I was 10 when the first Jaws movie came out....Now an even greater threat the Rogue wave...We are doomed if sharks somehow use this phenomenal kinetic energy to prey mercilessly on us hapless humans....Be well and cheers, Jim Varnier
Any time you are near the open sea, you can be taken by it. I mean facing a thousand miles or more from the opposite shore. Being on the beach is not safe. Believe it.
@@soakupthesunman Yeah, like, there was actually an American fatality from the 2011 tsunami in Japan. I think he was standing on a dock trying to take a picture of it when the water reached up and yanked him under. (Do you think he'll make a video to help with my irrational fear of flying?)
Rogue Holes is a genuinely terrifying concept. Not being hit by a huge wall of water, just the sea opening a huge hole in the water and swallowing a ship.
I feel like if you build a ship, regardless of how robust it is, the last thing you should do is declare it is unsinkable. That's just asking for trouble.
After lots of lovely comments after the last video I decided to continue with the new graphic style. If you spot any issues or mistakes let me know. Have a nice weekend everyone!
11:30 - 11:35 very minor layering glitch, causing the animation to spark a different scene for a few milliseconds. I don't think it requires a full re-upload but something to watch for in future animations. You're the best Facts in Motion!
Me: "Nah this video must just be exaggerating for views" Me: *does some quick googling and reading* Me: "Hmmmm, yes I see" Me: *cancels planned cruise trip*
My grandparents went on over 50 cruises through their lives and never encountered rogue waves. While they’re not that rare, them hitting ships is fairly uncommon. Just think about how big the ocean is and how tiny the ship and waves are relative to it, now think that your ship and that wave have to be in the same place at the same time to cause an issue.
If you want to cancel a cruise trip for whatever reason, it should be the crime on high seas rather than rogue waves. People often disappear from cruise ships in international waters and apparently nobody cares to find out what happened because it's nobody's jurisdiction. Quite a scary statistic when you think about it.
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Now imagine crossing the ocean on a ship built with the 1400's technology.
I had over 50 years at sea, particularly on the North Pacific (Gulf of Alaska,) Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. I can attest that rogue waves are for real and very scary.
That we ought to listen to our older folks more often seems to be one of the most common scientific discoveries. Still, “rogue holes” sound even worse.
Was in the navy years ago going from NZ to Australia got hit by a big southern storm Rogue wave hit us real hard felt like the ship was going to snap in half it happened in my off watch I remember it waking me and remember the sounds of the ship and the vibration of it too when the aft end was what felt like was airborne as the prop made the whole ship shake
My grandpa was in the coast guard in the 70s and saw one when he was out off Nova Scotia I believe and when I showed him this video he immediately knew what this was and told me about it. He was a tugboat captain for a while after that (or during at that point I don't remember) and I'd imagine he was much happier not having to go that far out to sea as much.
Yep they are very scary. Also how fast it all happens. I worked on a passenger ferry that was hit by a rogue wave, The sea was around 3.5m at the time of sailing and this rogue wave must have been 8-9m at least. Ship was out of action for a good few months, Captain even showed us the damage caused. The bow of the ship had a hole the size of a standard living room and some support beams were fractured, while other broken and one just gone.
For some reason I think it is fascinating that there were reports for rogue waves for centuries but not believed until it was proven in 1995. The automobile has only been around for 100 years, the train for maybe 200 years but boats have been in water for thousands of years and we are literally learning in my lifetime something that appears to be quite common. Really makes you think what other common things we have yet to figure out.
Sailors have also reported flying ships and mermaids for centuries. There's a scientific basis for those too (fata morgana and desperately horny men, respectively) but you can see why scientists had a lot of scepticism.
Also consider the fact that the wooden ships of yesteryear sunk without any survivors and evidence, so people assumed it must be the work of a storm or an angry deity.
@@lackofboringstuf2347 I have sailed in these up to 20 meter(60 foot) high. Sure they can crack open the large tincan ships, but if you have a well built sailboat and good crew it's more like a very long roller coaster. When they start getting above 8 meters you just have to follow the waves.
Imagine being a pirate and you survived the waves, you tell everyone you know but you get called a liar Imagine you died from one of these waves and scientists tell everyone that it was human error and you as a captain get shamed
Littlepeetier I’ve thought about that for years, even before the Jan, 1995 oil platform wave 🌊 that made the scientists and ship 🚢 specialists concede and admit they’re completely wrong!!!!!! Even when ships 🚢 that would limp into back into the shipping yards with huge sections completely sheered away they would blame the Captain and totally dismiss all the eye witnesses on the ship 🚢 (until 1/1/95!!!!! It’s sad 😢 that some Captains that actually lived through rogue waves 🌊 but lost their jobs and then died before the scientists, ship 🚢 specialists and actual owners of the fleet could restore their honor, image and usually completely destroyed their lives!!!!! Classical mathematicians don’t like it when you dare say they don’t know ever thing, I imagine quantum physics will solve many other areas of high strangeness or phenomena!!!!! We as human being need to stop being so arrogant and ignorant regarding many things, it’s always better (especially for a scientist) to have a open mind!!!!!! Look 👀 at how many animal species have been discovered or determined not to be extinct as thought in the last 10 - 15 years!!!!! Then there’s the two hominid species found in excavation in the last 20 years, not to mention the tribes discovered still living untouched by modern humans and they should stay that way because of just the diseases we could give them!!!!!! I know I’ve gone on and on but I’m glad someone else has thought about how blaming someone with a lot evidence to the contrary is truly a horrible thing!!!!!! P.S. Please forgive me in advance for any/all grammatical errors because as usual I couldn’t find my reading/writing glasses 👓, honestly I need a new prescription pair (OR TWO 😂) 👓 👓!!!!!!!!!
While in the USN in the 80s we were taking on stores, via vertrep (helos dropping pallets on our stern helo station [not a flight deck]). During a break in the all hands working party to pass stores from the helo station to storerooms/refrigerators below, we were hanging out on deck. My buddy calls out "Oh my God!" (or something similar) I turn to look and saw a wall of water heading right for the ship. The sea state was high already as there had been a gale force winter storm in the area (we were in the Med in between Italy & Corsica), so the waves were in the teens in height but not breaking on deck. This wave was at least in mid twenties to thirty ft by guess. I quickly turned and saw about twenty guys rush the midships door, so that was not an option. A bunch of others were scrambling to climb up to the 01 level (the next deck up), I didn't have anything to climb up near me to even try this. So I just grabbed to superstucture hand rail (for clipping safety lines to in heavy seas), took a deep breath, and squared down slightly to give my body/legs more ability to take the blow (bracing for shock as the Navy trained us). When the wave hit I was underwater for a good few seconds, but then it was done. I looked around to see the aftermath, we had several guys down on the deck trying to get their breath & coughing up water. With three of these men hung up on the lifelines, one on the outboard side. Myself and a couple of others shipmates rush to this man quickly to grab him and get him over the lifelines and on deck. Some of the guys who had tried climbing to the 01 level had made it and some hadn't. They and the ones who didn't hear the warning or see the wave were among the dozen or so down on the deck, or in the lifelines. For the twenty guys trying to get in the midships door they got pushed into the ship by the wave through the open water tight door, with some of the getting knocked into inside walls (bulkheads). We got lucky nobody was lost overboard, and about a dozen guys with minor injuries that the ship's corpsman was able to treat. We always thought of this as a rouge wave, it was easily twice the height rest of the waves in the sea state we were in.
It frustrates me that scientists are seemingly so quick to brush off such firsthand accounts. "Oh that's impossible because our model says so." Your model is crap.
@@ro4eva All models are fiction - and the pride invested in them is madness. AKA models that Gore used for global warming - his ocean front property should be lone gone.
@@ro4eva I think doubt in the model had been there for a long time. The problem is that throwing the existing models out altogether and starting over from scratch... Well, that requires proof to be necessary. Sailors have always told fantastical stories, so they're not necessarily that reliable. It just wasn't before the Draupner wave that we had incontrovertible evidence of rogue waves' existence.
Andres Gamba - even if the text was already available word for word - to animate it, it needs to be understood. Not as in "I learned it, I can answer any question", but as in "I learned it and can teach it to others" - which is a big difference.
He pinched the majority of it from a BBC documentary made about 12 yrs ago. He re-hashed it as his own and added in some glaring errors for good measure. Quantum physics is applied in wave theory. Original was the BBC Horizon Freak Wave documentary.
to be fair: every sailor knows that to call a ship unsinkable is just asking for trouble. What the landlubbers who ordered the ship constructed say about their new boat is in no way the fault of the poor sailors out there risking their lives. Frankly the only unsinkable boat would be built of polystyrene. The boat won't sink: no guarantees it will ever reach it's destination however.
Yeah, but then the board would overrule it and just name some little autonomous vehicle that instead and then that boat would sink, but in an ironic twist the autonomous vehicle wouldn't.
Fascinating, though I find "rogue holes' far more terrifying than rogue waves. At least with a wave, you have a chance of riding out the impact and most likely, you will be above water. But with a hole, after you fall in, the ocean closes up on you. That is terrifying.
