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- Is surfing a tsunami even possible? And have people done this before? Thanks, Audible! Start listening with a 30-day trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals are free when you go to audible.com/whatif or text whatif to 500-500
The biggest wave that someone has surfed on was 24.4 meters tall (80 feet). It happened in November of 2018. Tsunamis can be around this height but for our purposes let's go a little bigger and say ours is 30 meters tall (100 feet). But if you want to surf on a tsunami - and we don’t recommend you do it - you’ll most likely have to travel to Japan or the Philippines.
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reversed question: what if a tsunami tried to surf me?
*Uno reverse and i oop-*
😂😂
@@jaehyuns1719 sksksksksksksk
Well that's the point my guy
Whoa
Imagine surfing the top of a Tsunami while its destroying a city, Its like a front row seat of the chaos.
tkn lmao
lol
Hahahhaa
A tsunami aint that High its only like 9 feet
Manne 43 is this considered an appropriate r/woosh moment?
“It can completely destroy cities,and kills tens of thousands of people!” 😃the narrator sounds real happy
I never see a tsunami and Miss again
@ShayAstrxxd_ that doesnt make sense
I ain't ever seen two pretty best friends
Yes lol
yeah
Florida man: * surfs a tsunami *
Tsunami: *so you have chosen wet death*
Lol im in florida
Lol everyone run and sreaming me yaaaa i am suffing a tsunami.I will love to suff one
@@awa167. Theres a hurricane called hurricane ian
Imagine being in a boat minding ya business then u see a small wave passing ya boat but don’t take it on then when u get back to shore everybody dead
I don't know what to say
damn..
Its happened
Well tbh I don't think the shore would exist......just saying
@@sckym2797 the sand could be a makeshift shore
People: *throw trash in ocean*
Ocean:
Uno reverse card
XD
Xd
XD
😂
xD 1
Most people: run away from Tsunami
Surfers: ALRIGHT, SURFS UP DUDES!
Tsunami: I'll destroy this man's whole career
Human: Weeeeeeeeeee
Lmao
Tsunami: Get me your manager.
Black hole :shut i can kill all lf you
Florida man : *_are you challenging me?_*
Don't give him ideas
LOL
LMFAO
LOL
my florida man is a guy who slaps his girlfriend with a burrito
Next video: what if u fly across a tornado?
Next idea-What IF sunlight disappeared??
Zaid Tanim then we would go into an ice age and die probably
Thomas Turnipples69 You, sir, have a great name! Just thought I say it!
@@zaidtanim4163 they already did that one. Or was it unveiled 🤔
@@zaidtanim4163 we will still see it for four years(i think, thats what someone just ones tell me), and after that. We will die, cuz it is too cold.
Tsunami: *destroys a city*
*happy surf music plays in the background*
"If you do want to surf on a tsunami, you'll most likely have to travel to Japan or to the Philippines."
*Me and my anxiety chillin' here in the Philippines:* 👀👀
I LIVE IN PHILIPHINES
@Eilrach ye but when it happens it is catastrophic
*palawan sweating intensifies*
I live in Missouri so I’m safe but I’m terrified of tsunamis and I’m gonna move to Israel or Italy or any Asian country (it’s because of my race that I might move to any of those countries)
oof
Why do you always answer questions I didn’t know that I wanted to know
Serena Fornaro 😂😂😂😂 so true
LMAO
Why did you click on the video if you didn’t want to learn it?
serennn alphagetti BRUHHHH IM DEAD YOU SLOW ASF
RAY ROMANICK I’m the 2000 like
*A tsunami is approaching*
Normal people:🏃♂️🏃🏃♀️🌊
Crackheads in Florida: 🏄♀️🏄🏄♂️
Mango the parrot 😂
I’m done 🤣🤣
As a Floridian, I can confirm, some dumbass there would definitely try 😂
i live in florida so i'll claim being a crackhead
Crackheads though? Lmao
0:04 “London bridge s falling down falling down falling down, London is falling down my fair lady.” XD
"Its not just big. Its HUGE"
That is what she said.😂
ew
@@lightvoid7089 it says trans tale and it changes to that one when I click it bahahaa
Let's be honest, we all know what's gonna happen in 98% of What If's videos 😌
Let me guess: You die?
