The Draupner Wave

The Draupner wave was recorded in 1995. Scientists have been trying to simulate the conditions that would have led to it. They used two different systems which each had some directional spreading, so there were over a couple of angles. The angle between the two systems, that was the angle we varied. We basically found that if everything was in one direction, it would break. It would break and then we had to separate the systems. But at least anything greater than 60 degrees gives you enough spreading of the energy,. enough crossing, enough of a crossing angle that we can get waves tall enough.