Sailors Witness A Super Strange Water Phenomenon While Boating That Feels Like A 'Glitch In The Matrix'

By Editorial Staff in Nature On 24th June 2024
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The video was recently shared on Reddit and shows sailors who are totally baffled, thinking they found a glitch in the matrix.

They were completely stunned and couldn’t make sense of what they were experiencing, making it one of those moments that seems almost unreal.

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As far as we know, they didn’t find a mythical sea monster, but the ocean water and waves were acting very strangely.

The video was recorded at Georges Bank, a big raised area of the sea floor between Cape Cod, Massachusetts (United States), and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. 

Sailors were pretty dumbfounded and convinced they discovered a glitch in the matrix. r / interestingasf*** / Reddit

The person filming said: "I just wanted to get a video of this transition here. So the water goes from one state to another like that.

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"It really doesn't work very well on camera this transition," 

And to be fair, at this point in the footage it’s hard to see any difference. 

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It pretty much just seems like a normal ocean as far as I can tell.

But as the boat goes farther out to sea, around the two-minute mark, you get to see the change. 

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So maybe Morpheus was right, maybe none of it is real, and we really are living in a simulation.

The water seems to go from being rough and choppy to totally calm and peaceful. 

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As the sailors move into the calmer waters, they can even look back and still see the choppy waters moving quickly.

The person filming continued: "So this is a transition from Georges Bank to open water, it is torture out here in the middle of the ocean. 

One of the sailors said “Check out this water, and then in a second it’s just gonna be glassy clear, what the heck. r / interestingasf*** / Reddit

"Check out this water, and then in a second it's just gonna be glassy clear, what the heck. 

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"This is crazy. It's insane. It is just so weird."

While many people in the comments section questioned what actually is going on, there are some explanations for this strange phenomenon.

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The main explanation is that the underwater landscape is causing the difference in waves on the surface. 

The shape of the seabed can change how waves act. 

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Imagine you're at the beach, and you notice that waves crash and break in some spots but stay gentle and calm in others.

This happens because of underwater features like hills, sandbars, or reefs. 

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These underwater landscapes can change how waves move, making them break in one place and remain smooth in another.

To understand this better, let's look at Georges Bank. It's a big underwater plateau.

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Georges Bank is about 330 feet shallower than the deeper waters of the Gulf of Maine, which is right next to it. 

Because Georges Bank is not as deep, it affects how the waves behave, causing them to break more on the bank and stay calmer in the deeper Gulf of Maine.

This difference in underwater depth is a great example of how the ocean floor can shape the movement of waves.