Comments on: What is the Deal With These Frozen Waves?

By: Lisa Marie Mary

Lisa Marie Mary — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:18:36 +0000

Wow – that is amazing! Is that the same thing that happened in a post you did about a year ago – where those kids were playing in it? Oh no, maybe not – because, wherever that was – it was warm and I think the foam was warm, or we would’ve heard the kids hollerin’ and squealin’ as they jumped into it! Ha! It does seem kind of similar, though.

By: Filmari Nunti

Filmari Nunti — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:00:55 +0000

wow ..that’s awesome i really just believe what’s happening there

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:00:07 +0000

you need to help yourself in a tropic country with periodic brown-outs :-)

Rhoody

By: TheDane

TheDane — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:14:02 +0000

Of course only Rhoody can turn this in to how to cool beers :)

Kim:)

By: RHB

RHB — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:18:34 +0000

Just watch the discovery channel most dangerous professions show. The crab fishermen in alaska are plagued wuith this phenomina as they sail into fridgid waters to set their traps. The ice gets up to 6 inches thick if they do not chip it off.

funny how we associate beaches with warm temps…

By: Glen

Glen — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:21:40 +0000

Wow…this is kool!

I thought I would have to go a research how it’s done but the above two explainations are brill!

Cheers

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:39:38 +0000

ok, I try to explain in my bad “german” english. (and metric)

salt can keep water liquid until -21 degree Celsius (depenting on the salt content). It must be real cold air there. the foamy waves are mostly air with a thin layer of salty water around. due to the very cold air the heat energy got out of the thin water-layer pretty fast and the saltwater-bubbles freeze.

.. here an advice for the party animals. I f you run out of cold beer, you get ice from a freezer, throw it with a kilo (2 pounds) salt and a case of handwarm beer in a thermo box and add some cold water. It takes about 10 minutes and your handwarm beer is ice-cold. Much faster than in a freezer, as water absorbs the heat-energy from the beer around 20 times faster than the surrounding air in the freezer would do.

cheers

Rhoody

By: Goran Giertz

Goran Giertz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:11:34 +0000

You amaze me with the types of video that you find, frozen sea, awesome.

By: van blize

van blize — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:36:14 +0000

I saw this once in Japan. Salt water takes a long time to freeze. However, salt water foam will freeze to a point. It’s kinda like a snow cone but a little different. As the waves come in the foam is created and it starts freezing right away. With each consecutive wave more foam is created and the process repeats itself over and over. This freak of nature can sometimes be harmful, even deadly. I’m surprised the fishing shack survived.

ttyl

vandamonium