Inside The Navy's Indoor Ocean

I'm here at the Navy's indoor ocean at cter rock this is the biggest wave pool in the world and they can make all kinds of different waves so they can test scale ships and make them better before they actually go out on the open ocean I came in I'd seen some pictures but I just walked in here and it's just it's insane cuz they say indoor ocean but like it's exactly what it is the water even looks ocean colored you it doesn't look like a swimming pool this looks like an Ocean looks like a test facility it is huge it is 360 ft long in this Dimension 240 ft long in that Dimension it's 20 ft deep just about the size of a football field out there the Dome above us was the largest freestanding dome for a while largest freestanding dome in the world yep what in this pool they can make waves of all shapes and sizes using huge paddles that line two walls of the pool we have 216 individual wav makers we can make waves from -45° up to 135° which is kind of coming right back at it we are now behind the big paddles that make the waves these 216 paddles are programmed to move in incredibly well choreographed ways so that they can produce reproducible uh perfect size perfect frequency waves that go across the entire pool you can see these air Bellows that are what's making the the angular motion that vertical piece is the force transducer the other Force transducer is right up on the top there are lots of wave pools in the world but what makes this one different is control you can create waves of a specific amplitude and frequency and do so repeatedly should we try our 1 Hertz yeah do me a favor and dial up one Hertz amplitude will be 078 at 1 Herz hey go ahead and send it from zero please as this is the largest wave we can make at 1 Hertz just based on the motion and and power requirement for the Wave Maker there's something a bit like surreal about watching this cuz it almost looks like an ocean except you never see waves this regular out there correct one of the fundamental characteristics of a wave is its wavelength the distance from one Crest ...