Scientist Confirm the Largest Wave Ever Recorded (Over 62 Feet)

Popular Mechanics ^ | Dec 15, 2016 | David Grossman

[freedumb2003]

Surf's up!

[Az Joe]

62 feet? Is that all?!

I dated WAVES bigger than that when I was in the Navy in the ‘70s! You ride one of those you know you’ve rode... let me tell ya!

But the most fun was ridin’ the Marine’s girlfriends!

[Snickering Hound]

[Real Cynic No More]

Uh, there have been higher waves recorded off of South America and South Africa. I seem to recall reading of extreme waves much higher.

[SaveFerris]

Always yell "Cannonball!" first

[chrisser]

Another result of global warming, I’ll bet...

[lee martell]

So Michael Moore going skinny dipping, while hunting for Nessie had nothing to do with that big ‘ol wave?

[rockrr]

At a little over 62 feet, the North Atlantic wave was the size of a six-story building.

OK, so I gotta ask - where did it go?

[BenLurkin]

[JimSEA]

This article gives some perspective to the bravery of the crews and passengers of the tiny wooden ships some of our ancestors came across the Atlantic on. For instance, the Mayflower was some 80’ long and at the widest point 24’. In this ship were packed 102 passengers and 30 crew. Wow!!

[heterosupremacist]

I may be mistaken, but I was always taught that waves were measured by the back side - which would make the ‘face’ of the wave 124’ feet?

Help me out, Freepers...

[heterosupremacist]

[dainbramaged]

Plenty of bigger waves out there, they just haven’t been recorded by a buoy. Two of the most overestimated occurrences in the marine world are wave height and wind speed.

[Fair Paul]

It’s probably the only nice thing I can say about him, but he was hilarious in that movie.

[rlmorel]

This is the largest actually recorded by mechanical means. I think the largest wave actually ever observed was 90+ feet in 1936 (IIRC) from a US navy ship. They triangulated the height based on the distance between a mast structure on the forward section of the ship and the bridge and the top of the wave (during a typhoon)

[Doogle]

I was just going to ask about that location....and he ain’t at the bottom yet...looks more than 62

[A Navy Vet]

"I seem to recall reading of extreme waves much higher."

This was probably a non-breaking wave. See the photo above that was estimated to be the largest surfed wave at about 80 feet as measured from the face.

[newfreep]

LOL! My first thought, too when I saw the thread title.

[telstar12.5]

1933 USS Ramapo 112’ wave height measured

see wiki

(this crap is over an automated buoy measurement, something buried in the original article.)