A sandbar near the Maldives stretches almost a kilometer into the ocean and vanishes twice daily with the tides. Waves break from both sides and collide in the middle, creating dangerous currents but a striking place to walk. The water rises slowly and predictably, reaching about waist depth.
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Twice every 24 hours.
Almost 1 km.
Up to the speaker's waist.
Hello, my friends. An absolutely extraordinary place that I'm going to show you. So we're at the end of the island and there's a sort of sandbar that goes very far into the ocean. It appears and disappears with the tides twice every 24 hours. Usually, when you look at a beach, the waves come from only one side. Usually on a beach, you see this, you can see the water coming in. So this is the inside of the sheet of metal this side, and here is the outside, the ocean. And when you look there, what's extraordinary is that you have these waves coming from both sides, right? And they meet in the middle. This is a place that is considered very dangerous for swimming. I'm not going to venture there because the currents are strong and they can sweep you away like nothing. On the other hand, it's absolutely magnificent to walk here. The tide, I was saying, exists, but it's very slow and very predictable. It's not a tide that's going to close your path before you have time to realize it. And if you look further over there, you can see that there are others. Here we're almost at high tide, but you can see the waves where they're breaking. Over there, it's still a sandy path. There's another one behind and another one behind. It goes almost 1km from here, but it will never reach this island. But it's quite extraordinary. When the tide is lower, you can go very far. You'll never be able to walk completely on dry land, but you can be on the right track in some places. But sometimes the water rises. I went there yesterday and the water was up to my waist at one point, but no more than all it.
