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A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena - colossal waves - and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them.
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Rogue waves, Ocean wavesShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks, and giants of the ocean
2011, Thorndike Press
in English
- Large print ed.
1410434036 9781410434036
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The wave: in pursuit of the ocean's greatest furies
2010, Yellow Jersey
in English
0224082795 9780224082792
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The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the ocean
2010, Doubleday Canada
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0385666675 9780385666671
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In recent years waves have been recorded which are dramatically larger in size. They have the power to flatten oil rigs and sink supertankers; they seem to disobey the laws of physics, swelling when logic shows they should be running out of steam. These rogue waves have attracted an obsessive following of scientists, who seek to understand them, and of extreme surfers, looking to tame them. The author talks to the climatologists trying to unlock the causes of these waves, and looks at the danger they will wreak on our planet. Guided by Laird Hamilton, big-wave-rider extraordinaire, the author exposes a world of obsession and dare-devil surfing, a world filled with eccentric wave-hunters - both scientists and surfers - who are universally convinced that bigger waves are coming. And that they can ride them.
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