Sneaker wave on Oregon coast, October 11, 2014
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- The National Weather Service had issued a "High Surf" warning for waves around 18' along the beaches of the Oregon coast for Saturday so I decided to go and shoot some video and pictures. The NWS also mentioned the possibility of 'Sneaker Waves'. I got a little too close for comfort to one of them. For best quality, click on the second icon "Settings" and select 720p and then click on the third icon to select 'Theater Mode' for a larger view.
Had one take me and a buddy out a ways. He started to cry and I started to laugh. Reflex for me. I told him to be calm and swim diagonally. Took 1/2 mile (that's a LONG SWIM!) But we got to shore. Scared me good. He asked that I don't tell anyone about him crying. I kept my word but back at camp we were DONE. I took a 1 hour shower (haha I went to sleep on a bench I pulled into the hot shower) went back and slept without eating. The parents knew something was up and they asked but I told them it was a long hike. Wiped out. It was fortunate we were both very athletic doing Triathlons and things of that nature otherwise I'd not be here writing this.
Respect the ocean 🌊.
@@Grateful2Exist iirc, it's because of the rip tides that are often accompanying sneakers. Rip tides are strong undercurrents that drag you out further, and because they're so strong, trying to seim against them will tire you out and kill you. Likewise, swimming with them will only drag you out further. Instead, you swim along the shore line until you're out of the rip, and then it's safe to head to shore.
When I was four years old we were at the beach in San Francisco. I was hit by a "sneaker wave" from behind. I just remember everything getting dark and all this sand swirling around and stuff. Then a hand snatched me up from behind. It was my dad. After making sure I was okay, he said to me, "I thought I told you never to turn your back on the ocean!" After that I heeded his warning.
Exact same thing happened to me up North except that I got sucked out and my dad swam out to save me. I was 7 or 8 years old. Never turned my back on the ocean again.
Took an oceanography class decades ago in Junior College.The instructor explained to us that there could be 2 different storm fronts pushing waves toward the same beach at the same time. Most of the time these waves are at different cycles or wavelenghts but every so often, these waves will coincide. When this happens. the waves will add up and be twice as big. This is where the random sneaker waves come from. He said sometimes you can even count them and you can get the number that they will coincide.
On the East Coast Ive always referred to that phenomenon as "constructive wave formation" and it can temporarily get you. Ive been in them here in Florida. Hold your breath for 30 seconds or so and then proceed as normal.
sneaker waves roll logs and regularly kill or severely injure people on the Oregon Coast, Yet, you see people sitting and standing on logs. doesn't matter how far up the beach they are, they got there by the surf depositing them
Excellent point.
Sometimes my friends and I carry logs and place them way higher than the waves could ...just for shits and giggles and to make people think the water put them there.
@@seanconnell622 moving a water logged log is a big job lol
@@saireygamp62 It was, probably 60 of us in total, we considered it training for our rugby. New Zealand arent the best for nothing. Now if you'll excuse me there a massive boulder that looks like it would take a 45 ton excavator to meet it., see if I can round up the boys.....time to give that rock some freedom.....
@@seanconnell622 figured you would need an exceptional team lol,
I got washed out to sea by a sneaker like this one, pretty close to this very spot about 1959; i was 6 years old and my folks weren't paying attention to their 5 kids running wild on the beach like they should have been. Fortunately, my dad was able to retrieve me from the water. To this day I remember be spun around by the water.
Never, ever turn your back to the sea.
Not even for a split second?
@@w.s8676 'Split seconds' become progressively longer.
If you don't get his drift, you never will .. even for a split second.
@@thomasmusso1147 what if you do turn your back on the ocean and nothing happens should you feel guilty?
@@w.s8676 yes not even for a split second, because you never know when mother nature will strike.
@@w.s8676 yes because showing a lack of respect for mother nature can be deadly
Thank you for the video. I grew up on the east coast, and my dad loved nature. I remember sitting in the car and watching the ocean during storms. It was beautiful and frightening.
