I’m going to be honest, if I saw this shit coming towards me, I’d just close my eyes and accept my fate.

1720 ft. For reference, the Empire State Building is 1454 ft to the tip. I don't think running was an option.

Cooper: "Those aren't mountains... they're waves."

A fishing boat captain and his seven-year-old son, were struck by the wave and lifted hundreds of feet into the air by the swell. Remarkably, both survived with minimal injuries. Now thats one helluva ride!

I remember reading that a boat was picked up by the wave, and carried to the ocean with no major damage (although two other boats were sunk). I cant even imagine being on a boat being carried by a wave hundreds of feet in the air.

"Those are not mountains, those are waves." - Owright Owrigh Owrih, 2014

Geologist here. Actually, this post is not accurate. The WAVE was not 1700 ft high; the run-up on the side of the canyon wall was 1700 ft. When the bay got shallow, the water sloshed inland much higher than the actual wave height. Try it in your bath tub.

The wave scoured the hills directly across from the landslide up to 1700 ft, thats not the wave height. It splashed up to that height. It was 300 ft tall traveling down the bay

He said “300 feet” and I was like, wow! And then he said “1,748”!! 😱😱😱

Fun fact - there are actually 2 survivors who made it out alive from that wave. Dunno if they're still alive today but they were about 20 years ago when the son gave his testimony. Long story short it was a father and his son who were on their fishing boat in the middle of that bay and they were lucky in that the 1000 foot wave - yes you heard that right, their little boat was lifted up close to 1000 feet above sea level. Luckily they were deep enough in the Bay where the waved lifted them and travelled underneath them sparing their life. Imagine how trippy an experience like that must have been being lifted up that high on a boat.

Harder then Avernus 💀

If I saw that I'd just sit down and cry 😭😭

A father and son amazingly survived this wave in a small boat. They were washed over a small island and out to sea. Imagine seeing this on a relaxing fishing trip.

Meanwhile, every surfer: omg I can't believe I lost that wave

Thats why its harder than Acheron

600 meters high. 12 Olympic pools end on end. Speed 700 km per hour. 200 meters per second.

Imagine if a wave like that were to be caught on camera. That would be utterly terrifying.

"The biggest wave ever recorded.." me waiting for the recorded video footage of the wave like🥤🥤🥤😶

This is basically Tidal wave buffed

1720 feet = 524,256 meters. You're welcome.

It's events like this that make us realize who's in control and how powerless we truly are.

Just imagine the wave from interstellar coming directly towards you 😵‍💫

I think it is referred to as a "harbour wave" because it relies on the land form within which it occurs.

1700ft is roughly 518m for those of us needing the conversion. 👍

Christopher Nolan is out there on a raft with his IMAX camera

1700ft wave?! WOW! What people don’t really understand is the fact that waves 7 to 10 feet can definitely kill you! So 1700 feet is just unthinkable!!

Zoink is the only known survivor

That wouldn't even kill me I'd die from a heart attack well before it got to me

That would be like looking up at the top of the Empire State Building, and seeing a wave 300 feet above it

Definitely getting top 1 😭😭🙏🙏

Have been hearing about this ever since moving to Alaska decades ago. My brother and others have fished in the area, and say it's an eerie place.... ...

"The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli." - George Costanza

My neighbor back the 90’s was in that earthquake. She was a teacher in Alaska at the time. She said the thing she will never forget is the noise the earth made. Like a freight train going through your bedroom

we be verifying tsunami wave with this one🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

From what I understand and from what I had read, that 1720 feet peak in height was achieved when the massive landslide caused by the earthquake slammed into the bay, and the wave itself was realistically around a hundred feet tall or so, basically, imagine the bay is a bathtub, filled with water, when you hop in, there is a tiny or average sized wave created, (in comparison, maybe 1-4 lego figures tall to make it more understandable.) Now imagine that there were people in the bathtub, very tiny people. And to them, every 2 lego figures is around 900-1000 feet tall. I will try to make a simpler explanation, when you slam your hand into a body of water, you can see the splash of water everywhere, imagine the body water is the Lituya Bay, your hand is the landslide, the small splash created, is the initial wave. Basically something like that. Edit: In the most simplest terms possible, the 1720 feet was due to the splash. Not the actual wave itself.

He didn’t mention the father and son that were fishing in the bay when it happened. They rode the wave all the way over the crest past 1700 feet. Luckily they both lived and you can watch their interview.

It’s hard to imagine a wave being that big.. it’s absolutely incredible what the planet is capable of.

how the hell zoink verified that 💀💀💀

No sailboat’s where this happened. I went on a kayak tour out of Valdez and it’s a tiny enclosed bay with steep walls on each side and a big glacier feeding into it.

