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.
Only SCIENCE can experience things that are real. Everyone else can’t.
Below South America and Africa, as accounted is the classic, “Two Years Before the Mast” and others, huge swells that circle the earth at that latitude were reported in the book to reach higher than the highest mast and mainsail - what 200 feet high? Whew!
So the wife an I were in Daytona for a nascar race back in the day and on the way to the track we kept seeing flatbed tow trucks with vehicles covered in sand...a bunch of ‘em.
At first I figured it was just drunks parked on the beach at night and got caught when the tide came in.
Later when we got back to the hotel the news was reporting an 18’ wave hit the beach over night so no one saw it coming.
Not big as yours but your correct...they’re more common than people think.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1992-07-05-9207050499-story.html
Right. I assumed they specifically meant a wave that occurred in an otherwise calmer sea.
I believe the highest non-tsunami wave on record was over 90 feet, and was recorded by a US Navy oiler (USS Rampao) in the Pacific in 1933 at 112 feet. I recall they were able to measure it using the height of the wave measured from a point on their deck to a point on their mast.
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.
What are Sialors?
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.
Shackleton survived a 100 footer during his small boat journey to South Georgia.