[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.

[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?

[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...

[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.

[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)

[SgtHooper]

Not to be outdone by the waves of illegal aliens pouring into this great country!

[rlmorel]

I think this was the one I was thinking of: "In 1933 in the North Pacific, the U.S. Navy oiler USS Ramapo (AO-12) encountered a huge wave. The crew triangulated its height at 112 feet (34 m)."

[Organic Panic]

Eddie would go brah!

[caver]

Are these some of the same scientists that tell us about global cooling/warming/change?

[dfwgator]

Surf’s Up!

[Trump-a-licious]

[vpintheak]

Caused by globull warming?

[So Cal Rocket]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Trinidad California had a pretty big wave

“A fact not known to many is the highest wave ever recorded struck in Trinidad on December 31, 1913. Lighthouse Keeper, Fred Harrington, was performing his duties in the lighthouse perched 196 feet above sea level during a ferocious winter storm. As he turned to wipe the lantern room windows, he observed “a sea of unusual height”. In his words, “ The sea itself fell onto the top of the bluff and struck the tower on a level with the balcony, making a terrible jar.” The spray flew forty feet above the crest. The lens was thrown off level by the wave but the plucky Mr. Harrington had the light back in operation in a half an hour. Harrington also recorded observing waves crashing over nearby Pilot Rock (103 feet) - known as “a perfect 10 over Pilot” these days.”

http://trinidad-ca.com/discover/lighthouses.html