A record-breaking 17.6-meter rogue wave off British Columbia highlights the importance of wind dynamics in wave formation ...

Colin Hoag surveyed the waves Saturday morning too. The 50-year-old Pierpont resident captured video Thursday as he fled the rogue wave that hurdled the retaining wall at the end of Seaward Avenue.

Inside the “Draupner Wave” – an historically (and abnormally) large wave, which smashed into an offshore oil platform in ...

The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at the time. Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.

A rogue wave is defined as a wave that's 2.2 times higher than the waves around it, said Johannes Gemmrich, a physical oceanographer at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Rogue waves can damage vessels and critical infrastructure, and they can even kill. In 2022, for example, one cruise ship passenger died and others were injured when a freak wave hit the Viking ...

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 ...