![]() ![]() These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the ocean’s most destructive monsters. As scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. 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 that approached 100 feet. But in the past few decades, as a startling number of ships vanished and new evidence has emerged, oceanographers realized something scary was brewing in the planet’s waters. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories-waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics. For centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil’s Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship-swallowing rogue waves and the surfers who seek them out. ![]()
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