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.

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.

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