Lol death
You died
Respawn Main menu
They're running our of ideas. They're just making hypothetical videos very far from reality and it's so unrelatable.
We all know the outcome, but how about the process?
"What if" channel explains to us the process.
honestly when i was 8 i said to my friend “if a tsunami comes just go into the wave and come out the other side, duh”
Well, in your defense, I like that optimism
i said that to my friend last year... and im 18. yikes
I'm 13 I and I thought you could just swim into it and float... Lol
I said the exact same thing when I was 18
gacha daddy would u be able to take a jet ski over the back of it and go out into the ocean tho? Cuz I don’t feel like anything in this video proved u can’t
Ocean:You gave me a lot of trash so I wanted to be nice and give it back to you.
People in planes looking out the window when there is a tsunami that destroys everything
😐
thats what i am thinking for the people who is riding an aircraft while tsunami is ruining the city
its like we were on land waching a plane crash
Lucky for them, ig
Aquaman: Hold my beer, seriously hold it
lol
Stranger: Oh! Right!... (grabs beer) sorry Aquaman!
HOLD IT!
I NEED TO SCRATCH MYSELF
Hold my Apple juice to!!
just kidding, give me back
*Includes Paid Promotion*
Me: _yep defo sponsored by the government to train us for when this happens tomorrow_ 😂😂
Inspired by real life lore😜😹😹
not true. government won't want us to survive.
Right...
There is gonna be tsunami tommorow?
Where?
Can i join?
RedGaming Studio the company pays the creator money to promote their product
Me: *See the video*
“You must travel to Japan-"
Me: *Closed iPad and travels durning Corona*
*5 days later*
Tsunami: Hope ya like this
Me: *Surfs the tsunami*
Me 1 hour later: hm what happened here? I only went surfing for a hour-
I love your videos, I'm not lying but the transition is so smooth, it's so fantastic that when I watch all of your videos, it's so beautiful, Thank You "WHAT IF"
*Love From Philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇭*
I have cymophobia (fear of waves) and my anxiety went “📈” really quickly😬
Evie N me too i cant swim and if i ever see a tiny wave in the ocean it will give me the chills imagining a gigantic tsunami
You can spot a tsunami as the beach shows more sand where the waves fall back to an strange distance from land I think it's true
Solaire of Astora even then I doubt anyone would have enough time to outrun the tsunami wave. I live in groton ct which has only small houses and small stores. I live on the east coast and I would have no where to go thats scary asf.
DUDE SAME I THOUGHT I WAS A STUPID PUSSY BUT THERE IS OTHER PEOPLE!,
Evie N me too
"Yo lets go catch a tsunami bro"
yeah i can definitely see that
😂
Please sub to my channel god bless you
Hell yeah bro!
Its gonna sick bro
"GnARly DUde" 😂🤙🏽
florida man
1:25 “you most likely have to travel to the philipines or japan” Me...... also me: O_O we have visitors?
How this guy includes the sponsors in the videos is really fantastic!
Next video, what if you cook barbecue using the volcano during its eruption
Gaming Couch Potato bet their down for the challenge 😂
Oh yuuuz!!!
Gaming Couch Potato I SUPPORT THIS
Kris.P do I have the rights to wooosh you, well stuff it I’m gonna do it
r/woooosh
This kid duhh 🤣
Imagine how the fish will be feeling when riding a tsunami
LMAOOO
Now I want to be a fish 😭😏
I would like to imagine it'll be like Nemo and Crush on the E.A.C dooooood
Hooo
@@avaaaaa7 same 😭
“As it gets closer, you can see, it’s not just big, it’s huge”
Did he realise what he was saying or not
I don't get it, what's the joke
@@abigailmarshall5302 hint: Dirty
@@hpr_amin9713 hUSH OMG
Me: *lives on philippines*
Also me: ring of fire
Also also me: ok so am i in danger?
