On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water ...

Much like mermaids, the kraken, or the hafgufa, rogue waves have been regarded as a maritime myth. These waves do not always ...

In comparison, the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers. "Proportionally, the Ucluelet wave is likely ...

Residents of coastal California, Oregon and Washington scrambled for answers to a vital question: How big would the waves get ...

The multi-year heat wave nicknamed ‘The Blob’ impacted thousands of kilometres of marine ecosystems from Alaska to Baja ...

Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds Date: September 9, 2015 Source: British Antarctic Survey Summary: Researchers have shown for the first time that phytoplankton (plant life) in remote ...

Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it. The Draupner wave, for instance, was 25.6 meters tall, while its neighbors were only 12 meters tall.

And unlike magnetic stripes on the ocean floor, Tendaho's formed through diking: as the African crust stretched thin, streams of magma intruded the continental crust and hardened.

A buoy moored about 400 miles south of New Zealand recorded a monster wave Saturday towering nearly 20 meters high. The wall of water measured 19.4 meters (approximately 63.6 feet).