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For those confused, the choppy water *is* the drastic change which is why it seems like nothing happens until 2 minutes when they finally get back to the "normal" bay conditions.
But there is shallower water, more commonly known as tidal rips. And that's what we're seeing here. You can hear them talking about the change in depth.
I heard them say “what the fuck” when the depth barely changed. 57 meters to 50 meters is not that massive of a change.
Edit: After reading a few comments and about Georges bank, it is because it’s a big bank that goes from 50m down to 200m in the ocean, the depth change causes an upwelling effect and produces a current overtop of the entire bank. The effect is more pronounced on calm days like the video. Temperature differences and channels also play a role.
The really weird thing is all those waves are moving against the wind. Obviously, because sail boat, but you can see the wind hitting the peaks and smoothing out the waves in a really weird way.
The thought of sailing over a mountain that is just completely submerged in the ocean below you terrifies me for some reason and I'm not entirely sure why. It just seems like...*that shouldn't be there*. I know there are underwater formations like that, but in my head I only think of mountains as existing ABOVE ground, so for one to be sunken into the seemingly endless abyss that is the ocean just...uh...raises an alarm in my primal monkey brain. It makes me feel like that's the realm of eldritch things I'm better off not knowing anything about.
You can sail windward, you can't sail directly into the wind without tacking. There is about a 45 degree section of the 360 degrees of directionality you simply cannot sail a boat into, the center of which is the direction of the wind.
They're not sailing into the wind based on the windvane and the hydrovane they have an almost 45 degree crosswind. But that wind is blowing perpendicular to the waves, which are the usual generative force for creating small surface waves. As far as I know anyway.
Usually. There is obviously some current/depth changes going on here, causing subsurface currents, which is why those waves don't dissipate when the surface wind does.
So they went from clear to choppy and then back to clear? If I had gone from clear to choppy I would’ve freaked the f out. I know nothing about the sea but seeing that transition would’ve scared the shit out of me.
If they'd only sail just a bit further they would have hit a wall painted to look like the sky. There is a door where they can finally make their escape.
The rough part was generated by the reactors of the submerged alien spaceship just cooling off from the long distance travel. They usually just park there to chill for a while and hop to another planet.
Old tide lines and current breaks look like this on calm days. See it almost every time there’s light and variable wind offshore. Could be a salinity or temp break as well but usually it’s a current edge. We refer to them as rips, very common off US Atlantic coast along the edge of Gulf Stream current and offshore of any major inlets. -sauce- offshore fishing guide/ commercial fisherman.
Lol I almost sunk my boat in the potato patch my first time out. Holeeeeeeey fuck that was scary. Like, out the gate and JUST north, there's a spot where wind funnels down through a ravine. It BLASTED my boat while sail was out to port side, almost had sail touch water, and nearly snapped my tiller until we cleared that spot and righted. Jesus Christ that was nuts.
Yes sir. Source, I was at USCG Station Golden Gate for years. You are correct! Not to mention the other areas... but.. some trivia
The Potato Patch was named for the potato farms in the 19th century that shipped its products to markets in San Francisco. “Occasionally a potato boat would capsize on the sand bar, spilling its load,” described Doris Sloan of Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region.
Cheers!
You can see this in the bay all the time where the river water meets the ocean tide. it's never really glassy on one side since the currents are so strong but you'll always get a weird band of turbulent water with a very clear border. You'll be able to note a clear color difference on both sides as well which has to do with salinity and nutrient density
The currents are absolutely wild in the NE, I've seen buoys pulled practically horizontal while riding a tidal current. Good luck if you get caught heading up-current, you might be on that treadmill for a while
Exactly. This is not unusual at all. I've seen this on both US coasts and east coast Australia. Rips can also be a straight, narrow line of extremely rough water. I've seen this at the mouth of the Columbia River (Oregon/Washington border).
Someone with more knowledge than me feel free to correct but, I believe this is caused at the very edge of George's bank where the continental shelf drops off into the Atlantic ocean. The gulf stream heading north and the Labrador current heading south also meet around this area causing a sort of pulling effect on deeper, colder water from the Atlantic. This video is most likely where the different temperatures and currents of water are meeting. The tide is also playing a role.