I have no idea how can you live in the Philippines not knowing you're always in danger of earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and typhoons. That's like primary school stuff.
3020: What if you could drink a tsunami?
🤔🤔🤭
He gon be dead tho
Won't be able to finish on time
@@jamesrolle9107 yeah
U can, but only ones
In a tsunami my goldfish will star flexing on me after all the times I took him out his bowl
we don’t recommend surfing in a tsunami!
me: ya don’t say
this was a great video! I'm so glad to have found this channel! What IF I was scuba diving and a tectonic plate shift occurred right next to me?
You'll be fucked🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can we just talk about how smooth that sponsor transition was
RIP XXXTENTACION
My video didn't finish loading :(
What do mean I didnt hear it
I thought is a qs just him talking about listening to books
440 ill make it 441
vowov (4:54)
My stupid friend said
If a tsunami comes,
*_SWIM_*
That’s not stupid Tbh .
Lmao I said that
True friends right there LMAO
Egg Magic PuT oN a LiFe jAcKEt!
Hahaha
How to survive natural disasters:
Be the camera man🤣
“You’ll most likely have to travel to japan or the philippines this is because they are located in the ring of fire”
Japanese & Filipino: *Nervously laughs*
Humans: Throwing trash in the ocean
Tsunami: Right back at ya bud
Copies comment lol
@@jaylenjayden9305 shut up
@@himawariuzumaki2643 it’s true kid grow up
@@jaylenjayden9305 every comment is stolen. Even this one
@@jaylenjayden9305 dear god stop with these "copied comments" smh grow up this is the internet wtf do u expect
The guy: It can completely destroy cities and kill thousands of people
*happy music plays in the background*
Lmao
LMFAO
Lmao 😂 😂 😂
Lmao😂😂😂
Says in the happiest voice known to man lol
I love the What If Channel. Great explanations. 🤓
0:31 “It’s not big it’s huge it’s a tsunami we’re going to surf it” okay keep it pg plz lol
What if humans lay eggs?
This is someone else's but it needs the attention
😂
Please sub to my channel god bless you
@Dio Brando lol dio
@@PerrySavage all you're doing is copying this channel. Piss off
Luca Bernstein
Well eat your eggs kids
Tsunamis are my worst fear because you can’t escape it pretty much
Yeah it's pretty much certain death
You don't need to be the word, "like" in your sentence.
DIO lmao agreed it was unnecessary
DIO lmao this is TH-cam not school
Imagine yourself on an airplane
Lovely, gonna try it during vacations🤞🏼
Tsunami: Unstoppable
Flordia man: "Its show time"
Nobody:
My brain cells at 3 am: *what if we surf a tsunami*
CoZy DeMoN 😂😂
tell me why it’s 3😂
Hahaha same
229 for me lol
Lol 3:09
the best way to survive
𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻
You have 300IQ
Lol
Bahahaha
You have a bigger brain then Albert Einstein
Darn i cant see the writing im android :(
I like how almost every single clip in this video is staggeringly unrealistic.
It’s ridiculously cartoonish. Most of these “tsunamis” are taken from movies, which dramatize the tsunami as if it were the flood in Genesis.
0:27 POV: you're in Arendelle and Elsa is about to freeze a wave
After Human Extinction!
"What If Humans Come Back"
Dr stone
we actually might come back
then we will somehow manage to destroy the planet again.
Humans to Earth : " You could not live with your own failure where did that bring you back to me "
What if humans actually helped the earth
*Surfs in a tsunami*
Death: aM I jOKe tO yoU?
