Having spent some time at sea - sail boats, cruise liners an semi-submersibles - and much in lakes rowing and sailing, I think the existence of these rogue waves had been debated, and after having reprogrammed some weather satellite to scan a certain area for big waves over many months, they have now been proved to exist! About a hundred major commercial vessels disappear annually, and while some might get diverted to other ports by unknown agendas, or unknown pirates, many are just lost, and as a few ships have met these mammoth waves out of nowhere, and survived (the example I recall is QE II hitting a 100 ft wave in WWII, barely surviving the ordeal, but it sure wasn't weather for German U-boats)! At one time the US released the number of aircraft that had been lost in USSR airspace (800+) during the cold war - anyone knows how many ships that likewise have just vanished?! Many could have been lost under similar circumstances as these 'rogue waves' create, which easily could topple even quite major ships! Quite a few ships over 600 ft long have just gone missing - like the Norwegian bulk carrier 'Berge Istra' (sp?) - some explaining it as a spontaneous explosion, but a 'rogue wave' would fit just as well! The ship just vanished in good weather somewhere in the Pacific - leaving not a single piece of flotsam, nor any distress calls! Quite a few sail boats have turned turtle during ocean crossings, but I haven't heard any blaming 'rogue waves' :-)! If such a wave hits you during a storm, I don't think you'll be able to note it's immense size, it is just a wall of water, period. The Estonia ferry, that killed about as many Swedes as the Tsunami, or close to a thousand, also met a really big wave which ripped its bow off - could a rogue appear in a lake (very big, an inland sea)?! Waves of this size (100 ft, and above) have been recorded from the Roaring Fourties, but there the waves are darn big any day! -- An Excellent Credit Score is 750 See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! *************************************************************************** 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 Aug 31 2009 - 15:17:47 PDT
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