WEBVTT - SYSK Distraction Playlist: How Rogue Waves Work 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.280 Welcome to you stuff you should know from house Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:13.200 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:18.760 Joshua Clark. There's Charles Bryant, There's Jerome Rowland. All of 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.560 us full first names only for this episode. That's right. 0:00:22.600 --> 0:00:25.480 I love calling Jerry Jerome. I don't know when that started, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:30.320 but it's one of my favorite nicknames. Jero Mina, yeah, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:35.320 Jairs called her Jairs a lot too, and just Jiff. Yeah. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.520 What I typically do for nicknames is take the last 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:41.640 name and half it and add an s if it's workable, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:46.479 like Kristen Congers, Congs or Stricks. For Strickland, I just 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.200 call him strick. Yeah. Strick is good too, but rolls 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:57.920 Rowls doesn't really work. Chairs is good, and that's called 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:01.520 the nickname show. Yeah. Man, When I was listening to 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:07.040 um oh, I can't remember what episode it was. Wow, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:11.000 this is almost not worth mentioning anyway. We're being very silly. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.320 I guess that was currency. It was a very silly episode, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:17.480 like we just were not going to take it seriously. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.399 It didn't matter how much anybody wanted us to. Well, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.320 that's because we had a tank of laughing gas here. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.360 And oh that was that I got you, so, Chuck, 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.399 I have a question for you. Have you ever been 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:35.920 to see once on the Maximum Cruise. That's the first 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.160 time I've ever been out to see like legite man. 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.600 It's a weird sensation, huh. Like it is different than 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.959 I especially when you can see, you know, how deep 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.120 it is, like on the TVs or whatever, they'll tell 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.080 you how deep you're you are at any time, and 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:52.680 you just think like, oh my god, there's like three 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.720 thousand feet of water beneath me and nothing around me. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.840 It is a little creepy, it is, But it's a 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:03.520 neat sensation too, agreed. Um, well, I take it from 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.680 the fact that you didn't mention it, because I would 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.200 think that you have mentioned it unsolicitedly. You didn't encounter 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:12.239 a rogue wave, No, I would have mentioned that. I 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.040 would think that it was very calm seas of course, Um, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.440 I didn't even get sea sick. Oh yeah, I have to. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.760 I have to tell everybody this. So you may find 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.760 these things called C bands? Did you use those? I 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:26.880 took one, but I didn't need it. We wore them 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:28.600 almost all the time, and I have to say, and 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.080 I when I didn't have it on I could tell like, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.320 I don't feel so hot. Put it on, Like five 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.359 minutes later, I was totally normal. It was amazing. Yeah, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.080 I didn't have any seasickness. That was the occasional like, uh, 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:42.520 the boat would move a little and be like, how 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.120 many drinks have I had? But then I would remember, Oh, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.240 I'm not in a hotel, I'm in a floating hotel. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.760 Plus I had a ton of drinks. Yeah, exactly. Uh. Yeah, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.520 No rogue waves though, no road waves for us either. Um, 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.440 because they're rare. I don't know about that. They're pretty rare. 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.200 I guess if you compare it to the normal number 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.880 of waves. Yeah, they're rare, that's what you have to 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.239 compare it to, right, But they're a lot less rare 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:10.560 than than scientists thought they were even just a couple 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.240 of decades ago. Yeah, that's true. So, um, when we 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.760 say rogue waves, depending on where you live in the world, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.799 you might say, what is a rogue wave? All I've 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.160 ever heard of is a freak wave, Or if you 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.160 live in another part of the world, you might have 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.200 heard them called killer waves. Or if you're a fan 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.239 of the band rogue Wave me, you might just think 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.840 it's music you could that's pleasing to your ear right, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.200 That's not what we're talking about this time. No, I 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.760 just wanted to give a shout out to the Roadway 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.040 they happened to listen. I love those guys. They have 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.120 a great documentary on Actually their drummer almost died from 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.040 a bad kidney and PBS to this really good documentary 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.080 on Um you know how a like a guy in 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:55.000 a small indie band gets a new kidney and affords 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.240 a new kidney. It was really great. It's called My 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.760 Ache and Kidney, And you know, I can't remember what 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.200 it was all now so out a few years ago, 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.600 but they're great. My left kidney Zach Rogue is the 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.160 name of the lead guy that explains the band's name. Yeah, exactly, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:12.200 and I think it was his right kidney man, although 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:16.760 it might be wrong. Oh so with Rogue waves, not 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.960 the band, the actual wave. Um there it's I guess, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.760 just to define it very briefly, a road wave is 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:31.640 a huge, colossal wave that is, in most definitions, twice 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.560 the size of the next tallest wave in given area. 