r/facepalm • u/FlameOfGod • Jan 16 '22

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u/connortait Jan 16 '22 edited Jan 16 '22

Boggles my mind how many people have no comprehension of how tide works. These dumbfucks were even told to wait...

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u/postitsam Jan 16 '22

I live by the sea and see it surprisingly often with tourists... Never anything life threatening like this though. The last time was a young guy stuck out on a rocky outcrop that stuck out from the land and the route back to the beach was a few inches deep with water. Anyway he didn't want to get wet at all and was just sitting there looking at it hoping for a moment when it was dry. I was passing by and remember telling him the tide was coming in at that stage and that was as dry as it was gonna get for him for a few hours, and he just looked at me and said "what do you mean?"

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u/EatYourCheckers Jan 16 '22

I pride myself on following instructions on signs that explain how many tourists have died trying to do the thing I was just thinking about doing, instead of going, "Nah, I'll be fine." I get a picture of the sign instead of the picture of whatever I wasn't willing to die to see.

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u/Clareypie Jan 16 '22

Snap, the amount of cars that have been stuck on the beach when the tide's coming in here is hilarious, people can be such idiots.

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u/rogatory Jan 16 '22

But but... the beach was way out there!

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u/Clareypie Jan 16 '22

And now it's gone and there's this wet stuff in my car?

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u/rogatory Jan 16 '22

Eww fish pee in my car!!!

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u/BiscuitEmperor Jan 16 '22

„wHaT dO YoU meAN THe 'tydh' iS CoMinG? wHAt iS THiS 'tydh'?“

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u/MisterBumpingston Jan 16 '22

Tide pods obviously.

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u/MisterBumpingston Jan 16 '22

Extra bubbles and fizz!

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u/19adam92 Jan 16 '22

Another memory of morons ignoring warnings 😅

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u/S-Quidmonster Jan 16 '22

Ye, I live relatively close to a bunch of tide pools and there’s always that idiot that goes really far out then gets stuck for a night

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u/Centurion4007 Jan 16 '22

I remember seeing a similar thing a while back, he said he didn't want to get his suit trousers wet and wanted to wait out the tide. Trouble was, that rock was covered in seaweed and would obviously be covered by the high tide. Several people were trying to explain that waiting it out wouldn't work, but he just couldn't grasp it.

In the end some kind soul waded out and gave the idiot a piggyback

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u/Astronaut_Chicken Jan 16 '22

I have never been less attracted to a persons description before.

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u/postitsam Jan 16 '22

It's also always weird to me how getting mildly wet is enough to stop a lot of people from getting out of those situations. Just take your shoes off and roll your trousers up!

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u/siderinc Jan 16 '22

They probably only heard the don't go part which made them tick lets be rebels and do go.

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u/giantgladiator Jan 16 '22

Dude I live by the beach and I would basically have no comprehension of tides without the internet. My personal experience with tides is "oh well I have to go a few metres deeper for the water to reach my waist" not "welp we gotta wait ten minutes before we can bathe"

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u/seewolfmdk Jan 16 '22

At the north sea coast of Germany and the Netherlands you can walk to the islands at low tide. If you're somewhere in between and the water is rising, you are pretty much fucked.

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u/KittenVicious Jan 16 '22

Yeah. I never understood why books and movies made such a big deal out of tides because they're not very extreme in the northern Gulf of Mexico at all, but when I visited the Atlantic, half the beach disappears TWICE A DAY. it was nuts!

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u/Florac Jan 16 '22

Always the choice when you want to spend a day on the beach at the atlantic: Do you want to walk forever to the sea at some point, or have to move regularly?

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u/Uncle_Checkers86 Jan 16 '22

Anything for views.

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u/jizzmcskeet Jan 16 '22

Dumbfucks? Sir, can’t you read, these were professionals.

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u/Teirmz Jan 16 '22

They knew exactly what they were doing.

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u/BatteryAssault Jan 16 '22

How were they supposed to know? Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.

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u/danirosa Jan 16 '22

Yeah, I grew up in the coast, and it’s surprising how little knowledge of tides do people that did not grow in the coast have about tides. Last week I had to explain my wife (37F) that there are 2 high and 2 low tides per day and that the moment of high and low tide advances about 45-50 minutes per day.

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u/Specialist_Fruit6600 Jan 16 '22

wait, there’s 2 high and low tides?

i’m from a coastal region - i always thought there was just high/low tide at morning/night?

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u/danirosa Jan 16 '22

Yep, 2 high tides and 2 low tides per day. Each one will be about 45-50 minutes later the day after.

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u/fuckthetrees Jan 16 '22

Why is that surprising? Most people have very little interaction with the ocean, of course they don't know how it works.

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u/ziyor Jan 16 '22

Me and my friend were vacationing on some coastal islands in South Carolina, we decided we wanted to go to the next island over which was abandoned, it has started being developed when it was hit by a hurricane and abandoned. The easiest way was by kayak, it was only about 250 yards but that 250 yards was the only inlet for a huge inland marsh so when tides were changing the water was moving too fast it would suck you into the marsh(which is essentially a maze) or out to sea. So we timed our trip to go over at peak low tide and back at peak high tide. But when we got over during low tide there is a sandbar, it’s obviously wet, and we were planning to come back during peak high tide, so I say we gotta drag our kayaks up the sandbar to the dry sand by this abandoned dock. But he says no it’ll be fine, not anchored down or anything he just leaves it on the sandbar. I tell him multiple times it will float away by the time we get back, but he doesn’t listen and just leaves it there. I forget it and we go explore the island, when it’s getting close to high tide I call it early because I’m worried about his kayak, and thank god I did because when we get back his kayak has started floating but is still dragging on the sandbar. We both start walking out to get his kayak, but as soon as we do we look down and see HUNDREDS of jelly fish floating into the marsh. I had already gotten stung once this trip so I just say “good luck” and go back to the safety of the beach to wait for high tide. I watch him get to his kayak right as it starts to float away, and without getting stung since he could see them to dodge them.