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

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 ...

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 Atlantic Ocean is a massive body of water that is so huge that it seems like it must have always been there, but that is ...

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

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.

The wave, which is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the Atlantic Ocean near the west coast of Africa and the Cabo Verde Islands, has a 60% chance of forming within the next week ...