Sentences with phrase «rogue waves sink»
Reports from the Norwegian and British shipping industry suggest that rogue waves sink one supertanker or freighter every year.
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[NOTE: The Lusitania survived the rogue wave but was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat five years later.]
Using weather and sea data from the time of the sinking, along with a new theoretical model, a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has calculated that there was as much as a one - in - 130 chance — over a period of time and area — that a rogue wave 46 feet high (14 meters) could have occurred during the hurricane.
After the El Faro sinking, Fedele was asked to evaluate the probability that a rogue wave could have occurred during the hurricane when the ship sank while drifting in violent seas after losing engine power.
A new analysis done to support the investigation into the 2015 sinking of the El Faro cargo ship has calculated the likelihood of a massive rogue wave during Hurricane Joaquin in October of that year — and demonstrated a new technique for evaluating the probability of rogue waves over space and time.
«Rogue wave analysis supports investigation of the El Faro sinking.»