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Scientific Cruise Meets Perfect Storm, Inspires Extreme Wave Research
An anonymous reader writes "The oceanographers aboard RRS Discovery were expecting the winter weather on their North Atlantic research cruise to be bad, but they didn't expect to have to negotiate the highest waves ever recorded in the open ocean. Wave heights were measured by the vessel's Shipborne Wave Recorder, which allowed scientists from the National Oceanography Centre to produce a paper titled 'Were extreme waves in the Rockall Trough the largest ever recorded?' It's that paper, in combination with the first confirmed measurement of a rogue wave (at the Draupner platform in the North Sea), that led to 'a surge of interest in extreme and rogue waves, and a renewed emphasis on protecting ships and offshore structures from their destructive power.'"
This scientific cruise also proved that the only kind of cruise where nobody gets laid is a "scientific cruise"
Outlaw them and put out a bounty (or a Bounty?)
make imaginary.friends COUNT=100 VISIBLE=false
Under severe gale force conditions with wind speeds averaging 21 ms a shipborne wave recorder measured individual waves up to 29.1 m from crest to trough, and a maximum significant wave height of 18.5 m.
Can you convert that to the slashdot standard unit of measurement, Libraries of Congress? Also, if you could provide a car analogy too that would be great. Thanks!
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0.59 Libraries of Congress from fender to fender.
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
....... it didn't happen!! :D
Yeah, the authors were probably diluted.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
That happens all the time because when everyone else is running away the crazy photographers are crouching/standing there clicking away and thinking of the shot.