In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed a ...

In November 2020, a colossal rogue wave was recorded off the coast of Ucluelet, a small town on Vancouver Island, Canada. This extraordinary event saw a wave rise to a height of 17.6 meters, about the ...

Longboarding, when compared to its shorter-sledded surfing counterpart, can often be seen as gentler, softer, less high-performance, more stylish pursuit. Generally speaking, that’s on account of the ...

Huge, freak waves that seem to come out of nowhere and endanger ships at sea could someday be predicted with enough advance warning to let sailors get ready. That’s because researchers have developed ...

A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel survived amidst a storm of biblical proportions and unfathomably ...

Forecasters are warning of an "exceptionally dangerous" wave event along the California coast that "has not occurred in many years" — and in Ventura on Thursday, beachgoers experienced just how ...

Long reported only anecdotally by sailors, in 1995 a wave measuring 25.6 meters high (84 ft) struck the North Sea Draupner gas platform off the coast of Norway and was verified by a laser-measuring ...

For centuries, seafaring folks' reports of terrifyingly huge waves that appeared out of nowhere were dismissed as fantasy by those on dry land. Now, the existence of these "real sea monsters" that ...

Dec. 28 was a typical post-Christmas Southern California beach day in Ventura. At midday, scores of people milled about in the sunny cool weather seaside. Some paused to watch the waves lapping in the ...

2007: American physician Robert Cade, who led the research team that formulated Gatorade while working as a professor at the University of Florida in 1965, dies of kidney failure at the age of 80 in ...