In November 2020, a truly extraordinary rogue wave was recorded off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. Measuring 17.6 meters (58 feet) in height, the wave was captured by a MarineLabs buoy, making ...

In November 2020, a colossal rogue wave was recorded off the coast of Ucluelet, a small town on Vancouver Island, Canada. This extraordinary event saw a wave rise to a height of 17.6 meters, about the ...

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 ...

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*. Rogue ...

The Viking Polaris was hit by a rogue wave in the Drake Passage, treacherous waters between Argentina and Antarctica. A rogue wave occurs when it's more than two times higher than waves around it.

For centuries, seafaring folks' reports of terrifyingly huge waves that appeared out of nowhere were dismissed as fantasy by those on dry land. Now, the existence of these "real sea monsters" that ...