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Well, the Draupner Wave brushed the under side of an oil rig, if that helps. That was a rogue wave and they get a lot higher. There are also the opposite - ro
by DrBazza 5y ago
Well, the Draupner Wave brushed the under side of an oil rig, if that helps. That was a rogue wave and they get a lot higher.
There are also the opposite - rogue holes - the trough part of a wave. Imagine being in a boat and dropping 100ft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
- jacquesm 5y agoMakes you wonder how many ships got lost before structural integrity improved to the point where a ship would survive that kind of impact.
- eightails 5y agoThere was an interesting article in Quanta a while back on this topic. > Researchers have since determined that rogue waves probably claimed 22 supercarriers and more than 500 lives in the second half of the 20th century alone. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-grand-unified-theory-of-rogue-waves-20200205/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-grand-unified-theory-of-r...