This may have been a tiny sneaker wave, but when I was little my grandma, cousins and I had to outrun one and barely made it. My cousins pulled me up on top of a dune (when those were still around) but my grandma ended up pinned against the dune by the wave. We watched in horror as it got higher and higher but luckily it only went to her chest then stopped. Still very lucky it didn’t pull her back out though. My cousins and I easily would have been underwater and fighting a current with that wave. Sneaker waves aren’t a joke. Never turn your back to the ocean.
You don't fight a current! You swim diagonally with it in the direction you want to go. This is why people drown. They swim against it instead of with it. Its seawater. Very buoyant. If you get tired you float on your back. If you can't tread water for 30 minutes effortlessly you have no business swimming in an ocean. Currents can take you places and you have to go with the flow until you can calmly swim back in.
@@bequieter1103 - I don't think you can survive 30 minutes in the water off the Oregon coast ... very cold, hypothermia sets in quickly ...
I always have to get on my friends from the mid west when we go to the beach. they are forever trying to turn their backs to the waves.
@@bequieter1103 different story when your taken by surprise wearing clothes heavy boots etc ....lots of people panic
@@wawabbit Very sorry to hear that, may he rest in peace...
I've had the privilege of going for a few morning runs on an Oregon beach around Waldport. It was magical. And as I looked at the churning waves in the distance, i immediately realized that you do not turn your back on that monster
WOW! Didn't realize those existed!
The clue was that suddenly dry patch of beach.
If you ever see that RUN!
@@Grateful2Exist 😄😄 Yes that is pretty much the purpose of a beach.
Serious point though. If you know the beach in question and the water is unusually far out, thats an indicator of an oncoming tsunami.
Some of the most beautiful country on earth, a piece of heaven.
Too bad the politicians make it a terrible place to live and own a business.
@@peanutoreo8052 Democrats are succeeding in making this a third world country.
Portland... mmmmm...
@@jmb1666 Sure, "democrats". Meanwhile it's Trump and the Republicans lying about the pandemic and contributing to 600,000+ deaths, constantly lying about election fraud and inciting an attempt to overthrow the government, imposing unnecessary and unjustified barriers to voting to make it more likely they win, trying to encourage coal-fired power plants (which kill FAR more people than nuclear per power produced even including nuclear accidents), trying to dismantle the EPA, using fearmongering xenophobia to divide the country and build their power, sabotaging the post office, undermining the FCC, stealing supreme court nominations, undermining truth itself... But it's the democrats' fault, sure.
@@JM-bg2leha ha ha
"Hey honey, have you seen my wallet?"
Sneaker Wave: ...
They take on tsunami-like characteristics when all of the water is moving toward the beach.
As small children we were taught never to turn our backs on the ocean, unless you were digging for clams of course. Mt dad also taught us to count the the waves. Usually the 7th one is bigger than the rest.
the waves understand not to pick on you if you're digging for clams
There was a 6.1 earthquake earlier in the day in Japan the same day Oct 11 2014, which may have contributed to this particular wave
If you look closely, there are two small waves going sideways across the beach. This was from a earthquake for sure.
My father, sisters and I were out with our uncle, fishing for salmon and ling cod outside the Rogue River bar when the swells went from 6 feet to 25 feet. It was not gradual and it worried the adults quite a bit. Getting back into Gold Beach was interesting and I would imagine that the effect on the beaches north and south of the river was dramatic. The ocean is not tame and people who don't pay attention when they are on the shore or out on a boat or ship can get into trouble easily.
One thing I remember swimming in the Pacific Ocean beaches is sometimes you get these type of waves that appear to look like they are safely a far enough distance from you then they hit you like you are 20 feet in the water from the beach. It is a frightening occurrence. The only other time I experienced this danger was swimming in a Lake Michigan beach near a rip current. You can be the best swimmer in the world and still drown in these type of waves and rip currents. They move faster than world record swimmer Michael Phelps. You don't fuck around with these type of waves and currents.
Oregon looks beautiful,,,
Spent many hours there many times.
Never been swamped, but always watchful.
Great post. It shows what a sneaker wave really is. I describe them as more of sudden surge vs wave.
Darryl Bonds : what a dork
Yeah. It's reminiscent of a tsunami coming in with the way that it just inundates the entire beach.
Wow, I’m a ga boy and I’m just now finding out about sneaker waves.. they are not a joke at all!
