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Freak Waves
A Dutch container ship captain tells of his personal experience with walls of water as high as 10-story buildings. Previously, waves that could destroy big cargo ships were treated as legends and myths. But as he and others attest, these waves do exist. Over 200 ships have been their victims in the past two decades. In the North Atlantic alone, between 1995 and 1999, 27 big vessels foundered after being hit by freak waves. Today scientists working with wave pools and mathematical models have learned how gigantic freak waves form and grow in the ocean. Their discoveries may help to make collisions between freak waves and ships both predictable and avoidable.
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