After a week of bouncing around like an egg poaching in boiling water, the ship’s captain finally was able to hide behind the Hebrides Islands from waves that topped 100 feet - one of the first scientific confirmations that monster waves do exist, even though computer modeling programs say they can’t. Susan Casey’s new book on waves and the people who love them begins in January 2000 with scientists aboard the 295-foot British research ship Discovery trying to collect data from the North Atlantic.īut the ocean threw a fit, heaving itself into massive waves far exceeding predictive models and threatening to destroy the Discovery.
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