Everyone likes to have a nice time and swim in the water during the summer. Most beaches are crowded for precisely that reason, especially around that time of year.

But when we’re close to water, it’s important to keep our senses of touch and scent intact. It only takes one error to be extremely dangerous. As it is, rip currents and often changing tides are common knowledge; nonetheless, one must be aware of the dangers posed by square waves.

It may be one of the most alluring and alluring objects in an ocean or other body of water, but it is also one of the most hazardous.

In case you were wondering, a square wave, also known as a cross sea, occurs when two or more waves come together to produce a pattern that is square and often resembles a checkerboard.

Sea with unusual square waves near the shore, against the blue sky. Beautiful spring landscape.
“The conditions are quite common in the ocean and occur when a windsea, and a swell, or two swell systems, coexist,” the European Space Agency (ESA) stated in 2010. “A large percentage of ship accidents occurred in crossing sea states,” according to a 2004 study.