Heterodyning:
Know the difference.
Science!
The Been There Done That Tee shirt comes with risks.
Gonna need a bigger boat
depending on how far they were from the antarctica, probably safe to assume it came from iceberg calving.
And at the bottom of this report is this tidbit-—
“””The incident comes two weeks after two tourists died on another Antarctic cruise. The two men, aged 76 and 80, had left the World Explorer ship for an excursion on an inflatable zodiac boat which overturned near the shore. — AFP”””
Looked up Ushuaia on the map. Never knew there is a Portillo’s right at the end of the cape. At least there is a Cmte Portillo on the map. No plans to visit any time soon, though.
A friend and I got caught in a rouge wave one summer evening on the N.Oregon coast.
We heard a strange sound, saw this pulse of water coming and we RAN as fast as possible ‘up’ the beach...(this was a very shallow beach with 1/4 mile at least between high and low tide). After running 200’ we jumped onto a large ‘driftwood’ log and the wave passed us by and went at least 200’ more before receding.
We were alright but two women were drowned in Seaside, OR by the same wave while they were taking a stroll after watching a movie.
A real pity for those folks.
Too bad it wasn't a rouge wave.
It would've been much smaller than expected.
While working in the North Sea in about 1980, a rogue wave hit our drilling rig. It sweept off the equipment on the helideck. That helideck was about 120 feet above the ocean. No injuries as all were in quarters due to the extreme weather. It scared the hell out of all of us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
Some interesting details here, including the scientific skepticism (since typically no one who encountered a rogue wave at sea lived to tell the tale.) I recall the “Three Sisters” phenomena as a likely explanation/contributor in the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.
Heterodyning:
Know the difference.