Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel ...

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high. A ...

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 ...

In 1966, the luxury ocean liner SS Michelangelo was crossing the Atlantic when it was suddenly struck by a massive rogue wave. The impact smashed windows more than 20 meters above the waterline, ...

The ocean is an intriguing and mysterious place. For every new species of sea creature we find, there are an untold number of others waiting to be discovered. But it isn't just sea life that has kept ...

MARSHALL ISLANDS -- A massive wave hit a U.S. military base in the Marshall Islands, in the heart of the Pacific. The force of the water ripped the doors from their hinges and pushed people out of the ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...

Rogue waves are a naturally-occurring phenomenon, usually materializing far out to sea, and categorized as waves measuring twice the size of those surrounding them. They’re difficult to predict, ...

A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel survived amidst a storm of biblical proportions and unfathomably ...