I got sucked against one of those grates as a kid once, after dangling off the edge as the wave machine was getting started, I’ve never been so scared in my life. Luckily spat me out pretty quick
I got sucked under by a wave machine too. It just pulled my feet right out from under me and sucked me down. Luckily I managed to get back up as the machine released, and I got far enough away to avoid it happening again. Horrible experience tho, I never went near the grates again.
Oh my God, that's terrifying! It's my worst nightmare. I'm TERRIFIED of the back of wave pools. I'm glad you're okay, but soo sorry you experienced that 😣
well this mechanism is basically a giant piston, but because air and water have different densities there is no need of a big metal piece to separate them
It’s not a vacuum pulling the water in, it’s air being blown into the chamber that forces water out. A butterfly valve opens and closes in the ducting which allows air from a blower to enter the chamber momentarily.
One day I went with my father to a pool like that but I thought that the waves appeared from some tubes that ejected water 😂 continuing, when I got to the end of the pool to try to see where these tubes were when I saw a big and scary grid, at that moment I swam with my life because I thought that that one grill would suck me in and I would die there😳
Same here! I thought the water was sucked in via huge pipes and then pushed back out again but it turns out it’s all done by air pressure. I was terrified of wave machines as a kid because I got pulled under by one once.
Same for me! I went to a wave pool when I was younger and I really wanted to know how they made the waves so I swam to the end of the pool to look for something that made the waves. I saw about 3 massive black wall looking things and me being curious I swam closer. At the exact same moment that I was just about to touch the black wall they turned the waves on and the walls began to move. This pool used a similar system to the one in the video except instead of vertical suction and push it was horizontal. Think like a large hand pushing the water from the bottom to just above the surface. And because I was right in front of the pushing wall things I got sucked into it and then pushed out with great force! This wave pool had 3 settings medium, large, and extreme waves. And of course I got unlucky enough that they put it on the extreme setting when I was right next to the wave walls. After I got pushed away from the wave walls I tried to swim back to the shallow end but the waves were really strong and big so I was struggling quite a lot and even ended up going underwater a couple times because a new wave would wash straight over my head! It felt like hours until I finally got out of the pool at the shallow end but it was only 1-2 minutes until I actually got out. And after that incident I never went close to the far end of a wave pool ever again and never will in the future. The worst thing was that I was just 10 years old when this happened. And barely able to swim on my own. I shouldn’t even have been in the pool because they actually had rules that said that if they are using the large or extreme waves you have to be I think it was 13 or 15 to even be allowed in the pool. 12 for the medium waves and anyone if the waves were off. The thing was that nobody actually cared. Not the people in the pool or the people that worked at this place. Even the lifeguards didn’t care. In fact a lot of the rules in that place where routinely broken and nobody cared at all! I’m actually shocked that they didn’t get shut down because of there complete lack of enforcement of the rules. I’m almost positive that someone has gotten seriously hurt there and if not it would be a miracle. My parents were on the other side of the building. ( this place had like 4 pools and like 6 slides. It was like a big indoor water park ) so they didn’t even know what happened. I was always running around from pool to pool and going on each slide like 500 times so my parents decided that they would just sit by the ice cream/snack shop and wait for me there because trying to keep track of me was probably one of the hardest things that any human could ever accomplish. I was safe in the end though and I soon forgot about it and enjoyed the water slides for probably the 125th time that day!
@@ananonymoushen4339they should have alarms or some type of warning when the waves are abt to start, I dip my head under water to hear the machine and it sounds really good js when the low pressure waves come in this metal slacking sound just ruins it all 🤦♂️
Me too. They are so eerie to be around and it creeps me out. I dont have submechanophobia and i calm around things underwater but any pool drains, jet lines, pool filters, i stray away from i hate them so much
Some does work like that, ones in my country are pneumatic wave machines which will pressurise the chambers to push the water out through the bars and release air to allow the water to flow in.
