The wave in pursuit of the rogues, freaks, and giants of the ocean
Investigates colossal ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100 feet high or taller. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories; waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. But in the past few...
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c2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The grand empress
- Broken skulls
- Schrodinger's wave
- Karma, tiger sharks, and the golden carrot
- Wave good-bye
- Mavericks
- "I never saw anything like it"
- Killers
- Heavy weather
- Egypt
- Out, way out, on the Cortes bank
- The wild coast
- At the edge of the horizon.