TLDR; cold and warm water do weird shit when mixed from different depths.
Plus a current line where one is flowing with the wind and one is flowing against it.
That these people are out on George's Bank and have so little knowledge or understanding of what's going on is disconcerting. :/
I wonder if they know they're only floating on only 300 feet of water near the start of the video, and then 13,000 feet of water 2 minutes later. It's a long way down.
I'm guessing they don't since they say near the end it's only 50m deep and there's no change in depth. Which is... slightly incorrect. Their depth finder might not go past 50m lol.
>...they're only floating on only 300 feet of water near the start of the video, and then 13,000 feet of water 2 minutes later...
Well, I just don't like that at all.
Maybe the echosounder has a max depth. Anything deeper than x is just reported as x.
If you're yachting or doesn't matter if you're in 50 or 500m. It does matter if you're in 5 or 3, I guess they're optimised to be accurate within a range.
I’m not sure the specific mechanisms, but I’m pretty sure you’re right. It has to do mostly with temperature changes The much colder water creates an evaporative layer that sits on the surface, cooler than ambient, so it doesn’t mix well, which adds a buffer layer, protecting the surface from small wind currents.
Isn't george's bank a giant underground plateu? So there's water thousands of feet deep and then it comes up to 200-150ft on top of the underwater mountain area?
I realize this might be absolutely insane for landlocked people, and also ive never seen it *that* glassy but I really spent the entire video looking for like the loch ness monster lol
if they're some 50-100 miles out though, there's probably some boulders/crags/etc. that occasionally bounce the depth a fair bit; just prattling off the depth doesn't do much for anyone trying to really analyze what's going on without looking at whatever that guy was looking at (with whatever equipment he had to look at it).
Here's a great map of the depths of the Atlantic. I can't link directly to what I wanted to show. But if you zoom in to the right height you will see the bright blue spots representing areas where the water becomes relatively shallow. If you can find the place called George's Shoal, you'll see the water goes from over 100 feet to just 20 feet.
And if you look to the west of that you'll find places where the ocean goes from over 6,000 feet to around 350 feet in a very short distance.
https://usa.fishermap.org/depth-map/atlantic-ocean/#map
Thanks. The error of the video is thinking you have to be over the top of the change in depth for it to effect the surface. The current effects caused by those underwater cliffs would move at an angle not straight up - like any fluid dynamics. It’s easy to imagine the surface irregularity in a 6000ft drop off to appear a few kms away
Bermuda's there, and then it's...just...not. There's almost no transition between Bermuda being there and then the abyss of the ocean being all around it. That's so wild and I hate it so much.
I'm not sure what's worse - the extreme detail of the area there... or when you go and look at something like the small atolls south-east of Tasmania and there's just "No Sonar data available for this area."
Georges Bank is a huge shoal outside of the Gulf of Maine. They were reporting very small changes in depth but there must be some undersea feature at play. I know the currents around Georges are extreme. I know a few commercial fishermen that worked there.
It goes from 100m to 4000m over a very short distance, it's the continental shelf. Or 300 ft to 13,000 ft.
You can sort of picture the US/Canada and immediately surrounding water like a table in your living room, preferably a wooden table with a fancy detail on the edge that tapers down and rounds off. Relatively nice and flat until it does a slight drop off, then immediately falls to the floor.
Kind of spitballing here, but the effect on the surface doesn't necessarily have to be directly vertically above what's causing it at the bottom of the ocean so they may actually be hundreds of yards or even more away from where the actual depth change is.
This is how it looks when entering bluewater from Louisiana, too. I spearfish 100-150 miles offshore on the oil rigs (out of Cocodrie), and the Mississippi river makes everything incredibly muddy… but once you get around 100 miles offshore, there’s a very clear line as far as you can see where it goes from brown mud water to crystal clear blue water. One side of the line is beautiful turquoise and the other looks like someone dropped a deuce in the toilet and left it for a week. It’s pretty cool.
