Posted on 02/14/2022 7:34:48 AM PST by logi_cal869
In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).
The four-story wall of water has now been confirmed as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded.
Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years. And unless the buoy had been taken for a ride, we might never have known it even happened.
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Science. /s
Sialors have been reporting such waves for over a thousand years, but because SCIENCISTS! have not experienced them they are just so much rarer.
Total garbage. On our sub we had a 60 swell suck it to the surface back in the 1980s in the North Atlantic, granted it was a storm but such waves are not rare at all.
Unfortunately? Tell that to the surfers. :-} Science. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it..............
What, you’re not going to just take their word for it?
Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.
> Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.
Until you actually start looking for them. The more you look for something, the more you’ll find.
Does anyone else see a problem with these two sentences?
Only SCIENCE can experience things that are real. Everyone else can’t.
Below South America and Africa, as accounted is the classic, “Two Years Before the Mast” and others, huge swells that circle the earth at that latitude were reported in the book to reach higher than the highest mast and mainsail - what 200 feet high? Whew!
“Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.”
I think that was the original mathematical projection, which lasted until satellites blew it away, documenting dozens of super waves every day around the world. But, as like when satellites also disproved global warming, their response is to ignore the data.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
About waves, I’d also like to note that Antarctic waters in their winter are unnavigable except to submarines. Even if skies are clear, on the last day of fall, all surface ships make a beeline out of there. (This is a big reason that the Antarctic stations are so isolated during their winter.)
Exactly!
Just like green VW ‘Bugs’.
I’m more concerned about the rouge wave in America.
So the wife an I were in Daytona for a nascar race back in the day and on the way to the track we kept seeing flatbed tow trucks with vehicles covered in sand...a bunch of ‘em.
At first I figured it was just drunks parked on the beach at night and got caught when the tide came in.
Later when we got back to the hotel the news was reporting an 18’ wave hit the beach over night so no one saw it coming.
Not big as yours but your correct...they’re more common than people think.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-07-05-9207050499-story.html
Right. I assumed they specifically meant a wave that occurred in an otherwise calmer sea.
I believe the highest non-tsunami wave on record was over 90 feet, and was recorded by a US Navy oiler (USS Rampao) in the Pacific in 1933 at 112 feet. I recall they were able to measure it using the height of the wave measured from a point on their deck to a point on their mast.
The largest wave of any kind seen by humans was in Alaska in 1958 at 1,720 feet when an earthquake caused a landslide into a bay.
That man has large testicles
No.
Did they slip a reference to covid into that story?
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