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New "Loch Ness" footage
shardian:
In my research into a "rogue wave", they are found in the Great Lakes. Of course, the great lakes are more like a small sea anyways.
patrickl:
Yeah, I found that Loch ness is about 56.4 kmē (21.8 sq mi). That's not very big compared to IJsselmeer (1100km2) and The great lakes (alltogether 94,250 square miles or 244,100 kmē)
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on June 04, 2007, 03:54:00 pm ---In my research into a "rogue wave", they are found in the Great Lakes. Of course, the great lakes are more like a small sea anyways.
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In the Great Lakes? Could you show me the source on that? That's interesting to me.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 04, 2007, 05:24:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: shardian on June 04, 2007, 03:54:00 pm ---In my research into a "rogue wave", they are found in the Great Lakes. Of course, the great lakes are more like a small sea anyways.
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In the Great Lakes? Could you show me the source on that? That's interesting to me.
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From wikipedia:
--- Quote --- Rogue waves are also known to occur on the inland Great Lakes, which are more like large inland seas. Perhaps most famously such inland freak waves are believed, according to some reconstructions, to be responsible for the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in November 1975 (see below). However other causes have been advanced; the matter is far from settled.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_waves
ErikRuud:
I think the waves that Howard is referring to are actually caused by boats on the lake or a combination of wind and boats.
I have seen it in at least two shows.
If i remember correctly it requires more than one wake interacting to create a kind of standing wave/disturbance in the water that is sometimes visible minutes after the boats are gone.
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