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The concentric wave singularity is one of the many awesome waves artificially reproduced by the FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility in Edinburgh, Scotland [video: bit.ly/1Nn5GdO]

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8:00 AM · May 20, 2022

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This video "isn't available anymore". Here's another one:

90 ft. Vertical Spike Wave in Slow Mo

Gav and Dan go to an ocean simulator to film a wave that does not occur anywhere in nature in glorious 4K slow motion. Do we hit Dan in the face with it? Wat...

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I wonder if this ever occurs due to downdrafts or other phenomenon on the ocean, and what it might do to a ship caught in it.

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You can replicate that with lilos in an above ground pool

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The same physics as a black hole jet….?

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Thanks for posting this. It's like a phenomenon I put into one of my books. Now, at least I have a technical label to play around with, next time around. 😉