I got sucked under by a wave machine too. It just pulled my feet right out from under me and sucked me down. Luckily I managed to get back up as the machine released, and I got far enough away to avoid it happening again. Horrible experience tho, I never went near the grates again.

@@ananonymoushen4339 im scared of that happening to me

Wow

*New fear unlocked

Oh my God, that's terrifying! It's my worst nightmare. I'm TERRIFIED of the back of wave pools. I'm glad you're okay, but soo sorry you experienced that 😣

They are massive fans in the back room. This is not a vacuum system

Ikr

I did

I thought it was just me. I was always so scared to go into the deep end

Me

Actually there are different mechanisms used in wave pool, and pistons with giant metal plates is one of them. ;)

I thought the same exact thing

in some wave pools thats how it works

​@@KingRCT3yes :D

well this mechanism is basically a giant piston, but because air and water have different densities there is no need of a big metal piece to separate them

it depends on the design as some are different

@@misostreams232 The one depicted in this video is pneumatic.

Either way it's just a pressure difference moving the water around

i didn't know i could make turbo edits out of wave pools.

@@MartinNeep a vacuum is a form of pneumatics

Me too. They are so eerie to be around and it creeps me out. I dont have submechanophobia and i calm around things underwater but any pool drains, jet lines, pool filters, i stray away from i hate them so much

Same here

im literally terrified of pool jets

@@nahnah8668 I love pool jets 😏

Your pfp looks we’ll bent so I ain’t surprised G

Same here! I thought the water was sucked in via huge pipes and then pushed back out again but it turns out it’s all done by air pressure. I was terrified of wave machines as a kid because I got pulled under by one once.

Same for me! I went to a wave pool when I was younger and I really wanted to know how they made the waves so I swam to the end of the pool to look for something that made the waves. I saw about 3 massive black wall looking things and me being curious I swam closer. At the exact same moment that I was just about to touch the black wall they turned the waves on and the walls began to move. This pool used a similar system to the one in the video except instead of vertical suction and push it was horizontal. Think like a large hand pushing the water from the bottom to just above the surface. And because I was right in front of the pushing wall things I got sucked into it and then pushed out with great force! This wave pool had 3 settings medium, large, and extreme waves. And of course I got unlucky enough that they put it on the extreme setting when I was right next to the wave walls. After I got pushed away from the wave walls I tried to swim back to the shallow end but the waves were really strong and big so I was struggling quite a lot and even ended up going underwater a couple times because a new wave would wash straight over my head! It felt like hours until I finally got out of the pool at the shallow end but it was only 1-2 minutes until I actually got out. And after that incident I never went close to the far end of a wave pool ever again and never will in the future. The worst thing was that I was just 10 years old when this happened. And barely able to swim on my own. I shouldn’t even have been in the pool because they actually had rules that said that if they are using the large or extreme waves you have to be I think it was 13 or 15 to even be allowed in the pool. 12 for the medium waves and anyone if the waves were off. The thing was that nobody actually cared. Not the people in the pool or the people that worked at this place. Even the lifeguards didn’t care. In fact a lot of the rules in that place where routinely broken and nobody cared at all! I’m actually shocked that they didn’t get shut down because of there complete lack of enforcement of the rules. I’m almost positive that someone has gotten seriously hurt there and if not it would be a miracle. My parents were on the other side of the building. ( this place had like 4 pools and like 6 slides. It was like a big indoor water park ) so they didn’t even know what happened. I was always running around from pool to pool and going on each slide like 500 times so my parents decided that they would just sit by the ice cream/snack shop and wait for me there because trying to keep track of me was probably one of the hardest things that any human could ever accomplish. I was safe in the end though and I soon forgot about it and enjoyed the water slides for probably the 125th time that day!

So relatable

@@The_hot_blue_fire_guyman this story made my anxiety spike like crazy.

@@ananonymoushen4339 oh god……l

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I need to make my iron farm. Know how to make a iron golem?

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@@adamshaikh8856 u mean that

Some does work like that, ones in my country are pneumatic wave machines which will pressurise the chambers to push the water out through the bars and release air to allow the water to flow in.

