Shore station-wagon

The term Shore station-wagon is a Anglicisme used in particular by the Surfeurs to indicate a type of very particular Vague: a wave very powerful which with the characteristic to burst close to the Shore (and thus in very little water).

Formation of Shore station-wagons

These waves are generally formed with high tide. With comparable height, Shore station-wagon will be more powerful and thicker than a wave bursting with the broad one. Such vague has also the characteristic to be very fast between the beginning of the surge, and the moment or it bursts.

So it is very difficult of surfer such a wave without being quickly caught it on the head. The power helping, the boards of Surf are very vites broken under such conditions, this is why the practice of slips into Shore station-wagon is especially made in Bodyboard, Bodysurf, Kneeboard, or Skimboard.

Shore station-wagon is dreaded because the power of vagueness striking in little water very heavily projects on the ground the people who find themselves inside, being able to cause extremely serious wounds on the Spinal column and being able to lead to a Tétraplégie. The accidents (cervical in particular) are very numerous. Very a physical good condition, and a very good knowledge of kind of vagueness (and manner of falling) is necessary in order to limit a maximum the risks when one wants to measure oneself there, while swimming or while surfant.

Localization of Shore station-wagons

Largest Shore station-wagon of the world like those of Waïmea Beach (Oahu, Hawaii) or The Wedge (Newport Beach, California), are waves which can easily exceed 5 meters in height and burst in a 60 centimetres depth. Moreover these waves burst with less than 20 meters of the edge. They are reserved on a level of practice excel (and with a certain unconsciousness, within sight of the intensity of the falls, which occur almost with each vague catch).

In France, Shore station-wagon most impressive are in South-west, on the Atlantique coast. Hossegor, Ondres (Moors) or Rebated joint (Yrénées-Atlantiques) can produce shores station-wagon devastators (one of the first causes of intervention of the rescuers on the beaches).

One often tends to confuse the term Shore station-wagon , with Beach station-wagon (vague which is formed on a bottom Sablonneux), or Reef station-wagon (vague which is formed on a bottom Roche ux or of Coraux) .

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