The 'Black Dragon' is a tidal bore on the Qiantang River, which is at the head of trumpet-bell-shaped Hangzhou Bay in China. Because of the shape of the bay, the tide gets focused into a regular, strong bore (a forward-moving wave that can travel for quite a distance upriver in certain places). Every now and then conditions set up to make the tidal bore considerably bigger than normal, and when that happens, people that gather to watch can be surprised.
This has happened before, but it happened again recently. It's kind of funny, but people do get hurt, too. Fortunately this time I don't think anyone was killed. And it's an impressive natural phenomenon.
Powerful tidal wave [that's actually a correct description] catches hundreds of Chinese spectators off-guard (with video)
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| The tide is coming in |
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