Lighthouses vs Huge Waves

Craig · #1 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 09:40 AM

YouTube - TempÃªte sur la pointe de Bretagne

holy shit... check out 1:18 - 1:45 or so... amazing stuff. people are actually in those things too!

dcikra · #2 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 09:43 AM

That's where that one quite popular photo comes from Craig.

edit: this..

VincentVega · #3 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 09:44 AM

wow very cool

joe · #4 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 09:51 AM

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FuzzyLogik · #5 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 09:57 AM

pretty crazy. stuff has to be built very very well!

DennyCrane · #6 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 10:00 AM

That was way cool.
Reminded me of 2012

YouTube - 2012 Trailer #1 (2009)

And, of course, in before Al Gore.

iDCi · #7 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 10:07 AM

yeah thoose things are built fucking good =P, nice vid

Tao · #8 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 10:28 AM

I can't help but think there must be a low season where the seas aren't so rough. That would be the only time a crew could build the foundation and the rest of the structure to these houses.

DennyCrane · #9 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 10:37 AM

The blurb at the beginning said 1997... there were a lot of storms that year if I remember right.

VincentVega · #10 (**permalink**) 01-28-2009, 10:41 AM

this stuff is clearly durring hurricanes or hurricane force winds, the very opposite of calm seas.

I don't claim to be an oceanographer, but I believe most of what you see hitting them is sea foam. And I believe the reason it looks like it's hitting so hard is because of the 100+ MPH winds that carries the foam beyond the structure. Hell yes there's a lot of impact there, but not anything like a giant wall of water slamming into them at 40mph. At the bases, sure, but when you get towards the tops I think it's mostly aerated