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Rogue Giants at Sea
NYT ^

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 ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: monsterwaves; perfectwave; roguewave; roguewaves; tsunami; tsunamis
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Once again, Scientists have to admit they know very little about the basic functions of our planet. So, how pretentiously accurate are these SouperBrains that support Gore's statements re Global Warming?
1 posted on 07/11/2006 7:58:17 AM PDT by Grendel9
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To: Grendel9

There should be some Navy or Merchant Marine freepers who could share their experiences with giant waves while out at sea - any one?


2 posted on 07/11/2006 8:03:36 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: Grendel9

Bush!

3 posted on 07/11/2006 8:03:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("He hits me, he cries, he runs to the court and sues me.")
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To: Grendel9

Did the Times have any coverage today of yesterday's protest outside their office? Or are they consumed with this kind of "news"?


4 posted on 07/11/2006 8:09:46 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: Grendel9

STORM SURGE The chief engineer of the Stolt Surf took photographs as the tanker met a rogue wave in 1977. The deck, nearly 75 feet above sea level, was submerged.
5 posted on 07/11/2006 8:12:10 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Grendel9

We are only 600+ years removed from when we thought the world flat... and that 'bleeding' was a cure for common maladies.


6 posted on 07/11/2006 8:12:55 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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To: llevrok

ping 4 later


7 posted on 07/11/2006 8:14:46 AM PDT by llevrok ("Drink your beer, damnit! There are people in Africa sober.")
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To: johnny7

And we are still in a dark ages where some people see the government as a cure for all ills.


8 posted on 07/11/2006 8:17:50 AM PDT by Fudd (This is a conservative board - what did you expect?)
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To: Grendel9

anyone who knows anything at all about wave mechanics knows that this is not only possible but highly probable.

When you have two (ore mor) waves positioned just right, the high and low troughs of the waves ADD together.

If a high and low trough of a wave meet you will have no wave at that point at all, but the waves will actually contune past that point.

However if two (or more) highs happend to meet- look out, you could get waves beyond imagine (hundreds of feet)


9 posted on 07/11/2006 8:18:11 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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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.

And I bet half of them have already filed lawsuits against the ship owner.

-ccm

10 posted on 07/11/2006 8:19:19 AM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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To: finnman69

That's it. I'm never even going to the beach again.

That is one scarey set of photos.


11 posted on 07/11/2006 8:21:07 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: ClearCase_guy
Fear the Kraken

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12 posted on 07/11/2006 8:21:31 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm trying to think but nothing happens)
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To: Grendel9

No kidding. Centuries of sailor tales of enormous waves mean nothing until an oceanographer experiences one. For the freeper physicist how about Fourier analysis?


13 posted on 07/11/2006 8:21:41 AM PDT by Jacquerie (The truth to leftists is that which advances their goals. Factuality is irrelevant.)
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To: Grendel9

Spot on mate!


14 posted on 07/11/2006 8:21:48 AM PDT by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: Grendel9

AMEN


15 posted on 07/11/2006 8:23:45 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
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To: Fudd
Contact your congresscritters immediately and demand that they pass legislation banning waves.

It's for the Children!!!

16 posted on 07/11/2006 8:24:36 AM PDT by MediaMole
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One way that rogue waves apparently form is when the strong currents meet winds and waves moving in the opposite direction . . . A particularly threatening spot, he said, turned out to be where big oil tankers coming from the Middle East ride the Agulhas current around South Africa. There, the westward-flowing current meets prevailing easterly winds, at times disastrously.

Something fishy is going on in the last sentence quoted above. Supposedly the rogue wave problem occurs when currents move in the opposite direction from winds. However, "prevailing easterly winds" blow from the East towards the West, while "westward-flowing current" also flows from the East towards the West. So, this would seem to be in contradiction of the earlier statement, since the Agulhas current seems to be flowing with the wind instead of opposite to the wind. But, then, this is the New York Times, so nothing that is printed there can be taken at face value...

17 posted on 07/11/2006 8:24:55 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: johnny7

Well, we've covered a lot of ground
since those days.
But we have to ask science WHICH is
it re the Bermuda Triangle...Giant Waves
inundating lost ships or pockets of methane
gas exuding from the ocean floor?

How soon will the Libs begin tying this
one to Global Warming, too!?


18 posted on 07/11/2006 8:25:05 AM PDT by Grendel9 (quen)
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To: Fudd
What's wrong with bleeding? Theodoric of York would beg to differ.


19 posted on 07/11/2006 8:28:32 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Grendel9
But we have to ask science WHICH is it re the Bermuda Triangle...Giant Waves inundating lost ships or pockets of methane gas exuding from the ocean floor?

I would go with the latter. I would also venture that UFO's are not extraterrestrial... and that ghosts/hauntings... have nothing to do with the afterlife.

20 posted on 07/11/2006 8:33:13 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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