Turned The Sea Into Dry Land
by Yuri Tomashevi
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Turned The Sea Into Dry Land
Artist
Yuri Tomashevi
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"TURNED THE SEA INTO DRY LAND" by YURI TOMASHEVI
"And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD ... made the sea dry land ... and the waters were a wall ..." There are multiple slightly different translations of this famous text from Jewish Tanakh and later from Christian Bible ...
Could a sea become "a dry land" and waters become "a wall" by nature itself, without any human or divine intervention? Could anything like that happen even on a small space and time scale? ... Yes, it could ...
I made this shot at Half Moon Bay, California, USA. This is a shore of Pacific Ocean ... You could see that a seabed of some piece of the ocean is clearly open and there is a standing wall of water preventing an incoming wave from covering this seabed ...
A physics of this phenomena is quite clear ... An incoming to a shore waves have a different strength at different times. At a some distance from the shore two waves meet each other - incoming to a shore wave and reflected from a shore wave. Somehow a balance of forces of those fighting waves created a water wall ... And a wave reflected from a shore was strong enough to clear a seabed all the way from a shore to this water wall ...
In high resolution of this image you could see how big is a fight of waves withing the wall to make it stand ...
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November 15th, 2016
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