Hello, just a minor correction: It’s not a negative pressure vacuum conventionally that occurs in those air chambers, there are high powered centrifugal blowers normally three phase, the high pressure air is sent through to manifolds that contain valves, the valves are controlled by pneumatic cylinders, but keeping it simple, when the valves open and the air is allowed to rush into the space above those grates, a positive pressure is generated inside the space and pushes the water out the grates via communicating vessels phenomenon. The water has a natural tendency to return back to it’s original place, but this is where the clever physics phenomenon occurs, the valves shut as the water flows up inside the air chamber, then momentum naturally pushes the water back out and the valves open up at that time, and amplify the wave momentum, making the.. waves.
@@ToHimWeWillBeReturned Not quite. It uses resonance, just like pushing someone on a swing. First the air inlet valves open, blowing air above the water in the chambers, pushing the water out into the pool. Then the valves switch; the inlet closes and the exhaust opens, letting the water rush back into the chambers. Every time this happens, the water gets slightly higher as more energy is added into the system. You can see the machine room in action here: th-cam.com/video/TxOmU5FYzS0/w-d-xo.html Listen out for the pneumatic valves opening and closing.
same. we used to dare each other to see who would stay underwater closest to the bars for the longest. i still dislike wave pools to this day as a result.
those bars in wave pools used to always freak me out as a kid I was always scared of getting too close to them incase I got sucked inside or something ..anyone else?
@@Sssssssslf I’m used to it now. I know there are bars there because of the amount of times I’ve stubbed my toe on them at the sandcastle water park in blackpool uk. I can’t judge how near my foot the chambers are. Oh and the dog is called Buddy and he’s a 9 year old west highland white terrier.
The moment when the BIG wave came was always so awesome! everyone waiting in a normal talking voice, then everyone saw the red light or heard it starting and the sound of everybody in the pool starting to scream as the big wave began was so much fun.
That's actually a really good way to do it. I've only ever been almost sucked into one wave pool and it was one of those the ones with the two tubes at the bottom middle of the pool. And if you got sucked into those you'd be shot probably 15 into the engine room. Flung into a pitch-black room that will fill and sweep with water dragging you along.
@@MattH-wg7ou pressure wave pools have inlets either on the back middle or sides. It pumps water through pressure to a room behind the pools in a huge room that fills up and then pushes out. You can get trapped in that room, that's why they have to put an access and ladders and catwalk in them
Seeing as the only wave pool I'm really familiar with is the one at Typhoon Lagoon, the fact you can get THAT close to the wavemakers is insane to me. In Typhoon Lagoon's wave pool, you're not allowed to get within like TWENTY FEET of the wave machine at the back end of the pool.
It’s absolutely insane to think primitive man was able to build such massive ones to cause waves in every ocean on Earth. And even more crazy is that they’re usable still to this day. Man’s ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.
Surprised no one's mentioned dirt. Like, yeah, it's weird that we forgot how to make Damascus steel and Roman concrete, but who figured out how to make all the dirt that our planet is pretty much made out of? I bet the volcano designers were involved.
@@psirvent8 we have a wave pool too in our town and its not blocked by ropes. There is actually a pole at the end for people to hold onto. Its a normal thing there to dive down and grab the chamber bars. For us it wasnt scary at all since you get pushed away after being sucked in.
I actually once got to look at such a machine because i was interested and the manager of the pool aproved it. It was pretty cool, pretty huge machines and they where controlled by a plc and had loud pumps under the ground
You know, sometimes these random topics I am interested in and click on... they'll take 30 minutes to explain something this simple. Thanks for being concise. I'd give the video two thumbs up if I could.
its less vacuum pulling in the water, but rather air displacing the water from the chamber, the sudden release of the air then causes the water to push into the chamber. the beauty about those pneumatic wave machines is that there is pretty much very little suction from the wave machine. Usually, you have the fans sit in between chambers, and swinging back and forth between the chamber on the left and the right, creating a continuous, smooth wave with similar sizes. Source: I work at a wave pool, though its about 40 years old and only has 3 chambers and 2 fans, with the difference that we also lower the entire pools water level before starting the waves by about 60 centimeters. its an impressive piece of tech and I highly recommend checking it out.
