It's not all about the waves we see. Let's go under the surface to uncover where the mysterious internal waves like to form: Question 2: The Secret Life of Waves It's not all about the waves we see. Let's go under the surface to uncover where the mysterious internal waves like to form: in areas near coastal glaciers where large icebergs fall into the ocean in the nearshore environment where waves begin to "feel" the bottom along areas of rapidly changing density, such as a pycnocline along areas of rapidly changing temperature in the water column, such as the air-water interface?