An 18-year dataset from the North Sea reveals that rogue waves are not freak accidents but particular products of ordinary ...

We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*. Rogue ...

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 a ...

A new study has found that rogue waves, in the Southern Ocean at least, are far more common than initially believed. Image: Hot Spot Art A rogue wave is a wave that’s more than twice the height of the ...

A University of Melbourne expedition to the southernmost waters encircling Antarctica has discovered that wind drives the formation of colossal rogue waves, and that these unpredictable waves occur ...

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves. It's ...

When rogue waves breaking out in the middle of the ocean come to mind, for surfers at least, one spot comes to mind – Cortes Bank, the mythical big wave gauntlet breaking some 100 miles off the ...

In maritime lore, the existence of monstrous rogue waves has long been regarded as the stuff of myth. Yet, these giant waves, capable of tearing ships asunder and wreaking havoc on oil rigs, are not ...

A Calgary man has died trying to save his five-year-old daughter from a rogue wave that swept her away at Garrapata State ...

In February 1986 the passenger ship SS Spray was travelling along the east coast of the US when it was suddenly hit by a wave that was estimated to be 17 m high – the second in a system of three ...