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 crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck—but its ...

Two marine heat waves occurring simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean are being linked to a forecast for record warm temperatures this weekend. It might be the first full weekend of October, but for ...

Satellites have confirmed what mariners long suspected but could never fully prove: the open Pacific can spawn waves as tall ...

Once thought to be sailors’ myths, rogue waves gained credibility after a towering 80-foot wall of water struck the Draupner oil platform in 1995. New research shows that these extreme waves don’t ...

Tsunami means “harbor wave” in Japanese, but they differ from other waves that are generated by the wind or solar system. Tsunami waves move the entire depth of the ocean, down to the floor, which is ...

This wave is strong enough to reverse the flow of water and travel over 500 miles inland. The Amazon River is rather famous ...