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Rogue Waves
- "[Rogue waves] are great solitary waves whose crests tower above their fellows and scare the living daylights out of the luckless mariners in their path. Sometimes these waves express themselves as extra-deep troughs -- 'holes in the sea' into which a ship can fall to be overwhelmed by the next crest. It is a matter of debate which is more dangerous, but doubtless these super-crests and super-troughs account for many of the ships that have simply disappeared at sea with all hands." - excerpt from the book WAVES AND BEACHES, published by Doubleday, 1980, pg. 58.
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