That's in Scotland, Dan.

- Well, thanks. - Yeah.

We're at the "FloWave Research Facility"

at the University of Edinburgh

in this giant wave pool.

It's about 82 feet across,

and it's got 168 individual little

wave pusher paddles.

Gav: It's capable of creating hundreds

of different types of waves found in nature,

for various testing purposes.

But with the simultaneous activation

of all of the pushers, you can create

one giant spike wave right in the middle,

and that's what we're gonna get in slow-mo.

So we're here for the fun, silly wave?

- That's correct, yeah. - Okay, right.

Dan: We've waited for the water to settle,

'cause apparently that's the best

to get the optimum large spike

because any sort of disturbance in the water

dissipates the energy slightly.

So really focusing it to the middle.

Got the Phantom set to 1,000 frames a second,

and we've also got some very bright lights

concentrated on the middle of the pool,

cause that's where the spike wave is gonna be.

I think we're ready.

- I think so. - Let's do it.

Dan: Oh, you can see the movement. Oh.

- Building up. - It's weird to just have perfect ripples.

- Building up. - Oh, look at that.

- Here we go. - Here it is.

- Whoa. Whoa! - Flippin' A.

- That was a really good one. - That was really good.

I liked how clear it was in the middle.

Gav: That is so weird looking.

Dan: The grid on the floor, it makes it look really...

- Gav: It looks like-- it looks like a wormhole. - ...computer generated.

Gav: It looks like someone's just pulling

- on space time. - Dan: Yeah.

Whoa. That's satisfyingly clear.

Gav: That is crazy.

It looks like-- you know when you drop

one single droplet in water

and it just goes... ( imitates drop )

It looks like that on a massive scale.

Gav: Look at what it did to the reflection on the wall.

- It focused. - That's the light bouncing.

Gav: It was, like, briefly a magnifying glass

on that part of the wall.

- Dan: That's a weird look as well, isn't it? - All falling back.

Gav: All right, look how much that sank down.

- Gav: That's really cool. - Dan: Ahh.

( both imitating splash )

I'm ready for the skadoosh.

- Here we go. - ( gasps )

- ( imitating splash ) - Oh!

- ( Dan laughs ) - Gav: Absolutely colossal.

- Gav: Yeah, look at that. Traveling up the column. - Dan: Oh, wow.

You matched the speed pretty well there.

Gav: I caught up with it, yeah.

Dan: That's solid.

- Gav: Oh, right in the roof. - Dan: Good effort.

- At that point, it's like-- - Gav: Enough of that.

- Let's come back down. - Dan: Yeah.

Gav: Look at the reflection. You see the reflection

- either side of the spike? - Dan: Yeah.

- It looks so crystal. - ( Gav imitating splash )

Gav: What are we seeing right there?

Dan: It looks like a glass sword.

Gav: That looks amazing. Look how smooth that looks.

Gav: Nailed it.

Nice.

Dan, have you ever done this before?

What? Sat in a giant wave pool with a thousand rubber ducks?

- Yeah. - Buried? No.

I haven't, actually. It's funny, that.

So, your job is to go out to the middle

and disperse them nicely.

Okay. Lovely.

All right, it looks like you're all set.

It's actually quite hard to row

when I'm covered in ducks.

- It looks like you're going off on a voyage. - Yeah.

- Looks-- this is fun. - So how are you gonna

get them out of the boat in the water?

Oh, I guess really slowly.

I'm not really sure what I'm looking at.

( Dan grunts )

Bath time.

Gav: That's a lot of ducks.

- Okay, I'm good. - It looks good.

- Done. - All right, duck close-up.

Dan: I wonder how airborne we can get here.

My bet is on, uh, Steven.

- Dan: Oh, yeah, Stevie. - He's the 95th duck from the right.

Dan: All the ducks are in the middle.

Bwosh! Whoa!

There's one-- one just landed.

One flew off over there.

That was amazing.

Dan: It's like a really fun bath, this.

Wow, they flew. You nailed the timing there.

Gav: Not the most light up there,

- but enough to see ducks. - I mean, you can tell

what's happening, right?