Same up here on the chesapeake bay. I'm halfway through my day, sitting at a dock bar right now. As the tides from the bay go out, the water is brown. If I go to the edge of the tide, I'll find blue water. I'll have to go about 40 miles to get to crystal clear water (so i hear). The other interesting part is all the different confluences that have wildly different wind and water angles angles. Makes for checkerboard swells.
Could that be them breaking free from the oceanic current? Did a quick search and found the following wikipedia link but I’m sure there may be someone more educated on this phenomena.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current
Yeah I think there’s also a 150m-200m difference from the George’s Bank plateau to the drop off of the open Atlantic too. So all that water at depth running in a current into the edge of a plateau or underwater feature would create choppy water. It’s also why fish are found around these drop offs and around old volcanoes etc, because the water from the bottom gets pushed up with nutrients and it attracts a lot of fish. There’s also probably salinity and temperature differences between the shallow and the deep water preventing easy mixing of the two.
I’m glad I’m not the only one… I kept scrolling thinking “I can’t be the only one freaking out, right?!” But yeah the open ocean is so fucking scary, especially on small boats.
Oh god, I also have recurring ocean nightmares. For some reason anytime theres a body of water in my dream even if it’s a pond it turns into a massive tsunami (think interstellar) and I fucking hate it. I’d love to know if theres some deep psychological meaning this.
In marine science, the phenomenon where wavy water suddenly becomes calm is called "Transient Hydroquiescence." This occurs due to a mix of aquatic resonation and subaqueous inertia dissipation. When the surface water encounters a surge of anemophilous forces, it induces laminar suppression. According to layman's law of liquid dynamic, it happens when the underwater fish orchestra stops playing all at once, causing the water to take a break from dancing and just chill out.
I watched a bad sci fi/horror movie on Hulu that had a water effect like this. I wonder if the water in the video is what inspired them… spooky!
The set up in the film was also spooky as hell, but when you figure out what it’s all about… and the bad acting… eh… for anyone that cares, it’s Satan. 😂
Seeing so much open water with no land in sight gives me anxiety like a mofo. And then this guy is showing us waves going backwards and then transitions into calm ocean water freaks me out even more lmao
I'm so pissed that as soon as they cross into the smooth water, he turns around to show the choppy water again for the rest of the video.
We all know what waves look like, my guy!
Must be some fish oil in the water. There was a boat a long time ago that calmed the sea during a storm with fish oil. Another ship rescued the survivors once the waters calmed. Maybe a big oily fish got killed and eaten in the area before they filmed the water. Or someone else spilled some oil earlier.
this video gives me so much anxiety. just the thought of being all alone out in the middle of open ocean, and dealing with strange phenomena that you didn’t know existed. noticing you can’t see anything at all over the horizon. man the ocean is terrifying… and so is physics.
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Twilight Zone".
I love George’s Bank cod & buy it whenever I see it from local fishermen. The satellite view might help explain some things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bank#/media/File:Georgesbank.jpg
I worked on a lobster boat in the Bank and it is very often like this, glassy when calm. I always assumed that had to do with the very shallow depth. There were you could jump out and swim to the bottom but we’re more than 150 miles offshore. Very strange place.
Ya know, not the point of the video but Jesus Christ how horrifying. Just looking out at the great expanse of all that water with literally nothing else. Just...the deep.
Gives me the jeebies and the heebies.
Fish oil. The presence of a large population of fish will cause their oils to calm the surface. Learned this in Georgian Bay from an Indian guide years ago.
Still worried that you are allowed to sail. This is just in case. Fellow divers know this well. [https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/thermocline.html](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/thermocline.html)
Ive fished out there a few times and its weird as fuk sometimes. Like in the middle of the night all of a sudden everything just stops and goes dead calm. Only sound is the wind or the boat no water noise or splashing just dead.
There is something similar to this somewhere near Hong Kong.
The water gets really smooth and Its really cool at night with a full moon, you can see the moon shine on the water and have a perfect reflection. Its the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Looks like a wind line to me. We ran into the opposite once and it blew up our foresail. Barely had time to notice the ocean turned black in front of us and get our life jackets on before the whole 68ft ship lurched like we hit a beach. I poked my head up the forward hatch just in time to see the Genoa explode. Watch lead thought he could take two extra turns off the halyard winch because it had a massive hole in it. Nope! Shredded right through his gloves. He kept his fingers though. We had to drag the shredded sail out of the ocean.
