Rogue Waves

According to Channel 5 documentary The Bermuda Triangle Enigma, scientists now believe conditions in that area are just right for “massive rogue waves”, and have used simulators to demonstrate how these could put ships at risk.

“There are storms to the south and north, which come together,” said University of Southampton oceanographer Simon Boxall. “And if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves.”

The Huffington Post reports that rogue waves of this type of wave could reach 100ft tall, which would be on par with the largest wave ever recorded, a “100-foot tsunami triggered by an earthquake and landslide in Alaska’s Lituya Bay in 1958”.