Heterodyning:
Know the difference.
Posted on 12/02/2022 7:49:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
Four other tourists “sustained non-life-threatening injuries” and were treated onboard.
The ship suffered minor damage and was anchored off Ushuaia, 3,200 kilometers (nearly 2,000 miles) from the capital Buenos Aires, with several windows smashed on the side, AFP journalists reported.
Viking said it was “investigating the facts surrounding this incident.”
Scientists often refer to rogue waves as extreme storm waves that surge out of nowhere, often in an unpredictable direction, and can look like a steep wall of water, up to twice the size of surrounding waves.
These rare killer waves were once seen as a myth reported by mariners or explorers. The polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote in his book of a “gigantic” freak wave he encountered in Antarctica in 1916.
However, scientists have learned more about them in recent decades, studying how they emerge and how to predict the wall of water that can surge up even in calm seas.
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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.
“Near the shore” .... wonder how near. Dead/gone within a few minutes in the frigid water. What a terrible way to go.
Everything goes numb very quickly.
Of course, with more clothing/insulation, it takes more time.
Thanks Larry know Annie and I know whats for dinner, the Buena Park one is a mile away
Indeed. Mariners were taught about rogue waves for centuries before scientists “admitted” their mistaken bias.
Scientists are biased and wrong about a lot of things and not just rogue waves.
You go out on cold water, your life is at risk. On a whale watching cruise in the St Lawrence, all passengers were warned that if you fell overboard, you would be hypothermic by the time the vessel turned around to retrieve you and dead before it got to your body. The human brain likes a warm body.
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.
Yes.
Or a wave generated by an undersea earthquake or avalanche.
Heterodyning:
Know the difference.
I'll never forget the day I proved to the whole office that 2600 Hz Signal Frequencies from two different oscillators from each end of the country would drift and occasionally reach 180° out of phase cancelling each other out causing the phone connection to drop off.
Frequency waves act like ocean waves.
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