“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.)
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.
That they did, and confirmed a number of long-suspected problem areas where wave fronts collide. It wasn't just sailors telling tall tales; in fact, it wasn't even just sailors. A friend who used to work on a NOAA ship tells the story of a PhD oceanographer who almost came to blows with a shoreside colleague who told him he couldn't have seen what he saw.