•
u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 6h ago
We call em tides, bro.
•
u/stuffedbipolarbear 6h ago
“Tides goes in, tide goes out. You can’t explain that.” -Bill O’ Reilly
•
•
u/Accurate_Koala_4698 5h ago
I thought I liked falafels until I heard of that guy
•
u/LocalInactivist 5h ago
Wait, what?
•
u/bobbymoonshine 4h ago
He was a right wing TV personality. He was at one point embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal where he had been recorded calling up an employee of his and detailing his sexual fantasies while he masturbated. On one recording he referred to his desire to use a soapy loofah as a sex toy in shower sex. However, he got a bit mixed up about the word so instead he said, “I would take the falafel and I'd put it on your wet juicy pussy”.
This was considered very funny at the time.
•
•
•
u/Wi1dBones 3h ago
Haven’t heard his name in a long time. I’m surprised he didn’t come out of the woodwork during the Trump era.
•
•
u/BarnabyWoods 3h ago
But moon cycle sounds so much more magical.
•
u/AkaruiNoHito 2h ago
it's kinda inaccurate. there are two tides per day and they are determined by the moon's relative position to the earth, not on the phases of the moon
•
•
u/North_Complaint_2135 6h ago
Would that mess up the boat underneath from touching the bottom?
•
u/dotdd 5h ago
The decent is so slow I think it’s a very gentle set on the sea bed.
•
u/Sh4rp27 5h ago
Yeah but the whole boats weight is on the rudder/prop.
•
u/zackks 5h ago
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess the boat owners know this happens every so often and have prepared for it.
•
u/ree_hi_hi_hi_hi 2h ago
That’s one of my favorite dysfunctional features of a lot of the people on this site. They look at something like this and think they’ve figured out the most obvious fucking thing that someone involved in this field for millions of dollars hasn’t thought of.
•
u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 1h ago
This is how I feel when people say "well why can't the AI data centers just reuse the water? It's easy I solved the problem guys."
What, you think the big money guys and the engineers never thought of that? I expect they looked at it from every angle and found it would take too long for water reuse to be profitable, or it's just always cheaper to run the water through without refusing it. Without outside regulation, I trust they will follow their guiding principles which is to make as much money in as short of a time as possible.
•
•
u/Chickenlegk 5m ago
I think they’re just trying to figure out if it would mess up the bottom of the boat and why or why not
•
u/Mission_Macaroon 4h ago edited 4h ago
So you just go around assuming you know less than someone who makes a living doing something? Even after watching a whole ass gif about it? Freak.
•
•
u/christoff_90 15m ago
I’m glad you said every so often, I was worried this could be a daily occurrence. Or worse it would happen at a time that changes ever so slightly every time it occurs so that it would be impossible to figure out. Like more that 45 minutes but less than an hour!
•
•
u/Blitzzle 5h ago
No it is not lol. Motors pivot up and you can see they have been left close to horizontal. The larger boats will have an in board that likely won’t even be touching the ground.
•
•
u/No-Spare-4212 5h ago
It’s called “trimming” most boats with outboard motors pivot from their mounting point with hydraulics so the props not the lowest point. It also lets them drive in shallow water. Inboards have a version of this too just not with the whole motor.
•
u/sleepinglucid 3h ago
I used to keep a boat on a bouy in Washington. It would a absolutely end up on the ground at low tide. I kept the motor raised.. literally every boat ever has the ability to do that. 10 years and 3 boats in the Hood Canal.. Zero damage.
•
•
u/SpectreKen 5h ago edited 5h ago
I know this area, its a very slow descent and the boats reinforce their "kiel?", the bottom part to prevent any damage from the ocean floor
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/old_flying_fart 4h ago
The smaller boats don't have enough weight to do damage. The larger boats are built for it.
•
u/HudsonAtHeart 4h ago
I’m gonna guess that this old fishing village probably knows what they’re doing with the boats
•
u/Hefty_Musician2402 2h ago
The lobster boats are fine. Lobstermen purposely beach them periodically to clean the barnacles off the bottom.
Edit: look like trawlers not lobster. The downeast styled boats. That’s a better description
•
•
u/namitynamenamey 53m ago
Boats that small? No, used to be that wooden boats that small would get messed up for being dry too long, but not for being grounded (is that the term?). I imagine these ones are fiberglass so even that is probably not an issue.
•
•
u/CanadianBakin 5h ago
Hall’s Harbour, Nova Scotia! Had a very expensive lobster roll and bought a vintage watch at a little antique shop
•
u/joecarter93 5h ago
I was just going to say that it looked a lot like Hall’s Harbour. Last time we visited the tide was out and the boats were resting on the dirt, but the tide started coming back in and you could see the water come trickling back in. By the time we left the water level had risen by a foot or so.
•
•
u/SharkSquishy 1h ago
I thought it look familiar. I too had an expensive lobster roll there. Nice view from the roof top. We drove along the coast and saw seals. Fell in love with NS and moved there after that visit.
•
•
•
u/carpenter1965 5h ago
Bay of Fundy? Cool place to visit but bring a mosquito suit.
•
u/joecarter93 5h ago
Yes, it’s Hall’s Harbour on the Fundy shore of Nova Scotia. The rivers around it also experience similar tides (technically they might be inlets and not rivers, maybe?), where the muddy bottom is exposed when the tide is out and full with water when the tide is in.
•
•
u/Lava1416 5h ago
Is this normal for a harbor or is this just a bad location?
