Rogue Waves

Fixed link for above ... LINK.

 

Cross Referenced Discussion

There has been a few interesting additions to this subject under a different subject heading,
"Rogue waves turn out to be not that rare".
Thought I would cross reference it for anyone not aware of it.
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?p=112717#post112717

 

....courtesy of Scuttlebutt
Ever ponder what ship life might be like on an ocean crossing? These photographs were taken onboard lSELKIRK SETTLER, February 13, 1987, on an eastbound passage from Tampa, Florida to Ghent, Belgium with a load of phosphates. Note the height and wavelength, where the 730-foot long ship looks like she doesn't even take up half of the length of the trough. Details at www.boatnerd.com

 

Uh oh. I posted those a few days ago here...(#410-You have to go past the shark picture )
http://boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=11052&page=28
The place I got them from said they were taken on Lake Superior last November. ???? I looked on the boatnerd site but couldn't find them. Where would they be? Sam

 

Googled it and found two sites...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51216464@N00/
and then the boatnerd site...
http://pics.boatnerd.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album2419
if you click on the boatnerd pictures, you get a big picture with more info.
I think I would tend to believe the boatnerd info over some guy who seems to be trying to copyright something that isn't his. Sam

 

Here are some old pictures showing the carrier Hornet and the first Queen Mary handling some rather large waves. Looks like the QM wave will reach the bridge. If I remember correctly, that's got to be about 75-80' above the waterline.

 

Rogue? Its probably just her temperment.

I was never so frightened as on Lake Ontario. 24' pocket cruiser skipping around on a placid fishing day. She came up sudden, eradic, extreme, and unforgiving. Beyond any coastal or sound waters I've experienced. It was all I could do to keep bobbing. We were tossed around like a beach ball. Absent malice and say a 16 lbs sledge hammer I never knew you break that many things on a boat.

Ontario is a puddle compared with Superior -- those sailors have all my respect. Everything is rogue.

 

Flexing Innards

Look at this video, submitted by one Charles Daniel from a commercial container ship to Military.com Entertainment, with the comment:
'The seas I could deal with. Same goes for the pitching of the vessel. I don't know about those flexing passageways though...'

To view the video, click the link below:

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=164323&ESRC=dod.nl

 

So what's the problem?

 

we had a wave from the depths of hell hit us once,,was on a 85' lobsta boat,,dad screamed "hang on!",,we hit the deck,,the whole boat came out of the water,,after 3 rolls of toilet paper we all started laughing at each other fer screaming like little girls,,hehe

 

It's only the one you don't come up from that is a worry, by then it's to late anyway!!

Apart from the fact that it teaches you how to stow yer gear properly before leaving port!!

 

This one is also interesting, from the same source.
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=165279&page=1
Is the fighter on deck going through some kind of test about resistance to the marine environment, or what?

Cheers.

 

Nice film! Mind you with that sort of weather coming up they should have got those aircraft below, the salt spray (and most of it is only spray, had it been solid water the cab would have moved) will have ruined the skin etc of all those aircradft - best bet would be to ditch em now! And that is kinda expensive!!

 

I didn't know this:

"The possibility of the artificial stimulation of rogue wave phenomena, for use as a weapon or for other purposes, has attracted research funding from DARPA, an agency of the United States Department of Defense. Bahram Jalali and other researchers at UCLA studied microstructured optical fibers near the threshold of soliton supercontinuum generation and observed rogue wave phenomena. After modeling the effect, the researchers announced that they had successfully characterized the proper initial conditions for generating rogue waves in any medium."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave_(oceanography)#cite_note-10

Cheers.

 

Now that is frightening! How the hell do you control such a monster once released - or do you just pray?

Bit like gas in the first world war! not such a wnder weapon as they first thought!!