With selfie-related fatalities hitting news headlines more and more often (officially nine so far in 2024, including, last month Czech gymnast Natalie Stichova, who fell 80m to her death in Germany) ...

Everybody is soaking wet and screaming. Only your guide remains calm. No water park can match the thrills of riding Canada's surging, churning waters in what's known as "tidal bore rafting". In Nova ...

Turnagain Arm offers surfers an experience they can’t get anywhere else in the country Jennifer Nalewicki - Travel Correspondent Surfers ride the bore tide at Turnagain Arm. Streeter Lecka/Getty ...

Off the coast of England, there's a tiny, wind-swept island with the remains of a lifeboat rescue station from the mid-1800s. The workers who once ran the station on Hilbre Island did something that, ...

Occurring on only a few dozen rivers around the world, tidal bores are as rare as they are intriguing. Michael Berry outlines the science behind this natural phenomenon and describes his sighting in ...

On September 19, in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, the Qiantang River tidal bore surged and crashed against the embankment. Tourists eagerly took out their phones to capture the scene, but due to the ...

As we got closer to 10:03 p.m., the predicted time of arrival of Sunday’s giant wave, we got more and more nervous. The three of us were stood on the southern tip of Lower Parting, close to Overbridge ...

The gigantic natural phenomenon swallowed the traffic in mere seconds. A massive natural phenomenon known as a "tidal bore" crashed onto a road and swept several vehicles away in its aftermath in ...

On October 9, 2025, in Zhejiang, China, @Shānshānérchuān shared a video capturing an exhilarating moment at the Qiantang River. In the video, the author is making their first attempt at observing the ...

An April 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two side-by-side videos. One displays water shooting up into the air accompanied by a loud, ominous sound. The other is a man describing what ...

CU Boulder applied mathematician Mark Hoefer and colleagues answer a longstanding question of how to understand tidal bores in multiple dimensions The photos and videos were all over Chinese social ...

A video has been widely shared on social media, showing a woman standing near the water's edge as a powerful wave surged toward her, leading many posters and viewers to believe it depicted a tsunami.