The wave casey6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In this mesmerizing account, 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. Casey follows this unique tribe of people as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100-foot wave. ![]() The pioneer of extreme surfing is the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 feet. ![]() These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the ocean’s most destructive monsters. ![]() 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.Īs scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. Until recently scientists dismissed these stories-waves that high would seem to violate the laws of physics.īut 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. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Oceanįor centuries, mariners have spun tales of gargantuan waves, 100-feet high or taller. ![]()
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