in Interstellar the crew lands on the water planet ,right, but how can there be such huge waves with no water seen rushing to “feed” them?

Question

How do they have 1.2km high waves but the level of the water is beneath their knees and no water is seen to be moving at all?

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Answer 1

Waves aren’t caused by water “feeding” anything. Mostly they’re caused by wind, but they can be caused by other things even on Earth (like tectonic plate movements which can cause massive tsunamis).

I believe in the movie this is the planet orbiting really close to a black hole, right? Which has _massive_ gravity, so perhaps that “wave” is actually that planet’s incredibly violent tide.