Rogue wave estimated at 60 feet moving away from ship after crashing into it a short time earlier. In the Gulf Stream off of Charleston, South Carolina, with light winds of 15 knots.
Posted on 07/11/2006 7:58:14 AM PDT by Grendel9
The storm was nothing special. Its waves rocked the Norwegian Dawn just enough so that bartenders on the cruise ship turned to the usual palliative — free drinks.
Ten, off the coast of Georgia, early on Saturday, April 16, 2005, a giant, seven-story wave appeared out of nowhere. It crashed into the bow, sent deck chairs flying, smashed windows, raced as high as the 10th deck, flooded 62 cabins, injured 4 passengers and sowed widespread fear and panic.
“The ship was like a cork in a bathtub,” recalled Celestine Mcelhatton, a passenger who, along with 2,000 others, eventually made it back to Pier 88 on the Hudson River in Manhattan. Some vowed never to sail again.
Enormous waves that sweep the ocean are traditionally called rogue waves, implying that they have a kind of freakish rarity. Over the decades, skeptical oceanographers have doubted their existence and tended to lump them together with sightings of mermaids and sea monsters.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For all you non-oceanographers out there - If the current is flowing north and there are strong winds blowing south, you will get steep crested waves of enormous size.
My Vietnam era friend stationed on the USS Vesuvius stated it camed close to rolling over after being hit by a rogue wave.
Secret Fourth Reich weather control machines beneath the ice at the South Pole. Pass it on!
So, it seems that the writer doesn't know that "easterly" means "from the east" rather than "towards the east." I'm sure a lot of people aren't clear on that. One would expect more from someone who makes their living with words. Or maybe not, these days.
That wasn't a rogue wave, it was a Rove wave. And he had better stop fiddling with that damn weather machine.
Back in the fifties, I once dated a WAVE in Pensacola FL. She was kind of a rogue but not very big. About a 34 "c".
Don't go near the water!! Something else for us poor uneducated yokels to worry about. We need a new Cabinet position to handle Global Warming, sunamis and acts of God.
we need better wave control programs. maybe a wave buyback program.
"the usual palliative--free drinks."
`Sea-sick' and drunk, yeah--that's the ticket.
Given those pictures, the ship was well-named...
There was a scene in the 2006 version of Deadliest Catch, where a fishing ship was hit by a 65 foot wave. It put the vessel on its side. The camera man must have soiled himself.
Ah, that would not be the "scientists" like Algore who are hysterical about global warming.
While not as often as Killer Asteroid threads and Killer Volcano threads, Giant Wave threads appear on FR with some regularity.
Can't read the article, but there was a satelite put up a few years ago that showed that these rogue waves happen a lot more than anyone thought likely, and some are freaking ridiculously huge. It is only because they are so big for such a short duration and that most of the time there is no human prescence in most parts of the deep ocean that we haven't come across them regularly. I think I recall something like 11 waves over a hundred feet in a month...worldwide.
LOL
Rogue wave estimated at 60 feet moving away from ship after crashing into it a short time earlier. In the Gulf Stream off of Charleston, South Carolina, with light winds of 15 knots.
Seen a few horrors in the North Atlantic during some very bad storms, but nothing like this.
I learned a long time ago however, not to pooh pooh something someone saw just because I have never experienced it. As my tag line says.....
Better not commit adultery... ;)
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