Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
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Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
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Re: Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
#2On an average two large ships sink every week? Really? That's way too high than what I had expected. Can anyone cite a source for this info?
Re: Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
#3This article is from 2004. For more information on the project as well as the ugliest site you could possibly imagine, visit http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/
Edit: Apparently parts of their server have sunk as well.
Re: Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
#4Results of the MAXWAVE Project
W. Rosenthal
Institute of Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PubServices/2005pdfs/Rosenthal.p...
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#5Summary of ocean surface topography measurement using satellite altimetry:
Re: Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
#6On an average two large ships sink every week? Really? That's way too high than what I had expected. Can anyone cite a source for this info?
It's hard to get to the data but have a look at the latest vessel casualties in the right hand column:
http://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/
Also, the project site leeds to http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/wp4.html where you can find a map of ship casualties for a 4 year period http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/casualties.j...
I am surprised myself, but 2 a week actually seems low!
Re: Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
#7On an average two large ships sink every week? Really? That's way too high than what I had expected. Can anyone cite a source for this info?
No - but it seems like that figure is wrong on two counts - greater than the actual number of ships of that size lost in that timeframe (142), and those ships weren't sunk by rogue waves.
Re: Freak waves spotted from space (2004)
#8On an average two large ships sink every week? Really? That's way too high than what I had expected. Can anyone cite a source for this info?
It's hard to get to the data but have a look at the latest vessel casualties in the right hand column: http://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/ Also, the project site leeds to http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/wp4.html where you can find a map of ship casualties for a 4 year period http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/casualties.j... I am surprised myself, but 2 a week actually seems low!
Thanks for the links. Googling some of the ships listed as casualties led me to this page http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/News/Home.html
So it looks like the ships are not necessarily lost, and some of them aren't all that big...
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#9Statistics about ship losses in this article are utterly wrong. The Wikipedia article below explicitly calls out the press release this article appears to be based upon.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's hard to get to the data but have a look at the latest vessel casualties in the right hand column: http://www.lloydslistintelligence.com/ Also, the project site leeds to http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/wp4.html where you can find a map of ship casualties for a 4 year period http://coast.gkss.de/projects/maxwave/workp/wp4/casualties.j... I am surprised myself, but 2 a week actually seems low!
Thanks for the links. Googling some of the ships listed as casualties led me to this page http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/News/Home.html So it looks like the ships are not necessarily lost, and some of them aren't all that big...
Yeah true - I think gravitystorm's comment is quite accurate when it comes down to big vessels.
I did a bit more googling and found this site:
http://www.cargolaw.com/presentations_cas.index.html
Even though it looks this site is hosted on geocities, there are links to current vessel casualties with details to damage, human casualties, etc.