[pigboy]

check this out. during Hurricane Ivan some sensor array measured waves of approx 91 feet. and sustained waves of 60odd feet.

yikes!

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/nrl-nmr080405.php

now if only someone had gotten a board on those puppies......

-pigboy

 

[Toshi]

cool. it's nice to know in some twisted sense that "rogue waves" aren't just a figment of overly creative writers' imaginations...

 

[Skookum]

That reminds me i gotta take a dump. Make some tsunami's in the toilet bowl. :dancing:

 

[skinny mike]

That reminds me i gotta take a dump. Make some tsunami's in the toilet bowl. :dancing:

sounds like you need to lay off of the ex-lax.

 

[Skookum]

sounds like you need to lay off of the ex-lax.

TIDAL WAVE! SOMEBODY CALL THE COAST GUARD!!#%)#!%*!)

 

[yonton228]

think that is bad?? check these waves out, and what going on with em....HERE AND HERE AND HERE AGAIN AND FIANALY A VIDEO

Hopefully that last link and its videos work for everyone. Also, if you have a subscription to National Geographic check out the November 1998 issue, it has a huge pullout picture of a wave, it takes up three pages, its just.... just like DAMN!!!!!!

 

[McGRP01]

I watched a show on surfing Mavericks last night on OLN. Sick, sick, sick!!! Along those same line, check out "Riding Giants" if you get a chance. I've benn up on a board a few times on 4 footers, but can't even fathom some of the stuff those guys ride.

 

[skinny mike]

jaws is huge. but its not the biggest place. wait until some big wave surfers get wind of a huge swell heading toward cortes bank which is around 100 miles off the coast of california i believe. that is the only place that can provide a rideable 100 foot wave. also, according to the numbers, cortes bank can handle a wave up to 1000 feet on the face.

 

[DRB]

In Step into Liquid, the last section is them riding Cortez. Mike Parsons caught a wave 66 feet high. It is truly insane.

 

[ridetoofast]

on the way back from my first med cruise, we were skirting the perimeter of a big low pressure system just west of the straights of gibaltar (sp?). at one point during the night we caught a rogue wave on the starboard side. it was so big it crushed a motor whale boat up into the overhead of the davit, burst a door inward past its hinges, and almost every head on the starboard side of the ship that was up against the hull had cracked mirrors. oh did i mention this was on a nimitz class carrier? i can't imagine how big it must have been but i slept like a baby through the whole thing...

 

[yonton228]

the best is, that before i left hawaii i got to see jaws in person, it was the winter time and the waves were small at only 45', lol