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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (134991)	7/25/2004 1:42:51 PM
From: Rick	Respond to of 152472

OT - Freak waves are so big they shouldn't even be possible. Sort of like Qualcomm's potential. Nova/Horizon had a great show on the subject last year. "Freak waves are the stuff of legend. They aren't just rare, according to traditional views of the sea, they shouldn't exist at all. Oceanographers and meteorologists have long used a mathematical system called the linear model to predict wave height. This assumes that waves vary in a regular way around the average (so-called 'significant') wave height. In a storm sea with a significant wave height of 12m, the model suggests there will hardly ever be a wave higher than 15m. One of 30m could indeed happen - but only once in ten thousand years." bbc.co.uk Rick