#wave pool

[hazyaltcare]

An agere stimboard for a Roman Sanders (Sanders Sides) with themes of kidcore, pools, waterparks, and the ocean.

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Mod Haze (🐲Terezi)

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Prompt 2 - Swim

@jegulus-microfic September 2, Word count 443

James’s mum and dad had taken them all to the local water park and Sirius had managed to convince his brother to come with them. James didn’t know Regulus that well, but he was going to be as nice as possible to him for Sirius’s sake. 

He was having a swim in the main pool waiting for the wave machine to start. Regulus had finally waded into the shallow end and stood there awkwardly, cringing when the children got too close. 

The siren wailed, the water began to swell and James revelled in the feeling of being suddenly lifted and dropped. He turned to see how Regulus was doing and couldn’t see him. 

He scanned the water and saw the slender boy dipping beneath the waves just outside the shallow end. He heard the watery gasp as Regulus's face broke the surface and greedily gulped in fresh air. James had an odd feeling that something wasn’t right. 

He used the next swell to help him across the pool, not taking his eyes off the black curls bobbing under the water. He ducked under the surface and grabbed Regulus around the waist, taking his weight and holding him above the surface. To his credit, Regulus didn’t panic, he let James tow him into the shallow end. 

“Are you alright?” James asked, checking Regulus over as well as he could. 

“Yes, thank you,” Regulus answered quietly. Something clicked in James's brain as he looked at Regulus. 

“You can’t swim can you?” Regulus shook his head. “Then why did you agree to come swimming?” He laughed at the absurdity. 

“Because Sirius asked me,” He answered, and oh, James felt his heart break for the boy. 

“Come on, let’s go try the lazy river, it’s more gentle than the wave pool,” Regulus swallowed nervously. “Don’t worry, love, I’ve got you,”

“Okay,” Regulus agreed and held out his hand for James to take. James gave him a mischievous grin. He pulled him onto his back and took off in a slow breaststroke. Regulus held on tightly but relaxed as they went around and around in the gentle current of the lazy river. They heard a familiar whoop of joy and saw Sirius zoom past on one of the flume rides. “Maybe don’t tell my brother that I nearly drowned. We’ll never hear the end of it,” Regulus said, bravely kicking his legs behind him.

“Sure, Reg. It’ll be our little secret,” James replied, kicking out at the same time as Regulus and shooting them forward through the water. Regulus gave an excited little cry, so James did it again, just to hear that lovely sound one more time. 

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[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

After centuries of tales from sailors, in 1995 the Draupner off-shore platform recorded the first ever evidence of a freak wave -- a single, wall-like wave steeper and taller than any other waves around it. Theories have been tossed back and forth for the last quarter century as to how the Draupner wave formed, but now a group of researchers report they have recreated a lab-scale version of this is famous wave. 

They did so in a wave pool by making two smaller groups of waves cross one another at about 120 degrees (top). The interaction of those wave packets generated a much larger, steeper wave (bottom image sequence) that matched the profile of the Draupner wave. Recreating this past freak wave confirms that wave-crossing can lead to freak waves, which will hopefully help us forecast when conditions may be right for more to occur. (Image credit and research credit: M. McAllister et al., source; via Motherboard; submitted by Kam-Yung Soh)

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