theres also a wave pool thats circular and has a bunch of "pushy thingies" around the edges. its used to test miniature replicas of boats. I'm also pretty sure the slow mo guys made a video about it
Wave pools brings back terrifying and fun experiences HAHAH in my childhood . When i was 6 years old I thought i was going to get eaten by those grids if i got closer. 18 years old and still terrified if i i ever get to a wave pool
Careful which ones you go to though. Changing the water is expensive and time consuming, and most park visitors won't notice the difference at the time, so some places will literally just leave the same water in the wave pool all summer. Nobody notices during the day when the park is open and the wave machine is running, but the lifeguards sure notice the trash and layer of oil floating on the surface after they shut it off. Not every place does that, but plenty do, and it's super easy for them to get away with since, as said, most guests won't notice at the time
Usually it's a fan a strong on at taht, behind that wall is a few strong fans taht go into the back part of the chamber where only air is, and there's a pipe with a little open close thing that when it's open, air passes through and out, when closed the air is forced to the water making a wave
Bro we really all the same out here 😂 I was and still am scared shitless of drains and like underwater things, thalasaphobia and submechanaphobia are present for me no doubt
One of my first swimming experiences was in this kind of pool, I remember one time I was not prepared for the waves and we had had strawberries on pancakes for breakfast that morning. I threw up strawberries into the pool because of the wave machine. Great times, great times
This wave pool by my local pool had a small exit near the front and my grandma greeted me from there to ask me what I want to eat. I had to swim closer to her and was practically on the ladder, when she left I pushed myself off the ladder into the middle of the pool and it started sucking in, long before I knew I was dragged under water and laid flat with my back, evenly laid out, against the grate while water pushed me against it. I thought it was over and all of a sudden it flung me back into the middle of the pool. That was the last time I ever entered one atleast a decade ago.
Suction Chambers, A ha' ok a blinding flash of the obvious. I first encountered one of these things over 60 years ago in Vienna, but until I watched this video I really just didn't know how the waves were made. Thank you for posting :)
The wave pools all had height requirements where people who were too short were forced to wear a life jacket, i was way shorter than most people my age so there were literally 7 year olds who were allowed to go jacketless when i was 11 and still forced to wear a jacket and i felt that was a massive ass scam since age probably was a better determinant on swimming ability than height. So i would just go in with the life jacket and just take it off the moment i was in the middle of the pool, not like they'd notice. Call it reckless but i was a strong swimmer
Ive seen stickers on pool lockers where it says "if you hear a loud horn or whistle get out of the pool and lean on the walls. I think it has to something with wave malfunction or a flood. i do not know but i want to know what that means and what would happen to make the whistle/ horn go off. Is it wave malfunction or a flood or something else? There is waves but there is a bzeer not a hor or whistle. plus no one gets out of the pool when the waves coe on so what does the sticker mean??
There was a Waterpark I use too go too the wave pool had five settings throughout the operation the waves would keep getting bigger until you herd a siren then that’s when the biggest waves were made. This would go on all day every 15-20 minutes the waves would come on then after 5-10 minutes of gentle waves the big ones would come then it go back too no waves for 15-20 minutes
Sorry for replying to an old comment, but you are correct. There are different types of wave machines and one of them works similarly to your description.
i thought it was large moving plates or something.. but no this does make a lot of sense and also explaines the mistery of siam park's wavepool that just makes one 2 meter tall wave every couple minutes or so.. just vacuum a lot and drop it all at the same time
Some wave machines blow air in what makes the water level lower and then when released the water preassure makes the water level go up and air is allowed back in and the air preassure makes the water go down
My local amusement park has a huge wave pool and a kid in my camp who was in my group (I went there with my camp) was in the deepest area now he is like 5 foot tall and the waves started and he almost drowned but a lifeguard jumped into the pool and got him, they made a 11 year old child sign a form and fill out a paper for him almost drowning!
Omg I would have been afraid to film this. Even though the pumps are not on I would be afraid that they forgot I was under there and turn them on. OMG Final destination scene.
