3 Terrifying Rogue Wave Strikes
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
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The Insane Rogue Wave that Almost Brought Down the SS Michelangelo: • The Insane Rogue Wave ...
The Insane Rogue Wave that Almost Doomed RMS Lusitania: • The Insane Rogue Wave ...
Did a Rogue Wave Sink the MS München?: • Did a Rogue Wave Sink ...
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I sailed as on officer on a cable ship in the north Atlantic in 1999 and 2000. I know the area of Rockall very well. They storms in this area are intense. I remember we had a storm that was so bad in 2000 that it destroyed a number of our computers, broke some port holes and knocked the crane out of its cradle and we had to go on deck to secure it. I remember having to go through the bowels of the ship during the storm to make sure we were not taking on water. I remember we had a bunch on young tough street guys who were hired on board for their first voyage. A few of these tough hood guys were crying thinking they were going to die. I told them not to worry because our ship could handle this with no problem but I was scared too because going through the ship checking for leaks was not a normal thing. We ended up in a storm with 40 ft plus seas. The ocean is no joke.
Holy hell. That’s an intense job.
It's funny how ""tough guys "" are always the first to break down when shtf 😅
That’s a crazy memory. Thanks for sharing!
That sounds fearsome. I've merely taken the ferry fron Oslo to Copenhagen and even then the boat has been smacking into the waves all the way there and l was fine. Got stoned and watched the film. However if the conditions had been worse to the point where l should have somehow known that a crewman was perhaps actively checking for leaks with some concern l probably would have hidden in a bar. What a freaking job sailors do.
@@joshuarisker5525they're not. there's just different levels of 'tough'. plus some just save the freaking out for later when they're alone.
In the early 1990’s, there was a program that explained why Rogue Waves were mathematically impossible. The real insult was the condescending way they spoke of those who had reported the waves. When the Rig was hit in ‘95, I chuckled. Whenever humans say something is absolute, eventually it gets proven wrong.
Kinda like covid amiright
The program used flawed data to start with. I worked with engineers who designed. Superstructures based on tables that were based on probability. Do you design all houses to survive the 1/100 year hurricane or do you design and build it to the hurricane/storm that you get every 5 years. The problem was no one knew the frequency. Ships that hit these and sunk never recorded what exactly happened. Those that did they treated it as rogue. Rogue does not fit within the frequency model. 15:24
@@isaacg901 Errr no. Ocean modellers and physicists were already looking at the possibility of such waves then in the late nineties. Using physics and computer modelling they determined how such waves can occur in the open ocean. Virologists and immunologists instituted the lockdown measures to prevent spread while searching for a vaccine. Which funnily enough has meant the world has returned to normal far quicker than ever before with advances in mRNA vaccines. Funny how real science works as opposed to all the pseudoscience and pseudoscientists that perform their charlatan act on social media.
Besides absolute truth
Water wins every time, just a matter of time … builder - Australia
"JP Morgan who you may know from that $100 fee on a $2 overdraft"
Priceless.......
Great watch, even the second time around. Top notch work.
‘Dare I say “weird ass funnels”’. Was funny and the delivery of it was perfect
I came here to say this too 😂
When i worked on a container ship we got absolutely bodied on the starboard side at a 45° angle by a 43m/141ft rogue wave off the west coast of Ireland. We lost all electrics and were adrift for nearly 3 hours before we got th generators running again. Scariest thing ive ever experienced. Came within 1 and half degrees of capsizing us.
That's absolutely insane. I try to stay rational, it's why I don't fear airplanes. But rogue waves would make me feel utterly powerless on a ship haha.
Whenever people try to talk me out of my thalassophobia, it's accounts like this one that remind me why I'm _right_ to fear and respect the ocean.
Awesome 👌 buzz 🙏🤠
👋 Waves! Glad you're OK!
@@Nitrinoxus Points for the use of thalassophobia. :) Getting on a ferry is a problem for me knowing how some designs are inherently unsafe.
I spent almost 50 years as a Deck Officer and Captain going to sea on a wide range of large ocean going ships. The way the very worst winter storm seas would sweep over the decks of even a deep loaded 1100 foot VLCC (large supertanker) had to be experienced to believe. I remember the midship cranes completely disappearing under green water just before the same wall of water smashed into the house (located aft). In that particular storm we suffered serious damage to one of our two lifeboats and a good deal of twisted steel on deck. Oddly, I still miss it.
