I spent countless hours in and on the Pacific Ocean off Southern California and Baja in my youth, body surfing, diving, fishing, boating, and just goofing off. There were many times when enormous waves came out of nowhere. The ocean is not as predictable as we would would like it to be.
Wow! We haven't had a Freak Wave thread for a long time. There are more Killer Asteroid threads and should be another on KW4.
"KW4, the astronomers say, is actually a pair of light, porous clusters of rubble that circle each other as they orbit from a point closer to the Sun than Mercury and then outward - occasionally passing very close to Earth along the way. The bodies were discovered in 1999, but not known to be binary until they were observed in May 2001, when they came to within 3 million miles of Earth - this asteroid's closest pass until 2036."
--spaceflightnow.com
Imagine one of those bad boys from the deck of a 32 foot snapper boat. I had to bend over backwards to see the top of the damned thing. It might have broken a bigger boat in half. I thank God for the man who invented flush decked boats. We were working with another boat, 45 foot, open cockpit astern, never saw them again. I used up all my being scared, that day.
in 1992 or '93 I was slated to go out from norfolk on submarine y, but while sub y was on on the surface during work up or cert, i forget which, it got hit by a rogue wave.
Anyway, sub y took a bunch of water and it was a big mess. So, a few days later than planned, we went out on sub x instead. I've been kinda keen on learning bout these things every since.
God's got him a neat little marble in the game with this here planet.
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