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The 30-foot (9.1 m) sailing yacht Grimalkin was in the Celtic Sea participating in the 1979 Fastnet Race when a very steep 40-foot (12.2 m) breaking wave with a 10-foot (3 m) tall curl broke over her from astern during a storm on August 14, 1979, pitchpoling her and killing two members of her crew, incapacitating another crewman who was ...
A video shows a 30-foot-long dead gray whale washed up on Bolsa Chica State Beach in Southern California following a series of storms. Bicyclist Eric Meyer told the Orange County Register that he ...
In the case of Thursday's incident, an extended zone of winds, called fetch, allowed long-period swells to gather and build from multiple storms at sea. These swells then got pushed toward the ...
Senopati Nusantara – The ferry sank in a storm on 30 December. She was a scheduled passenger liner from Kumai in Central Kalimantan to Tanjung Emas port in Semarang, Central Java. About 22 nautical miles (40 km) off Mandalika island, she sank in a fierce storm in the Java Sea. At least 400–500 people are thought to have died; 224 were rescued.
Soviet cargo ship "Tixi" sunk with all of its crew during a storm in the Devils' Sea on March 22 en route from Australia to Japan. 45 1902 New Zealand: Elingamite – The ship, carrying a large consignment of gold, was wrecked off the north coast of New Zealand killing 45 people. The wreck is now favoured by adventurous divers for the drama ...
Two Russian tankers have been severely damaged following a storm in the Black Sea. This video, shot from inside one of the vessels on Sunday (15 December), appears to show part of a tanker ripped ...
A ship in a force 12 ("hurricane-force") storm at sea, the highest rated on the Beaufort scale. The Beaufort scale (/ ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt) is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale.
People say the videos haven given them a brand-new irrational fear: “Being in peril in the North Sea,” as @shawbag2.0 said in a video. “It’s given me the distinct feeling that the North ...