In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high. A ...
Like the kraken, or going out for just one beer with the boys, rogue waves were once the stuff of myth. However, in recent years, scientists have been studying, analyzing, and documenting these ...
Giant waves crash over the lighthouse in Sassnitz, Germany. Due to a storm on October 20, 2023, the first streets and shore areas on the Baltic Sea coast were flooded by high water. However, one ...
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For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls of water in the open ocean to ghostly ripples inside atoms. What has ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Rogue waves have ...
The ocean is an intriguing and mysterious place. For every new species of sea creature we find, there are an untold number of others waiting to be discovered. But it isn't just sea life that has kept ...
Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...