The biggest wave you can get is that where you drop all at the same time, it wouldnt make it bigger by alternating cuz then you would have waves in different directions and not bigger waves
Did anyone used to do this in the bath? I used to grab onto the sides, pull myself forward to push all the water, and then slide back to be hit with a giant wave
It´s so sad in public pools they only choose a medium setting. No, I want to see what it does on full power once. Set the power to maximum, release all chambers at the same time and get the mop ready.
I work at a waterpark,and it gets HOT in the pump room while the wave pool is active. It's like a freaking sauna,plus it's loud too so hearing protection is needed. If anyone's curious as to how it sounds,think of whale songs.
I got sucked against one of those grates as a kid once, after dangling off the edge as the wave machine was getting started, I’ve never been so scared in my life. Luckily spat me out pretty quick
I got sucked under by a wave machine too. It just pulled my feet right out from under me and sucked me down. Luckily I managed to get back up as the machine released, and I got far enough away to avoid it happening again. Horrible experience tho, I never went near the grates again.
@@ananonymoushen4339 im scared of that happening to me
Wow
*New fear unlocked
Oh my God, that's terrifying! It's my worst nightmare. I'm TERRIFIED of the back of wave pools. I'm glad you're okay, but soo sorry you experienced that 😣
As a kid I always thought there were giant pistons that pushed the water. And of cours the big wave was all the pistons going off at once.
Actually there are different mechanisms used in wave pool, and pistons with giant metal plates is one of them. ;)
I thought the same exact thing
in some wave pools thats how it works
@@KingRCT3yes :D
well this mechanism is basically a giant piston, but because air and water have different densities there is no need of a big metal piece to separate them
Who else thought it was just terrifying massive fans that will chop you up if you get near it 😅
They are massive fans in the back room. This is not a vacuum system
Ikr
I did
I thought it was just me. I was always so scared to go into the deep end
Me
It’s not a vacuum pulling the water in, it’s air being blown into the chamber that forces water out. A butterfly valve opens and closes in the ducting which allows air from a blower to enter the chamber momentarily.
it depends on the design as some are different
@@misostreams232 The one depicted in this video is pneumatic.
Either way it's just a pressure difference moving the water around
i didn't know i could make turbo edits out of wave pools.
@@MartinNeep a vacuum is a form of pneumatics
One day I went with my father to a pool like that but I thought that the waves appeared from some tubes that ejected water 😂 continuing, when I got to the end of the pool to try to see where these tubes were when I saw a big and scary grid, at that moment I swam with my life because I thought that that one grill would suck me in and I would die there😳
Same here! I thought the water was sucked in via huge pipes and then pushed back out again but it turns out it’s all done by air pressure. I was terrified of wave machines as a kid because I got pulled under by one once.
Same for me!
I went to a wave pool when I was younger and I really wanted to know how they made the waves so I swam to the end of the pool to look for something that made the waves. I saw about 3 massive black wall looking things and me being curious I swam closer. At the exact same moment that I was just about to touch the black wall they turned the waves on and the walls began to move.
This pool used a similar system to the one in the video except instead of vertical suction and push it was horizontal. Think like a large hand pushing the water from the bottom to just above the surface.
And because I was right in front of the pushing wall things I got sucked into it and then pushed out with great force!
This wave pool had 3 settings medium, large, and extreme waves. And of course I got unlucky enough that they put it on the extreme setting when I was right next to the wave walls.
After I got pushed away from the wave walls I tried to swim back to the shallow end but the waves were really strong and big so I was struggling quite a lot and even ended up going underwater a couple times because a new wave would wash straight over my head!
It felt like hours until I finally got out of the pool at the shallow end but it was only 1-2 minutes until I actually got out.
And after that incident I never went close to the far end of a wave pool ever again and never will in the future.
The worst thing was that I was just 10 years old when this happened. And barely able to swim on my own. I shouldn’t even have been in the pool because they actually had rules that said that if they are using the large or extreme waves you have to be I think it was 13 or 15 to even be allowed in the pool. 12 for the medium waves and anyone if the waves were off.
The thing was that nobody actually cared. Not the people in the pool or the people that worked at this place. Even the lifeguards didn’t care. In fact a lot of the rules in that place where routinely broken and nobody cared at all! I’m actually shocked that they didn’t get shut down because of there complete lack of enforcement of the rules. I’m almost positive that someone has gotten seriously hurt there and if not it would be a miracle.