Heading to Japan years ago I was on a usns ship we got hit by a Rouge wave whole ship lurched...I ran on deck it was a bright full-moon night...it kept traveling a white crest I'll never forget that
Thats a beautiful thing the sea- highky addictive' the scent amd.smell of saltwater- the blasting wind- best sleep i ever had was on the ocean onboard ships
German were and are the best craftsmen, theyre amazing
Thr lusitania was sunk because it was running weapons to britain thru the blockade - the belly was.not full of peagravel ballast- more like tanks guns and ammo
The wild part is for hundreds of years before Draupner, they said everyone that saw these, the few who lived through them, were deemed crazy
Most in-depth video on it I ever saw was part of the TV show Deadliest Catch. It's about crab fishing boats... do crab fishing... mostly. Well one episode had a scene where, as the captain's daughter is cooking in the kitchen, she gets knocked off her feet so hard she breaks one of the cabinet doors with her elbow.
Why? the ship had been hit with a rogue wave so hard that the diesel engines stalled and they had to patch up the engines with emergency repairs before limping to port to reattach part of the deck.
Yeah but "experts" said its impossible, So it must be🫤.
Experts that probably never been on a ship or near one 🤦♂️
@@rredeyee2460 I've looked into that wave model he talked about. It has several assumptions that, while they make sense, don't fully encompass every possibility.
The issue is people thought it was actually complete... when like you say... it was made by people with limited experience.
And then when we got satellite monitoring of waves we discovered that they were actually common in certain areas.
Because hundreds of years and thousands of sailors don't know what they're talking about. You need scientists to make real 🙄
The Queen Mary 2 is designed to cope with 90' waves . . . but please don't call her unsinkable. The term appears to be bad luck.
There is no vessel man builds that the seas can not destroy.
@Ronin4614 not true. Sort of. The Coast guard have boats as long as it don't ground out or be tossed into the bottom rock, it is unsinkable. Which, we should have had Ling ago. Double triple hull with steel airbags steel an airbags again an low top speed, nothing can sink it. As far as the coast guard boat they get tossed around in hurricanes 🌀 an the ppl are strapped an move in a 360° ball. For now, most are sink able
@@enhancedphysique6452
Sink and destroy have different meanings. Just Saying. 😊
Been on the queen Mary 2 as a teen years ago, beautiful ship at least from my limited child perspective of nice 😂 you never really get a full sense of scale of these ships until you're standing next to one feeling like an ant and being in awe of the forces at play with the mooring lines and other things
That's the term that gets the sea to get up out of her chair and go *"Is that right?"* XD
"A typhoon is when the sky and the sea become one. Sometimes a ship goes into a wave and it never comes out." The words of a 28 year navy veteran, 1920-1948.
Obviously not a real quote but DANG is that grim.
Merchant mariners are a different breed and they have my absolute respect. Generally, I'd say the ocean is an incredibly awesome workplace, but when its not, boy it's not. Bet it makes you wish you were a plumber or something on land. Great work Big Old Boats, and thank you to all the merchant mariners out there.
I still miss the rough seas from my youth as a sailor.
There's a lighthouse on Flugga (Shetland islands) & the door is around 190 foot above sea level. The door was 4 inch thick steel & it was smashed in with a lump of water one night.
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A lump of water?
Crikey
Spent a few nights in the Balty Towers back in the day.....
@@2ndFcRecon2006 You should drink at least 8 lumps of water a day to stay hydrated.
I love the slide projector sound at the beginning of the video. I guess I must be old to even know that
I still use a slide projector!
The sea is a desert of waves.
A wilderness of water.
-Langston Hughes
One of the best writers ever.
Langston knew what was up. It's a shame he was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
I fish 5 yrs of the north east coast of Newfoundland and the coast of Labrador with my ex husband in a 20 foot open boat. Believe me I kiss the ground more than once when we reach safety on land after beating through a storm. Fishing in that size of a boat, every wave became a chance of being a rogue wave. If it had a white cap, it had the possibility to capsize us.
