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May 13, 2006
Big-wave Science
A 70-footer washed over the Norwegian Dawn cruise ship last year, a nearly-100-footer was reported in 2004 during Hurricane Ivan, and there have been reliable measurements of a 112-foot (34-meter) wave that rose over the USS Ramapo in 1933. Could there have been bigger waves that people didn't survive to tell about? Maybe so: In "The Bird in the Waterfall," Jerry Dennis and Glenn Wolff report that computer models can produce theoretical waves as high as 219 feet (67 meters).
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Posted on May 13, 2006 06:40 AM by Hurric18.
Filed in Hurricane! under hurricane ivan.
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My understanding is that the classic rogue wave isn't necessarily connected with hurricanes (which generate big waves as a matter of course), but the Hurricane Ivan rogue-wave observation has caused experts to rethink their previous views. I'm trying to get a follow-up interview with a rogue-wave researcher and will ask specifically about that ... Anything I find out will be posted at http://www.cosmiclog.com ... The item you originally referenced is on a test site and may or may not be available in the future.
Posted by: Alan Boyle at May 15, 2006 09:10 PM
