Bush!
Posted on 07/11/2006 7:58:14 AM PDT by Grendel9
The storm was nothing special. Its waves rocked the Norwegian Dawn just enough so that bartenders on the cruise ship turned to the usual palliative — free drinks.
Ten, off the coast of Georgia, early on Saturday, April 16, 2005, a giant, seven-story wave appeared out of nowhere. It crashed into the bow, sent deck chairs flying, smashed windows, raced as high as the 10th deck, flooded 62 cabins, injured 4 passengers and sowed widespread fear and panic.
“The ship was like a cork in a bathtub,” recalled Celestine Mcelhatton, a passenger who, along with 2,000 others, eventually made it back to Pier 88 on the Hudson River in Manhattan. Some vowed never to sail again.
Enormous waves that sweep the ocean are traditionally called rogue waves, implying that they have a kind of freakish rarity. Over the decades, skeptical oceanographers have doubted their existence and tended to lump them together with sightings of mermaids and sea monsters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
There should be some Navy or Merchant Marine freepers who could share their experiences with giant waves while out at sea - any one?
Bush!
Did the Times have any coverage today of yesterday's protest outside their office? Or are they consumed with this kind of "news"?
We are only 600+ years removed from when we thought the world flat... and that 'bleeding' was a cure for common maladies.
ping 4 later
And we are still in a dark ages where some people see the government as a cure for all ills.
anyone who knows anything at all about wave mechanics knows that this is not only possible but highly probable.
When you have two (ore mor) waves positioned just right, the high and low troughs of the waves ADD together.
If a high and low trough of a wave meet you will have no wave at that point at all, but the waves will actually contune past that point.
However if two (or more) highs happend to meet- look out, you could get waves beyond imagine (hundreds of feet)
And I bet half of them have already filed lawsuits against the ship owner.
-ccm
That's it. I'm never even going to the beach again.
That is one scarey set of photos.
No kidding. Centuries of sailor tales of enormous waves mean nothing until an oceanographer experiences one. For the freeper physicist how about Fourier analysis?
Spot on mate!
AMEN
It's for the Children!!!
Something fishy is going on in the last sentence quoted above. Supposedly the rogue wave problem occurs when currents move in the opposite direction from winds. However, "prevailing easterly winds" blow from the East towards the West, while "westward-flowing current" also flows from the East towards the West. So, this would seem to be in contradiction of the earlier statement, since the Agulhas current seems to be flowing with the wind instead of opposite to the wind. But, then, this is the New York Times, so nothing that is printed there can be taken at face value...
Well, we've covered a lot of ground
since those days.
But we have to ask science WHICH is
it re the Bermuda Triangle...Giant Waves
inundating lost ships or pockets of methane
gas exuding from the ocean floor?
How soon will the Libs begin tying this
one to Global Warming, too!?
I would go with the latter. I would also venture that UFO's are not extraterrestrial... and that ghosts/hauntings... have nothing to do with the afterlife.
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