What are rogue waves? A scientist studies the dangers, chances of surviving, and possibility of predicting the occurrence of the monster that is a killer wave.
of this down. can you predict things like this or no? not really. that s why they call it rogue. that s why it s called a rogue wave. think about two people doing cannonballs into a pool on the opposite side of the pool. the wave in the middle is higher than the waves they may n independently. that s what we have here. waves can crash into each other and also follow along the same paths, and then come together. this can also happen when you have wind coming in this direction and the waves get bigger. think about what happens in a hurricane. hurricanes don t have usually rogue waves but they can. especially if another wave comes this direction and adds to that big wave and that s exactly what happened here. the cannonball i think talking about that with one side and the other side and all of a sudden the splash is bigger in the middle is how rogue waves happen.
the rogue wave. the second is primarily due to the weather. strong winds that interact with the waves out there already cause them to get taller and steeper building to the rogue waves. scientists have a good idea where they are more likely to occur. in the gulfstream in the atlantic ocean. and in the southern hemisphere, the tip of south america and also the tip of africa. so these are areas that we look for. in fact,, this ship that was having the problem over the week was coming from argentina and made its way all the way across the drake passage to northern antarctica. that is where a big storm move through. the purple blob is a storm that could have caused the waves to get intense. good news on the horizon, scientists are tracking these. european space agency is keeping a catalog.
conforms a passenger was killed when it was a hit by a rogue wave. it hit the ship during a storm this week. four more people on board were injured. it broke several panes of glass on the cruise and fell onto and killed an american woman. cnn meteorologist gene for man joins us. what are rogue waves and where do they come from? reporter: good to join you. scientists have been studying this for a while. it grows to be twice the height of the waves around it. in some cases we have seen them get up to 60, 8 0rbgs 90 feet tall. they come from unexpected ways. there are two main reasons why they occur. constructive interference. one or more combine to create