We had a rogue wave hit the Aircraft Carrier I was on during my last deployment. It blew out portholes and came onto the flight deck. It physically shook the ship and if you know how massive a Nimitz class carrier is then you'll understand.
I was on an LHA that got hit by a rogue wave off the west coast of Australia in the mid-90's. Cracked a window on the bridge, which was 100 feet above the waterline and snapped holdown chains on several of the aircraft slashed forward of the superstructure. It also blasted in one of the linehandling hatches in the foc'sle. I'm just glad that it's the only one I saw in my 20 years.
@@Rollermonkey1 it was a fun storm with those swells. They had the plat pointed towards the bow and it would go from nothing but sky to nothing but water on the screen. We hooked up a tennis ball on a string and had the people who got sea sick watch it until they puked. I can only imagine how much a LHA moves or even a small boy.
In 1969 I was second mate on the SS President Jackson, a Mariner class cargo ship 563' long. The Mariner class ships were very heavily built cargo ships of high horsepower and quite modern for the time. We were in the North Atlantic west bound in a heavy storm attempting to get to the East Coast of the USA to beat a longshoremen's strike that was expected. The Captain had on engine turns for 18 knots and we were taking a terrible beating making only 6 knots of headway into huge head seas of about 35' height. I called the Captain when I came on watch and told him we should slow down as we'd just taken three breaking seas of green water aboard the ship all the way back to the amidships house in the space of ten minutes. He ordered me to maintain engine turns for 18 knots and the ship continued to battle her way into these huge seas and periodically take green water all the way back to the house when a wave would break aboard the ship. Each time the ship would slam into one of these huge walls of water she would seem to come to a complete stop. Then the powerful engines would start to increase headway until she'd repeat the process until she slammed into another huge wave. Just about daybreak, I saw a huge wave that was at least twice the height of the normal wave height of 35'. Our height of eye from the bridge was about 60' and I was looking up as this huge sea approached the ship so it must have been at least 75' or more in height. The speed with which something like this develops is hard to describe as there was literally nothing I could do. While I thought the wave would probably break onto the ship with dire consequences, the period of the sea was such that the ship dove down into the trough and then rose up over the wave. It literally looked like we were headed towards the moon and the entire forebody of this loaded ship came completely out of the water. Then the ship crashed back into the sea and spray rose up a couple of hundred feet on each side of the ship. The ship then started to flex violently much like you'd flex a hair pin trying to break it. It was something that happened over 50 years ago but I can see the entire event and this huge approaching rogue wave in my mind as I write this reply. Amazingly, there was minimal visible damage to the ship when we arrived at port. I can't help but feel there must have been structural damage to the ship that wasn't visible to the eye.
BeezOne84 Low-fi music in the beginning but instead of a nice drum-drop, it just suddenly transforms into the heaviest death metal music. Rouge-Wave music. Hell yes haha
If you want a really disturbing EDM genre, you should hear Extratone. Here's an example (skip to 1:24 and be aware of *extreme* ear rape): th-cam.com/video/8RAYlykjQrw/w-d-xo.html
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Old Sailors: **claim they’ve seen rouge waves and giant squid** Scientists: Okay old man 😂😂😂 **finds evidence of both** Also scientists: Wow I can’t believe we found these
Science operates on evidence and testing. If scientists took eyewitness testimonies and anecdotes seriously they could just as well believe all the UFO sighting and abduction stories...
@@user-vq1op2zg6w Out of thousands of boats at sea: only a few meet such waves in a year. You'll be fine Just cancel if a storm brews around the time of your trip. Bigger the swell the bigger the rouge waves get.
Well these waves only occur in deep oceans (with higher probability in very bad weather conditions)...most civilian cruise ships usually follow a standard (safe) route in good weather conditions....if you are paranoid, you can ask for the route your cruise will be taking, history of any accidents, expected weather conditions it'll be traveling under etc..
@@ameyas7726 sorry but the evidence states that rouge waves can form in any body of water large enough to stabilize a deep water wave. So not usually rivers (friction with shorelines). There is anectotal evidence that any body of water with large surface waves can form dangerous rouge waves, including the great lakes of north America. And rouge waves have been recorded at some hydro power plants now. But a 5 cm wave in a 1 cm swell is not as impressive as 50 m in 10 m swells.
I absolutely love this, this is such a well made video, great commentary along with great atmospheric music and SFX, not to mention the outstanding animations, well done.
the hole would definitely be scarier. You are going along in a storm and your ship tilts downwards and you see a giant hole in the water. you know your done for
Statistics would disagree with you. One ship will never sink Thousands Will. As they say: you make a ship idiot proof and some moron puts an even greater idiot in charge.
@@alexarias5717 people takes cruises from anywhere to anywhere, in the US cruise ship world tho, the most common are Caribbean( Florida to Caribbean's), Alaska(up the west coast of Canada), and Hawaii
for some weird reason i'm completely facinated by waves. it's been really hard finding information on rogue waves, as its such a new topic, but this was even more than i had hoped for. Thanks!
Freya Haglund Their are a few good documentaries out there, just got to look for them. As man has only recently discovered they got it totally wrong! It’s been a hot topic in the science community.
Rogue waves happen on the Great Lakes too, the Edmund Fitzgerald likely sank because a rogue wave forced the bow under and then it hit the bottom of the lake causing the ship to break in half from the structural shock. There are also different types of Rogue Waves, the waves on the Great Lakes were of the "three sisters" variety while the video mostly covers the "wall of water" variety. I've also seen rogue waves on smaller lakes, I was sailing on a local lake last month and the winds and waves were general one-footers and then I heard a sudden gushing sound and I saw a line of breaking 2 footers off the port side, and there were no speedboaters nearby making wakes and it came out of nowhere. They can happen on any body of water I'm convinced at this point, you could probably make a rogue wave happen in a bathtub if you could figure out how.
In the case of lakes, they might be seiches instead of rogue waves? An overlap of resonance and earth tremors, coupled with the sloshing effect of water in a bath tub.
@@jimj2683 They've been measured as much as 40 meters high or even slightly over if I'm not mistaken, but I wouldn't be surprised if in very rare and extreme circumstances they could be as much as 60 meters high. In which case as you said pretty much any ship on earth would sink, even the very biggest ones. Nightmare stuff...
imagine just sailing on the ocean and then your ship starts to tilt downward, like a lot and then seeing the other side of the rouge hole coming to swallow your ship whole. scary thought
What if we don't know about the existence of rogue holes because literally nobody ever survived one or had the time to send a distress call to report them? Now that's a scary thought.
@@milesoats4256 I was thinking of that too. I believe I once heard about people speculating that currents might suck ships below water ,but rogue holes (even if they only exist in theory) might be another reasonable cause.
@@f4llen489 As a sailor I certainly believe in the existence of rogue holes despite how terrifying they sound. Whilst I usually sail on a river, I believe I've come into contact with smaller versions of the open ocean monsters. They don't happen often, only when strong winds and heavy powerboat traffic are present but they are really quite freaky. Last time we (my crew and I) encountered one we were reaching with the spinnaker and a hole just opened up in front of us and almost capsized us. We may have uttered a large number of expletives. An analogy would be like if you were drag racing in a car (one of those super fast nitro powered ones) and just as you hit your top speed the road in front of you just disappeared. There is nothing you can do - you're going too fast to make a sudden turn so you just fly over the edge and pray. Eventually, you hit the bottom with a clonk and the walls around you close in on top of you.
@@andromeda6463 That's exactly what I imagined it to be like. I sail myself, but only on lakes or near the coastline, and on really small boats. Falling into one with such a small vessel seems extremely horrific.
Imagine getting knocked off board and immediately getting buried several stories underwater and the water pressure blows out your eardrums and crushes your ribs 😳 The surface is so high... it's so dark down here... my body is broken and I'm so far from help.... What a terrible way to die.
Once upon a time, I worked for a Southern US shipping company. After they downsized me, I went to work for the marine comms company who was providing their email service. I made a service call to one of the ships, and the Captain told me a story something like what was in the video. Rogue Wave came along, blew out most of the windows on the bridge, shorted out most of the gear there, including all the ship's radios. Our gear was in a different space from the bridge, up off the deck, so it was the only piece of comms gear that survived, and they relied on it from the Norther Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. It was very strange seeing a flood line on the walls of a deck that was about 80 feet above the waterline of the ship. I've seen some scary conditions from my own days at sea, but I'm glad I wasn't on that ship on that crossing.
Basically if you don’t have a massively long ship, take’em head-on. If you have a ship that can take ~60* of leaning to one side... I have to ask who designed your ship.
This video was fantastic! Chilling as well, very few documentary style videos ever make me feel like my heart is sinking like this. True anxiety just looking at that rogue hole.
