SOUTH CAROLINA WAVES!!!
By: Emma Panowicz
The connection between waves and surfing waves are:
Kinds of waves surfers like:
Some different ways of how waves are approached are:
Part of the wave that a surfer rides:
Conditions that experienced surfers avoid:
Dangers of surfing:
- Both could reflect and refract
- Both could slow down in shallow water
- Both become higher in shallow water
Kinds of waves surfers like:
- Huge waves, about 30 to 50 knots per hour
- They do NOT like small waves because the small waves won’t let the surfers go high and they might just drown and fall off
Some different ways of how waves are approached are:
- By cutbacks which means they turn back toward the breaking point of the wave
- By off the lip, which means they ride off the top of the wave and floater on the wave
- Or by riding on the top of the breaking twist of the wave
- There are lots of different ways waves could be approached and those are just some of them
Part of the wave that a surfer rides:
- They normally ride the unbroken part of the wave, or the wall of the wave because you just want to stay ahead of the white water caps, but not too far down the line or else you might fall off and land in the water
Conditions that experienced surfers avoid:
- They avoid any electricity in the water
- They avoid big activity in the water such as a big storm that’s coming your way
- They also avoid heavy rains because they could possibly provide fatal mistakes
Dangers of surfing:
- Shark attacks
- If you are just learning how to surf, possibly drowning
- If there are any sandbars or rocks, watch out for them
- Crowds by the beach
- Your very own board beacuse it could fall on top of you if you collapse