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Hace 1 día · Almost 16,000 kilometres away from Paris, the furthest an Olympic event has ever been from a host city, the opening heats at famous surf break Teahupo’o are now completed.
Hace 8 horas · Waves breaking on this type of steep slope would typically collapse, breaking from the middle of the wave and creating an unsurfable mess. But this doesn't happen. At around ten metres' depth, a flatter shelf in the reef allows the wave to stabilise and "stand up" with a steep front face, before finally breaking as the reef rises again.
Hace 8 horas · There are some great surfers vying for gold in Tahiti, but arguably the star of the show is the famous Teahupo'o wave itself. Here’s what makes it special, and why surfers respect its power.
Hace 1 día · Surfing waves can be analyzed using the following parameters: breaking wave height, wave peel angle (α), wave breaking intensity, and wave section length. The breaking wave height has two measurements, the relative heights estimated by surfers and the exact measurements done by physical oceanographers.
Hace 8 horas · In Peru, freak waves caused an oil spill from a tanker ship. Dr Verolino and his colleagues mapped out 466 submerged seamounts and volcanic islands in the waters of South-east Asia, Taiwan, and ...
Hace 8 horas · Waves breaking on this type of steep slope would typically collapse, breaking from the middle of the wave and creating an unsurfable mess. But this doesn’t happen. At around ten metres’ depth, a flatter shelf in the reef allows the wave to stabilise and “stand up” with a steep front face, before finally breaking as the reef rises again.
Hace 8 horas · Kim Kardashian has traded her high heels for a wakeboard and hit the waves in style. Picture this: the reality TV mogul, not on a red carpet, but carving up manmade waves with the