Although seen before in various segments, I am still impressed with this wonderful presentation of maritime history that is always fascinating! Thank you for this "re-load". It's better than watching any TV programs on any given Sunday!!!!
Facts!!! UA-cam creators put television to shame. I'm glad that so many of them get far more views than TV these days. I just wish they could be compensated accordingly. TV makes far to many advertising dollars for the amount of people who actually watch it now
Sunday no work no school, Big Old Boats uploads. Life is good.
"she was considered practically unsinkable." yeah so was the titanic XD
My dad took green water to the pilothouse of the 200 ton support vessel he was running in the Bering Sea. Said it was the only time he was ever worried they might go down.
I spent one summer in the Gulf of Alaska. We gill-netted out of a skiff in a remote location that was considered undesirable by most fishermen. One opener we had our gear strung out into open water during a blow. We had debated whether we could manage the 8-10' chop in our skiff but went out anyways to see whether it was possible to pick fish in those conditions. After struggling for about 20 minutes in marginal conditions, we had just pushed back off the gear and were talking about heading back to the beach. I had my back to the bow, my fellow crewman was pull-starting the outboard to to keep the skiff pointed into the waves when I saw him look up behind me with his eyes wide. "Wave!" was all he had time for and I felt the skiff sink down into a trough before shooting back up a wave that was well over 20 feet. It broke just as we started sliding down the backside. It's nowhere near the size of the waves described in these videos but it would have seriously wiped out our small skiff had it broke seconds earlier, floatation gear or not. It's the surprise element of rogue waves that makes them lethal.
The floor of the ocean is full of "unsinkable" ships ...
That's because they are reclassified as submarines
Titanic, Bismarck, Yamato, Musashi, Munchen, etc. lol
This just made me think of an old WW2 navy vet ... Signalman on HMCS Brandon .... He mentioned casually while we quaffed ale ... During the war Brandon was swallowed by a rogue wave in the north Atlantic ... Casey said ... he thought he was finished and Brandon popped out of sea !.... Severely damaged Brandon struggled to England for repair and refit ... Any inform on the Brandon's adventures would be appreciated ... Casey ...gone now... had a life long quest ... He wanted acknowledgement that, the Brandon engaged and sank a U boat off the coast of Portugal ... Love your channel !!!
I was working with Land's End Coastguard at the time of this incident. Certainly, by far, the largest Search and Rescue I was ever involved with (including the Fastnet incident). Land's End Coastguard, at that time, had responsibility for co-ordinating S&R throughout the entire north east Atlantic. Despite all the efforts by the RAF Nimrods, and several surface ships conducting various known to be effective search patterns my colleagues and I, aswe plotted the search area coverage could not believe a ship of that size could be lost without trace. Haunting. RIP the crew.
QE2 had to surf a rogue wave over 90 feet high during Hurricane Luis in September 1995.
Yes, it did happen; but is was kept quite quiet at the time and didn't receive much, or any, publicity. At Lands' End Coastguard we became aware that her bow rails had become stove in ! Nothing more, but hugely significant on a vessel of that size.
Wow that's incredible. I went on a cruise on QM2 years ago and I never would've known it survived such a wave
That's actually one of the events I covered in my upcoming book about the ship's life, told through her eyes.
@@impaler331 He said QE2, with an E: Queen Elizabeth 2, NOT QM2 (Queen Mary 2). Unless you just made a typo.
Back in 1979 I think it was, working on the Canadian Weather Ship Quadra out at station P in the North Pacific we hit a big storm. We were in 60 foot seas and then we got smashed by a rogue wave our meteorologists measured to be 100 feet. It was the highest recorded wave at that time. It smashed a wheelhouse window in, tore off a dogged down water tight door off and we shipped water down the stack.
It was truly awesome.
That's got yo be one of the most terrifying experiences. To be out in the middle of all this water,and you know your vessel is going down. I couldn't even imagine something like this.
The Munich story still sends a chill down my spine.
There is footage of a rogue wave on The Deadliest Catch series with The Aleutian Ballad you can find on UA-cam.
That was terrifying to watch.
I watched a few episodes of this series with my folks visiting them one evening. I lost my appetite for crab afterward seeing what these crews go through to obtain it. I know they’re all paid relatively well for their trouble, but YIKES!