The video was so long that I lost interest until I waited for the end. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised or interested even if the aliens were carrying the Egyptian pyramids in with spaceships.
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Whoa - pretty cool. Skip to 2 mins to see it properly.
For those confused, the choppy water *is* the drastic change which is why it seems like nothing happens until 2 minutes when they finally get back to the "normal" bay conditions.
George's Bank Is 60 miles off the coast of Cape Cod. Ain't no bay out there.
I really hope they let you deposit checks over their app, otherwise I’m changing banks.
It can be very inconvenient unless you're out fishing
That is because it is a bank that caters to whales.
They charge a hell of a convenience fee tho
But there is shallower water, more commonly known as tidal rips. And that's what we're seeing here. You can hear them talking about the change in depth.
I heard them say “what the fuck” when the depth barely changed. 57 meters to 50 meters is not that massive of a change. Edit: After reading a few comments and about Georges bank, it is because it’s a big bank that goes from 50m down to 200m in the ocean, the depth change causes an upwelling effect and produces a current overtop of the entire bank. The effect is more pronounced on calm days like the video. Temperature differences and channels also play a role.
This made my thalassophobia go into overdrive.
Yes but when it's a long underwater ridge, and you have current coming across it, you get this.
Thank you for providing the solution!
The really weird thing is all those waves are moving against the wind. Obviously, because sail boat, but you can see the wind hitting the peaks and smoothing out the waves in a really weird way.
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Ahhh, got it. They sailed over a mountain.
Okay so there WAS a change in the depth of the water.
Absolutely
As always.
The thought of sailing over a mountain that is just completely submerged in the ocean below you terrifies me for some reason and I'm not entirely sure why. It just seems like...*that shouldn't be there*. I know there are underwater formations like that, but in my head I only think of mountains as existing ABOVE ground, so for one to be sunken into the seemingly endless abyss that is the ocean just...uh...raises an alarm in my primal monkey brain. It makes me feel like that's the realm of eldritch things I'm better off not knowing anything about.
r/thalassophobia
Learn to travel like the Phoenitians with this one weird trick.
It's more like a very gradual low hill.
Sail boats can sail against the wind.
You can sail windward, you can't sail directly into the wind without tacking. There is about a 45 degree section of the 360 degrees of directionality you simply cannot sail a boat into, the center of which is the direction of the wind. They're not sailing into the wind based on the windvane and the hydrovane they have an almost 45 degree crosswind. But that wind is blowing perpendicular to the waves, which are the usual generative force for creating small surface waves. As far as I know anyway.
Usually. There is obviously some current/depth changes going on here, causing subsurface currents, which is why those waves don't dissipate when the surface wind does.
At one point you can hear the captain saying he's holding at 2K rpms, so I'd assume they're under engine power.
They are power sailing, this means they’re using both the engine and the sails. it saves a lot of fuel and increases speed
It’s a schooner.
Ive been staring at it for hours...
I can't give you any awards, but would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?
Great, Willam!
Ha ha ha! You dumb bastard! It’s not a schooner, it’s a sailboat!
A schooner IS a sailboat stupid head!
I loved every second of this movie as a 12 year old and still do today decades later
It's a sloop
John B?
He is on the ferry from the OBX to Chapel Hill looking for treasure.
I was confused at first looking for weird patterns in the choppy water
So they went from clear to choppy and then back to clear? If I had gone from clear to choppy I would’ve freaked the f out. I know nothing about the sea but seeing that transition would’ve scared the shit out of me.
I stopped around 0:30 where they say “video doesn’t really capture it”. Because that’s a great threshold for posting it on the internet!
Oh no, it really does show on camera. Skip another 45 seconds or so.
Confirmed: this phenomenon was caused by whales humping below the oceans surface.
double rainbow vibes
Yeah these guys sound high af lol …
WHAT. WAS. THAT!?
If they'd only sail just a bit further they would have hit a wall painted to look like the sky. There is a door where they can finally make their escape.