11:35 The portuguese, back in 1488 during the Discoveries Age, were the first to cross that area by boat. They called it "Cape of Storms". It was considered a mythological place, that scared sailors to death. When they first crossed it an the King was informed, he renamed it to "Cape of Good Hope".
and when you crest a wave the prop and stern come out of the water, you go down that valley and your bow scoops up water bam like a gunshot the water hits the glass.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Powered isnt so bad..but wind power is kinda insane. Places in the Pacific where you have to get out the rowboat and oars and tow your sailboat.
we used to call that hammering in poles. It is like if you wanna hit a hammer on a pole to get it in the ground, instead of a hammer you think of the front of the ship as the hammer head. When you hit the wave it give a huge smash, but when you go over it and down again when the water level raises again you will hammer a massive pole again, depends on the steepness of the wave, if the wave is very steep the front of the ship will hit the water with huge force pointing downwards, hitting a new upcoming wave.
Its amazing that this wasn't scientific fact until the mid 90s...Ive lived my entire life thinking that rogue waves were as scientifically accepted as gravity.
Also, like the ending: "It's statistically probable that every cargo ship will encounter at least one rogue wave in it's time at sea, and it definately won't be equipped to withstand it." ... ... ... *seagulls*
I was on a Disney Cruise back in 08 when we got smash into by a rouge wave around 2am. Got thrown off the bed. When we docked in Hawaii the next day, we learned that a bunch of people on board were injured. Luckily no deaths
@@henrywilliams3197 Yeah? Well show me the facts that say nature has no inherent intelligence. You can't. Just like I can't show you the facts that say nature does have inherent intelligence. It's a matter of opinion, not fact. Turd.
@@alienmagi late response, but to me that is why it's so scary, no thoughts, no care about us. Nature just does its own thing and if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, too bad.
@@plantinapot9169 giant squid, colossal squid (two completely different species, to be clear), & giant octopus (TBF these are nowhere near the size of their aforementioned squid relatives) are all things.
I believe unlike the big wave that can break the hull of a long ship by lifting it you wouldnt "fall into" the big hole if you were in a big ship. Probably your ship would hit the border at the other side of the hole and cross over it. maybe youd feel a hard bump . These things only happen in the open ocean and are rare, if you are with a small vessel there you proly know the risks and what youre doing
@@ryana.7070 Actually neither the Harland & Wolff Shipyard who built the Titanic, nor the White Star Line who ordered it ever claimed the Titanic to be unsinkable. People in the press and/or the general public may have said so but that's nothing the people in charge can be held responsible for.
@@matildamarmaduke1096 It's been nice the last ten days or so.... Mid 70s or low 80s for the most part. This is a great time of year for weather... You know I'm sure.... But winter is coming..... ugh.
Cursivedragon Word of advice don’t. A few centuries ago, (still is) it was considered bad luck to lay down a bow of a new ship on Friday. A rich man was “tired” of all of these “silly” superstitions and went out of his way to prove them wrong. He had the bow of a ship laid out on a Friday, named the ship “Friday”, and deliberately went against every superstition there was. Even down to the Captain he hired. He then had the ship loaded with riches and sent off......... 😓😰The Ship apparently sank on it’s maiden voyage. I am not a superstitious person. But then again I don’t go out of my way go against those kinds of “rules”.
@Adam J. Harper I think the polar bear numbers have always been fairly low, natural emissions would actually still warm the earth, larger amounts than youd expect. Natural emissions (unavoidable) account for at least 97 per cent. Of that youd have to check as c02 emission checks have drastically improved as opposed to the standard test facilities of prior. It makes good reading, theres no greater c02 sponge than a mountain face. The end of the ice age will be imminent that's for sure and all wildlife will be forced to evolve as polar bears do now. Unfortunately this will be naturally occurring regardless, unlike the deforestation of the rainforest. Fortunately polar bears remain in their habitat but like all other species they will adapt, they're deadly but theres no deadlier than homo sapiens.
@@sbill001 CO2 is absorbed by photosynthetic organisms like algae, seaweed, and trees -- mountain faces do nothing to curb atmospheric carbon concentration levels. It is an irrefutable, undeniable fact of science that climate change is anthropogenic; and it is due to our ~200 years of fossil fuel usage. Although our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 is tiny compared to the 750 gigatons moving through the carbon cycle each year, it adds up because the land and ocean cannot absorb all of the extra CO2. About 40% of this additional CO2 is absorbed. The rest remains in the atmosphere, and as a consequence, atmospheric CO2 is at its highest level in millions of years. Our earth's climate naturally changes, and we should be going towards a cooling phase right now, but instead we are warming to catastrophic levels.
God I didn't think the ocean couldn't scare me more... and then you mentioned "Rogue Hole"... what a nightmare. T_T Anyway I love your new video design, keep up the good work!
I have been in 60 ft waves. All you can do at that point is to show them your boats behind and ride the wave. Feels like a rollercoaster. One wrong move and you're dead tough.
Our U.S. Coast Guard ship was hit by three sisters in 1970 about a day out of Anchorage Alaska. After watching this video I learned about "Rogue Holes." That is how it felt, and I had never heard of those before. In the previous year, the ship had made 6+ trips from Punta Arenas Chile to Palmer Station Antarctica. ie Cape Horn. So we had seen plenty of Hurricane force winds and heavy seas. I was on the fantail working on equipment in probably 6 to 8 foot swells. All of a sudden it felt like the ship was falling. Completely different than the normal pitch and roll in heavy seas. I looked up and said, "Holy F*&k!" I jumped up and wrapped my arms around an oceanographic crane. There wasn't time to get inside. The wave hit straight abeam. When the first wave wave hit, I got wet to my shoulders even though I was a couple feet off the deck. The ship took a 55 degree roll, and shook and I really didn't know it was going to come back, or roll over. As the ship righted, I dropped down and made it inside before the next two waves hit. This was 50+ years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Your video is very good and that's why I wanted to tell my story. Never heard of "Rogue drops/holes" before, but that sure seemed to explain the three sisters that I experienced. Thanks for the video, and my story above is true and took place on the USCGC Glacier WAGB-4
lots of ships have been called "unsinkable" and have not sunk as well soo... its just you don't hear much about ships that don't sink. its not like that makes the news or an interesting story: "greatest ship a technological marvel and widely considered unsinkable.. serves 30 years and is cut up for scrap metal" its not like most people have ever heard of the RMS Olympic and if they had its because of her famous sister.
Whirlpools ARE real. But take certain ocean currents, usually more common in storms in shallow water. Shallow being less than 40 meters. Your personal definition of shallow may vary
I think rogue holes mentioned are not exactly whirlpools and both are different!....rogue holes as rogue waves only appear for a small amounts of time in deep oceans and are actually holes in water as opposed to swirling water inside a whirlpool..
@@ameyas7726 indeed whirlpools occur due to trapped surface Waters in storms and swirling Waters where different water currents meet (including rivers and major oceans) in realitively shallow Waters as deep water would otherwise well upwards. Rouge holes are literally rouge waves in the negitive, surrounded by elevated waves of normalish size it drops you into a deep hole in the middle. Sounds terrifying.
I was so confused because english isn't my first language and obviously I know what a whirlpool is, but not in that context. So here I was imagining a sailor/scientist pool party.
That is one of the highest-quality videos I've ever seen. Well done!! I'm amazed you create every part of it yourself. And I love the brisk pace - usually I watch videos sped up, but this one was perfect as-is.
I wish I had your processing power! I had to keep pausing the video to digest the information, or rewatch to ensure understanding... I've always been a slow processer, despite being intelligent, and I wish I knew more about what makes people like you and me function so differently - I would appreciate if he could make a video on that!
“Rogue waves are commonly divided into three categories:” *ad plays* “Pizza or Salad. Which one do you think I’m having for dinner tonight?” Perfect timing
Fantastic overview! Love that this presents the real information without any exaggeration or embellishment but still manages to be quite interesting. Wonderful!
*Captain* with 40 years of sailing experience: Rogue waves are *real!!!* *Scientists:* Nahh, we've got models... rogue waves are a myth!!! *God:* Hold my beer...
William Sandbach actually I agree with the comment... ohhhh wait I get it... you are a scientist with a God complex. Rather than call someone stupid.. buy a sloop and go for a long, long sail..
Seen smaller versions of rogue waves with my own eyes. Like its got no business being there but there it is. Also, each about 7th wave in a storm is larger than the others, you need to time course changes well.
I’ve never watched any of your content but the 15 minutes of this video just flew by. I wonder if there’s any recordings of these waves out there. Probably going to check now.
Ian Schaufenbuel One German sailor in the late 80’s (on an huge oil ship) caught on a photo camera the front of the ship barreling thru a rogue wave. This was before the oil platform recorded it’s wave. Scientists basically congratulated him on catching a 1,000 year event on camera. Saw the photo on a TV special on rogue waves, and the scientist describing and explaining the wave made my hair stand up on end! 😓That sailor had steel “you know what’s” to take that photo.
Alternate title: "How to turn your irrational fear of the ocean into a completely rational terror"
Thalassophobia? Me too!
I was 10 when the first Jaws movie came out....Now an even greater threat the Rogue wave...We are doomed if sharks somehow use this phenomenal kinetic energy to prey mercilessly on us hapless humans....Be well and cheers, Jim Varnier
@RikkiTikkiTavi I believe that maybe back then one of my ancestors saw a relative just get swept away and it was like welp Oceans are terrifying.
