At 3:00 p.m. on New Year's Day in 1995, work stopped on the deck of the Norwegian Draupner oil platform, which stood isolated out in the middle of the tempestuous North Sea. The wind had grown too ...

On January 1, 1995, a freak wave was observed in the North Sea, and measurements of the wave were made on the Draupner Oil Platform. That was one of the first confirmed observations of a freak wave in ...

The Draupner wave was one of the first confirmed observations of a freak wave in the ocean; it was observed on the 1st of January 1995 in the North Sea by measurements made on the Draupner Oil ...

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed a ...

This doesn’t look impressive, but it is. It’s an up-close look at data collected on New Year’s Day in 1995—and it’s the first official evidence we have to show that “rogue waves” really do exist. In ...

It takes a perfect storm to generate a freak wave, a wall of water so unpredictable and colossal that it can easily destroy and sink ships, a new study finds. Take, for instance, the Draupner freak ...

Freakishly high waves that appear unexpectedly on the surface of the ocean used to be the stuff of maritime folklore. Now, researchers have successfully recreated one of these rogue waves in the lab, ...

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 ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Accounts by mariners of freak or rogue waves out in the ocean have long been a common occurrence but until relatively recently ...

Researchers have recreated for the first time the famous Draupner freak wave measured in the North Sea in 1995. The Draupner wave was one of the first confirmed observations of a freak wave in the ...