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Developing Flood-Prevention With the World's Largest Man-Made Waves
A new Dutch facility, called Delta Flume, can generate waves up to 15 feet high.
The trailer feels like something advertising the latest blockbuster hit: epic music, dramatic footage and sounds of crashing waves, the words “to save lives” fading in and out. But this is so much cooler than a movie.
The minute-and-a-half-long video is a promotional piece for the Delta Flume, a new Dutch facility created to make the largest man-made waves in the world. Officially inaugurated Monday in the Netherlands, the water-filled trough runs 300 meters long, 9.5 meters high, and 5 meters wide (that’s 984 feet long, 31 feet high, and 16 feet wide), according to Science Now.