Any time you are near the open sea, you can be taken by it. I mean facing a thousand miles or more from the opposite shore. Being on the beach is not safe. Believe it.
@@soakupthesunman Yeah, like, there was actually an American fatality from the 2011 tsunami in Japan. I think he was standing on a dock trying to take a picture of it when the water reached up and yanked him under.
(Do you think he'll make a video to help with my irrational fear of flying?)
“This ship was considered to be unsinkable”
Ocean: how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?!
Perfect lmao
underrated
"I love the ocean!"
The titanic should be a prime example that nothing man makes is unsinkable
Spongebob
“Unsinkable” = the ship is sinkable
“Sinkable” = still sinkable but you’re not being cocky
So without being cocky your practically making it unsinkable
@@juniorsigala5028 no dumb dumb
"Sinkable" = not as sinkable as "unsinkable" ships
Sinkable ships are more unsinkable than unsinkable ships. But unsinkable ships are sinkable 😳
Actually, the USS Plunkett was considered to be unsinkable, but never sank, so it doesn't guarantee your ship will sink
Rogue Holes is a genuinely terrifying concept. Not being hit by a huge wall of water, just the sea opening a huge hole in the water and swallowing a ship.
would be worse if you see a gaping maw at the bottom as its growing
@@Jermain-cz4bh thanks satan
imagine being in one; 1 second you’re in a boat, the next you’ve been swallowed by the sea.
terrifying.
in gulliver travels the guys boat gets swallowed up like that and he end ups waking up on a island and everyone is the size of an ant
It's what happens when you anger Poseidon
I feel like if you build a ship, regardless of how robust it is, the last thing you should do is declare it is unsinkable. That's just asking for trouble.
the ocean is like: "am I a joke to you?"
Great, I just finished completion on HMS Unsinkable.
My new ship's name will be the "SS Totally Sinkable"
@@this_is_japes7409 Ocean is like "Hold my beer arrogant humans need taking down a peg again"
@General Bismarck it was too late, the jinxing had already been done
Rogue holes sound 1000x more horrific than rogue waves that animation sent chills down my spine.
Like sinkholes but you drown instead of instantly dying on impact
And thats fucking saying something because rogue waves still sound fucking terrifying
Somebody saw a huge one and said they saw the edge of the map. Maybe fog so it looks like a waterfall?
Jay Eisenhardt I can see how this scenario turned into sailors saying they saw the edge of the world
Jay Eisenhardt I mean imagine a broken telephone game, but its sailor talking about a rogue hole
"We are sinking. I repeat.. We are sinking" German Coast Guard.. "What are you sinking about?"
Badum tish 🤣🤣
This was on a language ad
*SS Frankfurt has entered the chat*
This is a lot funnier considering this is a German channel
That was an old commercial
I feel like every time a ship is called “unsinkable” it sinks quite quickly
TBF you only hear about the ones that sink
To be fair it probably was unsinkable if rogue waves didn’t exist like science suggested at the time
Olympic is disappointed
Titanic would agree with you XD
Don't get me started on "absolutely fireproof." (Iroquis fire that killed 602)
After lots of lovely comments after the last video I decided to continue with the new graphic style.
If you spot any issues or mistakes let me know.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
You’re awesome ❤️
Facts in Motion everything looks good too me you have a good one too!
amazing as always!
you too facts!
11:30 - 11:35 very minor layering glitch, causing the animation to spark a different scene for a few milliseconds. I don't think it requires a full re-upload but something to watch for in future animations. You're the best Facts in Motion!
"And was widely considered to be unsinkable"
*Hey, I've seen this one! Its a classic!*
Noooo
Titanic chillin on the ocean floor: welcome to the cool kids club, yeah we don’t last long.
CharlieRobloxKerbal
Done
The term unsinkable is cursed ever since the 15:th off April 1912 at 02:20 in the morning
Me: "Nah this video must just be exaggerating for views"
Me: *does some quick googling and reading*
Me: "Hmmmm, yes I see"
Me: *cancels planned cruise trip*
Me: *plans next cruise trip*
My grandparents went on over 50 cruises through their lives and never encountered rogue waves. While they’re not that rare, them hitting ships is fairly uncommon. Just think about how big the ocean is and how tiny the ship and waves are relative to it, now think that your ship and that wave have to be in the same place at the same time to cause an issue.
@@femmefuntime sis it was a joke I can't afford to go on a cruise anyways
Aaron Liu if you can, save some money and go on one. They’re really enjoyable
If you want to cancel a cruise trip for whatever reason, it should be the crime on high seas rather than rogue waves.
People often disappear from cruise ships in international waters and apparently nobody cares to find out what happened because it's nobody's jurisdiction. Quite a scary statistic when you think about it.
Now imagine crossing the ocean on a ship built with the 1400's technology.
Doesnt matter much.
That's why they used to send a fleet and only two or three ships make it, with half their crews dead of course !
We did it all the time, in fact, the world you live in today was built of their shoulders. Thats actually the impressive part.
Paddy how many Vikings lost their lives at sea? I couldn't get any kind of number but shit it would be alot
@Paddy le Blanc that's what I'm talking about mate. 🤣🤣
I had over 50 years at sea, particularly on the North Pacific (Gulf of Alaska,) Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean. I can attest that rogue waves are for real and very scary.
That we ought to listen to our older folks more often seems to be one of the most common scientific discoveries. Still, “rogue holes” sound even worse.
Was in the navy years ago going from NZ to Australia got hit by a big southern storm
Rogue wave hit us real hard felt like the ship was going to snap in half it happened in my off watch I remember it waking me and remember the sounds of the ship and the vibration of it too when the aft end was what felt like was airborne as the prop made the whole ship shake
My grandpa was in the coast guard in the 70s and saw one when he was out off Nova Scotia I believe and when I showed him this video he immediately knew what this was and told me about it. He was a tugboat captain for a while after that (or during at that point I don't remember) and I'd imagine he was much happier not having to go that far out to sea as much.
Yep they are very scary. Also how fast it all happens.
I worked on a passenger ferry that was hit by a rogue wave, The sea was around 3.5m at the time of sailing and this rogue wave must have been 8-9m at least.
Ship was out of action for a good few months, Captain even showed us the damage caused.
The bow of the ship had a hole the size of a standard living room and some support beams were fractured, while other broken and one just gone.
have you ever experienced a rogue hole?
_"Widely considered to be unsinkable"_
^ major ship death flag
@@hamster-wh3ws -- I would think you're correct if not for your last sentence, but, I sincerely mean you no harm.
Going on a cruise soon, this was not what I wanted to see in my recommended...
Do t worry, its unsinkable
Notice how he didn't reply back. Must have died in a rogue wave
Richard DeRosset lmao
@@TGTK-FreeSpeech- Covid-19 probably got him
@@jaredhutchinson4629 🤣🤣
For some reason I think it is fascinating that there were reports for rogue waves for centuries but not believed until it was proven in 1995. The automobile has only been around for 100 years, the train for maybe 200 years but boats have been in water for thousands of years and we are literally learning in my lifetime something that appears to be quite common. Really makes you think what other common things we have yet to figure out.
Sailors have also reported flying ships and mermaids for centuries. There's a scientific basis for those too (fata morgana and desperately horny men, respectively) but you can see why scientists had a lot of scepticism.
Also consider the fact that the wooden ships of yesteryear sunk without any survivors and evidence, so people assumed it must be the work of a storm or an angry deity.
Well.. thank you for solidifying my fear of the ocean even more.
@Hannah Ridgeway ASMR = mental instability
Wow! What a nice topic!😀 I am now graduating maritime technology!😀 Thank you for this!😂😂
Im terrified of oceans
@@lackofboringstuf2347
I have sailed in these up to 20 meter(60 foot) high. Sure they can crack open the large tincan ships, but if you have a well built sailboat and good crew it's more like a very long roller coaster. When they start getting above 8 meters you just have to follow the waves.
@@vikingraven4758 holy fucking shit. 20 meters? I'd shit my self. Jeez man sailors are brave men. Good night brother
Imagine being a pirate and you survived the waves, you tell everyone you know but you get called a liar
Imagine you died from one of these waves and scientists tell everyone that it was human error and you as a captain get shamed
Wtf
sCiENCE
Littlepeetier I’ve thought about that for years, even before the Jan, 1995 oil platform wave 🌊 that made the scientists and ship 🚢 specialists concede and admit they’re completely wrong!!!!!! Even when ships 🚢 that would limp into back into the shipping yards with huge sections completely sheered away they would blame the Captain and totally dismiss all the eye witnesses on the ship 🚢 (until 1/1/95!!!!! It’s sad 😢 that some Captains that actually lived through rogue waves 🌊 but lost their jobs and then died before the scientists, ship 🚢 specialists and actual owners of the fleet could restore their honor, image and usually completely destroyed their lives!!!!! Classical mathematicians don’t like it when you dare say they don’t know ever thing, I imagine quantum physics will solve many other areas of high strangeness or phenomena!!!!! We as human being need to stop being so arrogant and ignorant regarding many things, it’s always better (especially for a scientist) to have a open mind!!!!!! Look 👀 at how many animal species have been discovered or determined not to be extinct as thought in the last 10 - 15 years!!!!! Then there’s the two hominid species found in excavation in the last 20 years, not to mention the tribes discovered still living untouched by modern humans and they should stay that way because of just the diseases we could give them!!!!!! I know I’ve gone on and on but I’m glad someone else has thought about how blaming someone with a lot evidence to the contrary is truly a horrible thing!!!!!!
