Perranporth Cornwall Tidal Surge 7.40am Sunday 5th January 2014

7.40am, the tidal surge reached a height of 7.40m.

[@subliminalvibes]

Absolutely fantastic video. The weather being eerily serene, whilst the sea being completely unstoppable.

[@robertreynolds1044]

Hold still, damnitt!

[@srl6018]

Exactly! Keep the camera pointing in one direction for more than two seconds at a time.

[@Welshy1001]

Filmed by a meercat

[@paulmccormack5524]

Yeah I gave up 🙄

[@brightbox9414]

Keep the camera still storm man

[@PharaohDeathMask]

That is awesome, and frightening. Thanks for the video.

[@andrewm514]

Amazing footage, I've never seen it like that before. Thanks for uploading

[@Roadkill663]

I really feel for you guys down there, I have nothing but the sweetest memories of Cornwall and actually caught my first sea bass on this beach. The last time we came down on holiday we stayed in a cottage in Tehidy, we bought pasties from a bakers in Red Ruth and fished all day. That night we swapped mackerel for pints of cyder at the local pub. This absolutely heart breaking to see.

[@jaynechew166]

Absolutely love watching the sea spring tides n storm surges

[@sethguardado8178]

I don’t know why but it’s so satisfying to see water flow over dried surfaces

[@Raw420Films]

Wow, such a tender fury of mother nature with all of the ocean pushing forward

[@80sDude990]

A lengthy video but very well filmed. Bloody hell I didn’t know Perranporth could get waves as rough as that. The locals may have ended up seeing some jellyfish in the river, what with the way the ocean was sweeping into it. I sometimes go to this lovely seaside town on days out from Truro.

[@whitetrashkel]

It's very hard to watch because the the camera moves around way too much. Thank you for posting, but please just stop moving around so fast and so much.

[@GLICKMIRE]

Large long period swells can exhibit tsunami-like characteristics as seen here. First time I've ever seen anything like this on video.

[@guitarlover302]

Was there yesterday playing in the sea with the dog watching the sun go down beautiful!

[@X_X_X_X_X09]

Omg I still go to this beach I’m in perranporth rn and I’ve never seen the beach have a bad tidal surge like this for years bc I go to Cornwall 2 a year once in the summer which is rn and then one in may

[@trevorbayers2175]

To everyone complaining about the cameraman moving around too much, shut the hell up and just watch the video. If it wasn’t for him, you wouldn’t have this video to complain about.

[@danieljones5421]

I remember these storms, started around late 2013 and carried on all the way upto Feb-March 2014. Made you realise how much of a beast nature is.

[@rogerprout5574]

There must have been a hell of a storm out there.

[@metafis2490]

Wow, I know this wasnt a Tsunami, but the end section really reminded me of some of those Japan Tsunami vidoes.

[@Lesloi6227]

tidal surge - scary stuff

[@bryonydddddddv]

I wanna live here, sit cozy in a chair with a hot drink and watch this from my window.

[@LindaTCornwall]

lol... there are a number of places in Cornwall that suffer with high tide surges, it's just they get even more dramatic when a storm is behind them.. like this one kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpuUZIhueauhotU in Polzeath where the water rushes across the beack, the beach carpark and into town, it's due to the long narrow bay, it acts like a funnel forcing the water to get higher as it comes in and move really fast. Google Polzeath high spring tide. Catches holiday makers out every year when they park in the beach carpark and don't check the board for high spring tides lol.. then they wonder why there car is under water. :D Same with Newlyn, kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ61inSnnctgps0 when it's high spring tide with a storm behind it, it forces the water up a narrow river bed and dumps all those gallons of water in town. Which is why it floods so often. :D View from other side of bridge.. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYfMZYmQZa1lh8U

[@the_sketchy_1459]

I lived here and did that very thing,in a house just behind where the camera man is standing,so amazing to see

[@kernowprincess]

Brilliant film .....Perranport is a beautiful place but this is scary considering I have walked many time round here and across the beach....wow...fantastic and just shows the dangers of the sea......Well done movie man......

[@johncarr8092]

Nice video, try panning a little more slower for better results. 😃

[@mabelyourmama9029]

Very relaxing video. Thanks for posting.

[@louemma100]

Oh poor Perranporth, been there many times it's a beautiful place to be. Stay safe xx

[@susanjackett8601]

Well done! I like this film because it warns locals just how bad the storms are

[@stuNdumplings]

its still pretty rough in Cornwall, we've just had more spring tides. I've posted a video here showing some of the recent breakers - Cornwall sea storms - monster waves smash the coastline.

