching the sunset.
A wave actually hits him, and he sits there to wait for another one.
What is this guy waiting for?
Poseidon?
Never do this, people.
9.
Storm Hits Oil Rig Today, on 1000 reasons I wouldn’t want to
work on an oil rig, we have this massive storm.
It seems like the entire thing is being caught on tape by someone who finds themselves relatively
safe on some other structure, but I just look at that rig and think, “is there someone
there?”
I mean, this has got to be the least fun Disney ride, am I right?
There’s a point in the video where the waves moving the rig look like they’re about to
tip it right over!
Absolutely not, I’d rather not make a six-figure income and never step foot on an oil rig in
my life.
8.
That Roll, Though.
This next wave has quite the tension build.
What we see at first is the rolling of a large wave which hasn’t broken yet.
It’s inching, and by inching we mean rushing towards a walkway where we see one man running
as he realizes how hard this wave is about to hit.
Unfortunately, he’s running in the wrong direction, but we’re all human right?
Once the wave crashes against the metal fence separating it from the walkway, it’s mere
milliseconds until it has taken over the walkway completely, knocking down vehicles in its
way and creeping further into land.
Somehow, dozens of spectators watch from just beyond its breaking point!
We don’t know what happened after but if I were them I would’ve gotten out of there
immediately.
I’ll skip the Instagram moment, and get out alive, thanks.
7.
“I’ll get so many likes” This guy clearly didn’t feel the same way
as I do because he was right out there, in a hat and a raincoat in the middle of a Maine
storm.
It looks like he even biked there!
This fool, out there in the front lines with mother nature is holding a camera trying to
catch it all for his followers.
Little did he know, there was a wave out there with his name on it.
It said, “Timmy, I’m not in the mood today.”
It didn’t even look that big when it was on its way, but as soon as it hit, it knocked
him over, and he had to say goodbye to that camera.
He must have known other people were recording because he wastes zero time looking for it
and just gets up, brushing himself off like it was no big deal.
No, Timmy, you almost died, go to your room.
6.
Navy Wave You would think ships this large would have
no problem out in the open ocean.
Have you ever seen one of these?
They weigh thousands of tons, they’re meant to look both powerful and absolutely intimidating.
Still, though, they’re just an insect on nature’s windshield and when it wants to,
it can throw some serious hydropower at them.
Like in this video, where this ship is taking on a hard storm.
Everything seems to be going alright, even calmly, considering we have no audio of the
ship’s surroundings on the outside, just the voices inside.
As the wave gets ready to hit, you’re happy the cameraman seems to be safe, but you can’t
help imagining if anyone were on deck, they’d be blown off, or against the ship so hard,
there’d be no surviving!
Even from behind the glass, it takes quite a few seconds to recover visibility.
There’s some nervous laughter and surprise when the wave hits, some relief afterward
and then it’s on to the next wave.
5.
Straight Out of Fiction This lighthouse off the coast of France makes
my oil rig fear look quite tame.
This tiny island on which lighthouse keepers are often stationed gets hit with waves that
are over a hundred feet high.
It looks so abandoned and dangerous, like it was taken straight out of a fiction novel!
First of all, I need to address the fact that I had no idea lighthouse keepers could even
be stationed somewhere.
Is there like a lighthouse army we should be donating to?
Because this location would be a particularly bad one.
Second of all, these waves are the most frightening phenomenon in water that I’ve ever seen.
Over a hundred feet high?
How does this structure even stay up?
What is it built out of?
But most importantly, how do these lighthouse keepers keep their clothes dry?!
So many unsolved mysteries.
4.
Glacier Wave Waves are dangerous because they can happen
for so many reasons.
Whether it’s because you’re in the water and a large ship goes by, or there’s a shift
in tectonic plates that move the land under the ocean, or even when a large object falls
into the water.
Think of this as the cannonball of the ocean.
The people in this video obviously didn’t know a large part of that glacier was going
to crash, sending over a large wave, but it sure did.
Though it looks large when it first hits, it seems to get more relaxed and then finally,
once it’s near the cameraperson, we see it’s really got some speed and power.
The camera angle falls as the person moves to get away from a direct hit, and everyone
seems to be okay, but this is just another example of people sticking around to be hit
by waves for no reason.
3.
Rain or Shine Massive waves don’t just happen during storms.
Sunny days can bring large waves that can also endanger people’s lives.
Many lives have been lost to strong currents, large waves, and people just feeling that
nothing could go wrong because the weather was nice.
In this video, we see how a nice sunny day at the beach turns into panic as people running
from a large wave get caught up and dragged away.
The video starts and we see a toddler standing in front of the ocean, so naturally, we expect
something to happen to him.
However, the woman in this video calls out that others are being dragged just off to
the side and people start rushing over to help those who we can’t even see under the
waves anymore.
It goes to show, it’s only a matter of seconds before the strength of water can have you
out of breath and fighting for your life.
2.
From Fun to Flood Similarly, in this video, everything seems
to be fun and games at first.
This beach, which from the language spoken could be somewhere in Brazil, had a bad day
when a large wave came through much further than expected.
At first, both children and adults are dragged inland, which to them feels safe.
Even the cameraman is saying “wow!” as if the wave was just a one-time hit that would
knock you over, and you could get back up.
Quickly, we see that that is not the case.
The water continues flooding the passage and people begin to scream as they’re pushed
through and into the water.
Some people manage to make it to the sides of this newly created river, but many have
been dragged out of view.
What seemed like a rush of fun quickly became a life or death situation.
1.
Khao Lak Tsunami This list wouldn’t be complete, of course,
without at least one tsunami wave.
The 2004 Thailand Tsunami made the entire world remember their mortality during the
worst time of the year: Christmas.
In December of that year, a massive Tsunami hit several parts of Southeast Asia and many
people knew friends and family who were vacationing in the area to avoid the winter.
The waves were unlike anything many of us had ever seen.
This footage from the Khao Lak Tsunami shows the evolution of how something like this goes
from feeling “just a bit off” like perhaps the tide is exceptionally low, to seeing a
wall of water rush at you and knowing no matter how fast you run, it will catch up.
The people in this video see how the waves start breaking up more and more and eventually
hit a few ships out in the ocean, then make their way, aggressively towards land.
At one point, we lose all visibility, knowing the cameraman and everyone around him is just
running for their lives.