On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck—but its ...
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The wave that sank the world’s largest oil rig
In February 1982, the Ocean Ranger, the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, faced one of the most violent North ...
Off Vancouver Island, a single 17.6-meter wall of water rose from a winter swell and vanished within seconds, stunning ...
The swell two days before Christmas that gave Santa Cruz surfer Alo Slebir the ride of his life on a towering wave at Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay was officially the biggest wave ridden ...
Ever since Greg Noll’s fabled ride at Makaha during the historic swell of 1969, measuring big waves has been a tricky business – controversial, in fact. And so, when Alessandro “Alo” Slebir rode a ...
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