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MONSTER WAVE MEASURED BY SOUTHERN OCEAN WAVE BUOY [64 feet]
Met Ocean Solutions ^
| May 20, 2017
| Staff
Posted on 05/22/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT by C19fan
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Cthulhu or Godzilla on the move.
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:55:11 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:55:47 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:57:04 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: C19fan
Could this be the big one that takes California into the sea?
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:57:13 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(If a cow ever got the chance, heÂ’d eat you and everyone you ever cared about.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:57:43 PM PDT
by
simpson96
To: Army Air Corps
“If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, then it’s safe to surf this beach.”
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:57:48 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:58:20 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: simpson96
Talk about having brass ones.
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:58:39 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: C19fan
Or maybe an anti-cyclone.
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posted on
05/22/2017 12:59:59 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: C19fan
Where is it going?
5.56mm
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:00:46 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: C19fan
Any other buoys confirm? Speed? Direction?
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:01:49 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
To: C19fan
Everyone remember the surfer?
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:03:00 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
To: C19fan
I read a great book called “The Wave”. It starts out with this scientist lady researching large, rogue waves. And what the largest ever recorded was, what it could be, etc. She started off going around to various labs. But after the third lab told her that she would be better off talking to surfers - she did.
She followed them around on their crazy quest for catching “The Big One”. The surfers had a network of people all over the world connected via emails, etc. Many of them were also really into forecasting the weather, etc. Disagreements on where to fly to next. (Mozambique or California?) The dream was to surf a 100-footer. With dozens of extreme surfers showing up on some remote beach trying to catch it.
I'm not sure if the 100-footer was officially ever documented. I think the surfers said there have been a couple. But a really interesting book (true story) with a good mix of science and people and the surfer attitude.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:03:58 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: Puppage
.
64’ waves occur off the coast of San Mateo county frequently at certain times of the year.
Ever hear of “The Mavricks?”
.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:05:19 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:05:48 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
To: simpson96
World record
In November 2011, chasing storms and tracking swells paid off for McNamara as he entered the Guinness World Records. He caught a 78 foot (24 m) wave in Nazaré, Portugal after being towed into the wave from a jet ski riding a 60 Dick Brewer Tow Board. His record beat the prior world record by over a foot,[7] but the premature announcement (by others, not by McNamara) proved a source of controversy in the surf world.[8] Meanwhile, McNamara continued to search for an even larger wave.
In January 2013, McNamara broke his own world record by surfing an estimated 100-foot (30 m) wave.[9] He also did this off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal.[10]
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:06:10 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: C19fan
Oh NO....Elizabeth.....it's the big one.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:07:10 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Two can live as cheaply as one...but for only half as long)
To: editor-surveyor
I think the big difference is that this buoy was out in the open ocean - not surf. The study of open-ocean “rogue” waves is important to shipping, etc. Every once in a while one will catch a boat by surprise and sink it. Although I have no idea if this was one isolated monster wave - or was in the middle of a storm and was the tallest one.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:11:21 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
To: C19fan
Strange graph — for wave height, the lowest point on it is about 10 meters on large dips below what looks to be a nominal level of 14 meters. I just don’t understand.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:13:12 PM PDT
by
Bob
(Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
To: dfwgator
Having Brass Ones is standing on the 05 level (5 levels ABove the main deck which is 30 feet above the water line) and looking UP at the wave bearing on the starboard side. It makes no difference if the skipper turns toward it, that is a nervous time. Especially when you are still sailing into the storm.
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posted on
05/22/2017 1:14:22 PM PDT
by
CaptainAmiigaf
(New York Times: "We print the news as it fits our views.")
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