An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary ...
The first and largest documented rogue wave was an 84-foot behemoth, which struck the Draupner platform oil rig, off Norway ...
On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck—but its ...
Shocking video shows a large rogue wave engulfing part of a coastal California street, injuring eight people.The swell, generated by the stormy Pacific Ocean, hit the beach at the end of Seward Avenue ...
Alessandro Toffoli receives funding from the Australia Research Council. We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue ...
The ocean is an intriguing and mysterious place. For every new species of sea creature we find, there are an untold number of others waiting to be discovered. But it isn't just sea life that has kept ...
We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*. Rogue ...
When rogue waves breaking out in the middle of the ocean come to mind, for surfers at least, one spot comes to mind – Cortes Bank, the mythical big wave gauntlet breaking some 100 miles off the ...