Gigantic Wave in Pacific Ocean Was the Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record

> Scientists define a rogue wave as any wave more than twice the height of the waves surrounding it. The Draupner wave, for instance, was 25.6 meters tall, while its neighbors were only 12 meters tall.

> In comparison, the Ucluelet wave was nearly three times the size of its peers.

> The buoy that picked up the Ucluelet wave was placed offshore along with dozens of others by a research institute called MarineLabs in an attempt to learn more about hazards out in the deep.

> [...] For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore. It wasn't until 1995 that myth became fact.

ScholarlyArticle: "Generation mechanism and prediction of an observed extreme rogue wave" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05671-4