Re: Freak waves



looks fake, but of course there are places away from "shore" that are
very shallow and can cause a wave to break, but everybody already knew
that. i know there is one of those places miles off of the hawaiian
islands, i remember seeing it on a surfing special where the surfers
take boats way out into the ocean to get to this break. anyway ... i'm
confident that there are freak waves out in the ocean sometimes too, it
just makes sense that there would be. waves are passing in different
directions all the time, causing interference with one another,
diminishing each other's power, and then sometimes increasing it. it
just makes sense that occasionally by chance and fate you would get a
few waves that had bounced off of the coasts or come from far off
storms that would just suddenly come upon each other and be in phase
and spring up as a giant breaking peak, maybe even exploding under a
boat, then disappear just as suddenly into the relative calm. hey, if
you splash around in the hot tub it happens, and that seems like an ok
testing ground to me lol.

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