On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:08:11 GMT, "Lawrence James"
wrote:

http://www.naval.com/heavy-seas/3/

If you examine the first picture and the next to the last picture showing
the huge wave on this page very closely you will figure out that the next to
the last picture is a hoax. Look closely at the details of the boat in the
first picture and closely at those identical details on the next to the last
one. Look at the water detail around the rear of the boat, identical. The
hoax picture appears on one of the other pages too.

So what is the consensus on measuring a wave. Do you measure from the
average water height to the top of the wave? Or from the bottom of the
preceeding trough to the top of the wave?

A 60 ft high ship can easily have a 30 foot wave break over it if the back
of the ship is still on top of the prior wave and the nose is in the trough.

Ok, good points, but I'm confused by this last exanmple.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT
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Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653