I know we have some sailors here and thought they and others may find this of interest.
I spend parts of each year in my 30s and 40s going to Alaska for commercial fishing. Mostly relatively safe, salmon seining on a 58' boat. But, I also made some crab trips to the Bering sea on a 105' powers scow the "Ramblin Rose" I have seen some waves. One guy I fished with lost his brother on a boat that was suspected of encountering a rouge wave near Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands. A guy I new from Sand Point AK a small town in the Aleutians, told me he was the last surviving male of his high school class. He became a welder
There used to be a lot of disbelief of the idea of monster "Rouge waves"
That skepticism changed on New Year's Day in 1995, when a rogue wave struck the Draupner oil installation in the Norwegian North Sea. Equipped with a downward-pointing laser, the platform recorded a 26-meter (85ft) wave spiking out of a sea filled with 11.8-meter waves — a nautical Bigfoot caught in a high-resolution snapshot.
Any way it its an interesting article on such waves and predicting them.
Quanta Magazine
I spend parts of each year in my 30s and 40s going to Alaska for commercial fishing. Mostly relatively safe, salmon seining on a 58' boat. But, I also made some crab trips to the Bering sea on a 105' powers scow the "Ramblin Rose" I have seen some waves. One guy I fished with lost his brother on a boat that was suspected of encountering a rouge wave near Unimak Pass in the Aleutian Islands. A guy I new from Sand Point AK a small town in the Aleutians, told me he was the last surviving male of his high school class. He became a welder
There used to be a lot of disbelief of the idea of monster "Rouge waves"
That skepticism changed on New Year's Day in 1995, when a rogue wave struck the Draupner oil installation in the Norwegian North Sea. Equipped with a downward-pointing laser, the platform recorded a 26-meter (85ft) wave spiking out of a sea filled with 11.8-meter waves — a nautical Bigfoot caught in a high-resolution snapshot.
Any way it its an interesting article on such waves and predicting them.
Quanta Magazine