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Freak waves spotted from space
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[quote:malu:MV8xMDExMDUwXzE1OTIxMjk0XzhCMzREODc2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 913332] How tall and how massive can a wave of water become before it sinks down of its own weight? Any scientists out there? [/quote] i don't know? but i found this: Rogues come about in different ways, but are almost always generated by storm-related winds, whether near or far. "The winds transfer energy into the waves," said Peter Challenor, an oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton in Britain. "Then you get interactions among the waves, with the large ones taking energy from the smaller ones, getting bigger and bigger in the process," he said by phone. [b]The highest wave ever recorded on the high seas is a 34-meter (112-foot)[/b] monster spotted in the Pacific by a U.S. Navy-chartered tanker in the 1920s. http://news.discovery.com/earth/cruise-ships-waves-oceans.html the 200 supertanker comment leads me to believe "insurance scam" of high seas proportions [/quote]
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things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmm
The shady phenomenon of freak waves as tall as 10 storey buildings has finally been proved, the European Space Agency (Esa) said on Wednesday.
Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them.
As part of a project called MaxWave - which was set up to test the rumours - two Esa satellites surveyed the oceans.
During a three week period they detected 10 giant waves, all of which were over 25m (81ft) high.
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