Glad u got that on video as an Educational to Parents to Always keep an Eye on their Children, I rescued a boy swept out to sea as a result of such a freaky thing as this near Melbourne, Australia. EVERYONE PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO TREAD WATER once swept away by a Rip or River, it will exhaust you, PLEASE just lay on your back&float.
love talking about yourself dont you
Thanks for reminding me the beach is not a friendly playground all the time
Beautiful area. Hello from England!
Hello from Oregon. Thanks. Oregon does have a stunning coast and the Coast Range mountains are astounding.
That was cool. Thanks
Sunset beach been their many times in my past. I lived in a small country town . Allegra you about 20 miles from coos bay. I actually was baptized many years ago in the 70’s at this beach.
The ocean is one of the scariest things on earth.
I heard about these during a family holiday at Tofino, Vancouver Island, in the 1990s. I also heard that people have been taken by surprise and drowned. Then I heard that this had happened to an individual the week after we were there.
I live on the Oregon coast. If you come to see our beautiful coast , WATCH YOU ASS!!!
The fires out here when COVID started were like: “TOURISTS, GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE BCS COVID!” XD
I got hit by a sneaker wave while surf fishing.' NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE OCEAN!"
Thomas Tamir true that. I remember well, many years ago, when I was with my cousin in a beach that has no bussines with waves. At all. Yet we took our body boards, which ever JSU recons its very dumb and pointless thing to do. We were just there on the water relaxing, nothing exciting happening. Suddenly we just found ourselves in a washing machine and we ate dirt (sand) as 2 dumb dudes, who turn their back to the ocean, really deserved. Minor scuffs here and there nothing serious. But too serious for that beach. What a lesson that was
They should call it a "sneaky wave". A "sneaker wave" would be a wave of sneakers.
so beauti
ful ,this is not disaster rather power of nature majesty of the ocean pure magnificent!
it's called a sneaker wave because it could get your sneakers wet
lmao nice one
@@saireygamp62 In this case, one would just have to roll over off of one's belly and be fine. I know sneaker waves CAN be dangerous, but this was not one of those waves.
@@Jaysthename yes but kids and seniors might be at risk for injury just being knocked ooff their feet
@@saireygamp62 Touche'!
@@saireygamp62 off of their sneakers.
This happens every day in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia...only much more dramatic. ;)
That’s a tide, and expected. It comes and goes on a schedule. Sneaker waves come out of the blue. People in Oregon and Washington die every year due to these things.
Which is known as a tidal bore.
Whoa. These look alot like tsunamis
Tsunamis make these same waves. They are called tidal waves.
I agree exactly like a tsunami
No. No they aren't. This was only a couple of feet high and was no danger. They aren't unusual. I live beside the sea and was caught by one 2 weeks ago. A tsunami goes for a mile or more inland and destroys buildings. This would destroy a sandcastle but that's about it - thankfully.
@@rock07879 only on extreme cases are tsunamis that destructive. Often times they're little more than 2 feet of water unexpectedly moving 30 feet onto shore
No
I hear some people never see the ocean the same way again after they have been surprised by a sneaker wave on the beach
Because they’re stupid/cowardly or don’t know how to swim
Good example of the "sneaker", a telltale shift in the sound of the surf with a flat beach is the signal to run for high land, and stay clear of any logs.
Yeah, we snickered too, but we're glad you're all right.
My two daughters turned us on to various spots on the Oregon coast...I'm guessing one hundred!miles from portland.a nice drive....
Looks like the beach at Neptune south wayside at Cummins Creek. If I’m not mistaken, the bridge over the creek is behind and to the right of the camera.
Waves come in sets and every 40 minutes or so, a 'clean up' set come thru- much bigger than the rest... regular occurrence...
is it a sneaker when all the water rushes out first? Isnt that a clear indication that a big wave is about to hit?
On the one hand, the proposed mechanism for these being distinct from tsunamis makes a sort of sense.
On the other hand, I find it a bit suspicious that the number one location mentioned for their occurrence is from northern CA to southern BC, which faces the extremely seismically-active Pacific Ocean, and another geologically-active place, Iceland.
Either way, it's apparent one needs to be very wary when far out on the long shallow beaches like this. Thank you for the video.
