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>>duck+(OP)
In the article they say there are 50feet waves. But it's hard to appreciate that on the video. Is there a way to better look at these picture to get a better sense of the scale ?

>>wiz21c+U5
Well, the Draupner Wave brushed the under side of an oil rig, if that helps. That was a rogue wave and they get a lot higher.

There are also the opposite - rogue holes - the trough part of a wave. Imagine being in a boat and dropping 100ft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave

>>DrBazz+Ed
Makes you wonder how many ships got lost before structural integrity improved to the point where a ship would survive that kind of impact.

>>jacque+ue
There was an interesting article in Quanta a while back on this topic.

> Researchers have since determined that rogue waves probably claimed 22 supercarriers and more than 500 lives in the second half of the 20th century alone.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-grand-unified-theory-of-r...