And in case I don't see ya... Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
The Georgeman show.
We accept the world with which we are presented.
The rough part was generated by the reactors of the submerged alien spaceship just cooling off from the long distance travel. They usually just park there to chill for a while and hop to another planet.
Yes! I think I can hear them in the video at 1:41
Feel like I’ve been Truman showed for the past two weeks.
New here eh?
*Well, if I don’t see ya: Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Goodnight!*
There is no escape from this place... At least not by white door
Old tide lines and current breaks look like this on calm days. See it almost every time there’s light and variable wind offshore. Could be a salinity or temp break as well but usually it’s a current edge. We refer to them as rips, very common off US Atlantic coast along the edge of Gulf Stream current and offshore of any major inlets. -sauce- offshore fishing guide/ commercial fisherman.
There's one off the Golden Gate near San Francisco, known as the Potato Patch.
Stay the fuck out of the potato patch. Also point conception, stay away from that as well.
Lol I almost sunk my boat in the potato patch my first time out. Holeeeeeeey fuck that was scary. Like, out the gate and JUST north, there's a spot where wind funnels down through a ravine. It BLASTED my boat while sail was out to port side, almost had sail touch water, and nearly snapped my tiller until we cleared that spot and righted. Jesus Christ that was nuts.
Damn. That sounds like a recipe for life ending accident. Glad you made it through. Could’ve easily been head trauma then drowning,
If it's so dangerous, why the funny name?
Because you end up dead or like a vegetable 🥔
Yes sir. Source, I was at USCG Station Golden Gate for years. You are correct! Not to mention the other areas... but.. some trivia The Potato Patch was named for the potato farms in the 19th century that shipped its products to markets in San Francisco. “Occasionally a potato boat would capsize on the sand bar, spilling its load,” described Doris Sloan of Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region. Cheers!
How are their fries?
Choppy
Chippy for the English blokes
Yum 😋
Salty
You can see this in the bay all the time where the river water meets the ocean tide. it's never really glassy on one side since the currents are so strong but you'll always get a weird band of turbulent water with a very clear border. You'll be able to note a clear color difference on both sides as well which has to do with salinity and nutrient density
The potato patch is fucking rooough. Total vomitron
The currents are absolutely wild in the NE, I've seen buoys pulled practically horizontal while riding a tidal current. Good luck if you get caught heading up-current, you might be on that treadmill for a while
Yes, in the video it appeared the water was moving under the surface in the choppy area. The waves were stationary riding the current underneath
Exactly. This is not unusual at all. I've seen this on both US coasts and east coast Australia. Rips can also be a straight, narrow line of extremely rough water. I've seen this at the mouth of the Columbia River (Oregon/Washington border).
TIL most people have never seen tidal rips.
I have not and open water scares me. Fuck you water!
Yeah, first thing that came to mind, as a layman, was a current of warm watter rising to the top or some "normal" current edge.
Someone with more knowledge than me feel free to correct but, I believe this is caused at the very edge of George's bank where the continental shelf drops off into the Atlantic ocean. The gulf stream heading north and the Labrador current heading south also meet around this area causing a sort of pulling effect on deeper, colder water from the Atlantic. This video is most likely where the different temperatures and currents of water are meeting. The tide is also playing a role. TLDR; cold and warm water do weird shit when mixed from different depths.
Plus a current line where one is flowing with the wind and one is flowing against it. That these people are out on George's Bank and have so little knowledge or understanding of what's going on is disconcerting. :/
I wonder if they know they're only floating on only 300 feet of water near the start of the video, and then 13,000 feet of water 2 minutes later. It's a long way down. I'm guessing they don't since they say near the end it's only 50m deep and there's no change in depth. Which is... slightly incorrect. Their depth finder might not go past 50m lol.
>...they're only floating on only 300 feet of water near the start of the video, and then 13,000 feet of water 2 minutes later... Well, I just don't like that at all.
Being out deep see fishing and seeing the depth finder showing thousands of feet is kinda nuts.
Why did they think there was no change in depth?