I remember seeing an interview of a father and a son who were in a boat on the coast of Alaska and the wave gave them a raid over the forest, over the treetops and returned them back to the ocean in the same way; incredibly nothing happened to them, neither to them nor to the boat, and they commented that there were two other boats that disappeared😥… It must have been a terrifying experience!😱

That’s up there with my cousin Larry’s bellyflop at the red roof inn Orlando in ‘96

Pro-Tip: Film it. The cameraman never dies.

Bro remade tidal wave

I went on a cruise in ‘06 and seen this spot. You could see where the trees up the sides of the mountains were took out. It was amazing.

“Those aren’t mountains… Those are waves.” Cooper in Interstellar.

Wave: 😊😊💀💀 Us: accept it..

A good way to envision its height, image you’re in nyc and you look up at the Freedom Tower. It was just 50 feet shorter than the tower.

The coolest thing was a guy in his kid brought a boat and rode that wave out and live the tail the tail. Never give up. You never know you might make it.

A fisherman and his son witnessed this first hand and survived that incredible catastrophe. While fishing on their boat, they heard a thundering boom towards the mountain, which was part of the mountain collapsing into the lake, seconds later all they saw was a massive wall of water heading towards their boat. Next thing they knew, they were picked up by the crest and started to head out to sea. They were so high, the anchor chain snapped off. Would've been awesome had they caught this event on film?

A man and his son rode it out. Amazing survival story.

Some credit to the surveyors who spotted the scars and measured its amazing size.

The fact that this wave happened at night makes it even scarier.

Alaskan here. My grandma was a little girl when this earthquake happened. She lived nowhere near Lituya Bay, but still experienced the brunt of the actual earthquake. Alaska is extremely susceptible to natural disasters, people. Take it seriously!

Our vulnerability in face of natural disasters is so incredibly terrifying.

There’s a full documentary about this , 2 fishermen were in that bay and survived, they recorded that they and their boat got stuck end up and over the wave , nobody believed them until they proved it by showing exactly how high it was and pointed to the mountain and there was a water mark where it went

1950: we’re gonna die 2024: NAAH THATS POSEIDON ADVENTURE

"...everything was destroyed. If you liked this video and would like more..." Bro that ending had me dying 😂

There were 3 boats in three bay at that time, one of which had a father and his son witnessing first hand the terror of a huge wall of water fast approaching their boat. They managed to survive the ordeal, however, the other two boats and their passengers were never found.

Did a research on this, turns out it wasn’t that big, the wave itself was 30 meters or so but the splashes went up much higher

Imagine sailing on your boat and all of the sudden you see this big shadow

Could you imagine standing there seeing a wave that big coming straight at you!? 😩💀

If i'm not mistaken this dude & his son survived on the boat they were on by riding the crazy wave. True story!! I really do think that it's the same wave, story.. 👍

If that hit California, no doubt Las Vegas would be ocean front property

Don't forget that in 1964 Alaska also had the 2nd largest earthquake in recorded history at 9.2 magnitude. It destroyed practically everything within the state and caused massive tsunamis not only all over every coastal region of alaska but also went as far as japan and caused tsunamis and seismic aftershocks all over Alaska and Japan for quite some time. I was born and raised up there and knew personally many people who experienced both of these natural disasters. I couldn't imagine how I would react to being in such a situation myself

The fact that you can say "those aren't mountains, they're waves" moment

nah zoink needs to verify this

a father and son on a boat survived, for the bow faced the wave. others on the far end of the fjord weren't lucky.

I used to live in AK, and took a boat trip thru that inlet. You can still see the line of death way up on the mountains where nothing ever grew again. The dimensions are mind-blowing.

I was there in 1984, and the damage was still obvious. I think it was 1500 ft though as you could see clearly where the trees had fallen.

The awesome power of nature makes us and anything we do on this planet seem insectile

You should check out the story of the boat that survived the wave. Reacting quickly the captain saw it growing and decided to race toward and up the wave

And 64 years later, the scars left by the wave on the hills either side of the bay are still visible.

I had read about this previously and was somewhat familiar with the details. However, I just picked up on the fact that this insanely scary event happened at NIGHT. Man, that had to be utterly terrifying to those near the epicenter.

The Wave smashing onto you would feel like Lizzo jumping out of a Plane and Landing straight on top of you

Apparently a dad and his son were out fishing in the bay on their boat and they survived.

