<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/099fe81b-0ef2-4d45-8036-5d7b1b9f3fd8/3109BAB3-468E-43D0-BE46-7451E39B7516/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><H1 class="firstHeading">Rogue wave (oceanography)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><P><B>Rogue waves</B>, also known as <B>freak waves</B>, are relatively large and spontaneous <A title="Ocean surface wave" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_surface_wave">ocean surface waves</A> which are a threat even to large <A title="Ship" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship">ships</A> and <A title="Ocean liner" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner">ocean liners</A>. In <A title="Oceanography" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanography">oceanography</A>, they are more precisely defined as waves that are more than double the <A title="Significant wave height" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_wave_height">significant wave height</A> (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><H2><SPAN class="editsection">[<A title="Edit section: Causes" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&action=edit&section=3">edit</A>]</SPAN> <SPAN class="mw-headline">Causes</SPAN></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Bermuda Triangle" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda_Triangle">Bermuda Triangle</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Tsunami" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami">Tsunami</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/1E21CD1E-8A2E-4764-A10B-5DD168DBC8A4" alt="Merchant ship labouring in heavy seas as huge wave looms behind. Huge waves are common near the 100-fathom curve on the Bay of Biscay. Published in Fall 1993 issue of Mariner's Weather Log. Credits: NOAA Photo Library" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rogue_wave_%28oceanography%29&oldid=150183208"><DIV class="thumbcaption"> <DIV class="magnify"><A title="Enlarge" class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wea00800%2C1.jpeg"><IMG width="15" height="11" alt="" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" /></A></DIV> Merchant ship labouring in heavy seas as huge wave looms behind. Huge waves are common near the 100-<A title="Fathom" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathom">fathom</A> curve on the <A title="Bay of Biscay" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Biscay">Bay of Biscay</A>. Published in Fall 1993 issue of Mariner's Weather Log. Credits: NOAA Photo Library</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3109BAB3-468E-43D0-BE46-7451E39B7516/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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