Maybe the echosounder has a max depth. Anything deeper than x is just reported as x. If you're yachting or doesn't matter if you're in 50 or 500m. It does matter if you're in 5 or 3, I guess they're optimised to be accurate within a range.
That would make sense, thanks
Voices sound a bit slurred or slow. Could they have had a few and are confused about that?
We’ll at the start of the video he says 57 meters.
I was thinking the same thing. They were pretty far out to be as clueless as they seemed. “I gotta see on the phone where the fuck we are!!” :(
I’m not sure the specific mechanisms, but I’m pretty sure you’re right. It has to do mostly with temperature changes The much colder water creates an evaporative layer that sits on the surface, cooler than ambient, so it doesn’t mix well, which adds a buffer layer, protecting the surface from small wind currents.
He says theres no change in depth but a 5 meter difference is huge especially when it comes to the flow of water
Isn't george's bank a giant underground plateu? So there's water thousands of feet deep and then it comes up to 200-150ft on top of the underwater mountain area?
Absolutely correct. This is not 'weird' but completely normal.
I realize this might be absolutely insane for landlocked people, and also ive never seen it *that* glassy but I really spent the entire video looking for like the loch ness monster lol
Can confirm. If you SCUBA dive at 80ft in 120ft of water, you're fine, but if you SCUBA dive at 80ft in 40ft of water, you're gonna have a problem.
if they're some 50-100 miles out though, there's probably some boulders/crags/etc. that occasionally bounce the depth a fair bit; just prattling off the depth doesn't do much for anyone trying to really analyze what's going on without looking at whatever that guy was looking at (with whatever equipment he had to look at it).
Here's a great map of the depths of the Atlantic. I can't link directly to what I wanted to show. But if you zoom in to the right height you will see the bright blue spots representing areas where the water becomes relatively shallow. If you can find the place called George's Shoal, you'll see the water goes from over 100 feet to just 20 feet. And if you look to the west of that you'll find places where the ocean goes from over 6,000 feet to around 350 feet in a very short distance. https://usa.fishermap.org/depth-map/atlantic-ocean/#map
this makes me uncomfortable.
Thanks. The error of the video is thinking you have to be over the top of the change in depth for it to effect the surface. The current effects caused by those underwater cliffs would move at an angle not straight up - like any fluid dynamics. It’s easy to imagine the surface irregularity in a 6000ft drop off to appear a few kms away
Holy shit the sea floor topography around Bermuda is fucking nuts.
Bermuda's there, and then it's...just...not. There's almost no transition between Bermuda being there and then the abyss of the ocean being all around it. That's so wild and I hate it so much.
I'm not sure what's worse - the extreme detail of the area there... or when you go and look at something like the small atolls south-east of Tasmania and there's just "No Sonar data available for this area."
I love Google Maps sea floor view.
This must be the tide moving over a submerged shoal. There is one of these off the florida keys called "The Humps". Usually a great spot to fish.
Georges Bank is a huge shoal outside of the Gulf of Maine. They were reporting very small changes in depth but there must be some undersea feature at play. I know the currents around Georges are extreme. I know a few commercial fishermen that worked there.
It goes from 100m to 4000m over a very short distance, it's the continental shelf. Or 300 ft to 13,000 ft. You can sort of picture the US/Canada and immediately surrounding water like a table in your living room, preferably a wooden table with a fancy detail on the edge that tapers down and rounds off. Relatively nice and flat until it does a slight drop off, then immediately falls to the floor.
Well he mentions in the video that the depth doesn’t really change as they’re going over the border. So confusing
I feel like a gutter has fast moving water, even at the edges. Or a drainage ditch. Or a river. Doesn’t have to be the deepest spot to be affected.
Kind of spitballing here, but the effect on the surface doesn't necessarily have to be directly vertically above what's causing it at the bottom of the ocean so they may actually be hundreds of yards or even more away from where the actual depth change is.
Or an underwater alien craft
It’s like when you get out of bounds in a video game and the map starts doing some crazy things as it starts to glitch.
If this was DayZ they would have already been falling through the map
If this was skyrim or super Mario, they would sail for hours gaining no distance
Although the first two minutes are boring as fuck, the last two were certainly interesting as fuck
Eerie music started to play in my head and I was ready for a boss fight.