[@tridentproductions1]

Oh god, I walked on that beach in July last year right out by the rocks. That's a high tide!

[@notmanynamesleft]

Amazing to see that huge tide roll in and out. 👌

[@paulelliott3220]

Great footage Perranporth under siege - huge storm surge and cool sound effects from the elements Wow

[@pete2070]

Wow. That's some surge. Really powerful.

[@jonathanmurphy8888]

i love the way it always leaves those sandbanks along tne watering hole

[@the_sketchy_1459]

I grew up in perranporth,and remember the tides very well.

[@subaru721]

Awesome video man got anymore?

[@curlymii]

Although i am not a local i have visited Perranporth and stayed many times since my childhood days have never seen it this bad before.

[@JacobsTrainVideos]

Perranporth is such a beautiful place!

[@Slothdeman]

Very rough seas down in cornwall! I lived there back in 2008.

[@Janeliker]

luscious force of nature. would love to have been there - but not dangerously close of course. last walked the sands in the summer - will there be any left now?!

[@2threlkeld]

I remember going to Perranporth on a hot summer's day a few years ago, the sea was about 10 minute walk out from that little bridge! In this video's that would be under 30 feet of water!

[@BrendanKenny00]

Great footage!

[@BillSikes.]

Crickey! This is more like a Tsunami, we've spent many summers on this beach, i had no idea the tide gets this high 😯

[@Chuck59ish]

The tides at the head of the Bay of Fundy in Minas Basin in Canada are 15.85 meters twice a day, every day. Where I live in Saint John, New Brunswick, the Fundy tides are just under 7 meters and enough to reverse the flow of St. Jon River twice a day, just look up Reversing Falls Rapids on KZbin.

[@emmabidwell5835]

Wow, the sea is very powerful and strong, good camera footage of the sea forcing it,s way up the canal entrance.

[@dalewhomplaysbass]

I always found another good spot for high tides was at the top of cliff road and down the steps in the St Agnes side of chapel rock, you get some really nice loud and deep booms from the waves being rebounded in the caves.

[@the_sketchy_1459]

Agreed

[@glynnishutchinson9184]

Nice to see from my South african home as l have family who have taken me there. They live on Fistral beach, Newquay. Thanks for sharing. Glynnis Pmb.

[@liamardo007]

They're still recovering from the surge damage today 😎

[@shirleynitka5030]

when the sea's a washing machine. I love the power of nature.

[@dd-5634]

Looks like a Storm Surge

[@BadgerBotherer1]

Pretty bad here in Wales, too. Check out my video of waves on Swansea seafront, taken the day after you filmed this.

[@TheDidy13]

Very nice vid, thanks.

[@jozzyglenlore]

My god. The Watering Hole pub came so close to being taken!

[@leejones3317]

Amazing video 👌👍

[@nigelharris175]

Wow, never seen it that far up! Loads of parking, brilliant!!

[@josephfieldstaff-hughes6804]

How does the Watering Hole survive this time after time?

[@thestormforce70]

Nice video thanks for sharing, stay safe tho.

[@CornishPasty2009]

reminded of the japan tsunami from 2011. but this is cornwall! my home! madness!

[@nigelterry9299]

When Mama Nature skips her meds. That's scary.

[@lewiswood2654]

Cool video of storm surge there mate.

[@rocketraccoon1976]

Actually, would have been better if he didn't keep moving the camera around and zooming in & out. Whatever camera lens he's using isn't good enough to compensate for motion.

[@zoonyxnet]

The watering hole pub was always slightly raised... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Perranporth_Beach_and_The_Watering_Hole.JPG but seemingly by sheer fluke, the waves turned the slope into a huge cliff edge, and protected it. So far it's survived pretty much unscathed I think!

[@EddieVBlueIsland]

Didn't the Pet Shop Boys filmed here in "Always on My Mind" video?

[@Steamy1223]

Y'all should go to Orlando it's warm here and lots of theme parks

[@rodgerbradshaw6343]

I used to play in the pub on the beach a few years ago with my band jabaru great day’s

[@michellestaunton2264]

I used to live in a house overlooking this beach ,as soon as the sea got like this we put our wellies on and ran down to the sea front!

[@angie14124]

Wow great video, just can you please try to keep the camera in one place, literally gave me a headache with all the to’ing and fro’ing.

