02552cam a2200325u  4500001001100000005001700011007000300028008004100031010001500072020001800087020001500105035002100120082001700141092002100158100002500179245008800204250001100292260003400303300007700337504005300414505029400467520127100761650001602032650001202048650001602060650001702076961000702093999001502100952011102115562775395 20190501181530.0ta020206s2010    nyuabf   b    000 0 eng    a2010010193  a9780767928847  a0767928849  a(OCoLC)56277539500a551.46/3222  a551.463b.C2688w1 aCasey, Susan,d1962-14aThe wave :bin pursuit of the rogues, freaks, and giants of the ocean cSusan Casey  a1st ed  aNew York :bDoubleday,cc2010  a326 p., [16] p. of plates :bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;c25 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 317-324)0 aThe 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  aInvestigates 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 decades, as a number of ships have vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something was brewing in the planet's waters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea, including several approaching 100 feet. Scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon. Yet extreme surfers fly around the world trying to ride the ocean's ultimate challenges. The sport's pioneer, Laird Hamilton, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board waves of 70 and 80 feet. The exploits of Hamilton and his fellow surfers are juxtaposed against scientists' urgent efforts to understand the destructive powers of waves, from the tsunami that wiped out 250,000 people in the Pacific in 2004 to the 1,740 foot wave that recently leveled part of the Alaskan coast. The book portrays human beings confronting nature at its most ferocious. -- Publisher info 0aRogue waves 0aSurfing 0aOcean waves 0aOceanographywlt11  c7188d7188  4070aABELJbabeljcNFd2016-10-26l2o551.46 CASEp16555r2017-06-17s2017-06-02v27.95w2016-10-26yBOOK