Silver Dragon tidal bore inundates spectators, cars in eastern China
Given that it is a yearly event, one might be forgiven for wondering why spectators insist on getting so close to China's famous Silver Dragon tidal bore, which surges its way down the Qiantang River like clockwork every autumn.
The spectacular natural phenomenon is caused by the ocean tide rushing into the river, generating the single, massive wave that crashes against the breakwall in Hangzhou harbour, on the country's mid-east coast, enveloping observers and their cars.
Video posted yesterday of this year's surge, which happened right on time, shows the wave building out of nothing, as if being coaxed into reality by some malignant, invisible hand, in front of hundreds of keen spectators who may not have got the message about getting wet if you sit in the front row.
When the wave reaches its furthest point and breaks in an explosion of foul-looking black and dun-coloured foam, it soaks the observers – including one man foolish enough to try and outrun the dragon – as it subsides.
One imprudently-parked car is treated to a salty wash as the water rushes down a concrete drainage basin on the other side of the wall.
The world’s largest tidal bore, the Silver Dragon (sometimes called, somewhat more aptly, the Black Dragon), can reach 9-10m in size, and travels at speeds up to 40km/h.
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The spectacular natural phenomenon is caused by the ocean tide rushing into the river, generating the single, massive wave that crashes against the breakwall in Hangzhou harbour, on the country's mid-east coast, enveloping observers and their cars.
Video posted yesterday of this year's surge, which happened right on time, shows the wave building out of nothing, as if being coaxed into reality by some malignant, invisible hand, in front of hundreds of keen spectators who may not have got the message about getting wet if you sit in the front row.
When the wave reaches its furthest point and breaks in an explosion of foul-looking black and dun-coloured foam, it soaks the observers – including one man foolish enough to try and outrun the dragon – as it subsides.
One imprudently-parked car is treated to a salty wash as the water rushes down a concrete drainage basin on the other side of the wall.
The world’s largest tidal bore, the Silver Dragon (sometimes called, somewhat more aptly, the Black Dragon), can reach 9-10m in size, and travels at speeds up to 40km/h.
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