Could you surf a tsunami wave?

You can't surf a tsunami because it doesn't have a face. Many people have the misconception that a tsunami wave will resemble the 25-foot waves at Jaws, Waimea or Maverick's, but this is incorrect: those waves look nothing like a tsunami. On the contrary, a tsunami wave approaching land is more like a wall of whitewater. read more

0:19 There’s wave after wave after wave. 0:20 Well the same thing with a tsunami, there may be, um 0:24 a dozen waves spread out over two or three hours. 0:29 So nothing at all like the waves you surf. 0:31 And absolutely nothing you could survive if you were out there 0:35 trying to surf a regular swell 0:37 when a tsunami struck. read more

When you measure the size of a wave in the open ocean, you use 2 measurments; The first is, of course, the height of the wave, but this is alone won't tell you how big the wave will be when it breaks. That is influenced by the second measurement, the Period. read more

You can't surf a tsunami because it doesn’t have a face. Many people have the misconception that a tsunami wave will resemble the 25-foot waves at Jaws, Waimea or Maverick's, but this is incorrect: those waves look nothing like a tsunami. read more