In 2020, what's considered by some to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded measured in at 17.6 metres high, off the coast of Ucluelet, B.C., far above the average six-metre waves around it.

Earth Science Rogue Ocean Waves Can Become Even More Monstrous, Study Finds Using a unique, circular wave pool, engineers learned that waves can be four time steeper than previously calculated.

The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at the time. Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.

Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready. That’s because researchers have ...

A rogue wave is defined as a wave that's 2.2 times higher than the waves around it, said Johannes Gemmrich, a physical oceanographer at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. The waves are ...

Rogue waves can damage vessels and critical infrastructure, and they can even kill. In 2022, for example, one cruise ship passenger died and others were injured when a freak wave hit the Viking ...

Chaotic, terrifying rogue waves haunt the ocean. Scientists have a plan to help. Researchers say they've invented a tool that can give up to five minutes warning that a rogue wave is approaching.

Now, the existence of these "real sea monsters" that have "swallowed up dozens of ships" is widely accepted, said Metro, and experts are working to understand what causes them and whether climate ...

Far out to sea, beyond the horizon, lie real sea monsters. Long thought to be a myth imagined by sailors, these killers have now been seen and studied in real life. They are rogue waves. Rearing ...

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*.

Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*. Rogue waves are giant colossi of the sea – twice as high as neighbouring waves – that appear seemingly out of nowhere.