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? Watch to find out. Spoiler: Yes.

[UselessDuckCompany]

I would like to complain about the treatment of the ducks

[davidingram]

Myself and the team and FloWave were very very happy to host the SlowMo guys and to show off our amazing wave and current basin. The pre-production meetings were quite something and we did spend some time measuring rubber ducks with callipers and doing the risk assessments for the experiments. We have done experiments for research projects using floating infra-red reflective markers to track the free surface using our Qualysis camera system and made some more scientific wave measurements. We've also recreated the "Great wave" from Hokkusai's famous woodcut in experiments on obliquely crossing waves for Oxford University.

[Timechange]

That looks really cool, but I hate when that happens in the toilet.

[Pigeons]

Dan - “Can we verify that?”

Gav - “no”

[idahoanarmor]

8:20 As Dan stares into the infinite capacity of time and space, the universe decides to pull a prank on him, and promptly blasts him with water.

[philipmartin]

Actually, a wave similar to this can be created on a lake. When I was a teenager we would run the ski boat pulling a skier in a large circle while closing the radius of the circle with each pass so the waves reinforced each other. When the waves stacked up and hit the middle of the circle we would sharply turn to pull the skier through the middle as the water formed a deep trough and then swelled 4-6 feet high. No skier every made it through without being tossed high into the air. The ski boat also made a pretty good leap as well. When the timing was right with all the waves converging in the center at once, it was quite spectacular.

[gen]

Nobody appreciating how perfect and accurate this sound was 2:01

[Exoid]

who else thought they were going to sit in a boat in the middle of the spike wave??

[kummer]

The slow mo guys have THE BEST SOUND engineers and editors in the crew.

The sound editing and the special effects sounds when frames are shown slower or transitioning is simply crazy good.

[BatmatYT]

9:06 Love how you can hear everyone in the background laughing 😆

[riisenwarfare]

The last top down shot might be the best you have ever done. The grid bending is just incredible.

[jameshallett]

2:00 most weirdly accurate sound effect of all time

[plantimations]

Fun fact: the machine did nothing actually, there was a paid team of waterbenders behind camera to make the spike and the waves

[playlistss]

Dan: Woah look how clear that is, look at that blade of wa-
Gavin: *DIRECTLY UP YOUR NOSTRILS*

[max]

They missed their opportunity to make Dan try the “Worlds biggest bidet”.

[Nitrinoxus]

Dan: "We need to save it."


Life jacket: "Did somebody say 'save'?!" *FWOOOSH!*

[sarcasm-]

It'd be so hilarious if one of the ducks landed above the ceiling pillars and stayed there after they cleaned up and left, only to fall off some day, long after their visit when they're doing some scientific tests with another group.

"Uh... Jim, there's a rubberducky in the pool"
"Wha? Why? How?"

[CorrsCorrsCorrs]

Dan in every Slo Mo video involving water: *phwoar it went straight up my nose*

[enaut]

9:02 Best moment ever... everybody laughing behind the camera

[bestofxqcL]

okay, but is anyone gonna mention how perfectly he made that sound @ 2:00