Posted on 02/14/2022 7:34:48 AM PST by logi_cal869
In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).
The four-story wall of water has now been confirmed as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded.
Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years. And unless the buoy had been taken for a ride, we might never have known it even happened.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
What are Sialors?
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 Nína 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.
My miserable old age typing skills, sorry, meant sailors of course.
One of the theories on the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald was a rogue wave in Lake Superior.
“The largest wave of any kind seen by humans was in Alaska in 1958 at 1,720 feet when an earthquake caused a landslide into a bay.”
It was only about 100 feet high. Boats survived.
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.....
Good lord, what a username - not sure I could pronounce it if you told me ten times. You are correct about the waves though, as a blue water sailor it was the southern tip of Africa that was considered the breeding ground for rogue waves once upon a time.
Hi from a blue-underwater sailor :)
And ya, when you live on the sea 30 footers are not rare and 60 footers happen, though to be fear in the deep water that is the difference between the peak and the valley, not the same as a wave coming up on land.
Gilligan is jealous because it dwarfs the wave he rode to civilization
I saw that movie back then at the theater! Remember it well!
In 1996, I am watching DAYLIGHT with Sylvester Stallone when I realized it was the same script but in a tunnel under the NY harbor.
I misspent a large portion of my youth in the surf off Southern California and Mexico, and it was not uncommon for a set of giant waves to appear randomly. Not every time out, but often enough to induce vigilance.
“What are Sialors?”
Sailors who take Cialis?
The “1750 foot wave” came from the wash up the hillside immediately across the fiord from the landslide in Lituya Bay.
The actual 100 foot wave that resulted must’ve been awesome enough to the boaters in the bay. I can’t imagine what it was like seeing that thing looming out of the dark.
The one in Alaska that traveled across the bay was 500 feet higher than the Empire State Building!
1958 Lituya Bay earthquake and megatsunami
(I normally don't reference Wikipedia for anything, but I think this is pretty solid.
Ah. I stand corrected...that wave was “only” 100 feet high and the wash up went up that high, which makes sense.
USS Nimitz off the coast of Oregon in March 1988. On mid-watch we were hit on the starboard bow by one that picked us up and moved us 15 degrees off course. Glanced at the inclinometer as it hit 23 degrees.
Yellow gear in the hangar broke free from chains and pinned one Sailor against a bulkhead.
ROFLMAO...Leslie Nielson as the skipper of the Poseidon!
CAPTAIN: I see a wave!
PASSENGER: A wave? What is it?
CAPTAIN: A large body of water extending above the surrounding surface. But that’s not important right now.
“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.
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