After seeing millennium force at cedar point. A 300 ft wave would be terrifying. Over 1700 would’ve shocked me to death before it killed me 😂

That one friend describing the set wave he caught: 🌊 🏄‍♂️

Me and my captain anchored in lituya bay with several other fishing boats in 1987. We were waiting for a bad storm out on the gulf to blow over. The scar the tsunami left on the mountain side is ominous. The bottom of the bay also opened up and closed abruptly as well, which helped to produce the massive wave. Only one man and his son survived when that happened. The wave swept their fishing vessel over the top of Cenotaph Island and swamped them out in the gulf. It was probably one of the most nerve racking three day of my life. We were on the fv new day

You can still see the damage in the bay… above the wave solid pine trees and below ground stripped to the rocks and not any trees… a very humbling site.

That's pretty insane. I go hiking really often in a canyon that is about 700' deep at the most. It seems daunting at first. I could only imagine waves more than twice as tall as the walls of the canyon on my way back up. Literally, a mountain of water.

This video is a perfect example of why witness testimony is useless and should not be acceptable in court. Everyone writing "hoolllyyy, 1748 feet! 1728 feet!!!" They were witness to what was said a mere 10 seconds ago and still got it wrong. 1720 feet is the correct number that was said. Outstanding!

For those of us (the majority of the world) who use the metric system. 300 ft = 91.44 m and 1720 ft = 524 m

Interstellar was the last movie I've seen at a theater. Cancer and several other incidents left me with what I assume is a kind of PTSD. Can't tolerate crowds, closed spaces, and panic attacks from nowhere. I used to think people were just exaggerating or needed just to get ahold of themselves. I can usually minimize it but when that cold terror overtakes and you pour sweet from head to toe. It just has to pass. I'm a 6 foot 1, over 200 lbs and fear was never a problem but this isn't fear, it's an irrational physical assault. This has nothing to do with the subject of tidal waves, the reference to the movie "INTERSTELLAR" reminded me of the last time I was able to see a movie. It helps to write it down. I didn't like Interstellar at all by the way. I understand that time is not always linear and most probably is a function of mass and gravity as Einstein theorized. Einstein said the universe is not just strange but stranger than we can imagine (paraphrased).The movie must have been totally confusing to most of the public. It just annoyed me with all the doors of possibility. It was like a night with no floor or walls to stand on or find your way out of. I'm an old man with a degree in science and a life long science fiction fascination. UKposts is a great place to keep your mind active especially when your old. Most people aren't intellectually curios so there's few if any to converse with. This allows me to talk to myself forming a narrative. I've always required little sleep and can work for long periods of time. I recently read there is a genetic cause for this. Like right now it's 3pm and I'll probably get a few hours sleep eventually and do it again. My wife of 40 years is not bothered by this to much, thankfully. I don't really care if anyone reads this or comments. Keeps a person focused. Nighty, night.

I remember watching the doc on the Discovery channel, their was a boat in the bay with a father and son. The son recalled his father throwing him a floater and telling him to say one last prayer. He said the anchor chain snapped like a twig then up they went. Amazingly they road the wave and were left hundreds of feet high in the mountains hill.

I would love to see a wave that gigantic. Not one out in open sea where there's no frame of reference, one where we can tell that SoB is enormous.

That sailboat in front of that wave😳

That tidal wave was as tall as the freedom Tower in NYC.

Daaaaaaaaamn 1700 ft you've lost me that's simply unfathomable.

Bro this is literally why my family doesn’t live next to the beach bc this stuff happens and it sends shivers and goosebumps down my spine

I had to calculate all that in metres to understand, and now that I did - holy hell - that is beyond terrifying!

I'm surprised that they didn't mention the father and son that experienced it. They were fishing on a boat. The kid was 8yrs old and they survived it.

I’m just impressed that someone was there to measure it

Like every wave that rushes to shore after breaking The wash from this wave is what reached the 1720 ft mark That elevation is where the tree line was visibly destroyed The wave itself did not actually reach that height

For my metric system folks 300 ft = 91.44 m 1720 = 524.256 m Scary, I can’t even imagine those heights

That's really hard to fathom how destructive that really was. 😭

Now imagine the wave that was created by the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs… If I remember correctly it was estimated to have reached around 5km high (16 400 feet)

The geography surrounding the sound and inlet, made for the perfect conditions to form a monster wave

For reference that’s about as tall as the CN Tower in Canada or about 533 meters.

Now imagine being on a tiny boat with your son looking around and seeing the giant wave coming,because that’s exactly what happened ,the dad and son road the wave and survived,true story 😧

I saw a father and son interviewed that rode out the wave and their boat ended up above the tree line. Another boat disappeared.