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    What is the "New Year's Day Wave" and how is it significant?

    Question #108674. Asked by star_gazer. (Sep 09 09 9:26 PM)


    asgardshill

    		The New Year's Day Wave was a "rogue" or freak wave that struck an oil rig in the North Sea on New Year's Day of 1995. This wave was of a height that should occur in nature only once within a 10,000 year period.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/freakwavetrans.shtml

    Sep 09 09, 9:42 PM
    star_gazer

    		Once thought by scientists to exist only in legends, rogue waves are now known to be a natural ocean phenomenon. Anecdotal evidence from mariners' testimonies and damages inflicted on ships have long suggested they occurred; however, their scientific measurement was only positively confirmed following measurements of the "Draupner wave", a rogue wave at the Draupner oil platform, in the North Sea on January 1, 1995. During this event, minor damage was inflicted on the platform, confirming that the reading was valid.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave

    Sep 09 09, 11:21 PM

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