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80-Foot Rogue Waves Are Predictable...But Are they Rideable?

Mythological, massive waves – much like giant squids, ghost ships, and Lovecraftian undersea monsters – have long been a ...
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The Biggest Rogue Wave on Record Was a Behemoth. How Big Was it?

A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel survived amidst a storm of biblical proportions and unfathomably ...
USA Today

Chaotic, terrifying rogue waves haunt the ocean. Scientists have a plan to help.

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...
OPB

Rogue waves can strike without warning. These scientists found a way to predict them

ALEXIS DELELISI/AFP / Getty Images Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready. That's ...
Connecticut Post

My research team used 18 years of sea wave records to learn how destructive ‘rogue waves’ form – here’s what we found

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Rogue waves have ...