Video from cruise ship during rogue wave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni05h-jSTQk&feature=youtube_gdata
OH NOOOOS Just like on 2012.
Just watched about killer waves the other night—think it was on The Science Channel.
Gives me an idea - “Titanic cruises”, complete with iceberg and rushing for the lifeboats.
Shades of The Posiden Adventure...
My neighbor was telling me about this incident this morning. She just returned from the same cruise a couple of months ago, she said they ran into a storm on that cruise and many of the passenges got soaked. She was really happy she wasn’t on this ship.
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(Thought it strange they were worried about 7ft waves last week; figured even surfers are challenged with better than that - though probably missing another equasion here.)
Well, with respect to those injured; traumatized and those who did not survive; I guess you can only say. . ."good it was not worse".
Never even heard of a 'rogue wave' until a few years ago. . .could be one's worst nightmare if traveling 'oer the ocean'. . .or if you just tend to think about it. . .
I read, too, that this is an area of the Mediterranean Sea that is known for rough currents and waves. Means to me there are winds coming off the land — Pyrenees, Massif Central, etc.?
I googled ‘storms on the Mediterranean’ and found a scientific paper discussing the huge storms/ winds/ waves in this very area. It talks about the Mistral pouring down off the Massif Central/ Pyrenees in France/ northern Spain and out across the Mediterranean to Algeria. The paper discusses the huge storms in that area and whether there are rogue waves there.