The waves are not only foamy at their height, they are also 'peaked' and nearly 'level' throughout their arrival to the beach. In other words, the 'wavelength' this water is approaching shoreline is receiving mulitple direction of velocity.
These are 'rouge waves' arriving to the shoreline. There is no 'undertow' so much as there is simply heavy wave dynamics that would cause ANY PERSON entering the water to drown. The best swimmer could not survive these waves.
The 'lack' of a high or low to the wave 'form' provides the dynamics of nearly tsunami like movement without retreat. In other words, the 'tide' is not arriving so much as 'the wave' is crashing at one of it's termination points.
A lot of foam at the shoreline. Waves breaking very close to shore with high crests 'at' the beach shows a large volume of water to beach front ratio.
November 9, 2007
Criel-sur-mer, France
In Russia/Black Sea/Ukraine:
At least four ships sink and others are grounded as severe storms lash the Kerch Strait and Black Sea.
Russia launches operation to contain oil spill in Black Sea - 2 (click here)
17:41
12/ 11/ 2007
MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's emergencies ministry announced on Monday the launch of a major operation in a Black Sea strait to contain an oil spill after an oil tanker sank in a storm.
An oil tanker with 4,000 metric tons of fuel oil on board and three dry freighters containing sulfur went down on Sunday in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black Sea to the much smaller Sea of Azov. The bodies of three sailors have been found, and at least eight others are still missing, according to the ministry.
"Three teams have started an operation to contain the oil spill caused by the sinking of the Volgoneft-139," Emergency Situations Ministry Spokesman Viktor Beltsov said.
When the oil tanker split in two, about 2,000 metric tons of fuel oil and about 6,800 tons of sulfur spilled into the sea, in one of Russia's worst environmental disasters in recent years.
Oleg Mitvol, deputy head of Russia's environmental regulator, said the sinking of the ships in the Kerch Strait was "a very serious environmental disaster", and it would take more than a month to clear up the resulting environmental pollution.
Thousands of dead birds have since washed up along the shore of Russia's southern Krasnodar Territory near the site of the oil spill, a spokesman for the local administration said on Monday.
"According to the latest information, about 30,000 birds have died and about the same number are covered in oil. In other words, it is very likely they will die too," he said.
The Ukrainian prime minister said the government had allocated $3 million to repair damage caused by the storm.
Viktor Yanukovych said the government would make extra funds available as soon as the total damages had been assessed, adding that the oil slick presented no direct threat to Ukraine as it was currently moving in the opposite direction.
A Russian emergencies official said twelve kilometers of the Kerch Strait shore had been polluted with oil products.
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov to travel to the Kerch Strait "to deal with the situation and take appropriate measures."
Black Sea oil spill (click here)
Oil producer Rosneft to triple crude supplies to Asia by 2020 (click here)
