Makin' Waves

Makin' Waves is the fifth level in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. Taking place during ye olde days of pirates, this stage sees Coco riding her nifty new anachronistic jet-ski! While ostensibly endowed with free-roaming mechanics, in practice this is still a rather linear level, as Coco cannot jettishly ski outside the buoys, which force her in a rather linear sort of path. Along the way, she'll have to avoid cannonballs fired off by pirate ships, non-Bowling Bombs, annoying seagulls, surprisingly non-menacing sharks, and Lab Assistants in shoddily constructed rowboats!

Trivia

 * This level's name is almost certainly a reference to the popular and famous 1980 album Making Waves, released by famous Irish girl group The Nolans. This is appropriate, since Coco Bandicoot is a female girl woman, just like the Nolan sisters, and Julia Duckworth. Containing hits such as "Touch Me in the Morning" and "Sexy Music", the album was a worldwide success, particularly in Australia - where it was certified quintuple platinum - and Japan - where it was renamed Happy Dating Love (恋のハッピー・デート), mirroring the fact that Coco was probably also renamed something stupid in the Japanese version of this game.
 * Contrary to the absurd scenes depicted in this level, crates during the pirate era universally contained oranges, a fruit necessary to fight off scurvy due to their massively intense Vitamin C content, and not Wumpa Fruit, which contain no Vitamin C at all, because they do not exist. This level shares this glaring error with Tell No Tales, Ski Crazed, and Hot Coco.
 * After fully completing the game, one can see Fake Crash in this stage, a trait it shares with Toad Village and Hog Ride. Watch for him on the right edge of the route, dancing on an island near the end of the level. Having to resort to dancing alone is an immensely depressing experience - this deep existential despair might explain why he can't ever seem to even muster enough strength to trim his hideously overgrown eyebrows.