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Aleutian Ballad, (Bering Sea, 2005): Footage of a rogue wave appears in an episode of Deadliest Catch from Season 2, Episode 4 "Finish Line" (Original airdate: 28 April 2006). While sailing through rough seas during a night time storm, a "freak wave", believed to be around 60 feet (18 meters) high, violently hits the fishing vessel's starboard ...
Draupner wave (North Sea, 1995) – The first rogue wave confirmed with scientific evidence, it had a maximum height of 26 metres (85 ft). [116] Queen Elizabeth 2 (1995) – Encountered a 29 m (95 ft) wave in the North Atlantic, during Hurricane Luis. The master said it "came out of the darkness" and "looked like the White Cliffs of Dover."
The likelihood of this wave height being attained at least once in the hundred-year period is 63%. [1] As a projection of the most extreme wave which can be expected to occur in a given body of water, the hundred-year wave is a factor commonly taken into consideration by designers of oil platforms and other offshore structures.
A Norwegian cruise ship, MS Maud, with more than 250 passengers on board lost power in the North Sea after a storm on Thursday, Dec. 21. A rescue mission is underway.
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MS Stolt Surf was a chemical tanker, operated by Stolt-Nielsen Inc. She achieved a measure of infamy when she was struck and damaged by a rogue wave, an event that was photographed by a crew member and subsequently added to the ongoing debate over the possibility of such waves out in the deep ocean.
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First named North Star, then Caledonian Star; she received her present name in June 2001. On March 2, 2001, the ship was struck by a 30-metre-high rogue wave while crossing the Drake Passage . The wave smashed the windows of the bridge and ruined the navigation and communications equipment, but did not cripple the ship.