Science. /s
Sialors have been reporting such waves for over a thousand years, but because SCIENCISTS! have not experienced them they are just so much rarer.
Total garbage. On our sub we had a 60 swell suck it to the surface back in the 1980s in the North Atlantic, granted it was a storm but such waves are not rare at all.
Unfortunately? Tell that to the surfers. :-} Science. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it..............
What, you’re not going to just take their word for it?
Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.
> Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.
Until you actually start looking for them. The more you look for something, the more you’ll find.
Does anyone else see a problem with these two sentences?
“Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.”
I think that was the original mathematical projection, which lasted until satellites blew it away, documenting dozens of super waves every day around the world. But, as like when satellites also disproved global warming, their response is to ignore the data.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
About waves, I’d also like to note that Antarctic waters in their winter are unnavigable except to submarines. Even if skies are clear, on the last day of fall, all surface ships make a beeline out of there. (This is a big reason that the Antarctic stations are so isolated during their winter.)
I’m more concerned about the rouge wave in America.
Did they slip a reference to covid into that story?
A forty-meter-high wave is about 120 feet or three feet per one meter.
40-meter high wave hits Icelandic coast
Iryna Zubenko
The Reykjavik Grapevine
Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:40 UTC
© Morgunblaðið/Óskar Pétur Friðriksson
From Vestmannaeyjar islands, yesterday.The Road and Coastal Administration reported record-high waves at the south coast of Iceland as a severe storm swept the county on February 7-8. A total of ten waves of 25 meters high and four waves over 30 meters high were recorded. One wave was so powerful, the wave measuring buoy broke down, but 40 m was the highest point it managed to measure. This is the highest wave recorded since 1990. Further analysis of the data is yet to be provided.
Earlier this week, the Icelandic Met Office forecasted winds reaching 35 meters per second accompanied by snowfall. According to Guðrún NÃna Petersen, a meteorologist at the Icelandic Met Office the wind speed at certain regions exceeded calculations made earlier. “Such events are rare,” said Guðrún.
The Road and Coastal Administration operates 11 wave measurement platforms around Iceland. More info on weather and sea conditions can be found at sjolag.is.
One of the theories on the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald was a rogue wave in Lake Superior.
My father was in the Pacific in WWII on a light cruiser and they experienced waves this big, but he told me - and I’ve read elsewhere - that rogue waves of 100’ have been known.....
Gilligan is jealous because it dwarfs the wave he rode to civilization
“while the one that surfaced near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island was not the tallest, its relative size compared to the waves around it was unprecedented.”
It isn’t that this wave was unbelievably high, but that is was much higher than the other waves at the time. And yeah, everything I’ve read indicates they are far more common that anyone used to believe...because they assumed the folks making a living on the ocean were lying.