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The BBC's Horizon "Freak waves" first aired in November 2002 'Giant Waves on the Open Sea', lecture by Professor Paul H Taylor at Gresham College, 13 May 2008 (available for video, audio or text download) TV program description; Non-technical description of some of the causes of rogue waves; New Scientist article 06/2001; Freak Wave Research in ...
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 ...
The Draupner wave, also known as the New Year's wave or Draupner freak wave, was a rare freak wave that was the first to be detected by a measuring instrument. [1] [2] The wave, determined to be 25.6 m (84 ft) in height, was recorded on 1 January 1995 at Unit E of the Draupner platform, [3] a gas pipeline support complex located in the North Sea about 160 km (100 miles) southwest from the ...
The loss of München was featured in an edition of the BBC documentary series Horizon entitled "Freak Wave," which was first shown on 14 November 2002. In 2003, the Science Channel created a documentary entitled Killer Waves which studied the disappearance of München and concluded that a rogue wave was the most likely cause of her loss.
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.
Rose-Noëlle was a trimaran that capsized at 6 AM on June 4, 1989, in the southern Pacific Ocean off the coast of New Zealand. [1] [2] Four men (John Glennie, James Nalepka, Rick Hellriegel and Phil Hoffman) survived adrift on the wreckage of the ship for 119 days.
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Paul C. Liu, A Chronology of Freaque Wave Encounters, Geofizika, Vol 24. No 1. 2007; The Stolt Surf's chief engineer's accounts and photographs of the waves; Article in the New York Times on freak waves, with reference to the Stolt Surf; BBC Horizon's Freak Waves episode, first shown: BBC Two, Thursday 14 November 2002; BBC Horizon's freak wave ...