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I've lived near the ocean most of my life and worked on the water for about twenty years and have never seen a rogue wave. I got to see one today, all up close, and I didn't like it at all, no sir.
We were working in Lockwood Folly inlet, headed out into a small ground swell and this thing just rose up before us. Me nor the boat captain saw it coming and believe me, when I'm in a coastal inlet my head is on a swivel, looking for things that might make me go swimming.
The capt did the only thing he could, slap the throttles forward and yell, "Hold on".
We punched thru the face of this thing, it broke over the boat and a LOT of water landed on the back deck. So much I wondered if the scuppers would shed it or not.
After we quit giggling about it we debated how big it was, I don't know. I do have the heave record, the boat went a full four METERS up and back down in a very short period of time.
I can go another fourty some years with out doing that again.

T'was Bush's fault.

Glad yer OK.

Glad you're okay!

Quite interesting to read about rogue waves, I guess they're still trying to figure out exactly where they come from.
I've spent a lot of time out on the ocean and thankfully never encountered one.

Any possible link to the recent earth shaking in and around China, and did the folks on shore experience any damage?? Yesterday they reported the quakes were sensed by people over 1000 miles from the epicenter. After shocks are in the 5 range, so there is some major movement going on somewhere. 1Minute

As waves go it wasn't big enough to hurt anything on shore, plus it broke about a half a mile offshore. We were in the inlet for about four hours and saw nothing else like it, and we were looking.



A seiche? Probably not, I'll ask around tommrow if anyone else saw anything similar, odd stuff like that gets around.

Glad you all are okay. On the bright side,some folks would pay about $100.00 at Disneyland for a ride like that and you got it for free.

Check out this video of Mavericks and Ghost Tree on December 4, 2007.

A local surfer named Peter Davi died at Ghost Tree this day.

In particular, watch the guy go over the falls at about 4:37.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CFq1YdZZW8

Here's another:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN6QUylp9Uo&feature=related

As awesome as it looks on camera, being on the water, as you were for the rogue wave, makes you see these things in a whole different way.

Ain't nothing like it.

nothing like living through the rouge wave and why when there is surfing somebody always has to be named flea

Those big wave riders are crazy.

Nutz...BIG ones!!

Todd

I have a commercial fisherman friend who lost 2 20 foot boats off Martha's Vineyard to rogue waves. One was broken in half, and the other lost her windshield and everything on board including fish and fishermen got stuffed under the foredeck. They are no BS, and a disturbance in the ocean floor miles and miles away could send a trough of water your way any time and aside from pointing the bow into the hole and reversing your engines, you're powerless. It's just all there is to live through it.

Of course we all know that there really are no such things as rogue waves. They are just the figments of over-active imaginations or out-right lies. Any film evidence is just something that someone faked. Those who claim to have had experience with rogue waves (or even rouge waves, for that matter)are just members of the tinfoil hat brigade. (Please note the . - Glad you came through all right.) Best, John

Flying over Kodiak Island on a clear and windy day the new weather was creating solid waves visible from the air at fairly high altitude (for a puddle jumper). At about 60* to them old weather had ceated good big waves which looked remarkably like the new waves.

The pattern created was very much like checkering and amazingly uniform. Out over an area locally referred to as Sunken Spruce Island the pattern faltered and the waves started coming into sync with each other. As we came out to the front of the islands two points could be seen at once where the waves' cycles overlapped and enormous geysers could be seen from miles away.

It was about the most impressive science experiment I have witnessed!
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PS Hey Rick, what do you know about big waves? In the dark?

cool vids Rick, tks


ocean has some power

Glad you're OK. I've never seen a rogue in person, but commercial fishermen I know have, and lived to tell about it. They're real, and have--and will--kill mariners.

Probably 30 years ago Me,my brother and deckhand were bucking back in from and offshore tuna trip 300-400 miles out in a 70 foot drageer. Getting a little choppier the closer we got in to shore. It was 2-3 in morning and I was standing wheelwatch,checking the radar everything looked fine no boats,ships around for miles,what could go wrong? All of a sudden I see something white in front of us about 50 yds.First thought it was a boat and grabbed the wheel and was throttling down when it hit us. A solid wall of white water maybe 35-40 ft high and we were heading up the side of it. Got to the top and the whole boat just hesitated long enough for me to get out a few OH SH*TS, a couple OF OH F#cks and we started down the side and I mean straight down the boat was vertical, bow down and you'd almost have to look straight up to see the stern. I don't know what kept us from going straight to the bottom. I know the bow was completely submerged almost to the wheelhouse at one point and somehow it wallowed aright again. The deckhand who was in the focsle said that water had poured in thru the open focsle hatch so fast He thought we were already under. Anyway the thing was at least a couple miles long running from the NW into a SW swell. Never did hear what caused it.