Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Rogue waves have captivated the attention of both seafarers and scientists for decades. These are giant, ...

Researchers have used lab models to study how rogue waves form, but these don't always transfer over to the natural world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Sometimes, the North Sea just decides to take a shot at you. Henk Buitjes knows what it’s like. Once, it happened at night in rough weather. The Dutch shrimp fisher was hauling his nets aboard when ...

A size comparison of the "Draupner Wave" to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another. On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil ...

Cortes Bank, a shallow seamount 100 miles into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, is a mystical place; a legendary, yet fabled spot in the world of big-wave surfing. But Cortes Bank is also ...

Scientists from the School of Electromechanical Engineering at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) are pioneering a project to generate electricity from sea waves. Launched in 2015, the “E.Wave: ...

Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock in the Port of Los Angeles, silently converting the power of the sea into electricity. Floating blue paddles dance on the waves that lap a dock ...