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The monster waves; Science tracks the walls of water that sink ships.
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
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July 24, 2004
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THEY are the stuff of maritime legend.
Huge waves that tower over ships before crashing down, snapping them like twigs and sending their terrified crews to an untimely end.
Now satellite technology has proved for the first time that the world's oceans are indeed stalked by hundreds of these mammoth waves, each weighing millions of tons.
The so-called 'rogue waves' have been the anecdotal cause of scores of sinkings of vessels as large as container ships and supertankers over the past 20 years.
But evidence to support this has been sketchy, and marine scientists have said such freaks of nature would only occur once every 1,000 years.
Conventional theory ...
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