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Freak waves spotted from space

 
Rev. Spiralgazer

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rev

you were the first person on my mind when i saw this. from the recent surf comp you had in your area
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03/11/2010 08:20 PM
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Don't do this Naked.
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People have known about these freak waves for as long as people have been going across the ocean.

Most stories have alot of truth to them ;-)
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no

but it did talk about the 200 supertankers that disappeared


wtf? i never heard about that either
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People have known about these freak waves for as long as people have been going across the ocean.

Most stories have alot of truth to them ;-)
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81 feet? That's high! bonghit
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big waves = UFOs entering/leaving the water
if it happens in politics, it was planned that way
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So you're sipping a pina colada

on the soft white of the Caribbean

and every other day there's an 80 footer out there

what is wrong with this picture?
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03/11/2010 08:31 PM
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Damn,and i just watched 2012 yeterday....


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03/11/2010 08:34 PM
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How tall and how massive can a wave of water become before it sinks down of its own weight? Any scientists out there?
malu  (OP)

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03/11/2010 08:39 PM
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How tall and how massive can a wave of water become before it sinks down of its own weight? Any scientists out there?
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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.

The highest wave ever recorded on the high seas is a 34-meter (112-foot) monster spotted in the Pacific by a U.S. Navy-chartered tanker in the 1920s.

[link to news.discovery.com]

the 200 supertanker comment leads me to believe "insurance scam" of high seas proportions
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03/11/2010 08:42 PM
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Woah. And 200 ships missing? WTF??
 Quoting: snark

I think it said "200 OIL TANKERS" - could this be responsible for some of the marine die-offs that have been reported all over the world? Not all, but some?
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Woah. And 200 ships missing? WTF??
 Quoting: snark

No kidding!

Check this out, malu..

I'm not saying that this is what's causing them, especially since there's evidence of this through history..

But you post made me think of this [link to www.colinandrews.net]

Check out the monster radar-returns from waves following the 'whatever' on the surface in the 1st pic.
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03/11/2010 08:48 PM
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Re: Freak waves spotted from space
no

but it did talk about the 200 supertankers that disappeared


wtf? i never heard about that either
 Quoting: malu


1 A MONTH GOES MISSING - WTF
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Fist time I've heard about this phenomenon, good find, Malu
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who's the bitch on Malu's chair?
malu  (OP)

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03/11/2010 09:01 PM
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Re: Freak waves spotted from space
Woah. And 200 ships missing? WTF??

No kidding!

Check this out, malu..

I'm not saying that this is what's causing them, especially since there's evidence of this through history..

But you post made me think of this [link to www.colinandrews.net]

Check out the monster radar-returns from waves following the 'whatever' on the surface in the 1st pic.
 Quoting: ScrumpTheTexan


my my

that is interesting

there are forces on this earth that are obviously very powerful. if one could massage those forces in covert acts of war, it would be tough to retaliate
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."

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"The truth shall set you free."

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malu  (OP)

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who's the bitch on Malu's chair?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 913368


i ain't nobody's bitch

*hands on hips*
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."

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Lots of people live on little coral atolls out in the remote Pacific and Indian oceans, somehow these big waves don't seem to have much effect on them.
malu  (OP)

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Lots of people live on little coral atolls out in the remote Pacific and Indian oceans, somehow these big waves don't seem to have much effect on them.
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i wonder if those atolls come up from the ocean floor so slowly that it would not generate a large wave? hell if i know
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03/11/2010 09:13 PM
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WOW! The images of those waves are amazing.

Um. Hmmm. Where is just ONE satellite image of ONE of these supposed waves?
malu  (OP)

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03/11/2010 09:40 PM
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WOW! The images of those waves are amazing.

Um. Hmmm. Where is just ONE satellite image of ONE of these supposed waves?
 Quoting: Mr Duh 913388


it's on the internet

it's true

i'm sure BBC had nothing better going on so they made it up
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"But for years these tales of towering beasts were written off as fantasy; and many marine scientists clung to statistical models stating monstrous deviations from the normal sea state occur once every 1,000 years."


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Examples of this sort of thing a legion. Thus for example, five hundred years ago contemporary Western (meaning European) society believed that the Earth was flat and at the centre of the Universe and anyone who had the temerity to suggest otherwise was invariably burnt at the stake. It wasn't until the Magellan expedition's circumnavigation of the globe in 1522 that the reality of a round Earth was finally acknowledged as being "self evident".

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LOL, GLP writ large.

Nice find Malu, it may be dated, but in light of things the perspective of time increases its relevance.
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WOW! The images of those waves are amazing.

Um. Hmmm. Where is just ONE satellite image of ONE of these supposed waves?
 Quoting: Mr Duh 913388


Have a poke around the ESA site; you're a big boy now:
[link to www.esa.int]


"To prove the phenomenon or lay the rumours to rest, a consortium of 11 organisations from six EU countries founded MaxWave in December 2000.

As part of the project, Esa tasked two of its Earth-scanning satellites, ERS-1 and ERS-2, to monitor the oceans with their radar.

The radars sent back "imagettes" - pictures of the sea surface in a rectangle measuring 10 by 5km (6 by 2.5 miles), which were taken every 200km (120 miles).

Around 30,000 separate imagettes were produced by the two satellites during a three-week period in 2001 - and the data was mathematically analysed.

Esa says the survey revealed 10 massive waves - some nearly 30m (100 ft) high."
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This is an old article right? I heard about this from NASA publication over two years ago. It has some theories behind the cause.

Something about wave frequencies can freakishly collide travelling in opposite directions every so often.
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03/11/2010 10:11 PM
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Naval Research Laboratory ocean-floor pressure sensors detected
a freak wave caused by Hurricane Ivan in the Gulf of Mexico, 2004.
The wave was around 27.7 meters high from peak to trough, and
around 200 meters long. lurk
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03/11/2010 10:16 PM
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Y'all!

What about that "rogue" wave, as they called it, that just slammed into that French cruise ship last week or so?

Said to be at least 25 feet high - - can you imagine seeing that coming at you?

And it killed 2 people on the ship!

(Hi Malu!)
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03/11/2010 10:18 PM
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Re: Freak waves spotted from space
no

but it did talk about the 200 supertankers that disappeared

wtf? i never heard about that either

1 A MONTH GOES MISSING - WTF
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 913368


Worse - FTA: "Two large ships sink every week on average"

And that was in 2004. Wonder what the number was in 07/08?

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Crazy number, anyway - particularly since it's almost never discussed.
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