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‘Rogue wave’ kills tourist on Antarctic cruise
malaymail.com ^ | Friday, 02 Dec 2022 7:36 AM MYT

Posted on 12/02/2022 7:49:16 AM PST by BenLurkin

Four other tourists “sustained non-life-threatening injuries” and were treated onboard.

The ship suffered minor damage and was anchored off Ushuaia, 3,200 kilometers (nearly 2,000 miles) from the capital Buenos Aires, with several windows smashed on the side, AFP journalists reported.

Viking said it was “investigating the facts surrounding this incident.”

Scientists often refer to rogue waves as extreme storm waves that surge out of nowhere, often in an unpredictable direction, and can look like a steep wall of water, up to twice the size of surrounding waves.

These rare killer waves were once seen as a myth reported by mariners or explorers. The polar explorer Ernest Shackleton wrote in his book of a “gigantic” freak wave he encountered in Antarctica in 1916.

However, scientists have learned more about them in recent decades, studying how they emerge and how to predict the wall of water that can surge up even in calm seas.

(Excerpt) Read more at malaymail.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: antarctic; cruise; roguewave; tourist

1 posted on 12/02/2022 7:49:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
These rare killer waves were once seen as a myth reported by mariners or explorers.

Science!

2 posted on 12/02/2022 7:51:56 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Been There Done That Tee shirt comes with risks.


3 posted on 12/02/2022 7:52:49 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: BenLurkin

Gonna need a bigger boat


4 posted on 12/02/2022 7:54:58 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: BenLurkin

depending on how far they were from the antarctica, probably safe to assume it came from iceberg calving.


5 posted on 12/02/2022 7:55:12 AM PST by NicoDon
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To: BenLurkin

And at the bottom of this report is this tidbit-—


“””The incident comes two weeks after two tourists died on another Antarctic cruise. The two men, aged 76 and 80, had left the World Explorer ship for an excursion on an inflatable zodiac boat which overturned near the shore. — AFP”””


6 posted on 12/02/2022 7:59:50 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: BenLurkin; al baby

Looked up Ushuaia on the map. Never knew there is a Portillo’s right at the end of the cape. At least there is a Cmte Portillo on the map. No plans to visit any time soon, though.


7 posted on 12/02/2022 8:03:30 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: BenLurkin

A friend and I got caught in a rouge wave one summer evening on the N.Oregon coast.

We heard a strange sound, saw this pulse of water coming and we RAN as fast as possible ‘up’ the beach...(this was a very shallow beach with 1/4 mile at least between high and low tide). After running 200’ we jumped onto a large ‘driftwood’ log and the wave passed us by and went at least 200’ more before receding.

We were alright but two women were drowned in Seaside, OR by the same wave while they were taking a stroll after watching a movie.

A real pity for those folks.


8 posted on 12/02/2022 8:04:23 AM PST by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

“Near the shore” .... wonder how near. Dead/gone within a few minutes in the frigid water. What a terrible way to go.


9 posted on 12/02/2022 8:07:10 AM PST by Susquehanna Patriot ( )
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To: Susquehanna Patriot
Drowning in freezing water is likely one of the least painful ways to die.

Everything goes numb very quickly.

Of course, with more clothing/insulation, it takes more time.

10 posted on 12/02/2022 8:20:47 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Larry Lucido

Thanks Larry know Annie and I know whats for dinner, the Buena Park one is a mile away


11 posted on 12/02/2022 8:35:50 AM PST by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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To: frogjerk

Indeed. Mariners were taught about rogue waves for centuries before scientists “admitted” their mistaken bias.


12 posted on 12/02/2022 8:44:20 AM PST by Cold Heart ("Miracle Grow for tumors")
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To: Cold Heart

Scientists are biased and wrong about a lot of things and not just rogue waves.


13 posted on 12/02/2022 8:46:56 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

You go out on cold water, your life is at risk. On a whale watching cruise in the St Lawrence, all passengers were warned that if you fell overboard, you would be hypothermic by the time the vessel turned around to retrieve you and dead before it got to your body. The human brain likes a warm body.


14 posted on 12/02/2022 8:50:24 AM PST by Waverunner
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To: BenLurkin
“‘Rogue wave’ kills tourist on Antarctic cruise"

Too bad it wasn't a rouge wave.

It would've been much smaller than expected.

15 posted on 12/02/2022 9:13:06 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: BenLurkin

While working in the North Sea in about 1980, a rogue wave hit our drilling rig. It sweept off the equipment on the helideck. That helideck was about 120 feet above the ocean. No injuries as all were in quarters due to the extreme weather. It scared the hell out of all of us.


16 posted on 12/02/2022 9:25:55 AM PST by cpdiii (CANE CUTTER-DECKHAND-ROUGHNECK-OILFIELD CONSULTANT-GEOLOGIST-PILOT-PHARMACIST)
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To: BenLurkin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave

Some interesting details here, including the scientific skepticism (since typically no one who encountered a rogue wave at sea lived to tell the tale.) I recall the “Three Sisters” phenomena as a likely explanation/contributor in the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.


17 posted on 12/02/2022 9:57:31 AM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: NicoDon

Yes.

Or a wave generated by an undersea earthquake or avalanche.


18 posted on 12/02/2022 10:30:22 AM PST by T. Rustin Noone (This is exactly the same )
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To: BenLurkin
Heteros dinning:

Heterodyning:

Know the difference.

19 posted on 12/02/2022 10:39:22 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee
Yes, it's all beat patterns and nothing to do with earthquakes or glaciers calving.   The fact that the Atlantic and the Pacific crash into each other south of Cape Horn, does exacerbate the compounded wave cycles.

I'll never forget the day I proved to the whole office that 2600 Hz Signal Frequencies from two different oscillators from each end of the country would drift and occasionally reach 180° out of phase cancelling each other out causing the phone connection to drop off.

Frequency waves act like ocean waves.

20 posted on 12/02/2022 12:41:19 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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