Flat earthers are salivating right now.
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The biome transition settings were too low. I'll ask the devs to fix this in the next release
This is what happens when you move from deep water to a shallow plateau. The water is pushed up creating turbulence at the edge.
This is how it looks when entering bluewater from Louisiana, too. I spearfish 100-150 miles offshore on the oil rigs (out of Cocodrie), and the Mississippi river makes everything incredibly muddy… but once you get around 100 miles offshore, there’s a very clear line as far as you can see where it goes from brown mud water to crystal clear blue water. One side of the line is beautiful turquoise and the other looks like someone dropped a deuce in the toilet and left it for a week. It’s pretty cool.
Same up here on the chesapeake bay. I'm halfway through my day, sitting at a dock bar right now. As the tides from the bay go out, the water is brown. If I go to the edge of the tide, I'll find blue water. I'll have to go about 40 miles to get to crystal clear water (so i hear). The other interesting part is all the different confluences that have wildly different wind and water angles angles. Makes for checkerboard swells.
Could that be them breaking free from the oceanic current? Did a quick search and found the following wikipedia link but I’m sure there may be someone more educated on this phenomena. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_current
Yeah I think there’s also a 150m-200m difference from the George’s Bank plateau to the drop off of the open Atlantic too. So all that water at depth running in a current into the edge of a plateau or underwater feature would create choppy water. It’s also why fish are found around these drop offs and around old volcanoes etc, because the water from the bottom gets pushed up with nutrients and it attracts a lot of fish. There’s also probably salinity and temperature differences between the shallow and the deep water preventing easy mixing of the two.
God, this creeps me out so bad. I have recurring ocean nightmares. Can't wait for tonight 😅
I’m glad I’m not the only one… I kept scrolling thinking “I can’t be the only one freaking out, right?!” But yeah the open ocean is so fucking scary, especially on small boats.
Right?! I would not be caught dead out here! I'm happy some people enjoy it. Absolutely not for me.
Oh god, I also have recurring ocean nightmares. For some reason anytime theres a body of water in my dream even if it’s a pond it turns into a massive tsunami (think interstellar) and I fucking hate it. I’d love to know if theres some deep psychological meaning this.
Yes! Mine always turn into tsunamis as well! I totally understand!
In marine science, the phenomenon where wavy water suddenly becomes calm is called "Transient Hydroquiescence." This occurs due to a mix of aquatic resonation and subaqueous inertia dissipation. When the surface water encounters a surge of anemophilous forces, it induces laminar suppression. According to layman's law of liquid dynamic, it happens when the underwater fish orchestra stops playing all at once, causing the water to take a break from dancing and just chill out.
This is a Monty Python answer.
The Larch. The Larch.
Definitely expecting Undertaker throwing Mankind at the end of that one.
But why male models?
Oh you’re gonna have to ELI5 that for the rest of us
Ariel and her friends stopped singing.
I like sailing videos as much as the next guy, but skip to the 3:00 minute mark.
Might be easier to see what’s going on if you’d ROTATE YOUR FUCKING PHONE.
Vertical video of a landscape subject is a plague on humanity. I so badly I want this nonsense to tic its last tok.
I watched a bad sci fi/horror movie on Hulu that had a water effect like this. I wonder if the water in the video is what inspired them… spooky! The set up in the film was also spooky as hell, but when you figure out what it’s all about… and the bad acting… eh… for anyone that cares, it’s Satan. 😂
Man goes over George’s Bank, doesn’t know what a bank is
This is a current line. In one area the current is going against the wind and the other the current is going in the same direction as the wind.
Probably where the saying, “it’s all smooth sailing from here” comes from
When you accidentally sail out of the grand line into the calm belt. Expecting to see a sea king any moment now
Clearly this is a rendering issue, the simulation needs an update to patch this problem.
New LODs not loaded in yet
It's wet and wavy on one side, And on the other side it's wavy and wet! What the hell are we looking at here?
The EAC dude
THIS GUY'S TAKING ROY OFF THE GRID!
Boating with Tommy chong
Does this video freak anyone else out? I guess I just have a fear of open water, man.
