i learned something today

[Dan]

while working, i was going through my copy of waves and beaches and was reading up on rogue waves... unreal... google it if you want to see some impressive destruction to ships.
i also learned that using cod liver oil (or something similar) around a boat has been used for a really long time to keep the waves/spray down... it makes complete sense and i bet it smells great. i thought i would share.:)
this looks fun
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/5135/wg2xv8.jpg

[Sprocket]

Given that waves and Beaches has been out of print for 27 years they now know that Rouge waves occur far more frequently than thought before.

My fave pic in the book is of the 128foot wave shot in the Pacific....stare at that one for awhile.

While we are on this thread has anyone else seen that special that was on on the the discorvery type channels. The crew was on a research vessel off of Greenland and caught in a 70foot swell. Home video from the bridge was off the hook. I caught it flipping channels one night and didn't get the name of the show.....

On the tape you hear the captain telling the crew it's all going to be okay, but then they are interviewing him in the studio and he's saying I was thinking we had a 50/50 chance of making it.....Would love to see that show again.

[Waterman]

^ Ive seen the special on rogue waves was really intresting. They showed the largest wave to date I believe* which was somthing like 120 feet in alaska it came threw a bay and just demolished everything been a while forgot exactly but they did show a photo someone took of it and it was pretty narly

[Sprocket]

No that wave that hit the bay in ALaska surged up hundreds of feet and wiped out the tree line to prove it. THe result of a funneling effect I belive.....

[Waterman]

either way big waves rock

[Dan]

either way big waves rock
if we are on the same page, i think this wave was somewhere in the 300 ft range and it was basically a landslide that pushed a bay up the side of a mountain. that would be a great site... smoke a little, have a beer, and watch the world fall apart. it would be like watching an earthquake or volcano, etc...
sprocket- i am trying staying a little ahead of the waves and beaches times:cool: (i am pretty sure that JASON satellite is specifically for wave heights); and the show you referred to i saw on the science channel. i have no idea what the name was, but i remember it being very interesting.
jen grew up surfing new smyrna... she said that twice her board got bumped- but she never saw anyone get bit.
i am curious what you have seen out there. i had a manatee make me almost crap my pants a couple of weeks ago... fortunately, all the amazing animal stories are fishing or hiking stories:)

[2fresh]

ohhh yeeee I saw that show with the treeline, and there was this dad and son fishing and they saw this monstruous wave (or stunami) and they started the engine and went toward the wave hoping they will go above it.

[Sprocket]

Dan yeah that was the show with landslide about the trees. Glad you saw the other one.

THey were on a reasearch vessel and had 17 props all full ahead and kept getting pushed backward by the swell and wind. Crazy stuff.

For a Symrna story see the other thread I just posted my Bull shark encounter.

Volusia COunty is the shark attack capital of the world btw.....