How do Tidal Bores Work?

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Жыл бұрын

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Join marine physicist Dr. Patrick Rynne as he explores the science behind tidal bores and see what happens when he tries to surf a bore in Canada!

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@mrthingy9072 8 ай бұрын

I won't try surfing a tidal bore at home, because I don't have an appropriate river running through my living room. I'm safe!

@pratyushkumardash4410 2 ай бұрын

Lol 😅.. He should tell it don't try this at home, school or anywhere so that you can't fight with those poor tidal bores

@kayleighgroenendal8473 8 ай бұрын

This video needs at least 300,000 more views!!! This is top shelf education!!!

@kayleighgroenendal8473 8 ай бұрын

That's a big compliment coming from me, with a 5 second attention span and an inflated sense of my own worldly knowledge 😂

@dude...are-you-sure 3 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more 👍 (with your first comment that is)

@cedriceveleigh 26 күн бұрын

What is this, a viewership for ants??

@dude...are-you-sure 3 ай бұрын

That has got to be one of the best "explained" videos I've ever watched on KZfaq. The way it was explained along with visual aid was perfect for my non scientific brain to comprehend. That video of the surf with multiple camera at work was amazing. The tidal bore resembled the tsunami waves Ive seen on videos. Very fascinating phenomenon. That's for teaching me something new today!! Subbed your channel and love the merch you have. Will def be getting something for the comiNg summer season.

@Waterlust 3 ай бұрын

Right on! So glad you enjoyed it. More educational videos like this coming.

@zbutler111 9 ай бұрын

I experienced one of these in Moblie Bay in Alabama while kayak fishing in the marsh. It had been dead silent for hours and we heard water rushing. We look behind us and there are 3 waves stacked on top of each other. They pass us and we noticed the water on the shore was about 6" higher than it had been. The wind was blowing out and the tide was coming in. I believe the wind had pushed all of the water out of the small creek when suddenly the tide overcame it and all of the water came in at once. It was very neat to experience.

@Waterlust 9 ай бұрын

Very, very cool!

@yousifatobiya7279 3 ай бұрын

Abstract : The energy that dominates the earth is very great, some of it is natural, like the heat of the sun and volcanoes, and some of it is human action, by cutting down trees, without replacing them and cultivating in their place... There are five forces that control or dominate the planet... 1- The first theory (horizontal dynamic movement) and its end... The occurrence of storms, rain, floods and snow, at unexpected times and places, is because of the expiration of this theory, which needs to be balanced... 2- The second theory (vertical dynamic movement) and its end... This movement or force controls or dominates the earthquakes, earth cracks, drying up of rivers and lakes, earth openings, mountain collapses, and the emergence of drinking water springs on the ground... It becomes out of control... These phenomena increased due to the end of this theory... The third theory: it is water that rotates the earth... The fourth theory: the Earth's axis of rotation has tilted 2° degrees... The fifth theory: The Earth has a new orbit... These studies had completed and sent on July 26th 2000 YOUSIF A TOBIYA

@yousifatobiya7279 3 ай бұрын

Now, now, now...The Earth is more than 50,000 km away from the Moon, and is close to the Sun and the planets. Therefore, the Moon’s terrain cannot be seen with the naked eye like before...The Earth will be lost in the depths of infinite space... This phenomenon confirms my fifth theory (the earth has been lost in the depth of space)... Yousif A Tobiya

@yousifatobiya7279 3 ай бұрын

You all talk about tsunami, but you do not know when? it's going to happen? I will explain and discuss this phenomenon at any scientific conference... Yousif A Tobiya

@yousifatobiya7279 3 ай бұрын

You can imagine the Earth without water, as water balances the shape of the Earth, its rotation around itself, and around the sun. Tides are considered a safety valve for the Earth and its rotation. As the water melts, the Earth slows down its rotation. Water has increased due to the melting of the ice caps in the poles and the Himalayas, and thus, the rotational force also increases... Now: The length of the year now is [365 1/4 +_(2 minutes)]... These studies were completed and sent on July 26, 2000... Yousif Ayoub Tobiya

@koharumi1 8 ай бұрын

Was hoping to hear the rushing of water as it races up the river. Instead got background music.

