Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Mar de Fondo

Mar de Fondo (reply)

HolyMole — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:38:08 +0000

....... We ended up getting hammered by rouge waves.......

That would be your red tide.

Mar de Fondo (reply)

Dione — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 04:11:34 +0000

First week of May 2015 on Playa Blanca we experienced the ocean swell you are talking about. In all my years of traveling never saw anything like it. My girlfriend and I walked the beach along the break wall thinking we would be safe. We ended up getting hammered by rouge waves. We grabbed each other and got dragged out into the ocean. It was a very scary experience for us. We now know, understand and respect mar de fondo .

Mar de Fondo (reply)

JeffMN — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:13:27 +0000

Yes, I can see by how far up la Playa Madera the waves are carrying. May be a mess for some people (and maybe even yet another indication of the real threat of global climate change), but we were there for a mar de fondo in March and it made for some great pix.

Mar de Fondo

ZihuaRob — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:19:45 +0000

If you follow the link and put the wave energy forecast map in motion you'll see the effect we know as mar de fondo hit our coast this coming Sunday with a second episode shortly thereafter. While it looks neat on the map and the surfers will be thrilled, coastal residents are at risk of losing life and property as the powerful massive waves can cause severe coastal erosion. I don't ever recall a year with so many incidents of the mar de fondo effect. We seem to have had one right after the other pretty much every month.

http://www.surf-forecast.com/weather_maps/Mexico