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 ...

ALEXIS DELELISI/AFP / Getty Images 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 ...

Forget the gentle waves of a sunny day at the beach. The ocean is a terrifying place, capable of displaying fantastical power. Now, a new analysis of the physics behind waves reveals they can reach ...

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...

By analyzing 18 years of high-frequency laser measurements from the Ekofisk oil platform in the central North Sea, we reached the surprising conclusion that rogue waves aren't just freak occurrences.

Dion Häfner defending his PhD thesis An Ocean of Data - Inferring the Causes of Real-World Rogue Waves at the Niels Bohr Institute, University og Copenhagen. Long considered myth, freakishly large ...

A trend nobody asked for is here: Terrifying videos of unruly waves. By Claire Moses Reporting from London High waves fill your field of vision, your palms start to sweat and your stomach turns. The ...

In 2022, a large, unexpected rogue wave struck the Viking Polaris, breaking windows. One passenger died and others were injured. (Alexis Delisi/AFP/Getty Images) Huge, freak waves that seem to come ...