Swimming Pool Seiche

[AncientPollyanna]

I stumbled on your scuba lesson looking up seiches. Thanks for sharing this clip! I almost got seasick watching it!

[Chowbizful]

we don't care of your scuba lesson --"

[drjosh314]

Neat! I was just reading about seiches on Wikipedia and wasn't quite sure I got the picture. I decided to look for a video and found this great visual demonstration.

[plbuster]

damn..I learned to scuba dive in that pool 30 years ago......

[bionicguppie]

@plbuster Before I left in '09 they were working on plans to build a new pool. Don't know how far they've gotten

[plbuster]

@bionicguppie Hope everything is ok there now. I heard that the US is landing relief efforts there at the airfield. Thank God the airstrip wasn't critically damaged during the earthquake.

[TimWhichman]

That pool is awesome!!

[matsbugs1]

the wavelength of the shake must have been the same as the pool!! thats amazing!!.... from a scientists point of view anyway

[sweetthangXXXdd]

what a creep

[EmilTheFallen]

And you just stood there recording?

[bionicguppie]

@EmilTheFallen

It was only a small earthquake, and it had already ended. Nothing to be worried about.

[EmilTheFallen]

@bionicguppie

Alright. If you say so...

[Broommaster2000]

@bionicguppie He means you shoulda jumped in, would be fun. :p

[hypergirly18]

@bionicguppie but in the description you said it was a good sized earthquake... GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!!!! HAHA

[bionicguppie]

@hypergirly18 Well, good sized for me. It was the biggest earthquake I had been in while I was there. Most of the time it's just very light swaying.

[AncientPollyanna]

@hypergirly18 That was obnoxious, directed to someone who was actually there -- hello?

[snipa120]

@EmilTheFallen You can get seiches from extreme distances from the actual earthquake.

For example: There was an earthquake in Alaska and there were reports of seiches in texas.

[ElusiveClover1]

I might be willing to swim in that.

[rosalinalopez]

i think it's fake cuz i have scrubba lessons and the pool looks the same and plus its a wave pool

[SnowVixen89]

Woah! Cool!

[rockfilmers]

what earthquake was this?

[xhemexx]

Seiches are ocsilliating waves that can occur after Earthquales, from heavy winds that drag a large amount of water in a lake or any land locked body of water, and if the wind is strong and long enough, that wave that it produces can reflect off the shore when it gets there and head to the other shore, thus creating a seiche ocsiliation. Biromentric pressure can also cause seiches.

[muz06]

Cool. Search 4 cruise ship swimming pool if u wanna see a really strong pool seiche, was caused by the rough sea.

[Mimitchi994]

Whoaaaa *w* Creepy!

[Kirbyblue96]

Does that mean by 5m or 5ft????

[bionicguppie]

It means lane 5. The pool is 12 ft at the deepest.

[djtrixen]

@Kirbyblue96 5 ft most likely... it looks like this user is from the US, and we measure depth of our swimming pools in feet here. 5 ft. is pretty common.

[djtrixen]

@djtrixen whoa I just saw the user's comment... looks like I was wrong! lol lane 5.

[sirMAXX77]

cool. its called a seiche when there is this waving going on in a body of water after an earth quake and it can last for a long time too.

[AHIZAS]

why were they laughin?

[zentoko]

Why?

[sweetismami]

Yep i was wondering why they were laughing and close to death!

[MPG350]

cool video, never saw that before

[stefan171]

Was this from the earthquake?