@ritankarbhunia3553 4 ай бұрын

i was here just to know what they were but ended up watching the entire video, you are great at explaining man

@sham_scam 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the explanation (and the demonstration)! We came across this video trying to understand what we accidentally witnessed - the Lupar river changing direction right in front of our eyes while holidaying in Borneo, Malaysia. They also have an annual tidal bore festival in which one of the activities IS surfing the wave! (Look for Benak festival in Sri Aman)

@herzogsbuick 8 ай бұрын

I live in Anchorage, and there are people surfing the tidal bore in Turnagain Arm all the time. I'm not aware of anyone who's died or been injured doing that specifically, scary though I'm sure it is. However, because our tides are so drastic, people will try to walk to islands and other coasts during low tides. Unfortunately, the Cook Inlet's bottom is fine glacial silt that acts as a non-Newtownian fluid: If you run across it, it's hard as concrete, but if you stop and stand there it'll slurp you up. People die on a somewhat regular basis from that, maybe once or twice a decade. They start sinking, can't get out (a man was torn in half when a helicopter tried to pull him out many years ago), and drown. Great video!

@kristileigh7336 7 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh! That sounds so awful; I had no idea anything like that even existed.

@SearchIndex 4 ай бұрын

I’ve been to Turnagain and surf so I was warned not to go out on the mudflats there as people allegedly have died in the past …they weren’t surfers they were clamming or something and got stuck in the mud when the tide came in

@WilliamLee-bv4tv 9 ай бұрын

Just found you on the original tide video, amazing channel, you've earned my sub

@britc2792 3 ай бұрын

thank you so much!! i have a marine science midterm coming up and I was so confused before watching this. this was beyond helpful!

@hightidesup 26 күн бұрын

Excellent video. Very interesting, well put together, and informative.

@kristinek2916 Жыл бұрын

Great video!! Thank you for what you do for our oceans & marine life 💙

@andyvonbourske6405 8 ай бұрын

i live 10 minutes away from moncton and apparently in the 60's the wave was a lot bigger but construction work down river messed it up. hardcore surfers would come from all over to surf it

@pg-mtl8815 8 ай бұрын

The Moncton tidal bore was bigger years ago. Land development in the estuary and river valley have dampened it a lot...

@barneylaurance1865 8 ай бұрын

I think the explanation of sonic booms isn't quite right. Any plane going faster than the speed of sound makes a sonic boom, it's not just planes going at exactly the speed of sound. So I'm not sure that a tidal bore needs the speed of two types of wave to happen to match.

@taitsmith8521 7 ай бұрын

Sonic boom is a poor comparison. It's much more similar to " double bouncing " somebody on a trampoline.

@niamotali79 Жыл бұрын

This video is helpful for me.Thank's.

@petebatista365 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for defining the difference between a tidal wave and a tsunami.

@zebj16 9 ай бұрын

I have seen the river Severn bore that can get up to 7 feet and there have been surfing on it. The record was to surf nearly 8 miles up the river.

@thegrassisbluer09 8 ай бұрын

And the first man to surf it was a legendary warrior

@anshulbahuguna7201 3 ай бұрын

Best video explaining+experimenting tidal bore❤😂

@WillN2Go1 8 ай бұрын

Good video. Driving through Scotland I was lucky enough to arrive at the Connel Bridge just as the tidal bore, known as The Falls of Lora, was coming in. There were some kayakers on the water in river running kayaks. I'm a sea kayaker so I could understand some of what was going on. The kayaker closest to the north shore was really struggling, though the current and bore didn't look any more difficult than beach landing through surf. Clearly there were more forces than it appeared (from shore. I was in the car park) He was rescued and towed ashore by his friends while others retrieved his yak and paddle. And I would expect most of these bores to be muddy, possibly sandy. After all what flattens out into a long slope better than mud and sand?