👍✊✊✊✊✊✊✊🏄🏄🏄🏄🏄
🏄✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊🏄🏄✊✊✊✊✊✊✊🏄✊✊✊✊✊✊✊🏄✊✊✊✊✊🏄✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊🏄
the beginning is peaceful music on tsunamis and i love it
I love how you faded into the commercial by using a book of the same subject. Smooth
"Tsunami waves don't break"
*Shows several scenes of tsunamis breaking*
Those are movies not irl
Neda P but still
What if : *Uses meters and kilometers per hour*
Me an American: I no understand speak bald eagle
BayaYaga 99 yeah, imperial system is just ass
The guy said "300 meter tsunami" and I was like no hablo mexican
300 Meters - 1,000 Feet
800 Kilometers - 500 miles
____________________________
A Meter is 3 feet
A Kilometer is 3000 Feet
Hope this helps
@@honeyandclay So 3000 donuts
The precise number is 2978 chocolate eclairs, kind sir
People during a tsunami:PLEASE NOOOOO IM TOOOO YOUNG!!!!!!!!!
the tsunami:I am speed!
Was thinking about natural disasters cause of the Harris County tornado in my area.. then this popped up in my mind, thanks for the info!
“It’s big, it’s huge”
Me trying not to laugh:
MoTo MoTo
@Gaming cu Daniel you're too innocent
Oop-
Data Gaming that’s what she said 🌚
😏
If you surfed on a tsunami you're basically asking life for a DEATH WARRANT at that point.
Me:satisfied
Also me:can't surf
Mom:I'll give you lessons
Me:knows this is revenge
How to survive a tsunami
Be in the sky on a plane or helicopter
But what if the whole world is taking over by the tsunami you can't land anuwhere with your plane your fuel wil be low and you Will Go down 😐
@@subswithoutavideo-pt3tz parachute
could u imagine going in a helicopter with ur husband for ur honey moon and watching everyone die below u.
Be the cameraman. You become immortal
How to survive is be in the midle of the sea.. The wave is way smaller than the wave way to land
Surfing champ: I can surf any wave
Tsunami: I’m about to end this mans career
TheBeast 1221 *life
Normie
Hahahaha that’s so funny 🙄😒
Myan...thats funny AF...
And also his life....
I love The Wave/Bølgen!! Fun to see clips here :-D
the tsunami: DIE! the man: best day ever while surfing the tsunami
Me: *laughs in Colorado* EDIT: I LIVE IN HAWAII IM NOT JOKING I LIVE IN FEAR
Moses hahahhaha vacation or anything like that nope?
I live in Colorado
lol
Moses I’m in Colorado rn 🤫
Sams
Me: *shows my mom*
My mom: ItZ bEcAuSe oF ThAt gOd dAmN phOnE
XD
Mums these days😂😂
Unoriginal
FckinFruit I know right
XD
"It's big. It's huge!"
That's what she said!
This is genuinely scary, I'd die of heart attack long before the tsunami reaches the shore
Why would someone surf a tsunami?
OH! I forgot this is What IF
Im now paranoid cost im in the phillipines
@@ykkynmrnki1424 ako rin hahah katakot
Because itd HOT
It's not a "what if," because people are stupid enough to try it. Ever hear of the "Hurricane Party"? Supposedly, it's an urban legend; but I'm inclined to believe there is some truth to that.
No one:
My TH-cam recommendation: what if you surfed a tsunami?
*tsunami occurs**
aussies: good weather to surf 🤟
Tsunami: I fear no man..but that *-THING-*
Surfer: 👁👄👁hie how are ya
Tsunami: The T is silent
Honest: The H is silent
Island: The S is silent
Queue: The ueue is silent
My Jokes: Everyone is silent
....
laughs
I'm just gonna stand here looking everywhere until someone breaks the silence and changes the subject
@@smirkfanta5535 so area 51 .....?
actually, a Q has no sound to it unless it’s put with other letters...so BASICAALLY the Q is silent and the eueu is the part that’s making sound
People in a movie when a tsunami is near they:
*standing there and watching*
Exactly
Dude what else can you do?
*_them_*
@@strir that would be cool if some one could actually do that
Honestly I would just accept my fate by that point
The reality of what this wave is like is seen at 0:21 - 0:32. It is not like a regular breaking wave with a face/wall to it you can get a surfboard on. It it very high, chaotic floodwater with tremendous force behind it. Add to that the huge amounts of debris it is carrying (i.e. trees, cars, houses, buildings, etc) which the wave uses to sledgehammer anything in its path and you truly have a terrifying uncontrollable force of nature.
