Behind The Shot: Jonathon Nimerfroh
Almost two years ago, Swellnet ran shots of near-frozen waves taken in north-eastern USA. The photographer, Jonathon Nimerfroh, lives on Nantucket and came across, what he called, 'slurpee waves'. Ocean temps just this side of freezing providing a marbled surface for swells underneath to stand and slowly break.
So rare was it a few specialists couldn't adequately explain the event.
Yet now it's happened again.
"With a floundering temperature in the low, single digits this past week, I knew there was a good chance the slurpee waves would find their way back to Nantucket," said Jonathon.
"Sure enough, on the morning of January 2nd I pulled my car up to Nobadeer Beach and there they were. This time, two friends surfed just beyond the icy eddie, hooting and hollering and holding up giant icebergs above their heads in neoprene gloved hands. I ran up and down the beach, taking as many shots as I could of this freezing, fleeting show of nature."
"Slurpee waves are the kind of thing you might only be lucky enough to see once, so I count myself as very lucky to have seen them twice."
And for the record, Jonno says the temps were 12° F on land (or -11° celsius), and 36° F in the water (or 2° celsius)
Comments
That's fkn crazy when you really need to think about it!
The only explanation I can come up with is (star wars the force awakens)
In the opening scene he uses the force to hold a Lazer beam mid air while he goes to integrate someone..
Is ground swell a pauseable energy?
Crazy thoughts!!!???
I mean does this make it a "storable" energy?
Could we capture a ground swell in a jar...
Freeze it and use it for never ending power?
Wild! He says the waves are breaking really slowly..
In hindsight if the wave is being slowed..
18sec period then it shouldn't have the same power.. I maybe moving at a 10sec period..
But it seems although it is frozen and then period "time" has slowed "not" the space beetween the waves.
They are still holding the same period power..
This in theory means the energy has been "frozen" stored "slowed down but still holding the same power as if it was at original speed /period /movement/power...
Weird... Wild..
Video please! *or does area *69 have the rights....
Spun me out when I was working in a cooler climate that even at -40 deg cel, water will not freeze if its kept moving
Got me beat why you would want to swim in it but our locals did as a cleansing ritual every NYE, not me, I stayed warm by the heater.....
awesome shot
Here's the vid:
Geez you'd have to be keen...but you can obviously hear the stoke in their voices.
That's what's so great about surfing...the spectrum of experiences available can overcome any obstacle to its pleasure.
Awesome vid.
It's very cool! Kelly slaters wave pool would be the perfect place to try and catch a wave.. Pardon the pun.
My explanation if I was asked by a scientist would be.
I assume it's more likely a ground swell.
Travelling under the slush as opposed to a wind swell being frozen on the surface..
Most likely it's come from a source beyond the surface slowing or freezing elements..
So the 'frozen wave' is not actually frozen,just looks like it ?
Geez the boys are keen though.
Couple of Wave Slurpees with a Frozen Niagara Falls... hold the ice thanx.
Slow motion falls companion event on now.(Check most recent YouTube daily updates)
2015 Niagara Falls was fantastically ice climbed.
1911 The Falls unbelievably froze over.
1848 Niagara Falls Supernaturally froze solid... (Relative to Nantucket Slurpees)
1848 Most likely the last day ocean waves also stood still.[SN/1st](Coolest Skatepark ever)!
JOBZ4OAFS- Skeg bartenders blending wave ice for Nantucket Wave-rink cocktail hour.
Swellnet Porn this is... wave erotica of slow mo' flesh-like, living breathing playmates.
Frozen deserts need a birth name before being culled for pro circus snow domes.
Hmm! Maybe the scientists should go back and study how Niagara falls froze mid air! Or a Shard of ice coming of a building.
Then rebuild there misunderstandings about the slowing of the waves..
I mean in theory one is horizontal and the other vertical..
Which is more confusing from a scientific view?
Woof woof 41... Bong Cyclone desert bar also serves up trip-out Snow Cones.
Check out New York State Park geyser (Frozen Ice Volcano).Skyward is a brain-freeze .
Mountain lakes, falls,surf,middle Earth shaved ice continental cocktail. One for every Aussie.