My parents were on the other side of the building. ( this place had like 4 pools and like 6 slides. It was like a big indoor water park ) so they didn’t even know what happened. I was always running around from pool to pool and going on each slide like 500 times so my parents decided that they would just sit by the ice cream/snack shop and wait for me there because trying to keep track of me was probably one of the hardest things that any human could ever accomplish.
I was safe in the end though and I soon forgot about it and enjoyed the water slides for probably the 125th time that day!
@@The_hot_blue_fire_guyman this story made my anxiety spike like crazy.
@@ananonymoushen4339 oh god……l
@@ananonymoushen4339they should have alarms or some type of warning when the waves are abt to start, I dip my head under water to hear the machine and it sounds really good js when the low pressure waves come in this metal slacking sound just ruins it all 🤦♂️
I was terrified of drains and wave machines in a pool..(I still am).
Me too. They are so eerie to be around and it creeps me out. I dont have submechanophobia and i calm around things underwater but any pool drains, jet lines, pool filters, i stray away from i hate them so much
Same here
im literally terrified of pool jets
@@nahnah8668 I love pool jets 😏
Your pfp looks we’ll bent so I ain’t surprised G
When I was little, I thought wave machines worked with pistons that put pressure on the water inside of the chamber.
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I need to make my iron farm. Know how to make a iron golem?
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@@adamshaikh8856 u mean that
Some does work like that, ones in my country are pneumatic wave machines which will pressurise the chambers to push the water out through the bars and release air to allow the water to flow in.
He is answering one of the top 20 questions humanity struggle to find the answer to , respect +
Hello, just a minor correction: It’s not a negative pressure vacuum conventionally that occurs in those air chambers, there are high powered centrifugal blowers normally three phase, the high pressure air is sent through to manifolds that contain valves, the valves are controlled by pneumatic cylinders, but keeping it simple, when the valves open and the air is allowed to rush into the space above those grates, a positive pressure is generated inside the space and pushes the water out the grates via communicating vessels phenomenon.
The water has a natural tendency to return back to it’s original place, but this is where the clever physics phenomenon occurs, the valves shut as the water flows up inside the air chamber, then momentum naturally pushes the water back out and the valves open up at that time, and amplify the wave momentum, making the.. waves.
It it like a siphon effect?
@@ToHimWeWillBeReturned Not quite. It uses resonance, just like pushing someone on a swing. First the air inlet valves open, blowing air above the water in the chambers, pushing the water out into the pool. Then the valves switch; the inlet closes and the exhaust opens, letting the water rush back into the chambers. Every time this happens, the water gets slightly higher as more energy is added into the system. You can see the machine room in action here: th-cam.com/video/TxOmU5FYzS0/w-d-xo.html Listen out for the pneumatic valves opening and closing.
As a kid i was terrified of the gates at the wave pool. I thought you could get your leg stuck in a machine.
Pretty positive those gates were the start of my submechanophobia...
Same
same. we used to dare each other to see who would stay underwater closest to the bars for the longest. i still dislike wave pools to this day as a result.
@@alexdunhill4271 At least you didn't try to go inside there. Kids used to remove bars in my old pool and swim inside them.
@@mrunixman1579 wtf 0_0
those bars in wave pools used to always freak me out as a kid I was always scared of getting too close to them incase I got sucked inside or something ..anyone else?
yep
@@speedz3420 😆👍
Even worse for me. Only having 2 meters blurred tunnel vision I can see the bars. All I can see is a huge black hole.
@@danielledewitt1 oh yikes! that sounds terrifying!
@@Sssssssslf I’m used to it now. I know there are bars there because of the amount of times I’ve stubbed my toe on them at the sandcastle water park in blackpool uk. I can’t judge how near my foot the chambers are. Oh and the dog is called Buddy and he’s a 9 year old west highland white terrier.
I always swam up the the floating barrier that "prevented" people from getting close but I was terrified I'd get sucked in or something.