P.S. Please forgive me in advance for any/all grammatical errors because as usual I couldn’t find my reading/writing glasses 👓, honestly I need a new prescription pair (OR TWO 😂) 👓 👓!!!!!!!!!
@@kelleybutler9720 wtf?
@@kelleybutler9720 wtf
Human:This ship is consider unsinkable 🚢
Mother Nature:I’m gonna end this mans whole career
Yen the smiling dinosaur you should of said Mother Nature: Hold my beer
Or say mother nature: I'll sink this human males career
_is it me or is the ship getting shorter_
considered*
Turlough, Beast, mother nature would be drinking Bacardi Breezer!
While in the USN in the 80s we were taking on stores, via vertrep (helos dropping pallets on our stern helo station [not a flight deck]). During a break in the all hands working party to pass stores from the helo station to storerooms/refrigerators below, we were hanging out on deck. My buddy calls out "Oh my God!" (or something similar) I turn to look and saw a wall of water heading right for the ship. The sea state was high already as there had been a gale force winter storm in the area (we were in the Med in between Italy & Corsica), so the waves were in the teens in height but not breaking on deck. This wave was at least in mid twenties to thirty ft by guess. I quickly turned and saw about twenty guys rush the midships door, so that was not an option. A bunch of others were scrambling to climb up to the 01 level (the next deck up), I didn't have anything to climb up near me to even try this. So I just grabbed to superstucture hand rail (for clipping safety lines to in heavy seas), took a deep breath, and squared down slightly to give my body/legs more ability to take the blow (bracing for shock as the Navy trained us). When the wave hit I was underwater for a good few seconds, but then it was done. I looked around to see the aftermath, we had several guys down on the deck trying to get their breath & coughing up water. With three of these men hung up on the lifelines, one on the outboard side. Myself and a couple of others shipmates rush to this man quickly to grab him and get him over the lifelines and on deck. Some of the guys who had tried climbing to the 01 level had made it and some hadn't. They and the ones who didn't hear the warning or see the wave were among the dozen or so down on the deck, or in the lifelines. For the twenty guys trying to get in the midships door they got pushed into the ship by the wave through the open water tight door, with some of the getting knocked into inside walls (bulkheads). We got lucky nobody was lost overboard, and about a dozen guys with minor injuries that the ship's corpsman was able to treat. We always thought of this as a rouge wave, it was easily twice the height rest of the waves in the sea state we were in.
Sounds like a gnarly story, glad no one was seriously injured
It frustrates me that scientists are seemingly so quick to brush off such firsthand accounts. "Oh that's impossible because our model says so." Your model is crap.
@@ro4eva All models are fiction - and the pride invested in them is madness. AKA models that Gore used for global warming - his ocean front property should be lone gone.
@@ro4eva I think doubt in the model had been there for a long time. The problem is that throwing the existing models out altogether and starting over from scratch... Well, that requires proof to be necessary. Sailors have always told fantastical stories, so they're not necessarily that reliable. It just wasn't before the Draupner wave that we had incontrovertible evidence of rogue waves' existence.
Wow. The amount of research done to publish this video. Hats Off..😯👏
Agni Firestorm it’s all on Wikipedia. Pretty much word for word, no cool visuals though.
Apparently, the narrator also animates these videos by himself. I think that's worth some recognition.
Andres Gamba - even if the text was already available word for word - to animate it, it needs to be understood. Not as in "I learned it, I can answer any question", but as in "I learned it and can teach it to others" - which is a big difference.
Andres Gamba na if u look at the several sources in the description only one of them is from wiki
He pinched the majority of it from a BBC documentary made about 12 yrs ago. He re-hashed it as his own and added in some glaring errors for good measure. Quantum physics is applied in wave theory. Original was the BBC Horizon Freak Wave documentary.
“Was widely considered to be unsinkable”
Atlantic: you asked for it
Ship crew: yeah we are unsinkable up yours ocean we gonna own you
Ocean:hmm I think 90ft should be enough
to be fair: every sailor knows that to call a ship unsinkable is just asking for trouble.
What the landlubbers who ordered the ship constructed say about their new boat is in no way the fault of the poor sailors out there risking their lives.
Frankly the only unsinkable boat would be built of polystyrene.
The boat won't sink: no guarantees it will ever reach it's destination however.
My first thought as well.
or "I took the Titanic down, I don't mind taking another ship that they claimed to be 'unsinkable.'"
humans: *throws plastic into the ocean*
ocean: oh godamnit
I've figured out how we'll create a truly unsinkable ship. We simply name it the Sinky McSinkingFace. Reverse psychology for the win.
Is this a borderlands reference?
Yeah, but then the board would overrule it and just name some little autonomous vehicle that instead and then that boat would sink, but in an ironic twist the autonomous vehicle wouldn't.
*the ocean* well now im sinking it
"...Quite possibly the most dangerous ship in the world. It is expected to be sunk after only 3 miles..."
I'll name my ship the "I would sink soooo easily haha" with a tongue-out emoji
Fascinating, though I find "rogue holes' far more terrifying than rogue waves. At least with a wave, you have a chance of riding out the impact and most likely, you will be above water. But with a hole, after you fall in, the ocean closes up on you. That is terrifying.
We had a rogue wave hit the Aircraft Carrier I was on during my last deployment. It blew out portholes and came onto the flight deck. It physically shook the ship and if you know how massive a Nimitz class carrier is then you'll understand.
I was on an LHA that got hit by a rogue wave off the west coast of Australia in the mid-90's. Cracked a window on the bridge, which was 100 feet above the waterline and snapped holdown chains on several of the aircraft slashed forward of the superstructure. It also blasted in one of the linehandling hatches in the foc'sle. I'm just glad that it's the only one I saw in my 20 years.
@@Rollermonkey1 it was a fun storm with those swells. They had the plat pointed towards the bow and it would go from nothing but sky to nothing but water on the screen. We hooked up a tennis ball on a string and had the people who got sea sick watch it until they puked. I can only imagine how much a LHA moves or even a small boy.
@jimmy matho it's approximately 55 feet from waterline to flight deck.
Which CVN was it. I was 72 years ago yea I know how big they are
In 1969 I was second mate on the SS President Jackson, a Mariner class cargo ship 563' long. The Mariner class ships were very heavily built cargo ships of high horsepower and quite modern for the time. We were in the North Atlantic west bound in a heavy storm attempting to get to the East Coast of the USA to beat a longshoremen's strike that was expected. The Captain had on engine turns for 18 knots and we were taking a terrible beating making only 6 knots of headway into huge head seas of about 35' height. I called the Captain when I came on watch and told him we should slow down as we'd just taken three breaking seas of green water aboard the ship all the way back to the amidships house in the space of ten minutes. He ordered me to maintain engine turns for 18 knots and the ship continued to battle her way into these huge seas and periodically take green water all the way back to the house when a wave would break aboard the ship. Each time the ship would slam into one of these huge walls of water she would seem to come to a complete stop. Then the powerful engines would start to increase headway until she'd repeat the process until she slammed into another huge wave. Just about daybreak, I saw a huge wave that was at least twice the height of the normal wave height of 35'. Our height of eye from the bridge was about 60' and I was looking up as this huge sea approached the ship so it must have been at least 75' or more in height. The speed with which something like this develops is hard to describe as there was literally nothing I could do. While I thought the wave would probably break onto the ship with dire consequences, the period of the sea was such that the ship dove down into the trough and then rose up over the wave. It literally looked like we were headed towards the moon and the entire forebody of this loaded ship came completely out of the water. Then the ship crashed back into the sea and spray rose up a couple of hundred feet on each side of the ship. The ship then started to flex violently much like you'd flex a hair pin trying to break it. It was something that happened over 50 years ago but I can see the entire event and this huge approaching rogue wave in my mind as I write this reply. Amazingly, there was minimal visible damage to the ship when we arrived at port. I can't help but feel there must have been structural damage to the ship that wasn't visible to the eye.
Roguewave sounds like an obscure genre of electronic music
BeezOne84
Low-fi music in the beginning but instead of a nice drum-drop, it just suddenly transforms into the heaviest death metal music.
Rouge-Wave music.
Hell yes haha
You're not too far off. Check it out...
th-cam.com/video/DlOl9LOUQ0g/w-d-xo.html
yah man, Roguewave is just the right wavelength for Drum n Bass of the likes of Infected Mushroom ;)
If you want a really disturbing EDM genre, you should hear Extratone.