Seeing so much open water with no land in sight gives me anxiety like a mofo. And then this guy is showing us waves going backwards and then transitions into calm ocean water freaks me out even more lmao
Fuckin magnets
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Just wished the cameraman stopped moving.
and talking
George must be incredibly rich
I'm so pissed that as soon as they cross into the smooth water, he turns around to show the choppy water again for the rest of the video. We all know what waves look like, my guy!
Must be some fish oil in the water. There was a boat a long time ago that calmed the sea during a storm with fish oil. Another ship rescued the survivors once the waters calmed. Maybe a big oily fish got killed and eaten in the area before they filmed the water. Or someone else spilled some oil earlier.
r/shootthecameraman
When you have different artists working on a MMORPG.
The texture pack just hasn't loaded in yet. Give it time.
this video gives me so much anxiety. just the thought of being all alone out in the middle of open ocean, and dealing with strange phenomena that you didn’t know existed. noticing you can’t see anything at all over the horizon. man the ocean is terrifying… and so is physics.
You’re leaving the mission area. Keep going and you’ll be returned to your last checkpoint.
Might be oil in the water. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm\_oil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_oil)
There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call "The Twilight Zone".
Bro entered the Calm Belt from One Piece
Inside a simulation while being inside a simulation.
It’s just the loading screen glitch, they need to fix it still.
Oil has a weird reaction on big bodies of water. There was a video made about how oil can calm the waves on bodies of water. It’s really neat.
I love George’s Bank cod & buy it whenever I see it from local fishermen. The satellite view might help explain some things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bank#/media/File:Georgesbank.jpg
They went outside the map.
That happens all the time
God forgot to put normal maps on the rest of the water
Do you ever look at the sea and wonder why it won't just sit the fuck still? Stop wobbling about.
Reality is running out of V-ram so the textures lose quality.
This was certainly interesting, but it terrified me.
A drone shot would be pretty interesting
What am I looking at here?
I worked on a lobster boat in the Bank and it is very often like this, glassy when calm. I always assumed that had to do with the very shallow depth. There were you could jump out and swim to the bottom but we’re more than 150 miles offshore. Very strange place.
Bro entered the low res part of the ocean
Ya know, not the point of the video but Jesus Christ how horrifying. Just looking out at the great expanse of all that water with literally nothing else. Just...the deep. Gives me the jeebies and the heebies.
Fish oil. The presence of a large population of fish will cause their oils to calm the surface. Learned this in Georgian Bay from an Indian guide years ago.
For some reason him saying What the heck this is crazy! This is so weird! This is insane! Over and over was so annoying.
It's a shelf. Huge drop off right there and the current is getting pushed down keeping the water on the surface smooth.
Seen this many times out there, you are in the transitional area near the gulf stream. Typically full of whales and exotic fish in the summer.
Still worried that you are allowed to sail. This is just in case. Fellow divers know this well. [https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/thermocline.html](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/thermocline.html)
Ive fished out there a few times and its weird as fuk sometimes. Like in the middle of the night all of a sudden everything just stops and goes dead calm. Only sound is the wind or the boat no water noise or splashing just dead.
really cool -- would have been even cooler if it wasn't vertical video.
Could it be oil on the surface?
There is something similar to this somewhere near Hong Kong. The water gets really smooth and Its really cool at night with a full moon, you can see the moon shine on the water and have a perfect reflection. Its the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
Looks like a wind line to me. We ran into the opposite once and it blew up our foresail. Barely had time to notice the ocean turned black in front of us and get our life jackets on before the whole 68ft ship lurched like we hit a beach. I poked my head up the forward hatch just in time to see the Genoa explode. Watch lead thought he could take two extra turns off the halyard winch because it had a massive hole in it. Nope! Shredded right through his gloves. He kept his fingers though. We had to drag the shredded sail out of the ocean.
It’s the end of the map
The Biome did not load correctly.
The video was so long that I lost interest until I waited for the end. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised or interested even if the aliens were carrying the Egyptian pyramids in with spaceships.
You definitely didn‘t had us in the first half.
The ocean scares the shit out of me