[SunkenCiv]

• Danger on the seas as walls of water sink tankers [11/09/2002]

  And only two years ago the British superliner Oriana was struck by a 70ft wave that smashed windows and sent water cascading through the ship, swamping six of its 10 decks. A month later eight men were killed when a freak wave struck the Anorient trawler 87 miles west of Loop Head in Co Clare...

• Clare Places: Islands: Mutton Island or Enniskerry (9th century catastrophe in Ireland) [1/18/2005]

  According to the "Annals of the Four Masters" the island was once called Fitha Island and it formed part of the mainland until the day "the sea swelled so high that it burst its boundaries, overflowing a large tract of country, and drowning over 1,000 persons." This happened on March 16th, 804... "the sea divided the island of Fitha into three parts." These three islands are Mutton Island, Inismattle (or Illanwattle) and Roanshee (or Carrig na Ron). There is a fourth island in the area called Carraig Aolacan.

• 6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery [5/13/2012]

  ...Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden on Fanore Beach in north Clare have revealed it to be at least 6,000 years old... The archaeologists are also hoping to establish the make-up of a mysterious substance found during the excavation. The substance, which is two or three inches deep, disintegrates when it comes in contact with air. A large slab of the material has remained intact on an ancient settlement, indicating that a large amount of it was laid down at once, possibly as the result of a tsunami.

Welcome to FreeRepublic. :') If you're new here, brace yourself for a number of brainless, canned responses about getting gov't grants, "we're all gonna die", "Calling Art Bell", and other idiocy.

---

join or quit view topics view or post blog bookmark post new topic subscribe

---

[BenLurkin]

If you’re new here, brace yourself for a number of brainless, canned responses about getting gov’t grants, “we’re all gonna die”, “Calling Art Bell”, and other idiocy.

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav

[colorado tanker]

And only two years ago the British superliner Oriana was struck by a 70ft wave that smashed windows and sent water cascading through the ship, swamping six of its 10 decks. A month later eight men were killed when a freak wave struck the Anorient trawler 87 miles west of Loop Head in Co Clare...

That would be a rogue wave, a different phenomenon than tsunamis. For years most people refused to believe they existed.