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What Are The 3 Types Of Breaking Waves? [Solved]

There are four basic types of breaking waves: spilling, plunging, collapsing, and surging.Spilling waves are gentle waves with crests that break softly towards the shore. Plunging waves break when the ocean floor is steep or has sudden depth changes. A collapsing wave is a mix of spilling and plunging waves.

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Types of Waves

In this tutorial we look at the

How do waves break?

In this Episode 2 of Dr Rob Brander’s Science Of The Surf series, we explore about how the