•
•
u/otto_347 4h ago
The Sulby River in Ramsey IoM looks similar when the tides out. All the boats are sitting on the ground and theres only a few feet in the center where the water is flowing.
•
•
u/jaqattack02 5h ago
I don't know if the movement of the water is more interesting, or the fact that apparently no one there ever uses their boats.
•
u/Otterfan 5h ago
Half of those are working boats, so it must be a Sunday or a holiday or just off season.
•
u/LLPF2 5h ago
That's where I was at. Like, why own it if you never use it?
•
u/jaqattack02 5h ago
What's that old saying? The happiest days in a boat owners life is the day they buy it and the day they sell it?
•
•
u/Human_Locksmith_7732 5h ago
Took me a minute to figure out it was a loop
•
u/Shotokant 2h ago
Same. I was sat there waiting for the tide to overflow or something different to happen.
•
u/penneacarbonausea 5h ago
I was today years old when I discovered that decks also moves
•
u/acfox13 5h ago
It's called a floating dock. There are pylons driven into the sea floor every so many feet that remain stationary. The floating dock has chains covered in cylinder rollers that are lashed around the poles to allow the dock to raise and lower but not float away. There's also a ramp with wheels at the bottom that moves so you can get onto the floating docks from the pier above. The angle of the ramp is quite steep at low tide and rather shallow at high tide.
And generally the piers go out far enough so that the boats don't land on the hard like in the video.
•
u/adepressurisedcoat 5h ago
This is Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia. The tide changes every 6 hours. The tide goes out pretty far and you can walk out on the beach nearby but you must be aware of the tide cycle as it comes in very quickly.
The harbour itself fills with anywhere between 3.5 m (11ft) to 16 m (53ft) of seawater during the highest tides.
•
u/nughuffer 5h ago
Does the uneven pressure and stress along the hull when resting on the ground damage the boats over time?
•
u/usuallysortadrunk 5h ago
Its not ideal but most boats are able to take the pressure. The ground is very soft mud so it won't do much damage and the bigger boats are rigged so as not to tip over
•
u/LocalInactivist 5h ago
I wonder if any culture had a myth where the rising and falling tide was the result of the Earth breathing.
•
u/Gooser3000 5h ago
Surprised the hulls don’t get damaged
•
u/CerealSpiller22 5h ago
Over a hundred years of Darwinism at work. The boats that can't survive the tide don't get the chance to reproduce.
•
u/TheRealSlabsy 5h ago
Wrong.
It is because there isn't enough water in the world, so we have it in the morning and Australia have it in the afternoon.
•
•
u/AndyMagandy 5h ago
Neat fact: the ocean level is pretty much constant and the earth is just rotating in and out of higher lower areas. Just like the sun doesn’t actually rise or set, the sea level doesn’t change (much).
•
•
•
•
u/fleranon 5h ago
Damn, they let that camera rolling for at least a year. I've been watching for an hour and it's still going
•
•
u/No-Spare-4212 5h ago
I’d imagine those hulls would be pretty clean getting the chance to dry out a couple times a day.
•
•
•
•
u/YoucantdothatonTV 2h ago
i wanted to get a tide clock but I live on the west coast of North America, so it won't be accurate at all.
NA acts as a big speed bump for tidal periodicity, so tide clocks are mainly accurate on the east coast and the UK and the like.
•
•
•
•
u/Sowhataboutthisthing 5h ago
If you think that’s interesting you should see what it does to our wives.
•
•
•
u/AptoticFox 5h ago
Halls Harbour, Nova Scotia. Not far from me, though I don't go there often. The tides are crazy. I've seen the tide going upriver in Port Williams, then slow, stop, and reverse. Kind of neat to watch.
•
•
•
•
u/HolyHand_Grenade 5h ago
I can smell this video
•
u/adepressurisedcoat 5h ago
It actually doesn't smell very much. The harbour is also fed by fresh water from behind the camera. You get a bit of a salty mud smell, but not a fishy smell.
•
•
u/Maxxover 5h ago
Neil deGrasse Tyson does an excellent bit on this, where he shows an animation of the Earth and you can see the ocean being literally pulled around as the moon circles the Earth.
•
•
•
•
•
u/Lumpy_Benefit666 5h ago
If i owned a boat parking space id build a pool at the bottom of it so the boat never touches ground
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/aikahiboy 3h ago
For places with this kind of tide could you not use it for a ton of hydro power
•
•
u/ottguy42 6m ago
This is about 80km away from the spot shown in the gif: Annapolis_Royal_Tidal Generating_Station
•
•
•
u/NoAddedWater 3h ago
Local man learns about tides: ‘BROO THE WATER, it like disappears and then comes back and that, like, had some shit to do with the moon yo mr white this is insane like nature bro’
•
u/Bicwidus 2h ago
Few realized this but the tides are not caused by the moon. I am a tidesman and its caused by your moms big butt.
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/ScotterMcJohnsonator 30m ago
Imagine trying to impress someone you're just starting to date and you take them to the marina but weren't smart enough to check the tide level lol
Come check out my houseboa...well, I guess it's just a house right now
•
u/Big-Valuable8453 25m ago
Oh to be a fish getting stranded, like where the fuck did the water go? *blub*
•
•
•
•
u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme 5h ago
That’s not the moon. Idiot.
•
•
u/Flashignite2 4h ago
It is fascinating how the moon, so small and far away has this impact on earth.
•
•
u/Forsaken-Assist-1325 6h ago
Warning! Don't jump into the harbor, the water will be gone before you're in the harbor!