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18 Ιουλ 2024 · In 2022, a large, unexpected rogue wave struck the Viking Polaris, breaking windows. One passenger died and others were injured. Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready.
18 Ιουλ 2024 · Rogue Waves Are Real and Can Be Predicted, Study Says. Long derided as fantasy by sailors, including Columbus, freak waves remain a mystery. But now two scientists have developed a way to 'see' one coming. A car driving past a giant wave on Havana's seafront.
In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at the time.
More recently, a rogue wave slammed into a cruise ship in the Southern Ocean, shattering windows and injuring several passengers, one fatally. However, it remains unclear how common rogue waves actually are. One study based on media reports captured just 210 rogue waves worldwide between 2011-2018, but the real number is thought to be much higher.
15 Φεβ 2022 · A four-story-tall rogue wave that briefly reared up in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Canada in 2020 was the "most extreme" version of the freaky phenomenon ever recorded, scientists now...
19 Ιουλ 2024 · In testing, the new system was able to correctly identify rogue wave events with a 75% accuracy rate one minute into the future, and a 73% accuracy rate five minutes into the future.
Rogue waves (also known as freak waves or killer waves) are huge and unpredictable surface waves that can be extremely dangerous to ships and isolated structures such as lighthouses. [1] They are distinct from tsunamis , which are long wavelength waves, often almost unnoticeable in deep waters and are caused by the displacement of water due to ...
