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Message 684109 - Posted: 25 Nov 2007, 6:03:23 UTC - in response to Message 684088.  
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Could raw wave relate to tsunami? Because certain few giant ship get sank by raw waves maybe numbers unknown.


I'm not sure what you mean by raw wave. I suppose a giant ship could be sunk if a relatively large wave hit it. Maybe you mean waves that occur during bad weather. Large waves are more common in some places becuase of the shape of the ocean floor.


It was showed on national geographic tv that rarely sailors or capitans witness giant wave (you know the Posiedon movie 2 years ago) that 40-60meters high and they call that Raw Wave.

The latest big witness is some Norwegian cruise ship, they said that the wave height was around 50meters tall.

And it occurs in sea suddenly from no-where. It is the famous NG tried to show certain facts hence I am hypothesizing that it might relate to tsu.

Try to dig the net on Norvegian ship adventure maybe many witnesses might posted facts on the net.


Well I did some searching and I found an article about the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn being hit by a freak wave in 2005. Yes very interesting. That one was like 70 feet high.

I also found a National Geographic article about "rogue waves", or "freak waves". The article mentions two tourist ships, the Bremen and the Caledonian Star being hit by rogue waves. Apparently the waves were up to 30 meters high.
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Message 684139 - Posted: 25 Nov 2007, 10:55:33 UTC

Tsunami waves have low amplitudes and huge wavelengths. When they approach a coast, the wavelength decreases and the amplitude increases, causing havoc. As for raw or monster waves, I remember that the Italian liner "Michelangelo" was hit back in the Sixties by a wave then described as "anomalous", causing damages and life loss in the upper bridge, which included first class cabins.
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Message 684186 - Posted: 25 Nov 2007, 14:39:04 UTC - in response to Message 684109.  
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Well I did some searching and I found an article about the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn being hit by a freak wave in 2005. Yes very interesting. That one was like 70 feet high.

I also found a National Geographic article about "rogue waves", or "freak waves". The article mentions two tourist ships, the Bremen and the Caledonian Star being hit by rogue waves. Apparently the waves were up to 30 meters high.


And the strange thing is in the middle of ocean that wave appears, of course possibly that caused by certain tectonic movements. Maybe current seismologists and oceanologists did not link yet these two processes.

It is the sailors call that as rogue wave. (I think you got that more accurate than me I heard that as raw wave. :D )

Tsunami waves have low amplitudes and huge wavelengths. When they approach a coast, the wavelength decreases and the amplitude increases, causing havoc. As for raw or monster waves, I remember that the Italian liner "Michelangelo" was hit back in the Sixties by a wave then described as "anomalous", causing damages and life loss in the upper bridge, which included first class cabins.
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In that NG documentary it seemed scientists are just beginning to change their views of rogue/raw waves as a rumor to as a serious fact.

(You know the poseidon movie was actually made as a kind of sci fi movie but now it is turning into certain realistic thing. I guess that released in 2005.)
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