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The Marinelabs sensor float that detected the record wave near Ucluelet in British Columbia.
It is not the largest in length, but it is the largest in proportion, which is what matters for counting. The giant wave was triple the size of the neighbors.
The Ucluelet Vacacket, which named it due to the proximity of this Canadian city, emerged in 2020. Now it has been confirmed as the highest “Anomal Onda” (“Rogue Wave” in English).
According to the believer is believed that such an exceptional phenomenon It occurs once every 1300 years.
O published in 2022 in Scientific Reports It shows that this is the largest “rebel” wave, that is, an unpredictably large surface wave. With “only” 17.6 meters high, there were already larger waves, but this is the largest compared to the “neighbor” waves, which had a size almost three times smaller.
“Proportionally, the Ucluelet wave is probably the most extreme rebel wave ever recorded,” explained physicist Johannes Gemmrich. “Just a few rebel waves in high sea states have been observed directly, and none of this magnitude.”
Currently, it is thought that some missing ships in the 1970s, for example, were sunk by sudden and imminent waves. It is also thought, now, that these waves can be up to four times higher than you thought.
“Our goal is to improve security and decision making in sea operations and coastal communities through widespread measurement of coastal lines From the world, ”said Scott Beatty, executive director of Marinelabs, an institute that put a flood off the wave to study.
“Capturing this unique wave in millennium, even in our backyard, is an exciting indicator of the power of coastal intelligence to transform maritime safety,” he says.
