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| The North Sea Can Be Scary. But Maybe Not TikTok Scary. | The North Sea Can Be Scary. But Maybe Not TikTok Scary. |
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| High waves fill your field of vision, your palms start to sweat and your stomach turns. | High waves fill your field of vision, your palms start to sweat and your stomach turns. |
| The boat is getting tossed around. Crew struggle to stay up against the swells. | The boat is getting tossed around. Crew struggle to stay up against the swells. |
| Hold on, take a breath. You’re not on Antarctica’s Drake Passage, or out on the Pacific Ocean — wait a minute, you’re not even a sailor. You’re on NorthSeaTok, a corner of TikTok where videos about gales on the midsize body of water between Denmark, England, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Norway are set to scary music and aim to terrify. | Hold on, take a breath. You’re not on Antarctica’s Drake Passage, or out on the Pacific Ocean — wait a minute, you’re not even a sailor. You’re on NorthSeaTok, a corner of TikTok where videos about gales on the midsize body of water between Denmark, England, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Norway are set to scary music and aim to terrify. |
| The North Sea is a shallow and often turbulent body of water, but one that hundreds of thousands of ships traverse each year mostly without incident. | The North Sea is a shallow and often turbulent body of water, but one that hundreds of thousands of ships traverse each year mostly without incident. |
| “Waves can be high in the North Sea, but they are not the highest,” said Sofia Caires, an expert in wave conditions at the Dutch research institute Deltares. Waves are generally higher in the North Atlantic or off the coast of Iceland, she said. Other rougher seas can be found south of South Africa and south of Australia. | |
| Waves in the North Sea can be around 65 feet high, Dr. Caires said. On very rare occasions, it can produce rogue (or freak) waves, which are waves that are much higher than the ones surrounding it. |