It's raining ducks down.

- Those ducks just went-- - Dan: Bwosh!

I like how you can see the ducks

on the other side of the spike as well.

If you look at it, you look through the water,

you can see through mid-air water,

into the base of other ducks.

Gav: Yeah. Is that the duck that went flying off?

Dan: I don't know.

Dan: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, look there he goes. There he goes.

Gav: One duck just sort of flying.

Dan: He got caught the backsplash,

so he got the secondary jet.

And now it's just raining ducks.

Gav: It's just raining ducks, yeah.

Dan: That was class.

And I think Steven was the one who went the highest, so--

- Can we verify that? - No.

- Can we get-- no? - Don't think we can.

- How do you feel, right... - Yeah?

- about taking it right in the face? - Okay, all right.

I knew it was a matter of time before you asked me.

- Glad you asked, obviously. - Yeah. Yeah, obviously.

Um, I'd say not full beans.

- So, half beans? - Yeah.

- Medium beans? - Medium beans.

All right. We can deal with that.

- Okay. - All right, well, let's--

let's move the old gantry over

and lean over the edge of it.

Brilliant.

Okay, I'm ready!

Dan, are you nervous?

Uh, it's hard not to be. Ooh.

Oh. Oh!

- Directly up my nose. - Where are your goggles?

Oh, no! They just disappeared.

Gav: Oh, okay. Here we go. Here it comes.

Dan: It looks like a tongue reaching out to--

- Ooh! - Gav: Right in the nose.

- Look how, like-- - Dan: Look at my nose! Look at that.

Look at that, like, blade of water coming out. You see that?

Gav: It's going straight up your nostrils.

Dan: And then I don't have any glasses on.

What happened to my glasses? Rewind it, see if--

Gav: Let's see if we can see where they went.

Those glasses were almost pointless.

Dan: They got, like, lifted off my face.

- Gav: Oh, yeah. - They're still there,

and then they get, like, lifted off.

Dan: So, I'm the only person

to ever get splashed by this wave tank, really.

Gav: Yeah, that's an honor, I think.

Dan: I think so.

Well, Dan, this is a precarious position.

I can't say I've ever protected the camera with my face before.

So we got the camera looking down into the waves.

I feel that would be quite a surreal shot.

But we also don't want to blast the lens and camera,

so Dan has volunteered his face again

to take the brunt of the wave.

We've also got a nice optical flap over the lens to protect it,

and we've bagged it so it doesn't get wet.

Hopefully, this should be a very surreal

and cool looking shot, but we will get wet.

And hopefully we won't break the camera as well.

Let me know when it's gonna come,

cause I don't-- I can't really see anything.

Now it is. Here we go.

Both: Whoa!

Whoa.

Gav: That looks so weird.

Because it's looking right over the grid,

it looks like it's warping space.

- Dan: Yeah. - Gav: That's really good.

Dan: It was like someone just took a bucket

and went, like, up my nose. Just like, "Ahh."

Gav: That's exactly what it looked like.

Dan: Straight up my nose.

( chuckling )

Took it to the grid. Right in the grid hole.

Gav: Didn't even need the bag, after all that.

- I think we're good. - We need to save it.

Yeah.

- ( air whooshing ) - ( both shouting )

- Jeez. - The automatic airbag went off.

Oh, my God.

Well, Dan, that was some very surreal,

but very satisfying slow-mo footage.

It was. It was a varied day for me as well.

- Very fun. - Yeah, not your typical day.

I mean, I wasn't expecting to be

doing what I did today, to be honest.

- I don't think anyone was. - No.

And we sent some ducks to the moon, which is always a good thing.

Hopefully, you enjoyed that video.

Feel free to check out part two,

where we'll be learning more about waves,

in this place that's over here.

And you can subscribe, 'cause that would be lovely,

and you can come back whenever we make videos.

I've just realized we've left a thousand ducks in the pool.

Should we clean that up? We probably should.

Probably go back in there and clean that up, yeah.

Do you think they'd notice if we left them there?

- Gav: I think they would, yeah. - Dan: Oh.