From http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...654539,00.html

The ten-storey Mexican wave
By Paul Simons and Alan Hamilton

WHEN seafarers described them in tones of awe, sceptical landlubbers
dismissed them as fantasy. Now scientists believe that they have evidence of
the largest wave yet recorded.
It happened on September 16 last year when Hurricane Ivan stormed across the
Gulf of Mexico and tore into the coast of Alabama, accompanied by 130mph
winds and storm surges 8ft high.



While still out at sea, oceanographers report, the hurricane also produced a
series of giant waves, one of which stood 91ft (27m) from crest to trough,
the height of a ten-storey building and a new world record for a wave
recorded by instruments.

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