Sentences with phrase «rogue wave comes»

«Rogue wave comes along and breaks a ship's back,» says Jarkiewicz, fiddling with his radar controls.

That so - called rogue wave comes at the ship from a completely unexpected direction, from the side or from aft.

Sara White had been walking across the road with her son in his stroller when a rogue wave came out of nowhere and crashed into them, dragging them across the road as water continued to flood their way.

Not exact matches

Breakthrough ideas ripple across time, as Where Good Ideas Come From author Steven Johnson says, rather than occur in an enormous rogue wave from out of nowhere.

They can make big waves, but not ones that rise — as rogue waves do — three to five times as high as the waves around them and seem to come out of nowhere, out of sync with the rest of the sea, from a direction completely different from that of the wind and other waves.

There is only one problem: The wave models that offshore engineers have used for decades almost never come up with a rogue wave.

One of Osborne's favorite descriptions of a rogue wave is from Virgil's Aeneid: «A squall came howling from the north - east, catching the sail full on, raising the waves to the stars, breaking the oars in a single blow, wrenching the boat around to offer its flank to the waves as a mountain of water rose above them, immense and immeasurable.

A comparative analysis of rogue waves in different physical systems comes to the surprising conclusion that these rare events are not completely unpredictable.

However, as the alien waves keep coming your companion slowly finds itself being subverted by a strange rogue subroutine.