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[geekchick]

Today's intriguing science blurb from nikkinewsnet:

Over the last two decades more than 200 super-carriers - cargo ships over 200m long - have been lost at sea. Eyewitness reports suggest many were sunk by high and violent walls of water that rose up out of calm seas.

But for years these tales of towering beasts were written off as fantasy; and many marine scientists clung to statistical models stating monstrous deviations from the normal sea state occur once every 1,000 years.

The MaxWave study in 2001, using mathematical analysis of radar images taken by two Esa satellites over a three-week period, found 10 of these "freak waves". All of the waves were over 25m high, and some were nearly 30m high.

Comments

Re: huh huh huh huh...

[geekchick]

Elvis. Elvis needs boats.

[(Anonymous)]

As if I actually needed convincing... I ain't never takin' no stinkin' cruise.

Nicola

[geekchick]

Heh. That was my initial reaction too. =)