Massive, dangerous waves are hitting California. Here’s why

[Tall Timbers]

sanity

Sanity eludes most of them. The ones I grew up with were drugged up much of the time. I doubt much has changed on the SoCal beaches.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Yeahi love watching the big wave surf documentaries, the fitness or lung capacity to hold your breath when you get wiped out is crazy

Air expands in your lungs when you're under water so it seems to last a little longer...

 

[spartan sprinter]

I grew up body surfing at Huntington Beach in So Cal. Loved it, but knew my limits. There were several times I got dumped in what felt like a giant washing machine, and felt like I was under for several minutes but in reality, probably 5-10 seconds on little waves

Lol yep.there were plenty of moments i"ve had in there where sometines God gives you a humble reminder of his power

 

[Tall Timbers]

My surfing beach was Silver Strand, or the Strand. It was tucked behind the Seabee base.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Salt water's for SCUBA

I never surfed or body surfed in in salt water. However, fall-winter waves in the Great Lakes can be fun. The first dunking is always a little shock, so best to get completely wet before heading out. And need to stay wet so ice doesn't form in the wind, or at least not too much of it. Most wore wetsuits, but some of us found them too warm and/or confining, but we had to keep moving. Bikinis not a good choice

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Air expands in your lungs when you're under water so it seems to last a little longer...

Air expands as one comes up from depth, so must continually exhale as rising from any significant depth. Boyle's Law.
SCUBA divers never hold breath. It can be fatal. We never ended up too deep getting dumped in the Great Lakes, but sometimes it seemed like "forever" getting back to the surface.

 

[Tall Timbers]

SCUBA divers never hold breath.

I'm scuba certified, though I'm pretty sure my diving days are behind me.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I'm scuba certified, though I'm pretty sure my diving days are behind me.

Me too. afib
Although I could teach the classroom, equipment, maintenance, and pool portions of some certification classes.

 

[Andy C]

There are some great short videos on you tube showing some of the huge waves, and the select few brave ones who have come from around the world to surf them.

 

[Andy C]

Me too. afib
Although I could teach the classroom, equipment, maintenance, and pool portions of some certification classes.

I had several opportunities to get certified, but it never seemed appealing enough for me. Its almost a regret now that I didn't, but then again, I didnt even snorkel once on the 4 tours I did in Okinawa.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I had several opportunities to get certified, but it never seemed appealing enough for me. Its almost a regret now that I didn't, but then again, I didnt even snorkel once on the 4 tours I did in Okinawa.

I both Scuba'd and snorkeled on Okinawa, probably over a hundred times. The coral reefs were just below the surface and quite fascinating. Purchase all my Scuba gear on Okinawa back when the dollar was strong against the yen. I think I still have a punch card for tank fills for one of the MWR fill stations on the island. We crewdogs had a fleet of 3-4 old cars that we paid into each time we deployed there and could use them whenever we wanted. They were rust buckets but got us to wherever we wanted to go.

 

[Andy C]

I both Scuba'd and snorkeled on Okinawa, probably over a hundred times. The coral reefs were just below the surface and quite fascinating. Purchase all my Scuba gear on Okinawa back when the dollar was strong against the yen. I think I still have a punch card for tank fills for one of the MWR fill stations on the island. We crewdogs had a fleet of 3-4 old cars that we paid into each time we deployed there and could use them whenever we wanted. They were rust buckets but got us to wherever we wanted to go.

You would think I would be interested having spent most of my summer days as a kid on the beach, and over 9 years in Okinawa, but it never interested me enough. Most of my friends snorkled, but I was more interested in things above the water….

Rust bucket cars with plenty of duct tape was the norm for service members on Okinawa.

 

[3Nails4Given]

We were supposed to dive on our recent trip to Roatán but the seas were too rough on the windward side, we did snorkel on the leeward side. I was a little disappointed with the reef appearing bleached out. Of course on the boat ride back in we got the global warming speech as to the cause of the reef bleaching.

At least in Florida where the reefs are dying most of it is blamed on nitrogen released from fertilizers and septic system runoff.