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Rogue waves aren’t freaks of nature — they’re just a ‘bad day’ at sea

A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...
Los Angeles Times

Big wave machine — by the sea — rolling into El Segundo

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The coastal city of El Segundo is an unlikely location for a massive, new artificial surf park. Other California ...
The Conversation

My research team used 18 years of sea wave records to learn how destructive ‘rogue waves’ form – here’s what we found

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Rogue waves have captivated the attention of both seafarers and scientists for decades. These are giant, ...
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A Rare Swell Hit 100 Miles Out to Sea, These Big-Wave Surfers Dropped Everything to Go

Cortes Bank, a shallow seamount 100 miles into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, is a mystical place; a legendary, yet fabled spot in the world of big-wave surfing. But Cortes Bank is also ...
The Conversation

The world’s longest marine heat wave upended ocean life across the Pacific

Samuel Starko receives funding from the Forrest Research Foundation, the Australian Research Council and Revive & Restore. During this research project, he also received funding from the Natural ...