Excellent camera work!
They say, who ever 'they' are, that every seventh wave is the biggest in each set. So the sneaker must be the seventh seventh?
Sneaker waves can also symbolize that things are not always as they appear
Along with sneaker waves. Every 5th to 6th wave along the Oregon Coast can be like a sneaker. Not as big, but big enough to drag you or your children into the ocean if your not careful.
Was there any reports of seismic activity..?
For people who don't think that's dangerous, chech the video of the wave that ruined the beach at the mavericks contest. Some people broke legs.
those weren't sneaker waves, that was extremely high surf, even on small days when waves are shoulder high you'll have a clean up set infrequently that is overhead, 7-8ft face instead of 4 to 5ft face for 5 or 6 waves, even in a set the middle to last wave can be quite a bit larger than the first wave or two on average 10 to 15 percent larger. So when you have a 40ft face a cleanup set could be 50-70ft probably at least once or twice every hour or two which is a large volume of water pushed onto a beach that is already dealing with outflow problems, a true sneaker wave in that context would be 80 to 100 feet at least, caused by a different phenomina which is much rarer the combination or two more waves moving in similar but ultimately different directions that significantly increase the wave height as opposed to doubling up (where one wave breaks inside another wave), somewhat similar to the familiar backwash effect at the wedge in Newport.
@@edwinatollstoy4837 it was on the coast in Newport where I, a desert rat from NM, learned about sneaker waves in 2010. Back then I described it as large waves having a massive love child that overtook the cliff we were standing on. I remember thinking then there wouldn’t be a chance at being rescued if it took us down there. I’ve always been curious if the geographic geometry had something to do with the phenomenon.
How is it a sneaker wave when you can see and film it coming?
Sneaker waves can trigger epileptic seizures. This video is evidence of that.
I'm glad he survived.
plus we live in a quake prone region with a tsunami producing subduction zone offshore from BC all the way down to WA, OR, and Northern CA. It's an active quake fault that rips in a magnitude 9.0 quake every 200 years and we're 117 years overdue. Plus small and moderate quakes, magnitude 2 to magnitude 5.7 happen very often on this fault and do often produce small to medium sized tsunamis so I wouldn't be surprised if this IS a tsunami.
wrong. just a larger than average wave. stick to the land, you are spreading bs
These are no joke. Was at Long Beach, WA. a couple of seasons ago which is just up the coast and one of the locals there told me that a month prior a little kid had been playing in ankle deep water and a sneaker wave came up, pulled it out to sea. Father went in after it and he was lost as well. Coast Guard search of the area afterwards did not find them.
Hello future humans!!! You are here after the Tsunami caused by Cascadia subduction zone.
Learned a long time ago, never turn your back to the ocean.
These rogue-waves are on to that; they've learned to make dramatic decoy-displays off-shore to draw your attention there while an expeditionary wave of covert infiltrators out-flanks you and attacks from inland! Pretty goddamn sneaky.
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Why are sneaker waves so prevalent in Oregon? California beaches don’t usually have these types of waves. We get crazy and beautiful high tides and winter wave action but at least you know what to expect. These sneaker waves are like Mother Nature trying to come up on shore and just take people. Lol
Couldn't you shake the camera a little more? I nearly saw what happened.
The wave is going to be snickering to itself as it carries you kicking and screaming out to sea.
Scariest are when a newbie to the ocean. All one knew before was a river, lake or bay.
the wet sand was a dead giveaway, so why were you even surprised?
I remember being told that every 7th wave was bigger than the others that's in North East UK maybe they are our sneaker waves
That is merely a small, weak wave immediately followed by a larger, normal wave. The small wave eliminates the resistance along the beach so that the larger wave moved inland unimpeded. I've hiked and camped many, many times on the coast of Washington and have see this happen innumerable times.
and love to talk about yourself
it sucks when they stack. I've been hit by one that did that. One second in inches of water, turned my back for a second. when i turned back a 6 foot wall of water was there to greet me.
Well shit
Cool.
And this would be the reason why, in all of my trips to Oregon, I have never once ventured out onto a beach anywhere. And with my bad luck, one of these things would hit the moment my feet touched the sand!
thank you for sharing, I heard of them but haven't seen one yet. I lived in brookings Or. for a couple of years and was always worried about them when I visited the beach there.
