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"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.
Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years. And
unless the buoy had been taken for a ride, we might never have known it even
happened.
For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore. It
wasn't until 1995 that myth became fact. On the first day of the new year, a
nearly 26-meter-high wave (85 feet) suddenly struck an oil-drilling platform
roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Norway.
At the time, the so-called Draupner wave defied all previous models scientists
had put together.
Since then, dozens more rogue waves have been recorded (some even in lakes),
and while the one that surfaced near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island was not the
tallest, its relative size compared to the waves around it was unprecedented.
Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the
waves surrounding it. The Draupner wave, for instance, was 25.6 meters tall,
while its neighbors were only 12 meters tall.
In comparison, the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
