But, those are shoreline breaks. One of the articles in which that
picture appeared indicated that it was occurring in deep water and
that this the kind of thing you could encounter offshore.

I've seen a 100 foot schooner stick her bow out into the trough in
front of a freak sea so there was air under the keel back to the
foremast. A few seconds later, only the two masts were above water as
she dove through the wave. I have some idea what can happen offshore
put proof (if indeed this is) that such waves can occur when there is
not already some pretty significant seas would be new to me.

--

Roger Long



"Wayne.B" wrote If so, here's
another one from today's NY Times:

http://travel.nytimes.com/pages/travel/index.html

The surrounding water looks even flatter.

Here's some mo

http://tinyurl.com/av3gv

http://tinyurl.com/8mb4e