A short video filmed off the coast of Australia shows something strange happening in shallow water. Several large waves roll in at once, meet over a reef, and then do something unexpected.
Instead of breaking forward, the water pulls inward and shoots straight up into the air.
The strange shallow reef has been described as Earth’s Belly Button.
It looks wrong at first, like a glitch in the ocean.
The footage was captured by bodyboarders Chris White and Ben Allen while filming in clear, calm conditions. The waves are large, around twelve feet, and arrive at just the right angles.
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When they meet, the surface dips, tightens, and then releases. Water rises in a sudden vertical burst, repeating again and again as new sets roll through.
Check out the video below.
There is no trick here. No digital effects. Just timing, depth, and a very specific circular shape of reef beneath the surface.
Huge swells crash into each other, causing a massive vertical wave.
The best guess is that the reef acts like a pressure point. As multiple swells arrive together, they create a brief pocket where water has nowhere to go but up. It is a rare alignment, and one that likely happens only under a narrow set of conditions.
Captured by drone, the video needs to be seen to understand the movement.
What makes the video compelling is not just the scale of the wave, but how unfamiliar it feels. We are used to seeing waves break in predictable ways.
This one behaves differently, reminding us that the ocean does not always follow the patterns we expect.
The surfers refer to this as “the wave that shouldn’t exist”
Moments like this are easy to miss. They appear briefly, depend on chance, and disappear just as quickly. But when they are captured, they offer something simple and powerful: proof that the world still has room to surprise us.
A wave that shouldn’t exist, existing anyway.
Images © via Tension Movies.
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