Rogue waves, ship killers. The stuff if legends for years, recently there was a study using satellite radar that discovered certain areas of the oceans where these waves occur with some regularity. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On May 23, 2017 4:28:18 PM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >There's that place off the California coast some hundred miles or more >that gets monster waves like this, guys go out there to surf them. I >think there was a documentary about it on Netflix I saw, or maybe on >PBS >or something. > >--FT > > >On 5/23/17 4:23 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> Holy. 64 feet? Surf’s up, man. >> >> -D >> >> >>> On May 23, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes ><mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> I always had a fear of gigantic tidal waves but this one made me >blanch. >>> >>> Massive wave recorded in Southern OceanPublished: Tuesday, May 23, >2017 >>> >>> A massive, 64-foot-high wave was measured by a buoy in the Southern >Ocean >>> about 400 miles south of New Zealand on Saturday. >>> >>> The wave was taller than a six-story building. >>> >>> "This is one of the largest waves recorded in the Southern >Hemisphere," >>> said oceanographer Tom Durrant of MetOcean Solutions, a private >weather >>> firm in New Zealand. "This is the world's southernmost wave buoy >moored in >>> the open ocean, and we are excited to put it to the test in large >seas," he >>> wrote on the company's blog. >>> >>> The buoy was installed three months ago to get "valuable >observations from >>> this remote part of the ocean," according to the company. >>> >>> "Accurate measurements of these conditions will help us understand >waves >>> and air-sea interactions in these extreme conditions," Durrant said, >>> referring to the new buoy. "This, in turn, will lead to improvements >in the >>> models used to simulate the waves, providing better forecasts, both >for the >>> Southern Ocean and for the wider region" (Doyle Rice, *USA Today* >>> ><https://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2017/05/22/surfs-up-monstrous-64-foot-wave-measured-southern-ocean/102009718/>, >>> May 22). *— CS* >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > >-- >--FT >Winston Churchill: >“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, >large or petty, >never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. >Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might >of the enemy.” > > >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com > >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