The moment when the BIG wave came was always so awesome! everyone waiting in a normal talking voice, then everyone saw the red light or heard it starting and the sound of everybody in the pool starting to scream as the big wave began was so much fun.
That's actually a really good way to do it. I've only ever been almost sucked into one wave pool and it was one of those the ones with the two tubes at the bottom middle of the pool. And if you got sucked into those you'd be shot probably 15 into the engine room. Flung into a pitch-black room that will fill and sweep with water dragging you along.
That is terrifying
What?
@@MattH-wg7ou pressure wave pools have inlets either on the back middle or sides. It pumps water through pressure to a room behind the pools in a huge room that fills up and then pushes out. You can get trapped in that room, that's why they have to put an access and ladders and catwalk in them
My anxiety after reading this…….
literally my worst nightmare
Short, informative, to the point without a lot of fluff. Very good video.
Seeing as the only wave pool I'm really familiar with is the one at Typhoon Lagoon, the fact you can get THAT close to the wavemakers is insane to me. In Typhoon Lagoon's wave pool, you're not allowed to get within like TWENTY FEET of the wave machine at the back end of the pool.
Typhoon Lagoon has a fooking massive wave pool though compared to this. Scared the hell out of me when I went, no way was I going to the deep end.
It’s absolutely insane to think primitive man was able to build such massive ones to cause waves in every ocean on Earth. And even more crazy is that they’re usable still to this day.
Man’s ingenuity never ceases to amaze me.
Those Atlantians were something else
Same with the windmills that create the Earth's wind! Mindblowing
What surprises me more is how they built massive lava pools and shot the lava out of volcanoes, now they’re unstable and go off at random times
@@Isopod-my4wm One of life’s many mysteries, friend. 🤔
Surprised no one's mentioned dirt. Like, yeah, it's weird that we forgot how to make Damascus steel and Roman concrete, but who figured out how to make all the dirt that our planet is pretty much made out of? I bet the volcano designers were involved.
I used to hold onto those bars underwater while the wave pool was on and get sucked in and pushed out by the force of the water.
Wow !
Wasn't it kinda scary ?
And wasn't that part of the pool roped off ?
They usually do that at least nowadays but maybe not at every pool.
@@psirvent8 we have a wave pool too in our town and its not blocked by ropes. There is actually a pole at the end for people to hold onto. Its a normal thing there to dive down and grab the chamber bars. For us it wasnt scary at all since you get pushed away after being sucked in.
0:27 It's looks like an Underwater Prison/Jail.
Prisoners would drown
I actually once got to look at such a machine because i was interested and the manager of the pool aproved it. It was pretty cool, pretty huge machines and they where controlled by a plc and had loud pumps under the ground
You know, sometimes these random topics I am interested in and click on... they'll take 30 minutes to explain something this simple. Thanks for being concise. I'd give the video two thumbs up if I could.
its less vacuum pulling in the water, but rather air displacing the water from the chamber, the sudden release of the air then causes the water to push into the chamber. the beauty about those pneumatic wave machines is that there is pretty much very little suction from the wave machine. Usually, you have the fans sit in between chambers, and swinging back and forth between the chamber on the left and the right, creating a continuous, smooth wave with similar sizes.
Source: I work at a wave pool, though its about 40 years old and only has 3 chambers and 2 fans, with the difference that we also lower the entire pools water level before starting the waves by about 60 centimeters. its an impressive piece of tech and I highly recommend checking it out.
theres also a wave pool thats circular and has a bunch of "pushy thingies" around the edges. its used to test miniature replicas of boats. I'm also pretty sure the slow mo guys made a video about it
The most straight to the point video i have seen in a long time..thank you
That guy has balls of titanium! Wave chambers are most horrifying thing on this planet!!
I always thought that there are walls that move forwards and backwards. Thanks for explaining it to me 👍
Wow, this is actually really simple! I've always overthought this! Thanks!
Straight to the point. Thank you.
We always went under water and hold onto the grates when the waves came. The openings between the rails were about twice as narrow though
You were kinda lucky it wasn't roped off.
Oh so that’s how it works I used to think those were underwater dungeons
They are.
It’s the nights that are the hardest.
