Dashing rogues: freak ocean waves pose threat to ships, deep-sea oil...

Science News;  November 18, 2006 ;     700+ words ......34 m tall, the highest ever observed. Rogue waves like the one that struck the Ramapo...summer's film remake Poseidon. Although rogue waves--also called freak waves or monster...warning. Scientists once assumed that rogue waves strike any particular patch of ocean...

Ship-Sinking Monster Waves Revealed by ESA Satellites

Sea Technology;  September 1, 2004 ;     435 words ......establish the widespread existence of these rogue waves and are now being used to study their...ships in the last two decades, with rogue waves believed to be the major cause in many...platforms have also been struck by these rogue waves. Objective radar evidence from these...

Surf's (way) up.(Marketplace)(seawaves pose a threat to cruiseliners)

Risk Management;  July 1, 2005 ;     458 words ......Until a few years ago, these giant rogue waves, were considered extremely rare if they...in the last 20 years, discovered that rogue waves were much more common than previously...platforms have also been victims of rogue waves. In 1995, the Draupner oil rig in the...

Rogue waves not uncommon, experts say.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL);  April 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......is there with a ship or an oil rig. Rogue waves, different from tsunamis that result...thought to be mariners' tall tales, rogue waves damage or sink one or two ships each...to storms over the last two decades, rogue waves are believed by scientists to have been...

Light swell: optical rogue waves resemble oceanic ones.(This Week)

Science News;  December 15, 2007 ;     492 words ......The new technique for creating such rogue waves in the lab might help physicists understand...predicting the risks for vessels at sea. Rogue waves--waves significantly higher than the...computer simulations have shown that rogue waves can originate from what physicists call...

Sea tales.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

Science News;  January 20, 2007 ;     169 words ......Dashing Rogues (SN: 11/18/06, p. 328) on rogue waves, you make no mention of the use of satellite...with just 3 weeks' data, identified 10 rogue waves above 25 meters in height. WaveAtlas aims to prepare a worldwide atlas of rogue waves. STORM DUNLOP, EAST WITTERING, WEST...

Rough math: focusing on rogue waves at sea. (unusually large waves)

Science News;  November 23, 1996 ;     588 words ......account for the occurrence of these rogue waves. Using a mathematical model, they demonstrate...submitted to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Rogue waves can arise in all oceans. However, their...trough. Mariners who have experienced rogue waves have described such troughs as holes...

COMINGANDGOING

The Washington Post;  April 24, 2005 ;     610 words ...cruise news Rogue waves like the 70-foot monster that hit...until several years ago believed rogue waves were part of folklore, said David...to scan the oceans, and found 10 rogue waves in three weeks. Luckily they don...

Sea change in thinking over killer rogue waves

Scotland on Sunday;  November 10, 2002 ;     416 words ......been dismissed by many as a myth. Huge rogue waves capable of overwhelming ships and sending...North Sea oil rig and discovered 24 rogue waves up to 30 metres high in a four-year...vessels every year from the actions of rogue waves. Until recently, ocean scientists believed...

Monster waves.(Weather)

Marine Log;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......establish the widespread existence of these rogue waves. The First and Second European Remote-Sensi...now being used to study the origin of rogue waves. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Over the last...ships (200 meters in length or more). Rogue waves are believed to be the major cause in...

Scientists Seek Cause of Mysterious 'Rogue' Waves

NPR Weekend All Things Considered;  December 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Scientists Seek Cause of Mysterious 'Rogue' Waves Host: ANDREA SEABROOK Time 19:00-20...waves 70 feet high. These so-called rogue waves are the subject of today's Science Out...Guard. No one knows exactly what causes rogue waves, and so it's not easy to study them...

The monster waves; Science tracks the walls of water that sink ships.

The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 24, 2004 ;     425 words ......mammoth waves, each weighing millions of tons. The so-called 'rogue waves' have been the anecdotal cause of scores of sinkings of vessels...by 100ft waves, it went down with its sixstrong crew. Most rogue waves have been spotted in the Agulhas current off eastern South...

UW prodigy takes his gifts to the limit.

Seattle Times (Seattle, WA);  August 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Whether he's studying the nature of killer rogue waves, struggling through Russian short stories...could lead to a better understanding of rogue waves, gigantic walls of water which appear...large ships in a matter of seconds. Rogue waves have been around forever, but the serious...

It's elemental, Watson; television mail.(Review)

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ......explanation to offer. Old sea salts spoke of having encountered rogue waves, 30 metres high, the size of tower blocks, that reared up...Atlantic.' 'But, Holmes, there are no conditions to cause rogue waves in the South Atlantic!' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked...

Taking stock in the wake of a rogue wave: what does it take to shake our...

Healthcare Financial Management;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......There are telling similarities between rogue waves and August's market disaster. Besides...Oceanographers' defense for their assumption that rogue waves couldn't exist sounds weak in retrospect...resistant (but not immune) to the threat of rogue waves--double hulls and that sort of ...