this Wave Pool Cost $100 per SECOND to ride

[Music] oh this is it this is the dream how was your sleep so good really yeah we only slept for like six hours but i don't know i haven't been away from those kids in so long yeah so you're in the 848 heat um and you got a little time to get ready okay in the world of in the world of surfing in the world of surfing nature provides the waves sometimes nature provides good waves and sometimes not so much today i'll be surfing a perfect wave but this wave is not provided by nature in fact this wave exists as a monument to man's contempt for nature this is the world's greatest man-made wave [Music] nervous i never get nervous but i'm nervous it is an extraordinary privilege to be here and what i mean by that is there's only one of these in the world and this place is so expensive to operate to like rent it out for one day is like 50 000 now i didn't pay that i'm a guest but i get like three two four three tries something like that and i'm nervous i'm gonna screw it up and it's like a it's it's like the most expensive wave in the world and if i screw it up that's my shot so i'm nervous oh this dude yeah i think this is a woman's suit [Music] all right i'm up are you nervous i'm so nervous i'm nervous for you okay here what do you want to do with it just keep it safe are you nervous at all a little bit yeah you are are you terrified are you really terrified what did that guy just pass this what did he say he said it was a lot harder than it looks what does that mean we're up in 30 seconds [Music] did you take my camera okay [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you gonna get on a surfboard nope do you think you could do it on a surfboard yeah i could probably do it i think so [Music] the wave pool is 2 000 feet long and 500 feet wide [Music] development and construction of the pool took over 10 years and cost roughly 30 million dollars [Music] it takes 15 million gallons of water to fill the pool and the wave that it creates is roughly six and a half feet tall [Music] the wave is generated by this blue choo choo train [Music] moves down the track it forces water into the pool creating the waves [Music] so are we going home nice belly shirt are we going home are we going home tonight are we sleeping in a hotel tonight i think we should sleep in a hotel what about our children i see them every day [Laughter] [Music] i feel like i've been neglecting you all day it's okay i learned a new word tell me shred did you know that surfers like to use that word a lot that's right stoked is another one i think it's s-t-o-k-e-d [Music] we uh we ended up staying at the surf ranch so late last night that we had to stay in a hotel instead of driving home cause it's just too late to drive so now we're at walmart buying presents for the kids and candace's mom because we feel guilty because we stayed an extra night what took you so long if i said text me when you get to the front why didn't you just text me that you were gone already you were in there for 45 minutes [Music] you

Channel: CaseyNeistat

Views: 3,426,356

Rating: 4.9264493 out of 5

Keywords: surf, wavepool, kelly slater, waco, expensive, airstream, kook, big waves

Id: JWEYGDpTfAA

Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 27 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Vegan_Biltong_co_za]

The wave pool is Kelly Slater's Surf Ranch. Its been all the talk of the surfing world for years. The WSL bought a majority stake in the facility. The waves it creates are really similar to what occurs naturally at Super Tubes in Jefferys Bay South Africa.

[u/jordankyng]

Casey is really really good at telling a story, incredible how he made such a straightforward thing like surfing in a wave pool to a exciting thrilling story.

[u/clintabner]

Makes me wanna surf!