It is truly sad that no one invented Stedi Cam in 2014. 😢
What causes those?
I call them seismic waves - comes from small seismic plate movements deep below the ocean - in fact small tsunamis
Where's the sneakers? Are they wet?
What are sneaker waves?
is this a West Coast phenomenon? I don't think we have it on the East Coast. We have patterns of waves bigger and average size but now so noticeable larger.
At min 1.10 u see the tide reach the shore but a small wave speed up arching sidewards. I seen this happening today on my beach and looked scary. Wave would hit then all of a sudden a small wave picked up speed sidwards in the shallow
Really awesome idea!
Makes you wonder if sneaker waves are actually little tsunamis? Something like a small earthquake somewhere in the middle of the ocean. Not big enough to be felt anywhere, but enough to cause a little wave somewhere.
I agree. When I was young, we spent a lot of time rock-hounding at the beach. My sister was almost washed out when a sneaker wave caught her at Cape Meares. (It was really too dangerous to be out there with 3 little kids, but we did find a lot of agates.) When I was on vacation in Hawaii with a friend in my late teens, I was standing in the water approximately waist-deep, facing Waikiki. I turned and there was a wave curling over my head. From out of nowhere. Later on, on a trip to Greece, suddenly caught in a sneaker from out of nowhere. We suspected small earthquakes in the last two instances. We didn't feel anything, but had no other explanation.
Im sorry.... I just moved to Oregon from the gulf coast; and I’ve seen a few videos of these, and heard tell of “giant waves” but this looked mild to me? I don’t know what the heck I’m supposed to be so scared of!
Why didn't you try to punch the wave?
what would/could cause something like this
Grew up going to the Oregon coast my grandpa said never turn your back to the ocean..
It's also a dumb idea to mis-spell the word "shoot".
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does this happen a lot
its almost like the water is alive trying to snatch people off the beach
Watching such shaky videos must be the bane of any psyche's life.
Seems a pity that the oregon coast is not really suitable for swimming in most places. It's really beautiful otherwise.
+RainAngel111 a wet suit is needed, even in summer. yet i do remember while in college swimming in the ocean near Coos Bay without a wet suit, i must've been nuts. i can't even put my foot in the water now it's too cold.
madskyiv I'm Canadian. From BC, where most of our lakes are glacier-fed. It's not the cold that bothers me, it's the massive waves and unpredictable undercurrents that make it less suited for swimming.
RainAngel111 That's quite stupid. You 'll get frozen as fast as someone from Borneo or Lebanon
Beverly Beach is good in oregon for skimborading I had a great time but then went out to a sand bar thing and a sneaker wave came and I had fallen and it flew over me
Unless you have a wet suit it's never suitable for swimming. Water travels down the coast, north to south. Cold. On the other side of the country it travels up the coast, south to north. Warm
What are you on
Hi from Australia. Are there grizzly bears in that forest?. Do they come out and eat people?. We just have feral dogs and pigs here and dingos. Dingos were brought here by native people maybe 5 000 years ago. They sometimes attack. Snakes are very venomous.
That is so awesome!!!!
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Never turn your back on the ocean:
*Sign in Hawaii
Dont camp on the beach
Nice shakes.
So basically a mini tsunami??
WarriorBoss_ that's what it looks like. Sneaker waves seem to look ALOT like tsunamis. Almost identical.
no
no, not the same at all, a wave is simply that, a tsunami is caused by underwater movement, waves are naturally cause by the moon and other forces of nature.
Yeah that looked really dangerous, you almost got your ankles wet!
The ocean plays by its own rules
really great video.
This is more like a miniature tsunami.
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What causes a sneaker wave?
Just bigger swells then normal
it's actually a wave that moves faster than the wave in front of it and they join together to form a bigger wave going a bit faster causing a snowball effect
It's not fully understood yet
no, waves travel in sets and some sets are larger. its not a speed issue
I was expecting Reeboks to wash up on shore.
Tsunami like, but they did run at an angle away from the wave. Tsunami wave come from every direction, and keep coming..... etc.