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 the ...

Regarding “ ‘Rogue’ Waves Surprisingly Common” [Cruise News, May 22]: For a cruise industry official to say a ship cannot be sunk by a rogue wave is wrong and irresponsible. A BBC documentary a few ...

Is a video that shows a giant Pacific Ocean rogue wave crashing over the deck of a cruise ship called "Venessa" real? No, that's not true: The account that originally posted the video clearly labeled ...

Monstrous and deadly waves that arrive without warning have been recounted in fishing and sailing lore for more than a century. These so-called "rogue" or "freak" waves have been seen from cruise ...

For centuries, seafaring folks' reports of terrifyingly huge waves that appeared out of nowhere were dismissed as fantasy by those on dry land. Now, the existence of these "real sea monsters" that ...

ALEXIS DELELISI/AFP / Getty Images Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready. That's ...

In December 1978, the German cargo ship MS München vanished during a powerful North Atlantic storm, taking all 28 crew members with it. Debris later recovered showed damage far beyond what normal ...

We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters*. Rogue ...

Giant waves crash over the lighthouse in Sassnitz, Germany. Due to a storm on October 20, 2023, the first streets and shore areas on the Baltic Sea coast were flooded by high water. However, one ...

In 2022, a large, unexpected rogue wave struck the Viking Polaris, breaking windows. One passenger died and others were injured. (Alexis Delisi/AFP/Getty Images) Huge, freak waves that seem to come ...