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What Causes Giant Rogue Waves?

The Joy of Why

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The Differences Between Rogue Waves and Woodcarvings

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a famous woodblock Japanese print. If it were real, would it be a tsunami? Is it a rogue wave? And also, what's the distinction between those? So I think it isn't mostly an artwork and it's very difficult. We didn't have, like we had the Dragon Platform where we were able to record. In this instance, we didn't really have a recording. It probably is, given that it was a picture, it probably is a wave close to the coast. This sort of rules it out in terms of being a traditional rogue wave.

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