Here's an example (skip to 1:24 and be aware of *extreme* ear rape):
th-cam.com/video/8RAYlykjQrw/w-d-xo.html
Naimad th-cam.com/video/kE0tYUkh2qI/w-d-xo.html
I like that one, Frenchcore is better though.
Bro you really are one of the best channels on this site man, up there with kurzgesgat, scishow, vsause, life noggin, you deserve to be listed with the greats you really do fantastic work
Thanks Matt!
No u
Kurzgesgat is trash
eedobee no you!!
@@samemz Why?
Just don’t say your ship is unsinkable, you’re just jinxing it
They sustain the Darwin Awards whenever there's too much rational behavior among humans.
not biston wjalwr
Old Sailors: **claim they’ve seen rouge waves and giant squid**
Scientists: Okay old man 😂😂😂
**finds evidence of both**
Also scientists: Wow I can’t believe we found these
Science operates on evidence and testing. If scientists took eyewitness testimonies and anecdotes seriously they could just as well believe all the UFO sighting and abduction stories...
They all probably said okay boomer
Just saying, not squid; KRAKEN
I'll be damned if I hear anti-science talk from freaking Jesus
@@blacktimhoward4322 Does a flat-earther from Spain named Jesús count?
I got a cruise ship ad while watching this... bad timing
@@user-vq1op2zg6w Out of thousands of boats at sea: only a few meet such waves in a year.
You'll be fine
Just cancel if a storm brews around the time of your trip. Bigger the swell the bigger the rouge waves get.
@@user-vq1op2zg6w I can understand: hope you used the money for something else fun or perhaps productive ^_^
Well these waves only occur in deep oceans (with higher probability in very bad weather conditions)...most civilian cruise ships usually follow a standard (safe) route in good weather conditions....if you are paranoid, you can ask for the route your cruise will be taking, history of any accidents, expected weather conditions it'll be traveling under etc..
@@ameyas7726 sorry but the evidence states that rouge waves can form in any body of water large enough to stabilize a deep water wave. So not usually rivers (friction with shorelines). There is anectotal evidence that any body of water with large surface waves can form dangerous rouge waves, including the great lakes of north America.
And rouge waves have been recorded at some hydro power plants now. But a 5 cm wave in a 1 cm swell is not as impressive as 50 m in 10 m swells.
I got one too
Make sure whenever you're on a ship you say "wow this ship sure is sinkable"
That'll save you
😅😅😅 Nice
That's a good advise.
do that on carnival ships
I absolutely love this, this is such a well made video, great commentary along with great atmospheric music and SFX, not to mention the outstanding animations, well done.
I love the absolute randomness of your topics.
It shows that everything is interesting.
Okay, so when are we going to learn about declaring trans-Atlantic ships unsinkable being a terrible idea?
......We should do it with submarines destined for the Atlantic and see if the opposite happen.
@@Elenrai
Brilliant
@@Elenrai they will fly
@@Elenrai unfloateble?
@Richard DeRosset no no no, not Styrofoam cups. Pool Noodles my guy
I'd wager that a rogue hole is way more terrifying than a rogue wave
IntelPentium Yes but people have survived rouge waves and returned to tell stories of them. Nobody survives a rouge hole so no stories of them
I hadn't even heard of a freaking rogue hole before this... now I have something new to give me delightful nightmares :P haha
I'd wager I'm just gonna move to Arizona and call this whole nature thing good but not my jam.
the hole would definitely be scarier. You are going along in a storm and your ship tilts downwards and you see a giant hole in the water. you know your done for
Imagine hitting a rouge wave and immediately after hitting a rouge hole
How to murder someone and not get caught:
"I'm going on (ship)"
"I heard it's unsinkable"
@@endurablitz1861 169 now
Man these videos are National Geographic level documentaries
I wonder if the oceans only salty because the land never waves back
😂 Wtf lol this is so underrated comment can i get some likes for this right here
That's...brilliant. Thanks for the best laugh of the day.
haha dude.. this killed me!
That's gold
Get this man an Oscar!
Let's name every ship "Totally sinkable" they'll never sink...
Even the Concordia lol
Ah, reverse psychology.
Unfortunately, large bodies of water are not psychologically present.
Statistics would disagree with you.
One ship will never sink
Thousands Will.
As they say: you make a ship idiot proof and some moron puts an even greater idiot in charge.
@@glenmcgillivray4707 -- "You make a ship idiot-proof and some moron puts an even greater idiot in charge." --- Brilliant!
Reverse Psychology always works on women. Mother Nature will be baffled lol
"Widely considered to be unsinkable"
Rogue wave " so i took that personally"
Imagine sailing in the middle of the ocean and nature's just like, "hey here's a *hole*
F
The ocean's fucking terrifying.
Cruise ship ad: *I'm gonna pretend i didn't see that*
Hahahaha
Cruise ships dont cross oceans!
@@alexarias5717 how do you think cuise ships reach Hawaii? They cross open ocean and at least half the Pacific if departing from California
@@colin.k6263 shit didn't know there were cruise ships that far out in the ocean. Thought most were in the Caribbean
@@alexarias5717 people takes cruises from anywhere to anywhere, in the US cruise ship world tho, the most common are Caribbean( Florida to Caribbean's), Alaska(up the west coast of Canada), and Hawaii
for some weird reason i'm completely facinated by waves. it's been really hard finding information on rogue waves, as its such a new topic, but this was even more than i had hoped for. Thanks!
You know this goes back hundred of year, and only science for some reason believe there real now, it's mostly stories but you can fine many go tails
Freya Haglund Their are a few good documentaries out there, just got to look for them. As man has only recently discovered they got it totally wrong! It’s been a hot topic in the science community.
Imagine a wave of 50 meters.I would like to see it..must be quite a sight.That would be new.
Rogue waves happen on the Great Lakes too, the Edmund Fitzgerald likely sank because a rogue wave forced the bow under and then it hit the bottom of the lake causing the ship to break in half from the structural shock. There are also different types of Rogue Waves, the waves on the Great Lakes were of the "three sisters" variety while the video mostly covers the "wall of water" variety.
I've also seen rogue waves on smaller lakes, I was sailing on a local lake last month and the winds and waves were general one-footers and then I heard a sudden gushing sound and I saw a line of breaking 2 footers off the port side, and there were no speedboaters nearby making wakes and it came out of nowhere. They can happen on any body of water I'm convinced at this point, you could probably make a rogue wave happen in a bathtub if you could figure out how.
by adding a fan and a few rocks and pebbles on the bottom of it you might be able to
I read that scientists had calculated that these waves could actually get up to 60 meters in height. Enough to sink pretty much anything.
In the case of lakes, they might be seiches instead of rogue waves? An overlap of resonance and earth tremors, coupled with the sloshing effect of water in a bath tub.
@@jimj2683 They've been measured as much as 40 meters high or even slightly over if I'm not mistaken, but I wouldn't be surprised if in very rare and extreme circumstances they could be as much as 60 meters high. In which case as you said pretty much any ship on earth would sink, even the very biggest ones. Nightmare stuff...
You could make a rouge wave in the kitchen sink...busy housewives know about it
imagine just sailing on the ocean and then your ship starts to tilt downward, like a lot and then seeing the other side of the rouge hole coming to swallow your ship whole. scary thought
What if we don't know about the existence of rogue holes because literally nobody ever survived one or had the time to send a distress call to report them? Now that's a scary thought.
@@f4llen489 maybe they happen most often in a certain triangle named Bermuda
@@milesoats4256 I was thinking of that too. I believe I once heard about people speculating that currents might suck ships below water ,but rogue holes (even if they only exist in theory) might be another reasonable cause.
@@f4llen489 As a sailor I certainly believe in the existence of rogue holes despite how terrifying they sound. Whilst I usually sail on a river, I believe I've come into contact with smaller versions of the open ocean monsters. They don't happen often, only when strong winds and heavy powerboat traffic are present but they are really quite freaky. Last time we (my crew and I) encountered one we were reaching with the spinnaker and a hole just opened up in front of us and almost capsized us. We may have uttered a large number of expletives.
An analogy would be like if you were drag racing in a car (one of those super fast nitro powered ones) and just as you hit your top speed the road in front of you just disappeared. There is nothing you can do - you're going too fast to make a sudden turn so you just fly over the edge and pray. Eventually, you hit the bottom with a clonk and the walls around you close in on top of you.
@@andromeda6463 That's exactly what I imagined it to be like. I sail myself, but only on lakes or near the coastline, and on really small boats. Falling into one with such a small vessel seems extremely horrific.
Imagine getting knocked off board and immediately getting buried several stories underwater and the water pressure blows out your eardrums and crushes your ribs 😳
The surface is so high... it's so dark down here... my body is broken and I'm so far from help....
What a terrible way to die.
100ft or even 200ft underwater won't do that to you
@@joshsmit779 100ft at once will bust your eardrums. If you slowly go down, no, bu if it all happens within a second you ded son
That's not a fun fact!
but all things considered faster then the way most of us will go.
