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Record-Breaking 58-Foot Rogue Wave Detected Off Vancouver Island
Gizmodo ^ | ByGeorge Dvorsky

Posted on 02/15/2022 7:52:07 PM PST by BenLurkin

A 58-foot-tall wall of water that appeared off Vancouver Island in 2020 is among the largest rogue waves ever recorded, and it’s the very largest in terms of its proportion to surrounding waves, according to scientists.

New research in Scientific Reports describes the gigantic wave, which appeared off the coast of Ucluelet, British Columbia, on November 17, 2020. The rogue wave reached 58 feet tall (17.6 meters)—a height equal to a four-story building.

Despite names like “freak waves” and “killer waves,” these swells are normal oceanic phenomena, though their cause remains poorly understood. They’re likely churned into existence by a variety of factors, such as wind speed, wind direction, water depth, and characteristics having to do with the seafloor. Rogue waves are not to be confused with tsunamis, which tend to be generated by massive displacements of water due to earthquakes, landslides, or volcanic eruptions.

The first rogue wave was detected off the coast of Norway on New Year’s Day in 1995 and given the name “Draupner.” It measured 84 feet (25.6 meters) high, making it taller than the Ucluelet wave. What makes Ucluelet a record-breaker is that it was three times as tall as the surrounding waves, whereas Draupner was just over twice as tall. Scientists have recorded a smattering of other rogue waves, including “Andrea” (2007) and “Killard” (2015), but this plus-sized type of wave probably appears more often than we think—we just don’t know about them.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: britishcolumbia; catastrophism; detectedagain; draupner; norway; rogueagain; roguewave; roguewaves; ucluelet; vancouverisland

1 posted on 02/15/2022 7:52:07 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Run, Run for your life


2 posted on 02/15/2022 7:54:08 PM PST by algore
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To: BenLurkin

You have all sorts of small waves all traveling independent of each other. Occasionally their creasts will all meet at the same spot making for a big wave.


3 posted on 02/15/2022 7:56:21 PM PST by Nateman (Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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To: algore

Surf’s Up!


4 posted on 02/15/2022 7:57:20 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BenLurkin

Kawabunga!


5 posted on 02/15/2022 7:57:37 PM PST by Zathras
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To: algore

more seriously this “wave” was detected by one sensor

how do we know it was not a local disturbance, a small waterspout perhaps ?

I can think of several other less probable explanations as well.

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/caught-on-cam-massive-waterspout-forms-near-vancouver


6 posted on 02/15/2022 7:59:35 PM PST by algore
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To: BenLurkin

Will it be attacking on Wednesday? 🤪


7 posted on 02/15/2022 7:59:43 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: BenLurkin; Daffynition

Right after the election, over the border, off of U-clue-let.

Reads like some kind of hint.

wiki:

Ucluelet means “people of the safe harbour” in the indigenous Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) language.

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Most extreme rogue wave ever was recorded off B.C. coast

It is being called an event that happens “once in a millennium.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/8607359/biggest-rogue-wave-vancouver-island-coast/


8 posted on 02/15/2022 8:01:15 PM PST by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: Ezekiel

Most extreme rogue wave ever was recorded off B.C. coast

It is being called an event that happens “once in a millennium.”

Just because a Scientist pulls stuff out of his Fauci does not make it so.

“The first rogue wave was recorded in 1995 off the coast of Norway. “

since we have very few sensors, and the first ones were installed in the 90s we can make all kinds of accurate predictions about probability ?

Not


9 posted on 02/15/2022 8:09:36 PM PST by algore
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To: BenLurkin

10 posted on 02/15/2022 8:13:30 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: algore

Climate change!


11 posted on 02/15/2022 8:14:09 PM PST by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: algore

Or a malfunctioning sensor.


12 posted on 02/15/2022 8:19:04 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: BenLurkin; 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; ...
Thanks BenLurkin.



13 posted on 02/15/2022 9:19:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (If a-holes could fly, this place would be an airport.)
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To: BenLurkin

My diesel sub transited on the surface in the north Atlantic through a storm once, winter of ‘73. I was one of the two lookouts, safety harnessed in. It was us and the OOD.

Several times I could look straight out, level, off to the side of the sub, and the waves were taller than my position. My perch was probably 30 feet or so above the normal waterline. The waves may have been 40 feet high for all I know. Talk about feeling very small.

Woe to the man who went overboard then.

On many a run we requested to submerge as it was a much calmer & more peaceful life underwater.


14 posted on 02/15/2022 10:08:15 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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To: BenLurkin

I was in a loaded tanker off the Oregon Coast that rode through a wave that tall.


15 posted on 02/15/2022 10:08:56 PM PST by Cold Heart (Has Any Bio-Weapons Lab Shutdown?)
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To: BenLurkin

It was likely focused by a sea floor batholith, and doubled by one or more intervening wave(s). Read Waves And Beaches by Willard Bascom, the father of modern oceanography


16 posted on 02/16/2022 2:27:26 AM PST by nagant
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To: Ezekiel
Not funny


17 posted on 02/16/2022 2:56:10 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: Az Joe

I am a transoceanic sailor as was Freeper Kenny Bunk; I remember being told as a kid that “rogue waves” were a myth. I suppose the science was settled on that!

I have seen some very spooky waves but none of the monsters. The Southern Ocean is where many build and travel, I suspect, but the Atlantic continues to amaze me. Even the Mediterranean has all sorts of deadly surprises.

You might enjoy the book ATLANTIC, by Simon Winchester, I think. Very good book.

Thank you for your service to our country.


18 posted on 02/16/2022 5:03:41 AM PST by golux
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To: golux

Thanks


19 posted on 02/16/2022 8:23:59 AM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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