There is footage of dozens of them on that show. It really made a lot of people realize that rogue waves and fishermen aren't all bullshit.
My older brother was on the USS Contellation. He told of waves that would break well over the flight deck,which was 72 feet above the water surface. He said those poor guys on the destroyers were submerged half the time. He said they looked like a cork in white water of a river
There is also a story of a rogue wave encounter by the RMS Olympic in 1926.
Yeahhh wasn't that the titanics uninsured sister ship??
@@uurkisme dude, that's the worst theory in existence and *unrealistic* that can't workers at the dock yard couldn't even achieve in the limited time the two ships were even near each other. So drop the dumb theory. RMS Olympic is always RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic is always RMS Titanic. No switch even happened. Theory is debunked, the end.
@@uurkisme Project Hanniball
I think the worst thing about rogue waves isnt how big they are, it's that they can come in at really weird angles.
Fascinating stories. I had to shake my head that those on land would not believe the mariners prior to modern technology when it was able to back up and prove the stories. I know you have mentioned that before but it always gets me that the land based bosses would assume the brave crews who lived and worked on the vessels were just telling tall tales. You have to wonder how many lost vessels in history were victims of rogue waves. Love your videos! Thanks so much for this one.
I had the pleasure of sailing on the Michaelangelo's sistership the Raffaelo from New York to the Med and ultimately to Naples when my dad retired from his career as a U.S. Navy captain. The Italian line was great, the food, the service and entertainment top notch. My folks had previously sailed to Europe some years before on the Leonardo DaVinci, sister ship and fellow Italian liner of the ill fated Andrea Doria which coincidentally was aided by my dads destroyer at the time out of Newport, Rhode Island.
I enjoy your compilation videos. It's nice to have a long-form version to rewatch while doing chores, etc.
My friend's family were caught in a sailboat in a rogue wave 100ft high off coast of Florida and swamped boat one drowned. The USCG rescued the others by helicopter cage. The survivor said they had a hard time watching The Perfect Storm movie because thats what she experienced. They all got PTSD. No one did therapy back in the early 70s you just gone on with things.
I spent just over 20 years working the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico in various fisheries on various sized and type of boats. Rogue waves happen all the time. I'm not sure what phenomenon caused then. It's conflicting currents or something. But if you're at Sea and your average wave height is 3 ft with a period of every say 10 seconds and all the sudden you get hit by a 6-ft wave which is usually coming perpendicular to the other waves that is rogue wave. They are incredibly common off the coast of New England. The Gulf of Maine is the place I've probably seen the most. I have had the Good Fortune to never see one that was 80 ft high
And by the way, it's A rogue wave not because it's coming perpendicular to the other waves, it is considered a rogue wave because it is twice the height of the other waves in that area
My dad is an experienced sailor mainly on the waddenzee and Noordzee with his 9 meter ship. He explained me that it is not the height of the wave that is the danger but the shape and distance between them that is in some combinations unsafe for any ship. It is the result of currents that are different in the top layer warm water and bottom layer cold water. They can flow even comepletely opposite directions, combided with wave forming by wind direction, and on open sea also Hill like waves that are very long, they are mostly by moon gravity wich is sometimes very strong also. In Holland we call it Springvloed, since the water sea level can be meters higher as normal since the gravity puls the water to 1 side of the planet. the waves can also be very dangerous or safe depending on how deep the water is, deep water is safer. Anything that influence the water currents for example ilands or coral banks can be very dangerous. High tides or low tides are also very important to understand. The waddensee northern coast of holland has a few ilands and then turn into the northsee, when the tides are strong and sailing 6 knots against the current you are not able to enter between 2 ilands to the northsee. Real speed is 0 or even less.
@@PyrotechnicsNL Yes, wave. Is somewhat more dangerous even if the waves aren't super high. Although it typically makes for a rougher ride than it does to put the boat in any danger.
I've been on the receiving end of one of these waves in the Norwegian sector....the boat was lost but thankfully we were all airlifted in the nick of time.....crazy time....
I realize the waves aren't the same but I always wanted to go to Nazare' Portugal and see those at their peak and the mad folks that surf them. Great video..thank you. ⚓
Cool! Rogue waves are an interesting phenomenon.
