In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed a ...

The open ocean can get fierce and wild. There, whipped into a frenzy, ocean swells and troughs can create walls of water that dwarf our puny seafaring vessels, and wreak peril on the humans brave ...

We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*. Rogue ...

A University of Melbourne expedition to the southernmost waters encircling Antarctica has discovered that wind drives the formation of colossal rogue waves, and that these unpredictable waves occur ...

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...

The incident happened at Los Gigantes natural pool in Tenerife’s Puerto de Santiago. Officials had warned against people ...

In November 2020, a truly extraordinary rogue wave was recorded off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Measuring 17.6 meters (58 feet) in height, the wave was captured by a MarineLabs buoy, making ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about chimpanzee "conversations," oxygen from the bottom of the ocean and how a computer program may warn of rogue waves. It's ...

Until the end of the 20th century, scientists thought stories of massive waves rising up out of nowhere was just a myth sailors passed around, like sea monsters or mermaids. That changed in 1995 when ...

When rogue waves breaking out in the middle of the ocean come to mind, for surfers at least, one spot comes to mind – Cortes Bank, the mythical big wave gauntlet breaking some 100 miles off the ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...