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@@sopwithhannah2401ilysm
Wave pools brings back terrifying and fun experiences HAHAH in my childhood . When i was 6 years old I thought i was going to get eaten by those grids if i got closer. 18 years old and still terrified if i i ever get to a wave pool
That looks like a sick wave pool! Especially with the rock wall.
I didn't know that was how they worked. That's so interesting!
Never been to wave pool b4. But this is awesome to know
Didn't know there are sea-like pools with waves. Awesome!
Really? They’re quite common in North America :)
@@sopwithhannah2401 Ooh, interesting. Thanks for letting me know
Careful which ones you go to though. Changing the water is expensive and time consuming, and most park visitors won't notice the difference at the time, so some places will literally just leave the same water in the wave pool all summer. Nobody notices during the day when the park is open and the wave machine is running, but the lifeguards sure notice the trash and layer of oil floating on the surface after they shut it off.
Not every place does that, but plenty do, and it's super easy for them to get away with since, as said, most guests won't notice at the time
@@michealdrake3421 Ooof. Thanks for educating us, that's nasty
Usually it's a fan a strong on at taht, behind that wall is a few strong fans taht go into the back part of the chamber where only air is, and there's a pipe with a little open close thing that when it's open, air passes through and out, when closed the air is forced to the water making a wave
Bro we really all the same out here 😂 I was and still am scared shitless of drains and like underwater things, thalasaphobia and submechanaphobia are present for me no doubt
Thanks for letting me know, since I’ve been to typhoon lagoon in Disney world (the waves are HUGE) I’ve wondered how they worked.
The question we all had, thank you
One of my first swimming experiences was in this kind of pool, I remember one time I was not prepared for the waves and we had had strawberries on pancakes for breakfast that morning. I threw up strawberries into the pool because of the wave machine. Great times, great times
Very cool, thank you!
This wave pool by my local pool had a small exit near the front and my grandma greeted me from there to ask me what I want to eat. I had to swim closer to her and was practically on the ladder, when she left I pushed myself off the ladder into the middle of the pool and it started sucking in, long before I knew I was dragged under water and laid flat with my back, evenly laid out, against the grate while water pushed me against it. I thought it was over and all of a sudden it flung me back into the middle of the pool. That was the last time I ever entered one atleast a decade ago.
Thanks for teaching me something I didn't really need to know but am glad I now do lmao
0:37 dream core
Suction Chambers, A ha' ok a blinding flash of the obvious. I first encountered one of these things over 60 years ago in Vienna, but until I watched this video I really just didn't know how the waves were made. Thank you for posting :)
There’s ton of conjecture about the physics of waves. Love it.
The wave pools all had height requirements where people who were too short were forced to wear a life jacket, i was way shorter than most people my age so there were literally 7 year olds who were allowed to go jacketless when i was 11 and still forced to wear a jacket and i felt that was a massive ass scam since age probably was a better determinant on swimming ability than height. So i would just go in with the life jacket and just take it off the moment i was in the middle of the pool, not like they'd notice. Call it reckless but i was a strong swimmer
That fact that we all typed “wave pool” on TH-cam in search in some form and we all found this video .
Luv it 🌊
Its so fun! I even drank like 1 gallon of water after drowning because the resort has too big waves on the kids section
Husum ... best wave swimming hall ever!
Hey, that's Pirbadet in Trondheim!
Never thought I'd get footage from that place in my TH-cam recommended
Nicely done
Bro is a legend for going next to that
Ive seen stickers on pool lockers where it says "if you hear a loud horn or whistle get out of the pool and lean on the walls. I think it has to something with wave malfunction or a flood. i do not know but i want to know what that means and what would happen to make the whistle/ horn go off. Is it wave malfunction or a flood or something else? There is waves but there is a bzeer not a hor or whistle. plus no one gets out of the pool when the waves coe on so what does the sticker mean??
There was a Waterpark I use too go too the wave pool had five settings throughout the operation the waves would keep getting bigger until you herd a siren then that’s when the biggest waves were made. This would go on all day every 15-20 minutes the waves would come on then after 5-10 minutes of gentle waves the big ones would come then it go back too no waves for 15-20 minutes
Oh I've always thought it was like a huge piston pushing the water like how we use our palms to push water
Sorry for replying to an old comment, but you are correct. There are different types of wave machines and one of them works similarly to your description.
