Scientists finally crack the mystery of rogue waves

Scientists Finally Unlock the Mystery of Rogue Waves, Upending Previous Long-Held Theories

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Scientists finally crack the mystery of rogue waves

Once thought to be sailors’ myths, rogue waves gained credibility after a towering 80-foot wall of water struck the Draupner oil platform in 1995. New research shows that these extreme waves don’t need mysterious forces to form—they emerge when ordinary ocean behaviors like wave alignment and nonlinear stretching converge at the wrong moment.

Scientists Solve the Mystery of Rogue Waves

For centuries, mariners told tales of sudden, towering walls of water rising from seemingly calm seas. Many dismissed these stories as exaggerations—until January 1, 1995, when an 80-foot rogue wave struck the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea. That single event provided the first hard data of a rogue wave in the open ocean, […] The post Scientists Solve the Mystery of Rogue Waves appeared first on Tdnews.