In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

Noah Mintz nearly lost his life when he was hit by a rogue wave, a wave over twice the size of those around it, while wading in knee-deep water in Mexico. He was eventually able to regain mobility, ...

The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at the time. Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years.

Johannes Gemmrich, a physicist from the University of Victoria, noted that it was “likely the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded” in terms of its relative size. This observation has left ...

Was it a rogue wave? Research into rogue waves picked up in the early 2000s. In 2020, what's considered by some to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded measured in at 17.6 metres high ...

Rogue waves are "giant colossi of the sea ... A study on phys.org found that extreme wave heights in many places are likely to grow by between 5% and 8% by 2100, depending on how much carbon ...