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Because while massive amounts of water are traveling across open ocean, they just accumulate because there is plenty of deep water beneath them, so they look like a big lump of water. A wave like a tsunami does not break (or "curl") until it hits shallow water right at the beach. Then there is not enough water underneath it to support it and the "lump" collapses.

and my humps my humps my lovely little lumps

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