When a sq meter of water weighs a metric ton, it doesn’t need much imagination to realise the power of moving water, a inches of it will knock you off your feet, I worked on Gas platforms in the North Sea, and the sea used to knock them around like a ball, they were designed to move with the sea, or they wouldn’t last a day.
Ironic the Michelangelo faced the horrible weather, on April 12th same day as Titanic
I caught that too.
The olympic was also titanics sister ship. There are theories that they were swapped out before the iceberg incident.
No it’s not it’s just coincidental!
To be ironic is to say something you don’t mean, like sarcasm, often in an attempt at dry humor
Titanic met the iceberg on April 14th and sank on April 15th, so you're 3 days off.
My grandfather served in the Coast Guard in the Atlantic before and after WW2, and in the Navy in the Pacific during the war. I wish I could ask him about his experiences at sea during his service, but he passed away in 2000 and had dementia for several years. Before that. The power if the sea is both fascinating and terrifying.
I was in the Navy in the 80’s and two places where the ocean showed me personal who was Boss? The Sea of Japan and The Aleutian Islands near Alaska. We were on a 762ft Guided missile cruiser no small ship and I can tell you the waves kicked our ass, had me praying to Jesus a few times for sure! I saw the front now of the ship go underwater twice and it tore things off the wall and moved furniture around like it was nothing. I respect the ocean it is nothing to underestimate that’s for sure and when you consider that 74 percent of the earth’s surface is water you really start to understand how small we really are in this planet.
"weird ass funnels" is the perfect description
i was on a us navy warship in the north atlantic in 1986 when we took a green water wave over the bridge. on the o4 level about 60 feet above the waterline. we took a 39 deg roll in that same storm. a ships record at the time
Never watch a BOB video at work… you’ll never get anything done ❤
Regarding the München, could it have been that the choice of the odd frequency being due to damage to her aerials? If the transmission was on a different band, it could be that it had a working aerial that could transmit in the band but not (at least not efficiently) on the others. Also, it could be down to the extremely stressful situation and that frequency was the last one used before things got really hairy, and the operator transmitted on whatever was dialled in out of desperation.
For those interested, look up the Horizon documentary (from BBC2 around 15/20 years ago) on rogue waves, truly fascinating. Back in the days Horizon made top notch doc's! I'm sure it'll be on YT!
Yep! It's the best docu on the subject I've ever seen, and I've rewatched it over and over since. There was also the Nat Geo rogue wave docu which from what I understand came as a special on the 2006 Poseidon DVD. Used to be on YT and it was also really good, but it's been taken down and I haven't seen it since.
The way so many people throughout history and all across the globe immediately discount any story involving water as bullshit is just baffling. Certainly it is due to an inherent fear of open water and is one's way of rationalizing away a fear that can be overwhelming, even to someone that has never even seen the sea. There is no end of facts about this kind of thing now. The deadliest catch really shoved the reality and danger of rogue waves into the face of denial.
I’d like very much to know what happened to the SS Poet. Left Philadelphia October 1980, bound for Egypt with a load of grain. After departure she was never heard from again. No trace of her has ever been found. I suspect she was capsized and sunk quickly, taking her EPIRP and lifeboats with her to the bottom, along with her crew. A rogue wave I suspect.
I was scheduled to sail aboard her as Radio Officer. By the merest chance I was delayed in Texas by a snowstorm and was unable make ship sailing. My union hall had to replace me with another (unlucky) ‘Sparks.’
One time my aunt Sheila got drunk and busted a seam out on the pool and it created a wave that swept my little sister down past the shed and knocked over Skeeters dirt bike.
😦
Nothing like reminiscing about the good times.
😅😅😅
We do not care
@@christiandzurilla4743 Who's this "we" you're talking about? Is that a game console?
So we knew what a tsunami was but couldn't believe in a rogue wave?
Yep! XD
RMS Homeric also encountered a rouge wave in the 1920s
When I wX in the US Navy,we were steaming back from GETMO in Cube.
Were off the Florida coast when the ship went to GQ and before the ChENG could get out "BRACE" we took a 75 ft wave over the bow.
I was on a Destroyer tender which was about 640 long when we hit the wave the amount of water dumped on the ship caused it to drop,them pop up like a cork out of a bottle.
If you were standing,you were flying.
