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approximately 50 degrees one way and in the high forties the other way and too
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many vessels that could have just continued and causing a complete
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Catastrophe
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so given the ship's a tendency to roll
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did something happen to tip her over something extraordinary
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for centuries Mariners have spun tales of rogue waves enormous walls of water
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appearing out of nowhere overwhelming any ship in their path
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the idea of rogue waves has been the thing of legend for many many hundreds
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of years
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Mariners come back reporting having seen his way to having experienced a bonny
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these rogue waves
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according to dr. Simon box all these old tales can no longer be ignored
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why using satellites we can observe the entire world in a few days and so we
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have over the last 20 years observed and measured freak waves which are in some
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cases in excess of a hundred feet so they do exist
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supersize waves have occasionally been captured on film
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this one in the winter of 2012 lambda into an emergency response vessel in the
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North Sea
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given the Bermuda triangles extreme weather patterns
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rogue waves on a similar scale may be possible to have North Atlantic a
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vectorial storms the Huracan systems coming through a regular basis and
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you've got storms coming off the Gulf of Mexico and these come together to create
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a very confused
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a very turbulent sea with freak waves
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so did the triangles turbulent seas produce a freak wave large enough to
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sink the Cyclops
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Yeah
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the Bermuda Triangle has long been thought of as a place of mystery
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we're using the latest technology to drain it layer by layer and possibly
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dispel the myths
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sometimes experimental science can help tackle a long-standing puzzle
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plymouth university in southern England the coast laboratory wave tank
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this is one of the most advanced wave tanks in the united kingdom
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it can simulate a wide range of the ocean conditions that occur in the
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Bermuda Triangle scientists here take the theory of rogue or freak waves very
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Seriously
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let's say for focus location of 16 meters today
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these oceanographers are conducting an experiment to determine whether a rogue
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wave could have sunk a large vessel like the missing US Navy ship the Cyclops the
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team deploys a scale model comparable in size to the Cyclops
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first they generate a normal wave pattern
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Yeah
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with Wade the equivalent of 25 feet high
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the vessel remains stable
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but when they simulate the impact of to storm fronts converging there soon
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interference in the wave pattern
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and suddenly
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as if out of nowhere
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rogue wave
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it's the equivalent of a wave more than 50 feet high and its impact on the scale
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model is clear
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so there is evidence that a rogue wave could theoretically have sunk the
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Cyclops