:(
Me: Im gonna be productive today
Also me: *watches a video on waves*
Once upon a time, I worked for a Southern US shipping company. After they downsized me, I went to work for the marine comms company who was providing their email service. I made a service call to one of the ships, and the Captain told me a story something like what was in the video. Rogue Wave came along, blew out most of the windows on the bridge, shorted out most of the gear there, including all the ship's radios. Our gear was in a different space from the bridge, up off the deck, so it was the only piece of comms gear that survived, and they relied on it from the Norther Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico. It was very strange seeing a flood line on the walls of a deck that was about 80 feet above the waterline of the ship. I've seen some scary conditions from my own days at sea, but I'm glad I wasn't on that ship on that crossing.
Those aren’t mountains.....
They’re waves.
Karl Lee White 6 months and know one caught your reference? Han must be turning in his grave!
And that one isn't moving away from us..
a man of culture i see
"You're the one that doesn't belong. Born 40 years too early or 40 years too late"
Philip Glass ripoff intensifies
Assassin's Creed Black Flag taught me the dangers of Rogue Waves, lol.
Exactly why I know/knew not to take them broadside >.< ... was seriously happy when he brought up the whole "which of two evils" do you pick thing.
@@MrCODEmaster00
He said it worse to take them head on as it might break your ship.
Intescy Avenger no he didn’t he said both were bad it’s a matter of what your ships capable of.
I know the first couple of waves all my crew didn't make it.
Basically if you don’t have a massively long ship, take’em head-on. If you have a ship that can take ~60* of leaning to one side... I have to ask who designed your ship.
your animations are getting better and better at this point its more art then a informative video^^
Hate to be that guy, but.... It's "than"
note to myself: in order to avoid super waves avoid traveling on ships that named after german cities.
Norway, not Germany.
@@dale5497 The last time I checked München and Bremen haven't been annexed by Norway.
@@cdbtheclaw Roger. Wrote when I hadn’t watched that far!
Same with airships. Just look up "Hindenburg disaster".
@@cdbtheclaw Grüß dich 😂
This channel is absurdly good. Incredible research and effort put into every episode; content and animation.
This video was fantastic! Chilling as well, very few documentary style videos ever make me feel like my heart is sinking like this. True anxiety just looking at that rogue hole.
What did the ocean say to the shore?
Nothing, it just waved.
@Top Hat goddamit
@@stevenutter3614 God reef*
Y'all shell stop making these puns
Water you gonna do if we don’t?
Can we be finnished now? These puns are really drowning me in laughter.
11:35 The portuguese, back in 1488 during the Discoveries Age, were the first to cross that area by boat. They called it "Cape of Storms". It was considered a mythological place, that scared sailors to death. When they first crossed it an the King was informed, he renamed it to "Cape of Good Hope".
Cool, thanks.
I've been out on the ocean in a fishing boat during a storm it's terrifying you go from deep valleys of water to huge peaks
and when you crest a wave the prop and stern come out of the water, you go down that valley and your bow scoops up water bam like a gunshot the water hits the glass.
The whole concept of sailing seems insane.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Powered isnt so bad..but wind power is kinda insane. Places in the Pacific where you have to get out the rowboat and oars and tow your sailboat.
we used to call that hammering in poles.
It is like if you wanna hit a hammer on a pole to get it in the ground, instead of a hammer you think of the front of the ship as the hammer head. When you hit the wave it give a huge smash, but when you go over it and down again when the water level raises again you will hammer a massive pole again, depends on the steepness of the wave, if the wave is very steep the front of the ship will hit the water with huge force pointing downwards, hitting a new upcoming wave.
Its amazing that this wasn't scientific fact until the mid 90s...Ive lived my entire life thinking that rogue waves were as scientifically accepted as gravity.
Your vids are always worth the wait😀
Some engineer: “This ship unsinkable”
The ocean: “look what you made me do”
Also, like the ending:
"It's statistically probable that every cargo ship will encounter at least one rogue wave in it's time at sea, and it definately won't be equipped to withstand it." ... ... ... *seagulls*
Mee too. It was a well done ending, but also very refreshing to not be told to like/subscribe blah blah blah.
Human: This ship is unsinkable
Ship: *sinks*
Human: Surprised pikachu
It's not just ships, it's oil platforms, too. Remember the Ocean Ranger?
lol
more like:
Human: This ship is unsinkable
Ship: sinks
Human: dead
more like: Human: This ship is unsinkable
Wave: i'm about to end this man's whole career
Read More.
Read More.
I was on a Disney Cruise back in 08 when we got smash into by a rouge wave around 2am.
Got thrown off the bed. When we docked in Hawaii the next day, we learned that a bunch of people on board were injured. Luckily no deaths
A rouge wave? I bet that made you blush 😄
Pinkish, was it?
Thank god.
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The moral of the story: don't ever call a ship unsinkable. Mother Nature will accept that challenge just to keep us humans humble and reverent of her.
@@alienmagi Not in your opinion, but many people hold nature as an intelligent force.
@@alienmagi be as that may, that doesn't change the fact that disrespecting it is a great way to die horribly.
@@raspberrybitch4299 facts don’t care about your feeling though
@@henrywilliams3197 Yeah? Well show me the facts that say nature has no inherent intelligence. You can't. Just like I can't show you the facts that say nature does have inherent intelligence.
It's a matter of opinion, not fact. Turd.
@@alienmagi late response, but to me that is why it's so scary, no thoughts, no care about us. Nature just does its own thing and if you happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, too bad.
And thats why people
You dont consider a ship unsinkable
neki0 playz ..It is akin to declaring. "I am going to live forever " .
"Just like giant sea monsters" *Kraken sized squids have been found* Ya know maybe the sailors haven't been telling just wild stories
Are you just talking about giant squids or am I missing something?
@@plantinapot9169 giant squid, colossal squid (two completely different species, to be clear), & giant octopus (TBF these are nowhere near the size of their aforementioned squid relatives) are all things.
Imagine being a captain of a ship then saw a wall of water coming straight at you
...or imagine being anyone on that ship seeing that.
This is why im afraid of making a career in the maritime industry even though I have an intense interest in ships and the water.
Jesus... Imagine being on a ship and falling into a rogue hole as described here. Truly terrifying.
Agreed, I find that far more terrifying than a rogue wave
I believe unlike the big wave that can break the hull of a long ship by lifting it you wouldnt "fall into" the big hole if you were in a big ship. Probably your ship would hit the border at the other side of the hole and cross over it. maybe youd feel a hard bump .
These things only happen in the open ocean and are rare, if you are with a small vessel there you proly know the risks and what youre doing
In Sebastian Yungers book he says boats can accidently be driven nose down into the ocean
It wouldn't really be a rogue hole, but more like a rogue trench.
Widely considered unsinkable,
NOW WHERE HAVE WE HEARD THAT BEFORE?!?!
Kennan Dunn ships are unsinkable
@@ayeitzdj I'm waiting for someone to reply to you so I can r/whoosh them lol🤣
χσνєятιмєχ that’s what the titanic said,guess where it is now🤔
"Jack,you jump,i jump..."
@@ryana.7070 Actually neither the Harland & Wolff Shipyard who built the Titanic, nor the White Star Line who ordered it ever claimed the Titanic to be unsinkable. People in the press and/or the general public may have said so but that's nothing the people in charge can be held responsible for.
number one rule when you make a ship *NEVER* call it unsinkable
Hms unsinkable sinkable
This ship is unsinkable, further we're going home from this war before Christmas...
Or have the media declare it is unsinkable... (The builder of RMS Titanic never said it is unsinkable, it was the media said it first.)
@@fulcrum2951 I'll call and raise you the USS Unsinkable McUnsinkface.
nit uñles boasten whakrr
"this ship is unsinkable"
*WHEN WILL YOU LEARN? WHEN WILL YOU LEARN? THAT YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!*
YOU FRICKIN' FRICKS
Grian...?
@@benjaminjohannessanchez3310 no.
Shipwright: "This vessel is unsinkable"
The Ocean: "Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance!"
*Releases rogue wave"
The Ocean: "But not for me!"
Ambulance? More like 500 ft under.
Nice. The guys German accent had me believing I could get hit by a rouge wave right now. And I'm in upstate N.Y.
I'm from upstate NY also how's the weather up there
@@matildamarmaduke1096 It's been nice the last ten days or so.... Mid 70s or low 80s for the most part. This is a great time of year for weather... You know I'm sure.... But winter is coming..... ugh.
A rouge wave, huh? Oh, you meant rogue wave. A rouge wave would be weird though...all red and whatnot.
I'm going to build a 🚢 and name it Doomed. It'll never sink.
Except by saying it'll never sink you've just negated your entire strategy.
Titanic II
@Hamdon Nut Aw, don't be like that.... we're just havin a little fun, is all...
Cursivedragon
Word of advice don’t.
A few centuries ago, (still is) it was considered bad luck to lay down a bow of a new ship on Friday.
A rich man was “tired” of all of these “silly” superstitions and went out of his way to prove them wrong. He had the bow of a ship laid out on a Friday, named the ship “Friday”, and deliberately went against every superstition there was. Even down to the Captain he hired.
He then had the ship loaded with riches and sent off.........
😓😰The Ship apparently sank on it’s maiden voyage.