I was a Boiler Tech,and being at the bottom of the ship was advantageous😂
ah, yes, i've been waiting for this counterpoint to Big Old Boats' last compilation: "5 Really Fun and Enjoyable Rogue Wave Strikes That Everyone Loved A Lot"
Oh I loved that one ☝️
@@Nutterlie thank you :-D
…my cat loves listening to your channel. If he hears you, he flops down and puts a paw on my phone.
my husband & I love ship stories! we’re so excited about your channel! thank you so much for the great content! 🎉
Thank you so much for including imperial measurements. This fascinating information would mean nothing to me without any idea of size and scale. I appreciate that you make this knowledge accessible for folks like me.
Bro I gotta say I love your work I find your voice very soothing and entertaining and most of all I love your heart for people keep it rolling and stay safe brother
I was the chief officer of the SS minnow , took on a white squall plus a 7ft wave starboard side , I dragged the lines and set the sail in my coal steamer , unfortunately found a radiation leak in my engine room left me no choice but to pull up the anchor and drop the trolling motor . I'll tell you what the water was wet that day , wetter than ever . The kicker was to save A Buck our life jackets were swapped for sandbags and salted cod
Got my tee-shirt in '87 when Michael Fish said "no high winds" 😂😂😂😂😂 Nth sea was hairy , waves higher than our bridge , lost 1/2 the deck cargo of timber. Took 6 days to do a 3 day trip , hove-to a lot ...hearing maydays on the vhf , the works. Good dutch shipbuilding 😊
I was un the navy then I worked as an AB on container ships.then became a third mate I have about 25+ years going to sea and I have definitely seen some rogue waves. Up and down is ok but side to side sucks for sleeping
My husband has been trying to get me to go one a cruise ship but after seeing a few of THESE kinds of videos, there is No Way I will EVER do that. He’ll be going alone…
Although I've never been on a ship in rough seas, I had a similar and relatable experience in an 8' Alumicraft Run About or John Boat. We were returning from Moose hunting and crossed a stretch of ocean next to Fire Island by Anchorage AK. On our return trip, the weather quickly turned sour unexpectedly and I was caught in 8' seas in an 8' boat. I was with and following a large boat as we ran into headwinds. To cross this short section of water I had to scurry to the very bow when traveling up the swell and hang over the outboard on the downside of the swell. My partners in the lead boat didn't realize the difficulty I was enduring until we had a great deal of separation between us causing them to have to return to provide me with the much needed help. This happened nearly 5 decades ago now and I have a great deal of respect for the power of the ocean and those who make their livelihood on it. This was a trip that I didn't think that I was going to be coming back from. Seeing these large ships hit with these massive waves sends chills and shivers running up and down my spine.
Yes the size of the boat definitely affects pucker factor even with single digit waves. Took my old 455 Olds powered jet boat around Grosse ille Michigan at the mouth of the Detroit river. On the other side toward the shipping channel is what they call the cross dyke, where people tie off to each other and party. We were gangsters that day rolling thru with the open header wet exhaust over the transom, engine just a loping along at idle. Down near the end I turn hard port then pin the throttle along the wall between the cross dyke and shipping channel throwing a huge 200ft roost from the old Berkeley jet. We played around like that all afternoon, then time to head back to the east side of the island and put her on the trailer...we left that cross dyke protection into lake Erie with a summer storm brewing....8 ft waves in a 17 ft boat with about 8 inches of freeboard is NOT fun. I'm scared shitless while the two with me are laughing their asses off. Maybe they knew something I didn't...I know it's not very deep where we were at but to me it was scary. We made it back without harm in the end.
Got caught in a friend's bass boat in the exact same waters under a similar situation...we went fishing over by the cross dyke and sure enough a similar storm popped up soon as we left there headed back. The bass boat didn't fare much better than the jet boat but I will admit both made it home
Since it seems only you and me on here are talking about being scared in 8ft waves I'll tell another story. When I was young right out of high school I got a job on the JW Westcott Detroit river mailboat. Worked there 4 seasons after high school while going to community college. I'd take any shift that I wasn't in class. One November on the river we had a major storm. That 45ft tug, then powered by a 6-71 Detroit Diesel was taking on 12ft plus waves and crashing the pilot house like no tomorrow. I honestly didn't think we were gonna make it back that day, but thanks to the captain on duty that day we made it back. Thanks crabby Dave. Crew only consisted of the captain and a deckhand...and I wasn't the captain. I was the one out on deck delivering the mail in such conditions.