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.359 That's like basically described as a wall of water, because 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.440 if you're out in the open ocean like you, you're 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:47.360 normally encountering swells, like the waves are rounded, so boat 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:49.160 can just kind of float up and down on them, 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.480 even if they are huge. Yeah. Well yeah, and you 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.000 gotta know what you're doing, you know, in those kind 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.120 of ways. You gotta drive into it, the steer into 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.520 it the right way and all that stuff. Right, But 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.760 if your ship's captain, you know what you're doing better. Um, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.240 the rogue wave, you're in trouble because it is again, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.360 it's like a wall of water, so it's much steeper, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.880 much flatter, and when it encounters a boat, it doesn't 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.719 go under the boat. It goes over the boat, it 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.560 breaks on top of it and contin some serious damage. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.600 Because these things are enormous. Yeah, And the key to 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.880 being a rogue wave is right there in the name. 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.719 It's rogue. It is, uh, it is even if there's 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.799 a bad storm. It is not like the other waves 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.880 you're encountering, and they come out of seemingly come out 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.480 of nowhere. That which is why they've never been able 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:34.640 to photograph or to chart them from beginning to end, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.320 because they you can't predict them. It's not like, well, 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.839 there's a road wave coming. They just happen, and all 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.520 of a sudden, you're like, oh crap, right, let me 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.440 get this boat steered directly, and I hope it doesn't 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.800 break my ship in half, right, And and like you 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.719 qualified it that nobody has a photograph of it forming 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.480 or a video of it forming, Like there are a 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.039 few photos here there, And I think there's some documentary 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:01.279 evidence from like, um, uh one of those Discovery shows. Yeah, 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.320 there was one on Deadliest Catch, but I think they've 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.839 never scientifically recorded like from beginning to end right exactly, 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.120 so no one knows where where they come from, like 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.480 you say. And there's some pretty cool theories, but um, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.440 I think you have to kind of differentiate them because 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.200 people are saying at this point, well, dummies, um, underwater 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:25.000 earthquakes cause rogue waves. Bam, it's done. That's right. Okay, 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.400 what about glacial calving? You drop a huge piece of 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.040 glacier into the water, creates a giant wave, rogue wave? 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:43.000 All right? What about coastal landslides? Okay, what's the problem here? Well, those, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.400 my friend, thank you for playing along in our little 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.480 silly game. Uh, those all can cause huge waves. And 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:52.360 some people might say, well the rogue but Um, they're 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:54.919 really not know they're rogan that there. Yeah, it's a 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.400 huge wave that's much bigger than all the other waves 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.120 around it. They're not rogue because we know where they 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.400 came from exactly, we know who their parents are. Right 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.960 with a rogue wave, Um, again, it just kind of 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.040 comes out of nowhere. Like you said, it can be 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.240 even in a storm. They're much bigger than the other 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.720 huge waves. But they can also just be an enormous 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.800 wave in totally calm seas, which makes them extremely mysterious. Yeah, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.960 and it depends on who you ask. There's no strict 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.560 definition of how much larger it has to be. I've 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.200 seen everything from thirty three to three times as big 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.880 as the next highest waves, So there isn't, like, you know, 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.440 a rank and file definition of how big it needs 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:38.920 to be. But um, they've chartered some charted some big ones. Uh. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.960 In February of two thousand, this is what I found 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.880 is the largest ever recorded wave by science. It was 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:49.520 off the coast of Scotland, recorded at um. It was 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:54.360 a British research vessel and that was using scientific instrumentation. 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:58.880 But there are tons of anecdotal stories. In fact, the 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.520 if you're a seaman then you are. You probably have 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.320 one of your own or heard a million of them. Um. 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.239 You know, sailors are renowned for their stories, but ruge 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.440 waves really kind of like they they're the big bang stories. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.040 You know. Yeah, it's kind of um. You know a 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.360 lot of people said, oh, there's such thing as navy's 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:21.360 strength gin, so are you sure you know what you're 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:23.320 talking about? But every once in a while, the ship 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.560 would come limping back into port and you know, it's 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.920 radar in Tenna would be snapped off even though it 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.080 was like ninety ft above water, and they would say 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:35.040 it was a wave, and the captain would be a 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:40.680 known sober teetotaler who had no reason to lie. And um, 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.880 they would say, okay, maybe there is such thing as 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.400 rogue waves. But it wasn't until the first one was 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.880 recorded scientifically. That's right. Uh, and you know what, let's 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:56.280 talk about that right after this message, so chuck, like 0:08:56.360 --> 0:09:00.120 we said, um, rogue