| [00:00.82] | An interesting shot, but not what the team were after |
| [00:05.79] | So why were there no big waves? |
| [00:08.55] | There's no land between here and Kamchatka, 3,000 miles away 3000 |
| [00:14.14] | And it's funny that the waves that arrive here |
| [00:16.44] | start off around Japan, around the east coast of Russia |
| [00:20.41] | And when a storm hits these places |
| [00:22.37] | it whips up the sea, generating swell |
| [00:26.18] | It's rather like throwing a pebble into a pool |
| [00:28.84] | The ripples radiate outwards which |
| [00:30.74] | when they reach land, make waves |
| [00:35.30] | So if the size of these waves was anything to go by |
| [00:37.97] | Japan and Russia were having some unusually mild winter weather |
| [00:46.34] | And that was more than you could say for Pohnpei |
| [00:51.57] | And there were still no big waves |
| [00:55.58] | The only good news was that the housing was still working |
| [00:58.02] | and remained watertight |
| [01:00.42] | despite being soundly tested both below and above the water |
| [01:08.05] | And then, when the team thought things couldn't get any worse |
| [01:11.28] | If conditions got any calmer here |
| [01:13.07] | we'd probably have small boys out sailing their toy boats out on this millpond! |
| [01:18.38] | I mean, we came for 12-foot barrelling waves |
| [01:20.83] | and we've got what a sort of gentle riffle at the moment |
| [01:25.37] | Time to check the swell charts |
| [01:28.97] | There was better news on the Russian front - |
| [01:31.12] | a big storm sending swell Pohnpei's way |
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