10:10 was pure misery for headphone users
Can never learn enough about Rogue Waves. Facinating yet terrifying
Great video. Man I love this. You put together some great history. Thanks for all your hard work.
They are beautiful liners! What they build now can't compare to the liners of the past as far as beauty!!!
This was amazing. Good Job!
The captain of SS flying enterprise a cargoship kept the claim of a rouge wave casing his ship to sink off the coast of England (uk)in the 1950's
It just proves the fact that to refer to a ship as unsinkable, or well nigh, is a very bad idea. It seems that the sea takes up the challenge, and wins. I was in the Navy and had friends stationed on carriers and other huge ships and they said that routinely, during bad storms, that they would get "green water" over the bow. That's a serious wave, considering the height of the deck above the water line.
This was riveting! Thank you so much.
Great info and really interesting. Will continue to watch !
I've just been watching a solo Atlantic crossing in a 16ft timber dinghy. Think about that!
Great video, great storytelling, great sounddesign, subscribed
Really well told accounts of rogue waves. Great job.
I love these stories
Was just hoping for a new video and BAM! 🎉🎉🎉
absolutely facinating stories, i really do enjoy this channel!
All your videos are really well done and this is another example of your hard work keep going!
Riveting story and very well presented and narrated. Thank you for posting this video !
RMS Queen Mary and RMS Lusitania were both built on the same yard - John Brown & Co, Clydebank.
It's a disgrace that the Clyde yards were allowed to effectively disappear throughout the 20th century.
👍 It's disgusting. We're an island, yet our fishing and shipping industries have been deliberately snuffed out. When you look at footage of the dock workers leaving the yards at Wallsend, Newcastle, for example, during the 1930s, you're talking thousands of men...
"They call em rogues, they travel fast and alone."
Does anyone know how deep the Atlantic is where the München sank?
Very Nice! However one ship is not mentioned here, and that is the iconic Queen Mary. During WWII, she encountered a giant rouge wave and listed 52 degrees and nearly capsized. This incident was inspiration for "The Poseidon Adventure".
That's my favorite rogue wave incident. Just because of the wartime context and Englands overall background. Its like....I could write 10 books explaining Englands maritime heritage, naval shipbuilding history, pride of seamanship....OR just take 5 minutes telling that one rogue wave story, and how the ship got tackled like an American football player by a wave heavier than it, and walked it off with the stiffest of upper lips lol.
38:25 it's mentioned
@@user-rp7yf8xu8h Oops, he sure did. I must've missed it.
@@killahurtz6786 Most people don't realize how much of a badass the Mary was, and just see that "floating Haunted Mansion" stigma that Disney made up when they held the ship's lease in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
It was a rogue wave and not a rouge ( red) one 🤣
I bet this is what inspired the myths and legends of some giant sea creatures like the kraken which could swallow while ship! Epic videos my man I got sea sick just watching it!
I saw a demo on YT of the naval wave pool at.. Annapolis(i think) in which a perfect scale model of the Edmund Fitzgerald was floated. They said they had near perfect recreation of things like shore lines, depths etc etc.
They started up the simulation based on the weather data from that day...and...man....a couple decent waves rocked him and then a monster, not just in height but it was...fat? It had sort of multiple crests and it came up from behind, the stern and just swatted that little boat straight to the bottom. Not even spectacularly. Just like a lucky strike of a horses tail on a fly.
CAN NOT FIND THE VIDEO ANYWHERE!!
I can find lots of others using that wave pool. Not that one.
Any chance anyone else remembers it?
I feel like I imagined it. Or dreamt it. Or got mandela'd.
It seemed So conclusive....
My farher encountered once a rogue wave in a big storm in tazman sea back at 2002. He was a second officer back then. He told me that his heart stopped when a sailor told him that he could not see the base of the incoming wave (the deep trough). The wave had a height of a six store building.
For me, a recreational boater (Sailboats), the National weather service the predicted significant wave hight for the area I will be boating on, I fully expect to encounter an occasional wave train (Rogue wave) at least twice the height of the predicted significant wave height.
