Surfing the Severn: tidal bores

From the BBC:

Thursday 20th March sees the first of this year’s large Severn Bores -- a spectacular natural phenomenon which attracts sightseers and surfers from near and far. . .

The bore exists in the Severn because the estuary is just the right shape for funnelling the incoming tides of the Bristol Channel. . .
When conditions are favourable. . . the surge of water is sufficient to form a wave as much as two metres high, with a speed of 14 knots.

Cool. But this is what I want to see:

The biggest bore in the world is to be found in Hangzhou Bay south of Shanghai. The characteristic narrowing, increasingly shallow Bay and large tidal range combine to produce a bore that on the highest tides, can attain a height of over seven metres and a speed of up to 15 knots. It is said that the roar of the advancing bore can be heard at a distance of more than 20 kilometres.

Yeah, but it is rideable?

Posted by David on March 18, 2003 8:36 PM