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Scientist Confirm the Largest Wave Ever Recorded (Over 62 Feet)
Popular Mechanics ^
| Dec 15, 2016
| David Grossman
Posted on 12/16/2016 2:46:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Surf's up!
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posted on
12/16/2016 2:49:15 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Good morning President Trump)
To: nickcarraway
62 feet? Is that all?!
I dated WAVES bigger than that when I was in the Navy in the ‘70s! You ride one of those you know you’ve rode... let me tell ya!
But the most fun was ridin’ the Marine’s girlfriends!
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posted on
12/16/2016 2:51:45 PM PST
by
Az Joe
(11-8-2016-----We're still here President Reagan!!)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Uh, there have been higher waves recorded off of South America and South Africa. I seem to recall reading of extreme waves much higher.
To: freedumb2003; dfwgator
Always yell "Cannonball!" first
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posted on
12/16/2016 2:57:52 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
To: nickcarraway
Another result of global warming, I’ll bet...
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posted on
12/16/2016 2:58:41 PM PST
by
chrisser
To: nickcarraway
So Michael Moore going skinny dipping, while hunting for Nessie had nothing to do with that big ‘ol wave?
To: All
At a little over 62 feet, the North Atlantic wave was the size of a six-story building. OK, so I gotta ask - where did it go?
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posted on
12/16/2016 2:59:46 PM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:00:03 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: nickcarraway
This article gives some perspective to the bravery of the crews and passengers of the tiny wooden ships some of our ancestors came across the Atlantic on. For instance, the Mayflower was some 80’ long and at the widest point 24’. In this ship were packed 102 passengers and 30 crew. Wow!!
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:05:26 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: nickcarraway
I may be mistaken, but I was always taught that waves were measured by the back side - which would make the ‘face’ of the wave 124’ feet?
Help me out, Freepers...
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:06:09 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: heterosupremacist
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:08:01 PM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: nickcarraway
Plenty of bigger waves out there, they just haven’t been recorded by a buoy. Two of the most overestimated occurrences in the marine world are wave height and wind speed.
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:11:16 PM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: Snickering Hound
It’s probably the only nice thing I can say about him, but he was hilarious in that movie.
To: nickcarraway
This is the largest actually recorded by mechanical means. I think the largest wave actually ever observed was 90+ feet in 1936 (IIRC) from a US navy ship. They triangulated the height based on the distance between a mast structure on the forward section of the ship and the bridge and the top of the wave (during a typhoon)
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:13:28 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
To: heterosupremacist
I was just going to ask about that location....and he ain’t at the bottom yet...looks more than 62
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:14:25 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Real Cynic No More
"I seem to recall reading of extreme waves much higher."
This was probably a non-breaking wave. See the photo above that was estimated to be the largest surfed wave at about 80 feet as measured from the face.
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:15:40 PM PST
by
A Navy Vet
(I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Plus LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
To: Snickering Hound
LOL! My first thought, too when I saw the thread title.
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:16:28 PM PST
by
newfreep
("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
To: Real Cynic No More
1933 USS Ramapo 112’ wave height measured
see wiki
(this crap is over an automated buoy measurement, something buried in the original article.)
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posted on
12/16/2016 3:19:36 PM PST
by
telstar12.5
(...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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