Satellites have confirmed what mariners long suspected but could never fully prove: the open Pacific can spawn waves as tall ...

Giant waves crash over the lighthouse in Sassnitz, Germany. Due to a storm on October 20, 2023, the first streets and shore areas on the Baltic Sea coast were flooded by high water. However, one ...

In the teeth of a ferocious North Pacific storm, a U.S. Navy destroyer can feel less like a warship and more like a steel cork, heaving and shuddering as walls of water crash over the bow. Footage of ...

A father and young daughter both died after being swept out to sea from Garrapata State Beach, on Nov. 14. Only a few days ...

The ocean is an intriguing and mysterious place. For every new species of sea creature we find, there are an untold number of others waiting to be discovered. But it isn't just sea life that has kept ...

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high. A few years later, the four-story wall of water was confirmed to be the most ...

Under a hazy gray sky on the first day of 1995, the Draupner natural gas platform in the North Sea was struck by something that had long been relegated to maritime folklore: an 84-foot wall of water ...

A sigh of relief washes over the crew. The sun peeks out from the angry clouds. They made it, they think. The small fishing vessel survived amidst a storm of biblical proportions and unfathomably ...