Rogue Waves

In the text “rogue wave” The author explains that the adventure was risky because they were hit by a rogue wave and scoot got stuck. In the text the boat that they are on gets destroyed. An

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” - Les Brown

GENRE: The genre of Distant Waves is science fiction because it is something that didn't happen that has futuristic thing in it such as earthquake machines, time travel, and other advanced devices that we don't have today. It also gave scientific explanations for everything.

SCOOT and SULLY ATKINS are the two main characters in the movie Rogue Wave. This action packed movie starts off with Scoot and Sully Atkins sailing just south of Ensenada on a boat Sully's friend Beau Tuckers boat the Sea Dog not knowing that a huge wave is about to hit. Throughout the journey of Scoot and Sully trying to stay alive and find help there is elements of suspense, love and perseverance shown. This movie has elements of everything for all personalities and ages. Furthermore, Rogue Wave is a great movie for all ages that you will definitely enjoy.

The most noticeable difference between a tsunami and a hurricane is the cause of each. A tsunami is the aftermath of an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption. The force of the earthquake or eruption, along with the moving of the tectonic plates, sends large amounts of water in all directions. The waves can be thousands of feet high when they reach the shoreline. These giant waves can arrive at a moment's notice with no warning. The tsunami is a large natural phenomenon originating from the ocean, but it is not the only phenomenon to start in the ocean.

Up until then, they were just folklore. These “walls of waves” appear out of nowhere which can be around 33% larger than a mundane wave. Mundane waves have a swelling appearance that allows vessels to travel on them, even high ones. However, rogue waves are much, much steeper. The following is a piece from Captain Warwick’s log. He was leading the Queen Elizabeth II in 1995. “At 0410 the rogue wave was sighted right ahead, looming out of the darkness from 220°, it looked as though the ship was heading straight for the white cliffs of Dover. The wave seemed to take ages to arrive but it was probably less than a minute before it broke with tremendous force over the

Poetry is a work of literature in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Thom Gunn is a poet known for creating imagist poems. In “From the Wave,” Gunn uses the literal meaning, surfers preparing for a wave, and compares them to the metaphorical meaning, students preparing to graduate from college.

waves to larger waves. When the water starts to move it is subject to the Coriolis

That is the image of a tsunami and they strike somewhere in the world almost every year. Some archeologists say that a mediterranean tsunami hit the north shore of Crete about 3500 years ago which sent Minoan civilization to surrender to Mycenaen Greeks. In the fifth century B.C. the Greek historian, Thuydides, was the first to document the connection between earthquakes and tsunamis. The majority of tsunamis are in the Indian and Pacific oceans where the Tectonic plated collide and the one carrying dense oceanic crust dives under the more floatable one forming a deep ocean trench. Normally it happens smoothly, but sometimes they become stuck and friction strain builds up, then it releases energy which raise and lower the water above it which becomes a tsunami. Created from the seafloor up they grow in dangerous heights in shallow waters only because in the deep oceans it barely

TRANSITION: This concentrated area of the ocean is very complex. Let’s now examine a few of the more populated disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

Luckily for the crew of the vessel was able to make it out alive and actually report their encounter with a 100 foot wave. This trip led to finding the largest wave ever scientifically recorded in the open ocean. The next account comes from a very reliable source, Ernest Shackleton. Shackleton rode on a ship called Endurance; it was on this ship that Shackleton would venture to Antarctica where he would come across a wave so large he thought he was looking at the sky. He was lucky to have made it out alive from this storm. Casey next talks about the 850-foot cargo ship München, this ship was built to be unsinkable it was the German Merchant Navy’s state of the art flagship. To everyone’s surprise an S.O.S. message was received that the ship had suffered great damage from a wave. Even with 110 ships and 13 aircrafts looking for it, it was never found. In 1933, a naval officer aboard the USS Ramapo saw a huge wave in the Pacific and made some trigonometric calculations that estimated the wave to be about 112 feet high. On January 1, 1995 Statoil’s Draupner oil-drilling platform were being hit by large waves 38 feet tall, then a huge 85 foot wave hit the rig causing moderate damage to the platform. This was the first confirmed measurement of a rogue wave. In 1982 the Ocean Ranger was struck by a wave which destroyed the rig and left no survivors. The rig was built to withstand 110-foot seas and 115-mile per hour winds, it was deemed indestructible. The wave that hit it took it as a challenge and sank the whole rig instantly killing 84 people who were onboard. On March, 1973 two bulk carriers were lost within one hour of each other in the same span of the North

Waves from the beach are completely different than tsunamis since those waves are normal to see rolling in a lake or the ocean but not a tsunami. The waves you see in the ocean or lake are made by wind offshore while tsunamis are made from either an earthquake from the bottom of the ocean or a volcano in the ocean, those waves are also very small when they are compared to the gigantic waves that are called tsunamis. A single tsunami wave in the open can go up to 100 km millimeters across and that can cause a lot of damage since tsunamis waves can rise up to at least fifty feet. The size of how long a tsunami wave can cross is about one thousand American football fields which is 100 km. Like i have said before tsunami waves are gigantic and can travel very far distances, for example a tsunami wave can go about seven hundred km per hour, but when tsunamis are about a meter high if they are in the open ocean or in other words in the middle of the ocean. Once the tsunami wave gets closer to shallower areas near the coastal lines, the tsunami

On July 9th 1958 in Lituya bay Alaska, an earthquake indirectly caused what has been termed as a mega tsunami. The earthquake caused a landslide which in turn displaced enough water to create a gravity wave. The height of this wave was magnified above the height that might normally be expected due to the enclosed environment in which it generated. The world’s biggest tsunami the Alaskan wave.

A tsunami is a series of huge waves occurring when there is a major disturbance on the ocean floor. Tsunamis often occur due to earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides (Park 16). Underwater earthquakes may produce waves that travel in all different directions. Some tsunamis lose power and die out under water, others may produce large waves as they approach land. Tsunamis may look like an onrushing tidal wave as they approach land, but do not occur because of tides (Park 6). Their walls of water can move across the open ocean at speeds of up to 560 miles per hour. When the waves hit the coast, they can reach up to 100 feet (Park 5). The tsunami in Japan is believed to have occurred after two of Earth’s tectonic plates collided in the

Although each classification of natural disaster is capable of creating catastrophic destruction, I feel that the destruction resulting from the accumulated factors that are responsible for Tsunamis have a potential destructive force far greater than other singular forces of nature on their own; Furthermore, due to the densely populated urbanized regions in high-risk zones the potential impact on humans form Tsunamis is elevated in comparison with other phenomena's which may occur with little impact on human society. Therefore a natural event that may be of similar magnitude may occur without impacting our society and will in-turn only be viewed as a geological event, whereas a Tsunami, based on probability will almost always escalate into