[C19fan]

Cthulhu or Godzilla on the move.

[dfwgator]

Surf’s Up!

[Hot Tabasco]

Could this be the big one that takes California into the sea?

[Puppage]

[BenLurkin]

Or maybe an anti-cyclone.

[M Kehoe]

Where is it going?

5.56mm

[Delta 21]

Any other buoys confirm? Speed? Direction?

[freedumb2003]

Everyone remember the surfer?

[21twelve]

I read a great book called “The Wave”. It starts out with this scientist lady researching large, rogue waves. And what the largest ever recorded was, what it could be, etc. She started off going around to various labs. But after the third lab told her that she would be better off talking to surfers - she did.

She followed them around on their crazy quest for catching “The Big One”. The surfers had a network of people all over the world connected via emails, etc. Many of them were also really into forecasting the weather, etc. Disagreements on where to fly to next. (Mozambique or California?) The dream was to surf a 100-footer. With dozens of extreme surfers showing up on some remote beach trying to catch it.

I'm not sure if the 100-footer was officially ever documented. I think the surfers said there have been a couple. But a really interesting book (true story) with a good mix of science and people and the surfer attitude.

[outofsalt]

[capt. norm]

Oh NO....Elizabeth.....it's the big one.

[Bob]

Strange graph — for wave height, the lowest point on it is about 10 meters on large dips below what looks to be a nominal level of 14 meters. I just don’t understand.

[con-surf-ative]

There is a big difference between a 64 foot swell in the open ocean and a 64 foot face on a breaking wave as it approaches shore. In the open sea, roughly 2/3 of a wave’s size is underwater, and as it approaches shallower water, the shallower bottom causes the wave stand up until finally the drag created by the bottom causes the top of the wave to topple over or break.

Although this 64 foot swell will break as a huge wave at its final destination, it is unlikely to be 100 plus feet, because much of a wave’s size and energy is dissipated as it travels across the open ocean and hits rocks, reefs or islands before finally reaching the continental shore.

[Nifster]

The Ninth Wave

[Keyhopper]

I’m torn between global warming or blaming Trump

[RayChuang88]

No, the oceans surrounding Antarctica are some of the roughest seas in the world. In fact, when satellites first detected these rogue waves, they found them mostly in Southern Ocean surround that continent, especially the strong winds and currents of the so-called Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties, and Shrieking Sixties of 40 to 70 degrees south Latitude.

[Riley]

There’s got to be a morning after...

[stylin19a]

Wave Bouy

[Paladin2]

N-Way superposition

[Mat_Helm]

The equatorial bulge has the ocean depth 400 feet deeper at the equator than it is at the poles. Have the earth tilt off its axis even a little from pole shift abruptly and have tidal waves several hundred feet high swamping coastlines inland like a big sloshing bathtub.

[telstar12.5]

USS Ramapoo 1933 112’ measured