When Nature Strikes Back

⁽²⁰⁰⁰⁾

Not Rated

50m

Documentary

January 1st, 2000

Cast & Crew Company Credits Release Dates Technical Specs Photos Official Sites Languages Alternative Titles Origin Countries Episodes

When Nature Strikes Back Season 0 Episodes

Season 0

Monsoon: The Wind with Three Faces

This documentary explores freak waves, up to 140 feet high, which for many years were thought to be no more than sailors' stories. The film reveals that they are not only real, but fairly common. It uses both recreation and actual footage to show the devastation and loss of life caused when freak waves have impacted ships, an oil platform, and have even caused loss of life on land (spoiler: don't approach a ninety-foot wave along the shore!). It further explores the way scientists study these waves in order to improve predicting them as well as surviving them through improving techniques to build ships which can withstand their punishing impacts.