[dinodino]

I don’t mean to argue, but I feel obligated to correct you. A US Navy vessel famously took the first credible measurement of a rogue wave in 1933. They were noted for centuries earlier, however.

[BwanaNdege]

Back in the late ‘70’s a US Navy LHP returning from the Med with a Marine BLT on board took green water over the bow just off the North Carolina coast.

The flight deck of an LPH is 60 feet above the waterline. Several CH-46 helos tied down at the bow had their folded rotor blades broken by the force of the water coming over the deck.

[muawiyah]

Everybody knows about that photo. You can still find people arguing that it's fake.

25 years ago for scientific certainty.