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The wave was around 27.7 m (91 ft) high from peak to trough, and around 200 m (660 ft) long. [118] Their computer models also indicated that waves may have exceeded 40 metres (130 ft) in the eyewall. [119] Aleutian Ballad, (Bering Sea, 2005) footage of what is identified as an 18 m (60 ft) wave appears in an episode of Deadliest Catch. The wave ...
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 ...
Gore Vidal's first novel, Williwaw (1946), based on a ship in the Aleutian Islands, features the williwaw. In the Deadliest Catch episode "Finish Line", the ship Aleutian Ballad crabbed within a williwaw, when a rogue wave damaged the ship and knocked her on her side. The novel Williwaw! by Tom Bodett is about two children who almost die in a ...
The Aleutian Ballad, knocked over by a rogue wave, managed to right itself, but with several crew members injured—including Captain Tilley's own daughter, Nicole—as well as its computer not coming back on line and the wheelhouse and deck damaged, Captain Tilley decided to return to port for repairs rather than risk more damage in the storms.
On the island of Kauai, the wave height reached 16.1 metres (53 ft) at Haena. [14] In northern Oahu, wave heights reached 7 m (23 ft). [14] Various areas around Big Island recorded tsunami waves with heights ranging 1–9.8 m (3 ft 3 in – 32 ft 2 in), [14] including a reading of 3.9 m (13 ft) at Hilo. [24]
The Aleutian Basin, the ocean floor north of the Aleutian arc, is the remainder of the Kula Plate that was trapped when volcanism and subduction jumped south to its current location at c. 56 Ma. [8] The Aleutian island arc formed in the Early Eocene (55–50 Ma) when the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the North American Plate began. The ...
The 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska on April 1, 1946. The shock measured (M w) 8.6, M t 9.3 or (M s) 7.4. It had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). [3] [4] It resulted in 165–173 casualties and over US$26 million (equivalent to $406,238,908 in 2023) in damage.
The destroyer then broached and began breaking up in the surf. Commander William G. Pogue, the destroyer's commanding officer, ordered abandon ship, and as he was directing that effort, he was swept overboard into the wintry seas by a heavy wave that broke over the ship. Pogue was among the fortunate ones, however, because he was hauled ...