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Note: this topic is from 11/18/2005.

Mutton Island keyword, from the FRchives, with dates, maybe some figs:

• 6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery [5/13/2012]
• 1014 AD impact event causes Atlantic tsunami and end of Aztec's Fourth Sun? [1/11/2012]
• Aleutian finding topples [TSUNAMI] theory [12/26/2004]
• SHIP-SINKING MONSTER WAVES REVEALED BY ESA SATELLITES [7/25/2004]
• 'Rogue waves' reported by mariners get scientific backing [7/23/2004]
• Ship-sinking monster waves revealed by ESA satellites [7/22/2004]

This is probably my second favorite topic (#1 is that underused Bisons topic), and it has been a few years since any update.

[colorado tanker]

It wasn't that long ago that the "consensus" was there was no such thing as a rogue wave. Whodda thought a consensus could be wrong???

I am following Homer's 70 years ago today in WWII threads. Not that long ago a typhoon took off the bow of a heavy cruiser, USS Pittsburgh. There is a lot of power in that water.

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