@kxs7267 8 ай бұрын

must admit I've never heard the Falls of Lora called a tidal bore, only a tide race. Usually the waves are more like standing waves under and around the bridge, rather than running through on their way miles inland. More like the Swellies than the Severn. I've sea kayaked there once; the currents and eddylines were ferocious! But it is impressive watching the experts play...

@BytebroUK 8 ай бұрын

Good work. Thx for that,

@focidhomophobicii2426 9 ай бұрын

the dude just jumped in and regret 😂

@FrankensteinDIYkayak 8 ай бұрын

go into which kayaks are best for surfing where and how.

@wesporter2176 Жыл бұрын

That doesn't look too sketchy honestly unless you got stuck in a mudflat or something.

@Waterlust Жыл бұрын

That's exactly what happened to us! 🤣

@willnash1842 8 ай бұрын

I have lived about 5 metres from a river with a tidal bore for 20yrs, the river Parrett in Somerset. I can see it from my window and regularly walk along the bank side paths. In all that time Ive only ever seen the bore twice lol. The local authorities have now started to build a tidal barrier which will unfortunately likely put a stop to it

@stevenlarratt3638 8 ай бұрын

I always have a laugh driving up north from cornwall passing it due to my name!

@ratratrat59 8 ай бұрын

So cool! Thank you!

@Madvlo 8 ай бұрын

09:33 I don't think I have a tidal bore at home . but i will certainly look for it now .

@debbielopez5455 Жыл бұрын

Wow! That looked amazing and awful at the same time! Thank you for your videos. I’m learning so much!

@Waterlust Жыл бұрын

Thanks Debbie! We wouldn't describe the water as "inviting" but we still had a great time. Glad you're enjoying the videos. More to come!

@robertking2593 6 ай бұрын

You need to try the Severn boar in Somerset England. It's surfed on a regular basis

@bmar9742 9 ай бұрын

Awesome! You are one brave dude!🙌💜

@stutibudholiya1950 Жыл бұрын

Thank You So Much all i can say!

@md-1186 Жыл бұрын

A truly underrated video... Yea but surfing is a bit dangerous especially there cuz you need to get out of fast

@gatitavaughan9109 Жыл бұрын

Which river estuary near Washington State has a tidal bore?

@Waterlust Жыл бұрын

That star represents Crissy Field Marsh, in San Francisco, California. Records show a tidal bore can form there around high tide, but we're not sure if it's still a regular occurrence.

@benkerry2006 5 ай бұрын

What music do you use from 4:30 to 7:30?

@Johnnyrouger 8 ай бұрын

At 9:05 - what is your camper trailer?

@Waterlust 8 ай бұрын

It’s a home built trailer using a kit from a company called Chesapeake Light Craft. We have a series of videos on our channel documenting the build. Here is a link to an overview video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKuCapx6mc-3qJc.htmlsi=V5jWVWeP8-4gVXZv

@StarmaxStarmax-zn3xt 8 ай бұрын

LOL, the closing comment was backwards: you don't "observe science in action in the real world", you observe nature in action and verify or disprove the scientific models that have been created to describe the particular phenomenon.

@joeyho5134 9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂" ... and as luck would have it, I did have a board with me. " 😂😂😂

@johnransom1146 8 ай бұрын

What about Bear River NS. Big tides there

@Ciniper Жыл бұрын

Love this

@benoitavril4806 Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting theory. There was a tidal bore in the Seine a while ago, but works on the shore destroyed it. I'm not sure at how those works could have ruined the wave. Ideally according to the theory you present, there wouldn't be any tidal bore if there was absolutely no perturbation already in the water. For a plane, you can imagine any air molecule hitting the plane would create a perturbation. But I think even Ideally, with a perfectly continuous fluid, you would still have a shockwave. I would say those perturbations are not real, they might be a way to visualise the dispersion the compression front experiences through the medium it propagates in.

@Waterlust Жыл бұрын

Spot on observations! The metaphor of the airplane and sound barrier is, to a degree, a simplification as it doesn't get into the finer details of how the waves are created in the first place. It's value really is in illustrating that there is a difference between shallow water wave propagation and the motion of the tidal front. What we don't present is HOW the upstream flow of water plays a role in wave formation, as we felt getting into those details would make the video too dense for the average viewer to appreciate. We couldn't find a clear and succinct way of explaining that aspect of the phenomenon, but it's something we hope to tackle in an upcoming video that explains how river surfing works, as the underlying physics are similar. Really appreciate your thoughtful comment and observations!