waves were considered sailors lower as 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:05.240 far as science went, until on New Year's Day, off 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.800 the coast of Norway, I believe there was an oil 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.800 platform called the drop Ner platform, and it just happened 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.600 to be recording waves that day, and it was recording 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:18.839 waves that were about sixteen to twenty three ft high 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.920 about five to seven ms, which I mean, like that's 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.599 pretty respectable, fear surfer, you probably want to get it 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:26.959 out on that, you know. But then all of a 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.559 sudden one passed by, and just one that was sixty 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.080 six ft tall, and it was out of nowhere, and 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.000 there was nothing else that came after it, and there 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.719 was nothing before it. And they figured out that they 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:44.440 had just recorded the first rogue wave ever captured by science. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.959 It is pretty crazy, but this is kind of um 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.840 coming after things like we said, like anecdotal evidence, like 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:57.760 there was one from the Qiwi two. I believe the captain, Um, 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.679 I'm not sure what year it was, but the captain described, 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:03.600 all of a sudden, this rogue wave comes out, and 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.839 he said it was it looked as though the ship 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.800 was heading straight for the White White Cliffs of Dover, 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.160 which has to be kind of scary. Yeah, I imagine. So. Uh. 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:18.320 The Queen Elizabeth one as well, the RMS Queen Elizabeth 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.720 more specifically was in World War Two, the Gray Ghost 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.600 was converted to a to a military ship to carry 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.720 troops basically and could carry up to sixteen thousand men um, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.439 which is staggering at thirty knots, which is very handy. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.240 But um, a rogue wave struck that ship near Greenland, 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:43.080 Ino and supposedly shattered windows ninety feet above the waterline. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.840 But she survived because I saw cat Power play on 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.720 that ship. That was the ship, huh, yeah, there was. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.920 It's been docked in Long Beach since the sixties. And 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.760 UM I went to the Alt Tomorrow Parties festival there 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:59.120 by the water and it was mainly like the big stage, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:00.559 but they had a second stage set up on the 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:04.079 Queen Elizabeth, which is really neat and um I walked 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:06.120 in and saw cap Power played for like twenty minutes 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.440 before I went back out to the main stage. You know, um, 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.440 the neat venue motor Head is has the cruise going 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:16.360 on really coming soon, I think this month in September. Wow, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.679 that would be pretty awesome. That would be awesome. U. 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.440 The QI though is, um you can stay it's like 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.720 a hotel now, yeah, so you can stay there and 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.680 eat there and see cat Power there. That's also haunted, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:33.280 I'm sure. Well her performance was haunting, so so there 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.120 was a there there's all of these sailors coming back 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.080 saying this way was crazy, and everybody saying, no, you're 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.640 the one who's crazy. But then after that capture UM, 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.280 and they're saying, okay, there is such thing as rogue waves. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.680 And then for some reason the nineties were like a 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.760 huge boom for capturing rogue waves, improving that there was 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.040 not only did they exist, there was a lot more 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.880 of them than they used to think. I think people 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:03.319 were trying more, just like recording the more. And then 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.280 they said, okay, we've we understand that there is such 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.240 thing as rogue waves, but we have no idea how 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.959 they formed. And so they started really kind of looking 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:16.240 into what causes a rogue wave. Yeah, and if you 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.640 guys have listened to our surfing episode, UM, which is 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:22.040 pretty good, that's all right. But we got into the 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.240 physics of a wave. Uh, and the highlights of that 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.920 are this. Uh. If you're looking at a wave, the crest, 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.720 as you know, is is the highest portion. The trough 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.080 is the lowest portion. It's the dip in the between 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.640 the waves. You have the waves height, which is the 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.400 distance between the trough and the crest. The distance between 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.280 the crest themselves is the length of the wave, and 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.040 then the wave period or wave speed is the amount 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.720 of time between one crest and the next. And then 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:54.840 what's the last one there? Wave energy. Yeah, that's the 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.600 kinetic and potential energy carried by the wave. Yes, and 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.960 that is sourced from someone named land I see in 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:06.400 the No, it's not me. So so you've got what 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.600 you've just described as a wave. Like, if you have 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.280 all of this information, you can mathematically describe any kind 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.160 of wave. And it's not just um ocean waves too. 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.920 Like this applies to optics, it applies to microwaves, it 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.319 applies to all like anything that takes the form of 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:27.320 a wave. Apparently even the stock market behaves as a wave. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.720 And a lot of this stuff applies to It applies 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:34.400 to you and your break dancing. That's the worm in there. