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Hokulele
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As soon as I saw the thread title, I bet myself that Waimea would be involved. 
That's pretty wussy, if you ask me.
Here's a guy in Hawaii surfing a standing wave six miles high!
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Horatius
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As soon as I saw the thread title, I bet myself that Waimea would be involved.
Does it flow like that all the time, or is it a periodic release from a dam, or some such thing? Because that looks like a hell of a current!
Hokulele
Deleterious Slab of Damnation
Usually there will be flooding upriver after a heavy rain, and they have to open it up manually and let 'er rip!
This video shows how the channel for the standing wave comes to be. The channel bit starts around :30, gets boring for a while, then picks up again around 1:30.