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It annoys my wife but I like to stay at home. Traveler’s stories almost invariably convince me of this.
/mark
Also - I think - known as a soliton wave.
A 26-foot wave wouldn’t make it over the deck on most cruise ships ....
People have a hard time believing me that worst storms at sea I ever saw were in the Med. I remember feeling a little embarrassed that our DLG was sinking and I was going to die 50 miles off the coast of Ibiza.
Green water over your bow is never a good thing.
That area, the Bay of Biscay, is notorious for rogue waves. Something about the undersea terrain is conducive to the formation of such waves.