On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:45:54 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote:

It was the guy in the Speedos and he had mathematical proof......

Yes, he was certain that the US Navy wave height prediction model was
wrong, and the NOAA weather buoys were reporting incorrect data during
one of the major gulf coast hurricanes a few years ago.

Every time I look at that video I wonder what king of boat, if any,
could survive an encounter with a wave like that.

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:41:51 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

Every time I look at that video I wonder what king of boat, if any,
could survive an encounter with a wave like that.

Uhhh, typo check. Should be: "what kind of boat" of course,
although it certainly would be "king" if it survived.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:45:54 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote:

It was the guy in the Speedos and he had mathematical proof......

Yes, he was certain that the US Navy wave height prediction model was
wrong, and the NOAA weather buoys were reporting incorrect data during
one of the major gulf coast hurricanes a few years ago.

Every time I look at that video I wonder what king of boat, if any,
could survive an encounter with a wave like that.


USS Dallas.

Eisboch

Wayne.B wrote:


Every time I look at that video I wonder what king of boat, if any,
could survive an encounter with a wave like that.

Almost any, up to the moment it began to break. It didn't seem
unworkably steep until it hit the backflow in the shallows near the
beach.

Poor guy on the surf board should have strapped a dozen empty fuel cans
around the edges.
Additional buoyancy, you know. :-)

On 4 Oct 2006 16:44:34 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Every time I look at that video I wonder what kind of boat, if any,
could survive an encounter with a wave like that.

Almost any, up to the moment it began to break. It didn't seem
unworkably steep until it hit the backflow in the shallows near the
beach.

I think it depends where you are on the face of the wave. The top
portion gets incredibly steep even before it begins to break,
approaching vertical in my estimation. It is easy to picture a boat
falling off into a capsize or pitchpole before the crest actually
rolls over. Wave crests break in the open ocean all the time although
the vast majority are a lot less dramatic than this one.