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.200 A wave too, Yeah, there's a wave, but I do 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.040 the worm, that's my signature move. Or if you're a 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.960 sports stadium and you and you're one of those people 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.440 that participates in the wave doing the wave. Yeah, actually yeah, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.920 I'm sure that this stuff would apply as well. Um, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.079 but under normal circumstances with just a normal wave or something, 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.760 if you're out on the ocean. There are hundreds or 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.640 thousands of waves all around you at any given point 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.920 in sure um and they're brought about by the movement 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.360 of wind across water. And if there's a lot of 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.880 unobstructed water, which is called fetch, that's apparently the amount 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.480 of ocean that's unobstructed that the wind can blow across. 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.760 And the wind is blowing strongly and it's keeping up 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.960 its breath, then you're gonna have some waves form, and 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.920 that's what forms a wave. Yeah, and there's you know, 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.960 there's other things that can impact it. Wind is the 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.400 major thing, but you know, the depth of the water 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.200 at the time, tides and currents, uh, if there's an 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.600 island or something in the way, that's all going to 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.200 affect it. But that big open fetches where you're gonna 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.280 get your big, big waves, right, And that's a just 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.720 a normal wave. What they think, what I should say 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.080 one of the main theories for what causes a rogue wave, 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:55.000 because just these normal circumstances don't account for a rogue wave. Right. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.000 You can point to any normal wave and be like, yeah, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.960 it's it's wind over this fetch and boom, there's your 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.760 there's your seven ft ocean wave right with a roade wave. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.600 That doesn't necessarily apply. So they think one of the 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.240 proposed theories is that road waves form when you have 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.520 a current going one way and good sized wave going 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.360 the other way, say from a storm. The current pushes 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.280 up the wave and basically transfers when they run into 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.320 each other, it transfers some energy so that the wave 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.160 just gets freakishly large for a minute, and then all 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.800 of a sudden, you've got your rogue wave. Yeah. So 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.000 like if you have a really bad storm and in 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:36.480 a thirty foot wave and it hits something like the 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.960 Gulf Stream, the Gulf Stream might pick it up and 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.640 say I'm gonna make you larger. Yeah, because I'm the 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.520 Gulf Stream, I'm gonna make you a stop. But they 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.840 have definitely found more evidence of road waves in some 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.400 of these currents, like the Gulf Stream on the east 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:57.400 coast of the US or the one of the two 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:01.160 that's a current on the southward east coast of Africa. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.200 They project with maths that you could get a wave 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.720 of as big as a hundred ninetet um But I 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.200 don't know, but they definitely have chartered um charted a 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.560 lot more waves along those streams and uh and currents. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:18.920 And actually, if if it is true, if it does 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.840 pan out that currents, strong currents with waves running opposite 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.400 to them causes rogue waves, they're saying, well, then the 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.440 Gulf stream would account for why the Bermuda Triangle has 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.920 so many das disappearance disappearances. I don't know if we 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:35.760 mentioned that, and I don't think we did. We did 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.960 one on the Bermuda Triangle that I'm sure we said, 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:41.040 like like they were just a wave that swallowed him, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.280 But I don't know if we may have said rogue waves. 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.200 It didn't stick out to me as a thing until 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.680 I ran across this article though. Plus that was like 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.400 eighty years ago. It was a hundred years ago. There's 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:58.320 another explanation to um and this is basically the foundation 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.440 of a mathematical incipal called the Peregrine solaton like this one. 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:09.200 So the Peregrine Solatan is named after a mathematician named Peregrine, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.960 and he in the eighties predicted rogue waves like he. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.840 He mathematically proved that they were possible and showed how 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:22.600 they would form. Yes he Um, I can't remember his 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.040 first name. Was so British, so before that it was 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:29.480 just like stories, yes, and then this guy comes along 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.320 and proves that that a road wave can occur, and 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.040 he's also even more awesome. He's he it's not just again, 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.000 it's not just limited to ocean waves. It's he's saying, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.159 you can have this in optics, which has been proven 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.240 in the lab. You can have it on the ocean, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.480 which has been proven in the lab simulation. And basically 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.480 the whole thing with the Peregrine Solatan is that you 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:53.600 have a normal wave and if you add just a 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.879 little bit of noise to these predictable um formations of 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:02.560 a wave, you can have a freakishly large steep wave 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:06.480 that comes and goes fairly quickly. And that's a Peregrine 