Bill and Ted - "is surfing a tsunami even possible?"
What If - "Hold my beer"
The replies don't make sense
what is vegito doing here
Not winning another god fight
Just playing lol
Isn't tsunami a woman 😂😂
ants 😡🐜
The ants 😡🐜
2:50
The kid : the huge wave of water is going to hit me
Also the kid : gotta get in the pool
Victoria Hernandez that’s not his brother that’s him
@Ariana-Lavainne Wehi-Hemara the tsunami would condense the water , you'll still die
@Ariana-Lavainne Wehi-Hemara he can't get out
That seems like a good idea. It'll roll over quickly and then roll back out quickly (hopefully).
I’m dying 😂😂😂💀
Imagine your in the back of the tsunami and your just chilling and the city is in chaos that would be pretty cool l not gonna lie
That's the smoothest transition to a Sponsor ever
3:26 try to find a video about tsunamis that doesn’t include this scene
alie 05
‘How Big Do Tsunamis Get?’ by Real Life Lore.
Ikr
where is this scene from?
@@aribu3551 I think its from a movie. Haeundae I guess
ZARA BOON it depends on the geography and topography of the land and how the tsunami originated
They come uo with some weird shower thought idea🤦🏾♀️😂😂😂
Im convinced they smoke some weed b4.....these are the type of thoughts you have when your high
@Games and what if and more goat Stfu
Any shower thoughts to share? :)
@@WhatIfScienceShow What if we were orbiting a black hole?
What if we could go to the past?
What if dinosaurs weren't extincted?
What if earth was actually flat?
What if kids and adults switched places for a day?
@@WhatIfScienceShow What if human know their dead time specifically
Have people ever done this before?
Me: Well I mean their ghosts can't tell us soooo
Love your videos
This is how many people are scared of tsunamis 🌊
👇🏿
Victoria Gonzalez oly 25?
I’m afraid of tsunamis but not volcanos or earthquakes
I'm super scared of tsunami
I hate tsunamis they are so big and scary plus I’ve never seen a tsunami in real life!
I dont like tsunami they are so big and scary i dont know how to swim 😩😩
What if: The tsunami destroys property and lives.
Me: who the heck builds cities at coastal areas when tsunami are frequent
finally this dude answering my questions
Lmao we don't experience tsunamis here in the Philippines
Nec minute
not yet
well there are lots of volcanoes so
Jinx
Well we do experience different from tsunamis.....
Storm Surge...
We don’t necessarily get tsunamis in Australia. Am I still scared because I love thirty meters from the beach?
Thanks, TH-cam recommendations
Now you have much worse tho :/
MiraculousHeathers AnD PeGgY
I’m only 1 km away from the sea and I live in Philippines
MiraculousHeathers AnD PeGgY same tho lol
Had nightmares after this video
You're still fucked, you live in spiderland
Awesome 🌊 🌊 Video!
Who would've thought that a channel named after my worst anxiety inducing question would make me watch all of their videos in quarantine
Tsunami: I fear no man, but that *thing*
Surfer:
Tsunami: It scares me...
That’s one of the any reasons why being a bird is better
I wanna know where you get these school of questions.
a slightly safer option: st maartin, an island in the caribbean, is known for having an airport right behind the beach. the wind caused by the incoming planes makes massive waves (like 10+ feet tall)
What if all vehicles on this earth vanished for a day?
Food supplies would be fucked
WOO NO TRAFFIC YEAAAAHHHHH
@@appleoftheground people can plant their own food, people will get used to not going to shops.
@@randomaccount228 Bold of you to assume people in cities have enough space for that
HZY.T Lovely it would matter if u don’t t have a car 😂
Actually first. Don’t play me
Kevin DurSNAKE Same wow
I’m going to say the n word
I meant worm
🍪
@@deletedunknown955 😂😂😂