@benoitavril4806 Жыл бұрын

@@Waterlust Thank you! I heard a while ago that tidal bores were not yet clearly understood, but I never got even the beginning of the explanation for their formation. So I'm really greatful for that. On your river wave topic, I remember having annoyed my fluid dynamics teacher with Tcheaupo waves that looked like they were sucking the water in front of them, my theory at the time was that it might explain part of why they broke so square, but that was a purely math free interpretation, so, not confirmed. It just looks like the front of the wave goes under the average height. Once I thought that if an ocean wave broke it was because the top of the wave was at a higher height compared to the bottom, so it meant it should go faster as stated by the propagation equation. After that, a teacher gave us the very same explanation which didn't reassure me but on the opposite made me question that simplistic theory. Since it's highly non linear, I doubt it's that simple and the only explanation. Now I think the flow coming from the front of the wave participates in the rising of the face, like how a river wave is created when it goes over an obstacle and sort of bounce back after that. The same type of waves exist in the air and are used by sail plane. If you search on john john Florence's page, or his brother Nathan, you will find and incredible shorebreak that is so hollow, it litteraly sucks the water in front of it, accumulate waves, and then a 50 cm wave becomes a 2m pipe. Here it is kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icyFiqSUxLDDaaM.html Look at the view, it's incredible.

@RLukeDavis 8 ай бұрын

If you watch this on a TV, you need to rewatch it in a phone in order to access the link to the video about tides. Can you do that better?

@miltonthecat2240 12 күн бұрын

Very interesting. I've heard explanations for tidal bores, but they were missing the all-important detail about the speeds matching, so the explanations didn't sink in for me. Now that I've watched both videos, this one and the "How the Tides Really Work", I've given a little more thought to something I've been wondering about for years concerning tides - where does the water come from at high tide, and where does it go at low tide? I'm talking about the individual water molecules, and in the open ocean. Obviously a relatively narrow channel connecting a large body of water to the ocean will have large tidal currents flowing in and out through the channel. But in the open ocean, it's not so obvious. Clearly the high/low water molecules don't come from the region where the tide is currently low/high, since that's a few thousand miles away. So it must be analogous to filling a kitchen sink with water, where the required water is already in the pipes of your house. After some thought, my conclusion is that the individual water molecules travel such a small distance that you can say the water doesn't move (i.e., flow) at all. Here's my reasoning. Consider a square mile of open ocean in an area where the water depth is a one hundred feet, and the tide on a particular day is 10 feet between low tide and high tide. A additional volume of water one mile long by one mile wide by ten feet high is a huge amount of extra water. Consider a vertical slice of this volume that is one mile long by one inch wide by one hundred feet deep. If you could pick up this slice of water and place it on top of the adjacent water, the water level would be one hundred feet higher. So to make a ten foot height increase, you'd only need to move a one-tenth inch slice of water and spread it over the adjacent inch of water. Nothing in this thought experiment depends on the choice of a one-inch slice, it could just as easily be a thousandth of an inch or a millionth of an inch. So the individual water molecules don't have to move at all, they essentially stay in place, with some percentage of them rising in height. This seems really counterintuitive, that such a huge volume of water could appear and disappear with essentially zero water current flow. Is this analysis all wet?

@jeffclark5268 8 ай бұрын

Should have gone to the Shubenacedy river in NS for much bigger tidal bore

@guaiyaxs8570 Жыл бұрын

2:18 ... I'm dizzy... 😂😂😂😂😂cows flying.. trains derailed 😂😂

@kayleighgroenendal8473 8 ай бұрын

Mind-surfing the wave 🥰i fucking love that, and I know that feeling as a snowboarder !!