Wake forest University had one of them chambers on the floor of the pool and when I looked down it scared the hell out of me😊
i thought it was large moving plates or something.. but no this does make a lot of sense and also explaines the mistery of siam park's wavepool that just makes one 2 meter tall wave every couple minutes or so.. just vacuum a lot and drop it all at the same time
Some wave machines blow air in what makes the water level lower and then when released the water preassure makes the water level go up and air is allowed back in and the air preassure makes the water go down
My local amusement park has a huge wave pool and a kid in my camp who was in my group (I went there with my camp) was in the deepest area now he is like 5 foot tall and the waves started and he almost drowned but a lifeguard jumped into the pool and got him, they made a 11 year old child sign a form and fill out a paper for him almost drowning!
Every single wave pool I’ve been to just uses a giant paddle to push the water
Well it worked like i would have made one to work. The fun being an inventor for stuff that was already invented decades ago.😮💨
I have never been in wave pool and I'm glad. That sucking machine and those chambers with bars scares the 💩 out of me.
1:14 bro in the top right corner just yeeted himself 😂
I’ve been terrified of wave machines since I can remember. I’m 37 now and I still can’t go near the under water bars.
Wow that explains why when i sit at the shallow end i cant crawl or shuffle well cause its pulling water in
I always fear to get close at that point 🤣🤣🤣
But it's looking safe 😜
Very informative thank u
Is that Pirbadet in Trondheim? I used to teach swimming there :) So random
Omg I would have been afraid to film this. Even though the pumps are not on I would be afraid that they forgot I was under there and turn them on. OMG Final destination scene.
do you ever get swimmers ear?
Awsome. I have long wondered. I have imagined all sorts of things. But the actual solution so simple and elegant. Thanks for the explanation!
I was close to the end of a wave pool once. I have a fear of them now
when i was a kid i thought the chambers was to keep monsters from coming out
At west Edmonton mall the just have massive pistons pushing the water
man I am jealous of that pool, it has a wavepool and rock climbing!
this is what I watch instead of going to sleep
Bro looks like the dude from the matrix if he wasnt the antagonist
were you at the pirbadet in trondheim?
bro looks like he's about to tell us women are his favourite guy
I just wanted to check a random video on how the wave pool works, but I'm surprised to find its my local pool in Trondheim, Norway. Pirbadet!
Nice! So... If, HYPOTHETICALLY speaking, I would find myself near such a control panel, that is unsupervised.... Could i make, megawaves?
The biggest wave you can get is that where you drop all at the same time, it wouldnt make it bigger by alternating cuz then you would have waves in different directions and not bigger waves
I can confirm, I've been at that exact pool
bro looks like agent smith with those googles
Those grates are terrifying though
In 2005, I got sucked underwater into one of these and nearly drowned. It was pretty awesome.
He had agent smith vibes under the water 😂
thanks for sharing man
Did anyone used to do this in the bath? I used to grab onto the sides, pull myself forward to push all the water, and then slide back to be hit with a giant wave
I remember going in the largest wave pool in South Carolina
The one at Swindon.. if you've been there you know.
Yeah. You couldn’t pay me to swim anywhere near those grates in the back of the wave pool
It´s so sad in public pools they only choose a medium setting.
No, I want to see what it does on full power once. Set the power to maximum, release all chambers at the same time and get the mop ready.
I’ve never been in a wave pool, I don’t think we have any in Australia 😅
Cue childhood pool drain nightmares, only on a much larger scale…
Definitely thought it was some sort of flat thing that pushed back and forth to creat the wave.
I work at a waterpark,and it gets HOT in the pump room while the wave pool is active.
It's like a freaking sauna,plus it's loud too so hearing protection is needed.
If anyone's curious as to how it sounds,think of whale songs.
as a kid i always wondered how wave machines work
I can't belive I recognize this pool. This is pirbadet in Trondheim lol
where is this?