Great vid boss
In 1977 i went on a lobster boat with a guy that I did some scuba diving for during the summer. He would take his two son on a tuna fishing trip where he would head north from Maine and fish for tuna 3 days north then turn around. For two years he was shut out so his sons did not want to go. He took me and guy from another boat. He paid $200 per tuna if it was big enough. He knew where to sell them along the way. At the end of the 2st day we got a huge one and we were excited. Reports of a storm out to sea were known. We caught 2 more the next day and he decided to head back due to storm report. The last night he decided to stay behind a reef to sleep so the reef would act as a wave brake. The boat looked like the minnow and the storm at sea was causing huge swells. We got leeward of the reef an anchored. By then we had landed 4 huge tuna ( the most he had ever done.) We watched the swells get bigger, and and bigger. Just before sunset we were on the flying deck and the captain yelled look! We could see a wall of water miles away heading toward us. We weighed anchor and decided to move closer to shore,and watched the wave approach. This wall of water hit the reef and washed over it, and the part that did not hit the reef kept going by time the wave hit us it was growing again l,buy the shallow water stopped it from getting huge. It still tossed that boat like cork,and scared the crap out of us. We went all the way until we could the the docks and slept. The next morning 2 boats were missing and fishermen were coming in tell about the wave smashing into their boats. The ocean was calm with barely a ripple. The captain said we had seen a rouge wave and survived. I made $800 in three days, but i remember the wave more than anything else about that summer. Btw, the wave never reached the shore due to the water getting too shallow. People on the beach said they were having big sets all that day. We were some of the few who saw that wave. Remember, the ocean doesn't care who you are. We were smart to get behind the reef,and it still nearly swapped us.
Bloody love this channel ❤
Very nicely done! 👍✌
It is known at this time what causes rogue waves.
Its not gulfstreams or currents, although those can contribute to high wave heights in storms, as in the case of the cape, but is not the cause of rogue waves. Just more storms, means higher chance for rogue waves.
Its also not energy transition from some waves into one.
The reason is interference patterns of multiple wave fields. This stacks amplitudes at certain points and since there are many viarables into this happening its unpredictable where it will happen at a specific time.
I dont know how liners deal with this now, but rogue waves (waves higher than twice the 1/3 top waves of a system) are not rare at all. They are quite common, yet unpredictable.
Those liners are designed to deal with average wave pattern heights, plus the 1/3 significant waves (which are typically also twice the normal size wave), but not to deal with rogue waves.
So in a sea of 8m average waves, the significant waves can be 16 m and those liners can deal with those. But the rogue waves in there are 32 m.
The highest system waves measured by buoy were in the north atlantic, measuring 19m. That means the significant waves were 38 m and the rogue waves would be ~80 m. (260+ feet)
Ships originally designed for waves of X, should based on this, now have max waves capability of 1/2X. And thus avoid a lot more storms than previously assumed was safe. Obviously it wasnt safe. 1000s of ships lay on the bottom of the oceans and seas, attesting to this.
Note that this applies to ALL ships, that venture into oceans, seas but also sea arms, all of which will have interference patterns.
I live at 'westerschelde', a sea arm of the north sea, where the river schelde flows into the north sea. That sea arm is riddled with shipwrecks. A liner isnt going to sink there, but river barges also cross it and in a storm, the same interference patterns creates relative 4* average size rogue waves, which will sink smaller boats just aswell. It applies to all shipping and has to be taken into account
Very cool video , thank you ! ...
Ocean altimeter satellite missions, such as TOPEX/Poseidon and the Jason-series, measure significant wave height, which is the average wave height (from trough to crest) of the highest third of waves in a given sample period.
Excellent narration.
Rogue Wave, well that’s my new Spotify playlist sorted.
"The captain, once a able as a fink dandy. Well, he's laid up in the galley like a dried up mink." - the drones
On a desolate beach in clear weather, I remember seeing a monster wave that towered out of nowhere. Ran for my life. Such waves were not usual in that area. I was the only witness. No mobile to film it in those days.
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PLEASE dont do that stuff at 10:00 again, i was in the gym, pretty high volume on headphones, holy HELL it actually hurt to hear that
I was cleaning with headphones on and thought my brain was going to explode
Love these videos.