freak wave

Then a freak wave lifted him and the child high.

It took years for the scientific community to accept freak waves as fact.

Freak waves seemed to play a major role in these losses."

It was presumed to have been torn off by a freak wave.

The freak wave broke top to bottom across the entire length of the Bay.

Acid rock freaks waved at him as he sped down the road.

A couple of hundred yards astern a freak wave was rushing down to them.

But even his skill was helpless against these two successive freak waves, twice the size of the others.

"You said something about forecasting these freak waves," Austin said.

Their crest heights combine to create a freak wave.

On the left was the photo of the freak waves that sank the Southern Belle.

Wolfram's work hit the shipping industry like a, well, like a freak wave.

Although more than one wave was probably involved, this remains the most likely sinking due to a freak wave.

He and his second wife were drowned by a freak wave at Filey.

A freak wave reportedly knocked the ship upright again.

Over the years scores of fishermen have been swept to their deaths from the rocky platforms by freak waves.

No further word has been heard since it reported sighting the freak wave some two hundred miles east of Nantucket."

It is crashing in freak waves over the rush roof of the air-raid shelter.

According to eyeforfilm.co.uk, "Butler was knocked off his board by a freak wave.

"Was the ship struck by a freak wave?"

The attention focused on the coast off South Africa where many mariners had encountered freak waves.

Prior to this measurement, such freak waves were known to exist only through anecdotal evidence provided by those who had encountered them at sea.

Freak waves may be a related phenomenon.

Suggested mechanisms for freak waves include the following:

On this day a series of freak waves hit the beach and washed about 300 bathers into rough surf conditions where most required assistance.