Pretty positive those gates were the start of my submechanophobia...

Same

same. we used to dare each other to see who would stay underwater closest to the bars for the longest. i still dislike wave pools to this day as a result.

@@alexdunhill4271 At least you didn't try to go inside there. Kids used to remove bars in my old pool and swim inside them.

@@mrunixman1579 wtf 0_0

Those Atlantians were something else

Same with the windmills that create the Earth's wind! Mindblowing

What surprises me more is how they built massive lava pools and shot the lava out of volcanoes, now they’re unstable and go off at random times

@@Isopod-my4wm One of life’s many mysteries, friend. 🤔

Surprised no one's mentioned dirt. Like, yeah, it's weird that we forgot how to make Damascus steel and Roman concrete, but who figured out how to make all the dirt that our planet is pretty much made out of? I bet the volcano designers were involved.

It it like a siphon effect?

​@@ToHimWeWillBeReturned Not quite. It uses resonance, just like pushing someone on a swing. First the air inlet valves open, blowing air above the water in the chambers, pushing the water out into the pool. Then the valves switch; the inlet closes and the exhaust opens, letting the water rush back into the chambers. Every time this happens, the water gets slightly higher as more energy is added into the system. You can see the machine room in action here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/it5_oLhmq7_eg2Q.html Listen out for the pneumatic valves opening and closing.

That is terrifying

What?

@@MattH-wg7ou pressure wave pools have inlets either on the back middle or sides. It pumps water through pressure to a room behind the pools in a huge room that fills up and then pushes out. You can get trapped in that room, that's why they have to put an access and ladders and catwalk in them

My anxiety after reading this…….

literally my worst nightmare

yep

@@speedz3420 😆👍

Even worse for me. Only having 2 meters blurred tunnel vision I can see the bars. All I can see is a huge black hole.

@@danielledewitt1 oh yikes! that sounds terrifying!

@@Sssssssslf I’m used to it now. I know there are bars there because of the amount of times I’ve stubbed my toe on them at the sandcastle water park in blackpool uk. I can’t judge how near my foot the chambers are. Oh and the dog is called Buddy and he’s a 9 year old west highland white terrier.

Prisoners would drown

Typhoon Lagoon has a fooking massive wave pool though compared to this. Scared the hell out of me when I went, no way was I going to the deep end.

You were kinda lucky it wasn't roped off.

Really? They’re quite common in North America :)

@@sopwithhannah2401 Ooh, interesting. Thanks for letting me know

Careful which ones you go to though. Changing the water is expensive and time consuming, and most park visitors won't notice the difference at the time, so some places will literally just leave the same water in the wave pool all summer. Nobody notices during the day when the park is open and the wave machine is running, but the lifeguards sure notice the trash and layer of oil floating on the surface after they shut it off. Not every place does that, but plenty do, and it's super easy for them to get away with since, as said, most guests won't notice at the time

@@michealdrake3421 Ooof. Thanks for educating us, that's nasty

They are.

It’s the nights that are the hardest. /ref

​@@sopwithhannah2401ilysm

Wow ! Wasn't it kinda scary ? And wasn't that part of the pool roped off ? They usually do that at least nowadays but maybe not at every pool.

@@psirvent8 we have a wave pool too in our town and its not blocked by ropes. There is actually a pole at the end for people to hold onto. Its a normal thing there to dive down and grab the chamber bars. For us it wasnt scary at all since you get pushed away after being sucked in.

Actually there is a large fan or blower motor used however it's in a room behind the wave-making chambers. On the ceiling of those chambers you have the end of a pipe that will blow air over the surface the water, making waves this way.

Yeah it wasn't fair it was just easy to enforce. What an awful introduction to how bureaucracy works.

Sorry for replying to an old comment, but you are correct. There are different types of wave machines and one of them works similarly to your description.

The biggest wave you can get is that where you drop all at the same time, it wouldnt make it bigger by alternating cuz then you would have waves in different directions and not bigger waves

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Here in France (Europe) they also put ropes to keep people away from the grates. So I don't think we have that lax of a safety regulation about wave pools.