How do Rogue Waves form ?
Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 5 March, 2010 : – – Just like a Hollywood disaster movie, a sudden wall of water hit a cruise ship sailing in the Mediterranean Sea off the northeastern coast of Spain on 3rd March 2010, killing two people, injuring 14 and causing severe damage to the vessel. Louis Cruise Lines, owners of the vessel, said the Louis Majesty was hit by three ‘abnormally high’ waves, each more than 33 ft. (10 m) high, striking in clear weather and without warning. “We heard a loud noise, and it was the wave that hit us,” a passenger from France, said. The Louis Majesty wasn’t hit by a sudden storm or any other expected dangers of maritime travel. Rather, it may have been the victim of rogue waves. For centuries mariners have told stories about sudden waves that would emerge out of the open ocean without warning, strong enough to topple even large ships. The S.S. Waratah, which vanished on a journey to Cape Town; the M.S. Mnchen, lost en route to Savannah, Ga.; even the S.S
