“Around Saint Pardon, on the banks of the Dordogne, thousands of spectators watch the tidal bore pass by every year at full moon,” the video reads. “Dozens of surfers seize this unique opportunity to ...

Everybody is soaking wet and screaming. Only your guide remains calm. No water park can match the thrills of riding Canada's surging, churning waters in what's known as "tidal bore rafting". In Nova ...

Deep in the wilds of Alaska lies the Turnagain Arm – aka “one of the world’s biggest bore tides.” It’s a waterway, not too far from Anchorage, naturally constructed between two snow-coated slopes, ...

Crowds gathered along the Qiantang river in Hangzhou, China, on 27 July to watch the “Silver Dragon” pass. This is no fire-breathing monster, though, but a tidal bore, a phenomenon where a tidal wave ...

Six middle-aged women in bright yellow rubber suits and life jackets hurry the last 10 metres to the riverbank. Their feet are sinking ankle-deep into the rusty-brown mud, each step making a loud ...