Dave wrote >Scroll down several screens in the citation to get some >terrific descriptions of encounters on the high seas. >They will really scare your socks off! >Finally, this reference within the Wiki article has a >cool animation of how one of these rogue waves can "stand >out" amongst smaller ones, as well as a great photo of >Matt's diffractive focusing origin: >http://www.math.uio.no/~karstent/waves/index_en.html G'day Dave, You're right Dave the wall of water scared my socks off! Thats a nice reference and particularly because they included the linear combination of waves. The breather description was intriguing! Imagine that cessation of wave activity just prior to a huge wave generating! And the three sister groups of waves do seem familiar. Wouldn't clusters of two and three waves at a time be fairly commonplace when surfing? A group of us saw such clusters two years ago at Umina beach lasting for an hour or two as a regular pattern of three waves at a time. So regular that it was wrth remarking and remembering. All the best and thanks for the reference. PeterO *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 21 2008 - 02:18:26 PST
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