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An interesting shot, but not what the team were after
有趣的拍摄 但这不是小组想要的
So why were there no big waves?
为什么那里没有大浪呢？
There's no land between here and Kamchatka, 3,000 miles away 3000
3000英里外的堪察加和这里之间没有陆地
And it's funny that the waves that arrive here
这很有趣，海浪要到达这里
start off around Japan, around the east coast of Russia
先从日本或俄罗斯东岸开始
And when a storm hits these places
当风暴袭击这些地方时
it whips up the sea, generating swell
激发海洋产生汹涌大浪
It's rather like throwing a pebble into a pool
这相当于将一颗卵石投入水池
The ripples radiate outwards which
向外发生涟漪 向外产生涟漪
when they reach land, make waves
当到达陆地时产生海浪
So if the size of these waves was anything to go by
要是海浪的规模达到横扫一切的话
Japan and Russia were having some unusually mild winter weather
日本和俄罗斯就会有明显的暖冬气候
And that was more than you could say for Pohnpei
对波恩佩来说尤甚如此
And there were still no big waves
这里依然没有大浪
The only good news was that the housing was still working
唯一的好消息是外壳仍在工作
and remained watertight
依旧密封
despite being soundly tested both below and above the water
不管是水上还是水下都很好
And then, when the team thought things couldn't get any worse
然后，小组考虑到事情没有任何差错
If conditions got any calmer here
如果再风平浪静下去
we'd probably have small boys out sailing their toy boats out on this millpond!
或许就有小男孩在水池里开玩具船了
I mean, we came for 12-foot barrelling waves
我们为12英尺的卷浪而来
and we've got what a sort of gentle riffle at the moment
而现在我们只拍到一些温和的浅浪
Time to check the swell charts
到时间检查海图了
There was better news on the Russian front -
前方的俄罗斯有更好的消息
a big storm sending swell Pohnpei's way
一场大风暴正朝波恩佩袭来
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