Ocean Wave

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 543.0 Hz, 64 cents sharp of C5, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

Tap it to break the wave; a new one curls up behind it.

Most ocean waves are made by wind blowing across the water, sometimes far out at sea. The wave's energy travels on, but the water itself mostly just rises and falls. Near the shore, the shallow bottom slows the wave, so it grows taller and steeper until its top curls over and breaks.

Tap it to break it: the top of the wave throws forward and crashes into the water in front, white water and spray burst up and foam spreads out as the wave flattens. Then a new swell rises behind, steepens and curls over. Surfers call the tube under a curling wave the barrel.

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