| Rogue waves VS Freak waves
With modern satellite imagry scientist are seeing rogue waves and freak waves on a regular basis. Rogue waves are fairly common especially on along the Northwest USA in the winter time or the Bay of Biscay. Freak waves will take out just abut any size ship. There is very little understanding of why they are formed but they are seeing now fairly often popping up to close to 100' on satellite imagry.the following is abrief description.
Rogue waves are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners. In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record. Therefore rogue waves are not necessarily the biggest waves found at sea; they are, rather, surprisingly large waves for a given sea state. A 6-metre (20 ft) caused the loss of the RV Ballena in Southern California.
Freak waves have been cited in the media as a likely source of the sudden, inexplicable disappearance of many ocean-going vessels. The 1978 loss of the freighter MS München. In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough west of Scotland encountered the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments in the open ocean, with a SWH of 18.5 metres (61 ft) and individual waves up to 29.1 metres (95 ft).[5]
"Waves Happen" and even the most capable and well built boats when encountering a wave of this magnitude can suffer heavy damage or worse.
Ron
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