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:11.800 solitan And they they've since shown that these things can't exist. Um, 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.080 but he predicted it in like the eighties, like a 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.600 good ten years before a rogue wave was ever recorded scientifically. Uh, 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.639 Professor Peregrine came up with it. They named the Falcon 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:26.720 after him to probably right. Uh, Well, there's also the 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.000 wave reinforcement. Well, this is their related is part of it. Yeah, 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:33.720 So basically waves getting together and becoming one large wave. Yeah, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:37.280 so that noise that you add into the normal process 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.879 in this case, the wave reinforcement that noise would come 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.680 from other waves got you. So the idea is, if 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.560 let's say you have a ten foot wave passing over 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.240 a twenty ft wave, that's going to be a thirty 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.919 ft wave. Yeah, that's so neat. Or it can go 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:52.640 in the other direction, and I guess it just has 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.200 depend depends on how they meet each other. You can 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.040 also subtract it. Yeah, so like a trough, Yeah, that's 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.399 between the crest than the lowest point of the wave. 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:06.159 Right If if the trough is like ut and a 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.480 twenty foot wave runs into that, it drops down and 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.440 just becomes a five foot wave. Yeah. But even the 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.840 basic addition and subtraction, which makes it really exciting to 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:19.639 me because I understand that kind of thing, not me. 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.719 Addition and subtraction very basic if I have a calculator. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.680 But but they're they're saying like, if you have say 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:32.320 five waves or ten waves, that five ft high, and 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.000 the five ft high is the normal average in the area. 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.199 But they all just happened to get together at this 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.960 right point, they're going to turn into a fifty ft wave, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.880 a single fifty ft wave, and all of a sudden 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:45.040 you have a rogue wave that just kind of comes 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:48.320 out of nowhere. Or if you're in a bad storm, um, 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.280 just a couple of large waves can form something pretty 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:56.200 intimidating very fast. So we'll talk about how common these 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:10.320 things might be coming up after the Alright, so, uh, 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.960 they used to think they weren't so common. And like 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.600 we said earlier, just the lore of of the sailor 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.000 Navy strength gin exactly what is navy string? Is that 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.920 just like a higher proof Oh my goodness, is it good? 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.280 It's too much to jinny, It's no, it just it 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.920 destroys you. It's not good for you. I've never thought 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.719 the high high proof alcohols like to me. Adding the 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.320 extra just takes away from the flavor a little bit 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:42.280 for me. You know, like that crazy rum that's like 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:44.919 navy strength throw them. Yeah, I guess so it is. 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.680 It's like firewater. Yeah, it's navy strength through them and 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.960 Navy strength strength gin. It used to be part of 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:53.159 the British Sailors rations. There's there's only one reason to 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.280 drink that stuff. But I mean it went away for 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.080 a reason and then they brought it back and it's 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.560 it's just crazy stuff crazy. They brought it back for 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:05.280 college students. I mean there's I can't remember who makes it. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.480 I think Leopolds might make a navy strength gin. Yeah, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:13.040 it's it's rough and I love Leopolds Jim, but there's 0:21:13.240 --> 0:21:15.280 any navy strength gin I think would just be too 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:17.000 much for me. Yeah, you get at older and you're 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:18.880 not impressed by that stuff, you know, like when you're 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.840 in college though, that's when you're like, this is five 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:24.120 thousand proof. We're going to put it in some kool aid, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.960 and none of us are going to remember tonight. Nobody 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:30.400 better be putting Leopold's gin in kool aid. I will 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.240 find you look to your nearest college campus because it's 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:38.120 probably happening. Uh So, Anyway, like we said, they used 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:40.560 to think they were pretty rare. But um in two 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:46.000 thousand four, the European Space Agency started collecting data from 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.160 satellites and they basically want to see, like how often 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:54.200 do these occur? Uh I've seen some different estimates, from 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:58.240 three and ten thousand in the ocean to three and 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:01.919 one thousand near coastal inlets and river mouths. Um, but 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.880 I think what they found with their max wave project 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.880 was ten waves eight two ft are higher. And that's 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.080 from the s AS data, right, And that was over 0:22:11.119 --> 0:22:13.960 a period of three weeks. But the thing is is 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:20.160 the previous weather data collection predicted that you get one 0:22:20.240 --> 0:22:23.240 every like fifty years, and all of a sudden, they 0:22:23.280 --> 0:22:25.880 saw ten in three weeks. So they're like, Okay, these 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:29.479 things are way more common than we we thought. And 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.439 like I said, they started to think, well, maybe this 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.840 accounts for a lot of disappearances. Yeah. One thing they're 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:37.480 gonna try and do with another program called wave Atlas 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.800 is do surveys over a longer period of time, which 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.119