@eyetrollin710 8 ай бұрын

You're missing the coolest tidal bore!! Anyone who wants to see some good examples look at Skookumchuck Rapids in BC or look up the tidal bore coming through the discovery Islands off of Vancouver Island, It's pretty gnarly

@waterstridersup4368 Жыл бұрын

fucking nice attempt! congratulation! respect from Beijing, China.

@SLCtica 7 ай бұрын

Marino Ballena in Costa Rica is very flat and in a matter of minutes the ocean is all around you.

@Lmr6973 7 ай бұрын

So how the tides work is a theory? Wow!

@trevellyan2182 Ай бұрын

Great video and this is a great river/bore 👌 Just back from tasting it 💩

@Mike75575 Жыл бұрын

Who is here trying to work out the river wyre .?

@ZoneTelevision Жыл бұрын

I wonder if he's the only dude to have actually documented surfing a Tidal Bore.

@Waterlust Жыл бұрын

Definitely not, there are heaps of great videos, especially with the rise of foiling!

@thegrassisbluer09 8 ай бұрын

Slamming "tidal bore surfing" into YT search would have been about a third of the effort of this comment

@Hobbyblasphemist 8 ай бұрын

@@thegrassisbluer09ikr. We have whole events here I. The UK where as many people as possible try and ride a bore out as long as they can. Few succeed.

@WojciechowskaAnna Жыл бұрын

tsunamis are not rough waves, they are long waves caused by some external perturbation such as landslides, rock slide, ice slide or some kind (not all) of earthquakes. Not all tsunamis are dangerous, only the big ones. Rough waves are more special that are rare and their height is 2 as the highest surrounding waves, the nature of those is still studied and explained on statistics levels. Cool video esp the surfing part!!! If I understand well it is more the case of wave (tide) on current (river) and the interaction - not just slope varying in right way. It makes the amplitude got up and makes wave steeper till it breaks. On youtube there is another cool video explaining hydraulic jump and the subcritical, critical and supercritical speeds.

@GRosa 9 ай бұрын

Do you mean rouge waves instead of "rough" waves?

@derpdederp8954 8 ай бұрын

@@GRosa do you mean rogue waves instead of "rouge" waves?

@GRosa 8 ай бұрын

@@derpdederp8954 Yep, I don't usually mix them up in writing but it happens :)

@theedge5584 9 ай бұрын

VERY KOOL...GET WARM ALREADY YHO

@nickd717 8 ай бұрын

Tidal bores shouldn’t be so hard on themselves. To me they’re tidal somewhat interestings.

@SofaKingShit 8 ай бұрын

I've been called a dreadful bore.

@michaelrae9599 8 ай бұрын

A tidal bore is like you, in sync speed-wise with the rotation of the Earth and the momentum of the gravitational effects of the moon at its strongest. It's as if the Earth was moving under you while you stayed lifted up above it based on the moon pulling you up in a malleable situation support-wise. You surfed the Earth.

@Waterlust 8 ай бұрын

That’s a wild way to visualize it!

@barneylaurance1865 8 ай бұрын

@@Waterlust It's not really true though. The rotation of the earth is a speed of about 1,000mph at the equator. Zero at the poles, presumably 500mph ish at a the 45 degree latitude of Fundy Bay.

@PabloSanchez-qu6ib 8 ай бұрын

"I don't recommend anybody try this at home"... well for starters you need a very strange home to be able to try that.

@HoneyBadger80886 8 ай бұрын

Cool 😎

@FranFerioli 8 ай бұрын

"don't try this at home", well slope is gentle, but not much of a tide in my apartment...

@kohnbonn9744 5 ай бұрын

You should surf the tidal bore in China..that be legen..dary

@josephinebennington7247 8 ай бұрын

Bores don’t ”work”, they occur.

@JamesSmith-qj9kd 8 ай бұрын

Tidal bores usually work on commission, but they're not very exciting.........

@anneother6224 9 ай бұрын

How depressing that funding for glossy entertainments like this only comes from people "driving positive change".

@Waterlust 9 ай бұрын

Plenty of ways to fund one’s work that has nothing to do with driving positive change. That just happens to be what we focus on…and we wouldn’t call that work depressing, we find it inspiring