See it at right, via a computer modeled *.gif file.
Yes, this is a bit of a life science tangent — but I think it a cool one. Here’s the whole story, and a bit:
…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 in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded….
Such an exceptional event was thought to occur only once every 1,300 years…. For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore…. It wasn’t until 1995 that myth became fact. On the first day of the new year, a nearly 26-meter-high wave (85 feet) suddenly struck an oil-drilling platform roughly 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Norway….
Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it…. [T]he Ucluelet [Island, BC] wave was nearly three times the size of its peers….
Welp — the thought is that climate change is both increasing the severity of these waves, and the frequency of their occurrence — in the Pacific, specifically. That makes sense.
In any event, that would be quite a surfers’ set / session, indeed. Very gnarly… lethal, even… but grin-worthy. Onward.
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