[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