[@angie14124]

P.s. was it as cold as what it sounds in the video. ?

[@angie14124]

Ok, I apologise, I should not of been too quick to criticise. It was literally only in the first few minutes… my bad. Sorry!

[@frankanddanasnyder3272]

Learn to slowly pan the camera....

[@JonsTunes]

Recommended in 2020 I lived there for a short time...1995 (I think)👍

[@the_sketchy_1459]

I moved there in 95

[@MrDeadlyMatt]

i went there on holiday had fun :P nice footage

[@garyeaton6172]

I was there last night watching Tom Jones

[@rodgerbradshaw6343]

Watering hole was or is the pub on the beach..

[@MeetlesVideos]

Looks very much like a succession of Tsunamis, not just a rising tide.

[@solatiumz]

It is not the rising tide, it is a surge caused by the weather and made bigger/higher by the moon.

[@howtoearnmoneyfast154]

awesome

[@stuartj1079]

What happens to the Watering Hole in these times? Does it survive?

[@jacobsimpson788]

Will the watering hole survive???

[@Satters]

My parents had their honeymoon in Perranporth in 1960

[@ronking9683]

What a Great Place Perranporth Is ,If Your In The Area Check Out Local Band Auction For The Promise Club,A very Good Live Band.Find Them On KZbin.

[@stevierichie]

Great place indeed , Good band indeed.

[@thestormforce70]

7.42 onwards very nice.

[@joansmith3296]

It looks like a tsunami. I don't think I'd stand there filming.

[@jacobsimpson788]

I've even been on that very beach!!

[@evoke-_-tj7648]

Same

[@williamchristian8705]

Tidal flow is the king of the beach.

[@drdoolittle5724]

Anybody owning houses close to high tide mark today would do well selling ASAP because sure as eggs are eggs, the high tide mark will only creep higher!

[@Hedgehogsinthemist123]

I only go to Perranporth on a nice sunny, calm day 😎

[@lizzieabdie]

i was there the other year a fab pub on the beach i hope it was ok

[@LindaTCornwall]

the watering hole. :D It's fine!

[@brightbox9414]

You local?????

[@elizabethplane9868]

Crimes. Is the Watering Hole still there?

[@izzycubbs8361]

Tomorrow I'm going there

[@anthonybarnes2355]

I think I seen another video of this place . Is that right ?

[@MarkThomasChannel]

anthony barnes how would I know what videos you have watched!

[@4stringmanagmaildcom]

From the comments this apparently is not a tsunami. This is a regular occurrence then? What combination of factors produce this if it's not every tide cycle?

[@BillSikes.]

At a guess I'd say it's a storm surge possibly caused by a N or NW storm at High Water Springs

[@Callum2504]

0:55 if you look to the right I stayed in that house

[@nessuno1948]

Infinite growth side effect

[@Nolongrused]

"7.40am, the tidal surge reached a height of 7.40m" its 7:40 and 7:40m?????!!!!!

[@kattie1961]

so how come the pub is on a lip their lol, theyre very lucky they are but i dont get it lol

[@carlaevans9505]

Water is such a dangerous thing I remember when I was 5 years old I went swimming with my brothers and sister and I didn’t know the difference between deep end and shallow end so I ended up jumping in the deep end if it wasn’t for my brother saving me I wouldn’t be here today and ever since that has happened I’m terrified off water

[@getl0st]

This is not a Tidal Wave. It's like a large wave that happens under the waves caused by the storm. I've seen the exact same thing happen on a smaller scale at certain surf spots...

[@Colsoloact-po9wv]

Amazing footage, great post! The power of the sea.....that's what could kill us all if the conditions were right! Not to alarm anyone......LOL!!

[@tietjenuk]

Seems a weird thing to do, clicking the LIKE button. Scary stuff, but nice vid. Hope you're OK.

[@paulah7990]

very good vid

[@sandraadams4940]

It pretty much goes where it wants, doesnt it?

[@TheRosey44]

Wow !

[@standupforgood7810]

measure the wave periods. This was a small local tsunami

[@solatiumz]

A tsunami is caused by an earthquake or landslide, this is a tidal surge that is caused by weather and made bigger by the moon. Two different things.

Dude from Japan: I see nothing.

[@jacobsimpson788]

Omg I go live in a caravan there 4 a week every year!!!!!!,

[@Alex-bj7ot]

Nice

[@russcrawford3310]

Spring tide near the perihelion ...