An example of giant waves in the ocean, especially due to currents, winds or storms, has been recorded by breaking records. Although the wave was small in size compared to other giant waves, it was almost 3 times the height of the waves around it.
One of the ocean structures that proves how destructive nature can be. giant waves, poses a great threat to a ship or any structure that finds it at its exit. Because this giant body of water has a much longer structure compared to the waves around it. This is these waves more deadly can make.
In the past days, researchers announced that a new wave that broke a record in one subject was recorded. The wave detected off Vancouver Island was actually not as big as the giant waves recorded before. But what caused this wave to break records, to the unpredictable structures of giant waves was attached.
It was 3 times as tall as the waves around it:
Huge wave measured in November 2020, about 17.6 meters of paint he had. Even though giant waves have a height above this number, what makes this wave special is, was much higher than the waves around it. waves around the 17.6 meter wave, was only 6 meters tall. So suddenly between this wave and other waves A difference of more than 11 meters had occurred.
Different from tsunamis, this wave type was first detected off the Norwegian coast in 1995. Known as the ‘Draupner wave’, this wave had a length of 25.6 meters. Other waves around the wave were 12 meters long, a little less than half the size. In the record-breaking wave, the difference was much larger as can be seen. The wave was almost 3 times larger than those around it.
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When this ratio is taken into account, the 17.6-meter wave called ‘Ucluelet’ as the most extreme giant wave went on the record. Johannes Gemmrich from Victoria University, who made a statement about the research, explained that the probability of such a wave to occur is once in 1,300 years. How huge the wave is compared to the waves around it is concretely demonstrated in the animation below. The wave in question shows itself after the 30th second of the video.