I am not a superstitious person. But then again I don’t go out of my way go against those kinds of “rules”.
I'll just wait for the next ice age so I can simply walk across to other continents.
That’ll work
Still in an ice age believe it or not.
@Adam J. Harper Good for creatures eaten by them.
@Adam J. Harper I think the polar bear numbers have always been fairly low, natural emissions would actually still warm the earth, larger amounts than youd expect. Natural emissions (unavoidable) account for at least 97 per cent. Of that youd have to check as c02 emission checks have drastically improved as opposed to the standard test facilities of prior. It makes good reading, theres no greater c02 sponge than a mountain face.
The end of the ice age will be imminent that's for sure and all wildlife will be forced to evolve as polar bears do now. Unfortunately this will be naturally occurring regardless, unlike the deforestation of the rainforest. Fortunately polar bears remain in their habitat but like all other species they will adapt, they're deadly but theres no deadlier than homo sapiens.
@@sbill001 CO2 is absorbed by photosynthetic organisms like algae, seaweed, and trees -- mountain faces do nothing to curb atmospheric carbon concentration levels.
It is an irrefutable, undeniable fact of science that climate change is anthropogenic; and it is due to our ~200 years of fossil fuel usage. Although our output of 29 gigatons of CO2 is tiny compared to the 750 gigatons moving through the carbon cycle each year, it adds up because the land and ocean cannot absorb all of the extra CO2. About 40% of this additional CO2 is absorbed. The rest remains in the atmosphere, and as a consequence, atmospheric CO2 is at its highest level in millions of years.
Our earth's climate naturally changes, and we should be going towards a cooling phase right now, but instead we are warming to catastrophic levels.
God I didn't think the ocean couldn't scare me more... and then you mentioned "Rogue Hole"... what a nightmare. T_T
Anyway I love your new video design, keep up the good work!
For the large ships it is a nightmare. Sailboats can actually handle this weather just fine so long as you have a good crew.
@@vikingraven4758 good luck on that sailboat when you see 50+ ft. waves coming at you
I have been in 60 ft waves. All you can do at that point is to show them your boats behind and ride the wave. Feels like a rollercoaster. One wrong move and you're dead tough.
This is brilliantly put together and well researched too. Really good work, thank you ✌️⛵
Humanity: "Turns out calling the Titanic unsinkable didn't make it unsinkable. This new ship though? Unsinkable baby."
Ship: *sinks*
Humanity: 😦
Surprised pikachu face
Our U.S. Coast Guard ship was hit by three sisters in 1970 about a day out of Anchorage Alaska. After watching this video I learned about "Rogue Holes." That is how it felt, and I had never heard of those before. In the previous year, the ship had made 6+ trips from Punta Arenas Chile to Palmer Station Antarctica. ie Cape Horn. So we had seen plenty of Hurricane force winds and heavy seas. I was on the fantail working on equipment in probably 6 to 8 foot swells. All of a sudden it felt like the ship was falling. Completely different than the normal pitch and roll in heavy seas. I looked up and said, "Holy F*&k!" I jumped up and wrapped my arms around an oceanographic crane. There wasn't time to get inside. The wave hit straight abeam. When the first wave wave hit, I got wet to my shoulders even though I was a couple feet off the deck. The ship took a 55 degree roll, and shook and I really didn't know it was going to come back, or roll over. As the ship righted, I dropped down and made it inside before the next two waves hit. This was 50+ years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. Your video is very good and that's why I wanted to tell my story. Never heard of "Rogue drops/holes" before, but that sure seemed to explain the three sisters that I experienced.
Thanks for the video, and my story above is true and took place on the USCGC Glacier WAGB-4
"blah blah blah...unsinkable"
Atlantic Ocean: hold my water
lmao best part about this comment is that the ships obviously can’t hold the atlantic’s water
All ships that have been called "unsinkable" have sank.... let's just do ourselves a favor and stop calling our ships "unsinkable."
if we call them sinkable will it be unsinkable?
@@nathan4750 Yes. THAT'S the secret!
lots of ships have been called "unsinkable" and have not sunk as well soo... its just you don't hear much about ships that don't sink. its not like that makes the news or an interesting story: "greatest ship a technological marvel and widely considered unsinkable.. serves 30 years and is cut up for scrap metal" its not like most people have ever heard of the RMS Olympic and if they had its because of her famous sister.
@@williamt.sherman9841 Bro my point is that calling a ship "unsinkable" is like calling a plane "uncrashable." Makes no sense to do that XD
Let me conjugate that for ya...sink sank sunk
Sailors: Whirlpools are real
Scientists: No they're not. But hey, rogue holes...
Sailors: Why you change the name?
Whirlpools ARE real. But take certain ocean currents, usually more common in storms in shallow water.
Shallow being less than 40 meters.
Your personal definition of shallow may vary
I think rogue holes mentioned are not exactly whirlpools and both are different!....rogue holes as rogue waves only appear for a small amounts of time in deep oceans and are actually holes in water as opposed to swirling water inside a whirlpool..
@@ameyas7726 indeed whirlpools occur due to trapped surface Waters in storms and swirling Waters where different water currents meet (including rivers and major oceans) in realitively shallow Waters as deep water would otherwise well upwards. Rouge holes are literally rouge waves in the negitive, surrounded by elevated waves of normalish size it drops you into a deep hole in the middle. Sounds terrifying.
Predictably, over-analysis of the joke ensues...time for a German joke here?
Hey, though, @
Guy Smith, I laughed.
I was so confused because english isn't my first language and obviously I know what a whirlpool is, but not in that context. So here I was imagining a sailor/scientist pool party.
Someone : ship is unsinkable.
Ocean : And I took that personally.
That so interesting! 'Cancels trip with Royal Carabian simultaniously..
'
That is one of the highest-quality videos I've ever seen. Well done!! I'm amazed you create every part of it yourself. And I love the brisk pace - usually I watch videos sped up, but this one was perfect as-is.
I wish I had your processing power! I had to keep pausing the video to digest the information, or rewatch to ensure understanding... I've always been a slow processer, despite being intelligent, and I wish I knew more about what makes people like you and me function so differently - I would appreciate if he could make a video on that!
Beautifully animated. Fantastic work.
“Rogue waves are commonly divided into three categories:” *ad plays* “Pizza or Salad. Which one do you think I’m having for dinner tonight?”
Perfect timing
The sea is never to be trusted or underestimated
The thought of rogue holes made me shiver, suddenly just falling downwards and the horizon blocked by walls of water just felt so eerie.
Wieder ein sehr gut gemachtes Video, weiter so! Ich finde dein Animationsstil besser, als die minimalistischen Stile von z.B. Kurzgesagt, chapeau!
Freut mich!
Fantastic overview! Love that this presents the real information without any exaggeration or embellishment but still manages to be quite interesting. Wonderful!
Do not
*Ever*
Tempt Murphy's Law
I completely agree.
@@ro4eva I disagree on agreeing with you agreeing to his comment.
sigh, the pop science kiddies strike again
I’ll show this to my wife the next time she mentions going on a cruise lol
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I feel like calling ships “unsinkable” manifests something so that the universe challenges it😂
WHOM'ST'D'VE HAVE CHALLENGED ME
This had been explained in a BBC documentary about rogue wave about 12 years ago. You just made a short video from a 2 hours fantastic documentary
*Captain* with 40 years of sailing experience: Rogue waves are *real!!!*
*Scientists:* Nahh, we've got models... rogue waves are a myth!!!
*God:* Hold my beer...
uruiamnot guess alien abductions, sea monsters are real too right? Can’t believe people are as stupid as you
William Sandbach actually I agree with the comment... ohhhh wait I get it... you are a scientist with a God complex.
Rather than call someone stupid.. buy a sloop and go for a long, long sail..
Go on a long sail in a boat that’s unsinkable
@@NorthCarolinaConservative yes lets go look for the kraken
Seen smaller versions of rogue waves with my own eyes. Like its got no business being there but there it is.
Also, each about 7th wave in a storm is larger than the others, you need to time course changes well.
Ship: considered to be unsinkable.
Titanic: welcome to my world.
Oof
figuratively and literally. LOL I pictured the Titanic saying that as the other ship hit the ocean floor.
You do know titanic is a lot smaller than modern cruise ships right?
Humans: This ship is unsinkable!
Nature: So you have chosen death
How utterly fascinating! I really did not expect quantum physics to get involved. This was a beautifully compiled, animated, and narrated video!
I’ve never watched any of your content but the 15 minutes of this video just flew by. I wonder if there’s any recordings of these waves out there. Probably going to check now.
Ian Schaufenbuel
One German sailor in the late 80’s (on an huge oil ship) caught on a photo camera the front of the ship barreling thru a rogue wave. This was before the oil platform recorded it’s wave.
Scientists basically congratulated him on catching a 1,000 year event on camera.
Saw the photo on a TV special on rogue waves, and the scientist describing and explaining the wave made my hair stand up on end!
😓That sailor had steel “you know what’s” to take that photo.
Im honestly curious to see any video footage of these waves but its 2am and im fkn scared ahahah.